Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: Purification process for the Sinner

[Music] good evening everyone we are in parsha Ezria and we're going to go deep down the rabbit hole of what the clear car the holy Kuya car has to share with us but we are now in chapter 13 by the way and I will invite you all to go into the description box where there will be a link there is a link to last year's class we call gender selection okay so I really want you to listen to that because we're not going to cover that tonight so before we begin I've been thinking about Pesach a lot and how what tremendous amount of icarus at of ingratitude and just thanks that that God took us out of Egypt and that if he had not taken us out of Egypt we would still be there today and that is on a national level but what about on a personal level how grateful I am that I have left my own personal Egypt and it's not just that I left once but I you know called 9 wide you know the cat we have many carnations and that Hashem is the rescuer he is the one who's go out yes really he's the Redeemer and he's redeemed me personally and I think that's what a Jew being a Jew means literally because that's what yahuda the name you da is based on who da and Leia we spoke about this Leia had her fourth son and realized wow I got more than my share right we had four mothers expecting to have 12 tribal leaders and that was through prophecy but they made a slight presumption that there or laid it anyway that they were all going to have the equal amount and when she had her first son she said wow I'm so grateful what a curse atoll I have I got more than I deserve and she called him yoohoo duh as the name yoohoo that represents so many different things but just on a simplest level the gratitude we are people who are walking around this planet with such gratitude we can breathe okay let's go on I want to talk about chapter 13 in Tarija that would be in Leviticus chapter 13 so the verse says that if a man has and it mentions these three words I'm not translating them I don't think anybody really does well maybe they do but I haven't seen any we'll leave it in the original Hebrew s or as a pocket or Abba Herot okay Adam Kia or Bizzaro a man if and when if he had such a we're gonna call it a plague a blemish or an affliction but I think affliction is probably the best word so if he has one of these three types and it says Borba sorrow already now and in the latter part of the verse it mentions the words but or Bizzaro again in the skin of his flesh or his skin the Tsar is flesh so we mentioned the beginning the Ohio orbits are rollin a guitar on so then it will be if he has any of these forms of Legion these lesions of this affliction it's called surahs' that's what it is in the skin of his flesh and then the LAT the last part of this verse mentions what has to be done with this person who they are on a coin he is to be either brought to the high priest OLF had me bun of a co named were actually any one of the coning any one of his sons any of the car name okay that's the verse we're gonna be dealing with for the next hour at least so have some patience and we go to the clea car and he right away says that Semak Parshin magorium the parshas academic this parsha is in proximity there's a reason this parsha that we're now dealing with with it's called in english it's really a bad translation but it's the best we got called leprosy of course it's not leprosy but we're gonna call it leprosy and you should know that this is a spiritual illness although the first opinion we're going to read is it's not but I mean that it's not only it's also a real true physical illness so it's a spiritual illness for a sin for a for antibiotic a punishment but we all know what does a punishment mean in Judaism it's we have a loving God who wants to see us behave correctly he wants us to fix our character that's the whole purpose of creation is to actually fix our character queer incident on a gun okay so when God sends a sign it should be and it usually is measure for measure it's just that we're not sensitive we don't always realize exactly what the message is so if it's a need that can again be a measure for measure it's interesting measure and message well maybe it sounds a little bit alike but anyway they're not related so this message that God it's personal and it fits the crime in order that you should become aware what it is specifically that you need to do to fix the situation so one of the first Inklings of an idea that this cannot be a physical skin ailment is the fact that it doesn't just appear on one skin there's also a type of surahs' that's the Hebrew for this leprosy and let's try to stick that is going to be on the clothes that's obviously I mean might be organic clothes but it doesn't matter it's not alive okay and then the other type of leprosy of Sorrows is going to appear on the walls of one's house and I just want to mention also the God he talks to us but he gives us messages and he really talks a lot to those who listen so the more that you listen the more that God talks to you listen to these ideas why is it we don't have to Rasta name because we're not no longer on the level of really paying attention but when we were listen to this one of the things we're going to see tonight is that miser leanness right tight-fisted miss when it comes to finances could cause could be the cause and it's usually because for the leprosy that appears on the walls of the home now why is that when we left Egypt we were going to come into this royal kind of right away you know whether it was eleven days journey after Mount Sinai just pretty shortly after the revelation we would have gone straight into Israel okay there were reasons why we didn't and we could talk about them at another time but we were supposed to go in and the local population was afraid they were in dread these mighty warrior Jews who overtook the most the largest nation in the world Egypt at the time we're coming now to their homeland Israel and we're there these seven nations were there so what do you think they would do it's very similar to what even modern well that's I could say Palestinians I know that's uh well we won't go there right now but let's say the local population that they call themselves Palestinians and what what did they do right back then they took their gold and they hid it in the walls thinking ready for this we might have to run away then come back and fight move eventually take over our homes we're going to return home so they buried their golden in the walls of course they never came back and later on a Jew who might be worthy of this and I'm gonna call it a punishment but you know what I mean he's worthy of this dilemma that he's now in because he was being miserly he ends up what knocking the wall down because that's what he has to do and he finds his treasure and that could help solve a lot of his problems with being a miser hopefully but because God knows this person will do Trueba and he loves this person and he wants to help him rectify this character train that is the kind of person that's going to get the leprosy on the wall someone who's gonna listen not someone who's not gonna listen okay very important so let's begin think I gave you a little bit of an example what we're talking about it's not when I use the word punishment you understand it's not a punishment in the sense that we all know we're redefining it and loving God who's sending us a message so that we can work on our character so right away the clea card says there's a reason why there's a proximity of this chapter now dealing with the Matsuura the one who has the leprosy has deter us and the one prior like at chapter 12 which is Amida Barrett's Mamula in smack in the middle of that little a few sentences over there you have about the birth of a boy that on the eighth day he has to have a circumcision we already discussed this is very odd because this is really not the place for it okay you have to refer back to last week's sorry not last week's well you go back to last week's - and the one before that we've talked about it a lot but I meant last year's partial that I spoke about it more in depth and so what's the reason why you had this close proximity between chapter 12 now dealing with moola and our chapter dealing with what this surahs' leprosy to teach you the Muellers dirt as in the so there's a special Mitzvah one of the Commandments in the Torah that if one had one of these lesions on his skin one of these afflictions on the skin he's not allowed to cut it off but guess what there's an exception if the child this male child on hit the tip of his member which is mean and which needs to be cut off at the brits meal at the circumcision so there's an exception because there's this general rule when you have a list of misses and one Mitzvah comes prior just right before another Mitzvah it's teaching you that the first Mitzvah pushes off the second Mitzvah therefore one should and must cut off the Torah's from the tip of the member during the circumcision procedure the cold Makaha Mitzvah ha Mook damn it Deutsche Isamu carrot there he goes he says the general rule is wherever the midst that comes first pushes off the second Mitzvah and he says just like we discussed and partially yeah cow that you can find in in button in the exodus chapter 35 verse 2 I did bring some of the Rajah's down so you can see that and it's brought down in the Dharam 31b yes sir Rubio's he says circumcision is great it overrides the severe assert of Shabbos so regarding that I'll bring it down now also with Shabbos itself in in in partially a cow chapter 35 verse 2 over there it speak specifically about Shabbos and then the Michigan we find out that when comes the seventh day of the week you must stop from building the Michigan and this is actually how we learn out how we met what we learned it out from God he told us 39 Moloch cult but in the Torah itself it's all the creative acts that went into construction of the Michigan and the maintenance of it we must cease from doing on that seventh day and therefore we even stopped doing the Michigan which was also a mitzvah but I'm Lucas al hick team Shabbos to Michigan over there Vianca that Shabbos in the proximity of the PAR shield over there again it's chapter 35 in Exodus you see that we're dealing with Shabbos and then the Michigan to teach you Shabbos come election Michigan the Shabbos pushes off from doing any creative act that we would normally use to build the Michigan the outside are Emma's McAuliffe Irish now from a certain aspect of a hint we talked about remiz I just want you to know once more more principle that it's called par days when we enter learning Torah we enter an orchard and what's found in an orchard delicious fruits and it smells really nice right so when you go into the orchard an orchard where there's trees and the trees are growing all these fruits that's what's called an orchard that the the acronym is partes partes means an orchard you have shot that's the simple explanation then you have where we say parties race is remiz this is the clear car goes through all these different levels ramiz's hints and then there's draw shot there's expounding even deeper and then there's so there's the deepest of secrets which are scattered through the creeks are but he doesn't always tell you this is sometimes he points it out this is the ax so otherwise you have to go a little fishing let's say a fishing expedition meditate on the on the tur that we learn and you'll see that most of the so don't I really right staring you right in the face so he says this is a remedy this right usually you always brings that in a second paragraph which already hints to you the direction that he's going in that the rabbi say dole Amelia should directly attend I go in how great is the Mila is the circumcision is the Covenant then it pushes off this affliction meaning the cutting it out the feast Amma Mila now when we talk about the bris Mila we know we're talking about cutting off a certain piece of skin from the tip of this member but it's the see Bellamy Lascaux Arba are ellos it's true we have to cut off this skin that is on a very sensitive piece of mechanical material here we're talking about a reproduction organ it's a very sensitive place it's very useful but it's also very symbolic of three other three other types of spiritual Orla Orla is that barrier the covering that needs to be exposed we needs to be removed it needs to be removed so that and what are those three things I believe I brought them in the source sheet as well question is where are they oh if you look at the 18 I mentioned four limbs but I only brought three because one of them we don't need to discuss and that would be the the circumcision that we we do on the eight-day build male baby so anyway you have to circumcise your heart you can look in Jeremiah floor floor it's pretty pretty direct member I'm gonna say this again there is nothing in the profits they're not allowed to make up any new commands they're not allowed right they're a false prophet or they're going against God's will a prophet will never tell you something that is not in the five books of Moses so obviously there's a hint already to the idea of circumcision way before Jeremiah okay so Jeremiah says circumcise yourselves to the Lord and remove the foreskin of your heart and also your ears God wants you to hear listen but we get them clogged up sometimes so Jeremiah 6:18 6:10 to whom shall I speak and warn that they shall hearken behold their ears clogged so in Hebrew it says he nay are locked AHS numb okay so we're talking about the Erla of the ear very clear reference to the need to circumcise your ears mouth so this is by by Moses himself he claims that his own mouth has an Orla that's in Exodus chapter 6 verse 30 Moses said before the Lord behold I am of closed lips in Hebrew he may I meet our else--if Italian I am of uncircumcised lips okay so he mentions this idea of the circumcision of the member is really symbolic of the other three but included in this we already mentioned the aura of the mouth we McCallum or lot a pet so included is this additional Orla of the mouth and what does that mean what does that mean cashew Limu Lamar lotta pair when one circumcised --is meaning purifies his mouth that's really what's happening you're removing the junk you're getting rid of the garbage when you remove this Orla because wirless is symbolic of uncleanliness okay and when when you remove the oil of the mouth load you saw a lush and Hara the result will be you will not speak loshon Hara lush and Hara is not just gossip its I'm not going to say it's the worst kind of gossip but it's because there's gonna be gossip that's true and there's gonna be gossip that's totally fabricated and made up mmm mostly shame wrath that's when it's true I'm sorry that's when it's totally fabricated a false Russian Hara usually has some aspect of truth and is damaging you and you and your intent is to damage and even when your tent is not damaged but it's likely to damage to be extremely careful of what would you say well as lawyer goalie Dana and as a result of circumcising your mouth then you won't speak to loshon Hara and then you won't get as a result which I think I alluded to earlier but now we're going to speak about it at length that the punishment again we know punishment means for speaking loshon Hara is God's message through the know going through the Torah's to this leprosy that you need to work on your character you need to change your ways you need to repent and he says when you do it properly then you won't get this Nagoya mah boya loshon Hara which actually comes as a result of Raja has mentioned throughout the world tour now the al-zacar emoji ter regarding this you can even see that Moses himself either use the word complain or provoked Hashem he himself said oh may as battle adhabi Bhishma ha this would be found in Exodus chapter 5 verse 23 he speaks back to God after God sent him on a mission and you know what he you know what things got worse and he comes back to complain to God from the time I came to speak in your name he Pharaoh did worse he made more evil for this people so according to the Midrash and we're gonna get into a little bit we spoke about harsh meanie the word odds the other word Oz appears in this in the verse I just read as it's really then the numerical value and Gemara of eight Aleph is one cyanus seven so somehow this this hints to the Mila and I'm not just saying the meal of of the member we're also talk about the millah of the pair of of the mouth the same massive behavior by out go to the partials mashaallah and it specifically mentioned in the meddra sh and we saw various verses before but if you go in chapter 15 of exodus verse 1 where we see that moshe after the jewish people pass through the splitting of the see him and the jewish people broke out in song and the word Oz appears over there and you know why do you know why I mean it's unbelievable the merit of the Jewish people doing a particular act yes there's we the deceased split because of the circumcision we're before we left Egypt the night before we left Egypt we were all circumcised all of us all the males and we were circumcised and on account of that act that great courageous act and it's very painful for an adult on account the merit of the Jewish people keeping the Covenant and doing what God want us to do and it would that land that was given on the eighth day so not only is my odds that Moses break out and broke out into song with which is hinted at with the word Oz it's the eighth and it's because of the eighth that the speed that C actually splits and that's why the word eyes appears there can miss Faraz Closen oz Shema scream a Jewish divine raba so there's a few times that other verses are mentioned in the meddra SH and I'll just give you a little hint here because it's going to be it's going to refer back to the moola so it says odds of the emotion in deuteronomy chapter 4 verse 41 Moshe designates three cities on the other side of the Jordan as what as refuge cities what is it refugee city what is a city of refuge when a person involuntary it looks called me it's called what's the word manslaughter when a person commits a murder but not intentionally it was purely negligent was negligence it's called murder nevertheless so he has a chance to run away to one of his refuge cities and save his life from the go hadam from one of the close family members who's quite upset and has a burning desire to take revenge so he can save himself but the idea of odds job the emotion then Moses set aside these cities to gamba Ram mezcla Mila how much salesmen Shriekers dummy this is now hinting to what we already said we were at the edge of the sea we had the Egyptians coming after us and we had to see we were going to die I mean we certainly felt when they called between a rock and a hard place and what actually happens to see splits on account of Mila that Mila can save one from death so to the word Oz it again it hints to the Mila that that these cities of refuge are set up side and again it's really it's related to murder but it's gonna save the person who did it something accidentally or inadvertently or negligently from being killed by the God not from the family member who is set in his mind that he's gonna kill this person and he explains that earlier on parshas bow there's another verse row he raw negative in hm in chapter 10 of Exodus verse 10 so Pharaoh he figures these Jews are going out to the desert to die you know and he says look the evil intent is upon your faces he doesn't he has you know a weird idea about God and his idolatries and he sees death he's looking at death nevertheless what happens we're safe right Moses passes through the Dead Sea through the sea of reeds and of course they sing but going now to another verse that way you could find in Exodus chapter 4 verse 26 what exactly took place when Moses fell ill we're going to die his wife Zipporah took upon herself to circumcise one of the sons she tears right what does the verse say Hamra support herself says condom the moolaade she says you are a Brides groom a bride's green blood shed was because of the circumcision so this was also a death death was like at the doorstep somebody was going to die I know if it was the child or Moshe but she saved the day she saved from death through the Mila okay so two key matoro as a provocation Moses himself says when I say provocation I mean it as an argument how can you argue with Hashem but he did and he says you'd they are near our lights of a diamond okay he says I know right I am circumcised of lips you can find that in Exodus chapter 4 verse 10 he himself says I have circumcised lips lo Bathilda bevor ich mich Mich maja came me as as if Moses thinks that the only way that he could speak properly and that's why we said earlier on all the proc Mattia all the all the dealings of Moses was always with us he thought oz was going to be of help to him here he said she saw mock T al her Mila removed her her Musa bars that are he saying I was relying on this when I went to speak to Pharaoh I was relying that's why it says in the first verse we spoke about chapter 5 verse 23 when he says with when I went to speak to Pharaoh I thought it was gonna have some success but that wasn't God's plan Moses was a little bit impatient but he said look when I went to speak to him I was relying on that eyes she could see begun with TK no arles of arles a pair he thought that if he went to speak right my eyes that that would actually fix his speech impediment and he would be able to speak to Farrah directly but he and the ante so that wasn't really what was going to help in the end it wasn't him and Moses was extremely humble and in the end he realized you know when he spoke he was the greatest orator of all do you realize that when he spoke God's own voice came out of his throat Moses couldn't talk he couldn't speak but when he did speak later on after the revelation and onward God God allowed his own voice to protrude from Moses own throat okay while we're learning a lot here tonight so now we're going to go through the names of those three types the three different types of Soros say it that's one Sapa hat that's to the Herot that's third and what are these being a taraji HDS feluccas regarding this whole concept of sore ass again it means the leprosy we're talking about which is not really leprosy there are many opinions he's gonna bring down to major opinions that are going to then be defined further for some say shame Kali TV mr. bertocchi goofbot's bates LaHood's that is a natural illness that is within the body it's hidden deeper than the body but it comes and protrudes it comes out through the skin so some kind of the let get some kind of a infection that's going that's deep inside but it's gonna come out to the surface however there's another opinion charcoal ball outside Hornish it's all coming from the aspect of a punishment again redefining the word punishment in our Terms is God's love and trying to get across a message to work on your character the God lot al righto and it starts back here Bo in order to reveal the negatives the the bad that is hidden within okay there's some kind of bad that's hidden within that has to come out or in this case it's going just to be revealed on the surface now that's what he brings so far now the clear car in his beautiful poetic way of introducing his own ideas he says Bane Caju Bangkok you gotta love it either idea both ideas doesn't matter nearly lafarge Russian met Sora I'm I really feel a need to explain what to actually the language we call the person who has the affliction and matura and we call the affliction itself mitt Sora okay Saros but it's not so what does that mean he tells us a very deep thing here that it's a me a word that is combined between two other words it's a Mila more Kevin it's more half it's a combination of two other words and what are those words moat Syrah it's the bringing forth bringing out the evil that's within you it's coming to the surface so either Bangkok Bangkok according to both explanations but one is going to be more physical and the other one's going to be obviously more spiritual Shinagawa mochila hoots cola also sugar cube Oh Oh before let me tell you my mother told me when I was going through puberty and acne acne I have a lot of acne when I was young and she said my son it's God's way of getting rid of all that bad stuff that's in you you're gonna be a fine young man one day just Phoebe you got to get rid of some of that some of that stuff okay you hear that mom my kids also had very bad acne okay hey push me me so whether it's the the mold and the stench that's within you or whether it's a mockery abyss a subacute LaShawn now maybe you slaughtered you hit your friend in in private with the arrow or the the strike of your tongue the aim have real yoga English ami momentum and you're that kind of guy until you change and God is giving such Grace and such warnings to other people in your community that you're the one to stay away from don't reveal any of your deepest secrets to this guy because he's only gonna use it to damage you so I can borrow him a farce a mouth a Nathan who might seek Oh Russell whose that's why God proclaims he he publish sizes for those people who are hypocrites and he brings the than what's Eve on the inside towards the outside and ready it's like a warning or today should tea gal a Rutter Makaha in order the community should be aware of the danger this character represents the Mushaf Acathla pursuit remember I pointed out at the beginning the verse itself says but were Pissarro in the skin of his flesh that I think alone is a problem but it says it twice I unders the or and also the sorrow but it says it twice so right away this is why does it say twice close the puss ik are the key aboard besouro state as in the beginning of the verse when a man will have in the skin of his flesh such a blemish viable orbit sir roland leggett soar us then it will be in the skin of his flesh this what we call the illness that's or us itself so right away he says bored but Cyril amelie why do I even have that twice tarty tarty why do I have it twice LLO McLaughlin's gonna teach you a very important lesson she's a say / ever the dis raising up it sits above skin surface and it's fractured right the skin is cracked the you know had be etched out who are maha moksha boat now if the person was pure in his thoughts right he only thought good of others Loy was eating then this damage to his skin would not appear he wouldn't he'd not only would he not be damaged but he wouldn't be a damaged or either people knock out their photon because this type of skin ailment is quite easy to fix you just put a little bit of that lotion right you put some moisturizer or you go to the Dead Sea for a few days I suggest and you know which I suggest okay and when are we going to the Dead Sea guys I'm kidding okay yeah ah it's not a yoga board but sorrow but the fact that it's in the depth in its in the skin of your flesh she's a co-chair of the sinner okay not sadly negative XY it appears now as this affliction which we are now just scratching the surface and we're talking about now Museum at Sula hamhock mate or at a no simmer and from this our rabbis found many Reliance's oil in the Torah itself not just the five books listen to this the Rubaiyat a little coming a Torah they went out searching to collect proofs from the Torah what exactly is the reason for this what sin caused us omit Olivier they check from the Torah they check from the prophets and minica to them and from the writings a laser of Imperato a boy in the going on which specific sin is it that causes the the affliction to come so by the way in the sexes arabic erican cuz i'll tell us and i think these numbers are significant so in the do Martin Eric and a church of page 16a cause I'll tell us there were seven reasons for the new going to the rich seven sins that different sins that could bring about this type of affliction and each one of these there's a verse that that shows it and proves it okay now there's another there's a Madras that mentions ten reasons okay that's the you can rob a 17300 sword the volume ten reasons I think these are very significant so far we have number ten which is significant number also number seven and we're gonna stick to three three is also very significant we also talked about the Holy Trinity in Judaism so so he's gonna talk about three and the reason why he's only going to talk about three he says like this uh new a Milano ESIC business Kairos women part shows oh we're not going to deal with most hidden things of this parsha came Bini glows ball except that which is revealed he wants to read he wants to show you what's really there machinima coulomb remiz bleep our CEO de lo r sh lotion devar him and therefore since we're in this parsha and i think it's talking about Toria admits or okay they go together between these two parts that deal with the whole concept of leprosy there are three very obvious reasons I say very obvious only when you have the oral torah then it becomes obvious you didn't have the altar now obvious would be and so what are the three reasons the one is going to be lush and Hara which we already started to discuss the second will be arrogance which we will discuss and the third is sorrow Sian which could be my Zerlina say the opposite of whatever generous heart is the opposite of a generous heart and we will discuss these quite in-depth okay so so let's start with the first so an ascot who ilussion Hara as Rashi explains in chapter 14 verse 4 explaining why is it that the Corbin that the the offering the sin offering that's brought by the now being purified from his surahs' the person who had been a matura he is bringing what he's bringing Birds amazing why birds look at Rashi latisha Iceland massive hot party because what do they do they chirp they tweet yeah every use Twitter tweeter miss cribbage whatever it is right an act of verbal twittering chirping like a bird right you just imagine right people who are yentas people who are they like to talk a lot okay it's not the act of talking a lot it's what they do with their speech so that's the first clear hint you can say that in in the parsha and the second week I'll talk about Gaza so Ruach now this now might not be so obvious but I'm mentioned earlier about the the oh no okay let's talk about this now so what is used to purify this person okay so look in where is it chapter 14 verse four it's the same verse right that the person becoming purified has to take right there's going to be taking a cedar wood and hyssop so what are those two things you can I think look in Rashi as well so when the the cedar tree is one of the largest or sturdiest strongest types of wood right we would build you use cedar wood that's like imagine being in California with these big redwoods so these are the Cedars of Lebanon you build them we built the Michigan we used it to fir for building the base of mech - these are extremely strong valuable pieces of wood so there's a lot of arrogance in other words the problem with arrogance is going to be rectified by being reminded of the problem of the arrogance so there's you take with you the strongest like branch and at the same time connected with this in your hand is going to be what from the lowest bush because God wants this message that if you raised yourself up like a cedar tree you must lower yourself you must bring yourself down to the level of acid hyssop tree which is the lowest push clear as mud and the third reason for you okay at the third reason for that could bring about surahs' is what we call sorrow Sian it means the narrowing of the eyes which is the opposite of being generous right you want to give somebody money you know you whatever you want to help somebody you're out there but when you're you're trying to be miserly trying to give less and trying to maybe even steal we're gonna see how that connects so you're the narrow of the eyes this is like I think like it's a little poetic you know Hebrew is so beautiful there's so much depth when you see and I beg you to learn and learn on your own Hebrew and when you come to any text I know many books today are translated to English at best try to buy the books that have a half a page of English and half a page of Hebrew and work try to work it out build your vocabulary build your grammar and eventually you'll get to the point where at least you know you've even if you have a caboose a study partner working it just straight up in the Hebrew eventually you'll master I'm not saying a master like in a short period of time eventually eventually a master and you can go so deep so he brings from the verse in chapter 14 verse 35 we and really 36 as well right when the one to whom the house belongs he should come to the coin but it's Borgia law abayas the person actually thought that the house belongs to him meaning he bought it he paid for it the mortgages in his name he's gonna give it to his kids when he dies but guess what who owns everything you were not the owner and this guy really believed so that that's how the verse kind of expresses it and what's gonna happen he's gonna take all his stuff and it's gonna have to be put out all over the wand and you got to break some of these walls down but before we get there it's haunted the bay ready Ishmael says she need to take bake Tolo he mama SH really thought this house belongs to him the door was that coeliac come divine this idea includes several other ideas Hey PEMDAS Sam Malone Candace a moment means his desire for monetary both monetary things money shall maybe mitigate Ozzy and we learned this from the assistant of Alicia his name was gay Kazi and also from gays Oh stealing shimano huzzah the Cazale point us out and that we learned from this verse that it says in our verse Steve aha Cohen who Pino has a bias that the Cohen actually he comes to the coin he says I think I might have a problem right we're gonna learn you don't say I think the hats are us don't say that we have to be very careful with our words we never say the exact negative things even if it's true and he's gonna examine it only he can determine so who are you first that's a little hutzpah but you don't want to give yourself an evil eye and you don't want to say that what's the real negative so you come to me so I think I have a problem I have a legion you're gonna look at so before the Cohen right and return at least for the house anyway he says I think I have a problem nails he'll tell you go home take everything that you that belongs in your house outside now because they have to go to the mikveh some things will be ruined especially electronics but today I mean back then I don't think that electronics as far as I know but earthenware you couldn't fix and it'd have to be broken and destroyed so to save you from all that trouble he tells you commands you take everything out put on your lawn and then I'll come into the house and I'll determine whether it's arras or not so let's see what's going on here in kinas mamma-jamma shallow if he had in his house stuff that didn't belong to him yeah vocoding we fought supermoto the Cohen is coming in there I'm not saying he's really distributing it but you'll see what's gonna happen listen what happens to a miser all right all the neighbors come at different times during the year and say oh can I borrow a bag of sugar or can I borrow your can cleaner who could I borrow your lawn mower and the guy says because he's a miser I don't have what makes you think I have you can't borrow my Ludlow it's not working it's I got rid of it a long time ago oh you want my hammer I don't have a hammer I'm sorry I can't blame me anything and meanwhile now all over his lawn all the stuff that all the neighbors went and asked him through all those years do you have I can borrow and the guys got it all and you know what made me even Stahl and the neighbors gonna walk Pines like you know that my skateboard or my kids caper went missing like three years that's it it's got the stickers got his name on it I mean you know when you when you stall and now you have to reveal everything to your whole neighborhood because it's sitting on your front lawn so this is the idea here the shallow a low Makua uh-huh now these three ideas or are gonna relate to one idea and what is that that the Henderson mom owned that the desire for money is Mossad rave Gonzaga's now it actually will cause then people to steal when you have this coveting your neighbor's things right you have this idea keeping up with the Joneses and wanting more to collect and acquire just more and more material things you'll end up stealing and you'll also be a miser you won't be generous the whole shard the varam have been annoying the gomorrah Boudreau shelves and all those other remember we said we only talked about three we read the magician and mentions 10 the Gomorrah mentioned seven so there are obvious are there other things am-7 partial zoo there's no real originally a car reliance I went through them you can see verses there using throughout schmoes and Deuteronomy but not the Egret not in our parsha here alkene rosa 8a me me cope rata a massive massive amass oral use such low Shalu therefore I saw with my own eyes to stand and establish you know the details of the actions that are involved in this person becoming leprous or matura on these three particular fundamental ideas and they are Russian Hara evil speech gossips Roth arrogance and hemmed us among this desire for money Clemmie Papa sook on there now included in this particular verse we're gonna see in Psalms 101 verse 5 that says like this Milosh niba say Sara a who owed to an seeds huge slanders his neighbor and secret him I will cut down go the a nyam were hardly love and the person who has his eyes raised up where his heart is wide or expansive God says through the other MLF ohto Lulu Hogg him I cannot tolerate him I cannot I'm not able so now let's break this verse down ok we're have leave off which means an expanded heart is understood as someone who desires money desires the monetary and the physical things she and I met so below and you can tell this because of the character trait of pilum if we go to the ethics of our fathers chapter 5 verse 19 it talks about Abraham and bilham so whoever possesses these following three traits is of the disciples of our father Abraham and whoever possesses the opposite three traits is going to be a disciple of billa so what about our father abraham he had a good eye that means the opposite of a narrow eye he had a generous right a meek spirit so that's the opposite of the Ruach the gasa and the humble spirit so let's see in the Hebrew right I ain't OVA Ruach Andamooka and nefesh Shaila okay but what about bilam so he had an eye in rah the evil eye a Ruach guevara a haughty spirit and an ethic recover a I'd Seoul wide okay so going back into the text he says him him I will cut down right with Russia cos all in the Gomorrah matera Mook lot that there once a person has been a determined that he is a mid surah ahzab apostate hellooo coat the plastic itself is divided into two we can actually divide our verse here into to let sorry if govern ein elraf rocof leave off then we're going to combine the guy who has his eyes upward to the one with the wide heart Kishin am more in the cleric hot both of them are coming from the same place because it says in Gomorrah voters are astray she Sri Jana Dana Mele Battaglia believe it or not there's a connection between the eyes and the heart and I brought down an interesting Gomorrah it was the first time I actually saw this so this Gomorrah is found in the Erika and 15b there was a slave in Schmalz house and was screaming because she felt burning in her eye on Shabbos unfortunately nobody helped her and her eye fell out the next day small taught that one may apply a potion you know the words you're allowed to heal and I that's the ha'la'tha anytime that there is an internal infection or god forbid either worse a Sakana to us all a danger to a life you're always allowed right it's clear that you can break Shabbat it's not even breaking shabad you're saving your life so they made a mistake they thought they couldn't heal her on Shabbat her eye fell out the next day small talk went and one may apply a potion to an eye that's about to leave their socket and why is it permitted because the gomorrah says that the nerves that connect the i go directly to the heart unbelievable so what we're just showing this and the Rambam who was a doctor he says so this is mortal danger and of course we know the law is that full desecration of the Shabbos is always permitted when letting them in danger to life is there and even a danger to a limb okay so that's we'll have to brush up on our laws of Shabbat but the point here was the connection between the eye in the heart so now we go back to that verse COGO they nine.hoorah Kovalev are the one who has this the they're always looking up as we say he has the expound at heart he's the one looking for the four the four more riches he Kogarah walk with other laro oh sure because the arrogant one he desires to be wealthy remember if he's very hot I know if you connect money and power but we usually do connect those those two ideas so the person who is arrogant he desires a lot of money he desires power Kimbo you hollow Haros Jonker to fairs google tow because then he can show off he's able to show his value right the person obviously is is experiencing some some issues with his self-worth but he wants to show off that he has value leave our gifts on the other hand kosher cold s ergo dream called oshare sorry all wealth actually causes one to be well haughty in other words we as we say in the gomorrah that the wealthy have to have a big test if you're wealthy it's it's a big test I know that we a lot of us pray that one day we'll win the lottery but I think that statistics have proved that many of those people who win the lottery are the most unhappy people on earth and it's very hard to get our head around that because we're sure we won the lottery we would not be one of those unhappy people but that's also worthy of if you ever win the lottery I'd be happy to counsel you and make sure that you would remain humble okay so just be in touch with me you can find my phone number and address on my website okay so now there's a verse in Deuteronomy chapter 8 verse 13 and 14 so these verses are talking about when the Jewish people would acquire a lot of wealth so then there's an unfortunate test and your herds and your flocks multiply and your silver and your gold increase and all that you have increases in your heart gross body this so this proves you when you have a lot the likelihood of your heart growing honey right and then as a result unfortunately one might forget the Lord your God okay so we see the connection there as well and there's a proof from what it says by unleashing a khazi going back to that story I mentioned about gay Hansie gay Kazi okay just to make sure we're pronouncing it correctly so you got that guy's alright so what does the verse say over there that Alicia basically said but Surratt Naaman did bock-bock in other words this guy was a scoundrel okay his his boss is a teacher right he was following the Prophet Elisha around and Elisha is gone around making miracles and helping people right and he's not accepting any money even if it's in your face take the envelope no I don't want the envelope so good cause he goes back and he says even my boss made a mistake whatever he told me to come back and get the envelope and so he pockets the money it's stealing I mean it's also a great desecration of God's name so as a result he's cursed though you know he's gonna now be punished with the same affliction that nan man had it should be tid bok-bok it's now gonna cling to him llama Lola Oscar Torres name and why are we saying its name mods for us it could have been just for us that this leprosy is gonna cling to you but it's near mine's leprosy that's going to cling to you do you know the problem with naman and why he and I would let Percy but since it is the latter before before shame so look at in fact the case you didn't know where we were reading we were in second Kings chapter 5 verse 27 now we're in second Kings chapter 5 verse 1 go back with it talks about Hunan man was and what his arrogance that he was so arrogant okay where does it say this he says no nevermind the general of the king of aram was a prominent man before his Lord and respected for through him had the Lord given victory to aram and the man was a great warrior and he was a bit sore he built himself up he was talking about how great he is because how his own arrogance about how great he was that's how he ended up being a myth Sora okay meaning to say she lived with nan doorknob even in front of his own master Hyomin I hate the going of the gava he acted like such a great arrogant person Kivar Amarna we already said the gossips offend us in the core Makura moo-moo-moo comecon that both this idea of arrogance and desire from money their source is really one source it really comes from one place and that's why the / diverse told us that the terrassa naman that it's the tourism that - speaks specifically that illness of naman that's going to cling to you because it was the same problem that's white oven he understood that and that's why he says in chapter 101 101 verse 5 gov a nyan or hobli evolved he connected those two ideas of putting your eyes up to the heavens well really not to the heavens but he's raising his eyes and arrogance and the the idea of loving money and now we under now we understand in our own verse when it says a man when he will have in the source of the the skin of his flesh us8 what is safe look at the letters Shin Aleph tough it's it means to be raised up then we said that array it's raised up and fractured here it's raised up guevara it's arrogant it's raised up like arrogantly we meant to resemble gasosa Ruach and this type member there's three different types this type comes because of arrogance we meet now cellular corrosion putting yourself above everyone else okay what about us a pot hot that's another time so the time in the right that we don't understand and Gomorrah Soto so pocket only means Fela to Fela means like secondary the who've our homemade Kenyan hammam own this idea of separa is going to come for the desires of acquiring money because what is money who are you are you your money we meet people that have hard financial experiences in life and it affects their their well-being infects their self-worth and my wife she serves so kind that she explains your not your money you're not you're finding you're not your portfolio right with your portfolio zero and if it's a million you know it's not who you are it's detached its secondary the money is not who you are its secondary listen to these words TEFL ela demeanor hoots that this thing that you acquired physic the physical things you require they're secondary to a man from the outside then emit at same but atom cloud Kishore hemolysis they're not part of the essence of who you are like all the other traits do you carry with you and so tight so two rights the Rambam in the shamone parking he called Hakeem yawning all those things did you acquire the the good traits like wisdom and strength and positive character chocolate Vora Milo some malice a meadows Coulomb it adds meme Emma Adam woodworking beau all of them become you that's who you are your your character traits your wisdom your strength of character that becomes who you are hoots MIOSHA X wealth has not to do with it okay who knit paolello other member hoods it's all considered secondary to a man from the outside vena da Beck emo class doesn't even clean it doesn't become part of you okay what about the other the Harris the third thing is because it's related to the word white it's live on Newt that's what the Harris it's like bright white means that this type comes because of Russian Hara and why is that because when you speak Russian hearted someone is shamed the blood rushes away from their face that's why we say that speaking loshon Hara damaging a person with your lips it's like murder because the blood disappears and they have a shade of the gray or white like you could just see the shame written all over their face so he says that's why it's white Minzy ba alum is pollution huh miss our pollution Hara Marvin panov hadera they white in the face of their friend the oyster ball huh Bar Harbor boo noise Devon ice it's like like I said they brighten the face of their friend and they make this wound of white and the Gomorrah says in baba metzia Piazza su mukha the red disappears Vyasa Rivera Guevara and the white comes look in Isaiah chapter 29 verse 22 therefore so said the Lord of hosts of Jacob who redeemed Abraham this is the words we'll have to see in Hebrew now Jacob should not be ashamed right at lo Atta your vash Yaakov right now Yahoo will not be ashamed well OU art apart now you have ro so I know English says pale but I guess we get the same message now in station should not be pal when you become ashamed your what your face becomes whitened it's pale is an idea of the the red has has gone that's where the life is in the blood life and he's like you murdered him like you killed the person and it's it's something to work on we all have to work on this okay but there's a a karate Panov on turbo Kotoko roof Havas a momma and this is like a bad habit this is a trend that this person is going in and it's because he's chasing after whatever's inside this emptiness and he's trying to fill it with money or hagatha or he's using his arrogance all the Sacrebleu cavero like we say russian hara lammott hey go to hell the easy way la flama tase russian honor because I got two ways I can make myself feel good I can work on myself I can build myself up where I could just put the other guy down isn't that the easiest thing to do just put him down and I can feel I'd have to do any work on myself and Venegas MIT rustle the hoods we said that this affliction is bringing the bad to the outside Legolas rusev a cow in order to let everyone know right that people will be aware of this evil that's inside you well shames in Nick remit so remember we said what is mitt Sora matura is the person that's leprosy motes eat raw moat Sierra's Matsuura it's coming out the evils being pushed out chanel are now if you look in the Exodus 32 verse 25 and Moses saw the people they were exposed those there were / ah they were exposed for Aaron had exposed them to be disgraced before their adversaries so we're looking at the word keep para who because they were exposed the whole idea is to expose this Shalako bits are us that they would be exposed to what they would get sore us commodity more like we say over in our parsha the Rocha yet the permits aura has to be shaven and then let's see I think it's in I think we're here at 35 very sorry 32 verse 25 you just read that I think it's Leviticus 13 verse 45 and the person with sorrows and whom there is a lesion lesion his garments shall be torn his head shall be unshorn that's the word pure he shall cover himself down to his master mustache and call out okay so basically this person is outside of the camp here's the basically when you I mean it's really hard to imagine because we've seen so many movies with a leper colony but try to cleanse your head from all those movies this guy is outside the camp he had intent to separate you or a person from everyone else that's what Russian heart does right you're speaking disgraceful you're speaking down about somebody you want other people to look at him and push him aside the result is you have to reach youth experience but you wanted to close that other person you're outside the clan and you have to say unclean unclean or hold the sign if you have a union basically do you walk around the sign saying I'm not clear about not clear it's a it's a biggest big problem you have to admit and rule Asha keloid this whole idea of his his head will be shaved right and really means that his head will be revealed she should Tegel a bat error everyone will see throughout the lion call the bat everyone will see it'll be so obvious to everyone that this is all the idea regarding for us now the Kohen is going to come to his house right haloo the el cajon you bring the code to him ain't her otoki my decoy it doesn't matter it's a guy you can't go with that to a doctor you might go to a doctor but that's not gonna help you only the Kohen can actually be the one to say you are unclean and he's gonna be the one who Herman at the end whether you're healed and take you out from the excommunication the leper colony that you were living in it's not even a colony you're by yourself you can't go around there any other weapons I guess that's one of the ideas you think a leper colony they're all helping each other and they're all living in the sewers or some backcountry no they're spread out they're not even a lot associated with each other there is no community of lepers okay you're all by yourself so the Cohen he's the only one that can purify the guy and right who and you bring him to the cone yeah I'm he he called me I share who means arrah arrah who is the one who is going to declare this person pure only IRA and why let me say the seed of iron and why the by the seat of our own nimza both shalash Meadows todos de Melo because found within our own you will find the character trait of iron is the opposite of these three character traits he said her Lucian Gorham Karev the coal Nega because the sin caused by the tongue is what causes fights and afflictions amongst people communities who've been asking me are free and amongst brothers they will separate therefore comes our own meaning comes the character of our own what do we know about our own shocked husband mean it's a shallow he grabbed he seized the day he was mr. piece himself the you pull is there he's going to be the one that's gonna heal q hiya all either shown because he's the one who loves peace the road Dave Shalom you could find that in the chapters ethics of our fathers chapter one verse chapter one mission to 12 the same kept Gossett's our walk so to the idea of arrogance our own represented the opposite should really she took in our you know because he represented the opposite it's him and his character traits they're gonna fix it Hawaii are not he was extremely humble and I'm talking about him and him in Moses you think it was just Moses listen to these words it says in the Gomorrah God oh my chinny Marv emotionally Aaron Washington will be Avram did you know that Moses and and Aaron were more humble is that possible to say they were more humble than Abraham why because when Abraham was described who he is he says I kneel Inoki offer of a fir I am but just dust and ashes which dust Nashes is something it's really something whereas when Aaron and Moses described themselves they say the knock Numa what are we they're not even dust and ashes so they're more humble so you're talking about how you're gonna fix this character trait of arrogance through the through Aaron hate and what about Hemnes mama what about the character trait of loving physical things boy Aegon came on you wouldn't find that by our neither and I bet you can guess this because you've been learning with me a while we know that the colony most Coney might know are very wealthy no but seriously when we live in Israel and we have the proper designation of love plots of land the lithium and the Connie are ownerless they're not allowed to own land there's no agriculture did they get there they're relying on what on our tithes they're relying on eating the meat and getting the skins they're relying on God's table they eat off God's table they do not I mean today you know it's a whole different story but there's rot - Shem we're going to go back to the status and they'll have we'll all have a piece of the the land and but in the meantime the carne Levine do not get a portion of land Yan Pete Carney loyal am kala anak Allah Bart's they had no portion of land loyal ahem yo give me my shoes all commercial whoo neva the only thing they were able to collect was a daily bread from the the the table of God how can you slain liba meat as his top goose therefore they really were able to capture and perfect this character trait which is so important called his top goose it means being satisfied with what you have and really being grateful from whatever morsels you actually have able to have the law you the clout sorry I am they didn't have any the opposite of generous they didn't have any miser leanness why I sure call magas Pan Am the so flick knows because whatever came their way came it it came and left out came Illinois therefore the most fitting person involved in the refuel in the healing process is the coins Chicano shows miniature hace lo therefore all three types of terrassa law guitar Hakeem Aida current will only be helped the whole process through our whole era P we'll call it mentoring when you're gonna have to keep having this come and come and checking it every week you're gonna build the relationship with this guy same two we talked about today those cities that are called refuge cities they're the cities of the theme can you imagine somebody who was involved in a a manslaughter case he was negligent and what is his punishment he has to go away to a city full of Levine they're just sitting learning tour all day that's a punishment this is the way he will understand responsibility by sitting and learning Torah which is only going to help him become a better person right improve his life that's what the tour is therefore the Torah is God's instruction man it's personal yes it's national it's global but the words are rising off the page and they're talking directly to you and with that I want to wish everyone and shabbat shalom and a hug kosher paisa an excellent and kosher holiday should be be' simcha and vedanta shem we should see the coming of the messiah the righteous messiah soon in our days with the building in the basement mig - and being gathered in the exiles and we should be all in you shall lion for Pesach even for the Pesach in Bora and if you don't have a place call me my phone number is in on my webpage and come for Shabbos come for 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