Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: Secret of the inverted Nun and 7 books of the Torah

[Music] Wow good evening everyone welcome again to be given a beit midrash in baka Schrute Ibaka of your shall I that is the doctored nape that's in the balcony burr hood of Jerusalem we are dealing with the parsha below Taha in the clea car which is absolutely fascinating in this description that we're going to use as a an outline to discuss the parsha he's going to focus on the upside down inverted nuns which you could find towards the end in your hebrew version of numbers chapter 10 towards the end right before a verse 35 and right before the chapter 11 so there's two of these inverted upside down letter and nuns that you'll find in every Seifert or every kosher Seifert are that is now before we get there we're gonna go back to verse 33 now this sounds very harsh and if I tell you that a non Jew would say this we would label them as anti-semitic okay but this is the way we will how to talk about ourselves we're allowed to be critical and we have to be critical the Torah is critical the Torah is not PC it's not coming as a whitewash okay there's plenty of things that people could blame us for as being white washer because we blame everything on the air broth it's true it's true the air of rob was a big instigator and big troublemakers and they started all of our problems but the problem is that we also fell we fall into the hole that they had dug for themselves so when it says in verse 33 the yeast soon may Hashem Derek slow shet yamim it says they journeyed from the mountain of God a three-day distance okay let's read the rest and the ark of the covenant of a shem journey before them a three-day distance to search out for them a resting place the cloud of Hashem was over them by day and when they journeyed from the camp now keep in mind that we read the words but these words have so much more meaning okay there's many levels it doesn't mean that we say there's shot simple level simple reading that's true but guess what there's mounds and mounds or tons and tons of lessons that Hashem wants us to learn and that's why we study Torah to improve our character so that we can be better servants we can we can serve Hashem in a more purified fashion so the clearer car brings out from the Madras darjah huzzah that that very day this day the retirement verse 35 o toha yom sorrow may occur hm o bokram may Hashem Cuttino cabaret Acme bata safer than when we turned away it says the journey from the mountain it means that we turned away or we turned our backs towards the mountain we turned our backs towards God o bathroom may Hashem and we fled we ran away from that mountain of God like a child who's running away from school when that bell rings at 3 o'clock in the afternoon or whatever time it was could have been to 10 it could have been one of 30 I don't know whether and you knew that time you were looking at your watch for the last 4 or 5 hours when you were in that in that the situation so buckaroo lehem Mira pan Joseph Lemm Mitzvah you know why they ran away because they were afraid that God was gonna give even more and more and more mitzvahs how much can we take right that sounded like I can't even say it a burden right that was like they came out of Egypt so slowly a Shem gave the mitzvahs we're trying to imagine what day this really is right before the mountain of before the revelation we received approximately 5 mitzvahs and then at at at the mountain itself we received at least the 10 mama wrote the 10 statements okay but through the travels it was again we didn't really receive the tablets the first time were out cuz they were broken on the 17th of Tammuz but comes the tisha Yom Kippur Yom Kippur we received the second set of tablets okay in the following day we were then told and commanded to build the Mishkan the tabernacle then it wasn't until a few months later the first of Nisan that we actually directed the tabernacle started a whole bunch more laws and received a lot more laws so this is most likely at least the second month of the second year as it said in the beginning up by mid part so we're talking about a period of time several months after we were told at certain misses just keep that in mind yet we were afraid we were gonna keep getting more and more apparently and now we understand the verse is telling us a comma han kui Toba look at the ingratitude look how ungrateful ungrateful the Jewish people were and receiving that Hashem was tested in kindness chiapas man Humaira does EV because even at this time of rebellion we were rebelling against the sham what was he doing for us he was seeking out a resting place that we could rest right as it says our own breeze Hashem no sale if named Eric Schlosser the amulet or lamb that the Holy Ark of the Covenant of a sham traveled in front of them before them again a three-day journey to do what to find for them to seek out a resting place hey Muammar do but miss wash Lucius young meme this rebellion or this running away from a shell there's no other word to really call it lasted three days the our own research amaetv the hem nevertheless the the Ark of the Covenant was doing well was was trying to benefit them during these three days now he says alternatively in other words another look whatever we said is true but there's another look and just take another an alternative explanation since the verse is seemingly a paradox the fee shaka tube and the Gilberts Tarim so this is the way cuz i'll express it as if God is saying in toss Dana young if you depart from me if you abandon me for one day your maíam as the ha God is saying I'm gonna abandon you for two days now you look at that statement and think what is that that's petty I'm gonna leave you a Shem for one day and you're gonna leave me for to know that's gonna be the result in other words God is not taking revenge it's gonna be me to connect in Mina it's gonna be measure for measure and he says it's a mashallah Shanaya whole hymns n is that it's like analogous to two people and they're gonna walk away from each other it's a it's an interesting relationship we have a booth Hashem says holy meal did Miz rock gazelle Amara so these two people walking away from each other one is going to the east and the other one is going to the west so what what's gonna happen it comes out that they're the exact same distance okay I skip the word said meal meal is a distance so if you let's just call it a mile it's not really a mile but it sounds like a miles we'll use that it's a distance so one walks a mile to the west and one walked a mile to the east it comes out that the distance between them is two miles okay so and that happens to be found in the Gemara hood and you Xiaomi and Kok America - this is what the PASOK is saying Kihei monosomy are a sham the fact that they traveled away from God the Nazareth were they traveled in in the opposite direction direction you mean three days min Hashima away from the Divine Presence Lu matzoh now in parallel to this gum our own breeze Hashem no sale of naam the Covenant of God travelled in the opposite direction li hit rock hate mayhem Derek sloshes you mean to distance another three days from the original starting point so what comes out name Surry cook Derek shisha I mean by name so what do we really see is the distance the the physical distance was it not a three-day journey but it comes out that it was a six-day journey because if each one traveled it's like God mirrors us good you want to let God into your life right it's up to you he's there willing and waiting right it's up to you I think they was I forget which kasi decrepit they asked where is God and he says wherever you let him in it's up to you you want to close off a Shem he's gonna give you mirror you distance himself the same amount that you're distancing from him and that's why and in one second why was it six days kadai littoral ahem a new Clem in a mitzvah I share my son Ben this is like mind-boggling Hashem allowed them that space and that time to find a resting place for them to the Jewish people because of the mitzvahs which had discussed them in other words they were able to rest from God continuously handing them more and more mitzvahs they needed to rest it needs a break and I mentioned in the class this week that sometimes we also need a break hopefully it's for the sake of God the shame shame I'm as we say so if you're really toiling in Torah and you're really doing lots of mitzvahs you know sometimes you need a breather right so you take a little bit of a vacation you might go to the beach or you know separate beach you might go bowling you might go out for a picnic and it's all for the sake of recharging your batteries to come back and serve a Shemin even with greater gusto with greater joy so you don't get burnt out it's very important not to get burnt out so the clear car begins at this point by telling us how krob the Sh'ma come close I want you to hear this this is what it means she's s so known how fuuka Shimane Teva to Manuka Henare who bathed the human so I Ron he's telling us right now this is going to be the secret of those upside-down inverted nuns which from now we'll call nun half ooh ha the inverted nuns now there are two of them so the first one appears and after the word a Mahana a maken has the last word in verse 34 as we said the cloud of Hashem was over them by day when they journeyed from the camp the next verse is when the ark would travel and this is what we sing when we open up the ark every Monday and Thursday and Shabbos and Hakim okay so that's the first nun where is the second nun is the second inverted nun in Ramez it out Luna Tom it's going to hint about their complaint if you read on word in verse verse 5 it says we remember the fish we ate when we were in Egypt for free right amazing so what is that how does that second nun hint to this complaint about the fish and how is it that the first known is facing the word I'm not a net what is what does that telling me wait till you hear this now we're gonna be a little bit there's any children under 18 listening we asked you to get your parents permission at this point because some of its going to be a little bit risque as we say okay so that none the letter none which you all know what it looks like in aramaic means fish in Hebrew it means kingship and mouth and that is a whole separate shear but today we're gonna talk about the fishy side okay I've unknown reshawna ramus you saw named Sheila Dagon so we already know that the nun is the letter is the letter nun means fish in Aramaic therefore that first none is gonna hint to Israel who are compared to fish we are compared to fish Iker see you tomba Mayan oh let me just take a an opportunity to say this because I you know I tell all the people all the time Isaiah 53 is talking about Israel the the suffering servant and when these people who are all mixed up we know who they are but we won't mention them my name right they're a little bit messy and they use a fish as a symbol from what they consider their intermediate their way of connecting to a shem little do they realize that we really all you have to do is replace and understand who the suffering servant is and I say 53 you know the suffering servant is from the earth you read Isaiah from 42 onwards it's talk about Israel anyway Israel is the fish but let's talk about the inverted upside-down fish because now we're going to complain and this is not going to boat us very well so listen to what this we said that Israel's compared to the fish because the Iker you Tomba maíam the prime life force for a Jew is in the water the Israel needs the water just like the fish need the water alkane called dog pona Panov the chute akamai therefore where did the fish really get their their life force from the deeper waters to go to the to in and unsure they're gonna die right if they come as close to shore as possible and beyond that's that's not where they're gonna find life they're gonna find death but where did the fish go they want to go to the deeper waters lahmacun Utah to the place of their nourishment and a life force Hellena high-tech panov l-fatiha they're not pointing towards the seashore that's not where they want to end up kissing Ikra perish mimic computer because that's considered separating themselves from their life force israel that's why it says about israel now if you look in Genesis 48 15 16 sorry now I'm not going to try to sing this for you but maybe I should Amala hugger l see maybe you've heard that so I advise you going to Google and or YouTube and try to find the kosher site that has this song and you can learn it and maybe the angel who redeemed me from all harm bless the youths this is where Yaakov was blessing yo safe he's already blessed the children he's already blessed his grandchildren I should say Menasha frying now he's blessing yo safe and may they be caught by my name and by the name of my father's Abraham and Isaac and may they multiply abundantly like fish in the midst of the land so Amala ago LT me Cara Guevara s hinari Leah crab ahem show me the shame I vote aye Aram Yitzhak dig do the Rove the gig do the rose be care of ha so this is the Jewish people they should be blessed to increase abundantly like fish sure you could Kentucky Mahalo that these fish what is it about the fish eagerly you Tomba Torah meaning the Jewish people their prime life force is derived from the Torah which is compared to water so I sent you a list of some gamora's I think it's number 17 well it actually starts with the story and then there are a few other gamora's to talk about so that's let's go through a proof briefly in other words for me to tell you that we're like fish for me to tell you that you know we saw this in the braja but let's talk about it inside the Gemara so gomorrah bravo 61 a there's an interesting story unfortunately it's rabbi akiva passed away at the end of the story in a very harsh and degrading manner yet nevertheless he elevated himself so high when he said the Shema that i guess you know who for who or who am i to say that it was all worth it but he certainly did so let's read we'll just read - the aim was keep to the English we learned in our mission of the explanation of the verse and you shall love the Lord with all your God with all your heart with all your soul this is what we read three times twice a day sometimes three alright you should love the Lord your God the after s hashem elokenu so you'll notice in Deuteronomy 6:5 that's diverse now this was elaborated upon when it was taught in a brighter I just said what does it mean with all your soul and why does it say with all your might so if it only had one with all your might or let's say conversely what do you need both for knows if what you're so why do you need all your might or if all your might why does it need all your soul so this unfortunately some people's body is much dear to them than his property not unfortunately to suit the case and therefore it says below your soul and what about the other kind of person whose money is more dear to them and his body therefore it says with all your might and rabbi akiva says what does it mean with all your soul even if God takes your soul in fact when we say the Shema we actually should think of ourselves as martyrs right that God forbid I mean the comedian look okay situation but yeah we're in a situation where it's we have to proclaim God is God either gonna take our soul let's say for example in the Holocaust we're going to God for Vince we're going to the oven here's an opportunity to have some on your lips right even if it takes your soul do you more relates Atlanta rebek you have fulfilled these directives as we know right and he ended up being killed by the Romans so the sages taught one time during or after the park acqua rebellion the evil empire that be Rome decreed that Israel is not allowed to study and practice Torah and now this guy Papas Ben Yehuda came in found a beekeeper who was convening assemblies in public Rev Akiva was going against right again it wasn't PC what he was doing he was going against the establishment of the evil I usually call him the Holy Roman Empire as a joke and well let's just be straightforward and call him the evil Roman Empire and he was anyway engaging in Torah in public so Papa says to him aren't you afraid aren't you free gonna get arrested or tortured aren't you afraid of the Romans this is where this is the point this is going to be the point wherever you keep you answer it I'll tell you a mush out a parable to what can be to what if this can be compared to it's like a fox walks along the river it's like right out of a stopped stables but we know that this was way before a fox is walking along the river bank he sees a fish you know moving around so the Fox says to him why are you moving around so he says well there's a lot of Nets out here and people are trying to catch us so the Fox right the smartest of all the animals most cunning he says well maybe you want to come up on the dry land we could sit together we can enjoy life together just as our ancestors used to write like as if as if evolution right so maybe we all we're all related and let's come back to the way it used to be so the fish responded you're the one whom they say are the cleverest of all the animals you're not clever at all you're a fool see if if we're afraid in the water we're already moving around because of the nets and this is our natural habitat we're already being chased so which in our natural habitat is where where our life is so then in a habitat which is going to cause death which is on the land how much more so I want you understand this is very deep it's talking about coming to the conclusion on your own right so the moral is so - we Jews now we sit we engage in Torah this is really saying right you know it says in Deuteronomy 30 verse 24 this is your life and the length of your days don't forget this this is your life the Torah is your light source and yet we fear the Empire to this extent if we proceed and just sit idly by it's like putting yourself on the shore where you were surely die right so I hope you got the idea it's very very heavy stuff but this is the way we have to live our lives we used to be Maserati nephesh we have to give our life like I know the hava right now is somewhere in the Far East at 1:00 1:00 o'clock in the morning and she is if she's still awake she's giving her life at 1:00 a.m. who gets up in 1 a.m. and learns Torah come on the house' very nice it's a different part yet so the sages said they actually met up in prison not a few days had passed when they seized Rugby Akiva put him in prison and they also seized his guy Papas Ben Yehuda they put him aside in the same cell so they had conversation or beekeeper says why are you here what brought you here can you imagine what Pappas replied I only wish I was like you I would have been learning Torah I end up in the same place all right happy you rebel you before you arrested on the charges of engaging in Torah well to me because I was engaged in I don't matters I was doing nothing a jaywalking I got arrested okay the rest is a very important part because it talks about rebbi akiva when he recited the Sh'ma and that he was killed and i want you to become familiar with it so when when when they took Rebeck he they ought to be executed it was the time to recite the Shema and they were raking his flesh with the iron combs and he was saying the Shema accepted accepting upon himself the yoke of heaven his students said to him our teacher even now as you suffer you say the Shema you're talking about the unification of a shed you understand how hard it is for a Jew to accept another God to accept any other God we've given our lives generation after generation after generation it's in our DNA it started with Yaakov Aveeno also saying Sh'ma and the children around him hsiang-chuan knows the saints mom and every generation since has said this mice Roush M ok Michelle a fraud we're not going to give up one God for a you know wooden stone on idols it's an R Dane DNA and they were raking his flesh with IRA combs it was ready to accept accepting upon himself the yoga in heaven his students said to him our teacher even now why you're a sufferer and he know what he said to them all my days I've been working with his verse troubled by the verse what does it mean with all your soul and he knows even if God takes your soul so I said to myself when will the opportunity ever be afforded to me to fulfill this verse right now should I should I not fulfill it and he pro pro pro pro long that word God as long as he possibly could and that's when his soul left his body a voice descended from heaven happy are you rubbish even your soul left your body as you uttered the name of God being one okay I think yeah here number 18 I mentioned a few other ideas about water do you know that we have a public taller reading we read scripture in public Mondays Thursdays and Saturdays why because when we were in the desert it says in Exodus 15 22 Moses led Israel away from the Red Sea they went out into the desert they walked three days in the desert they did not find water of course they complained God heard their complaint Moses heard the complaint and this is where Moses established the POE a public tour in three days a week so there will not be god forbid three days without Torah okay because they were complaining about water they were complaining about water yet there should not be three days without water without Torah here you go down and see it the price that continues discussing this verse since the Jews traveled three days without hearing any Torah they became weary and therefore the prophets among them arose and instituted for them that they should read from the Torah eat shabbat and pause on sunday read again on monday pause on Tuesday and Wednesday read again on Thursday pause on Friday night so they should not tarry three days without hearing the Torah okay you can read this at your leisure I guess you know this very important verse here then isaiah 55:1 right anyone who thirsts come and drink right it's not talking about 8a it's not talking about a physical thirst it's talking about a spiritual thirst okay there's a verse in Habbakuk 114 and makes people's the fish of the sea is the creeping things they have no rule over them what does this mean why are people compared to fish of the sea this serves to say to you just as with regard to the fish of the sea once they arise onto dry land they die immediately so too is regard to people once they separate themselves from studying words of the Torah and performing the mitzvahs they die immediately alternately just as regard to the fish of the sea once the Sun has heated over them they die immediately so - with regard to people once the Sun has heated over them they die immediately of course we know just the idea that the the what does water do it always goes down to the lowest place when the toad is compared to water so on now you know this is the Torah is received only by the Hubble okay only by the lowest people that's what I did also talks about on the Mount Sinai itself during the revelation the dew and the rain and it's coming something that's coming down from heaven we use this analogy many times ok so you've heard it before that the Torah is compared to water ok so let's go back into the clear car and he just mentions this idea of the the analogy the rebecky vagator to Papoose pena hooter and that we saw so now rube is manji Israel boyfriend najara sham Cuttino baba ram eBay so safer at the time when Israel runs away from the mountain God like children running away from the school they are like a nun they are like the nun that is a fish that's turned in the wrong direction remember the nun is facing the wrong direction it's an upside-down backwards nun which means they have polish mimic computo they are separating themselves from their source of life and vitality you can look at the next verse it talks about the iron the kodesh the iron of Ash and it's talking about when that would arise so you do not facing that were they facing they're facing the word hamana hamana and there is a code word for people means the camp and not just any camp we'll see what kind of people were talking about Shirley so who pone upon of al-hasa Philomela hoots not only are they not a dollar they turned away from their source of of life force but they're turned towards the outside towards the lip towards the outside like the shore coffee shop on open a I'm in our own possession this is Israel turning their face away from the the Holy Ark of God me mock I'm clear you Tom the place of their light source so to alcaine unknown a Fuuka that's exactly what the nun the upside down inverted Nonna's roof is showing you t hoff Capernaum in pursuit they're actually turned away from the verse the havens are on when the Arawa travel open alt bottom Akana but where is the North facing towards the encampment and what does the encampment represents Remy's Ellis Manchester on the saga affirm in our briefs a sham it's referring it's hinting to the time when Israel retreats away from the Holy Ark of God open name LM Akana and they're facing the mock Lana which is Haram what we call the people and we all know whenever the peoples use the word harm is used as opposed to Israel B'nai Israel tequila right all these names that could be used for aha is always talking about the evil ones of Israel who are called the erev rav the mixed multitudes and what does that represent que la havas in your nay Allah misere they were the lovers of materialism and this world a sure banana fanna misoo golem ahem this is what the people of the mock and Abdi came in endeared and loved could they limped okay Vania Makana so if you're looking at the mock and there and you want to have you want to look good in front of them okay you want to look you want to appear righteous or good in their eyes hoop on the oil ALS Reena when you do that you're turning your back to God you're facing them and all you do is care about what they think of you then your back is towards a Shem poni Kol Mohammed massive then all of your expressions and all of your actions are pointed what Kadisha other mahashiv so that you appear to be an important person the maha in your cabin oh sorry the Nagas the lamb or some type of minister or some type of leader you want to just boost yourself up so you're really concerned about how you looking for the people and you're not really as concerned how about your relationship with Hashem to continue so Iker I can't this is actually the prime sin this is really the sin Nene no I'm Assad a very cool galoot ready this sin is why we're still in exile this is the main reason why we have this long drawn-out exile the kerubim came pond open a hem in our embrace Hashem Allah Makana because a majority I'm either assuming means majority of the people or too many times we are turning our faces away from the Holy Ark of the Covenant of God to the Maha net was the camp hydrophilic Oki Cherone Hamas a matura whom it stirs a noise English MA until all of our abilities endowments and geniuses all the things that God gave us right the the our abilities which we could use for Torah and mitzvot we're doing it but we're not doing it for the highest good it's not lachemann it's somehow another to be looked at in a more favorable light by the people around us as opposed to doing it for the right reasons today we hate that the he thought there am this may have Rios but rather in order to glorify themselves in front of people limbs of pain Bain am to have people look highly at us the notorious Carta now the word in the Torah cart is not what you think it means right it's used by an extreme group an anti Zionist group but it's an old Aramaic term and it's talking about the the the guardians of the city kilo hame hame Carruth a Carta that you think you're going to be the the savior but really you're the destroyer that called yo teams Shekinah everyone knows this everybody knows this is true they a marha shave you can't even defend this you there's nothing to say there's no response I assure ya akhi for Chevrolet row until Hashem will see from his own holy abode the yachiru off new name Mickey Bey no and he with his grace removes the spirit of corruptness within us who the a mark was that but I won't go in any length right now to discuss it so in the in the Commish it's in then numbers chapter 10 verse 35 when the ark would journey Moses would say arise Hashem let your foes be scattered let those who hate you flee from before you so because I'll tell us in do more Shabbos that these two verses we've discussed this before these two verses between these nuns it's almost like parentheses okay that these two verses are a book all in its own as we know we call it the five books of Moses but really there are seven and it's interesting because there's ad rush when it says that the Jews went up armed out of Egypt Lou come machine they went up armed moosh we say it means five one out of five people went up out of Egypt that's true four-fifths of our people of our brethren never made it out of Egypt but there's another way look at Rashi on that verse he explains what is kamesh we all know right it's armed like they give up hot Hawk motions you're going to store they want to know are you how much you know it to God the guard is Anthony or do you have weapons okay so it means ammunition weapons but guess what Rashi says Cleese ayan what's Cleese I think about it just let it into your ear CLE is a vessel Zion are war they means weapons of war but think about a second we're saying that the word five really means weapons because the truth is this is our weapon this is our weapon of war and Rashi says it's cleese ayan Zion is another name not just for war weapons it's also the number seven so he's telling you right there I mean you've probably read it a million times as you see it that the five books or let's say the weapons is really seven it's not just fine anyway now we know that there's really seven books now what are the seven books you have Genesis Exodus Leviticus and was from skip to know to devour dodona me and the Book of Numbers is divided into three books everything before this none which means everything from chapter 1 until chapter 10 verse 34 right and then the middle book is chatted versus 35 and 36 and then the last part of numbers is a whole book on its own meaning from chapter 11 until the end now the question that he's going to ask is isn't the book isn't the Torah a book of law how is it that you're gonna tell me that these two verses between the two nuns is all about law right I mean you have Genesis you got lots of laws right not as many as you have later on but you have the Brit Milah you have to get inertia you have so many laws in there and then snows you have lots of laws leviticus numbers deuteronomy but in that little two verses where the laws how can it be you're trying to pull a fast one over on me right you got these two verses and you tell me it's laws what what laws are there ready for this he says well let's he he exaggerated the question let's say Snape Suki Melo Haim safe the Phineas mo the the GU more tells us these two verses are a book on their own our pain mana shiver slime Betar therefore you really counts seven books at a time so see a poly milk a double a might now if you become confused and wonder what in the world is going on here hooray ikura told him into italian man isn't the prime reason for the Torah being given is for the mitzvahs would be savers the N remembers the shoe mitzvah I don't see any hint at all in this book of two verses any any laws and there on the Kalki Vaughn there the clear card says I will answer in part by saying she limits the pure Rivia as I say from earthly as well believe it or not this book two verses is all about being fruitful and multiplying and don't tell me that's not a mitzvah in fact that's the very first Mitzvah of the whole Torah okay I kind of skipped that in Genesis right be fruitful multiply keep the mr. zou truly Kela my whole on key you my all on the whole world is resting on this mitzvah if people didn't have any children like I think they're crazy in the West somewhere in a matter of America yeah they they're talking about abortion and having no kid I think they have less kids than and okay so whatever that's their choice but anyway it says that mitzvahs colloid cume alarm this Mitzvah is hangs on this mitzvah the existence of the universe the world but one second more than that who cares so what does a lot of people glory Micheltorena guess what when you have people you have divine presence creating the image of God the more people we have the more God can come into the world like we saw call me Shana I say the piri Rivia says in the more your vom out anyone who is not and I tell my single friends is if she's listening out there anyone who I'll just add the word not married because anyone who's not involved in the midst of being fruitful multiply go multiply he's going the ski militia Stalag nice RAL he causes the divine presence to be removed from the Jewish people and how do we know that look remember I said this two verses what's the second verse we didn't we didn't really it but if you look at number 20 on the source she and when it came to rest he would say repose rest o Lord among the Myriad's of thousands of Israel now it's true it's just a very large number but we said it's specifically twenty-two thousand when we talked about the four different sides of the encampment and the twenty-eight different clouds of glory and how you come out with a minimum of six hundred thousand okay so here to you and and you're talking about having look at Rashi actually I like that first Raji part as well rest o Lord so Menachem renders the word Schriever as an expression of rest similarly in the word shuva tranquility we'll be saved you hear that look in Isaiah chapter 30 verse 15 in the resting and the tranquility you shall be saved and if you look in the second part of that ration the myriads of thousands of Israel teaches us the divine presence does not rest on Israel if they number less than 22,000 we talked about that when you when you divide into the 600,000 you realize that there has to be a minimum with this 28 clouds of glory we're talking about 22,000 in fact LaVey had 22,000 so that was the smallest encampment so that's where you got that from and I lost my place here we are so what does this teach us mallamma Chinaski mature before hos mission a lofty mission a travels in Israel that the divine presence will not rest if you have less than 22 thousand Jews who us-russian I very malleable clothes have had meaning that if you had 20 20 1999 their loss of pure ilya it means someone's not doing their job turn out more kids Nym to should go a machinist colleague miss Raya what's going to happen is the divine presence is gonna leave the Jewish people this is a mitzvah reshawna schnitz table all the Mauritian allowed this happens to me the look on Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 and 27 I think it says over there we give her a little keen at Adam God created man and then right away it says he blessed them and he said to them to be fruitful multiply that's even before he tells them don't eat from the tree of knowledge good and evil that's the very first command Cocozza say for a new cloud minutes Kazu so - God made this book unique regarding this Mitzvah this book this out of the three books of Namid bar one of the seven books of the Torah is dedicated these 85 letters these 85 letters these two verses is dedicated to telling you you want to have the Divine Presence get married have kids or just try doesn't mean you have to have kids right means you make the effort cocktails right fine Norma is Raj the skin of your shots arch-nemesis Ramallah right you need the 22,000 mainly eight that called ich miss ray liotta hiromitsu pure Illya rule in Marlo Thomas bar therefore automatically every Jew should know to be careful to be involved in the midst of be fruitful multiply in order to be a part of you don't have to have 20,000 kids yourself okay right we're not did I ask that much of you but to be a part of it right good Ola the brand new min parser and parses the Matata name schmuck Allah and as a great proof to what we're saying we will continue with this parsha to discuss how it all fits together so now we're in chapter 11 verse 1 it says that he commits on a name the people began to complain now I want to go through a few of these verses outside then we'll see him inside so this word commit only we will discuss what does it really mean it was even in the eyes of God meaning that God heard and Hashem heard and his wrath flare so it was Hashem who heard doesn't say Moses heard and so what does that mean and a fire of a Shem burned against them was consumed the edges of camp we'll talk about this fire why why fire and what about the edge of the camp finally the people cries out right out to Moses Moses prayed to a Shem so means he he did hear something or he was it doesn't say he heard see in verse 10 it says Moses heard so mode the people cried out to Moses Moses prayed to a Shem so Moses heard something or he was aware of something but it wasn't fully aware of the whole story until verse 10 okay when he actually heard them and they were weeping in their family groups there we think about something to do with family okay now verse 4 the rabble that was among them cultivated a craving so the rapper who to the rabble and we discussed that a little bit and what does it mean cultivated the craving they their their desire was growing okay and then it says the children of Israel wept also they also wept what does that mean so who was weeping and who's now also we think okay so hopefully we'll get to all this right now let's go when that first verse where it says the people began to complain we don't find any explanation of what they were complaining about not in verse 1 it's true in verse 4 and 5 where they asked for meat and they asked for fish but we don't know what they're complaining about an old verse one yeah the lowboy huh cut to list on Ellen Etheridge that actually isn't the Torah here to explain and to expound why is it so hidden what's being hidden here ah from the auction but sooner state clothes were flourishing the Micra but when you looked at verse 4 and verse 5 where you see that they are complaining that they won't eat meat or they they remember the fish that's one thing and the other thing in verse 10 Boca with Mischka Tov they cried regarding their families what in the world could they be crying about regarding their families okay so he tells us right here I'll escape a Reyes Reyes means illicit sexual relations in sexual relations okay that's what it's talking about keep in mind before the tour was given the greatest rabbi the greatest teacher the greatest prophet of that generation which is Moses his father Imran was married to his own aunt you're headed now as the greatest living leader at the time we know that he divorced his wife right because the the Egyptians were killing the Jewish babies and Miriam said what are you doing you worse than Pharaoh he only wants to kill the boys you're you're wiping everyone out and he got he gets married again to his wife guess what we learned that when he divorced everyone divorced so people follow the leader so - if he married his own aunt then most likely most of the Jewish people were in also incest relationships because it was not forbidden it wasn't permitted and once the Turk comes down and the kuda question we're gonna ask you is what what happened it's already months ago that they knew about this but all of a sudden they woke up why did they wake up right now that's gonna be the question so when you're told you no longer could be married to your sister or your aunt or your uncle or wherever your close relationship with is what are you gonna down you're gonna cry I'm in love with this person I have to I cannot I can only be with them so the truth is we have to think about this what do we know about converts a convert is called a enoch shinola dummy it means they are born-again eighteen oak is a child should know Letham there was just born a gear someone who converts is no longer physically biologically related to their parents or their brothers and sisters and according to the Torah they're actually allowed to marry if their sister converted according to the Torah but of course we know the rabbinic li it's forbidden okay that's all we discussed that already we don't need to discuss that again right now so what's the problem were they crying over the fact that they had to get divorced no you know what they were crying that they knew this was the best kind of relationship that could ever be if you're married to your sister or your aunt first of all it keeps the money in the family but I don't seem to be laughing over there anyway so what's the story that they were crying because their own children could not marry the brothers and sisters in other words they were already married didn't have to divorce perhaps because of the reason we just mentioned because they're actually as if they were there work on verts and then they therefore they were allowed to marriage so only rabbinical II they weren't allowed now that came later but in the future their own children would not be able to marry their first cousins and their aunts in there their brothers and sisters okay so now let's go on so we said that's regarding the SK arroyos that's Maura he came by they call a party Matt the Burton Indian Eckhart therefore even though we're talking about and sounds very very crude they complained they didn't have any meat to eat they complained that they remembered the fish that was for free and yet we're saying it's all one thing until verse 10 that they're crying about the illness and sexual relations they can no longer have it's all considered one idea how cold hiya luna akka that's all one complaint and its source is from the heben so uh they even showed me verse 35 and when it would travel and you had the upside down inverted nun the secret is in the word King método name so you have this the second nun that is pointing towards the complaints and the complaint was about illicit sexual relations and we just saw really in the whole idea of that book is about Peru about being fruitful and multiplying so I'll just tell you outside a little bit basically what he's gonna tell us is that why was there a hesitation and a wait there was months ago that they heard about this Mitzvah but they weren't thinking they really thought they had enough children they didn't really need to have more cohabitate with their wives anymore they weren't really they weren't thinking about it and all of a sudden now God tells them have lots of children all of a sudden the thinking he could be I got a problem how am I gonna have lots of children I'm even supposed to divorce my wife I don't know what I'm supposed to do and they were complaining this is the complaint okay so let's see now how he disgusts it keya Pilate man they robbed me it certainly wonder in the eyes of many gamba nie Paulo even in my own eyes what cuz I'll tell us that in verse 10 the eeschema motion Moses heard the people both have the Mishka Tov he heard the people cry about their families and we already mentioned them you could see in that ratio is scary ocean Sol M if you want to see that Rashi just so you know I'm not making it up doctor you would look at number 23 Moses heard the people weeping with their families each one at the entrance of his tent the Lord became very angry and Moses considered evil look at the Rashi weeping with their families families gathered in groups weeping so as to publicize their grievance that's the first statement but our sages say this is the meaning what does it mean concerning family matters that's because intermarriage among family members was forbidden to them as we discussed so what so what if it's forbidden to them it's not a problem at all convert cotton we all converted it and Mount Sinai that's what I mean that we're all converse there's no problem no they were talking about their own children that they couldn't marry like they had okay so back in the text my Indian to Lunas rubicon why are we discussing this complaint now lawaloba passionately mirai out why weren't they crying at the time that it originally became forbidden for them v botos Mancha talked shot Kuh if at that time they were quiet for COD mayhem sub of the kiba and each one in their own way just accepted it i taw now my LM Cibola high scary shudders Lyoko i'll reshawna sheik of our key move Akiva what happened that all of a sudden they woke up and furthermore hallo bethey M isn't it in their own mouths where they said we remember the fish they said we remember the fish and they also said if that was in verse 5 then they also said in first for me I feel a new buzzer who's gonna feed us meat so he says there's no doubt that all these verses from verse 4 but you sugar of the youth could gobernador out that the jews right they cried also in other words again let's see what that means again they cried also the Jew also the fact that it says also what talk about that until verse and where it says Moses heard the people crying so it's all talking about one cry it's from the first instance god Moses saw them and understood they were crying but didn't really fully in comprehending what exactly they were crying about until verse 10 when he finally fully comprehended it because they were talking about the family matters Nichole Madaba bassy aha so it's all talking about one cry becomes a he's toddler that's why the rabbi's went out of their way to try to explain this in a far-out way but in the second NUMA there's an argument that argument is between Robin Schmo one says the really fish they were really desiring fish whereas one says like we saw a riot it has to do with that forbidden relationships now these next three words are very important volition Amalia knocketh it's all in a nice way right we have the 45th President of the United States and he is known for what they call locker room talk right to got in big trouble before the elections so we're not gonna go there okay but here he says it's a high level of speaking when he's when they said who's gonna give us meat or we remember the fish it's talking about sexual relations without using that term comma dot amar just like it says now if you look initially that's proverbs chapter 30 verse 20 it talks about an adulterous woman but in the end Oklahoma hata P ha she eats and then she wipes her mouth as if she had done no wrong that's the idea here with dr. shooed momart it says also Miyake lena buster who's gonna feed us meat it's also a nice phraseology a clean phraseology for the same idea in a gobbler of sweetly motherly time-to-time Vedad therefore also we're required to try to explain it in a solidly nice way so they just solidify the question my Indian to Lunas Ullah Khan why are they making the complaint now llama shop cuckoo nostril hemorrhage why were they cry for last several months so now we're gonna get into the the guts I'm now the theme a ship irrational Amala current will explained earlier the whole parsha from vehemence OA and the RN would rise and the travel lo NICTA Joaquim Lazar YZ s Israel a mrs. P review those two verses between the two nuns verse 35 and 36 is all about encouraging Israel to have more children she did Google arose that they should increase abundantly like these fish your vote out even a partial on the Han and now everything will fit together when the yahud all over a you as if the verse is talking like a furnace prophet was he speaking to his friend it's all relating to each other that the Noah Fuuka the upside down inverted known at the end of the parsha and the none that is turned towards the Kim it on a name like we said commit only name are the complainers because the nun is a fish the note in Aramaic is fish and what is it about fish fish have a their busting with eggs okay if you ever watched National Geographic they have a female fish that lays her eggs that's what it's called excreting eggs there's like millions and millions of eggs of course they don't all survive but nevertheless the Poots in video check the caribbean the fish are like the best example of be fruitful multiply him a mid-level cash natural hemorrhage so in the beginning a few months back when god told them you can no longer marry these people logic pedo of that they weren't really concerned they were they carefree consociational guru hum they actually thought they could have a certain amount of restraint I just Shamu parshas until they heard these two verses have lots of children and all of a sudden what are you gonna do and then they all the sudden started complaining and had great desires the desire was desire on top of the desire Wow once it said the heap and so I write those two verses shamash and valer the hem what does explain to them she called me she noise at Pier Olivia anyone who's not involved in trying to have children is going the screen assha styling this round he's causing the divine presence to be removed or departs from Israel as Nicholas saw Tina believe mom that's when the complaint dented their hearts and they said mission Aminu he'll appeal if rosemary both Kedah him hello you call annachi guess what I get it it rests well with me if I'm able to have a be fruitful multiply like fish if I had my choice I had my choice about all these women hi number two team solo yeah buddy desi looks good alone and then the skinny would never leave because I got my choice open every every every woman is available to me I'm not a fish net ruler Manohar Isles but after God says no you're not allowed to marry these women array I know Heather dog then it's we're turning around it's the opposite of a fish it's the opposite of the fish I knew no no Fuuka that's what the upside down inverted nun is representing and this is clear in the parsha after they heard in verse 36 right chuva hashem Rivas LT shroud well o Lord on the Myriad's of the thousands of Israel right shoes heirs um our Mitzvah Peru they were motivated and encouraged to do this Mitzvah they have lots of children the nagi mallalieu to be like these fish me out here who are L believe mom Alisha rious immediately started thinking about their ancestral relations and they were a quandary again he's that Nonna folk this is going to be the odd the upside down inverted nut therefore it says the arm wouldn't be no harm is there commit noting that they were show him so I think I brought down the verse Rashi for you look on number 24 and that's the word a soft safe but the multitude that was the mixed multitude but I think I brought it down earlier here the people looking to complain look what number 22 look at Rashi the people looking to claim the word Haram is used only in reference to the wicked so we know that the storm at the era of Robb is the is the the word harm is being used over there and when we get to massage safe masaf soup we'll talk about them but hearing begins by saying what does it mean the the people began that's the regime the evil ones and the word Kim myth ona mean as if they were complainers it doesn't say complainers it says as if they were complainers mitt owner named lone mr but rather kim it on a name with a cuff a cuff denote means as if it's like mean to say a new code names a you know what an owning is and our name is like an eval someone who's on mortar but in the previous the first stages before the burial they hear about the death and then they buried them so that period of stage is called an owning and it's forbidden for the owning to have relations with his wife okay so it says kit mitt on a name the word own name is part of the word here so don't read this complainers on the simple shot they were complaining because they could not have relations with their wives like an our name let's read again alright under Cooling's it we like this type of a mortar shop Tashia shemitah as annoyed cuttin it explains what the forbidden nature of an awning is he's not a lot of relations with his wife low horseshoe Allah Natasha she meets in cold machine we are no longer allowed to have sexual relations with all the women that we have at our disposal the fee shame aminos Keeble 8th now morning is something only in the lathe ok we can act it out but only you know when God knows if you're a mourner sure dying low hurts it will not Tommy I lose they hadn't yet expressed verbally I'll came low here bish Moshe a dying one atop that's why Moses didn't fully understand he actually perceived there was something going on but he to understand it was over the families until verse 10 it says they complained to him all right he heard but he only heard sorry I only heard verse 10 al Khaimah hashem that's why we see the god heard the hick she'd the cult from the table got actually heard their complaint al came nearer nammar that's why it says in verse 1 rob Bosnian god heard the evil and eat the evil in their ears and it was evil in the ears of the lord in other words he heard he actually heard now go back to verse 3 11 chapter a chapter 11 verse 3 it says tavar bomb h hashem right for the fire of the Lord burned among them there keep the Royce King killed Kulu remember everything is measure for measure when it comes to sexual relations we talked about heat heat is a YouTube term not just used by animals and dogs we're talking about sexual desires is there's a heat in the body okay even Mick Jagger spoke about a fever of 103 I think it was him anyway we talk about in terms of women when they have through their menstrual cycle and when they're ready so into in in animal terms they call it heat but we say the heat of passion use that expression so it was through the heat of passion that brought them down but Arab ahem aced either the he memorize it was something was burning the fire was burning within them and their desire and the heat of towards this roof in relations alkane me the connect it me that that's why it's measure for measure God burned right it says for the fire of the Lord burned among them to their bomb HR chef and as a result the toke Helbig say ah Mahan an inverse one it consumed the extremes of the camp so the question is both seem a oh the MOOC saying both the people who were the leaders the scene as well as the MOOCs are in the inferior ones which were the air rod the VARs a you through personal we're going to talk about it now now in verse 2 it says the yitzhak haram l moshe the people cried out to Moses for Loyola Shem what do we learn from this we never call out to any other power but Hashem right you call out to Moses no that was a mistake they didn't collapse and Moses here it says V sorry V it's a calm L Moses they cried out to Moses but lo le Shem key cautious why because they thought it may akash emotion lo he agrees should die in that head Tom after the fact Moses actually couldn't even perceive yet the real sin Nick sure what did Moses think Moses thought it was just a coincidence you shove shamak Rahul ahem you spell about them he thought that they were being burnt because of the environment it was just an environmental factor so he bobbin for them caucus emotion that's what Moses did Bokashi Sean McComb garment he thought it was the place itself th McComas by orator Shamrock God on Easter Mass Ave reshot ARS I do my best to try to translate this I think this very metaphysical idea there are places in the world which have a great wind or spirit that's hidden and it causes either earthquakes tumult noise sometimes evil sensations there are places there's just pure evil and you don't want to be there so Moses just thought that the negative things of this fire burning was because they were passing by a very hot place UHT mcComish abomination estar there are places that have this hidden fire alkane Cara Moshe same amok um that's why Moses called the place - they robbed today Rob based on the place the burns Kakashi Sean Malcolm Garland he thought it was the place that caused not to sin but God knew he was the first one to hear and understand of course so the next part is a soft roof I shared the cube you hit Abu tava but the multitude among them began to have strong cravings called me lo Salem the hoovering really it's one long phrase but that all the words are connected this is how this is the explanation so the children of Israel knew the truth as opposed to the Arab Rob as opposed to the mixed multitude that watch abara BAM Hashem outside of Amish the Jewish people got the message the Jewish people knew that this was all because of the of the punishment towards the way they looked at called sex northern Ikra it wasn't an accident I've came Paschal myth unit um the Jewish people actually stop complaining they learn the lesson but it was the era of our era Rob but the mixed multitude Hashem Makura minutes ryan show two things mo the source of the airdrop they're actual egyptians they were egyptians that moses brought up without even asking a sham he didn't have a conference with the vaad to discuss bringing up the arab rock he brought them up what is their source their Egyptians what do we know about Egypt Egypt was the most corrupt place when it came to sexuality lowly cuca Musa they did not take them the ethical teachings the OTO Sifu Sarah they actually brought the piggish people they brought the whole people even further away from the Shem the whole see you minutes south of Allah hoots call ma she euro tequila and it's coming out on their lips all that they originally thought the carrot Lee Bob within their hearts that's why it says Assad sooth our shared McCaleb akibo the the disc gathering this mixed multitude which had originally been within them the care of lee bo originally in their hearts he Abu Taba they had a strong craving double language via sugar then the word says again right that what she sugarless Iram again to remove the Jewish people that they were constantly trying to get us to go away from a sham well see to Luna Tom the hoods Rahu and they brought out verbally their complaint and then it says the yoohoo Bob blasier then the Jewish people also cried so they were crying first and we followed them that's our problem even today amongst us you know they dressed like us they look like us the heir of Rob the mixed multitudes and we followed them because we're more interested in the maken and we're interested in God's Word so we have to take this very seriously here but the current God in fact it says also she mommy mommy here that the Arab rock they started crying first and then bucked him gone Espen a shell then then the Jewish people cried Eva have with them and that's why you had the double language hit a boot out there the strong craving the craving of cravings kakaka me the rice because that's exactly how this type of energy works when it comes to sex tie the Guerrero's tava when you have a desire it only causes more and I want you to look ignore Asuka none bet that's 52 rebuking an said a man has a small organ used in sexual relations if he starves the organ and does does not over indulge it is satisfied if he satisfies the organ meaning he over indulges then he starts it and if you look in Isaiah Hosea sorry huh Shia 13 6 when they were fed they became full read the rest of us they were filled their heart was exalted therefore they have forgotten me see where are we so in Hebrew in the circuses must be a ray when you try to satisfy this you're only gonna be more hungry the Unruh prepare my way and that's why they said with the full mouth who is going to feed us meat and what's meat basa Arve meters in Hebrews bus our flesh flesh flesh of sexual relations but it was all in a nice way listen Amalia not gain in a clean figure of speech like it says in the Gomorrah when it says in the Gomorrah we remembered the fish the Gomorrah tells us that's a nice way of talking about this type of activity how much more so the language of besar okay I want to try to get to this last paragraph because I think it sums up most of what we spoke about so far but I'm telling you this is only part one we have not even reached half of the material okay what we began with meat and we ended with fish in other words verse 4 talks about meat they complain about meat verse 5 is the complaint about remembering the fish so he tells us the language of fish actually teaches you much more about this proliferation the population explosion then does the language of meat remember meat is dealing with land animals so the fish are much more in the proliferation then the busts are of living animals that's why it's kind of like a shara a some type of that either compromise or a negotiation that's going on they say who is going to feed us meat that we had been permitted with these women like or other meats so to speak or other flesh or other living animals meaning women I thought peace shall learn yet kotaki even though they're not exactly like fish because that we didn't ask for we're at least at least God let us have the option to have them like like animals and not like fish fish you might be asking for too much nevertheless they did say remember the fish which we ate in Egypt for free because when they were in Egypt that was a disgusting dirty place that was full of impropriety and sexual relations that okay that had been permitted to us I mean it was available to us then even to be like fish but now if only God if only we could just be like the animals and then have at least you know more options who's gonna feed us meat now he goes on to say now listen closely everything can be explained in this most simplest shot however their intent was to ask for meat that what is meteos Mikami bio term are meat either miss cow that it causes you to heat up and increase your desire for intercourse I'm just reading the words okay so maybe that's why you know people eat meat they like to have a nice meat course with some wine before they they go home I guess it's called a date night Zek katha now the language is hit a vote are there to increase the craving that what tavola Dover ham marbeth - miss cow they desired to increase their desire towards intercourse whereas the dígame even though they're cold right they're cold-blooded animals nevertheless they're still an additional let's say Lou Lake ooh there's some kind of liquid or moisture that when you think about fish the house Aragon came the cloud so the seed of man is included in this idea of moisture furthermore hopefully macabre altivo leopa roots Barrios and this time at the fish that when you eat the fish do you do accept on a natural some kind of natural level and the desire towards sex yesh V da game Tartaglia Yuta however when it comes to fish there's two negative aspects I think I skipped something no idea okay therefore it says they said it as a some kind of negotiation of a compromise Miyake Lena buzzer they're saying to God who's gonna feed us meat meaning we actually want to strengthen our desire and at the same time we remember the fish that moxy Corinthos biota so we want to strengthen ourselves in a way that we can break forth and really proliferate nevertheless if only would be that just give us the besar there's a compromise and the papers there and this way of explanation explaining it is more than a simple level to what Moses says in verse 13 when Moses Ismaili but Sir where am I gonna get meat from he met called dodgy hi-yah right see so that last verse if sheep and cattle were slaughtered for them would it suffice for them if all the fish of the sea were gathered for them would it suffice for them so you see what he's getting in other words verse 13 where can I get to me to give all these people the crying give me me if even if I gave them all the cattle it would suffice right so he's really digging his feet in that we're talking about the strong desire towards these illicit relations that had just become forbidden on them which really brings us I think to a very interesting point because the difference between a penknife and a Jew depend on can do all the same it's as you can he's let's say a non Jew of the Jewish faith okay but he's not commanded do you know there's a big difference when you're commanded as soon as your commanders who someone tells you what to do what's the normal reaction who are you to tell me all of a sudden if you end up doing it get a lot more reward so it's true that both the Jew and the non Jew have a place in heaven and I say that non Jew I should say the man north who has accepted it for the sake of heaven who knows that it's god-given they both have a place in heaven but I think one difference a major difference is and that keep the seven to go to heaven right you got to do that and you can also do additional mitzvahs and go to heaven and get reward okay but the difference is when you once you're commanded once you join up fully and convert then there's going to be much more reward because the I shouldn't I shouldn't say that as I know for sure because but there is more resistance once there's more resistance the reward has to be greater so everybody in their own rights in other words as a as a as a netting off living in a very corrupt world you're doing your you're getting tremendous amount of rework just for keeping the seven and not all you're getting that there's so much against you right the one the whole world's against you right for not you know you don't belong in the Christian world you're not fully a hundred percent accepted into the Jewish world and like I said that the such an immoral corrupt world that value keeping God's law the seven mitzvahs you are going to rack up the points unbelievable and you're considered a holy of holies like the Kohen Gadol like the high priest so you have a lot a lot going on especially when you're distance you're not near Israel you're not near Jewish community you're not near the Land of Israel but you guys are do what you can connect online with rabbis all over the world especially from from Israel and with that I bless you all and have a shabbat shalom and we continue to grow together [Music]