Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: The Blessings are Measure for Measure

[Music] good evening everyone we are dealing with Parshat bowtie and before we get into the hobo tie which is gonna deal with the blessings and the curses I just want to mention the tonight's Shearer is dedicated in the memory of ruth le chef about israel the mother of Allen Schwartz it today is her yard site okay with that being said before we actually approach the clea car on blue coat I I want to continue where I left off in a previous shoe or I mentioned is a famous Gomorrah and it's going to come up quite a lot in your learnings so I figured we'll deal with it because it does believe it or not have to do with the blessings and curses and that's we're going to be dealing with in who coat I so I mentioned this in more shabbos it's in pay Tet Hamid bet and it says like this Irish mob are not money I'm rebuking on there's a certain classic in Isaiah 63 16 and it went like this Kiev II know right you would think that thought that we're talking to a Shem you for you or our Father but if you look at the end of the verse it says na Hashem matheno so the question is right away this part this posture is broken into two things two pieces kita vino for Avraham did not know us and Israel didn't recognize us Avram lujah da know the Israel or akhira no Hashem Aveeno go all new mayor LOM shemekka okay what are we saying here for you are our Father for Avram did not know us neither did you straw recognize us but uhm our our Father our Redeemer of old is your name and this verse it's wait till you hear how the gomorrah describes this verse that really what's going on this is the explanation of the verse ready for this like you got it got to be saying down then in the future after the Tresemme seen after at the resurrection of the dead God is going to say to Abraham your children have sinned Binaca haughtily they sinned against me so what was God he wanted a response I guess the response should be to their defense to the Jewish people's defense but I've run you know he says I'm really fun of rabona Shell Island as if in a prayer he says you know who wipe them out well it doesn't really say white their answers write it out and wiping it out continues I'll do shot to Shania for the sanctity of your name now I left you hanging last week and I'll tell you what it means that he was saying forgive their sins okay it's not easy to forgive but what you need to do when Abraham is suggesting is let them all die I'll kill you Shoshanna let them suffer and to be clean because the ultimate goal of whatever we're going to call punishment is frizzy cook it's for the process of cleansing of atonement and becoming purified so that was our arms response then God says I'm Melea Cove he approaches Jacob because the verse says as it says Aram didn't know us and you sure al did not recognize those whose Australia code so God says Thiago the same thing he says you know I'm going to approach Yaakov because the holidays argue to the bunny he had a very difficult time with his 12 children fighting with each other he he has the fatherly instinct and let's see what kind of defense he'll come because your children have sinned that's what he says to yahko so and he's also saying this is also but he God is saying to himself that f chard the boy Raphael I you maybe he'll have some rock I mean for the for his children so Yaakov responds Annaleigh Binaca to I'm sorry and I'm relay so Yakko Hashem says to Yaakov your children has sinned so Yaakov responds I'm not a fan of Roberto show and again as if in a prayer Jim who out kaduche Aceh Mecca wipe it out again wipe it out upon or through the sanctity of your name I already explained basically the both saying the sin should be wiped out through punishment through them all suffering and perhaps even dying but through the sanctity of God's name which we call kiddush Hashem so God's response is you know this old man law the sabi Tama he's referring to a Brahman a nickname he doesn't really have any reason like sound reason the law the dark tepee ASA and the young one that's Yakko he doesn't really have wise counsel so he says to get sock this is where the whole thing becomes very interesting he says see it's on Vanessa huh - Lee your children have sinned against me and how does your sock responds I'm a little fun everybody shall I live as if in a prayer the master of the universe the nivel open f huh these you're calling them my children they're not any less your children these are your children I mean you're asking me to have a rockin team these are your children how would you respond Hashem so he even says further not only are there not just mind are yours the SHA kingdom will define a Hamas of the Nismo we're coming up to show us when the Jewish people stood in our scene I the Israelites had left Egypt 50 days later standing at the Mount and they say we'll do whatever you say will be obedient and then we'll understand that was the greatest secret that we're going to be obedient obedient and Yitzhak was saying to God when they said that even before they said that Karla had Vani Bukhari you you called them the Israelites my son my firstborn and now I think is russain than chef they're my sons and they're not yours and not only that how much did they sin anyway right we know that a man lives till the age of seventy as Dovan and Malik says in Psalm 90 verse 10 an average person lives till 70 and if he's merit and he's strong enough he'll live to 80 but you know the first 20 years don't count meaning in a shin myeon you're not going to count the sins in in heaven how do we know that for the 40 years we were in the desert when God said you're gonna die in the desert because of the look at the egg out right there's decide the head of the Marah gleam right you're gonna you're not gonna live to go into the land anybody under 20 went in they weren't held accountable for the camera gleam okay so there you have it they're not they're not there this is the greatest secret don't tell all your kids they can do whatever they want because they really can't first of all the held accountable in in this world be based in once they turn Bar or Bat Mitzvah but in heaven till the age of 20 you're not held accountable so take off from the fifth to 70 years take it off take off 20 how do we get to this because when we talked about the shemitah and the oval years it says you shall count for yourself the safari tool aha what does it mean you should count for yourself make your year's count you have fifty years that's what you have make those fifty years count that's how we got on to this in the first place but now they've got its lock says take off the twenty and not only that half of their life they're sleeping so knock off another 25 what a generous father we have right so knock off another 25 and not only that another 25 that they have you're going to be accountable for so 12 and a half of those years you're they're gonna pray and they're eating they're drinking and they're going to the bathroom they're not sitting there so what's left is only 12 and a half years I just think development here and then this gets really interesting he says in my tough so either let's go up your top you're saying I can't sham if you could handle just carry those sins talk new top theme love alga a lie you talk is willing to take half of them on themself foie gras laughs huh and if you're only gonna take half the insula more should cool on the lie so maybe I that's great but if if you want maybe you're not gonna take any of them and they're all on me well guess what I already offered myself at the akkada okay huh come on is not she come on I already gave myself up so Fusco the Omri this is where we go back to the original verse basically what is Israel saying when they said originally yeah Avenue for you are our Father thinking Oh Isaac Yitzhak was willing to give all this suffering for us and take away our sin but you suck himself knows better and he points up to heaven and he says no no human being is going to carry someone else's sin Hashem he is your father and he is Redeemer ha ha Shem Athena go Elena may Allah meeya Maha so ultimately why is y why is he it sucked the one that's picked I mean he really has shiny asked them all but he did ask it's not last so it's quite complicated because we do know that if a based in his ass and everyone says someone's guilty it's only when what there's one dissenting opinion that thought that you can actually judge the person is guilty otherwise the person goes off as innocent so in a certain sense this whole Gomorrah is saying how you talked is really the merciful one and yet sucks trait is you know it's good Devorah it's the other way around what I actually want to try to get across is the whole idea of the meanest of guevara of strengthen and being severe that's the actual way to arrive at Rockley it's true as we mentioned before the GU the engraving on the stone it's through the it's through the borders they're set through the engraving which we call car route Herat that's where you find your hey route when you have borders and you set up waters for yourself that's where you actually will find real freedom and we're gonna get into this a little bit in there as soon as we open up the clear car but this is a whole class in itself I wanted to use this in introduction what is punishment what is guevara okay so the ultimate goal is for the cleansing process to occur the z-code to become Tahar okay to become pure knowing that if we now open to our parsha and I handed out these sheets and I want to give like a little bit of a background okay so if you look at this sheet that's on the back page you have in the first verse three sections in the hukou title a ho if in my statutes you walk you proceed you follow the mitzvot site ish Meru and in mine mitzvahs you guard and number three VAR c tempo Tom and you perform them then as a result they're gonna be three gifts 3 blessed three blessings it says three times I circled them Verna Tati Hashem says if you do this what I just said in the first verse then I'm going to provide reins in their times that would be in verse four go down to verse 6 I will provide peace in the land right that Verna Tati Shalom boretz and in verse 10 of sorry 11 it says I'm gonna place my sanctuary among you then at a team Makani bit tow ahem and not only that we'll get to the last part of that verse so God is going to do all this but he's is this a command is verse 3 if you follow my decrees and observe my commandments and perform them then I'm going to do all this blessing it's not a command either so knowing that it's not a command knowing that it's divided into three and the clear car is going to that these three sections of verse three are going to be divided let's say parallel they parallel the three blessings and something very important we've discussed these ideas called neither can egged me the measure for measure it works both ways whether it's for good or for bad God wants us to know for doing something wrong what it is so that we can fix it he's not a vengeful God that is out to punish us and take revenge for not listening to him he wants the relationship he wants us to listen to him and we have a covenant that's forever and many people say oh the Jewish people lost the Covenant look they're cursed well they guess they never read the Bible right it says if you follow what you're in this covenant you're locked in if you do what I command you to do so then you're gonna have all these blessings and if you fail in your mission and you lack certain things you're not fulfilling certain things then you will be punished but he says right here I just want to read it in the very last punishment I'm sorry the very last bracha I will place my sanctuary among you my spirit will not reject you the spirit will never reject us and I just want to add it also because really Mayer Bao an ace his yard site was just this past Sunday Saturday night Sunday and if someone loses an item everyone knows that you say may the god of reverie mayor answer me three times and you'll find your item is this what is this hocus-pocus no you have to understand who's rubbing mayor Bala niece was and the way his spiritual life existed he had a wife named Berea there's a street over here in their brewery or their parallel with each other they never meet but they're parallel so what happens he comes home answer being bullied and he tells his wife these evil people they should die and his vices that's not what the shot that's not what the first says it says that evil shall be wiped out not the evil doers so he had a discussion with his wife he eventually succumbed to her his her wisdom and he was one of the greatest proponents that God's covenant with the people even if you're evil you're still called God's Son even the four sons we say the evil son he's still called a son right there's that relationship that is still there and there's an opportunity to do truven so how does how does really mayor think that you never lost that no matter how far you go that pencil a did that Jewish neshama that piece of god that senior was never lost therefore if you lose something you say may the god of reverie man the way he perceived the world nothing is ever lost it's just you can't see it it's there and therefore if you lose something you think you lost something you know your eyes should be open to see where it really is nice huh okay so let's now begin with the clear car he tells us in bucco title a hoe if you will follow in my decrees now we know that there are who came and there are Mishpatim and you may right away think this is what we're talking about no this is a whole nother level of being and how do we know that it's not talking about hooking we'll get to that but you might think that's talking about in general God's law so look at the first Rashi now you can find it on the English sheet I believe but the very first Rashi tells us that the word bowtie is what does it mean if you walk in my statutes if you're a male in Matera if you toil in the Torah and how do we know that it's not talking about mitzvahs in general because it already says in the verse and my mitzvahs you will guard and my and perform them so we cannot possibly be talking about mitzvahs we're talking about something something else then here he says I Felicia Rossi he reacts Z even Arashi proves this mean eater up Sookie from the extra words in the verse shriek human missus Kivar amor the actual fulfillment of the mitzvahs are said in the last few words of the verse makka makka makka meets an illusion a dark secret eric newer the word for language resolution means tongue the actual language requires quite a clarification and also you have to know that at least the way we see Rashi is sure dr. la social lush hal leuco smokehouse exam and you can see it in the verse itself because you have two bugs right a move for title a clue the vet so the valve is already separating it and my mittens you should guard and you show and perform them you know what it could have said if you follow in my statutes and what and guard and perform them okay there's a lot of things that you didn't need the word of time at the end also okay so let's get some little clarity here he'll he ends it by saying I share connect them I'm a shailaja problem even at Aqaba parsha parallel to those three statements of or the three breakups of the first verse or parallel to the three blessings the Shem is going to provide Israel with so we'll start with the first reshawna amar the first one says in the hukou title a clue if in my statutes you walk we already saw it means our mail the Torah tutorial the Torah but how do you explain what does that mean that you start sweating when you're going over a Rashi and a toast Oz is that what it means you give up your day job what does it look at it possibly mean stay up all night he says clove AET matura hope the low Yavor what God wants for me he's not even commanding you he wants you to establish times to set up times to toil in the Torah as a statute that you will not transgress you will not break which means you're a businessman you have the Caruso one hour a week or maybe every day one hour maybe a few but whatever it is you turn your phone off you're not gonna be doing business during that hour you're dead to the world as far as the world's concerned you don't exist you are setting this time and you're gonna make it no matter what happens and you're not gonna violate your own rule of arriving on time and staying for that period of time and regarding this it says the lush and blue coat I as a Hulk not as what we normally think of who Quixote he ink upon a toe I'll Mitzvahs Havel healed these are not the irrational mitzvahs I mentioned earlier you have who came and Mishpatim and therefore must mean this is talking about the irrational who came no because we never find anywhere in the entire Torah the language of Holi far in reference to who keen kilo mat seen Abraham the quarter lush and Holly ha killin em barbacoa Torah the who bahuka thigh God doesn't command you walk in my statutes you would expect that if that's what he's saying here in the hotel a this is a very unusual usage of the word so we know that we're not talking about the regular Sh'ma Menasha alakazoom at the birth but the Varsha Anakin is Marku myths Avila it's not a command at all it starts off if you do this so it's clear it's you hear from it that this and I'm gonna call it a process that this Hallie ha that is walking this following this process do you set up for yourself it's not a command whose rule out your other Mayotte smells again this is something that a person could set up it has to come from within without Corsica Tiff's are shoe there's no doubt you're forced to explain it the following way Haddad employer but ever this has to be something that a person creates within himself as what we call second nature Kim it's not a hair go now said divert a teddy whatever Shaney it's from the aspect of habituating oneself making it that this is your habit if you keep doing it I think they say three times makes it easier but if you do something continuously consistently it becomes your second nature below yet stocks that came close a ahokay meeting matura there's no way to justify and explain this any other way other than setting up times and as a Hulk as a statute room argue optimally will debate the major space you do uh that you're gonna be custom yourself habituate yourself to come to the study hall at a set time at a known time Archer NASA had uh ballot ever it's a little I'm until this becomes part of who you are your feet will just take you there without any thought when you do it every day like this you walked out of the house you say you know what it's a nice day I'm going to go to the beach you and you end up in the Beit Midrash because your feet know better and we're gonna tell telemetrics right now the Kurama it's talked about governor Mellon but diverse here in Bogota tail a who if in my statutes you walk even the word walking right they like who is referring to feet listen to what the King David said in Psalms 1 1959 she shall feed or a high dove and AM L just saying I considered my way I walked out of the house and I was going to the pharmacy or I was going to go to library instead a Shiva Raj lai la dota ha you know what happened my feet returns me to your testimonies what does that referring to my to your testimonies to your law to your to study your law I ended up in the Beit Midrash listen that that's what it says in Psalms but this is what it says in the meddra SH that in that verse what Doggett is doing he's talking to a Shem armored of the earth necklace barraco rebuy no shillelagh as if in a prayer because y'all be on my eating Makai shave every single day I think and I'm thinking about what I'm gonna do what do I usually think Lamar come plone 'hey i neo lake i'm going to a certain or specific place you drug line vo Totila part a Midrash shows but in the end my feet take me somewhere else my feet have taken me back to the study home and Zeki Masada Yaakov a team Latura how clever the only way this can possibly happen remember it's not a command the only way this can possibly happened is from the aspect that you set up these times for burning Torah as a Hulk as a statute for yourself there shall not be transgressed until your own feet have you have no responsibility over your feet and they end up taking you to the Bateman josh without any qivana macleod archer igloo he email and Arvind the holy hole about the madrasahs below qivana for already you have been accustomed to do such a thing VAR her glue the pecan therefore alkane lawyer Malcolm its abode Zelda there's no place for a command to even come towards the man why Keala dumb and I said below qivana no you fill out Savoy because anything that is done without qivana and God wants you to do it without qivana the whole ideas of your features just take you there there's no way a command can even come he ain't Seiberling a lion there's no such thing as commanding your feet command the brain command the heart command our thinking part of you but we're talking about your feet are going to take you there without even thinking about it there's no way you can command the feet to do such a thing now the Madhab air being kora but rather it's speaking about something if it happened how Chicago ethan Latura you know how it happened just it just occurred because you already set in motion you created a certain reality for this it's not an inanimate object but it's an unthinking object it's your legs you created such inertia every time you're going that you're feeling they're gonna take you there because you set up these times to learn chotto 8 if the yellow rock lab miasma till you arrive by going there when your feet which took you there by themselves both o8 our share Nick Rojo the time itself is called a hook the alles armor and that's what it means in Bogota tale a hoe now we mentioned that each part we only talk about the first part of the verse and that is going to parallel the first Matata I'm going to give you your reins in its time interesting the word time is 18 he just got done saying if you set up times for yourself to learn Torah I just want to bring you back because Shoeless is coming up Hashem made the whole world conditional on your mihashi right why do we have your maja she she right we're saying kid is yum ha there's no definitive hey by any other day it's Yom Akkad young Shamy young slooshy where do you see ha there's a hate because the 6th of seve on the entire world is standing in a bit sinning in in the limbo if the Jewish people will accept the Torah good then there's a reason for the world and that's exactly why I want to just let you know we spoke about there's two days in the Jewish calendar that don't seem to be inferred to in the tour itself we said the day of the revelation Mountain Torah is not written as a specific date nor is Shoeless refer to that in the Torah shrew this is the day of the firstfruits and you're going to bring a mint cohutta shop but it doesn't say you're celebrating shavoo is because it's mountain Torah it's obvious but it's not written there and what about the day of the show for blowing the first day of the seventh month it doesn't say in the Torah to y'all my den because both of these days really are y'all mad in it would we think about Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah is Yamaha shishi the very day that man was created the sixth day of creation and it's also related to Yamaha shishi the day the Jewish people accepted the Torah we're being we were going to be Joe and the toes can be judged this day of Shavuos is a judgement day just like Rosh Hashanah it's not written in the Torah and the reason we said was that every single day you should think about chuva if there was a single day that you said it was the day of judgment I could wait until the 25th of l:o and start doing chuva God wants you to do truth and returned him every day he loves you he loves us and he wants a relationship Torah we said every day you should think that I received it today not oh when that one significant day and we received the Torah but every single day God wants you to feel like I was using the duma the example a kid if you put a kid in charge of a cotton candy machine right or to give out the candies in shoe you don't give you have to give to the responsible adult if you give the bag of candies to a kid it'll be gone right so to this this has to feel them you have to imagine yourself a kid who's responsible for the cotton candy machine when you hear a piece of Torah issue so delicious and so new okay we talked about the milk also why do we howl of on sugarless because we compared the than a child a child who's suckling from his mother's breast every single taste is a new taste okay and the tours compared in that sense to the DAAD to the the breast and the howl of is the taste and therefore we should we do we do eat the Halawa it's custom widespread custom see lots of cheese cake and ice cream and we'll be providing that this year at our program okay so now we're talking about Gish mayhem so if we start off by saying look at the words the note I think ish mayhem be Tom keep connect because they eating Matara of course it makes sense well we're gonna make more sense out of than just saying it it's parallel to setting up the times that you're gonna oil in the Torah she's s Cara that's the reward sugar oh gosh Amin be Tom that the rains will come in its time now we all know a Nagar Shamim Nets are in Kiev on beetle Torah if there's ever a drought if there ever is a famine right there's no rain so there's no food what do we chalk it up to beetle turret it must be we're not learning enough Torah this you will find the gomorrah tynus the Rena and what happens when the rains are late here in artist RAL we start we start fasting and we start dominating even harder and the rabbi's get people learning because this is what the Talmud tells us is the reason why the rains have not come it also says in coelus that's Ecclesiastes chapter 10 verse 18 interesting it's not so simple from reading the verse but when I explained it I think it'll be a little bit clearer it says but south time that's true laziness your mock huh Micra there's beams on the roof and through laziness the beams will sag what is it talking about everyone has gutters every right everyone has a possibility of flooding when it rains heavy through the roof so if you don't clean out the gutters then the weight of the the water will remain in the roof and we will cause it to sag and to flood that's what it's talking about laziness causes there's the roof to sink meaning that you didn't do your due diligence and clean what you need to clean in advance before the rainy season began but the reason it said mr. Thomson Mr Bond monitory think about what it says in show steam that's judges judges chapter five verse four and five gum oven natasha Lyonne that we're talking about the the cinetic experience the revelation also the clouds dripped water at the presence of God at scene I'm it may Ashan zc9 so we also see in house Ino and the poetry and the tour explains about the and the rains and this is all about the Torah the Torah is compared to water what is it about water water goes down right does it okay steam goes up maybe ice will stay solid but water always sinks down to the deep tube lowest-common-denominator the Commons the lowest place that's a lesson for us we have to be humble we have to be right like Mount Sinai is the lowest of all the mountains in the area we have to have an attitude of an empty cup if you want to be full so what does it teach us about this verse since in shelf team real horrorshow the scrutiny matura shaman is a Mayan in the merit of learning the Torah which comes from the heaven you're in I guess in miniature mine so - as a result the heavens will spring forth with their rains so just like the the Torah comes from heaven so to the the the rains come from heaven and we know keee main terrain Kemah think about this we're gonna see in our verses here it says not only is God gonna provide the rain but then the land is gonna get for it it's produce and the tree the fields going to give its fruit and then it's gonna be so much that while you're threshing which has to do with the wheat is going to last until the vintage wood has to do with the with the next with the next harvest of grapes think they actually blend into each other there are there various different parts of the calendar and then the vintage meaning the harvesting of the grapes and then making the wine is going to last until the sowing you're going to so much work to do not in a bad sense but so much produce you're gonna eat your bread to satiety and you'll develop security securely in your land so we're talking about that if you don't have Terry you don't have Kenneth meaning you don't have produce you know what to eat the food the ground will only produce right if there's water the scoot the talk and the merit of keeping what we said the Hulk of learning Torah can be used eating the Torah setting up those times the Rizzoli yard the Higashiyama and betta then the the rain will come in it's time now when we go back to the original verse it said in hookah type tell a who that was part one that Mitzvahed eightish Moreau and my mitzvahs you shall guard so what is it what is it what what's the purpose of learning he's saying the purpose of learning is to do the mitzvahs to perform them so this is the takla toyota's a mentally mode the word tak elite by the way takla s-- the goal the purpose of learning is in order to perform the mitzvahs okay so i just wanted to talk about the word tock elites for a second tock fleet is the same word as the haleyss to Kahless what is the a it's a procedure it's a process it's yes it's a color blue it's a certain type type of bluish green and if we know that it says ultimately you want to get to this relationship of remembering hashem and his throne of glory so if you look at the sea there's a certain color and that color supposed to remind you of another color the color of the sky and that color the sky is gonna remind you of an even deeper bluish green which is the the sapphire stones on god's throne of glory right so you're having a process so it's about a process that we result in that comes from the learning is they're doing it emits us so as he says he who Navy leaders schmears mitzvahs lot I said I say it will bring you to doing two types of mitzvahs the learning should be L help you fulfill the low toss a which we are saying are the don'ts refraining from doing certain things like eating pork violence Shabbat and the I say the positive myths is honoring your parents right things like that now regarding the missiles of low toss a the don'ts it says at mitzvahs I Tish Maru my mitzvahs you shall guard see the word guarding means refraining Kiko Macomb Shamima any time you seen the tour these three words hisham air pen or al-hashemi means to guard observe pen means lest and our means don't you know a lot I say these are always referring to what we in vernacular called the negative Commandments there's no such thing as a negative command we're seeing the don'ts so if you ever hear those words there's positive commands and negative commands it means the dots and then how did the first end vicita mo tom and you shall do to them what does it mean dude they're my team it's as I say doing those positive mitzvahs doing the active mitzvahs and from the fact that it does not say okay now you have to think what the verse does say first it says the Edmonds recitation Meru vasee female Tom it could have just said tissue rule let's eat them you don't need the word Oh tom guard them and perform them so why does the tar go out of its way to write the word at Tom Oh tom them so this is another lesson that we learned that midst this treatise qivana that when you do mitzvahs you do need coven otherwise you wouldn't need the word Oh Tom Oh tom is going out of its way talk about those mitzvahs those specifically that you would you have in mind Kazaam who Vaughn min mulatto Tom we understand this from that actual word them now after we got done specifying the reward for each one of these three let's really get our Kakaako pirates car chocolate hot metal OSHA so we already talked about the first one only that was parallel to Lafayette Talmud Torah teaching and learning which was hinted at in those words in the beginning of our verse the EBU whoo-ho title a ho and we said parallel to that was Natasha Schmeck can be Tom now it says I will give you your reigns in its time it doesn't sound will give reigns in its time so we try to explain this outside your reins are designated by setting the time in the Torah when when you when you when you work hard it's just through learning tour alone but by setting times setting the times not just learning that's when that's as the result would be that God will give to you but was already yours was already designated as yours in heaven he will give them to you in its time as a reward so let's just go on if you turn the page now it says Bennett ah the national hearts uvula that the land will give forth its produce so that would be in it's still part of the first it's not it's not the God's providing it says the land will provide it right geh torah ask Emma we already heard this idea if there's Tori you're going to have the produce inclusive Ulla Masha Tom moviola now this is gonna get a little bit complicated I want to kind of go through this a little bit quicker in our promise in this verse it says that the nasara are at your Voula it doesn't say the word at uvula God right now God the land will provide its produce the land itself but if you go to verse 20 it actually says by the curse loti tain arts ahem at uvula that the earth will not your land will not give forth at uvula anytime you see the word at in the Torah are left tough it's always coming to include something so I'm going to talk this out a little bit normally the way it normally works if you look to open a I think it's called the Farmers Almanac in America where anything the farmers need to know when what's expected weather-wise or if there's any patterns in the weather so the truth be told that every farmer if you have been a good farmer for many years you know how much seam you need what kind of seed for what kind of ground and what what part of the season if there's more than one season of sewing so everyone would know if you're seeing X amount of acres you need X amount of seed of this type of seed so it could be and you have to agree with me I guess that if you so if you take a certain amount of seed you should get and you should expect it like a science to get that much back when it comes to the curse is the word at is coming to include that you want that won't work okay putting that aside over here by the promise and the the blessing the word at is not there which means whatever you put in you will get out minimally that's the part of the learning over there now we're going down about eight lines where it says the hissing la femme de Guiche at but zero but seriously as Sarah your threshing is going to overtake already into the grape harvest and the grape harvest the vintage is going to overtake the next period for sowing now the word the hem appears only once it only if appears when it's referring to the threshing hissing look them meaning to you the threshing the threshing is going to overtake for you your great promise but when it comes to the grape harvest overtaking the word lehem is not there so he explains that the word look hem is only by bread only when it comes to the necessities whereas wine is not necessarily a necessity it's a mute our oak it's considered luxury and therefore what God is promising if you're doing the right thing that you will not take over advantage of the luxuries but when you when God gives you the luxuries you're gonna use them for the right thing kela shame Mitzvah you hear you're gonna use it all for the sake of God and when it says we are halt I'm locking the hem on the sofa that you're gonna eat your bread towards society and I say that with little tongue-in-cheek because it says to sanity you're gonna eat word sanity what does that mean so the llama that's before the word so they're the so is what is it teaching you that extra lime it doesn't need to be there that you should not eat until you are completely satisfied in other words take a little control of your life don't overeat leave a little bit on the plate and that's what the Rambam anyway suggests but he goes one step further and I also want to mention the Clea cardioid to the art side not just any art site the 400th year yard site was just a few weeks ago according to some on the 7th of ER so he says here that the row theme the doctors in his day 400 years ago the doctors and maybe even before that their way of explaining how to behave so you live a healthy lifestyle is Govan shaker of la vallee de Sevilla that it's proper to stop eating before you have become fully satisfied and then the plastic says you shaft am the vet top the arts of ham you will dwell in securely in your land again libertà towards security the lammott over there is teaching us what that actually when you're so there when people are satisfied they're not hungry like they aren't Venezuela or in Cuba or maybe and Iran all right I don't know where else then North Korea right when you are satisfied this causes you to have a security a satisfaction and in the look in Psalms 147 verse 14 it says that a sham will place within your borders how some Google Lake Shalom God is gonna place within our borders peace they live Heat team Yas PA with the cream of wheat he satisfies you when you are satisfied that's when there will be peace when people are hungry people riot and go you know it's crazy and guess what in our own homes we have to make our wives feel secure by making sure we have a par Nessa or making sure right he listens what it says make sure there's food in the house and this is what clothes all say in baba metzia cod mich l'm sorry mokona knock' Shiva I'll say Tigre which means a man must be very very careful not to lack grain in his house for this causes constant quarrels many many divorces of course it's not because the money but that always ends up being the reason in other words it's the cow it's the extraordinay ssin for the reward of what would we say the at mitzvah Tyson Tish Maru the middle part of the first verse we said was talking about the low toss a the misses of refraining from your refraining lot I said so God says I'm gonna place peace in the land then the Totti Shalom IR it's God is gonna put peace in the land how was that parallel to what we call the refrain that dude the don'ts so the way as I'll explain it now this is a very interesting idea because it's probably is very deep on many levels God says shmore nari should be a day huh you got you Jewish people in you guard my candle now the candle could mean my soul that I place in you the mitzvahs I place on you right don't think about Shabbos but let's think about it like my soul more the peace of yours you know it's hard to explain that God's so is divided but we have a peace of God nuts okay so God says guard my candle that light that's in your hand Viney and I'm gonna guard near her she got D and I'll guard the candle that's in my hand God says so stomps Mira what does it really mean that God will not let any harm come to it stomps Mir when you think about a show man a guard the whole point is lability lassoed of our amazi you're preventing damage from happening anything bad or damage happening VMT and mish-mosh Lala sought the volume as equally calm so it will be if it would be that you guard well that nothing bad happens so then God has distilled the conversation God is saying Gama eh more near ha we called every call Deborah Mazak then if you do your job I will do mine and I won I will guard your candle from anything remember the candle could be in the soul could be the mitzvahs the nob Michele Mackay Lake and as a result I God will place peace in your portion and as a result if the verse says that a sward will not cross through your land right and the in the wild animals and all these things are gonna not affect you the whole Schmeer the mitzvahs lo toss a when you are careful to guard those don't don't you know the don'ts will call the negative mitzvahs just for practical purposes hooba shave a lot I say the negative myths is meaning the don'ts are sit on your hands and do nothing don't get up there's no speeches to be made there's no actions to do it's just sit down and do nothing Kashmir Amina Harith so - to guard against the enemy's swords or the higher are the wild beasts God is telling us it's a shave a lotus a you don't have to do anything it's the whole idea of preventing damage hooba shave the Lotus a nice red kashmir miniature ooh hang on find macaque tamer that's why it says in the verse that you pursue your enemies and they will fall before you by the sward the not new lift nay tender-hearted they're gonna fall right in front of you on their own swards meaning FRP should tear the fame even if you do chase them which god is actually telling us you don't even need to but if you would the cover came ain't sorry close out the rod from the kumoi say you don't require it's not required of you to get up and chase them and do an action but rather ellaby shave the law say sit and do nothing may arts mom you flora curve the blessing that God will give you if you have enough faith you have the right attitude that what that they will fall on their own sward may Ozma you flew L ahora and that's what it says listen to these words right rod from its hem Kamisha man Kamisha you're gonna have five people chasing a hundred and then first of all it says then you're gonna have a hundred chasing ten thousand you know math very simple you're talking about the typically 5% or 1% the numbers in these two things don't add up they're not equatable they're not it's on the math as we say and there's something unusual right anybody knows math you cannot say it's this equated in the equation sit Shana freshmen move on it's not accurate equation so then before him say what's really happening in the beginning she Mithila code name she akane smart bill Bob um you're chasing them and before the real fear and moral breakdown of the enemies sets in Utes the commission man you're just having five people chase one hundred but what happens as a result of them watching a hundred of their greatest warriors run away from five achiever buckram the opposition Ryan Shekar mission youth timaya the enemies themselves see they see those five people chasing one hundred Vasek on a smart god Oh Beleza even then even a greater amount of cowardliness and and fear sets in to the enemy's hearts your hallelujah kailash KO hum and it even weakens their morale even more arch a mammoth hem robbed of all yours foo until you have 100 chasing ten thousand and then if afterwards even greater this that is via Cognos leave my red goggle and even a greater amount of fear is coming over the enemy but not like they attempt with Nathan the day your enemies will fall right before you that's mom on their own on their own of people below ready for cloud even if you don't have to chase them but of course us who have little faith we feel we have to chase them and now the last promise was God said he's gonna place the sanctuary amongst officer in in US right I will place my Tabernacle on my sanctuary among you so it begins this is the beginning of the designation of the reward for the positive missiles the active misses and not simply a dying mama SHhhh things that you do not sit on your hands and do nothing but actively do something off cane attend Myshkin e therefore God says I'm gonna put my presence there nama shin um what is his presence the base I make Tosh as Rashi explains now we say this every morning this verse Mukesh Adonai Connelly Daka the temple of God was created or founded with his hands with your hands Oh God kiddush mark will be Ott's mokona be a dime Amish if the first tells us that it's God's own hands this parallels us doing the positive mitzvahs we say the positive mitzvahs is something we do with our hands so God - he says I'm gonna put my presence amongst you the base of Nick - is with his hands meaning they were founded with action doesn't mean his hands and means with action Commish parish Rashi in partials pachala but death but read the rest of the verse it says my spirit will not reject you that lush and of rejecting now before Pesach we do a thing called a Goliath Caelian just you know what the word T Gao Qi gal means how God K Lane is when you wanna cos you're a vessel make it fit so that you can use it in a kosher way you let's the simple example is you go to war against your enemies and you have spoils you find in Syria or in wherever we are they're picking up our enemy's vessels and now they're making an acquisition now they're ours how can you cook in them they cook camel's milk and they used it for a little camel meat or maybe something worse what could be worse pig who knows so you have to construe it the way it was absorbed is the way it's gonna go out if it came through hot water you have to catch it through high water if it came through fire yet the kasra through fire of course let's go to the mikveh you have to convert your pot that's become Jewish so he says the lush and tiga that's we call Gullah Kalin God says I will not reject I will not purge my soul will not purge itself of you this relationship is forever he's not gonna spit us out and in terms of that relationship so this is something one should not say okay no shovel you should not think that when I dwell amongst you God is saying in this little Hut called the mick - that there's not enough room for the both of us what I'm gonna do guys I'm gonna make a chair myself I'm gonna make myself so small because you have to understand that we imitate Hashem Hashem wants you to be humble and when you find his greatness as we're really where you find his humility do you realize God created the entire universe and every molecule in every atom and every nano particle he created the language we call Russia Nicole - Hebrew he created that and his own name is the smallest in all the gamma trees in the fullness of gallaccio's that can ever exist in any word of the entire Torah what do I mean in the entire Hebrew language every letter is assigned a numerical value so allah this' one bet is to gimbals three but they also have another numerical value Aleph is spelled all Islamic pay so add up Aleph one la mid 30 K 8111 were bet bet you tough it's 212 it's not no it's no longer - it's also 412 it's called the gamma tree and it's for so the you'd and the hand above take a look you can google it I want to see the table of gallaccio in their fullness me Louie and you can see off the charts like I already gave you two examples I'll lift is 111 that is 412 they're all like 80 and up up into hundreds but guess what the yield in the hand above are the smallest two like 20 and below God in His wisdom and his own name shows you it's not about trying to be somebody you know you are you don't have to prove it to nobody right so God says this place is big enough for all of us because he cuts there I'm matzah mr. riah it says in Isaiah 28 24 the mat will be too short for stretching out which is hard to understand but he explains it here like this mccomber come at psalm same ship he not team a nate him i am going to constrict make reduce down to almost nothing my own presence in a way where we will be able to live together nod or Yahud the mid or a hut will be able to live in one do well ii and if you look in second chronicles do you mean bet there chapter 2 verse 5 it says the most beautiful verse a shamaya moosemasher my and lo you how Kalu who for the heavens in the highest of the heights of the heavens cannot contain you cannot contain a sham yet he's placing his own his placing his own presence here with us and this is because of like we said the positive mitzvahs the active misses that are done with hands measure for measure it's going to be done with God's hands there's another take on it the HRE minute a team Makani bateau coq10 remember he says I'll place my sanctuary among you mama Sh he will actually place it amongst us don't think don't think that just as you see my soul that I'm giving to you my presence that somehow that he's going to reject us because we're trying to constantly struggle to get back no don't worry about that alkane Omar that's why he specifically says my spirit will never reject you don't think that you are so rejected that the scheme is not clinging to you it's always there it's always going to be interested in you and that's what it means mice I will place my sanctuary among you it will really be among you and don't think like we said earlier there's not enough room that's on a physical level perhaps but don't think like on an emotional level that we don't have this relationship that the relationship is always there as it says my spirit will not reject you okay and with that I'm wishing everyone a shabbat shalom [Music]