Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: The Most Important Message about Salvation You will ever Hear

[Music] welcome home to torah a very warm welcome i want to start off i'm telling you tonight is one of the most important messages you'll ever hear in your life and in order to just drive it home a little bit because what we're going to talk about tonight is the relationship we have with hashem and the relationship we have with other people and this is actually the ibanez mission statement now before i get into that i want to mention there is a dear friend of hopefully all of ours if we haven't met him yet we should know who he is he's undergoing surgery as we speak right now so whenever you see this afterwards you can still pray for his refuge his complete recovery this is dr zelenko one of those famous personalities who fought the establishment when this covid19 first arrived on the scene and he claimed through trial that he has not just i wouldn't call it a cure i'm not sure but a remedy let's use that word a remedy to um to really kill the the possibility of becoming worse okay so he saved so many lives and now his life is in jeopardy not because coron at all but because of a very rare and complicated recurring cancer so he's undergoing surgery right now so we're going to pray that he's a reformed shalema he's one of those you know heroes of the jewish people so his hebrew name is zev ben leia this is i'm going to put a link down below in the description box that tells a little bit of his life story how he fought for coved and it also has a additional link to the donation box because his family is undergoing a lot of financial stress with everything that he's going through so that is important message now what about yep our mission is to help bring people closer to hashem and and to each other and that's what tonight's lesson is going to be about and i want to mention that for the last four and a half months we have not had any major events a lot of these events um help bring income into the ibanez box which we then use right the the the kupa in order to distribute to to needy people and to keep the the machine going right there's a lot of equipment there's rent there's teachers that we pay and by the way you should know i don't even i do not receive a salary from your banner okay so i'm a volunteer um i will put in as usual there's always a um a link to to make contributions the last major uh event in the last major fundraising occurred right for pesach and we raised thank god tens of thousands of sheckle which we distributed in food most of it was to food and grants that we gave to people who were in financial stress at the time and since then we've also been able to help many people unfortunately that's the case that there are many people that are in need so there's a link down below this is not a fundraising this is just to bring home the message we're going to talk about tonight how we can be involved in our relationship with hashem to deepen it to broaden it and as you will see how we will involve ourselves in helping other people around us okay so let's begin we're in parashat devarim this begins moses is great oratory and i i hate to use the word rebuke but that's what it is he wants everyone to know in 30 days he will be passing away and now is the time to ask him any questions if you have any questions that wasn't clear for the last 39 plus years of the of giving over the torah now's the time and not only that it's also the time to give rebuke he's about they're about to go into the land of israel he will not be with them and there are things that he noticed over the last 39 plus years that require their attention okay and they know what they are but nevertheless it was given in a way that was in hinted fashion in the beginning and that was to the elders and then like let's say lamb blasted them through the rest of the parsha on many of the mistakes and sins which they incurred okay so basically why it's best to give rebuke towards the end of one's life that's a different sheer that we gave at a previous time and that you could find in the clear car in the beginning even though we're still in the first verse okay but we're not in the beginning let's start with the first verse it's really the first two verses we're going to be dealing with tonight these are the words that moses spoke to all israel on the other side of the jordan concerning the wilderness see it says concerning the wilderness concerning the arava opposite the sea of reeds between paran and tophel and lavon and khatsarot and the zahav just to cut it short i'll give the second verse 11 days from kharev by the way of mount saiyar to kardash bernaya so let me read the hebrew so we'll become familiar with some of the words we'll be dealing with tonight alcohol israel behave now these are the words that are going to be important bain parran ubayn tophel villavon as we mentioned between paeron between tophel and a place called lavon the hatsey wrote and the next verse was 11 days the first thing i want you to notice that rashi and it's really all the meforshim and the gemara and the medrush of course discussed this these places these words of the places are hints to sins that the jewish people that i'm israel performed while they were in the desert so you will notice in the first rashi it's um i mean what i quote is just part of the rashi but uh on source one these are the words since these words are words of rebuke moses enumerates them here but all the places where they angered hashem the omnipresent therefore it makes no explicit mention of the incidences incidents in which they transgress but merely alludes to them by mentioning names of places out of respect for israel the problem is some of these places are not real places they don't exist so that's where the next part of the rashi comes in as we mentioned these are important words for tonight's lesson it says between parran and tothel and levan but the hebrew says so we have to examine why the language being ubain is used but in english it doesn't use the word between twice so remember most important lesson is learn hebrew sink your teeth into the text and it's alive and it'll come like jumping off the page and hopefully we will be able to grasp some of these lessons tonight for ourselves because this is the most important lesson at least tonight you know some other point time of the year i'm going to tell you this is the most important lesson but right now during the three weeks between the 17th of tammuz and the 9th of of this is the most important lesson that we could ever hear so those words between paran and tophel and levan rashi quotes rabbi yochanan we have reviewed the entire bible and we have not found any place named tophel or levan how can that be here you have it right here in deuteronomy chapter one verse one no but he's talking about things that happened where they were at their travels over the last 39 plus years and there's nowhere in any of the tanakh that even mentions these names however as rashi continues in the name of rabbi yokonan the explanation is he rebuked them because of so this is rashi's shot that the word what we already know i'm sorry we know the quran is going to be dealing with the sin of the spies because that's where the spies were sent from but what about the word tophel rashid is quoting rubio that says he rebuked them because of the foolish things they had said about the mana what did they do they complained about the mana remember how it was it was beautiful oh it was angel food it tasted like anything you wanted it to taste like that's the good side the bad side if you had no imagination it was quite bland right if you had no imagination what did it taste like like you're eating cotton not cotton candy cotton maybe cardboard i don't know exactly what the texture was but every single day day in day out can like being in in in b dude like being in quarantine and you don't have any spices and all you're eating is bland food every day the same thing every day for how many days four months i don't know so listen they complained we know that so rashi says the word tifla they they were whatever tifla is could mean that they slandered the mana they said foolish things about the mana they didn't or the mana was we'll see as clear car says tasteless but anyway the mana was white was the mana really white i don't know but hazal tell us that the dew that covered the man was white now when did they complain they complained the numbers 21 verse 5 what did they say the people spoke against god and against moses see they spoke against god and moses why have you brought us out of egypt to die in the desert for there is no bread and no water and these are the important words we are disgusted with this rotten bread oh gosh this is a gift from heaven angel food so what was really going on you know they were eating it do you know they didn't have to go to the bathroom they didn't have to change their clothes they didn't sweat this whatever was absorbed into their body was there was no pesalet there was no waste product it was pure it was a pure gift from god was pure energy they probably didn't have to worry about their weight remember whatever they got anyway was in measure okay they couldn't eat more okay but anyway it totally absorbed in their body there was no excrement there was no uh sweat they didn't have to change their clothes they didn't the the clothes grew with them right their feet can you imagine not changing your socks for more than one day i mean you're talking about in the desert for 40 years they didn't change their clothes there was no sweat anyway so just imagine for a second they're eating this man and they're realizing not going to the bathroom i mean we're talking about this is beyond nature's transcendental living here so they thought as rashi mentions that they figured this is going to eventually swell up in their stomachs you know when you eat you eat you eat and you don't go to the bathroom use your imagination what's going to happen so this is perhaps let's look at rashi we are disgusted when the word in hebrew i should have read the word the the hebrew the hebrew verse of numbers 21-5 elohim why did you take us out of egypt to die but in the desert we don't have any there's no bread there in mayan and there's no water and these are the importance were important words bin of souls are disgusted this too denotes intolerance and loathing and then the verse goes on it says lo kale with this kilkul like this rotten disgusting bread rashi says since the mana was absorbed into their limbs and not excreted from their bowels they called it rotten where some would say cursed they said the mana will eventually swell up in our stomachs is there any mortal who ingests but does not excrete this is the level they were on can you imagine at the same time simultaneously as being like angels right eating this angel food and knowing that they're really human this is a very awkward situation to be in anyway we weren't there we're not gonna we're not gonna judge them they've already been judged by god and it's not good okay but we're just trying to get an idea of the complaint of the man and this according to the clear car is what rashi's main point is the clear car will give us a whole nother vision of what's really going on now that does not mean that rashi is not correct okay they did complain and there but moshe's rebuked to them about the word tophel is it referring only to man as rashi only brings or is it he's arguing with rashi and saying no it's not at all or we're just bringing out another level of rebuke and i think that's what the cleo car is doing and that what is what tonight's lesson is going to be about what is this rebuke beyond rashi's explanation okay i did lose my place here we are we didn't even begin yet that's why we have to go to the clear car okay so the clear car begins by telling us these words being uben toefl the language bain ube everyone knows the word bain means between so if you say bane le paran ubeinto fel you're talking about a geographical location between here and between there so the cleo car had already spoken about this and rashi's shot for a while so we're coming in in the middle and he's saying bain shiva's i am going to add another level another explanation and explain these words benny benny between here and between there not necessarily only as a geographical location which we already know doesn't exist but rather to time and the time is the 17th of tamus and the ninth of valve in which we find ourselves right now and not only that he's going to parallel these to the sins that moses is actually rebuking them about clear as mud i hope so because we're going to move forward according to the clear car and according to everybody really is massimo is the story of the sin of the spies that's from where the spies were sent from look at number four on the sword sheet uh you can find this in numbers 13 3. it says so moses sent them from the desert of paran by the word of the lord all of them were men of distinction they were the heads of the children of israel this is the story of the spies the islamic mosha mean so peran is going to be just discussing that uh parallel to the spies and what happened when they said they were sent we know that they came back what happened a tragedy we were now destined to be in the desert for another 39 years but what had happened they cried that night they cried a cry for nothing and god decreed forever that this would be a night that they would cry and that would be on the night of tishbo because that's when it happened look at number three in the sour sheet we just quoted the verse in numbers 14 1 and all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried and the people wept that night sorry i have a dry throat rabbit says let me read the hebrew on that vitissa kol haida the yitnu at kolam the people cried that night the gomorrah continues to say rabbah said the rabbi yeshmael said in the name of abyoko not sorry that night was the night of the 10th the night of the holy one blessed be he said to them you wept needlessly that night and i will therefore establish for you a true tragedy over which there will be weeping and future generations i'm not going to go into the whole history you can look it up there's so many websites and this is the time especially to do the study on the tragedies that happen between from the 17th of tammuz leading up to and concluding on the night of we do know that uh believe it or not even world war one actually started on tisha b'av and the um the conclusion because the world the war was never really over and that led up to the holocaust okay and when i say that we're talking about an assassination okay you can look into it i'm not going to go into it now but everything that really happened to the jewish people in in the worst sense had its seeds its origins during this three-week period of time and this we're going to talk about what happened to neja okay we're going to get into it so hang in there little patience we're just setting the tone for what's going on here so we got we have the word paran down what about the word tophel so the cleo cars tells us that is the eggel this is referring to this the cath which they made now he's going to little bit have a problem with rash and he's going to discuss it and he's going to tell us that if rashi would have used another verse i think i would have agreed and everyone else would have agreed and it would have fit in really nicely rashi failed to bring in a certain verse now that's according to the cleo card so let's see what verse he felt would have been more appropriate and then we'll get back to the sin of the golden calf rashi mentioned shatoflu al-ahmad they mocked the the man or they spoke slander against the man whatever the word tough lou is is a little bit vague but his biggest problem is aimlo dimion bemikra forget about the fact the place doesn't exist tophel doesn't exist and they've already searched for that but when you talk about the man where does the word tofo really fit in well according to the cleo car aimlo dimion there is no real comparison to ramon except it would have been more proper if rashi brought the following verse on you'll find this in job chapter 6 verse 6 it says which means like this can whatever this word tophdel means tafel usually tafel means secondary not important right you have the word icar which is essential and tafel which is not so essential usually what called secondary or even so not important so here it's translated as bland food that is tough fail without salt is there any taste right so obviously here let's look at rashi a thing that has no salt must be salted but was not salted in mishnayik language that's what tophel means something that has no taste bland and according to the cleocard this would fit in well with the word tofo meaning somehow connected to the man as we mentioned it really had no taste it was up to your imagination so the clear car continues tom anything that has no taste is called taffel and zaya masking with rashi that would have fit really well had rashi brought that so now we're going to leave this rashi aside and now we're going to go deep down the rabbit hole of the cleocar who's going to explain how tophel is really connected to the 17th of tamus because of the sin of the golden calf which took place on the 17th of thomas just so you know the 17th of tamil's is 40 days after after we let after we had received or accepted the torah in in in general moses goes up to receive the tablets 40 days he comes later he comes down with the tablets which are what broken he breaks them because why because we are involved with the sin of the golden calf so the clear car says aval feed arcanum according to everything that we are um proposing here karo the shema it's very easy to understand that the masego this golden calf is hinted at is ramaz in the word tophel now is he making a stretch no way no how wait till you hear the verses he brings how we are not so familiar with the tanakh this we should know like the back of our hand we should be sleeping this with under our pillow every free moment we should be learning tanakh this is our history this is our dictionary i mean i don't want to make it and belittle it but the language we speak is hebrew right lush and kodesh so we should become familiar with the language so i invite you to continue here we go by voters the cleo car says this language of toefl is found many places in connection with idol worship and he's going to bring three verses the first two are very directly connected with idol worship the third one is more connected to just the general concept of false and falsehoods and illusions which that's exactly what idol worship is the first one is in jeremiah 23 23 3. so it says like this will benefit jeremiah saw in these prophets of the chamron he saw tifla they translated as unseemliness or delusions and folly but that's what false prophets are they prophesied regarding this idol okay so whatever they were prophesizing about was idol worship therefore tifla which is the word used is referring to idols even rashi says the false and senseless visions that's lamentation sorry so now the next verse he brings is in lamentations 2 verse 14. that goes like this okay you are seers this is in lamentations your seers prophesies to you delusion and folly that's what the word tophel means ridiculous things things that are illusions are deluded they do not they did not expose your iniquity so as to restore your fortunes but prophesies to whom to idols to the oracles of delusion and deception and just rashi mentions here false and senseless visions interestingly words that have no taste okay that is i don't know old french but if you look if you know anybody that knows old french and you can help me out there's a word called aflash whatever that means it's probably not how to pronounce it okay but it's aleph palamid shin uh tetres you'd okay old french now the third verse is a little bit tricky because you have to read the whole paragraph to understand the context but it's an ezekiel yocesco 13 verse 11 he only brings these two words which means plastered well they translated as dob plaster say to the plasterers with dobb but the truth is what they're talking about is whitewashing taking a very unstable wall and just covering it over with some plaster and some paint as if there's no problems so what are you creating creating an illusion okay it's all false right if you were going to sell a home you're i think there's a law against not informing the the purchaser i think the same thing with a car any any large any purchase truth is it's stealing so if you just cover it over and make it look all nice when there's really damage underneath that is stealing right it's a crime so let's look at the the the verse say to the plasterers with doubt behold it will fall if there will be a driving rain then you gigantic hull hailstones will fall and the storm wind will crack it meaning that it's really not structurally sound to start with so all it would take would be a little bit of a storm to crack everything but knew when they went ahead and put some plaster and some paint which is not going to give any real strength to the structural necessity you're just whitewashing look at the album on this that which is not desirable is on its own ready to fall and not exist okay so it's a little bit complicated but that is the three verses so far that the clear club wants to bring to show us that the word tough fell is connected to falsity to idols to things that are not real and delusional or illusional and now he says you know those those people that made the golden calf you know who made the golden calf by the way the heir evrov those mixed multitudes that came out of egypt with the jewish people they said israel these are your gods o israel now let me let me ask you a question come on we just left egypt we saw god we talked to god and he and they come up with this i don't know far-fetched idol telling or trying to convince us this is the god that took us out of egypt we would fall for that let me explain another idea because one question that has to be asked why a calf right very interestingly we're going to see rashi on this and it's going to give us a little bit of an idea a molten calf it says um on that verse as soon as they cast it into the fire of the crucible the sorcerers of the mixed multitude who had gone up with them from egypt came and made it with sorcery others say that michael was from there who had emerged from the layer of the building where he'd been crushed okay i'm not going to go into that one uh here in his hand was a plate upon which moses had moses had ascribed now think about this i don't know you know like the little necklace over the calf or in his hand it said ascend ascendo ox this is the same okay this is a little this is really cool when you think about it when the jewish people were told they're going to leave with with wealth and riches perhaps they believed that perhaps they didn't believe it but it was a promise by god it was going to happen and four-fifths of the jews never made it out of egypt in fact it was in the ninth plague in which they were killed the night that very plagued was the plague of darkness it was dark so the egyptians would not see the jews four fifths you're talking about 80 percent and if you think about the numbers you're talking about 15 million jews so only three million left right one-fifth okay so how many 12 million jews are basically die in a plague by hashem in how many days three days of darkness in this three-day period and the reason it was dark and the reason they were killed then by hashem was so that the egyptians did not see this happen because if they would see this happen they would say ah it's nothing has nothing to do with us the lessons not about us right and then the tenth plague when the firstborn are killed and believe me a lot of firstborns were killed not like every family had one firstborn there was a lot of inter um i don't know what the word is sexual immorality so therefore a firstborn from any male who might have been with that same with the female who's with other men she had many firstborns not only her firstborn but the multiple men she was with so there was many egyptians that died so imagine if they would have seen all these jews die and then they saw their own people die they would have thought nothing of it they would have said it's just a plague natural it happens all the time but no this so god hid this from them but what was moses doing okay during the three days of darkness the good jews the ones who end up leaving and why were they considered i'm using the word good i i i'm making a judgment the reason why they're the ones that left and the other ones didn't they died in egypt was because they wanted to come home to israel i'm telling you whoever's watching this have it in your heart that you want to come make a plan put the first one foot in front of the other figure a way to come home these and i think um it's my opinion but it's based on fact based on other sources that what happened in egypt four fifths of the jews dying in egypt will happen again in the future redemption i pray that it won't it doesn't have to no negative prophecies ever have to happen they're there to give rebuking for us to learn the lessons okay so hopefully tonight we'll learn our lessons okay but in the meanwhile that has to do with um uh character development okay not necessarily the will and the desire to come to israel but i'm telling you now it's important because four fifths of the jews died in egypt because they had no intention of ever leaving their constricted addictive uh stockholm syndrome as most a lot of slaves do have they're not interested in freedom but they somehow love and are addicted to their um burden okay whatever that uh hostage situation the stockholm syndrome represents it's it's uh it's not a new idea it goes way back to egypt or fourth fifth jew four fifths of jews wouldn't have died there okay my important point is what happened during those three days that the jews who were i'm gonna use the word again good the ones who had good intentions to leave they were looking around for the wealth they were checking out while it was dark while the egyptians couldn't even move it was so thick this darkness was so thick they couldn't even move they couldn't see the jews were walking around like with light and checking out where all the gold was so that a month later when they were told to leave they could immediately find it without having to search but what did moses do moses was not looking for gold moses was going down you know he went on the ten on the tenth plague in other words when the jews actually went to collect the gold moses goes where on the 10th plague he goes to the nile river and he inscribes in this plaque or this what do you call it a piece of um not parchment but a piece of clay he actually writes ascend oh ox ascend of ox for what purpose that same plaque that they put on the calf this is what he was involved with why because joseph made his children promise that he will not be left there when they go up from egypt don't forget my bones i don't want to be here okay so moses is taking care of this now just think about it a second why what was the question i asked why did they make an ox why was an ox what they envisioned to come out of the fire because they actually thought remember joseph is called the sure bachor in the blessings by yaakov again hinted at by moses so this idea that joseph is the ox that had joseph's bones not been removed we would still be in egypt they these mixed motives remember the egyptians they're not jews they thought there was a special power to this person joseph there was but not what they thought right that he's like a god that it was because of him that we left egypt had his bones not been brought up we would never have been left uh taken out of egypt to a certain extent they were right and that's the problem with most idol worship that there's some truth there may be a little bit of truth and i'll say it to the christians out there this is very risque but only through the jewish people will you get to heaven meaning by clinging to the truth that the jews are proclaiming to the world that they witnessed and we're the witnesses at mount sinai only through the jews and i guess you have your idol and you say he's a jew so he through the jew you'll go to heaven yes it's not that jew but it's the jewish mission it's the jewish message it's the jewish people all you have to do is cling to them support them and learn the truth from them and you're in like flynn okay guys now with that being said i want to go back into this last part we said about rashi so ascendo oscendo ocs to miraculously bring up joseph's coffin from the nile and what did they do they took this plate and put it into the fire and the calf emerged okay the last part of that rashi these are your gods but it doesn't say these are our gods remember these are the mixed multitude they say these are your gods of israel it wasn't the jews because if it was the jews they would have said this is our god they didn't say this is our god they said this is your god from here we learned that the mixed multitude who had come up from egypt were the ones who gathered against our own and they were the ones who made it into the calf after the words it was the israelites who then strayed after it they were the cause of all of our problems the problem is we didn't rebuke them we didn't strengthen our own people and we ended up following and being enticed in many in cases um where they started up okay back into the clear car so now we just got done saying these are your godzilla israel that's what the torah quotes that the arab route said elohim this is giving falsity to god this is a false god that's what the word tifla means this was on the 17th of tammuz and what happened on that day that's when the lucho the luchot or the tablets were broken okay i just want to refer to tightness this is more 26b and the more tightness we know that there were five major calamities that occurred to our forefathers on the 17th otamus and there are five other disasters that happened on the ninth avav we're not going to go through them all but the very first thing we know happened on the 17th of tammuz was that the luchot were broken by moses when he saw that the jews had made the golden calf okay all right now uh believe it or not it was the breaking of these stones that caused the stones of jerusalem's walls to be what's the word breached this is what happened on the 17th 17th of tammuz you know 800 some years later 900 years later as i just quoted and bain schneiderlin now between these two borders as if the word bain ubain between these two again we're going to use the word paron in the word tophel we're going to use the concept of paran meaning the the spies the sin of the spies and tophel as the sin of the golden calf we're also going to use the dates involved the 17th of tamus and the ninth of ab so between these two borders whatever mean these book marks of time of sin israel from the words that israel is crouching between these edges between these borders the lush and banu bain when you say between here and between there you're giving reference to some kind of an edge of some sort and that is what is mentioned here when it says bainu bain in our verse being paranoid fell and now this is going to be one of the most important verses we're going to be using tonight and we're going to use it for a while and that is in that's lamentations chapter 1 verse 3. this is jeremiah wow getting ready for the end ko wrote his all who chase her who's her the jewish people all who chase her his will overtake her meaning they will overpower the jewish people all who chase her when being hamitz-sarim the time period in talmudic language in rabbinic language in halaq language is called bane hamidzarim between the straits now let's translate that according to i'm not sure i have usually chabad or arts grow but here we have the safari also so we find this in lamentations chapter one verse three yehuda went into exile because of affliction and great servitude she settled among the nations and found no rest all her pursuers overtook her between the boundaries the safariat translation is she found no rest all her pursuers overtook her in the narrow places because that's really a better translation doesn't matter mitsurim mitzrayim is a very narrow constricted place like the word sar tsar is a painful narrow place look at the rashi on that yura went into exile from her land and great servitude with which the childbillians burdened her she settled among the nations and in the place where she was exiled and settled she found no rest between the boundaries now this is the important part because we're talking about it being some kind of edges or some kind of borders so the translation here is where there is a high place on either side there's no place to flee you can't maneuver left or right you're stuck in this very narrow place rashi continues the word mitsuri means boundaries i added the word edges it's the boundaries of fields and vineyards and the medrash actually says these boundaries mean between the 17th of tamus and the ninth of of why didn't rashi bring this i have no idea but the clear car is pursuing this idea all the way through now we're going to focus on the word coal in a second but before we do so this verse in lamentations chapter 1 verse 3 is talking about between the sin not just the date and not even the place because the places where we know quran exists but tophel doesn't between the sin the sin of the ego and between the sin of the spies that we are bent over in a crouching position we are pushed we are what's the word pressured in a way where we're not even able to stand okay so the clear car continues the way the natural world functions so i'm going to use poetic license to use the word hatsala as salvation in the jewish term not not at all in the christian way but to be saved by god okay hatsallah means rescue that's how it's used okay a lifeguard is a anybody know okay anyway it's related even i don't know but we have an organization called hatsala who goes out and is the first on the scene before the ambulances even arrive they're the rescue guys okay okay so what is he saying that the way the natural world works is there is no salvation in front of an akat oyath before an oppressive enemy before uh in one of either only only in one of two ways or both of these ways together so when i told you in the beginning this is going to be the most important lesson you're ever going to hear in your life i at least during the three weeks because until you know two months from now i'm going to tell you a very another important lesson that it's going to be the most important lesson you're going to ever have to hear in your life but keep this in mind there is no salvation except in one of two ways or both together and the first way is through direct intervention of divine providence of god hamas he will save anyone who clings to him who has an intimate relationship with him even if you don't have the physical strength right it has nothing right we saw the maccabees they were small in number it could be that some of them were struck quite strong but when you talk about you know a group of 12 and they're not guerrilla warfare but 12 people against hundreds right or thousands so we're not talking about physical strength where you don't have the physical strength the coma kong kashem and kaya mean nevertheless when they fulfill the dictum there's a mitzvah in the torah and what does it say you'll find this in deuteronomy chapter 6 verse 5 it says like this you shall love the lord your god with all your hearts with all your soul with all your means you shall love the lord your god it's a mitzvah love god and by doing that it's going to wake us hashem's rock that is the cause for you to have that intimate relationship with god then you are the vakut with hashem you have that clinging you're you're cleaving you're like glue as humans you'll call out the vacant bow then he will save all those who cling to him this is very important so far so good now we will compare that to the the the remedy for the ninth for the 17th of thomas because that is the opposite of idol worship okay that is true service of the lord to love him and now what about the other idea we're going to talk about there's two ways to salvation one is natural is one is through supernatural ways the other one is going to be through more natural ways when you look and you fulfill the mitzvah it's one of the most important mitzvahs and it's in leviticus chapter 19 verse the aha you shall love your neighbor as yourself who's it talking about it's talking about the relationships you have with other people do not do unto other people what you would not do one done unto yourself this is like the bottom line obviously it extends from there but that you have to do as a bare minimum as ish then each person will go out of his way to help another person when you have love and fellowship and friendship and brotherhood unbelievable things can happen even if you're in the worst situation you could find some salvation some help that's why i'm not using it in any other i'm talking about a jewish way because you know what you know what he says the most astounding thing i'm actually shocked he says even if they're sinners and they have removed hashem okay which means they could be idle worshippers they could be shabbat desecrating the shabbat i have no idea what it means that they're sinners and they have removed hashem from among from them so then nikola makong there's a little glimmer of light there's some hope in a natural way but he says these next five words provided you did not mess with the system what does the system mean i think it means basically you still fit within the most you know the communal norms of society you didn't murder anybody right you didn't take anybody else's wife imlo has provided you did not titna gayed provided you didn't upset the applecart you didn't do any really horrible sin so maybe maybe idol worship is not exactly a good example that i gave earlier but provided you don't do anything that's so serious and we know that idol worship is but the words he used earlier was you send the sar hashem elem and you removed hashem from you so basically it's a pretty serious stuff but provided you didn't go against the maraca now he continues and says these two ways we just discussed one was supernatural in the hashikaka with hashem and the other one was somehow dealing with your fellow human being he says during these two times the 17th of tammuz and the ninth of elu israel we lost it was like total loss we lost both of them at the same time because of these seriousness of these sins if that's the case to whom are we able to run for any help okay quebecer on the 17th of tomorrow also when we actually made and performed this uh we created this uh calf bobby on that day it's as if we walked backwards in our relationship now it's going to be very interesting because the constellation for the month of tamus is what is the sartan is what we call the crab and how does the crab walk or pace or what's the word move about he doesn't walk straight forward he walks to the side or backwards and the clear car says upanu as hashem means the back of our head we faced hashem we turned towards hashem the back of our heads and not our faces valopanim so it's a little tricky but that's what we did we turned away from hashem and in a month that's tamus the month that its constellation is the sartan whose way is to work that's the way of the the cancer that's the way of the the crab is to walk backwards so too the jewish people walked backwards and it was then that we lost the remedy the rescue efforts the possibility of possibility of salvation we lost that on the from the aspect of direct divine intervention from god and on tish above that's when we create the we we sinned with the sin of the spies what i'm about to tell you is heavy psychological issues that we're going to we're going to investigate because what i just said was on that day that's where the character trait of causeless hatred entered the world and entered the jewish people now the basic question you have to ask yourself that doesn't make any sense all we did was spoke lash and horror about the land right we spoke flesh and heart about the land what does that have to do with my relationships with other people and my causeless hatred that i have with another human being you have to ask this question don't just be told oh yes it's kind of similar yes we can see through history there's no doubt a lot of closest hatred but where's the connection where's the original idea that the the masa marauding that the sin of the spies is what brought in this idea of hatred towards another human being listen to this we have to go to chapter i'm sorry it's it's chapter 1 verse 27 that's number 14 on the source sheets we actually said can you believe that we said this how many people have seen these words of the verse and didn't think twice moses says in chapter 1 verse 27 you murmured in your tents and said because the lord hates us he took us out of the land of egypt to deliver us into the hands of the amorites in order to exterminate us but we just had one full year of these miraculous plagues and we crossed through the sea it split we stood at mount sinai come on this is what this is what we're saying listen to the hebrew the torah basin not hashem o tanu they said because god hates us that he took us out of egypt now how could they say this okay now this is it's obviously not true right i mean they said it so they must have thought it but it's not true that god hates us god loves us so much and yet they said because they thought so why what made them think that so let's look at rashi rashi says because the lord hates us that's the verse but really rashi says he actually loves you but it's you who hate him so we're going to get into an idea of it's called transference and psychological terms or projection okay what you think the uh what you think about somebody is what you think he or she thinks about you it's a projection and how often in our lives do we walk around thinking that someone else is thinking about us when in truth we if we're honest with ourselves it started with us thinking about them this whatever it is and then transference or projecting that that's what they must be thinking about us and it's all based on this idea that they actually said god hates us when the truth is god did not hate them how can they have said it it must be that they hated god and listen to the words arashi the common parable is what is in your own heart about your friend so it's what you think about your friend you imagine is in his heart about you this is very profound this should then change all hopefully almost all of our relations with everybody we're in contact with because whatever we think they're thinking about us is probably not true first of all you're not that important right oh my god they're all coming against me that's a lot of people have these ideas these delusional ideas and usually none of it's true it's usually what they're thinking and then it's being projected and what the other person is thinking we know that god loved us he wouldn't have brought us out of egypt and brought us to the holy land and given us this gift of of the land of israel unbelievable so we're just getting we're just like scratching the surface here i want to go back into the clear car because he says that kiheim a sovereign this is what they were thinking is he's making this right now as a an assumption but he wants to prove this assumption the assumption is that each one hated their friend kim mustama sono so if they each hated their friend then the natural conclusion is that god also hates them but remember it's based on the premise that they an assumption they hate their friend and then the next thing is god hates us furthermore after they made this mistake by saying that god hates them for nothing allah read in hebrew ulama [Music] what happens as a natural result is this idea obligates them that each one would then hate his own friend and i hope this is clear like what started what what actually struck that they only thought that the inside deep inside they actually did hate each other and then they projected that each person must hate each other and just like god really loves you so they projected that god really hates us okay the tarzi sarah zoo the tele medium it's called conception it starts here in your mind it began as a tsar this pain as a conception as a thought but then it became real it became borne out in this very bad character trait sinha is real but it starts with the wrong mind frame so you have total control what you think think positive find the virtue in others come to love them not to hate them you have to find one good thing come on that guy that everyone hates or you know everyone builds up on stop bullying on them stop thinking bad thoughts find something get a microscope if you have to find something positive to focus on right and you'll see that there god loves him why can't you but guess what it was this conception that brought into the world this bad character trait and it was this very character trait that is the reason for the destruction of both temples now this should also flatten you out because we all know that the first temple was not destroyed because of sinatrinam it was rather destroyed because of the big three the big three cardinal sins murder adultery and idol worship and yet the clear car is making a statement that it was also the first temple was also caused destroyed because of causes hatred as is well known for the second temple i think we should go down to number 15 it's the talmud badly yuma 9b the tosefta continues with the discussion of the sins of the jewish people over the generations due to what reason was the first temple destroyed it was destroyed due to the fact of these three matters which such as idol worship forbidden sexual relations and bloodshed okay it goes on to give us many examples however considering the people during the second temple actually kept torah they engaged into our study and observance they kept the mitzvahs they did all kinds of acting acts of kindness and that they did not perform the sinful acts that had been right murder uh idolatry and forbidden relations they didn't do that in the second temple so why was the second temple destroyed it was because of the sinatra the causes hatred during that time so what does it teach you that believe it or not causeless hatred is actually i'll use the word worse but at least as bad as the as the three because if the first temple was caused because of those three causeless hatred causes the the destruction of the second temple has to be equal or worse than all three on like if you had scales put all three on one side it's closest hatred on the other and it's it's very destructive okay and the question now is asked are you telling me that during the first temple there was no causeless hatred i'm going to cut to the chase based on a verse that he brings down is that there was but where was this causeless hatred amongst the princes amongst the leadership and it was only because it was there and it didn't filter down to all the people yet but it eventually did by the time the second temple that caused this hatred did filter down so it could be as a root as a root why we had these big three causes hatred is equal or worse than those three and the first temple was yes we attribute it to the big three but there was closest hatred and that's also part remember he says that the first temple is also destroyed because of causeless hatred so he's saying it's a root cause for those other three for the big three cardinal sins and let's see the verse he brings down he brings down from ezekiel chapter 21 verse 17. his basically saying after we read this we'll understand that these are people who eat and drink with each other but they stab each other with verbal barbs the gamora answers this behavior was found only among the princes of israel from this verse ezekiel 21 17 cry and wail o son of man for it will be upon my people it is upon all the princes of israel those gathered to the sword so look at what he says based on that verse in the gemara this will befall all the princes of israel it was only the leaders of the nation who harbored baseless hatred for each other the people of the nation as a whole did not hate one another and that's talking about the first temple now think about it just to bring this home we all know there was a split after king david and solomon we had what we call a a unified country during david and solomon's time but all of a sudden there's a split and there was hatred amongst the leaders so bad and you think about it why did the people in the north separate themselves and become idol worshipers because the leaders wouldn't allow them to come to jerusalem three times a year so they all wanted to worship hashem so they they made these idols and we're not about all of them again we're talking about the inferior ones but we all know that the jews of the north we call israel the house of israel succumbed to idol worship had the kings themselves did not have this um friction egos you know what i mean you would it would have been a different result but this is how it played out okay i'm so glad we got to that point because this is very important as the clear card will now say kiba by rishon haya sinatrinham israel that during the first temple there was hatred amongst the princes the leaders of the jewish people oh but by a chaini paso hanega the disease had spread this is a disease this is a nega this is a plague amongst all of israel has brought in more yuma which you'll find uh i think we just read that fine we already spoke about cancer and the crab of walking backwards but what is of of is arya leo by the way my birthday this year it never happened before my birthday is tisha b'av i've already well into almost half my life and i never realized i never celebrated my birthday but this year it falls on tisha b'av now i wonder you're all wondering how that can be that's because my birthday is really on the 21st of august but my english birthday was july 30th and july 30th this year falls out on tisha b'av so my my english birthday is actually tishaba anyway we should be shem see the coming and the revelation of our mashiach taken a real or a true righteous messiah reveal himself and bring forth the rebuilding of the base of mikdash but we're not even close to the end so we're still continuing this was the khodesh of whose constellation is the lion ki yiksov lithrov each one was similar to a lion what does a lion do he rips apart and tears up his friend then we lost the possibility of salvation of being rescued even in a natural order nahin because there was no love amongst them because nobody was there to rely on or to help his friend and he just ends with a verse in the prophet amos chapter 7 verse 2 based on this verse for yaakov is very small and has no merits in other words we cannot help ourselves we need our father in heaven and we need our brothers in this earth because the verse says we see and it came to pass when it finished eating the grass of the earth that i said oh lord forgive now who shall arise with jacob for he is small meaning that we really do need as much help as we can get okay we're almost finished there's three paragraphs left i beg you to stay with us because this is as i mentioned um life changing very important information and um the clear car says nimsa shabam gavuli it comes out that during these times between these borders the package became totally unraveled me called the call entirely the package of what kisara maher min hashem that we ran away quickly from god we turned away as quick as we could from hashem the sarugam ishmael not only did we run away from hashem through idol worship but we ran away from each other we we turned away one person from the other in other words we weren't fulfilling loving god or loving our neighbor as we mentioned this whole idea in the tishaw story the nimsa [Music] it comes out that these two dates are actually fences are like borders are like bookmarks that we're stuck in between the aim derek lyntos yamino small we cannot move to the left we cannot move to the right but it's so graphically explained in the verse that we read in echa chapter one verse three ko wrote fehasi guha all who chase her will overtake her bain amitsarim what we didn't focus yet on is the word kol the word ko means all all who chase her so that means even the weakest of our enemies will be stronger than us all is all-inclusive call as mashma feel the road they've called hallows even the weakest of our enemies can over power overtake us you know what the words it sounds like nazi you know what it means it means nazi it means to be provoked we provoked hashem khadosh israel that's when the holy people provoked us israel and the holiness of the jewish people is talo the whole premise of our being holy is contingent on us being unified gloria chad bartz god actually says you are a holy nation one nation in the land when we are one that's where the holiness comes from you understand many people that i teach are wanting to join the jewish people it's you know the big difference is oh yeah i know it's true i know i don't care if you know it's true stay a the only reason you're going to join the jewish people is to join the jewish people to be part of the jewish people you can know it's true be a righteous nochide there's so much you can do in the world as a righteous noah you want to join the jewish people it's going to be tough we're tough people you're going to join it's going to make it it's a big it's a big effort to join trust me it's not easy okay we don't want to make it easy it ain't easy i can't i'm not the one that made the rules okay i would i would make it easy but it's tough and i know it and i give all the credit to anybody for whatever they choose they want to be a righteous noah caller kavod they want to join the jewish people call it to vote because these two kinds of decisions that's only the the person can make and at least you're on the right side of history right whether you're a righteous know or hide or whether you're a righteous convert you're on the right side of history that's all i can tell you because you believe in the actress of the ummah bismarck so that was what we talked about um in terms of the night of so that is but on the other hand we um we turned away from the divine presence that would be the 17th of tammuz the el miyanoosu loser who could we run to for help al kane alma moshe but this is why moses is giving them this rebuke he's telling them the jewish people you're standing here being vulimelu between these two precipice between these two edges of history only if you don't repent he's telling them before he dies this is the time you're about to go into the holy land remember remember the story of paran quran being the sin of the spies it was established for you a crying forever kibo ma sub skedosha because you were disgusted by entering the land you didn't want to come in therefore measure for measure he's telling them if you have this attitude you don't fix it you will be exiled from the land measure for measure you were disgusted by the land you didn't want to enter the land then the the correct remedy right the measure for measure will be exile from the land kashyap gulu batish above and i feel like crying when did the exile take place it takes place on tisha oh but and what about this the sin of the golden calf that caused the the walls the breach of the walls of you shalom which happened on the 17th of tamil ta'amu's baini baini so between these two dates between these two places between these two sins we are crouching between these edges the oyath called the who you the flu you're the fame and it's then that our enemy any enemy i hope they're not listening any enemy can overtake us during these three weeks and that's why we don't go on trips we don't fly we don't do all these crazy things that we would normally do like go parachuting or hang gliding or boating we try our best not to do anything that's too dangerous we feel more secure indoors anyway at this time okay fine now we'll continue according to this explanation we're forced to say that the word lavon remember we were stuck it has to do with white yeah he's going to agree remez this hints to their argument about the man shahid lavon which happened to have been white and rashi also says the word the vidi zahav which again is just a place is really a hint to the sin of god and reuve we spoke about just a few short weeks ago that they were their money meant more to them than even their own lives that was a big nick shaw a big stumbling block for them okay their money meant more to them than their own lives die even though they had enough zahav means gold die means enough they really had enough gold and yet they were greedy and egotistical okay the last piece and i think that i need to do more investigation i actually have this book at home called the ear giburim which was written by who by the cleokar himself and he says i go much more depth in it but in short he brings down a very short piece he says we explain over there in the boring about the hint in verse 2 it says you're 11 days from khareth even though there are 11 days from kharev this is a hint to the 11 days during the year that we that we mourn for the temple we we mourn for the temple during this during the year 11 days of the year and what are those eleven days nine days of that means the first rosh through the night that's nine days which we are presently in the 17th of tamus which is the 10th and the 10th of teves which is the 11th day and he says because because this is so far from the simple understanding the shot in the hamish we're not going to go into this at all but understand that the language being uben is so evil according to him everything we've explained bane uben does fit the narrative in its most simple form now i just want to just before we end i want to go back into this last piece on the verse deuteronomy chapter 1 verse 2. it is 11 days journey from kharev look at rashi it's 11 days journey from khorev moses is saying he's giving them rebukes see what you caused there's no shorter route from actual from kharev to kurdish bernaya than the way of through mount sa year i think that i have to look into the irrigatory but mounts the ear to me is somewhat of a mystery because baton met adam and we're talking about perhaps exile or but anyway he said the journey is really 11 days now that's what the verse says it's 11 days journey but according to rashi it only took three days so why did why does the verse say it's 11 day journey because it is it's an 11 day journey and god caused a miracle that it only took three days and that's what he says even though the journey is 11 day journey you took three days to do it and then he proves it was only a three-day journey because if you look in numbers chapter 10 verses 11 and 12 it says when they left they started to travel in the second year the second month on the 20th of the month okay so that's the 20th of vr and they arrived on the 29th of sivan that's when they sent out the spice from carter kadesh barnett so how many days is that that's a total of 40 days now you have to subtract we spent 30 days if you look in numbers 11 34 eating meat it says we ate meat for 30 days so there was 30 days of eating needs and when um when moses's sister miriam had uh what's called um saras on her hand i'm sorry on her body so you had another seven days that they spent over there for her to be confined so you have 37 days out of the 40 days we already we already know where 37 of them were spent so they didn't travel 11 days they only traveled three days so this is to what the point is and to such an extent did the shrine exert itself to hasten your arrival god wanted us to come he loves us he was pushing for us but we're the one who sinned and he made you travel mount around mount saiyar for 40 years everything god do does to us is measure for measure he's a loving god he's not taking revenge he wants us to learn our lesson we should all contemplate when things happen to us whether it's happening now whether it happened to your girl we can't figure it out learn more study more dive in more request clarity from hashem more and i guarantee you if you're really honest with yourself you will come to some insights on what it is that you need to do to figure out ways to change your life and with that i wish you number one of shabbat shalom right and number two i always say great life but welcome home to torah i wish we all could work together and come to a true understanding of what it means we have to read to love your neighbors yourself to get rid of this right if we can really start to judge other people favorably that means cleaning your glasses okay thinking differently rewiring our brain and it's not easy i'm not telling you it's easy but it's worth it it really will change your your own blood pressure and your own it actually helps your own immune system right there's so many things there's so many benefits on a spiritual level on a physical level and the mizrat hashem you'll build your relationship with hashem and will overturn all the evil gezeroth and all the different things that have been decreed and hopefully our chuva will pay pave the way towards the full redemption bin herrera manu a main cella culture [Music] is