Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: The Mystical Dream of Jacobs Ladder

[Music] hello welcome everyone to the Obinna beit midrash we welcome you home to torah and there's a little bit different setup so the camera's a little bit awkward but there's right - Shem everything will turn out right and I just want to mention that it's raining here in Jerusalem we are so happy so if it's the first time like rain you have to be careful if you're driving because it's oil that builds up on the roads to the summer like even if you're riding a bike or walking you to be careful it's very slippery okay so that is my words of advice before we even get started today but we are so happy because we've been praying for rain right in fact it was yesterday or maybe today was exactly 90 times 1 month yeah from the time we started saying and praying for rain imagine that it's exactly 90 feet love 30 days I mean significance look at that it's also amazing right if you live outside the Land of Israel you start tonight or yesterday starting to pray for rain and the borough Hashem prayers work okay so we're in parshat of ie8 say we're not gonna deal with the first verse we're actually going to deal with the second I think the third verse and this is Rocco's famous dream of the latter okay so there's a lot of deep ideas I don't think we're gonna cover the entire dream in context but we're gonna start to dig a little bit deeper into what this is all about and the verse says in English and he dreamt and behold a ladder was set earthward and it stopped reached heavenward and behold angels of God were ascending and descending on it I just want to begin the next verse as well behold god hashem was standing over him what is going on here these words are going to reveal so much to we just see these words and what does it mean this is the Word of God it's so delicious listen to listen to the Hebrew Shalom and he dreamed the heinous Ullom behold there was a ladder moot south arts ax it was standing towards the ground in the direction of the ground Verrocchio Maggie aha Jemima and its end it stopped its beginning reach the heavens the he named behold malice a Elohim Eileen the your deem bow there were these angels of God that were doing what ascending and descending on it now we have a lot of questions but one of the one of the first questions we're going to deal with one of the questions we do why are they going up shouldn't they come down first isn't that the abode isn't that where the angels hang out as if they should come down and then up no I'm saying no they're coming from the bottom up unbelievable and then it says the he may Hashem need savile of God was standing over him okay so knowing all this let's look at the clear car we use the clear car as the basis the foundation of our discussion for the evening and it starts off the clear car says qatal brav huh Byron he's now quoting from who's the Rafah Moira the Rambam in the Mara Ana book him in the guide to the perplexed Chabert that is explained over there that occurs Buraku Li Yaakov Seder hitched hasta loot for hamare goat shall Schlow shah alam oh this is gonna be very spooky and mystical evening on this rainy night in December in Jerusalem that God was explaining Thiago and we're listening to this conversation God is explaining to Yaakov to jacob our forefather the chain of events in order of the different levels of the worlds okay the word his Tosh dilute like she'll she'll it a chain-link fence but like a domino effect is something where all of the worlds are interconnected in some way and there are different levels of these mystical worlds and how do we know listen to the words the verse said moot solve arts mood south art sir that in number three if you look at number three that's called the lower world moot south art sir it means it was directed the latter was directed toward the ground set a limit octone we're not yet describing what these worlds are but it means the lower world what does that mean we'll find out surely the Rochelle and its head McGee Ashima now you would think that's the upper world but it's not that is Alam hamsa II that's gonna be the middle world he may mouth hey lo keem oiling the your name bow this is the world of angels the the fact that angels are going up and down on it that is called the the world of angels and then it says in the beginning of verse 13 and behold the Lord was standing over him Heena ash-sham neat south all of that is Lahore owes to teach us cash Seamus Barak Guevara may I'll come Guevara he is the highest of highs the Almighty the the Most High the Most High unbelievable and I want to tell you something a little bit about the difference between you know Judaism and all the other religions I shouldn't even that's a pretty bold statement but how did idol worship even begin even like back time from after Adam until Noah there was in between their generations they recognized God being the most but you know what they thought he was too far too distant and they saw the constellations and they saw the Sun the moon and maybe even the Angels and realized maybe we could use them to get even higher to God because God is so distance for us for a Jew that's called idol worship so for a Jew any usage of a intermediate to get to Hashem is it's fake for a Jew it is not only unnecessary it's going in the wrong direction we need to go and penetrate those different worlds if we're on the bottom world we need to go straight to my Shem and we have a direct and intimate relationship with Almighty the truth is Gentiles do too however they don't know Hashem okay now Channahon they don't know that Hashem is one they're waking up they've always been righteous individuals but remember the Rashi over there so what does it mean Hashem is one Shem will be one in the future right beyond Maheu a shadow harshmellow card in the prophet one day his name will be one and right so what and the knowledge of his oneness fulfilled the earth imagine that it's happening right it's we're like right on the precipice of the Messianic age so the question what do you mean he will be one isn't he one now he's one now to the Jewish people but only in the future the whole world will recognize him but there are these individuals we're very proud of them these are righteous Gentiles who come to the understand that the one God in the meantime I just wanted to give that little brief introduction of my own here that the Jew must go and ascend to the top and we'll hopefully we'll talk about that because that's Yakko that's Jacob so the Almighty is over all the three worlds so you have these three different worlds we spoke about the lower world the middle world and then these angels are going up and down but the highest world is where Hashem is master over all the other worlds now we don't really understand the Abbar bunnell and the Rambam that much okay but he's going to explain a little bit about their different take so right away he says the hick Shah of Devore of maja you're rich you reviewed such a barber now so the barber now was not so happy with this with this discussion with the way the Rambam expressed it because he felt Kumari Zulu Yakov a nakiya's Maud Biloxi ah Macomb we're not we're not even privy to their the way they were thinking but for some reason the clear card is telling us the the barber now felt that this dream was not limited to place or time so the clea car begins to try to explain the differences the owe me Ron Elia shaved Ibrahim hora he's now going to explain first the way the Rambam sees this dream and then later he'll go back to the bar banal and explain him as well she ain't Marisa hooch Liz Manav Allahu Teala mekomo according to the Rambam this design is not outside of time and space we're like into the twilight zone here this is not outside of time and space kiya do uh it's well known masakazu Akkad moaning according to what the earlier sages had written the same temps are back ADA will remain above hyah so to the book the safer Arcada and the remain above higher these are will call them Kabbalists we'll call them great sages great wise men from a long time ago and he writes not only that even their Bartman Nell himself and not only that according to will call me the philosophers or a scientist of the non-jewish persuasion his scheme was that what he's about to tell us even the mystic of the non-jews is also green ready for this quiche Lucius helped how Michigan aim can negate slow sha Allah modes that the three worlds we've just described are somehow embedded in the loop of the Mishkan meaning the temple the holy place that God told us to build or at least in the desert and the first 400 years construct this Lego type structure I have number five in number five there's a picture I'll try to bring it up on camera now you had an outer courtyard so that would be the one most distance okay and then you had the first room you entered which many of the caelian the majority of the vessels were in so you had the candelabra you had the table and he had the incense altar so that's what you had in that larger first room that you would enter and then beyond the curtain the veil there was the Holy of Holies and the only least in the Mishkan the only vessel there was the altar the come on guys I'm just seeing who's paying attention was the Holy Ark remember Raiders of the Lost Ark you all saw Raiders a lost art okay and King Solomon's Temple I believe there were candelabras inside in okay anyway that's not for now we're losing though kerubim kerubim cool yeah no but there were additional kerubim additional cruelly yeah okay so now we have that down so he made this idea he brought this idea that so we're kind of understanding about space the truth is what's the temple or Michigan have to do with the octo dream on this mountain okay so this is the very place where the Mishkan where the God's holy presence the temple was to be built so you're already you already catching on okay so there's we're already talking about space or place four walls where [Music] for worlds so what we described was three worlds with one above I know if you want to count that as a fourth world okay but there are gonna be we're gonna talk about the four elements and we're gonna talk about four angels so hang in there I am the number four so right now we will say and I'm gonna put this out there so far we're gonna call this the Holy Trinity in Judaism right there's another there's quite a few so we have three rooms we have the outer room the courtyard and this represents one world and then we have the inner room we'll call it the the first room of the sanctuary the hate call and then we have the cutter Chicago team so this kadosh and then this cow to Chicago she does holy and then this holy of holies so we have three separate and even the Philosopher's have looked and saw what was in our Michigan and they agreed they were must scheme to this idea Tim saw Colbert hate eighth miss if rahaga owning his car no and he says just as these other great sages the earlier sages have mentioned the will defeat C or Z according to this description this picture that we just showed you the way the way the the blueprint was Vlad I con mekomo this is certainly its place kkeok aveva maqam Hara Maria where was Yoko yeah it was just 1000 meters from here do you understand where we are in the holy city of Jerusalem right he was just there right here where the temple is to be built I sure who conned me ked them live no Salih Bey Simic - which was already prepared and fit to have the bake - Mick - built there I want you to know the word yerushalayim is plural did you know that yes what does it mean it's plural why do you why do you have a city like I don't know I'm from Philadelphia originally so I don't know how you would say I'm not just I'm from Philadelphia's right where I was from Miami Beach I spent time in Miami I'm from Miami Beach's nobody's talks like that because it there is no two cities it's one city but you're gonna come to you shall I am there's two cities of your schleimann what what do we mean by the two cities of you shall I am the physical city on the earth right here where we're sitting right now and the one in heaven yeah there's another Jerusalem a mirror image and I'm not sure which one is the real right the real one is above so we're the mirror image the real usual I'm is the one in heaven okay in the kingdom of God alkane haroldo Hashem been Marisa that's why God showed him were just described in these first verses in for those who came later chapter 28 in Genesis it's verses 12 and 13 we described what's going on here that God was showing Yaakov the blueprint not just of the temple but of the worlds of these flusha alamos the theorem and their picture in the description Lora Mae's to what to hint to him to give over the idea Sheila lcd Barnett what's the word you bonhomie your bonnie bonnie that's that's what we are here we are you by name conve Samak - that in the future will be built shall be built here the base of McDonald har Maria al Todd needs you wish Lucia almost a loo according to those three worlds that we just described okay that's how the clicker begins and he gives the words devar ahead of our hair means an alternative explanation but it doesn't mean whatever I just said is discounted we're talking about another level another level of understanding Lacock hair Lucretia who taught me to call holy Moses this is exactly why God showed Yaakov the the blueprint the description of these three worlds Lahore owes to teach him what a very important fact the most important thing you'll ever have to know chinma quorum that its source mee-mah comes n Shaniqua even steer then it's from this very place this is the source this place we're gonna call the foundation stone what is the foundation stone it's the very beginning of all creation this is where it all started from keema Shyam who start to olam it's from there the entire world came from as they look called the infrastructure what does that mean to us how does that apply in my life wait till you hear this devar ahem another alternative another level of understanding Leticia Meecham it's from that very place yokes a hush ethic Nicola Alamos it's from that place that comes down Sheva Shetty is Providence God's love and vibrations right all the godliness is emanating from that place everything good is emanating from that place Kia Tok Tony mousey theme co op de Guevara Sheila mala kaviraja now this is really hard to explain okay if everything comes from above again why are these angels ascending there's gonna be it's gonna like you gotta have a seatbelt and if I enter the sheer right now you would not sleep tonight or the next night you couldn't hello if everything is emanating from above then why is it that the Angels these heavenly spiritual forces are ascending shouldn't they be descending and then ascending climb said no okay kaien why is it so pursuit that they are ascending first okay I'm gonna I liked what you had to say man elaborate that's where the direction is going in he says that these whatever's in the Tac Toe neem ads this is where like the real force is activated co-op means power but also means potential that the it's from below that all the added potential is increased mashaallah mala it actually increases what's ever above we're fueling Hashem I mean caviar caviar means as if to say because we thought trying to understand that alkane mouth Elohim Oleum tequila this is exactly what time is referring to this is exactly why the angels are ascending they're going up first Kimmy Xiang Josh Yvonne may Hashem Mima an a hi yah schewe because it's from their meaning below that there's a drawing forth a sucking of the waters of Providence from this ultimate swell springs of salvation everyone know where we're going with this right we're talking about the potential of mankind that God created we are some key close partners of God really he's the CEO with the junior partner right akka cox yard themed lash pia me Malala mata so ash everything is emanating from Michelle coming down to us we're activating hopefully in a positive way the gift of life and Torah that he gave us and only after it's then becoming activated it goes up and hopefully because it's going in that direction it will then come back down to us like today with the rain right there it's like the cycle what happens with the rain everyone went to school and third grade or fourth grade they must teach you this there's a thing called evaporation right that yes the pond the pools the lakes the rivers the oceans maybe not in the North Pole but most of the middle near the equator right there's you're from Brazil I don't know how hot it is but anyway so anyway even the Mediterranean right though that it evaporates it goes up to the heavens it cools down a little bit to a certain extent to become the clouds the clouds are moved through the however the earth moves the winds move them there's different streams and of wind and then they cool even further as they go over the land or whatever and then they come down as rain there's a whole cycle it teaches us something about life the so then this fundamental principle where you can translate it as the secret of life removes body by raschi and sure sure him okay now we're gonna look at sure sharing and Rashi so if you look on your door she it's it's very hard in the Hebrew tea to see it but when we look at Rashi which is underlined at the bottom of that Rashi it says my a fool am i it banal I am how fair are your feet in sandals this is a reference to the Jewish people going and making pilgrimage how do you make a pilgrimage with your feet in fact that's why they're called shlush Rogow in a pilgrimage is done with the feet I mean today we have scooters how do you use them on yontiff but nevertheless and daughters of no Oh daughter of novels so this is a Shem speaking to the Jewish people the curves of your thighs are like jewels this is going to refer to the libations that we there's these holes under the altar and the wine and the circus the water is poured down into these holes a handiwork of a craftsman so we'll look at the Hebrew and I mentioned the first part of the verse but not Eve haha mukae your Hyatt come oh hello MA say g'day I'm or Uman as we'll see Rashi look at the words whom on there the work of the hands of the Holy One blessed be he the word craftsman Oman Oman in the praise of God if we're praising God so what do we do the Israelites we we praise God from top to bottom we're saying how great you are but when God praises us it's going to be the opposite they commence to speak as and we said his head is his finest gold has progressively descended to his legs as the pillars of marble since they come to appease him and draw down his Sakinah from the heavenly abodes towards the earthly emotes that's how we look at Hashem but Hashem has he look at us he Capital AG however counts their praises God is counting the Jewish people's praises from the bottom up how fair are your feet in the words I want I just want to give you just a little inkling because we will discuss is the word Yaakov a calf means the heel okay so we're gonna it's gonna fit this in somehow and he progressively counts until your head upon you is like Carmel until he comes to draw them to him okay so basically God is drawing us up and we're drawing God down so to speak keep that in mind as we continue there's a very important verse in share sherry so the clear coxswains she is trailed in the cow seemed like a dish bar who that the Jewish people are praising Hashem millimolar LaMotta when we praise a sham it's from above to below but God how does he preys on Rajeshwari whom moynak loose our Millah Mottola mala when it comes to God counting our praise it comes from down to up we'll find this in various verses throughout the term throughout throughout the Bible with Moses when God uses certain phrases to praise the Jewish people it's from the bottom up when we praise our shams top-down and he says here could Derick she hit Hilton just like over here it says that the latter was we're reaching towards the earth it was moot south arts from the bottom mill Amata la mala that's where it goes Luke vote alkyne Hester dollar right now all we know this is one of those great secrets of the glory of God however we will continue if the clear car says I am still bothered about the words of the Abbar by now which we mentions were at the beginning the abar Bernal said this does not relate to time and space right the Rambam seemed to imply even though we might we might not have clarity the Rambam implied this is relating to time and space and there our barber Nell said I don't see it that way Chikara shame our Isaiah mekomo Khan at least he's gonna divide it now there's gonna be space right now we're throw it space and then there's also time if we look into meddra Sh so do I have the copy of the measures here no it's not translated but we'll deal with it it's number seven he may sue lon Zack Eva's the measure says that this Salaam this latter it's in number seven is chemist chemist means a ramp we're talking about now I'm off camera when I do this okay so we're gonna talk about it later but the bottom of the this ladder was in bear Sheva and the top of the ladder was north of Jerusalem so bear Chevis south of Jerusalem and the top of the ladder is in baked L which is north of Jerusalem which means there's a sheep or if you're in Jerusalem looking up you're looking up at a ladder that has an angle there's an angle so that's like a ramp it's symbolic of a ram that's what the ladder is and it's mood saw parts uh it's toward the ground that's the MS BAE off and why is it the MS BAE because the MS naft is made out of what Ida mom it's made out of dirt and made out of sorry soil it's made out of the grounds itself so that is really all the important part and we can look at the the meddra SH it says in the if you want to go to Exodus chapter 20 verse 24 it mentions the miss bath is made you should make it from Earth and its head its top reached to heaven these are the cubanos these are the offerings that we offer to God who that have a sweet savour and they go up to heaven right the smoke goes up and then when it said behold these are the angels of God these are the Kohen Gadol lien these are the high priests and who go up and they go down on the chemist on the actual ramp in the temple so that's a hint to the whole sacrificial service in the temple after her a solid ah school ah this is going to show you this is going to show so everyone should know ami enough suebob this whole idea oh the Salaam Salaam is the latter is Maura Alan MacDonald sure haya booyaka ballina bow in it where Yaakov had went to sleep that night okay so we are talking about place at least everything in that meddra SH hinted to place goes what about time well let's continue vote keep a beit hamikdash do you know what happened in the beta mag - aside from the prayer and offerings sham Yeshua al ki soy sauce antigen the Sanhedrin sat in a semi-circle and made judgment on the Temple Mount and I think I have here did I bring it down number eight okay just a one vert one statement from the Mishnah in the lishka Tigers eat that's one of the rules off of the courtyard of these of the Temple Mount sharm highest son ha drake dhola show you astray out that's where the great court of 71 men sat show you show your chevy vadhana s hakuna remember a lot of questions are gonna come up during the day of sacrifices was this done right how should this be done and different things like that so that's the place of the Sanhedrin I share me Sharm Tate's a tour of a hokhmah right we say when we take the safer torah that out of the ark key mitzi on paints a surah right from from Jerusalem from Zion that's where knowledge that's where the Torah comes forth that's why there's so many people watching not just me I'm nothing there's so many teachers teaching Torah all over the world they're just sitting in these little rooms in Jerusalem right because it's from Zion and it's not just teachings it's it's lessons for life that people come to your show lion what you know come and visit us and they come and they they experience something and they go back they they they there they go back to wherever they came from and outside the land and they spread the good the good news the gospel the truth canoe I'll other my a de Madre goat haloo code we're talking about this Torah and the wisdom that a man acquires through what you think you just rush into this you acquire this overnight do you acquire in a process right a progression you need to grow with the Torah so there are various steps and he's gonna describe them to us right now Kay McKie lot sorry hi care after Hamish Kalos mahaki River hoot NIM Samata just like the scientists the people who do investigation they take the physical world and they investigate it that's where it all begins you start at the bottom and you make a proper investigation a hiker you need to really investigate with your moose Carlos what moose come out from the word say tell with your intelligence remember it's not just intelligence there's a spirit of intelligence that human has right we discussed this the Rambam santo means intelligence in Mohali in terms and that automatically means the clear card terms we're talking spirit so we'll call it the spiritual intellect okay you have to use your spiritual intellect to be able to understand the essence of what is found in this world the tact on the lower world and that's what it means when it says the latter was moot south arts a-- the latter is downward towards the earth umi sharm and where did you go from there what's the next step yeah a little a moderate god allah means that you're going to the next level higher up the here what is that la hockey Burma who tanam same Shiva L M hotta cone you're now going to try to recognize and understand the middle world the Mahalo how Gaga lean to Luke on top which means you're looking into the sky into the heavens okay you're looking at the orbits you're looking at the Stars you're looking at the nebula and the dark where they call that black holes and whatever is out there you want to know and that's what it means when it says its head or its end or its top reached the heavens and from there is there any way can you go higher than that you say yeah Yaakov your else's yes ma'sha'allah how vemma mahute has column and lived Alim chiba olam hailey on the from there you will then reach you will try you will begin to understand the essence of the spirit that is supreme that is separate that is in the most upper worlds and that's what it means when it says behold the mala say Elohim are only your Deebo that the angels of God are going up and down we mentioned they're going up and then they're going down now those words are plural if it was just one angel you would say not Moloch hey it would be ma la Ola via read but it says o lien the or Dean what's the minimum plural you can come out with do there we go so now he says there are four maka no Trina we talked about this many times when we discussed the four different sides of the encampment in the desert okay there are three tribes on each side but therefore therefore mocking out there four groupings there are four grouped into four encampments when it comes to the divine presence and that is discussed in parshas Ballack when we describe billah looking at the Jewish people but he now tells us about four angels and that would be Oriel is the ministering angel over ere you know you can look at the word like I love love rayshard is Oriel but I fear is the same letters just a little bit switch Oriel is over ere remember I said there are four elements with on the four elements so air is one of them myth hi al he is the ministering angel over water I want you there's a mock locusts tomorrow but I can discuss that right now and Raphael is the ministering angel over soil afar and Gabriele is the ministering angel on top over fire now we talked about the idea of we did wasn't just Yaakov seeing angels this one time we are escorted all the time everywhere we go we discussed how how are these people who these Jews they just sit and learn all day their their clothes wear out since there's angels all around them at all times rubbing against them and you know when that happens when they're learning tomorrow you know the Rashi tables the letters gimel men rach olive gomorrah it's a very weird term shouldn't be tolerances Tom wood butts called Gomorrah also means to learn and what are those gimel may give Oh mem Rach olive it's exactly this game moves gavrio Micaiah Rafael and Oreo these are the angels that are surrounding every Tomica thumb anybody who sits down and learns even for a few minutes of Gemara which reminds me in a few weeks they're celebrating the seven every seven some years there's a seal my shots there is the finishing of the whole Tomlin there's a what number we up to like 13th 14th time and somewhere hundred years ago it was developed in a Shapiro Bishop Bureau it was a it was a genius invention for people who weren't learning so get them to learn every one all the Jews all over the world would learn the same page of Gomorrah and over a seven-year period that you would finish the whole thing the problem is for me when I did that feeling me I did it in four hours not one hour right usually these classes are one hour right and then you you enter the class some of the school feeds you this information and then you pretty much forget it as as much as you as it went in it went out but my suggestion anybody who wants to learn to feel me properly and it's a good thing to do is to prepare before you go to the class get a good glance at the concepts that you're going to be discussing go through the class and then afterwards do a review and if you don't have time to do review the whole thing pick something you really enjoyed one particular item and spends an hour just on that one item at least maybe you'll remember something right so I don't think document should be an hour but it's okay for those that only have an hour koulikov Oh mocha shrimp so we're going to celebrate with all those people they rent out the stadiums not just here in Israel Fenian a home on three nights in a row right and then the met I'm not sure what in New York they Yankee Stadium what is I don't know they get they read the football stadium is a hundred thousand a hundred thousand Jews that's just like New York I mean they have also like in all the big cities gatherings of people getting together it's a huge celebration and what I'm really looking forward to is getting back at the brothel again cuz okay so starting all over again the adora and it's well-known you should know ever mine the author Leah raid remember we just talked about the four angels and each one represented what one of the four elements Malka so the nature of two of them is water what what does water do why does the Torah like into water because it's always coming down and descending to the lowest places keep this in mind right we have to be humble and lowly to receive the Torah because the water is likened to tora tora tora like it to water and it will go down and find the lowest places and what about afar soil so it was heavy so it also goes down so out of the four elements to go down whatever of their vile elope whereas the other two elements which we said the nature of air is to flow to go up and what about fire that's a little bit more obvious i mean truth is there are probably gases that are heavy gases that don't go up but air basically goes up trust me okay and when it comes to h if you look at the flame if you look at the flame the flame is usually going up as well alkane his skier Oly Oly ms plural right that's why it mentions going up plural as its minimum of two is going up the your dean going down also is plural he's also Cheyenne therefore 2 plus 2 equals 4 just like give me a Pietschmann trial right two plus two equals four don't forget that case you didn't know that well me Shami al li has seen the messiest ha kelly's bra and it's from their would go up and to be able to grasp and understand the essence of god possession arm are and that's why it says behold god is standing over him right away will the cold day on sale Umar who healeth feel Macomb at least according to this he that he explained how there's really no Mike locus between the Barbara on the Rambam when it comes to place that can't be where the argument is you can't argue that what at that time HobNob however fears Mon who when it comes to trying to discuss the concept of time Leticia October off nosov what was y'all doing he was in the process of saving his life from whom were on coop Robert hey because he was running away he was he was fleeing from a south well Moyer Ya Allah ro show shallow you have BA you bet cereth you know that he was afraid of his head chopped off right a sob was coming after him with what a sword right a sob lives by the sword right and i don't want to get too much into the horrors of what christianity has done over the last 2,000 years i have a lot of rahman with a lot of pity for people who don't even know the history I don't want to remind them it's it's too it's too sad but a sob lives by the sword and we're going to deal with this idea b'gok was running away from a soft sword alkane minister my you yet ha blue hadith pal a abou Malcolm she's Paulo Avila table for some reason we're talking about a miracle occurred from heaven he was delayed and he ended up right the Sun had set we talked about this last week maybe not okay we're gonna talk about it now and he was delayed and he ended up praying in this place that his forefathers had prayed qiyam ik - is what is the mick - what is the temple its baek's - fela ik are a it would be called a House of Prayer and if you look in number 10 it's a beautiful verse it's an Isaiah 56 verses 6 through 7 and the foreigners who join with the Lord to serve Him and to love the name of the Lord to be his servants everyone who observes the Sabbath profaning it and who holds fast to my covenant I just want to mention right here that we have many of my students who are righteous Gentiles ask me isn't this showing you that a non Jew should observe Shabbat the answer is this verse is talking about righteous converts okay so yes I will bring them to my mouth I will cease I would cause them to rejoice in my house of prayer their burnt offerings and their sacrifices are from my house should be called the house of prayer for all peoples this is talking about gay Rheem gay Rheem is converts otherwise we gear to shelve we're talking about a consistency - cos all these verses are talking about righteous conference people who were not Jews and then decided they want to do 606 misses an obligation a righteous Gentiles obligated to keep seven and can do 606 optionally so that means they can keep Shabbos optionally and to show they're keeping it optionally means that they're gonna break it because they're showing they're not obligated but a Jew has no option it's not optional optional it's an obligation period okay so we're only referring we're using this verse not to teach over the lesson I just taught you but we're just showing you that this place the gah Cove is now sleeping in he's now having his dream Inn and it's it's fit to have the beta Mick - that the Mick - itself is a place of Prayer Luca var Hooton ossicles Mancha Yakko mid-south saith the Colo aim yeah day ASA of show let us bow then it was already conditioned there was a condition the whole time that Yaakov chirps remember Coco Yakko that the voice of Yaakov is singing in Torah or singing in prayer that a sob is not able to harm him cannot control him so throughout the last two thousand years where Aesop has had such a tremendous effect on us we can blame a sob all we want but that would just be fake news the the truth is the truth is that they can only affect us when we cease or are weak in Torah and Mitsos it's the cocoa Yaakov it's the voice of Yaakov that will save us from the hands of a sob as we spoke about last week now there is a major Meldrick you look at number 11 you can see it it's right there Devorah hair cocoa Yaakov Amara Bieber rakia vishakha of Marquis McCullough when Yaakov weakens his voice meaning in Torah and in prayer your day a sob shall lettuce that the the the hands of a soft can affect us negatively and what immediately a Moloch would come however Luba Joshua mitts off save the Kolo whenever we're doing the right thing Amy a dime day a soft there's no there's no way that a SUP can affect us Amy there a sob shall let this anyway that's it goes on we're not gonna go there and I am but furthermore the clear car says Shabazz HaMikdash half-jewish alisov the whole idea of the temple itself is it goes against the character traits of a sob how the one example we're going to bring about member Yaakov is running away from the careth he's running away from the sword of ASA and what do we know the sort of a summons made out of iron right the metal steel will guess what can you take steel upon the altar can you carve out a altar to a Shem using a steel blade or hope whatever I don't know what they have these machines right these met these stone cutters they used a Shamir worm here we can look right now we'll just skip to number 12 first Kings chapter 6 verse 7 and the house when it was in the building was built a stone finished at the quarry where there was neither hammer nor axe there any other tool I heard in the house why it was in the building and look at this Rashi was talking about here a specific type of yes we see it and it was removed in the mountain through a sham ear worm and they discovered I just saw recently on a youtube video they found these worms that cut through stone yeah with enough of them who knows yeah like termites you can destroy a heart a city but anyway yet they discover I don't know what it's called but you can look it up just do google worms that cut through stone they found it I saw it it's a really awkward-looking creature scary anyway you would not chisel it out so this is the opposite of a sake a Slav lumineuse a rotation harsh Horatius he was a blacksmith ooh Barza lassoed me Meno ha Karen this is how he produced the iron I mean not to produce it but to create a sword and what do we see we see uh he hears the verse in first Kings chapter 6 verse 7 and Cokely bars alone Ishmael when they built the right the altar you could even hear any hammering or chiseling but that means a hammer is usually made out of iron itself and a chisel you wouldn't have that and if you look in Deuteronomy chapter 27 verse 5 it's a direct commandment and there you shall build an altar to the Lord your God an altar of stones you should not wield any iron upon it okay low tummies I'll lay him bars no you should not wield any iron upon it alkane heavily Optima command Akash therefore it was shown member Yaakov is there in this dream of the ladder and it was Shelton this is the place of the temple low Marsh Cooper you not so meekly barzell that in your merit whatever that means is doing something right you be in the merit of keeping Torah and Mitsos you will be saved from the from the vessels of iron meaning the wither the the the sword of ASA as we said a call call Yaakov this is the voice of Yaakov right or is it the hands of a sob it's one or the other if we continue to learn Torah and pray we will be saved from the the horrors of Christendom and the enemies of right like a South and that's why it says right away in chapter our chapters chapter 28 verse 15 Hashem promises Yaakov he may a Nokia mark I got him with you whoosh Marty car and I will guard you the call Asher tailors everywhere then you will go now according to Kazaa and this can also be found in the measures higher huh sulla Mousavi berbere Sheva as we spoke about a little bit that the thing that the latter stood was the bottom right was in bear Sheva the south huh Salaam but the other end of the ladder was in base al the answer sheep or can negate bata Mick - in exactly in the middle it was in the slant but in the middle of wherever the bottom was and the top was right in the middle is Jerusalem okay that's where the the Temple Mount is where the temple itself will be built can- ate the mick - why in order to teach you la hora shamak - ooh ahem sorry that it's the middle it's the base of me - is we're gonna call it not an intermediary but it's mama Sh it sounds like an intermediary it let's let's use the word intermediary it's ha ma I'm a harbor Shinae kids I vote it's in the middle that connects both extremes cuz in the middle hey Leone I share Roshan - myma meaning the upper supernal worlds whose heads are in the clouds in the heavens the hot talk Tony and the lower worlds moot solving aartsen which are standing on the ground Keyshawn Madore lishchyna in attack Tony because it's there it's that very place the temple where you can connect heaven and earth and I'll use these words I'm not the inventor it's where heaven meets earth it's the kiss Cooper missile bar it's it's the kiss right well we talking about Heffron is the kiss it's the intimate place right where heaven meets earth that's Jerusalem that's the hard bite that's the base of Nick - as it says if you look in Exodus chapter 25 verse 8 that is on the last piece God commands us to build the sanctuary so that what so that he says I will dwell I don't like this translation I would in their midst you know what it says in Hebrew vishanti Batak come so I can dwell in it in you in them it's within the Jewish people within the people themselves God will dwell in us it's um it's unbelievable you don't need like rabbi singer talking about cannibalism that Christian eaters are eating the body of the Messiah right it's like cannibalism right we already have God in us why would we have to go out and consume whatever it is to enter the godliness that's already inside of us okay you know me already I could go off okay honey but talk hamako how I made the EMSA we're talking about God would dwell in that place which is mama SH in the middle in order to what Lahab air huh cut salt are you I hadn't Barretts in order to take the two ends the two extremes and bring them together right here on earth like I said it's where heaven kisses the earth it's to make everything unified and then the last paragraph the yang Shamim some say shamian a Sulha who the whole idea of this ladder is Lahore's to show you what a sham needs eval eval Yaakov that God was standing over Jacob for a solo Hashem is Brock Medora tabata Tony in como aha or you say roots oh no and God made it as a dwelling place in the lower world where he is with the angels who do his bidding God's bidding al-qaim them are tehila that's why it says I am first they go up okay first they go up and only afterwards they come down why latisha dear our time LaMotta Batak Tony because the real place of their dwelling is here in this world hooba Suleiman amar when it came to the actual ladder it's moot Tov Arzo it's pointing downwards for the earth but it doesn't say moot south by arts it doesn't say that it's actually resting on the earth it's just pointing towards the earth le vide lecture agua azul embouchure Mayan room idea I'd Lawrence you know with absolute certainty the actual lat legs of the ladder that are in the heaven but yet they reach until the earth but it's it's like it's not levitating hovering that's a good word that's why it says aartsen towards the earth meaning large as if it's saying because when you have a hey at the end of the noun pronoun you it's really like there's a lob it before it keep this in mind it's only it doesn't only work by the biblical hebrew it also works in modern hebrew but it's very like Shakespearean in other words right f rata means to a front or mitzraim ax to Egypt well masha'Allah o Shah Mardan the its head reaches right the top of the ladder reaches cold cuts a nick rush any extreme or any end is called a man it's called a beginning it's called a head right and Mike Shabbos table so there's two ends right someone wants to sit my AC well the head will be the other end mouths kidding it's yeah wherever I am is gonna be the head if it's a round table right it's my table so I'm at the head of table my wife is but anyway so every end is called a head oh you're sure I lead a Jakov oil in my food what did we say the name Yaakov meant Yaakov means the heel the heels the end the very bottom listen to this this is unbelievable I want you to all to pay attention anybody who's ever had a rock-bottom experience there's only one way and that's up you hear me it's not the end of the world to hit a rock-bottom experience in fact that's gonna be the beginning of the turnaround to reach the heavens that's why right that's why it's called the head to teach a Shia that Yakko the oil I'm a fool that through Yaakov which represents the heel everything is upside down the coma vodka a sham whoa anybody who truly desires an intimate relationship with Hashem is you're a LaMotta is going to descend to the lowest places think about king David King David was like he's my hero right Moshe also Inara everyone who ever reached the heights knew their limitations right they really experienced it dove it hemella it was considered not just the black sheep of the family I don't even use those words would you say bastard he was he was like the mobs army really felt himself as being so out of touch with his whole family as not just the black sheep like I'm not sure how many words you huh ostracized Hisham Hashem needs Avila because that's where Shem stands on him if God would stand on Yaakov on Yaakov on a calf because everything is upside down and I tell you what my true heart I also write I also experienced rock bottom at some point in my life and I'll tell you that was the most freeing liberating experience because then you realize that you're not God the whole idea is we think that we have all the answers we think that we are all the power that we but you know what we do but it's not being able to be unleashed because there's too much ego and there's too much self but when we realize that we don't have the answers and we're willing to try something new and then we can actually tap into the true power and that is what I I'm just going to end off and I wish everyone a mama shabbat shalom and welcome back to Torah and that if you want to experience a truly transcendental experience continue to learn with us remember shem loves you and just keep the Col call Yaakov keep praying and keep studying Torah and have a great life we'll see you next week [Music]