Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: The Tribes of Gad, Reuven and the Challenges of Wealth

[Music] welcome to the urban abatement Raasch welcome home to torah for those who don't know who I am I'm Aaron Poston errand of the clothes didn't just so you know in case you've been watching and you have no clue who he is moving his lips now you know not that important the important thing is that you're here that you are here listening okay so what we want we're gonna do tonight is to double parsha my Matos and matt said we're gonna deal just with one part one particular part of Matos then i'll tell you when i read this the first time in the clear car I said Wow I never would have thought of that and it's right there in front of me and this is usually the case every time that that week by the way for those who are not familiar we use the Thalia car as the basis for this conversation for this discussion for this in-depth analysis not only into the parsha but also to learn Hebrew right so for those who are not aware you could find the link to the source sheets in the bottom in the description box and I encourage you to do so right so you have to look for the parsha you have to know which book it's in go to either Genesis Exodus Leviticus numbers of Deuteronomy and then you find the parsha and you find the right year and then you can find it's all very organized for you okay so hopefully you'll you'll follow along in the Hebrew and those who join us live get a an email from me with an English source sheet so I'm sorry you don't get the English word sheet but it's okay because we're gonna translate everything as we go along tonight so you'll have you have a chance to hear it okay we're in chapter 32 of numbers and if you're aware of the fact that two and a half tribes desired to stay on the other side of the Jordan right who are they God Reuven and Menasha half a minute that's where they got it they didn't ask for it okay well we're good to find out if that's true or not okay okay so verse one in chapter 32 begins by the truth by just describing that they have either a lot of livestock what do we need to know that for or they were very great we'll have to discuss what that means in Hebrew the children of Ruth Ain and the children of GAD had abundant livestock very great it says in Hebrew McNay Roth hyah the amount of livestock that they had was tremendous we're gonna see the clear card is going to talk about a division in this verse that this is a description and an adjective for the livestock to belong to Ruth Ain that he had a height amount of quantity a lot whereas only been a God otsuma owed but dad's livestock was not wroth hyah was not necessarily Roth was not necessarily abundant in number but I'd sumo owed okay it depends how you want to translate that at su means strong okay perhaps courageous but to see what kind of description is that and why does the clear car divide up these adjectives to describe on one hand been a roux veins and livestock and on the other hand the livestock of God another thing just to point out because we will be discussing wealth possessions many words could be used for livestock okay I'm now you're going to go through them but many words like zones on the Salmons going to be used but other other words and it says only Canaan keep in mind what would be the root of this word for livestock acquisition Koenen can okay so keep that in mind but in the meantime livestock was very great in terms of numbers to Ruane and to Bnei God they were assume the earth it says that they saw the land okay that's still the same verse they saw the land of jazzer and the land of Gilad and behold i'm gonna add these words against Yaakov Israel's idea but it says they desired it the place was the place for livestock why is that the place the place for livestock not the hands were up there we'll deal with that so the clear car begins by expressing this idea the low Aravena who Lamar you know what those two adjectives were not placed together as you and I would do when we could construct a sentence we would have said I think that they were very great and assume whatever - MS could be mighty put those together but it wasn't great what Rob was in the beginning of the verse in reference to Bnei God's livestock and the tumor owed was in the latter part of the sentence in referral reference to Dad's livestock so he says it could have said boom McNay Rawat zoom hi-yah right I could have put those adjectives together Sh'ma Meena what are we here what is it infer Sh'ma mean are we here from it shakaal Akkad mil Tibet a Danish a each one of these descriptions are a description on their own separate and therefore we have it clear somehow another raha yah is describing Reuven's livestock and at Sumer ode ayah is describing God's livestock clear as mud Kia live near oozing high a McNair Rafa miss par he's clarifying now yes when it comes to the description of the Nehru vein it was definitely Roth mighty in terms of number okay Reuben a God how y'all McNay assume the coop coop means abilities and power strength now this is a piece that is in the Guara and it's referring to job jobs and job the chapter 1 verse 10 do you know the job was extremely blessed right look at the verse to look the source to on the source sheet in Joe 1:10 having you made a hedge around him his household and all that he has on all this all sides you have blessed the work of his hands and his livestock has spread out of the spread out in the land in Hebrew Massa Gaddafi they Rakta write the actions the results the consequences of his actions were blessed McNay who and his livestock was pirates pirates pirates means to break through right mama Schlick broken through what is that talking about look at number three in town with Bob Lee Baba Batra 15 B I'll read there it's like two sentences so I'll read the whole thing but it's really the last line that's important but the more continues with its exploitation of these verses what is meant by this verse and his livestock is increased were perast in the land so Rob Yossi bhajana canina said that jobs livestock breached the order of the world it was parallax it broke through what is normally done or normally the normal behavior of the world you know what normally happens wolves attack and kill goats and sheep correct that's how it works but not in the case of Joe rather in the case of jobs livestock the goats killed the wolves why are we discussing this because we were trying to pin down the word at Sumer own when it comes to God's livestock which we'll see in a second and the and the clear car brings another source by the way I'll just read what he says she easy him shallow higher horror games they theme so we know that job's livestock killed wolves as opposed to the wolves killing them and it's brought in miss a cattiness in 25a that this is an interesting discussion the Rebbe Hanina had her neither Mendoza had with some of his neighbor's so he had some goats and his neighbor said to him you know your your goats are damaging our property they're eating all our fields well he felt that couldn't be his goats are righteous ghosts if he's righteous he makes sure that his goats never eat things have belonged to other people only ownerless or his own stuff so he responds to them if they're the ones causing the damage let them be eaten by bears right let my property be destroyed basically but if they're not eating your property let a miracle happen basically or let's see what's really and he says let each of them this evening bring a bear impaled between its own horns that evening each one each one of his goats brought a bear brought in a bear impelled between its horns okay so we know that it's possible okay so the clear car continues and he well he quotes the the legume Martinez lacy is a doob vikarna he'll write that each bear came with each each goat came with the Barons horns hahaha this is exactly what happened to Binet god this is what happened to me a god that Nick natsume hyuuga cough that his goats his sheep his livestock was will say accomplished and powerful they were extremely powerful alkane now we understand ba through the Yeshe alles klar this is why what's the word buckaroo they chose they wanted that land now let me just give you some other ideas because I want to talk about this tomorrow when I give a it's Jacob ah Sh we hear many many things so Moses did give them rebuke so there is a concept of Torah principle it's not listed in the 613 commandments but one must be innocent and clean in the eyes of God and man we shouldn't do things that give someone the wrong impression what they did Moses tells them they gave the wrong impression because if they were really you know honest and about their real intentions that's very nice but it can lower the morale of the others okay we're gonna discuss that a little bit tonight how it could damage the morale by not going in and fighting and wanting to stay behind which was not their intention but Moses what it was I mean Mochis clearly gives them rebuke we'll see where they mentioned we want to build these pens for our animals and then sounds like then only then they will build cities or schools or some kind of universities or some kind of a shelter for their own children it should have been the other way around and Moses makes that very clear that you have your priorities well wrong okay so you do have enough commentators who are going to tell us that Moses is rebuked was correct okay and therefore of course when you give rebuke you give it with kindness and love and you also have to hear what the other person has to say keep that in mind because it's exactly what happened okay with that in mind we're going to now continue with the last line here the Loya picada oiling lonegan a mayhem so guess what they chose to dwell by the border meaning they wanted their animals who were fierce fighters warriors basically to be by the border and then any enemy that would come would have an a natural fear of these animals know what they could do who then you kaku has a the mcmayhem knowing that the these sheep these goats would pierce the enemy key buck who al coca they had a certain amount of confidence and assured in the power these animals hat okay so this is the first idea that swings the other way that actually they had good intentions perhaps in fact the next statement in the clear car proves that was the direction that they were going in Lube is a Yates lil mawt Cassatt's who delay hem in fact through this we would actually judge favorably what do you mean judge favorably ma she D mu hammock Nellie Tov from the very fact that they placed in their statement that we're going to build these pens these Corral's for our livestock before we build these cities for our own children which really goes against all logic of humanity right you have to admit that what did they say at verse 16 well now we're going to look at verse 16 and we're gonna we're gonna grow the verses but look at 16g throat sewn NIV 'no linic naino the re metate no so the whole verse I didn't says they approached him see Yaakov yes Ralph they approached who Moshe and said we want basically we does what we want we want to build these sheep folds I guess that's the the Corral's depends for our livestock look at Rashi this is Rashi okay they were more concerned about their possessions the McNair the livestock then about their own sons and daughters since they mentioned the livestock first before they mentioned their children and Moses is saying to them no listen to Raj's words not the way to do it what you're doing is you're not treating he rather you should treat the occur as the car you should treat the most fundamental essential things as essential things and the matter of secondary importance whatever stuff fell as tough fell as secondary rather what should you do Moses saying first build your cities you could find this in verse 24 he actually says build your cities right which means and afterwards and close in the closes for your sheep that's the order he gives them we're gonna deal with that when we get there back to the clear carts the second line from the bottom key Amuro what were the Bonet Ruby anybody God is saying she some moola ghoul has far living at tequila get Doros son look blue Nick Nino very close to the border right you know you have enemies around us similar to like we have today next to the border we will first build these pens for these animals who are basically our what's the word our first line of defense the Aqua Cocteau carrots but once we get into the land afterwards within not in the border but within the land itself we're going to NIV no are in the tepee no then we will what build cities for our children listen to this the Narvik Musa what great benefit there is to this shot Tuffy a true bit routine that our children will be able to live in safety ensured a and guess what if the enemy comes shame yavar hiding you know what's gonna happen your vote to see like a good kid wrote song the first approach the first thing that they will approach is these pens where these animals are they need a knee what does that mean in the meanwhile em lot to a tough our children will be safe meaning the first line of defense will take care of any intrusion and if not so what at least we have time and we'd be able to save our children as opposed to for children on the front line that could be a disaster the hammock Michelle has far a not a theorem Minister avian and by placing the the animals these particular goats by the the livestock by the border then we would not have any fear from and I'm gonna use the word wolves but he really means the enemy right any any intruder okay now guess what Moses nevertheless rebukes them when we come a come hooky some Moshe Moses not satisfied with their initial initial request and he wants to rebuke them he's not totally aware I'm which is which is proper rebuke is not hey you did something wrong it's I think you did something wrong be careful you've rebukes somebody it has to be out of love and it's out of the sincere care that you want to help them be on the right path in order to do that you have to be effective how what's the most effective way I'm on your side I want to see you do the right thing I'm telling you what it appears to be and if you can tell me that it wasn't like that I'll buy it but if if I'm telling you what I perceive and you understand that what you're doing wrong is wrong then you should buy it for me basically and improve your ways because we're buddies we're pals we're in this we're in the same boat right that's what rebuke is all about reproof I think they use a better word to prove right reproof is to prove them to prove the better way okay so he says like if that's the case in Cain a not Tom boat came to show us a Shem what you're doing is you're not relying on the salvation of God you're relying on the salvation of these animals listen we know there's his tablet you're supposed to do hitched a booth his tablet means efforts right you can't rely on miracles but guess what I would have thought it's no problem but animals by the edge and let let the enemy beware be warned and and succeed over them right Moses had a little bit of a problem with this if you're telling me the truth and you're doing this for your animals meaning for your children's sake the animals was protected then and maybe even all of Israel there's a little bit of a problem we're supposed to believe in the salvations of God Ella kakuzu rather this is what you should do now what's the problem was Moses really rebuking them one everything I just said no you know Moses rebuking them Wow wait till you hear this in verse 24 it says Bunnell of them are in the top ten Moses agrees first there when I say agrees he's agreeing with their statement because they said we're gonna build cities for our children cities for our children does not mean fortified cities watch this look in verse 24 that's one number seven on the source sheet Moses says so build yourself cities for your children and enclosures for your sheep okay so that's all true look at Rashi on that verse if what preceded from your mouth you shall do that's the last part of the verse for the sake of the Most High God you have undertaken to cross over for battle to the kaliesha of the conquest and the apportionment of the land Moses had asked of them only and will be conquered before the Lord afterwards you go back but they undertook we're gonna even do more right we're gonna we're gonna fight for the next fourteen years well seven years of actual battle and then seven years of abortion in the land and then we'll go back thus they added that they would remain an additional seven years until was totally divided meaning the full fourteen years and that's what they did you can look in Joshua to 122 but okay this is really where it is so we read number 16 where where they said we want to build these sheep we want to build these pens and then we'll build these cities and then what's the next verse look at 17 look at the numbers 32 17 that's number 8 we will then arm ourselves our arm ourselves quickly and go before the children of Israel until we have brought them to their place ready for this our children will reside in fortified cities this is what Moses was had a problem with building cities that's fine but fortified cities that's already too much I get the idea of having the shape on the on the Ghul on the border that's great great idea but when you say you're gonna build cities and then later when I say later one verse later we're gonna build fortified cities Moses no go back to what you originally said fortified cities is actually bad for the morale building putting your kids on the putting your your livestock when the border is not so bad I understand you as a sham you really should leave in the suit in these salvations of God but you make his stat Lutz but how much his table loot how much effort to build a member when Moses sent the spies into the land he asked them are they fortified cities or not are the people strong or are they not guess what if you came back and said they were fortified cities these were great mighty walls does that mean the people are strong a week right at first glance you would say oh must mean they're very strong if they had these fortified cities but no it's the other way around if they were really strong they wouldn't be building these fortified cities they would have wide open cities and be able to conquer anybody that came against them I know a lot of things we talked about here counterintuitive but you have to think put on your thinking hat and and make all the connections in your brain okay so it's it's obviously a message rather this is what you should do verse 24 but new Lechem are on the top can build cities for your children to heal us a Mukhlis far as Moses saying you know what you could have no problem if you put your children by the border get Darris loose on of hem and you make the Pens or these Corral's for your livestock within the land hate em Kobe sister Al and you know what the result would have been that the children of Israel and your brothers yirou they will seek er ten boasting but to show us a sham they will see that you are full of faith it's an infectious it's contagious and I'm talking about a good way right that you have such a muna such belief and faith in God that the rest of the Jewish people would feel the same who Bizet take new elements believe I'll take him and you know what would happen this discouraged would spread in your brother's she gets good coulomb but suicide sham they would all be like me come welcome Bayley my Shem who is with me right the Almighty God the Heitzig me PGM tasu and out of your mouth what comes out of your mouth you should do because Moses says in the beginning you said Varela top a new Indian right and the end of verse 16 we're gonna build cities for our children ma Sh'ma when it says cities it in first just Regan cities are in colder who stopped regular cities but afterwards in verse 17 we pointed out Africa cause room indeed rarely they retracted they went back they were they they reverted back to their on their words and they said something else they said we Yasha top a nebari how myths are that will build these cities our children will dwell in we're fortified cities which is mash ma what is that infer sure Hirschfeld he gave the heizak re m-- then we're gonna have them living in strongly very strong cities meaning strongly yet defensible the avowal motoric believe Hana Xin this is here with these where it's our this is what puts in cowardliness in fear and in people so you may say when you see a strong City ah nobody's gonna attack don't find a way and they'll know that once they're in they could take over because these people as you said are chilled out relaxed because they have this wall then I they're not on their defense and they're not warriors they were totally relying on the wall alkane hokey commotion this is why Moses gave them rebuked and he said in verse 24 but Allah chem are in the top of hem build for yourselves these cities for your children we've elected me Pete I'm Tom sue and whatever comes out of your mouth you should do guevara Martin because they already said in verse 16 we build cities for our children meaning regular cities and not these fortified cities as they said this haven't seen go back to what you originally said and that's what it means and by the way just you should know this parsha feels a tremendous amount with the power of speech okay just keep that in mind okay now the next paragraph because I'll tell us in Midrash hunt humus 7 which we will refer to quite a bit and nine let's just read the verse that he's gonna refer to because I think that's coated at the end so it's in proverbs chapter 20 verse 21 the pus ik is not a lot mobile hell it the rashanna and inheritance may be acquired hastily meaning if an acquire in if and inheritance unless you say possessions are acquired quickly that would that's what it means in the beginning but its end will not be blessed of the aqua rita low to barack guess what this verse is referring to this acquisition as haste the acquisition by these two-and-a-half tribes if you didn't get into the land yet and already they want to take possession now i do want to make another statement about a positive aspect not necessarily negative was we discussed before but a positive aspect you know that Moses was promised he would not enter the land if they declared this to be Israel that means Moses entered the land and they there's an opinion that they did this all for him okay but we're not taking the positive side right now okay we're gonna look into this as a negative that if proverbs was on a King Solomon the wisest man says this is not a good thing to acquire hastily in the beginning its end will not end and it won't end well we're gonna discuss this so let's look quickly at what I read wrote down in number 9 its major stock cumin number seven as we said McNair Raphael there was a lot of cattle this is referring to a verse in Ecclesiastes chapter 10 verse two a wise man's hardest to his right that's referring to emotion but a fool's hardest to his left this is referred to whom the children of Ruane of the children of God who made what who made what was he Carter fell who took what was really essential the Prime and made it secondary and they took well the secondary made it essential meaning like they switched this idea of building the cities for their children first and the livestock second why this is what it says because they love their possessions more than themselves because their children is basically themselves as what did they say to Moses in 32:16 we will build here our pens for our flocks first and afterwards the towns for our children Moses telling them do not do like this do what is essential first which is built talents for your children and only afterwards the the pens for your flocks which was in verse 24 hence going back to the site the includes the ask is again King Solomon a wise man's hardest to his right this is referring to Moshe but a fool's hardest to his left that's referring to the children of Reuben and gat now this is where it becomes very interesting what was God saying to them you loved your money more than yourselves more than your own soul by your lives there will be no blessing in this there won't be a blessing to God grew vain and half Menasha what was the non blessing what was the lack I'm I'd rather you hear it from the clear card but I will give you this idea they were the first of the of the ten tribes that when it's exile okay out of the 12 tribes isn't that right nine and a half they went much later we had the other called northern Israel went years later so I think was six years anyway we'll see if we'll see it soon you had these two and a half tribes that went first into exile so now we understand a little bit of what it means and a state acquired in haste at its off starts out set meaning the beginning will not be blessed in the end okay I don't know if you dressed okay so now let's go back to the clear car he says Murphy Shalaka CUDA a lotta bearish Shawna because they took their inheritance first they were quick right to acquire it okay Mallory table to Borah therefore their end whatever their end is at this moment will not be blessed kiha club arose cold huh golem they were the first to go in all of the exiles and you can look in first chronicles chapter five verse 26 I think I have it here where do I have it you know number 11 thank you no let's just look at the we read the Rashi on proverbs 20 verse 21 let's do that first before we go to the chronicles so we said an inheritance may be acquired hastily in the beginning this is number 10 but its end will not be blessed Rashi says an inheritance may be acquired hastily in the beginning which one hastened and took Herod Li the sons of God and the sons of Reuben who hates them to take their share on the other side of the Jordan and they spoke hastily as we see number verse 16 we want to build first the pens for the Shiva the livestock and then our cities for our children what they did again they made the main thing secondary and they place their flocks before their children what does it mean but the end the it's end will not be blessed for they were exiled many years before the rest of the tribes you can find that in Seder Olam and herein in our verse here 1st chronicles chapter 5 verse 26 in the second year of a cause the Lord aroused the desire of the king of Assyria thought that thought but the rest of the tribes were exiled the 6th year of Hezekiah sorry so was it was years later which is the ninth year of Hosea the son of Ella okay now we're in first Chronicles 526 and it actually says they exiled the Reuben ain't something you get gadites and half the tribe of manasseh okay so we see that they went first okay this is clear as night everyone yeah okay hookah daily a shave of shale vaca Rita when you look at that verse in Psalms chapter 20 verse 21 you have above in the middle of the cert verse it could have just said the knock Allah is maloja let's bury shana that an inheritance that's acquired in haste in the beginning its end will not end well right luck Aretha Lotus Evora what is and why do you have to put the word ad why did it why was it necessary for King Solomon for God for the for this revelation to have evolved and that is because it means the gum the thing lost both that the children of God and the children of ruling lost everything their possessions and their children that's what's going to happen in exile listen to the words hookah daily a shave of shalva carita near Chicago this is what it means kela dot the core into kazow that hick demo hammock Neela Tov the very fact that they went ahead and put their at their possessions the livestock before their own children I'll mark that's what it means knock on the little hell is very shown odd that they they acquired hastily at first demo knock a lot Tom because they put their possessions their their inheritance first and what's their inheritance the McMahon the actual livestock Maha's Kira Mashona that was mentioned first alkane gamma hurry Tom this is the point of the love that also therefore also what comes at the end which is their children hi Noah Tov chakra that follows them low to varrock it will not be blessed they won't find a blessing in their children Kagami hug oofos gum knock Allah Tom because both their physical bodies of the children and also their possessions have Cocula bajean Khalu that everything went up in smoke basically total loss but eager imita fell that the main the prime which is the children with the tough fellow at secondary the possessions Coulomb how who Chevy everything went into captivity lifts a row Dave before the pursuers okay so now we're gonna start the next verse we just spent a nice chunk of time on the first verse and second verse says and the chill right first to the children of God and the children of wrote Ruth Ain came and said to Moses after we heard that they have a lot now they came and they said to Moses devils are the co until leaders assembly sane and they list these cities okay at I wrote the debug J's air nem'ro hezron and la la si bomb Nemo and Dawn saying the land that Hashem smoked before the Assembly of Israel it is a land for bike stock and used okay we're ready past verse two could I skip to yeah the very fact that they came that's what we're gonna focus on they came so who came what's the order here it says been a GATT and then it has been a ruling that should be a problem for us why first of all first one this Ruth ain't first rulings always first rulings the firstborn so if you're gonna approach Moshe and ask for especially inheritance wouldn't it be the firstborn that should come forward and ask for it maybe you don't maybe some special favors but anyway you give honor to this by the way ah halacha just like you have amidst with to honor your parents you have admits with to honor your older brother your oldest brother your firstborn especially okay your twins which one came out first you did okay good let your brother know okay so what is our problem he points it out hi Lola hocked him in a ruthian of a it diverse should have said that who came they came the children of Ruby and the children of God but it doesn't say that it says God first you're not bothered you're not bothers not yet the tape that you should know him afore she mama you know many of the commentators say shamekh never been a god hi I'm Aruba I'll show ruling they in truth the the children of God had much more than roofing remember the clear I didn't like that but we're gonna go with it for now because he's gonna tear it apart okay so he's going with it meaning as it's written M Binet God assume my own the interpretation of many of them before she when they translates very greatly right that God had actually much more livestock in quantity than Ruth a meaning to say yoke to me shall remain much more than roofing therefore it was been a God that came before banheiro vein okay that's the simple explanation according to many commentators okay and what's the real reason Letitia Hyatt Sarah and God thou shall rue vein because it was a greater pain it was a greater effort if you have a lot of livestock imagine having to take them with you into the Land of Israel for perhaps 14 years at least seven years of battle you know a cowboy already has a tough job right keeping all the livestock together imagine going out to war simultaneously right you have enemies you're running around whenever it's a big pain so they had much more need or much more pain than the children of ruling would however the clear car says Viney oh man I'm gonna tell you something completely different so far so good the clear car says if that was the case shame came to vada no myth Nate sarangkot subbaraj it's not because of the great pain he is going to attribute it to a totally different reason and that reason is going to be the theme for the evening so if you've stayed until now stick it out Keamy took wrong room the vamp cops Lula da Bieber roast with named in a row vena mejor the reason they spoke up first the reason they came forward was because of arrogance arrogance it's only within room the verb um the raising of their hearts the arrogance that they jumped forward to speak before been a true vane who is really the firstborn Activa I share this is the nature of someone who has wealth should no tane room Layla Bala that there is an established arrogance in the heart of the one who has many possessions and he says brusher head yoke someone who's just rich stop someone who's wealthy his Chi face by roshan jana a suit he jumps to the beginning he jumps it's the head and he responds with brazenness boldly right everyone around him is lower than him is beneath him I mean we none of us can relate to this right because none of us are that wealthy right but we have to use our imagination we have run into people who are like this and sometimes react like this too right no your shipment they call they don't respond to everybody who speaks to them a nut oil a cover the before and they don't give they don't attribute honor to the firstborn fellow Shoshone ballet ha mala me teeth and they don't give any credit to anybody that has virtues right they're not listen we're talking in general here we're talking about the the test that a wealthy person has is a greater test than a poor person everyone has their own unique test but it's something unique about someone who has wealth and this is what the neg ad had the Hashi Oki Ayodhya whom it Romain he said he thought that it's through his own wealth because I have accumulated this wealth that I am great I created it right and therefore I am unique I am above everyone else this is now going to be the theme for the rest of tonight's class so if you are wealthy and you know that you have this character trait and you're not interested listen to the rest I get it right maybe one day you'll pick it up and listen to this market on your look at where we are in the on the scale right if we're 30 minutes in market down and then when you're ready to hear it you'll go back and listen to part two so he says I have a proof for our words what we quoted in the robot II and this I believe is in it's actually number six in the Midrash one we have to ask ourselves okay this is quite complicated we're going to go into all these verses so I don't know where to begin let's use let's just stay with the clear car for the time being we were going to quote from Psalms 75 number 7 okay you know for it is not from the east or from the west some would translate it as it's not from sunset or from sunrise what is the what are those imply we're gonna see two different ideas I don't want to give too much away but let's just say let's just keep reading kilo mimosa only Maura even the word sunrise the reason we moat sails from where it comes out from and from the West meaning the Sun comes out from the east so you can either use the word sunset or the word East because the second word is Maariv which is west and below me mid bar herring and not from the desert do you find exalted or high places or mountains what's the word harab mountains but it also the root of as we just ended the last paragraph with Mitt Romney team it romain to be exalted to put yourself above others - or to have greatness is the same route okay so it's so these places you're not gonna find your greatness and if you do it's temporary and it's an illusion and you think you found your greatness it's all it's all counterfeit right it's it's not frown no I'll just give you an idea it's not from the sunrise to the sunset meaning that's when people work it's there are people who work their butts off twelve hours a day some are wealthy and some are not why is that how is it that one person works just as hard as the other guy and yet he succeeds the other guy doesn't we're also gonna see from the eastern from the West the east meaning when you do work on dry land member narrative shroud to the west is where the sea is so those who have the chalice so those who work you know on dry land on the east side so they work as a salesman's or in construction or in production of something and on the west which means when you're a merchant marine and you work you go out in boats and you do merchandise in that sense it's also that's not where your greatness is gonna come from and it's certainly not going to come from the desert you're not gonna find this great to see there so let's let's see what the clear Christ is say and you can refer for those who have number six on page two you can infer that later Noemi Machado you'll see me miracle Omar are members chlorine not sale share it's not from what a man brings out from the east to the west again I gave a little bit of an idea and his efforts in business that makes him rich that's not what makes someone rich the low bemidbar harem as it says it's not from the wilderness that comes this exaltation is greatness anytime the word harem harem means the mountains that's used in throughout the Tanakh it means hari mama she actually means mountains that's what har means but when you look at this Psalm 75 and we're going to examine verses five and six right now in verse seven and we're going to examine verse eight it's all talking about pride pride and prejudice no Pride and conceit okay it's self exaltation so he says rather like this hoots means eschew Russian Roma lose that every time you find in the Tanakh the word har it always means really mountains except for here here it's talking about Rama loose which is this greatness or elevation that this is what you need to know about this verse Shane ah damn it Rome a minute of our mail oh that a person does not really truly a treat achieve greatness through these things these are all illusions these are all temporary mouths Achilles Marco what does God do this is this is going to be the lesson for tonight what does God do he's knocked on the cussing means ever no sale is that God removes he takes away the wealth from one person and gives it to another we're gonna have a real prophet Ellis article problem with this right why should that be why should God take the wealth from one and give it to another but that's what he does look in verse eight he a little came shall faint whose God is the judge say gosh Pele is a arene see the word Yuri means to lift up this one he causes to go down and this one he causes to go up God takes the wealth of one and gives to another from the very fact that this verse is used as we saw already in the meddra SH it's referring to the problems of and and the guide Andrew vane so we hear from this ready show matzo mmmm it's Derek get out the gun that what was found in GAD Andrew vane was a trace a smidgen shemin's is like a little bit of dirt in in the way of Pride and conceit it's interesting I'm not gonna go into it but the word gay gay uh is also means Pride and conceit so I'm not gonna get it to it should I get into it okay I'll get into it it's very interesting I mean it is a sin to be to be gay and since really the word gay means pride a conceit just keep that in mind the problem is when one goes and flaunts this in public okay it's not okay to sin it's really not but what's worse to sin in private or to flaunt as a conceit in public I can you leave it at that I think that - gonna leave it at that but it's interesting that the word gay in Hebrew gay ah the dawn is Pride and conceit okay just a of Kedar shall the impossible said that's why this verse is referring to whom to God and moving lamar shallow what that was not Bailey material name that they should not have chosen this path to exalt themselves the hey camera movement passage where do we hit where is the hint in this verse that they took for themselves rama moose yo tear mineral that they took greatness more than what was coming to them rather because of what's found in the verse it's by been a god after the fact that what's them nicknamed Otzi mode they had a lot were in this case as we explained mighty livestock yeowch amoeba nehru vein they had more powerful and livestock our can gobble Lee BOM ah - peas this is going to be the lesson therefore they raised their hearts until total destruction this is what destroyed them they're there GABA Lee BOM the raising of their hearts this is what brought them to a corrupt state to a destructive state the COTS Ulla da babe if they got been a roo vain uh before they went forward they stepped forward and spoke up before the children of Reuven we saw it in the verse to Cain I'm repulsive she loved the a lo whom its remain that's why our verse in Psalm 75 verse 7 is explaining not to these things this is not where you're going to find your true greatness and so the clea car continues the Haley motif a thought that he's going to bring the proof on this that God does not want she's remained my Adam before me mimouna God does not want to have a person exalted and elevated on account of his money as it says kill Kim shalt faked we saw this in verse 8 God is the one who judges Zheng Yosh field is a arena God is right this is the one he will bring down and this is the one he will raise up but option maybe I'll say Huma Rome aim at Zev but no time is there but no same as that this is going to be a very deep philosophical quandary we find ourselves in so even though he brings this one to greater heights how did how did he do it he took away from one and gave to the other can we answer the simple question similar to the question we asked why didn't Balok just hire bilham to bless the many nights in the the Moabites why did he hire him to curse didn't it make just make more sense to hire somebody to bless here - why doesn't God just blessed somebody else with wealth why does he have to take away from one too to another isn't he the almighty isn't there's nothing within his he's not limited right why couldn't he just do what I suggest create wealth and give it away right created just what do you call what's that word a printing press just print more money no listen to the question how cuts Orchestra yard I shed lead tin Lizzie me shallow look it's tire o'clock means that see the question is is how Shem so short-handed he doesn't have the ability he doesn't have the the length or strength of hand to create this wealth that he has to give take away from one to give to another it really doesn't make any sense so there's a reason you know what the reasons gonna be it's unbelievable it's so that somebody who becomes wealthy knows that just like he became wealthy and the other guy lost it he can lose it too right it becomes so real this lesson he says elevado Elohim ahsoka day you know why God does this kadai senior epiphan out so people have an awe and a fear of him below your room the lava me took Rove ashram so they don't become arrogant on account of their own wealth I they stock album macomb some Mota who when they're able to see the place from where the wealth came from meaning they're they're competitors or someone in town who went down he came she'll knock off means there are you - I am its Romain Basra the person saw the arrogance of the other person he saw his downfall and he takes to heart not to follow in the ways this is why God doesn't just create wealth and give it away you follow guys came astonishing because Bar homage bill keema game listen to the words this has written four hundred years ago most likely God does not bring down except for those who are getting game plural for gay who are conceited as it says in Isaiah chapter 40 verse 4 it says over there every Valley shall be raised in every mountain he shall be lowered the cold heart of the giver yosh pallu yesh Pella how came nothing my mother was ever no Sun law bromo shells air and that's why God gives money to this one and he gives the most a prestige strike people have money high prestige kadai Shinnecock moose are in order to also take the ethical teachings the Lord your rule above all and not to become haughty Pengy Carlo cashier Carla cavero less the same thing happened to you that happened to your friend I share me money men DeLuca ma Monza because the money was taken away from him and the CLE car continues Oh Marcia darjah harem remember the word harem does not mean mountains but it means rubber moose exaltation right omnimon mr code Impostors air now look back at verse in Chapter 75 of Psalms verses five and six you'll see it unbelievable listen to what it says over there remember I mentioned that when you really look at these verses you'll understand that we're not just talking about mountains here right it says said to the perverse do not behave perversely and to the wicked do not raise you the horn do not raise your horn on high do not speak with your fat neck a mark tila Halloween ow - Hulu Laura Shyam Altair moon Charon don't raise up your horn Altair EMU Karen the word to remove again from harm our terima Lamar Rome don't raise up to the heights Karn ahem your horns tada brew bits out there attack do not speak with the fat of your neck and then so the clear car is going to say like this it seems from these words is the word harem is actually going on what it said before our tehreem oh don't lift up so till he says this is a proof what it says afterwards the next verse which i think is verse 8 because it's god who is the judge say i feel dizzayyyyy i read this when he brings down and this when he brings up so you have this you know what i mean in other words in verse 7 we mentioned that the word harm must mean arrogant or self elevated you can see clearly in verses 5 and 6 and you can see clearly in verse 8 so the whole idea is surrounded before and afterwards Sh'ma me now what do we hear she called a carp Suki Maha's here Bali Oh share that the whole prime lesson here for these verses is to warn the anybody who is rich who's a Bali oh sure who owns a lot the bill tea room the verb um not to become arrogant there's nothing wrong with wealth right there's nothing wrong with wealth it's what you do with your money and your attitudes keeping yogurts our Xavier is the mahkum Shh keeps my leg you know when you have to be extremely careful when you have a full pocket of money when your wallet is busting forth when your bank account is busting for it this is when you need to be careful especially careful with your arrogance I want to tell you this could go on for another few pages okay he is really going to get into it and when we're gonna end here I'm gonna end here and let you know this we should take this to heart this is not just I think about money I think it's about anything any gift that God gave us if we have a special trait that our neighbors do not have we should really thank hashem for it either it's health or it could be certain that we're always happy whenever whatever things that you know that you have that your neighbors don't have you should don't let it get to your head this is a gift that God gave you and he took it away from someone else if it's right a financial thing and it could be a trade as well this is something that God gave you and you should appreciate and thank him and don't let it get to your head this is all also a test okay so with that I'm going to add to bless you all you should have a pleasant week the rest of the week great Shabbos and a great life and we welcome you to come back next Thursday night call to [Music]