Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: Where did all the Blessings Go?

[Music] welcome home to torah a warm welcome to torah we use right we used to see a car as the basis for this discussion and i want you to know that cleokar knew hebrew grammar well and he's able to point out anomalies things that are very strange in the text that actually open up the entire medrash you read a madrish and you don't really see how it fits in right with the world torah we're talking about rashi and you could read it and you know what sometimes it's like a closed book you read the words and it doesn't penetrate the heart something is missing right some piece of information that will unlock the secrets of the oral torah are there and the clear card is like a key it's magic i'm just telling you guys who are listening for the first time those who watch over and over again they already know this okay so we're in chapter 27 of deuteronomy it's parashat kitavo we're going to be talking about the blessings and the curses now we've kind of been talking about this in the last few parts shields so you can always go back to it okay you can go back and here we've said it's going to be something new we're not going to be repeating the main themes here some of the information you'll be familiar with okay guys so in chapter 27 and i just want you to know the very first paragraph is actually the new i'm going to say in hebrew the british when we go into israel and we stand at the mountain of ave and and grizzim we are going to take on the same torah we were given but with a much deeper commitment and that's what the new covenant means it's the same torah with a deeper commitment okay it's called arvoot our vote means responsibility for each other and a deeper responsibility for the torah and our commitment to it but starting in verse 11 that's where we're really starting actually verse 12 but as you know some of these verses are quite familiar via the okay so how does uh verse 11 begin that moses commanded the people in that day saying ready i want you to pay attention to the word levarek to bless versus the word there's a asymmetric asymmetric or it's not symmetrical okay and usually we're looking for symmetry these are these shall stand to bless the people of mount greezy half of amish ralph six tribes are going to stand to bless the people on mount rising when you cross the jordan and who are they shim and lady who do you suffer joseph and binyamin now the hebrew it says these are standing to bless the word is liv varek to bless when it comes to the next verse 13 and thee shall stand for the curse on mount evil ruthing god asher's ruling not enough and the levites are going to stand in the middle and they're going to call out and they're going to speak up and say to every man in israel in a loud voice they're the ones that also call out and now very interestingly enough again back to the hebrew when we said the ali why doesn't it say lik if we're looking for symmetry and that's the very first thing the clio card is going to open up with is there is something missing in the symmetry levare in verse 12 they're going to stand to bless to bless whereas the klala it doesn't say to curse it just says regarding the curses and if we're sensitive enough to be hebrew it will strike us odd and we need to investigate this okay michelle just joined in cool the other thing i want you to point out to you is how many curses are there i counted over and over and over again because we're going to see hazal tell us there are 11 and the way i counted it there were 12. so we're going to have to investigate what's going on here okay the other thing is where are the blessings the actual statement says these shall stand to bless and those are going to stand to curse right and yet all you see are these twelve sentences that are just cur a curse it is a curse it is a curse it is right all you see is aurora aurora aurora okay let's begin with what the cliff has to start with in the first paragraph as we mentioned in verse 12 these are going to stand to bless liv varek and or the close when it comes to the cursing which is in the following verse 13 lo namar does not say eli yamdu li khal which is strange that's the first thing and if we stop now we don't continue nobody's going to sleep tonight so we have to go on now he says a very important principle hashem before what in the world does that mean as opposed to the curses or not coming from hashem only the blessings are coming directly or actively from hashem or let's say god is the one who's the cause of the blessing what about the curse it's not coming from him how can that be the curses are seemingly coming on their own how do they come because hashem is holding himself back as if all his energy and i mean whatever is emanating from him it's all good and when the curse comes there's seemingly something being held back or hidden that seems to be what he's saying now i just want to review one of the lessons we had a few weeks back we talked about in malachi right in the very last of the prophets and the very last the chapter which is chapter three i think they pronounce it so if you go real quick just to see the few sentences over there if i'm not mistaken could i cross it out [Applause] no it gets me to look it up here it's real simple i think it's verses 19 through 21 in chapter three for behold the day is coming the word day is the synonymous with the sun s-u-n is coming burning like an oven when all the wicked people and all the elders will be like straw and that coming day again the sun will burn them up says hashem master of lesions so that it shall be so that it will not leave them near nor root nor branch but a son of righteousness a s-u-n of righteousness will shine for you who fear my name with healing in its rays and you will go out and flourish like calves fatten in the stall the idea we spoke about was the sun is never changing it is like whatever is emanating that heat and that same heat will burn up the evil people is the same heat that's going to heal the righteous okay so knowing that going back to our parsha here that somehow or another whatever we call good that's coming unabated right unh not hindered right it's coming for some reason when the curse it's not actively coming from hashem it seems like it's passively because he's holding himself back from giving the bracha that's what it seems like he's saying here and the verse to prove it is in lamentations chapter 3 verse 38. i'm not mistaken yeah and by the command of the most high neither good nor evil will come meaning from the mepial young from the mouth of the supernova low takes safe does not emanate evil nor good but it's not emanating from him it's coming from the person we talked about the macabre what you do in your life where how you behave how you think how you speak how you act how you dress who you hang away who you hang around with every everything you do is going to tell you whether you're going to gehenna or to heaven right whether you're going to experience any kind of refinement needed refinement or just receive the blessing now just to go back i want to see that rashi there rashio lamentations 338 you can find that on number three on your swordsheet by the command of the most high me p el yon and if you attempted to say this evil did not come from his hand that it just happens it was just happenstance that has befalled me this is not so you understand why this is coming right for roshana for both evil occurrences meaning have things that happen to you and good occurrences who is commanded and they come to pass a lesbian lord ordained it has to be coming from hashem how can the verse say that it's not from hashem and by his command both evil and good come but why would a living person complain can a person complain he should complain about his own sins not about what hashem does to you because what you do is what you get right you deserved it you earned it every man should complain about his sins because that's what brings the evil upon him of course by the command of the most high neither good nor evil shall come as raviolan said since that since the day that the holy one blessed you he said in deuteronomy chapter 30 verse 15 see i set before you today life and good right good and evil neither evil nor good come from his command but it comes from you but the evil comes by itself to the one who commits evil and the good comes the one who does good therefore what should i mean what should a man complain about his sins you want to complain complain about your sins and that's about it okay i just want to go back to this idea that the blessings and the curses were told to be set on these mountains and yet we see in now in our parachute didn't happen yet it's told what's going to happen what you're supposed to say is going to happen once we go into the land of israel now if you look at chapter 8 of joshua it actually tells us that i even copy that somewhere it clearly says all of israel this is chapter 8 verse all of israel and their elders and officers and their judges stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the levites the bearers of the ark of the covenant of the lord the stranger as well as the native born half of them over against nagrizim and half them over against mount adele as moses the servant of the lord had commanded to bless the people of israel first but i mentioned to you you don't even see the blessings here but that's what they did look at rasheel and joshua 833 rashi says right to bless the people of israel first to pronounce the blessings before the curses so just imagine i'm going to read verse 15 for example a curse it is the man who will make a grave and remolten image an abomination of hashem a craftsman handiwork and a place in the secret and the entire people shall speak up and say amen that's not what happened what happened was first things first the first thing they said was blessed is the man who does not make a graven or molten image which would have been an abomination place in secret and the entire people said amen and then they said this and that's true by every single one of these instead of saying the curse first they said the blessing first and that's what the verse says listen to again i just last few words in 8 33 of joshua they did as the servant of the lord had commanded to bless the people of israel first okay that's why we have an oral torah okay we have an oral torah without the world torah maybe you would have seen what i saw fine because it's written in joshua but if you only had the five books remember what we have here the five books that is the word of god directly from moses from god to moses the rest it's rabbinic it's the oral torah remember a prophet cannot say anything new that wasn't already said so every time you're going to see new words you have to say to yourself what is the principle what's the underlying principle in the five books that's there and if it's in your imagination it ain't there you have to be clear right and that's why these i don't say what religion is we all know religion we're talking about that state spreads fake news right they make up stories bobo mice's and they say it's in the five books but then you look and you look at your look and it ain't there even with the microscope it's not there okay okay so now let's go on we got so far into the third line of the clear car and we have about 300 more to go so let's pace ourselves so that's why it says the alien it says as opposed to live okay again i'm just reiterating for anybody that came on late i see a few people came in recently so in the first verse verse 12 it says these stand li varek to bless the people and in verse 13 it says these stand regarding the klava and immediately the clear card says should have said live liquor to curse but it doesn't so why does it not say like it's only coming to inform you or to witness that what that a klala will come not that it has to come but the possibility of the coming the hadabra was fake it's not even a sure thing whether it's coming or not because it's not coming directly from hashem it's coming as a result of hashem holding back if it's coming directly from hashem it has to happen if it's coming as a result of hashem holding back he's not actively cursing then it doesn't have to come and i just want to reiterate many people don't know this all the prophets when they give over a prophecy of doom meaning if you don't repent this and this and this and this is going to happen right because that's always what they're telling you repent that's what their message is get back on the track get with the program so when they tell you all these things are going to happen if they don't happen are they considered a false prophet or not no but if they tell you something positive is going to happen it has to happen no matter what and if not it's up there a false prophet but if yona would go to ninja and say the sky is falling right you're all going to be destroyed and then they're not destroyed he's not a false prophet because he came to warn them and we say look one person could change the world one person doing chuva just one person doing even the slightest amount could change and save unbelievable millions of people okay unbelievable statement but you heard it here at the event of batman josh so he says now these are going to be very hard for me to explain but i will try my best the only reason right we're talking about the curse is a doubt it's only coming through hashem holding back and if that's the that's the case the whole idea is still a matter that's dependent on the framework of reality or existence in other words what you do it's all it's dependent on how you behave with people okay and with hashem the next paragraph starts like this notice that the only things that are mentioned in our parsha from verse 15 until verse 26 are the curses it seems right the only thing you see is the curses means either remains left out or was left behind the barakah specifically are nistar they're not they don't you don't see them they're kind of left out doesn't that bother you it could have been the opposite but it wasn't right you could have just saw the bronchus and okay you know we're all the good stuff we don't hear the bad stuff no daft the opposite way the negative seemed to have been said and the positives seem to been left out why because the main blessing the prime blessing that we're going to get anyway is waiting for us in the world to come and the world to come is what we call nistar it's hidden it's invisible it's behind the scenes we only get a little bit sweet fruit right we can experience some of the what we call fruit some of the produce but not the main not the carrot not the main part of what the reward but little crumbs if you want to say lyot in order that we could be more prepared to be able to fulfill the mitzvahs by what through the bracha itself the bracha that god's going to give us in this world is more ability more power more money whatever it is that's going to enable us maybe more time maybe whatever it is that's going to enable us to fulfill more misses because he wants us to come close to him so the bracha is more opportunities right as we know that amidst the guerrero mitzvah right or scar mitzvah mitzvah the reward of the mitzvah is a mitzvah or one mitzvah drags along another mitzvah same concept a little bit different but the idea is the same here alkane his tiramica tooth that's why you don't see the brachas in our chapter there's another concept that he brings down i think it's very hard to translate i'll do my best shibaratso what in the world does that mean just as god wants so too man wants i think that's how to translate it um it's like this just like we would always want a curse to turn into a blessing that's what god wants he's giving us the curses but really and ultimately he wants it to turn into blessing that's really what he wants shafil yet that even the curses should turn and transform into blessing out there now moed cotton this is a very weird story it's so weird i'm using weird i shouldn't say weird it's so unusual it's really awkward if you heard what what we're about to say you would think something's up something's very strange it's in number four on the source sheet moet cotton 9b when yonatan then asmai and rabbi yehuda who were sons of converts they noticed rip shin boy son and they said to him what do you want here he said this is shimon bar yochai's son says my father told me to come to you for abraha you go to the children of converts for abraham you know that they're holy people listen this is rebecca this is the rashbee the holy rashmi wrote to zohar his son he told his son go go go to these people get a brother father told me go to them that they should bless you they said to him now they're ready you've got your seatbelts on feet firmly in the ground may it be god's will that you should sell and not reap that you should bring in and not take out that you should take out and not bring in that your house should be destroyed and your lodging place should be inhabited and that your table should become so confused and that you should not see a new year thank you thank you for the bronco wow so he goes to his father and he said you know not only did they not bless me they even caused me pain so his father said well what did they say to you so he he told him exactly word for word they're all blessings they're all blessings but they were uttered in a cryptic manner and this is what they mean he's now telling his son when those children of the converts gave you a bracha this is what they meant when they said you should sow and not reap it means you should bear sons that won't die when they said you should bring in and not take out it means you should bring in brides for your um it should be brides for your sons and your sons shouldn't die which would have caused their wives to leave when they said you should no not the opposite no when they said you should take out and not bring in they meant you should have daughters and their husbands should not die which would cause your daughters to return to you and when they said your house should be destroyed and your lodging place should be inhabited this is also allegorical meaning as this world which is compared to your lodging place where's the world to come is compared to your house okay i'm going to skip when they speak about your table being confused they meant that you should be blessed with many sons and and daughters you know this if you have you ever go to a a very religious family there's six eight ten kids five four it doesn't matter it's kind of crazy you know they're they're jumping around swinging from the chandeliers you know okay and when it says they said you should not see a new year they meant your wife should not die as a result and you shouldn't have to marry another woman okay that's all i'm going to read from the gomorrah there and so what are we seeing here that just like god himself doesn't really want the curse he wants to turn it into a into a broccoli that's so too that's the that's the way of man okay and there's a verse in exodus chapter 10 verse 10 where pharaoh says now in english it doesn't really make sense but it says that it's number five on the sword sheet sapphira said to them so they may the lord be with you just as i will let you and your young children out see that evil is before your faces what does that mean in hebrew see there's evil in in front of your faces let's look at the rashi on that understand this as oculus renders it i've also heard an egotic midrash however basically let me sum it up pharaoh through his astrologers saw that they were going to die a bloody death in the desert and what did hashem do he didn't change the muslim he didn't change the outcome i mean the outcome did change but he didn't change the circumstances instead he gave the commandment for the brit mila for joshua to circumcise them again before they came into the land of israel so whatever seemed to be blood in in pharaoh's eyes through the i think was mars he saw it through astrology because mars is a sign of blood and slaughter it's true it's true that israel did involve themselves with the golden cast into the growing calf but in the end that hashem himself transformed the blood into the blood of the mila so what could be as a sign for bad and that's what it means here when you hear the hebrew that's what pharaoh saw but yet hashem turned it around into a blood that was not for for negative so that's what he that's the click furthermore now this is a little bit harsh to to understand that the bracha is included with the curse the curse is somehow beneficial how how's the so we'll easily easily easily simple explanation is like we have with the prophets they're going to only say things in order to get us to come closer to hashem right and if that fear the fear factor knowing that this curse could over you know hang over our shoulders and haunt us is enough to bring in the proper fear to serve hashem correctly that's the way i see it as he says there's a famous psalms 34 15 that says shun evil and do good seek peace and pursue it suramarah turn away soor turn away remove yourself from evil remember i think there's a statement right it's not good enough for good people to sit and do nothing right you have to do something so surma turn away from evil that is where you're able to really accomplish and do something good so i know we're talking about the brachot and the clellows but somehow or another he's inferring that the bracha is within the kalala there is a bracha there's some kind of blessing that's coming through the klalos and if we could live with that wow would our lives be changed right we missed the bus how would we react even to say oh shucks i get it right away but catch yourself right there must be someone god wanted me to meet there must be some reason okay i'm gonna put on my seat belt and enjoy the ride right it doesn't have to go your way his shim's in charge he's a better pilot right he's better at driving than you are right okay then he says he ends this paragraph by saying it's from the very corner of the of the curse he's drawn out the bracha that's how he ends that paragraph now we're going to get into the the 12 versus 11. i remember right it wasn't that long ago 15 minutes ago i said how many are there you count them there's 12 verses there's 12 colors 12 curses guess what we'll see rashi soon but miss varun however the reason it's brought in eleven the fish's shame shall yud hey god has many names attributes right not one of these names is really his essence his essence is beyond our understanding but we can know hashem to his attributes and therefore the names are symbolic of different attributes there's a you'd hey and avahi you i'm going to just cut the chase now and then we'll see you and hey is 15 it's true but that represents din din judgment we'll see proofs the love in the hay at the end is mercy and love hay is 11. now to show you if you look um there was a rashi i wanted to show you did i skip it already i think i did did i huh the rash here it is okay it's number eight go to the number eight russian verse 24. the one who strikes his fellow in secret rashi says scripture is speaking of someone who causes harm to his fellow jew through slander then he says i saw in the sort of motion he doesn't quote him that often but when he does get ready he says there are 11 curses here you and i count to 12. this is must be where the clear car is getting it from rashi says it and rashi's quoting a much earlier holier source corresponding to the 11 tribes well we know there's 12 tribes well it depends how you count but there's always 12 tribes each of the 11 tribes was blessed by moses before he passed away here we learned that every tribe had an illusionary curse attached to it as if in admonishment so when moses is um blessing the 12 tribes he blessed only 11 of them and he cursed well he didn't curse but there these curses are parallel to the 11 tribes that were blessed if you do god's will you will be granted the blessing but if not then the curse is attached in this illusion the tribe but in illusion shimon moses did not write cursed be he in other words we don't have the curse for them because moses did not intend to bled to bless them prior to his passing when he blessed the other tribes therefore moses didn't want to curse them either since they didn't get the blessing they didn't get the curse so there's really only 11. what's the 12th the 12th is the 12th one is over what we call encompassing the first 11. it's basically like a summary and you can look at the 12th curse a curse is the one who does not uphold the words of the torah of this entire torah to perform them so we're really talking about like the real 11 and the 12th one somehow encapsulates the first 11 so it's not really included okay according to the way we're reading this uh moses did not deem the tribe shimon of the the deserving a direct blessing before he passed away on account of the shocking incident that she tame we're talking about the um the illicit relations with the midianite okay and you can look that up in numbers 25 verses 1 through 15. fine so now let's get back to the clear card yeah you have questions thank you go ahead we do see that the position we see that it says and who's there there is a brothel no we're talking about the original brachas that he gave at were you looking at number one no no no i'm talking about the brothers he gave these are the curses these are the six tribes on each mountain you're looking at i'm not talking about that i'm talking about the blessings moses gave to the tribes yes correct oh okay thank you now getting back into this last paragraph on the first page of the misfortunes the name of jude hey the first part of uk is midas hadid judgment as it says in psalms now he gets three verses okay psalms 118 verse 18 god has chastised me this is king david speaking yes you'd hey it's not just any name of god but it's the youth hates the attribute of judgment that has chastised me look at psalms 94 12. fortune is the man who you you'd hate chastise okay now the third one is a little bit harder to grab because we don't ever think of this as a negative or in terms of the din but now you when you look at it right the eternal strength is vengeance the truth is it makes a lot of sense because it's god's vengeance which is my salvation how you can turn something like a claw like din and it turns into rakhami because that salvation is really full of broccoli okay so that's exodus 15 2 which is the last verse i just read okay now get this so the yud and the hay is did like he said explains in partial bashar so what do we find we find that the vav and the hay meaning the last two letters of god's name of the shame hagado is meet us is the attribute of mercy now i didn't look at rebecca bachaya but he explains it on a different chapter different possible together we're not going to we're going to skip that for now so who live originally when god wanted to create the world he wanted to create it only through din and he himself realized without making a triumph he knew it wouldn't last so in the end he actually trained created the world with what with both be both din and rakhmi and one of the ideas aaron how do we know that in the first chapter of breishit you don't find the utk buff k at all in the second chapter right it's a recap and god created both with both names with both attributes din and rahmy that's just one idea but there's another verse in isaiah chapter 26 verse 4 which says trust the lord forever for in the yud hey elokim uk sur is the rock of the world or the former of the world so with the ud hey of the uk above gay hashem created the the universe created the world so it's um that tells us in the end that god used both but uk comes first in that verse okay so what does that tell us raw saw in the end that it would not survive that he only used the hay until he himself combined the udhay of his name to the valve have his name that's why it says now ready for this whoa in the gemara which one is it it's in baba basra and 9b 14. yeah number 14 on the source sheet now i'll say it outside if somebody gives a poor person a small amount of money which is fine he'll receive six beautiful blessings but if he gives it with a smile and with consoling words and in a nice way he'll get eleven bro so what's the difference one is very physical you're just giving the money whereas just a smile right a happy countenance it's called rouhani it's it's spiritual and therefore you get 11. so again the 11 is has to do with rachel with mercy let's read the gemara real quick rabbi yitzhak said anyone who gives a prudent to a poor person receives six blessings and whoever consults him with the words of comfort and encouragement receives eleven blessings this is the gomorrah baba bastrop and the gomorrah explains that if you give a pruta which is a small amount of money to a per person you receive the six blessings is it as it's written so where do you see this in isaiah chapter 58 verse 7. now where do you see the six blessings in chapter 58 verses eight and nine so again verse seven says then you shall um did i skip something yeah this is a sense is it not to share your bread with the hungry and that you shall bring the poor that are cast out of your house when you see the naked that you cover him so this is giving the physical the physical um necessities to the poor person and then the following verse in 8 9 lists six very distinct blessings number one then you shall that you're that then shall your light break forth like the dawn and number two your health shall spring forth speedily number three your righteousness shall go before you number four the glory of the lord shall be your rear guard and then you shall call number five and the lord shall answer and you shall cry and he will say number six here i am now the word continues and whoever consoles a poor person with words of comfort and encouragement receives 11 blessings and you can find that detailed in the same chapter 58 of isaiah verses 10 through 12. i'll read them number one let me just start the verse and if you draw out your soul to the hungry so you're talking about you're talking about your soul you're revealing your soul your smile your swords of comfort to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul then one then shall your light shine in darkness number two and your gloom shall be as noonday three and the lord shall always lead you number four and he shall satisfy your soul and drought number five and strengthen your bones number six and you shall be like the well-wooded garden number seven and like a spring of water whose water does not fail number eight and those coming from you shall build ancient ruins nine foundations of generations you shall erect ten and you shall be called the repair of the breaches number eleven restore of the past to dwell in so what does it hurt to just not just throw a penny or a quarter into the cup but you know give a give a an empathetic is that the word uh look find out if they could use anything else maybe a meal maybe some old clothing you know don't throw them out in the garbage recycle them give them even buy them new shoes why not right okay so basically the gemara goes let's just work out the gamora in the clear car note why is their sixth blessing in this world because there are six directions in this road you have up and down and then you know east north south and west okay that's how he says it over here and then but he says but if you methyso if you bring consolation through speech there's something spiritual about it and we know then your prime reward is where in the world to come which is hidden in the love hey hey it's the second part of his name the new through the yud aleph brachos through well we're looking at these udall of curses these 11 curses but we're talking about the ural brothels meaning in our we just read it specifically in the world to come the world that is not yet here that his name is in its fullness then the cleopatra explains that's why there are 11 blessings okay we're on the second page in the next paragraph down the altar even curses god will not send he will not send them in a stream of his anger immediately but rather but in a merciful way slowly slowly as they say here in israel little by little maybe they will return maybe they'll get the message right as what is the what is what's the prophet want you think the prophet wants the doom to come he's hoping they're going to listen to him right so to hashem obviously that's what we said earlier the way of man the way of god maybe the person would repent can derek shasta do a mobble just like we saw by the the generation of the flood did i put it down here yeah it's number 15. it says and the rain was upon the earth for 40 days and 40 nights what's that all about look at rashi and further if you look in verse 17 scripture says now the flood was on the earth but it wasn't before but when he brought them reigns he brought the reigns down he um hashem brought them down with mercy so that they would repent they would be reigns of blessing you can change once you decree there's going to be rains it's going to be rains but the rains could turn into gesheme bracha reigns of blessings when they didn't repent they became a flood you see where we're going with this beautiful huh so he says if they would repent it would turn into getting reigns of blessing philo close so too guess what the curses are also coming in the same way they're also the curses would come through an aspect of mercy slowly slowly al kanebo gum came to spray your life that's why they're coming in number eleven hamil rakhmi because number eleven again the vavante is representing me tamzeh if you look in leviticus chapter 26 you have well right in you have curses i'll just mention from verse 14 through 46 verse 14 starts with above and verse 46 ends with a hay so all the curses are wrapped with above and hang whereas the blessings start with an aleph and then with a tet a tough sorry talk and why is that listen to this i think i wrote here i copied it down from an interesting website look at number nine the bracket begin with aleph in bakotai and end with the letter taf in community the implication being that moshe related the bracket to us from allah through tough in other words the broncos are all inclusive it's like a to z right soup to nuts you never heard that expression before okay when you go out to dinner and someone says everything's taken care of from soup to nuts like whatever it means everything right everything everything okay so when it comes to the broccolis you have like a to z out of too tough and when on the other hand with the clawlos now this is from a different website altogether but it's interesting because we just got explained done explaining it starts with a hey and ends with above or it starts with the volume ends with a hay and that is the eleven that it's tightly wrapped with rochamim all the curses but listen to what this person says on the other hand the koala beginning with the vomit end with the hay leaving absolutely nothing in between meaning the love the hanging above in the alphabet don't have any space between them it's not like you have olive to tough with everything possible right it's vast wide when it comes to the broncos and it's very narrow and tiny almost no space when it comes to the claws either i just wanted to introduce you this other idea that i came across in preparation i think they're both brilliant but anyway we're sticking with the clear car for now so the last line he just mentioned so too the tohakos whether in the leviticus as we mentioned uh that's toast kohanim or in our portion now in our partial we don't see a beginning of right we don't see all the curses do not begin with uh above and ever the hay it must be what he's talking about we're talking about 11 all-inclusive curses so therefore it's um even in god's anger the concept of mercy is remembered okay we're approaching rosh hashanah we're crowning in the king we're not even going to beat our chests we're not doing vedoi yet yet we're asking for him okay um this is in sota lamid zion what do we find over there this is an interesting idea because when you read these curses it's like all over the place it sounds like a vote of zara it's bestiality it's um not taking care of the uh the orphan and the widow uh hurting your parents uh moving the boundary of your fellow uh causing a blind person to go straight on the road what's going on here right taking a bribe to kill a person the gemara here says all of these 12 or 11 curses they all have to do with adultery that's they're all adulterous ideas we look at it and we see all kinds of stuff but listen to the gemara it's number 16. the cement is the same mentor of the resh-luckish taught the entire passage of the blessings and curses is stated only in reference to the adulterer and the adulteress and you can prove it from the verse cursed is the man who makes a graven or molten image now let me ask you something does it really make sense cursed is the person who does idle worship that's like the worst sin in the whole torah so just a curse so you know it can't be talking about real light or worship the worst sin is idol worship right and yet it's just cursed listen let's let's read the words to gomorrah and then you can get upset with me is a curse a sufficient consequence for the action of an idol worshipper he's rebelled against the fundamental the torah rather this and it's not me right it's money basically in the name of lokish rather it's referring to one who engaged in sexual intercourse with a forbidden relative and they bore a momser and who can a moms remarry almost no one except another momser so what does he do he finds no shidduch and he goes to hawaii and he marries the native hawaiian this is called idol worship in other words it's all about the adultery he's explaining when we thought it had to do with idol worship and now he's telling us it all has to do with uh sexual relations uh adultery what is the result of most adulterous cases a mom's here so what happens the mobster can't find the off because you can't marry anybody so he goes off to a strange land and marries a non-jewish woman and he becomes an idol he's worshiping her right her god let's see what he says here rather it's referring to one engaged in sexual intercourse with a forbidden relative and bureau monsieur and the son who's not allowed to marry a jew of unflawed lineage went to live among the other nations of the world and engaged in other worship and it's his father and his mother are cursed for causing him to go off the path that's what that's what i'm saying now rashi actually explains in much more detail on that gemara but the last three words in rashi the regarding i'll tell you which verse it is and regarding verse 19 a cursed is the one who perverts a judgment of a prostitute orphan or widow rashi says i don't know the explanation in other words it all has to do with adultery but when it comes to that he can't explain how adultery fits in the clear car is going to explain it right now okay he says like this okay let's explain what happens ready bye listen to this man a is with man b's wife okay so man these let's just he has many children men be as many children what happens when man b dies nobody knows he's a monster it was a secret that's all he did it's all in secret that's something else i failed to mention yet but everything here we're going to talk about everything happens in secret we're going to get to that soon so manby dies and he has a hundred thousand dollars and he had nine kids ten kids whoever is divided up so the kids the remaining kids are all getting ripped off because that kid is not really his kid so the you saw the the the the orphans are being being robbed basically because of the sin of the parent not parent a well mother b with father a so too the almana right the the widow is also going to get uh less because of the kids so that's how he explains it let's read the words and so according to the credit card we already said in gamora sota that all 11 of these curses are dealing with adulterous relationships he says sorry except for verse 19. whoever prefers the judgment of a converter with an orphan and a widow rashi says luyadati la perisha i don't know how to explain it a neo-mayor the if someone had an adultery relationship with his friend's wife vitale van mimer and of course it's a momser a son is born umoto and when the person dies if the judge is basically going to split up the the buni the inheritance and the son is going to inherit with all the other children of this other guy and that's called perverting the justice for the yottum and the mother okay so too she is going to not get the portions coming to her it's all related to adult church relationships now the evan ezra writes we're in the second to the last paragraph that all these are beser cesar means hidden in secret now you actually can see it in like i mentioned in verse verse 15 did i uh copy this down yet it's number on the source sheet you can look in verse 15 and verse 24 right because it says the samba cesar about this um idol it's set up in secret and when it comes to the following verse i didn't put in english yet cursed be who strikes his fellow in secret verse 24. again the cesar so beser means in secret so all these words secret so to writes the khizkuni why this is why the curses need to happen because there's no witnesses there's no court case that's going to ever take place because it's all done in secret alchema that's why there is this you know severe curse that's going to separate this guy this is true the haraya and the proof of this shallow his kilos and cesar because the whole concept anyway of being hidden can only be in something like a varazara um and the as it says here the the samba say sir and uh even when he hits his brandon secret now what is the what's the word i'm looking for i'm gonna use the word common denominator but i'm not so sure that is the word i'm looking for the categories when you're talking about avodah zarah it's it's mitzvos these are misses between you and god and god forbid someone who hits their friend it's been so basically there's two there's only two types of categories between man and man and between man and god and the two times the cesarean secret is used is in these two categories so he wants us to know what kishne it basically it's all inclusive of all the torah because there's only two categories all the torah is either included in the category a or category b to hide it because it's either things that are between you and god with the varmi or between you and another human being now specifically these 11 they're written in a language of hover present tense i know in the english it sounds like they will they will but we're talking about there's a mempositive in front of almost every every statement here it's it's because when it's hover present tense it's something that is all of these are also likely to be done in private luadin the commits of satoru so too the truth is all the mitzvahs of the torah as i mentioned that number 12 is really all-inclusive it's talking about the entire torah which basically says the curse is the one who will not uphold the torah words the the words of this torah to perform them now let's go for the last paragraph and i'll take questions this is very um agreeable to everything we've already explained when it says who will not uphold guess what this is talking about torah someone who learns torah lolisma can you imagine someone sitting and learning torah just to become great just to get a plaque on the wall just so you can show off there are jews yet believe it or not believe it or not i'll take his word for it because he says in his generation that was a problem so i'm sure it's still a problem in our generation he says this is someone who learns torah shalom not for the highest goal i knew davashi would say so this is only something that he knows nobody can possibly know what's going on in the heart and mind of the person learning shulom may be shamed but the truth is he's only learning for arrogant purposes he has no intent to fulfill the misfits it's just a um a brain exercise from honor perhaps right we can mental gymnastics to show how bright he is and brilliant who can know what's going on in his mind even the angels wouldn't even know and look in jeremiah we're going to see jeremiah chapter 9 verse 11 and verse 12 but basically go over there and you'll see that this is compared that something that was asked this is what was asked of the the sages and of the prophets and also of the angels and they couldn't explain it until god himself explains it in verse 12. so i want to see i think i wrote a gemara here [Applause] number 18 number 18 in the darham 81 it's bringing down these verses as ravi said that ralph said what is the meaning of what's written in the verse i just mentioned jeremiah chapter 9 verse 11 it says who is the wise man that may understand this and who is he to whom the mouth the lord has spoken that he may declare it and this is the question for what is the land what is what the land is perished in other words why did we lose the land and laid waste like a wilderness that none passes through this is the question posed to jeremiah basically because it was already asked right the wise the the prophets and even the angels so the matter to the question is why archer strong was destroyed was asked of the sages and the prophets and the angels as well and they could not explain it until the holy one blessed be himself explained in the following verse the lord says because they have forsaken my torah and they have not obeyed my voice okay that is and they didn't walk in it right let me just read exactly the words here the lord said because they have forsaken my child which i set before them they have not obeyed my voice nor walked there in okay so that is the verses if you read jeremiah chapter 9 verses 11 through 12. so the clear car sums it up like this all appearances you would see they were learning torah of allah right everyone saw people were learning torah but they didn't know they weren't learning for the right reasons but in performing misters they didn't do it they didn't fulfill them they abandoned god's torah kaminha grove dorenu like this is written 400 years ago like most of our generation or many i don't know however you would translate kaminha rove maybe he means rav i don't know many of our generation al cain ahmed that's why it says in that 12th curse again there's 11 but 12th verse who does not fulfill the words of this torah mashup someone who speaks it from his mouth the aid of the king but does not fulfill it we hear from the issue he's learning not for the highest and that's why the curse is necessary so basically the curses were specifically for things that are done in secret most of what we explained already at least 11 of them all had to do with what uh sexual relations this is adultery the 12th one we said was all-inclusive but he did give us an insight into the jeremiah story and understanding that we what do they say put your money where your mouth is talk the walk walk the walk right don't just talk to talk but walk the walk that's how it goes this coming year we'll all be able to i tell my students learn slower don't learn don't try to cover so much ground you know as about chuva or converts they want to make up spend some time going through the key as we call that spend some time you know an hour a day going through flying through but you know you need to do review whatever you learn spend a lot of time reviewing because that's the only way it's going to get into your kishkis into your guts you know and i don't mean just the hebrew it's good for learning hebrew but to get the message to read it over and over again you're going to see things in nuances you didn't see the first time the second time the third time or even the fourth time you have to learn something four times before you can even say you learned it once right that's we learned yeshiva okay and with that i wish everyone will be meeting next week i don't have a calendar in front of me but i do have but anyway i have to figure out the schedule because i'll be selling armata mini i sell lulav and esrog i'm very very busy the week after roshana up until so we'll take a break after until after circus but so we are for sure meeting next week at bizrat hashem please god and i wish everyone a happy life and happy new year and i mean a healthy healthy happy tura dick right roughness day all right all the spirituality should come and flow and show all these positive vibes and think about turning all the god forbid colossal anything anything negative coming to us because of the negative things we might have done in our lives and turn them around because that's what god really wants he wants he wants us to turn our lives around and he wants to give us bracha and shafa and all the good stuff so bizarre to shem we'll see you next week [Music] here