Rabbi Akiva Tatz | Live In The 5 Towns | CHAZAQ

[Music] thank you everyone for joining us this evening really appreciate uh ROV opening up the sh and partnering with kazak is always uh it's always a pleasure doing the shum with congregation Sparta Congregation of hulet um so we appreciate your partnership and always opening up the doors to partner in these amazing sheram uh we're very honored to have RAB aaat come join us tonight should be as always ever heard of Sher them they're very amazing and deep and inspirational so thank you Rabbi Kat for for joining us and uh honoring us with your your presence um everyone knows kazak throughout the year we do all these events in all these different communities and a lot of times if you don't know we do so much more and we have so many different programs maybe here here a lot of the congregants know cuz we have one of our many uh shaping life Sunday school programs here where we take uh public school kids who um need need uh education from the youth on up we have after school programs for teenagers and and Beyond and one of the the hidden gems of kazak is a program a division that we call the Public Public School to Yeshiva division where we help kids who are in public school transfer into the Shiva system and get a nice Jewish Education uh we all see what's goes as been going on in the the school systems and and everything that's going on I'm not even going to get into it so it's quite amazing that in just since just 2017 we've had over 1500 over 1600 now kids who have been transfered into public school transfer into Yeshiva from public school so mem with everyone's support would be many many more um want to uh give a thank you to uh eigor uh fov fov for helping uh sponsor and bring the shear to life and having the idea and um without him this event wouldn't have been possible so we thank you for your efforts um and uh without further Ado cuz I'm not the person you guys came to see um want to welcome Rabbi tats up to honor with some work [Applause] first of all with the rabbi's permission thank you for this chance to uh learn a bit together maybe prepare a little bit for puim and um thank you to your community and thanks to kazak right everyone has to support kazak yes so let's think about a subject that is Central to this time of year and basic very important idea in the spiritual world something that's relevant to all of us maybe even especially relevant to ladies after all puim was a woman Esther right who was the real the real agent of redemption and in fact although we men don't like to think about it it's usually women who pull us through right all the difficult times in Jewish history the torat tells us that um it's women who pulled us through I think it's probably a misprint but anyway that's what it says but um but in thinking about that the subject the theme of this month if you like is laughing right laughing you know that every every month of the year is paralleled to a different aspect of the body we have 12 maalot we have 12 organs in the body 12 different abilities of the body and the sa and arizal they talk about the parallels of the 12 to the different abilities of the body every month is paralleled to a different faculty for example Nissan is speaking speaking right the first month is speaking why do you think Nissan has to do with speaking what's the connection right the mouth talks what's the mitah right which is talking so you see that is the first month of the year and then there's a month that is connected to hearing and seeing but what's amazing is that this month of Adar is parallel to laughing right laughter if you're American laughter right laughter and humor but laughter and humor is the subject of this month and that's very interesting what is what is why is that important when you think about seeing and hearing walking speaking but why is laughter important okay it's nice that we laugh and it gives us pleasure but why is it a one aspect of the 12 aspects of reality you know the 12 features of reality are what build the world right you see a cube which is threedimensional structure if four lines there four lines there and the four lines that join them right that's the the 12 lines that bound the cube that defines our reality that's why all that we do has 12 right 12 shim 12 Tribes of the Jewish people unified in yov who is the center which is the 13th that's why we have um we have the word which adds up to 13 that's why we Jews we love 13 and that's why the non Jewish World they allergic to 13 right for them it's unlucky but each of the 12 is one facet of reality and the month of Adar is laughing ad is the last month of the year the furthest away from Nissan Nan is the month that the Torah says is the beginning of the year where the birth of the Jewish people takes place and as you move through the year you get down to the last month where the spiritual energy is the least and in that Darkness so dark in fact that it's the time in which the non-jews decree genocide on the whole Jewish people what that's what happened the Persian Nation decreed genocide against the Jewish people real genocide not like they talk today right here's a Jewish people trying to defend themselves they say genocide we talking about real genocide right the Persians made a decree that every Jew would die in one day you're talking about 100% literal genocide by the way Persia is Iran and the decree still applies and they haven't forgotten in case you hadn't noticed we know that the decree that they issued was never retracted the gam tells us that in the ancient world a king could never retract a decree because if you could no one could ever trust the decree that he would maybe he changed his mind that's why they were unable to convince him to retract the decree they only got him to make another decree that you have a right to to defend yourselves does that sound familiar by the way the Jews have a right to defend themselves but the original decree to wipe out the Jewish people was never never withdrawn still in place so that was the desperately dangerous time for the Jewish people and that is the month that we celebrate laughter so let's think about this the torat speaks about laughter many times for for example it says who sits in heaven is laughing he's mocking them that means Hashem is mocking the wicked people throughout history and he's doing with a mocking laughter that's a little strange Jewish history is no laughing matter for most of History we've been without a country in danger of being of of genocide for 4,000 years they've been trying to kill us but something funny is going on behind the scenes we have another that says then our mouth will be full of laughter when the mhia arrives we'll laugh fully from that the learns which is that your mouth should not be full of laughter in this world now it's not appropriate to laugh fully because it's a world of tragedy we always remember sadness we break a glass at a wedding thean has some ashes on his head so so to have a mouth full of laughter that's inappropriate but then our mouth will be full of laughter but it means more than that it doesn't only mean that then we will love it means when the Messiah arrives in some way that'll be humorous but maybe the most difficult thing to understand is that we know that a woman a woman who's spiritually great can laugh at the day of death we say right a woman who is spiritually correctly tuned can laugh at the day of death that is really weird and we sing that on Friday night do you have such you sing on Friday night so here is a Jewish family and a husband is singing In Praise of his wife and one of the things you say about a woman who's spiritually great is that she can laugh at death that is very strange why why is it a woman who can laugh at death why is it appropriate to mention that when the Shabbat begins so let's try to study this idea of laugh and see if we can understand something deep the first question to ask I heard this from raash shapir my great teacher he told me personally that this was a subject that he figured out himself there not many Tora sources on this the first question is how do you approach a subject like this you all you all study Torah how do you approach a Torah subject where do you begin in we know how to do it I'm sure you're all competent capable of telling me but how do you approach a subject in Tor which is a deep subject like this and the answer is we have a method and the method is that we know that everything that we experience in our world is projected from a higher world everything we have in our world every object every person every experience has a the calls it a means something that is higher means Transcendent it stands one level above that level is more real and less physical of course the has a right and that's an endless an endless sequence take an example you have a person the person has a body but inside the person is a we call that the the soul it's less physical but more real the soul is much more real than the body when you marry someone what you're interested in is the soul the person you're not interested in the body if you marry only for a body you're on a very vulgar level of human relationship you need the body you can't marry without a body you can't have a friend to embrace without a body but the body is the external less real part it's more physical more tangible but less real then the has a and that's an endless sequence but everything in the world has a which means that the principle is that everything Hashem wants you to know about himself he projects into the world of your experience you are not brought into the world to understand the world you were brought into the world to understand hasem you don't engage a person to know their body you engage a person's body to know the person you need the body by watching the face and every gesture and every Nuance of expression you get to know the person inside ladies do this better than men usually okay but we all do it naturally when you speak to a person you're not watching the body you're watching what the body tells you about the inner being so here's the principle you can never forget this everything that is that exists in hashem's name he projects into the world and everything in the world is projected from his name and therefore in order to understand the spiritual World which is what we here for we engage the physical world we study it and through that we can penetrate into the spiritual World exactly like when you relate to a person you watch their body you listen to their words it's all physical experience and it teaches you about the reality so far so are good even a trivial thing you know people get homesick says the beauty the charm of a place is always in the eyes of the people who come from that place why do we get homesick so the scientists will tell you because a few million years ago when you were a pigeon you know but that's not true the reason you get homesick is cuz your sh is longing for the place it came from it knows it came from a perfect place but in the world of your experience you long for the place you came from or take a deep example we have a thing called vut which is the obligation to bond with Hashem in a way that you lose your ego completely and you bond in that ecstatic [Music] connection and amazingly if you do that correctly you learn more about yourself what should that look like in our world it should be marriage marriage should do two people bunding into each other in a way that they lose themselves and build something more than the sum of the parts and paradoxically in such a relationship you find out more about yourself and then you should put that back in the ran talks about this in detail but even something like a marriage experience is there to teach you something much bigger every Jewish wning by the way every Jewish wedding is reminiscent of hashm giving us the Torah we stood Under the Mountain like a he gave us the Torah like thean gives a ring we became married to him not only that the says that if a man forces a woman into a relationship with him he can never divorce her you know that law if a man forces a woman into a relationship with him if she wants he has to marry her and he can never divorce her and we say Hashem you forced us you held the mountain of us you can never get rid of us us so we have every experience in the world is parallel to something higher and therefore when we want to know what laughter means the only way we can study it is let's study laughter let's analyze what it is that makes us love what is human sense of humor and if we get that clear we'll understand the spiritual so let's do that so human laughter is an extremely strange phenomenon very very strange many great thinkers have analyzed it and failed to explain it there was a famous French philosopher called hre bon a Jewish actually maybe 90 80 90 years ago he wrote a book about laughter it's a classic fails to explain the depth of what it means Sigman Freud any counselors here therapists psychologist he wrote a book about jokes he wrote a whole book about jokes analyzing the psychological phenomenon of what makes us laugh at jokes as a scientist why would we have that doesn't explain it fully many great thinkers have analyzed humor and no one there many theories there's a thing called the play Theory play theories laughter is a sort of a play activity there's a superiority theory that means when you walking down the street you see somebody very tall and self-important and he suddenly slips on the non appeal and Falls flat on his back right which is not funny at all by the way but even as you run to help him up you can't hide a smile because so you feel Superior he fell not you by the way when you fall a banana field not funny at all it's only funny when happens to somebody else by the way you know there's a difference between American humor and British humor American humor is a man walks down the street and he slips on the banana peel British hum sees the banana peel steps over it and falls down a manle that he didn't see on the other side right but there's a thing called the catharus theory means when you laugh you release spiritual energy there's pent up tension and the laugh releases that also not a full explanation so I'll tell you the secret the secret is I'll tell you the secret The Secret of laughter is and by the way do you know it's amazing only human beings can laugh laugh is unique to humans no other part of the universe can laugh I know you'll tell me about the hyenas but I'm African and I've watched hyenas and I can tell you they got no sense of humor what about dogs not only is humor uniquely human you can only laugh at something human there's nothing an object can do that can make you love there's nothing A tree can do that can make you love you can only laugh at a distortion of the human nothing an animal can do can make you laugh unless it looks human if an animal looks like a human a human looks like an animal then you can laugh at it that's remarkable you can only laugh at a distortion of the human but I'll tell you the secret The Secret of humor is when a thing goes in one direction and you suddenly realize that's not the direction at all it's actually the opposite direction when you suddenly realize that that makes you love that ecstatic explosion of emotion that we we do when a thing when you suddenly realize that you had it exactly wrong and you know professionals comedians they will take you in One Direction when you least expect it as sharply as possible they reverse it into the opposite and the amazing thing is even when what's happening is not funny at all what's happening is dangerous or embarrassing or humiliating but when it happens you laugh the mother says Oscar are you driving on the highway yeah M I'm driving the highway I going to be really careful the police say that there's some crazy fellow on the highway going the wrong way he says mom there's hundreds of [Music] them now that's not funny somebody's going to get hurt but when you realize so amazingly we laugh at something which isn't Pleasant necessarily and it's not funny but when you see that inversion what is the hilarity of Pim when a thing goes in one direction and you realize that it's exactly the other way in that moment of inversion we have that joyful Outburst that's called laughter obviously we talking about a desperate situation in history that will invert to mhia the ram says that when the mhia arrives all the tragedies of History will become you'll realize why they were necessary and built the G you know why do we say that it's a woman who can do this the reason is that a woman in her body goes through an inversion that is impossible when we say a woman has been in her body through an inversion that we call Birth which is an impossibility completely impossible you know the rambam who was a doctor the rambam describes this he says when a woman's giving birth it looks clearly like two people are dying ladies I don't mean to put your I'm sure you'll enjoy it but don't ask a man to go through that I can tell you I I've delivered many many babies I can tell you if I had to go through that I'd need therapy the rest of my life I mean there's no question are you but what the woman goes through right which looks clearly does not look like she's having fun is nothing compared to what the baby goes through the baby in the womb when it's born goes through an invert that's completely impossible do you know a child in the womb is living with 20 conditions that keep it alive that spelled instant death when it's born a baby in the womb has holes in his heart he's got the blood going in the wrong direction he's got a major blood vessel going away from the lungs in the wrong direction he's got no lungs the baby in the womb has little scrunched up bits of tissue he's got blood vessels coming out through his liver he's got the wrong sort of blood he got 20 conditions that keep him alive underw with no air to breathe which guaranteed death within 2 minutes after he's born they're all wrong and you have 20 conditions in your body that keep you alive if you gave them to the baby in the womb you kill him immediately you're not talking about a difference you're talking about an complete inversion of impossibility the child has got conditions that keep it alive each one spells death when he's born and I'm telling you from personal experience you deliver this little baby you hold him in your hands he goes blue then he goes purple he makes this terrible goping movements there's no way he's bleeding like crazy through the umal vessels this child is is no hope for this kid and as you stand there helplessly the cable the cord CS down like a cable of Steel and stops the bleeding the holes in the heart close the blood vers the direction the blood vessel from the lungs clamps down the blood hits the lungs at exactly the same moment he takes his fth breath and about 3 minutes later it's all reversed and he's doing fine that must have taken a lot of chimpanzees in the trees to get right during Evolution you know there must have been you know there must have been a lot of chimpanzees that didn't make it why don't you give some of these chairs to those ladies just pause the chair back why don't you give this chair to the ladies a bit we got to give them chers they go through this thing which is you know we got to recognize it right we need him [Music] so when we talk about a woman who's able to go through that birth experience she has experienced in her body an impossible inversion it's not funny when you're going through it but a woman in labor who's experiencing those pains which looks and seems impossible when she holds that baby that child in her arms and realizes that every pain is the reason this child came into the world she wouldn't give up for a moment you know there's a reason that we talk about Masia we say that when the mashiah comes it will be a birth process and the the says it's so painful could be so painful one of the statements in the gar is let it come but let me not see it that means the the pain we might have to go through to get to the other side of that that labor experience you know the we have a classic work on the of death and burial and mourning that's called the G in the third part of that book of that work he talks about the philosophy or a little bit ofal what is the Journey of the after but one of the things he says is that L when you stand at a grave and someone's being buried you should know that within the morning you should know that this person's entering a dimension which makes this one pale into insignificance by the way that's why it's you should not cry too much when somebody dies not not too much because a lack of he gives a masal which is classic he says imagine two twins in the womb which is the most idilic experience within the mother's body learning Torah who could give me like those months in my mother's womb K and suddenly after months of this Blissful existence these Tremors begin and a child one baby's born the child who remains in the womb Mourns for the child who must have died little does he know that that's where life begins and of course the reason here when our the r when they give us a m of birth for death that's exactly the M the transition from this world to the next world is exactly pred by the experience of birth from the previous world to this one they're both a process of birth and that's why when history reaches its end we'll have what's called Masia and we have MIM that say that the final war against us will be impossible it'll be a war where their proofs are against us where we have no hope the ramban says the final war will take place in Israel with all the Western Nations attacking Israel using the Arabs as the point of attack again we don't know exactly what it means but we know it will be a you know that there's a medas that says that just before the Messiah arrives the Arabs will have a a building on the harab amazing this is mid written before Islam became a religion one mid says one says b no mistake who we talking about if the rabbi is kind enough to or somebody from kak if you contact me I'll send you the mid you can print them out for the people so here's what the mid says just before the mhia arrives the B is will have a building on the harab how do know that at that critical moment the leaders of the Jews go to the Arabs and they say remove your building we want to build a better mikdash the Arabs say no it's our holy Place sound familiar then the Arabs turn to the Jews and they say why should we make a battle let's make a test of Emon we have emoni in case you hadn't noticed they're ready to die at a moment's notice for their religion ra shap used to say Hal alenu that we had that attachment to our faith so they say to the Jews let's make a test you Jews build a and put a carban on you make an altar and put a sacrifice we'll do the same let's see fire comes for which of our sacrifices but we make a deal with you if hasem accepts ours you join our religion if he accepts yours we follow the Torah and the Jews agree the Arabs build a they put a sacrifice so do we fire comes for the Arab's offering we talking about a test of these are labor pains looks like death the Arabs turn to the Jews and they say we had a deal the Jews Say Never there's a battle those who survive flee to the desert and after 30 days of hiding in the desert the mhia arrives beautiful mid he goes toon he wakes up the he takes him out of the I once asked or the great sages of the last gener ation will it be like that he said to me it will be exactly like that well we know what a labor is right it looks like the opposite and only when all of that happens it inverts and that is what we can expect obviously when you expecting it it's easier when a woman's in labor knowing that these pains bring about a birth so it helps that's called emona emona means walking through going through the darkness emona doesn't mean Blind Faith am means to beon Neon means to hold strong the non-jewish world translates Amon as Blind Faith leap of blind blind belief that's useless is not blind belief means to be doesn't mean they were faith means they were faithful that's the Woman's Work the Zar says that the man's work is em and the Woman's Work is this is traditionally why men study to get clarity but women are the ones who make it happen think about the birth of a child what does the man contribute half a genetic code that's all no pain there's no stain power the woman walks the Long Walk of pregnancy through the difficulty and the discomfort and the crisis of birth that's why women have always pulled us through when it came to the crisis and MIT it was the women at it was at Pim it was AA because women have the the the ability to go through the darkness knowing of course that it's true rambam says that life is like standing on a dark plane on a stormy night on a stormy night you stand there beaten by the wind and lashed by the rain and hopelessly lost and at the moment of greatest despair suddenly there's a flash of lightning in that moment you see the road clearly and as you see it the light disappears and the rest of the night you walk through the storm on memory alone of a flesh that you once saw that's called amona not means doesn't mean you're going through the darkness with no it with no idea at all you have a Clarity we know who we are we stood at sin and Hashem gave us a Torah but now we walk the long walk through mid where we don't see anything all we see is everyone against us we don't see anyim any that'sa is to is the womanly skill of being able to walk through the Crist of Labor and birth well I'm good I'm good thank you and that's why in Friday night which is the premonition of the week becoming Shabbat which is the Forerunner of the world becoming mhia that's a woman's moment and that's why we say she has the capacity now to Love by the way the says something amazing the baby's born and everything inverts itself this says amazing the describes the whole process of birth in one line it says when a baby's born what's opened closes and what's closed opens isn't that beautiful you couldn't say it more you couldn't say it more beautifully than that what is closed opens and what's open closes the whole obstetric Anatomy right in one sentence but that's what a woman is and she can do that and that's why Esther is the one who's hidden that's the lity of puim and that's the humor of Jewish history ham makes a Gallows to hang so the mid says he climbed up and he put his neck in to make sure that it would fit and Gabriel come came down and said suits you the one who sits in sh is laughing because when wherever you look at Tora you see the same thing here's Paro Pharaoh he's sitting on his throne he makes a decree to have every baby killed every boy is going to be killed to be sure that this Redeemer will not live the Midas says he had Egyptian babies killed you know that cuz his astrologist could not tell him if the Redeemer would be Jewish or Egyptian cuz Moshe was a bit of both so to make sure he has all the boys killed and on his knee he's raising the child that's very funny it's not funny when you're going through it but this is the classic inversion of Jewish history and therefore every event in Torah which looks like a destruction we have a whole work on that the of the r he goes through this systematically to demonstrate how the tragedies and torments of History are labor pains that bring about and therefore when the child's born it's not laughing because we're happy it's the Hysteria it's the it's the humor of seeing an [Music] inversion you know that we have um the first Jewish child ever born is called laughter right Abraham begins the process and he has a child called it's a very weird name for a child means of course it means he shall laugh we're not talking about laughing now what in English we call that the last laugh why is he called y because he's impossible his parents are too old his father's too old his mother's too old she has no womb the says she had no womb so Hashem says to them you'll have a child so they laugh of course they laugh laughter is the response to an impossibility so the child is born he's called laughter and what happens when he's old enough to get married Hashem says to his father now kill him you know Tor is one big comedy you have to understand that right it's one big so AB takes and and he takes the knife and the torat tells us that y survived but the Z says he was killed because the M says the ashes of remain on the well the question is did he die or not both is that possible no but it happened we begin with the possible ends that's called the Z says when the knife approached his neck his left and when the knife receded his Nish came back actually according to the Z the Nish that left was unable to have children and he came it came back in a female form which enabled him to have children which means that the death experience enabled him to give life and what happens y becomes an individual the next in the next incident in Tora is he goes and gets married and founds a nation so here's a person his father puts him through a death experience and that enables him to Father a nation that's indestructible and since that moment for the last 4,000 years they've been trying to kill us and we the only ones who still here that's very funny the says spells that means death in life that means the next World in this world and from that moment the Jew becomes a person walking around in this world with his head in another world that is the humor and that's why Jews have such a good sense of humor we understand that life the life that life's a joke we understand this is a labor pains that are giving birth to a new reality you know our Story begins in MIT right in Egypt where does that begin with theim the 12 tribes the brothers standing in front of ysep right in MIT what's the story they go through a torment that lasted years more than 20 years they made a mistake they sold their brother their father lost his n they were conscious that they destroyed Jewish history and it lasted for years and then it became a crisis and this weird Egyptian starts tormenting them no idea what's going on right bizarre suffering and finally they stand in front of ysf he they don't know that it's YF and he says to them you can all go home just leave bamin with me and at that moment the world ended because at that moment there were only two options go home and leave bamin which means that yob sees them in the distance and he sees bamin is not there he dies of grief immediately or kill everyone the Midas says they were superhuman in their powers they could have killed the whole of Egyptian Society mass murder there was the only options left to them at that moment of impossible despair Yehuda steps forward and he says to yoseph I don't know what this means I don't know who you are and why you're doing this to us but I know that we're responsible and I know one thing I promised my father I'd bring him home and therefore please take me let him go at that moment of a complete utter hopeless self-sacrifice they hear the words I need yourself [Music] you the source of the problem not the Cavalry riding in from you you and in that moment all the years of suffering they realize he a tun of course they weren't laughing cuz when you going through it is not funny at all but when you're watching this that's hysterical and suddenly in that moment when they hear hear that this is yourself every single bizarre event in their life all has meaning now they know exactly that they've been corrected and everything was necessary they wouldn't give it up for a moment one moment before they're regretting their lives the next moment they suddenly cherish every moment of suffering and we're going to go through that when the mhia arrives we'll go through this realization you know what's even more strange is that the ramal says the reason to study cabala I'm sure you study cabala in your community right sure you study cabala don't you I'm sure you're dedicated to doing kiru and cabala right he says the purpose of kabala is to understand how history is working that's why we study kabala they're different opinions but his opinion is if you study cabala you know how history is working out and you see what happening beneath the surface and therefore as they're going through every step of the and yet it's very hard to see you look in the story of yourself you see that time after time he gave them Clues to who he was and they couldn't see it first of all they saw his face right the first of his face looked exactly the same as yov Rashi says he had a beard really that's enough he sat them in order of their ages he said to Bam you know you're a unique to your mother me same as me you know at every opportunity he gave them Clues as to who he was they could not see it and they were looking for him the M says they went to M and they went through 12 different Gates so they could find him not like they weren't thinking about him they're looking for him and he's looking at them unless you develop that sense of being able to see beneath the surface you could be looking at it you wouldn't recognize it and suddenly when it turns over how could I have not seen that and this is the reason that you see for example when reaka is Walking with his friends you know the famous story re is walking with his friends and they walk on the harab and they the destruction the whole bet mikdash lies in Ruins and suddenly they see a fox coming out of the Kesh kashim area and all the rabbis start crying and Rika starts laughing they say why you laughing he said why are you crying as we crying we see the destruction why are you laughing he says I'm laughing because the na'vi tells us two predictions the na'vi tells us that the BET mikdash will be destroyed and foxes will run around the Kesh kashim and then the Nai tells us that after after that children will play in the streets of Y if I see the one coming true I know the other one's going to come true but if you're RAB you can laugh now if you're a woman you can feel the joy of labor pains along with the pain because you know where this is going why because he is the one who is the father of the t t is the incredible experience of Torah coming to an end what does tal mean the torat comes to an end na ends Nim no more no more miracles what happened you have to understand what happened between puim and puim and that's when the light faded that's where Jews could have lost hope completely look at Jewish history you have 6,000 years of History right you know the world will last for 6,000 years so here's 6,000 years right six six days of creation 6,000 years of History by the way we are here 5784 this is where we are late Friday afternoon Arab Shabbat you can smell the CH and cooking already time to put on your Shabbat clothes this is where we are we have seen all of the prophecy coming true in Jewish history except for the final the final showdown right late late AR of shabas that's where we all know and between now and the end will be mashiah but these 6,000 years began with Gil Hashem revealing himself miracles prophecy Hashem revealing himself giving us Torah and then slowly the light Fades and then about 2,300 years ago you get Pim what's Pim hasem goes into hiding there's a MIG but it doesn't mention his name Pim is not a Hebrew word it means the lack of the draw you don't see hashem's hand esta means the hidden one we moving into the phase of hiddenness the gar has an argument was Esther beautiful or not all Jewish women all the great women of Jewish history were unbelievably beautiful s Dina the ranes AIG they were exquisitly beautiful Esther is an argument one opinion the gamari was one of the four most beautiful women ever the opinionist sh had a green face you know the mid says by the way that Esther was 75 years old at the time that the king took her for her wife 75 years old you know what's amazing here's this Persian king he's having all these young girls collected from out the king the whole Kingdom right all these young eligible girls they must have been stunning those girls and then you know they pickled them in in perfumes and you know it's enough to drive a feminist totally crazy you know 6 months they pickled them in perfumes and oils so these girls these Persian girls must have been unbelievably stunning and among them they bring in a lady 75 years old married with a green face uh what were they thinking and she's the one the king found beautiful in other words we're moving now from the revealed to the hidden where the Beauty has to be inner and the Milla doesn't mention hashem's name in Hebrew means to roll up and it also means meal to reveal and what's the nce of puim well the king couldn't sleep he had a wife he didn't know she was Jew a whole bunch of coincidences that the Jewish people see the meaning and 150 years later Isa where there's nothing at all nothing there's no Milla there's not even a mishner there's nothing about it the only thing is that the when end of the war some candles burned for 8 days which was a wave goodbye from world of Miracles and since then we've seen nothing so according toal and are the legs of History right and left legs legs means outside of the body we're now moving beyond the body am I speaking too long can I take another minute you know there's an amazing the G says the G says that theim were meeting in the time of the missioner they were arguing about a certain hakik object so theim took a view led by RAB Yeshua and Reza disagreed so he was in the minority and he was their teacher he's called but he had one opinion and they all disagreed with him so obviously you take a vote right but he didn't accept the vote they knew that he knew more than them but they didn't understand what he was saying what happens if you are in the minority and you know the majority is wrong you have to prove what you're saying he tried his best to explain they didn't understand he said if I'm right I want that tree outside to get up and walk the tree got up and it walked 100 pesu saidu said we don't bring proofs from carab trees said if I'm right I want that River to turn around and the water should flow backwards the water flowed uphill they said we don't bring proofs from streams of water the was these were not you understand these were lithuanians you know then he said if I'm right I want the walls of the bet b Madras to cve in so the walls started falling out of respect to him they fell out of respect to sure they remain suspended so the looked at the walls and they said we don't bring proofs from the walls of the bed then re said if I'm right I want a voice to be heard you know whose voice and they heard a voice the voice said what do you want from he's right in everything that he says the says got to his feet and he said the Torah is not in heaven and they outvoted The Voice later one of the saw and he said to him what was Hashem doing when he took that vote and I said Hashem was smiling and saying my children have defeated me my children have defeated me what is going on human beings out voting AEM what does this mean now you know the Aral has a commentary on the I'll peal and when he deals with this Kamar he asks only one question this is a a this gar you can ask a lot of questions right you got a tree walking up and down you got a river flowing backwards you got I mean this is like he says there's only one difficulty in this Kamar why does it say that's the problem why is it rishu got to his feet you know like in English you say he stood up and he said says the that's the key to the because Tora is the legs of History Now we move beyond the body into the legs the legs in called now we move now ASM walks on our legs now the Torah means in the world what we say it means he trusts Us by the way listen to these words that's the mid we get to now so tal is where amazingly torat comes to an end and we take over amazingly the prophets and Z the last and the voice go silent no more hearing from hasm what did the Jewish people lay down and die no we start making up to ourselves of course 100% loyal to the sources that's called T we carry it forward and RAB is the one who can do that and that's very funny that's the miracle of puim puim is when they tried to kill us and they brought to the world an acceptance of Torah that was unprecedented you know every Festival every brings a new nce and a new torat to the world think about it every every Festival every brings a new Miracle P spoke to usk is the right puim every every Festival brings a new miracle and new Torah and puim is the is the miracle and that's RBA he's the one who can laugh when he sees that the destruction in the destruction is a moment of birth you know if you permit me just a couple of minutes I'll tell you something very beautiful again I heard this from ra shap very beautiful you know that the says that at P sh we accepted the Torah but after that the Jewish people said well hasem we're not so sure that we obliged because you held a mountain over us the language in the is that meansem held the mountain over us and he threatened us you know the mid which means hem held the mountain over the Jewish people he said you want more Tora if not I kill you so the Jewish people accepted the Torah so the says but if that's how we accept Torah later we can say you forced us if you sign a contract at gunpoint it's not valid that's clear right so Hashem gives us the Torah we stand under the mountain he threatens to kill us we accept the Torah so the G says we're not obliged answers the G yeah you know why you're obliged because at puim you accepted it voluntarily I wasn't present at Pim I didn't show my face I hid myself as means the one who's hidden and then you did chv they fasted for three days they did chv so when you to accepted the Tor you're bound admittedly P can't hold you accountable but P him no yeah you didn't see me I never held a mountain over you that's why you're obliged incidentally why did Hashem hold us accountable in between you see the problem here's the Jewish people they come to Sinai Hashem gives them the Torah and then we move onm we're not accountable you forced us so why did he punish us for all these years before P him is the question clear the answer is that when we accepted the T P him we didn't accept it then that showed that we meant business when we accepted it before you go to a wedding you're standing there beautifula white roses you know and the rabbi's making a speech like rabbis do and this Rabbi is going on a little bit long as some rabbis do so while the rabbis talking you walk around the back of the and you suddenly see that the the father of thean standing with a son of shotgun in the back of the Katan I would say that that puts a different complexion on what's going on the boy gives the girl a ring but you know there's a there's a shotgun in his back then you think to himself at one second maybe he actually wants to marry her maybe the father's got a problem I don't know either he's being forced or the father's got an issue so you wait until 2:00 in the morning when the dancing's over and you see does the boy head for the hills or does he take the girl home if he takes the girl home then you know he was willing the father had an issue is this clear and therefore when Hashem forced us that doesn't mean we weren't willing we said ni isem wanted to force us the moral explains why but later when hashm did not force us and we continued keeping Torah then you see that we meant it when we accepted it before the problem is I'll finish with this it's getting late but I'll tell you this the problem is there's a very interesting discussion this of people want to think about something the ram in the laws of Kem the ram has an incredible contradiction between two laws listen carefully it's worth thinking about this K when you have to die to sanctify hashem's name so the ra says if somebody forces you to do something wrong in order to not die eat uncos of food break Shabbat you do it but not three things sexual immorality murder and aazar that you're not allowed to do so imagine someone puts a gun to somebody's head and says I'll kill you unless you do this so you're not allowed to do it what happens if you do it ra says you're not accountable bettin cannot punish you you were afraid to die two lines later the rambam says what if a person's about to die from a disease and to save their life they do the same AAR 100% guilty the bettim will punish you what's the difference why is a person not accountable when he's about to get a bullet in his head if he fails to sanctify hashem's name and he does the is or it's a disease that's about to kill him and he does the same is in both case he doing it to save his life ladies gentlemen do we hear the problem the belief what the belief that's what's the belief that he thinks in both cases he believes that he if he doesn't do it he's going to die and if he does the is he'll be saved in both cases what's the difference a bullet he believes in the thing that he's wor maybe he's why should he believe it he's only doing it to save his life the pressure what pressure pressure he believed that the the saving is going to come from that no in both cases how is someone's forcing him in the other case invol because in the first there a human involved and with second what difference does that make I'm do to save my life I know you know what's the difference if it's a human or a disease I'm doing to save my life I'm going to use this forbidden substance which is idolatry what's the difference if I'm doing it to save myself from a bullet or from a disease it's right here in front of you it's here the disease is right here eating its way through my brain right here the guy might decide not to kill me you're going out of your way in both cases you're going out of your way to do the same thing not really you're being forced yeah external the disease came from the head it's like mentally it's what you believe that's what I'm trying to say is I'm to kill you fter disease that's for sure that's both for sure they're both equally [Music] sure Choice what's the difference in both cases I'm trying to save my life what difference is what the reason is that the threat's coming to me the choice is within you when it's in your head and when it's outside of you then the choice is you know someone's forcing you maybe the the answer is this listen carefully the answer is this some of you are saying correctly when someone forces you to do something forbidden they're forcing you when you're about to die of a disease and you do the Forbidden action you choosing say it again if somebody puts a gun to your head and you bow down to this forbidden whatever it is they forced you you could have died that's true but you what you did was you allowed yourself to be forced when you amount to die from a disease and you choose to do the isur the disease not forcing you I'll give you a proof listen carefully here's a proof 4:00 in the morning you wake up there's a gun to your head fellow says get out of bed I know that you have a neighbor with a lot of money in his safe and I know you know the combination of the safe I want you to open your neighbor's safe and at gunpoint he walks you across into the neighbor's house and you open the safe are you guilty clearly not saving your life right 4:00 in the morning you wake up a gunto head the fellow says give me all your money you say I got a [Laughter] [Music] neighbor that's your Ron true you don't kill your save your life so listen carefully this is amazing this is clear all our great commentaries say this if someone forces you you're not accountable because it's his will if it's your will a disease threatens you the disease doesn't force you to do the Forbidden action you choose okay now listen carefully when Hashem gave us the Torah you know why we're not accountable cuz he forced us Hashem said accept my Torah I'll kill you clear at puim Hashem didn't force us right what are you talking about they threatened to kill us what are you saying put him they threaten to wipe out every Jew what do you mean there was no pressure how can the G say that on puim we accepted it voluntarily they were threat to kill every Jew the answer is that at when Hashem held the mountain over us he forced us to accept Torah when the Persians threatened to kill us didn't force us to do anything we chose to do CH no Persian said Jew do CH the Persian said I'm going to kill you cuz you're a Jew we decided to do CH is this clear of course my friends that's called second class CH because it's sh that's not good but it's valid and that's why the says before the mashia comes we'll do CH big time the only argument in the is Will we do chba spontaneously or will we have a king whose decrees are evil as hamon a nuclear weapon on its way from Iran but isn't that already happening with Hamas so the question will be will that be chba and when it happens cuz they threaten us it's second class tuor is one second one second you see it's not working right that is the question and therefore the bottom line of course is we don't want to do second class Cher when they threaten us what you want to do is first class Cher you give all your money to kazak right and to and to the rabbi and theik community of hulet that's what you do you bring in everybody you tell them now is a time not when they're threatening us and that will lead to the laughter of the end of time that is the as then our mouth will be full of laughter it doesn't just mean we'll be enjoying ourselves it means then we'll see that the torture of History inverted itself and that's puim that's the masking of puim that's why we do all these weird things in puim we wear mask like the wicked people instead of because at the end of history and it's that causes humor I'll leave you with this thought and that is what's what do you leave what what what practical message do you take the Practical message J you need to know very soon the whole world will turn upside down I mean think about it for a moment I said again here's a nation that's been subject to real attempt of genocide for 4,000 years and now accusing and when we defend ourselves they accuse us of genocide I mean aren't you ashamed to say things like that you're talking about a complete opposite so the the message is like this from now on you live upside down no from now on you walk around on your head raise your children totally opposite to every value out there every immoral value and every violent thing that they're doing and all the entertainment and all the secular attitudes you raise your children exactly the opposite make your child walk around on his headen because as soon as M comes we'll be the right way up so we follow we drive like like Oscar right on the highway I leave you with one story can I I can tell you a story right it's here's one story you can take home the man's driving in the car with his friend he's sitting there the friend's driving they come to a red light his friend goes right through the red light so what are you doing his friend says no don't worry my brother always does next red light speeds right through the red light you'll get us killed don't worry my brother always does third red light straight through the red light how can you drive like that don't worry my brother always does this next light screen screeches to a halt says what are you doing now says no man in case my brother's coming [Applause] [Music] through