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Rabbi Avi Geller - Shavuot: Receiving the Torah
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um we're holding a week before the
holiday of
right
where we have to accept the torah
and
today we're going to talk a little bit
about how to prepare ourselves for truth
no uh
jewish holidays are not like in the
secular world where we commemorate
events that happen right in america we
commemorate washington's birthday
lincoln's birthday independence day it
doesn't happen to come out on a
convenient day of the week push it off
to mondays every night so long weekend
right right
but toro we relive the events she's like
pesach he's supposed to see yourself as
if you actually went out of egypt right
right
we're not just talk about the the
slavery you burn your houses your mouth
has some horseradish right right
all right some sort of farting juice of
a custom right in the middle of the
passage say there's a guy comes knocks
on the door the sac bind is back where
are you coming from it's ryan where are
you going
right they put the monsters on their
shoulders they march around the table
they put on a whole skit to make it come
alive so the same thing we're coming to
the receiving of the torah we have to be
ready to receive the torah we have to
imagine as if we're actually we have to
feel and a week from now as if we're
actually standing on mount sinai
all right
ready to receive the torah you know it's
not enough for us to want to receive the
torah the torah has to want to come to
us right
there's a matrix that says that hashem
wanted to give the torah to adam
and then it starts adam he ate from the
tree i don't want to go to him
avraham avraham ah
he loves you spoiled i don't want to go
to him no he he he questioned hashem
he loved asap i don't want to go to him
yeah he married two two sisters finally
moshe they went to moshe so it's not
enough that we should want to accept the
torah the torah they want to come to us
right right right
we're in the middle of counting the omer
we're counting the days until the coming
of the torah right so they always ask a
question when you're counting for
something that's coming soon you don't
count the days it passed account the
days that are coming right right
vacations two weeks in one week three
days don't say we passed one week we'd
have to remember right
i find the similar thing by yaakov avinu
right yaakovino had to work seven years
for his wife and the torah says it was
like a few days out of his love for her
wouldn't you think if you were waiting
to marry your beloved if the time would
go slow all right well it's like a few
days right right you're waiting for
vacation such a long time all right
and the answer is that he felt he wasn't
ready yet you know avraham had his son
was no good yes well he had his son that
was no good asap yaakov had 12 tribes of
israel he was building the first totally
jewish home and he was preparing himself
at least seven years of preparation and
when you're preparing for a class right
we're back for a test how does time go
slow or fast
fast the text next week oh no that's
this week oh no that's tomorrow oh no
it's today
ty goes very fast right you have the
rabbi is giving a lecture and he's
trying to fit in as much material he can
at the time and he's looking at the
clock it's going so fast i want to put
it more it's going so fast the student
is listening look at the clock it's
going so slow
same clock right the same clock he was
going so slow he's going so fast right
right
so
the month the weeks of this video we're
counting every week is an accomplishment
i'm preparing myself that's why i don't
count the weeks that are coming with two
weeks i i did one week i did two weeks i
did three weeks i did four weeks right
right that's the idea we're preparing
ourselves for that time
so what's the significance of the
revelation on sign you know the tablets
that we got at sinai were broken all
right
when do we get the second tablets
right
we have shus was the seventh was the the
sixth day of sifa moshe went up the next
day was the seventh day of seven
30 days later the seventh day of thomas
ten days later the seventeenth day of
thomas that was when he came down the
brook that made the golden calf and he
broke the tablets
he destroyed the job the golden calf
went up the next day the 18th day of
time was 30 days later is the 18th day
of of
right 10 days later it was the 28th day
of cove it came down hashem told them
come up a third time to get the second
tablets roshkodish elul right went up 30
days later is rosh hashanah 10 days
later is yom kippur so that do we really
accept the torah when we really receive
that in the in the sense that we have to
make it an effect right we have to be
accounting am i keeping the mysteries if
i'm not keeping the misses what can i
improve that's hello right that's what
you show now you know kipper we're
accepting the torah from now on i'm
going to keep the torah that's what
really you know kippur is all about
right right so what's significant about
yours
what's significant about
is
that revelation
the revelation the actual revelation
itself
the entire jewish people became prophets
and the earl heard speak
the only unique claim in history
many other nations i owe make similar
claims but no one claims the entire
nation heard god speak except us
the entire nation heard god speak
all right we all became prophets
and that stays with us forever
and that's the common denominator by the
way of all jews right what do two jews
have in common have a professor in the
midwest
atheists right
you have a you have an idea with a beard
and base they have a common language
they have a common culture what do they
have in common only one thing their
ancestors stood up on sinai that's the
only thing they have in common all right
and revolver and all these sure and the
first caleb has a whole very important
concept the idea that that
the whole imperative of keeping the
torah is about silence all right of
course everybody feels the torah is
meaningful if you grow up in a religious
home you feel the meaning behind it of
course and everybody has this religious
feeling i want to raise myself about the
physical i want to come close to god
right everybody has that feeling and if
you suppress it it opens up in many
other places right i want to be one with
nature i want everybody people dedicate
their lives to uh it could be very
important goals right
freedom right my country all right
or it could be equality or it could be a
stem collection
baseball cards right right right
but at sinai that's the real thing i'm
going to read to a rabbi with global
writes right right
the
imperative to keep all the misfits is
not the spiritual feeling that we have
but the revelation of mount sinai
we are not capable of be able to
comprehend that the creator of all the
world appeared on his people right they
all became prophets they all heard god
speaking to them face to face right
we're not just looking someone has a
religious feeling a spiritual feeling
looking to express it rather god spread
out to heaven and he came down i'm on
sinai right and we're still standing
under that mountain and the mountain is
still burning with fire up to heaven
that's our place forever every missile
we do we're expressing the fact that
we're loyal to the revelation on sinai
every word of torah that we learn we're
learning the torah of mount sinai right
once gave an analogy right you have a
thermos right and a thermos keeps water
hot for 24 hours right imagine somebody
would invent the thermos that would keep
something hot for a week you make a lot
of money right a month a year right 10
years
right the torah is the thermos bottle
that keeps warm the revelation on
cyanide for three thousand years right
every time we study torah that's the
thermos bottle right it's the heat of
sinai that's going through all these
years right
so the torah says in deuteronomy guard
yourself and guard yourself very much
lest you forget the
the events that you saw with your eyes
unless you go out to take out of your
heart all the days of your life and make
them known to your children your
grandchildren what the day that you
stood before god at home right there was
another name for sinai
it says the ramban this passage is
telling us a positive miserable
right and a negative misfit positiveness
is be very careful to remember where
these mistress came to you don't forget
the revelation on sinai
with everything that you saw the thunder
and the lightning the honor the
greatness the words that you heard from
the fire
and
make these words known that you thought
right to your children and grandchildren
forever
and it's a positive uh so it's a
positive mitzvah that we should tell our
children for every generation everything
we saw
and the purpose is very great the the
goal of that is very great
because when we tell it to our children
they will know that it's true without
any question
right as if they thought themselves
every generation because we will not say
false testimony to our children you
won't inherit them vanity
and
they want to have no question about it
right
and it's also a negative so it's a
positive it's a negative not to forget
and a positive to tell them right right
we don't say a lie to our children our
father doesn't lie to his children they
ask me what about the other religions do
they lie to their children no a father
doesn't lie to his children they don't
like their children either right
the difference is the story that we say
sorry they say it's a totally different
story right but even after prophecy
ended there was still lesser degrees
that still appeared until very recent
times right right
um and the the bias chained in the
second half so they didn't have that
right he had to be in order to reach
prophecy had to have tremendous degree
of perfection the second temple didn't
have that anymore right so so they uh
they had ruachakotis holy spirit we find
small benelisha one of the last high
priest in the second temple right and he
he was going into the holy holy is right
and he heard an angel over there and he
spoke to him and he had ishmael blessed
me right right
and the good morning times of the game
they heard basketball basketball were
voices from heaven right right right
they heard voices from heaven right
right even as recently as 400 years ago
on the city of spot we had the arizona
right right we have a book was written
by one of the students of their result
right right
and it's just unbelievable
and just from this book i mean it's not
for our level at all right but just to
get an inkling what he talks about
right
that we 400 years ago right i've seen
benealia people who want to raise
themselves higher and they're very few
but they want to reach higher and the
latter is hidden from their eyes and
they thought about and they look into
the books of the ancient ones to find
the path to go to bring their souls to
the source the highest source to cling
to hashem
like the prophets in their days who they
clothed like they closed they clung to
their creator and through that they were
able to have holy spirit afterwards came
the pious ones right and they were
called prussian they separated from
mankind and they went in the ways of the
prophets and uh um they went into caves
and in the forest right away from people
right and some of them were able to
separate from mankind in their own homes
they'd have to go through a cave right
right
and all day and all night constantly
they didn't stop praising their creator
by studying torah the songs of david
which makes the heart happy until they
clear their thoughts clung to the power
right with power to the higher lights
right and they kept it going all the
days until they reached the level of the
holy spirit
um
each one was separate was differently
many there are many different ways right
we find that in the talmud there were
four great men who went into the parties
they started kabbalah and they were
damaged one of them died one of them
went crazy one of them lost his faith in
god and the only one who came out was
akiva but they were looking for the
highest levels right
but we're not looking for that we'll be
happy with the smallest holy spirit like
the revelation of elijah the prophet
which many have accepted as is well
known right and the revelation of the
souls of the righteous which is
mentioned many times with tikkunim right
and even in our times i've seen holy
people come to all this right
somebody sometimes a guy wants to reach
his own soul right right right
all his ways all these are very close
and even our times if he so therefore my
spirit has moved me right to open up the
gates right right to show them this
introduction to the book of
right right to show them the way they
should go i will open up secrets right
that no one knew before right because i
received them from the mouth of the holy
angel of god and my master the arizon
and since these are tremendous secrets
right i will reveal one cupid and i will
cover up 2 000 cubits right i'll open up
the gate just to crack right
and just after it goes through the
different the fourth portion tells us
about the ways how you can reach the
holy spirit which i've tested and tried
out and i found to be true right
400 years ago behind me top right right
it's not for us of course right but see
what a level they were on right
and i just want to end with the uh you
have here
some elk was the author of a very famous
poem called the crowd color
he was also a big capitalist and he
lived at the same time it's fight with
rizal and and uh joseph cairo the author
of the shogunate of the code of jewish
law
so they they have there's a letter from
slo malcolm that's a sentiment all over
the country about the story that
happened on truest night right when he
and the base yosef yes cairo and a
number of their the kabbalists decided
they're going to learn all night torah
right
and they were learning one thing to
another right they were doing
mishna and until they started reaching
kabala right right
and we heard a voice coming out of the
mouth of yosef cairo
right
with letters we couldn't we heard voice
we didn't understand what we were saying
but it was such a beautiful feeling and
the voice went stronger and stronger we
fell on our faces right we didn't have
smith we couldn't move
and then this boy said listen to me my
beloved ones right my beloved ones peace
to you happy are you and happy those who
gave birth to you happy you in this
world happy in the world to come right
that you put on your souls to crown me
this night which many years my crown has
fallen off my head and there's no one to
console me i'm sent i'm putting the dust
in the dustpan and now you return the
crown to his place strengthen yourself
my beloved ones strengthen my strategies
i'll be happy and rejoice because um
you are from banelia those who are going
up and you've merited it to be in the
palace of the king and the voice of your
torah and the words of your mouth come
up before hashem i am the mishnah i'm
the angel before hashem uh
if you would only had a minion you'd
hire you wouldn't have a minion right
but still call my sons and strengthen
yourself right uh with my toru my fear
um if you only had one inkling one
thousand thousands with ten thousands of
the pain that i'm that i'm into um you
would never be able to be happy in your
lives because uh i'm suffering because
i'm down on the earth right therefore
strengthen yourself right my sons uh
don't stop your learning right because
there's a thread of kindness is upon you
and your torah is sweet before hashem
therefore stand on your feet and say
like in your kipper israel bro
right and we stood on our feet and we
said with the voice voice as we
commanded and he came back again right
later on um
so the next morning they went to the
mikvah right and they saw the guys who
weren't there that night he said we were
only they told them what happened they
said oh no we would have been there you
had a minion so that whole day they were
studying torah there was a lecture they
didn't have time to sleep but the next
night they decided to start it again
they're going to do it again they did it
again the next night right now they had
a minion right and again the voice came
to them right
as we got to the shema the voice came
knocking on the door listen my beloved
ones right wake up and we rejoice those
are in the dust right um
now uh happy are you uh that you brought
me out now that you're a minion and and
he taught them torah and they wrote down
all the torah that he wrote right that
he taught them and then he ends up
telling them uh and shabbat she came
again right well as i'm writing to you
right right um that you should remember
uh that
i i i
my brothers my people listen and may
your souls live right
because uh
those who saw this a new spirit came
upon them right and the following shot
was a letter for elk it's 400
years ago right
now the yosef cairo had an angel that
taught him torah and if you have a hard
time believing that he wrote a book with
all the torah they wrote it right right
me show them right there's no art school
if you're a copy of it
all right they filmed the golden hat
sato who wrote this real sister also had
a prophet an angel the villain had an
angel that told him thought he refused
he didn't want to learn from me they
want to learn on his own right right
so the point is that that the imperative
to keep the mission is the fact that we
had a revelation on sinai that's what it
all comes from so i want you to open
your hamashim and let's learn pashas yes
and see well what the torah says try to
get into it
vividly exactly feel the revelation on
sinai so turn to page
chapter 19 in the book of shemos of
exodus
it was in the third month of the going
out of egypt the month of sivan
right and that day they came to the
desert of sinai and they traveled from
her feed to him and they came to the
desert sinai they camped opposite the
mountain even though right before that
they were attacked by amalek they
thought they'd be afraid of attack they
should go on the mountain they under the
mountain they stood on the opposite of
the mountain and moshe went up to hashem
and he called him from the mountain he
said so shall you say to the house of
jacob and tell the sons of israel this
is the preamble you know preamble means
the introduction to the giving of the
torah right two groups the house of
jacob and the sons of israel who the
house of jacob who constitutes a jewish
home the women right the mother the the
wife right first call all the women
tomas say to them in a soft way women
you have to talk to yourself h401 in a
soft way right and then tell it to this
other take the man and give it over that
tell it to them right what do you tell
them you have seen what i did in egypt
right you all witnessed the going out of
egypt
i carried you on eagle's wings and i
brought you into me was the analogy of
eagle's wings that would say
all the other birds carry their young
and their claws the only bird that
carries the young on their wings is the
eagle and the rabbits say you know why
because although the birds know if they
put their young on their wings what's
going to happen the eagles rip down and
grab them right right but the eagle
flies higher than all the other birds
the eagles not afraid of anyone coming
from above what's the eagle afraid of
the archer down below the arrows right
so it says let the bow let the arrows
penetrate me and not my children.
so when we were at the red sea and the
egyptians were chasing after us there
was a cloud between the jews and the
egyptians they couldn't go through the
cloud
if you were an egyptian and there's a
cloud that you see the jews the other
side what would you do shoot arrows
missile catapults they did
and the clouds swallowed up all the
missiles nothing penetrated let the
arrow go into me says god and not to my
children
but there's another difference between
the eagle and the other birds
because how does the eagle get the young
on their wings they don't have a hand to
put them on right they hover under the
chest and the young have to jump on
right right right
we have to make the first step you've
got to jump on the wings then you can
soar but first you got to make the first
step you got to make that jump right
right right
and now if you will listen surely listen
to my voice says rashi all beginnings
are tough make that effort in the
beginning to listen surely listen and
keep my confident you will beat to me a
treasure from all the nations and you'll
say who else do i have oh the world is
mine you know a king has a room where he
has his treasure and he gets depressed
he goes into his room looks and treasure
cheers him up right god so to speak
looks around the world gets depressed
right because the jews ah that's my
treasure right treasure of all the
nations because the whole world is mine
you shall be to me a kingdom of priests
and a holy nation these are the words
you should speak to the children of
israel i keep the priest that means
every one of us no intermediary right
every jew says
we talk to hashem first second person
right right right away you know every
jew stands face to face baruch hashem
kingdom a priest and a holy nation right
right
and moshe came and he called the elders
of israel the people and he put the
words before them that god commanded him
and all the people answered there the
first and last time in history where the
entire jewish people were unanimous
about anything
in america three or four political
parties we have 30 jews never agree
everything god said not said we will do
and later on a part should be spotted
and adds on
ishmael we will stew and we will keep we
will hear first we'll do it
and then we'll try our best to
understand it but if we don't understand
it we'll still do it right right right
right
and the rabbis say before god gave the
torah to the jews he offered it to all
the nations in the world right where's
that tint in the torah you look at
bracha well that's partially read on
some torah all the way in the end of
dwarim it says that hashem appeared it's
on page
113 right chapter 33 in davarim and
deuteronomy right and
hashem he said hashem came from sinai he
shined from sayers here's where asap
lived he appeared from mount param
that's where mishwar lived and he came
with a mirror of angels in his right
hand there's a fire of law right he
first went to the non-jews and offered
them the torah and they asked the
question what does it say in your torah
we don't sign blank checks that's what
it says
he told them all the things they didn't
want to hear right so the question of
course is why did he tell them things he
didn't want to hear do you want them to
say no right a new guy comes to our
yeshiva the first day he's there hey you
know we don't cut toilet paper on
shabbos oh yeah i'm out of here
you know you tell them we eat google and
challenge
and the answer is
when did they reject the torah when they
said we don't want it or when they said
what does it say
i'm god i'm offering you absolute truth
do you want absolute truth it depends
what do you mean it depends
would you like to hear the results of
your medical exam it depends guys can i
still smoke and drink doors
once they said what does it say they
already rejected it so you made sure
they rejected it i tell them but the jew
is not ishmael if a doctor gives you a
pill and says take this pill you're
going to die
don't tell it well doctor let me go
first to medical school know exactly how
this pill makes me well then i'll take
it right right but then you'll die you
mean if you trust the doctor you take
the phil i'm not saying you should trust
the doctor any doctor's here but if you
trust the doctor you take the pill right
are you having faith in the doctor yes
you don't know what that pill is you
know it could be anything you have no
idea where that pill is you wouldn't
know right but it's not blind faith he's
got a big diploma on his wall he's been
your family doctor last ten years if i
gave you a pill you took it i'd be
blindfolded all right
god it's our family god the god of
abraham we trust him not said first
we'll do what you tell us and then
ishmael will try our best to understand
right and most you return the words of
the people touch them hey god the people
said yes yes
yes
no you're a messenger you got to fulfill
your message your job hashem said to
moshe i will come to you in the
thickness of the cloud in order people
should hear me speak to you and they'll
believe in you forever this is a very
important verse hashem said to moshe i'm
going to appear to you and they're going
to hear me speak to you and then they'll
believe in you forever
so the analogy is given of the cassidy
rabbi that died
and he had two sons
and there was a big fight who should be
the next rabbi half that's where one son
half out of the other song right one
morning one son got up and said our
problems are over father came to me in a
dream last night and he told me i should
be the next rabbi do you think the
people bought that
why not next morning little brother gave
to me a dream he said he changed his
mind
i mean we can accept that having a good
dream we don't have a problem with the
dream but if you wanted to do the next
property why they come to you to dream
should have come to us from the dream
and told us why they tell you all right
mohammed says god said don't be a
prophet he should have told us right the
way we tell the story you know we don't
watch the prophet not getting
the entire
nation heard god speak the motion most
emotion right that's how you know he's a
prophet in other words he had his
credentials set authorized you know
what's the word uh credentials uh
authenticated right another thing um
established yeah we would not accept the
torah if uh we just came out of egypt if
we if we didn't come out of egypt just
now
we would not accept the torah because he
says you just came out of egypt
right
um
and moshe told the words of the people
to hashem and hashem said to moshe go to
the people sanctify them today and
tomorrow wash their garments please go
to the mick for right be ready for the
third day and the third day god will
come to fourth down for all the people
on mount sinai and put a fence around
the people right guard yourself don't go
on the mountain right right uh don't
touch the mountain you'll be stoned
anyone who does that
well she was expecting a receiving the
tour where they could go run up on the
mountain right right right right out of
love right
and moshe came down from the mountains
the people from the mountain to the
people from the people to the mountain
he didn't step off to buy groceries for
his wife right right he had no private
life just the people that are dedicated
to service right right
uh and when the when the chauffeur blows
they go up on the mountain right he's
taken to people and hashem the people
said to me be ready the third day we
were forbidden to marital relations with
three days and now we come to the climax
verse 16. on page 405
and it was on the third day in the
morning this was shabbat
sunrise and the rapids say the entire
world was silent
not a bird chirped not a frog burped
total silence in the entire world
and then they heard
thunder and lightning and a cloud on the
mountain right and the chauffeur getting
loud they were scared out of their wits
and the whole people trembled they were
scared it wasn't like
we accept this religion we accept this
prophet they were scared out of their
wits right right and moshe took the
people to meet hashem he was ready for
them from the camp and they stood on the
bottom of the mountain literally under
the mountain right and the rabbis say
god picked the mountain over their heads
and said either you accept my torah or
there you'll be buried religious
coercion and it's worth forever
but the question is they already
accepted the term they said yes right
after a curse before you accept this oh
yes do you accept it
right
so some say the written torah they were
ready to accept the oral torah the rabbi
that hard time with but the truth of the
matter is you have to have a bit of
coercion because you have to know it's
not really your your free choice you
know today we have converts are called
jew by choice baltimore's are called
fruit by choice you don't really have a
choice once you come to the recognition
there's a garden there's a torah yeah
that's it right now today i choose
yesterday
no you really don't have a choice yeah
you agreed but yeah the mountain it
doesn't say here you'll be buried it
says there you'll be buried doesn't mean
here you'll be buried there you'll be
buried in auschwitz
in spain and the crusades there when you
forget about the torah there you'll be
buried that's the idea
and mount sinai was smoking totally
because the god came upon it with a in
the form of a fire and smoke went out
like the smoke of the furnace and the
whole mountain trembled right right
i mean she was much more than a furnace
right but here you have a mnemonic
device you know the mic device with the
memory device next time you go on the
bus and you pass by a factory you see
smoke coming out of chimney remember
mount sinai remember my sign that's a
pneumatic device right
all right
um
and the voice of chauffeur got louder
and louder when a person blows the show
for the longer he holds it the it gets
less and less because he runs out of
breath here he goes louder and louder
motion speaking guys answering with the
voice hashem came down at mount sinai to
the top of the mountain and he called
motions up in the mountain motion went
up and he said to moshe go down and tell
the people not to go up and watch how we
put a fence around all right i mean
moshe was down on the bottom when it
happened and hashem spoke all these
words saying it sounds it seems to me
said all them right then we have the ten
commandments skip we can come back to
the ten commandments and skip to page
413 right verse 15
and all the people saw the thunder
can you see thunder
you hear something right it was so vivid
the voices they saw it and they actually
saw the words right and the lightning
page 413 and this chauffeur and the
mountain climbing and the people saw and
they trembled and they stood from a
distance and they said to moshes you
speak for us and says so the rabbis say
when god said the first commandment the
entire jewish people died they all died
their souls popped out of their bodies
right
so the angels came with the dew of
resurrection and revived them and as
soon as they revive whether they're rare
for their lives right
and they just come on back i shouldn't
speak to you again they came back he
said the second commandment again they
died right again they were revived
getting ready for their lives we
can't take this anymore do us a favorite
motion from now when you had your st
your credentials established please from
now on you speak to hashem and they said
to moshe speak you with us and let us
hear that i guess we're going to die
right it was a terrifying experience and
moshe said to the people don't be afraid
in order to elevate you god has come to
you should you fear your fear should be
on your face you should never sin and
the people stood from the distance and
moshe came to the fire and said to moshe
so say to the children you have seen
from heaven i've spoken to you right you
have seen i can't tell you you have seen
right if you didn't see right right
that's very powerful argument right
i'm knocking all the doors in jerusalem
i'm very charismatic i say last night
god appeared to me and gave me a
revelation
can i get some people to believe me
if i'm very charismatic i said let's not
i got a revelation with god could i get
some people to believe me
not everybody some people right right
what if i knock on the door and say last
night you had a revelation with god
right
i won't get anybody to leave you they
know that i can't tell you what you saw
you didn't see it you saw what it in
each have you heard right so maybe
somebody wrote the book uh a hundred
years later and he wrote that he told
the people you saw but who's he giving
the book to
to their grandchildren
and if your grandchildren heard god
speak wouldn't they tell you if you were
a gospel will you tell your
grandchildren right you can't get away
with that if they didn't hear it
that's a very powerful argument right
right i'll give you an analogy right
we're the authors of the bible we're the
authors of the bible we just wrote the
bible right
masterpiece right bestseller right right
we got to market it now
so we don't want to go to two
intellectual people let's let's take a
primitive tribe in africa aborigines in
australia all right this is your lucky
day this is your bible right right right
forget about the dream world forget
about all your idols throw all the
garbage
you are the jewish people right this is
your book all the things in the book
happened to your ancestors a thousand
years ago and from now on you got to
keep shabbos and kosher and the marriage
laws and you care for a very difficult
lifestyle all right
when the neighbors down the block try to
convert you to their religion you got to
give your lives that's a problem because
this is your book right yeah
christianity is a lot easier say i
believe add water and stir salvation
anyway say hold on a minute before we
accept all that stuff you mind if you
read the book first go ahead read the
book read the book it says ten plagues
in egypt splitting of the red sea
revelation unsigned i write
that now they're excited about being the
jewish people all right
now comes the moment of truth
mind if i ask my grandfather a question
your right hand
uh grandfather did you ever hear such a
thing as splitting of the red sea of
revelations
i mean we just wrote the book yesterday
you never heard about it a microgravity
does have a good memory you ask your
grandfather everybody has a grandfather
no one ever heard of it
what are the odds of this primitive
tribe right right throwing all their
idols in the garbage right forgetting
all their idols accepting your book
keeping all these difficult laws and
giving their lies to it for 2000 years
because someone told them a story that
grandparents couldn't verify
zero right but the jews you know
they would have us we
we always accept things right we never
ask questions right right we bought the
whole story right we kept all these laws
right right that's very powerful it's
very powerful right in fact in the book
of devarim let's actually see the book
of what we see we have an eyewitness
account you know emotion is in the end
before moshe dies at the end of the 40
years he's to those of the generation
that was born in the desert they didn't
see it right so moshe's giving them an
account of it right turn it to page 961.
this is the verse i mentioned before the
ramban
964 one uh this is chapter four in
deuteronomy verse nine
guard yourself and guard your souls very
much you forget the words that you saw
the events that you saw with your eyes
turn around your heart all the days of
your life and let them know to your
children your grandchildren the day you
stood before god and sinai
when god said to me gather these people
and i'll let them hear my words they
should learn to fear me all the days
that they're living on the earth and
their children should they teach and you
came close and you stood on this
eyewitness god you stood under the
mountain and the mountain was burning
with fire to the heart of heaven
darkness and cloud
and haze and god said to you from the
fire he spoke to you from the fire you
heard a voice you saw no image right
only your voice and he told you his
covenant that he commanded you to do the
ten sayings the ten words
and he wrote them down on two tablets
and he committed me at that time to
teach it to you lord to do them right
and land right and again we have and you
know remember you didn't see any picture
there
don't worship idols all right and now we
have an unbelievable verse here in
deuteronomy apartheid
look
turn the next page 965 965 uh verse
32. it's a chapter 4 32 inquire now
regarding the early days that preceded
you the day when hashem created a man on
the earth from one end of the heaven to
the other end of heaven right go study
history let's study uh
archaeology right uh panathology
whatever it's called all these different
studies from the beginning of history
until today from one end of the world to
the other the eskimos the indians and
the africans everything right
has there ever been anything like this
great thing was anything like it been
heard
has such a thing ever happened or does
anyone even make the claim right whether
it happened or not that what
has the people ever heard the voice of
god speaking from the midst of the fire
you heard and survived does anyone make
the claim that god spoke to an entire
nation you know if you want to make a
lot of money one way of making money is
start your own religion
that's a good way to make money right
you want to start your own religion
there's two ways to go about it you can
claim a personal revelation kind of it
to me and some of my friends
or national revelation entire nation
what's a better claim
national but why is it that all the
thousands of religions right tens of
thousands of israel only one claimed the
national the christians do not claim
that god spoke to jc in front of a
million people the muslims do not claim
he spoke to a hundred million people am
i right or has any god ever miraculously
come to take for himself a nation from a
missing nation with challenges with
signs with wonders with war with strong
hand without charm our greatly awesome
deeds as hashem did for you and each
before your very eyes you've been shown
to know not to believe that hashem is
god does not besides you this is the
proof of god that we make the claim when
no one else takes the claim right and
it's predicted no one else is going to
make the claim so the way we understand
it is very simple you know why no one
else is going to make the claim
because you can't make such a claim and
get away with it if it didn't really
happen right right i mean those who
claim the holocaust never happened right
anyone in his right mind believe it's
possible that a person or a group of
people could make up a lie on the scope
of the holocaust and get the world to
believe it if it didn't really happen
right where's the survivors where's the
shoes where's the concentration camps
right right right
but a secular person does not believe in
the torah has a very big problem with
this verse why
because this verse is predicting that no
one else is going to make the claim of a
national revelation and no one did right
right right
because we say noah you can't get away
with it but if you don't believe in the
torah you've got a problem here why
because someone did get away with it you
know got away with it we did
we made up a story which they don't
believe that the guys sign into
an entire nation 10 plays in egypt right
jews muslims and christians i think is
the majority of mankind i believe put it
all together right all the christians
all the muslims at one time all the jews
not so much right believed in the torah
the revelation of sinai so we made up a
lie according to the secular right and
we got the majority of the world to him
to believe it right right right right so
you can claim no one's going to make
that claim again how do you know right i
got away with the perfect climb i i i
stole a million dollars no one caught me
i got away with it right am i going to
say no one else is ever going to do that
again why how do you know if you were
smart enough to figure it out maybe
someone else would not do it right right
how could you say no one's going to say
it how can you say no and no one has
claimed it right right you know why no
one else claims it because you can't
claim it if it didn't really happen
that's the bottom line
let's go back to the ten commandments
now ten sayings right
no there's today they don't the
commandment is too heavy they like to
change it to the ten suggestions right
nice thing to do if you feel like it
right
i was once uh sitting in a hotel lobby
lady comes and says you know i uh i
bought a message there's no 10
commandments inside
it's not the commandments it's my israel
anybody but it's a box i've got to put
it in the right right lady once came to
the rabbi with the bazillion with the
box it was empties what was inside of it
all the instructions were in hebrews i
threw them out
oh sure i'm sure you heard the bad joke
about moses comes off the mountain i got
good news i got bad news did you ever
hear that one all right
the boss comes into his office and
secretly boss i got good news i got bad
news let me hear the good news first
they call for the doctor's office you've
got three days to live that's a good
news what's the bad news they called two
days ago i forgot to tell you
good news got him down to ten bad news
adultery is still in that's a bad joke
anyway turn back to paige uh turn back
let's just keep you awake right turn
back to page 407 407 back to chapter 20
in the book of deuteronomy we're going
to go a little bit more deeper into into
the 10th commandment what are the 10
commandments right so first of all just
to show what i told you before that the
first two they heard from god and the
rest of here from osha you see that very
clearly in the tense and the tense of
the commandments the first one begins
never have 407 right i am a shame your
god who took you out of the land of
egypt of the house of slavery second
person i took you out the second
commandment is do not have any guys
before me right don't make any idols
right right i'm uh right uh because i am
hashem your god right that second person
i'm talking to you when you come to the
third one it's third person don't take
the name of your god in vain he will not
see who takes his name in vain the first
two are in the second person i'm talking
to you right they heard that from god
the last eight were heard from moses
it's the third person right but doesn't
it say in verse one god spoke all these
words saying implied he said all ten of
them right and the commentaries say
first god said all ten simultaneously in
one word he said all ten then he went
back and said each one and after the
second one i couldn't take it anymore
all right so it's both true they did
hear all time from god in one word then
when they after when he went back the
second time he couldn't hear him okay
i am the lord your god who took you out
of the land of egypt in the house of
bondage house of slavery if you were god
and you were introducing yourself to man
what would you say i am god i did what
what's the most basic thing god did
tell me
created the world i'm god created the
world would you say i've got to create
the world right right why you saying of
egypt right
well creation takes a bit of faith right
no one actually saw god create the world
there were no witnesses we do have what
we call our post factoring this was our
post factor witness after the fact adam
adam opened up his eyes and he said mama
no mama papa no papa i assume adam did
not have a belly button what's the belly
button a biblical chord was a boy for a
woman i assumed he probably had one
either right zoom right right besides
that he was a prophet got spoken so adam
can tell his children i know i should
have created the world how do you know
it opens up my eyes i saw a world in
full bloom no father no mother no belly
button the guy spoke to me right right
but no one actually saw you could deny
it one time in history god wanted to
demonstrate before the eyes of all
mankind created the world and was that
the ten plagues
every aspect of creation right hashem
created the water turned to blood right
the fish the fish died the insects right
locust lice the animal world right wild
animals animal plague right atmospheric
conditions the darkness the hail human
life firstborn could you tell where
firstborn is take 100 people make a
blood test a urine test
brain scan x-ray whatever you like can
you tell the first one is no only his
mother knows for sure and god knew
exactly the first point that's pretty
impressive right right right right and
this time it was the front page of all
the newspapers read all about it play
against egypt not altruistic they knew
all about it right so the ten plagues
demonstrated before the eyes of all
mankind that god created the world so i
am hashem who took you out of egypt and
that demonstrated created the world
right
the second question is what exactly is
the commandment
i am the lord your god that took you out
of israel it seems to be a statement
right so what therefore what am i going
to do about it therefore what
does it mean believe in god
joseph is there a myth with the belief
in god is that one of the 610 613
you say yes some say yes some say yes
but the romans disagree and his logic is
impeccable this is logic the logic goes
like this there cannot be a commandment
to believe in god why not
because i don't believe in god who's
commanding me right right you have to
have a commander before you have a
commandment if i don't believe god is
always going to believe in him right
right and if i already believe in god
then why do we need to command for it do
you believe in god yes believe in god i
don't believe in it
right and one of them is no
and the first one is the question many
the first one is one of the first ones
that believing in god is prerequisite
before you can learn how to read you
have to know abc before you can have
commandments you have to believe in god
you have to have a commander so so first
you have to leave your god that's
appearance so what's the first of the
technique says the wrong bomb to know
there's a god right i can believe in god
right but no right investigate use your
mind look into a telescope look into a
microscope look around the world right
when you when you when you see design
then you know there's a god right
so the first commandment is in your mind
no there's a god what's the second
commandment don't make idols right don't
worship idols don't bow down to them
right i am a sham a jealous god right i
don't necessarily mean the statue you
back down to right uh power could be an
idol money could be an idol sex could be
an idol food could be an idol anything
with you that's it right that's the
ultimate all right this is action the
first is mind the third is the second is
action what's the third
speech
don't take the name or god in vain he
will not cleanse he takes his name in
vain i'm not sure you're all familiar
with perry mason put your hands on the
bible raise your right hand you threaten
it tell the truth tell the truth not
even interesting
did you murder your wife no not me
did you embezzle millions of billion no
not me
do you believe the guy would you believe
the guy right
did he put his hands on the bible right
so you don't believe him anyway why
bother that he put his head in the bible
anyway
and the answer is that when this
institution began i don't know exactly
when maybe a hundred years ago when you
told yourself in england whatever again
there was a time when even the non-jews
were afraid of perjury they were afraid
they would not put their hands on the
bible and lie they were frightened and
the rabbi said you know why because when
god said the third commandment the
entire world trembled and all the mind
you through it as well right don't take
my name you're taking god as a witness
when you say god name so you have
thought no there's a god then you have
action don't make idols and worship
idols and then you have
speech don't take god's there
how do we concretize this page 411 right
verse eight remember the sabbath day to
make it holy shabbas is how you
criticize knowing there's a god six days
shall you work and do all your
activities and the seventh day is
shabbat to hashem don't do any work you
your son your daughter your servant your
mate servant your animals can't make you
work the animals work our show
the stranger in your midst six days god
made heaven and earth seeing everything
in it and he rested on the seventh day
therefore he blessed the seventh day and
he made it holy all right
so the reason for the the first shabbos
is creation right that's why
the shabbos is called the present that
god gave us why is it a present because
really we're supposed to it should be
universal right nothing with the jews
right we should pay sexual jews right
creation all manchester should celebrate
right right right but he gave it to the
jews especially right
uh honor your father and your mother you
know you have long days on the land
which god gave you right because parents
get older and it's difficult to take
care of them and they were in nursing
home costs a lot of money someone said
nobody lives forever they should die
soon you want to live a long life your
parents live alone honor your parents
you have a lot of life right now five
tablets are between man and god right
know this the god keep the torah keep
the shabbos don't well the other one man
i'm gonna film it don't murder don't
steal right right right
two tablets a day keep the h sahara away
all right
honor your parents is number five that
means it's on the first tablet right
wouldn't you think honor your parents
should be on the second tablet isn't
that between men and fellow man
and we see from here not like that no
they said we could have been born at
eggs right why do we have to have
parents right right
it's an analogy right if you don't
respect your parents you don't have
gratitude to your parents who brought
you into this world who changed your
diapers who taught you to protect you to
school put your toys and clothes and
everything right on candy right how are
you supposed to have gratitude to god
what god does is more abstract he gives
us air to breathe and food we don't see
it it's more abstract so honor your
parents as a way of serving god when the
rabbi's mother came in he said i'm
standing up in god's honor right right
that's on your parents right now comes
the second tablet don't murder this is
it don't kill i think it's the wrong
that's the wrong translation doesn't say
don't kill cause sometimes you have to
kill self-defense you have to kill war
you have to kill death penalty after
killing
don't murder someone innocent right
don't commit adultery it's a capital
offense you know in the secular world he
forgives her she even gives it right
it's a death penalty right this is a
warning right right she's admitted to
forever the woman who commits adult
she's forbidden to her husband until the
adulterer all right
don't steal he's referring to stealing
kidnapping because give you kidnap a jew
and sell him is it also a capital
offense right right saving money in
other places right right these are all
actions these are all actions right
don't take their false witness right
that's speech and the last one is do not
covet the house of your friend his wife
his servant his maidservant his ox his
donkey everything is his do not covet
are there any man-made laws such as the
american constitution state do not cover
it's not there you know why how you
still surprising your guy for comedy
right you know county doesn't mean oh
you got a nice tie where can i get one
you got a nice shirt confident means i
want yours right i think you should sell
your house i want to buy it should
divorce your wife i want to marry her
right right now there is one case where
you know say i want to buy your watch
you don't want to sell it so i grab your
watch 300 bill run away
did i steal i paid you for it you didn't
want to sell it right right but
generally you don't know if a guy's
coming it's in the heart right so that's
why it's in the torah so we have
don't murder don't steal from adultery
that's actions then we have don't bear
false witness don't uh it's false
witness that's speech and then we have
the heart notice that the order is
changed and the first tablet it started
off with the heart no there's a god in
your mind then actions don't worship
idols and then speech don't say god's
name in vain when it comes to your
fellow man and starts off with actions
right don't murder don't steal then it
comes speech and the last one why does
it change the order says rabbi hirsch
when it comes to man and god the main
thing is the mind no there's a god
action without mind is meaningless
putting filled out a monkey is
meaningless right right just an action
right right right first know there's a
god and then that there comes action of
the speech when it comes to your fellow
man i don't care if you hate the guy
disgust he hate the guy's guts but don't
murder don't steal don't give me the
first the most important thing is action
don't do action and not only that don't
bear false within not only that do not
even cough it so when it comes to man
and god you start off with thought and
it goes to action and speech when it
comes to many fellow man you started
with action and that reaches even
right you just want to end with an
interesting measure that says now from
do not covet you can come to break all
ten commandments right hypothetical case
right god hangman had a neighbor with a
beautiful wife and there was a wall
between his house and his neighbor's
house and he covered its red's wife
he broke through not copping comes
shabbos and his friend's out of town but
the wife's all alone breaks down on the
wall breaks the chambers rapes his
friend's wife adultery he kidnaps her
steals then he murders her right and he
hires false witnesses to testify an
alibi and he comes to work and he's
ripped falsely right right finally his
his parents tell him off and he yells at
them and he worships idols and ends up
denying god it all started with do not
covet all right so we've had a very fast
overview of the ten commandments but the
most important thing in the week left to
survive is spend a little time every day
just trying to picture in your mind
think about the going out of the
revelation on saturday and increase your
torah study this week and remember we
have to god it's not enough to we i'm
ready to accept you torah god that's all
i have to want to come to you you have
to prepare yourself to be ready to
accept the torah that's the main idea
we're ready to accept we have to be
vessels to accept the torah right and
then schwarz is very quick you know
especially in israel you just learn all
night you sleep all day it's all over
all right all right because i have
another day so a little bit more right
right but but uh if you don't make a
proper preparation it's going to be gone
one two three right right the more
preparation you make before she was the
more meaningful your shoes will be so i
wish you all a very meaningful shows
right next week mr chairman we're going
to do the book of ruth hashem
okay thank you very much
you