Rabbi Avi Geller - Shavuot: Receiving the Torah

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