The Book of Ezra: Chapter 10 - The Blessings of Shemita During the Times of Ezra

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com we're learning uh safer Ezra we're in Paris which is actually the last Park of safer Ezra I think it's uh very remarkable that what we're learning Daniel and safer Ezra are really think that people don't get a chance to ever learn so it's uh but we're learning it right here and we're learning Ezra perak yud so you should be very proud that we're learning things that many people don't ever have a chance to learn and I just want to give you a little bit of an introduction and also relevant to the parashah and relevant to this parek and that is what the gemara says that when Ezra returned he did not conquer all the cities at yahushua benon conquered the gemara says there were two times in our history that the Jewish people returned to Arts Israel one the oilemitzrayim the times of Yeshua benon and when the oil above Al in the times of Ezra now the gemara says that just because Yeshua conquered a city does not necessarily mean that it has kadusha forever in fact even though we would like to think that Arts Israel has intrinsic kadusha which on some Dimension it has but halachically it does not have have kadusha unless certain procedures are done and that is you have to conquer it you got to have ownership over now the gemara says like this Yeshua benon conquered all of ours Israel however when Ezra came back he purposely left over certain cities that yahshua benon conquered he did not conquer them conquered everything Ezra did not conquer everything why says the gemara in the times of Ezra there was a great depression and there were a lot of aniam and Ezra was afraid that if he would conquer all of Arts Israel the anime would not have what to eat during shemitah okay so therefore he purposely did not conquer all the cities and he left certain cities in Earth Israel Not Conquered and therefore not holistically artist Israel so that the yanim could go there and work during shemitah that's what the gemara says that the many cities not every city that the oilei mitzrayim conquered okay that's what the Gomorrah says [Music] Heritage according to the rambam it did not have yes and now and now whatever Ezra conquered has Medusa whatever he didn't have conquer does not have kadusha why because kids are rishinaita whatever Yeshua Sanctified was temporary now the Rama um distinguishes as he saw from you has Eternal condition but the rest of us Israel only with Ezra reconquered fine so now the question is thinking about this Kamara the gemara says that Ezra left over land so that the anime would have what to work during shemitah the mask if you look at myself asks now wait a second this week's parachute abundance film says that if you don't work during Smitha you can have a bumper crop in the sixth year so what was Ezra worried about that if the end if he's going to conquer all of ours Israeli and you are not going to have what to eat what are you not gonna have to eat let them keep shmita and Hashem will bless them after all it's a hafta and the Torah that if you keep shmita you can be blessed with a bumper crop in the sixth year okay also the uh hidusha Harem has a question that there's a famous mattress that talks about the Dubai kayak the Mighty Warriors says the matter is who are the Mighty Warriors who are people who show great disciplines great self-control great mysterious nephesian performing Mitzvahs the matter says the people who keep shmita what kind of is it to keep shmita if God gives you a bumper crop in the sixth year a three-year crop who wouldn't keep shemitah you don't have to be a Maman if you you normally make a hundred thousand dollars a year and in the year of six you make three hundred thousand dollars a year what kind of a Muno do you have to have to keep shemitah another question Thai system maybe you don't keep the shmikah you don't have the immunity you won't get the 300 000. so then what comes then they're not given are they keeping shmita are they not keeping Smita if they if they keep shmita and they have the yamuna then they'll have to bump across but if they don't have the proper remote they won't get the bubble crack so who are these gee buyers what's the big giveura of keeping shemitah if you had the bumper let's say a guy presumably he's having a Muna he gets the bumper crops of course he's going to keep shmita also about one last thing is that bismar because it would be too hard for people to keep two consecutive years of year 49 and year 50 without working the land and therefore be too difficult rabbanon did not Institute yoibel as a Zach why because it would be too hard right what's so hard the tire promises in year 48 you're gonna get a quadruple crop so what's so hard about it if you look in the smile Simmons the smash is a Whopper ready for this that if joyville is so now in order for Yeovil to be nice does anybody know why joyful is not knowing because it's all the people sitting in saying the hollow but they're living in so you gotta go move there it's because if you want you're able to apply you need Jews in Israel the majority you need them the gemara says you need every Jew they recite him say every means the majority okay right you're right right no sometimes technician Ezra we've learned many times that most Jews the now return therefore joyville did not apply if uival doesn't apply midnight right [Music] also becomes because you need shmita and therefore says the SMA the promise of the Torah that you can have a bumper crop is only if no promises whether there was or whether there wasn't I don't know they did Keep shmita that explains why we're not masaki what do you mean the tar promises the bumper crap no the Tara promises it for keeping not for keeping on okay what is the what was the first year of the new shmita cycle was it year 50 or 51. it is yes yes whether you're whether Yeovil is uh part of the cycle in outside simply I think the majority opinion is year one starts after the I'm dealing yeah so that the Schmitz is every seventh year because it just bumped up a year yeah right correct correct if we agree that the cities that yahushua so let's say so this answers all three questions it explains we had a question why didn't Ezra conquer all these cities I what's he worried about the animal just have a bumper crap the answer is in his days shmita was only major upon none and there are no promises that's why he couldn't conquer all the cities that explains why the murder says are people who keep shmita I what do you mean what's what's the gevura they're going to get a promise from Hashem they're gonna have a bumper crop what's the answer and there's no promises that's why you need tremendous to two keep shmita and that explains why they were not masaki and joyville midrabonon I what are they worried about it's the fact that people are not gonna be able to work for two years in a row bumper crap in year 48 says a SMA there's no promises on but where do they learn out from the Torah yeah because it can't be called me yeah probably the rice that they have only the majority of juices no no because first of all that's the thing Aries kadusha is very interesting it does not just have kadusha when avraham usukanyakov lived in the land it did not have caduceus [Music] is dependent on conquering you need to conquer the land that's what the gemara says that's why you know the sparno says that when yaakov avinu built a miss bayach it says he had to purchase the field and only then build him his bath says as far now why do you have to purchase a field foreign because you can't praise God on foreign soil foreign to be conquered by no by Ezra times of Ezra no no so now it has to regain the kadusha has to be conquered no no it was there no today you can't afford to read it no it can't regain it can't regain it was a Ezra only Ezra was entrusted with the was infused with the chias to sanctify yeah right so it can't happen again right the level of that exists right now you can there's no promises today about a buckle according to the smell according to the smell so I'm going to point out disagrees with this manner said if whatever [Music] confirms it endorses it if the rabbi say keep shmita Hashem hashemita and you get the same promise you get the same guarantee you get the same bumper crap so now the question is now we have three questions number one why why did Ezra refrain from uh conquering all the cities didn't he know that even by Smith you get a bumper crap number two what kind of giveura does it take to keep shmita you get bumper crap even by Smita and number three why weren't they masaki and you'll get the bumper crap an amazing thing on the one hand he says the shemit image but on the other hand even shmita medarisa the bumper crop there are no guarantees it's not a thousand percent foolproof that every single person that keeps shemitah is gonna have a bumper crop what does it mean first of all says the promises to the Jewish nation that the nation as a whole will not suffer but no individual has a guaranteed protection that's Ashton's threatens the second Point says is that all the promises saying is that you think by not working the land that's going to cause your farm to deteriorate and you're going to lose money you're keeping shmita will not be the cause of your financial but you might have financial difficulties regardless in other words it's not a guarantee of Financial Security it's just a guarantee that your lack of working the land will not be the cause of your financial you know you might have financial difficulties because he spoke lushinhara but it's not because of your lack of his status that you're having financial difficulties is also saying a very eye-opening thing we sort of you know take it for granted the Tara says a promise and no you know you worked you you take it off and a thousand percent now Nothing in life is a thousand percent they're always the person Madeira that will cause his parental to be diminished okay we'll be doing okay so the gross national product will be okay even though individual pieces again and even the gross national product will not suffer as a result of not working the land right and that's why Ezra as a responsible leader did not is not allowed to say hey anian I don't have to worry about you rely on hashem's brother have to be tough I know as a response to the leader Ezra was required to take Natural means to protect the Anem and what were they he did not conquer every single City okay very interesting point today someone could work the area that was not conquered by as the Jews locations are I don't know I don't know no okay I don't know no I was just curious okay okay so now what's very interesting to me is we learned about this yesterday is that nowhere and safer Ezra is this does it speak about this right you learned you learned the whole state for Ezra it doesn't talk about any cities or not cities that he did or did not conquer okay so fine we're in the final pack yod and if you remember Ezra is embarking on a path to be Master of the people what was the other that people had done they intermarried and Ezra is not throwing rocks at anybody is not stoning anybody he's not burning garbage what's he doing he comes to the market and he davins he cries out and to the rest of the people looking at this this was a very moving experience them looking possible and as he confessed um he's crying and pleading listening baseball like him before God foreign men ashim women now question what women I mean presumably the Goliath women are not going to be moved by Ezra crying that the Jews married so the ma'am says very nice the women the Jewish women who are married to Jewish husbands were joined because they were suffering that their husbands also took non-jewish wives right so bad enough to have a second Sarah a second wife but that the second wife should be a Goya okay the the people cried great crying from Elam responded we rebelled in our God from the nations of the world there is hope for the Jewish people on this means home hope okay all right you gotta get it right there is a there is a hope there is hope for the Jewish people what's the hope the hope is they could get rid of their wives they could uh they could get rid of that's the hope the hope is they could send their wives packing that's the Mikvah right that's the hope now others translate the word Mikvah literally and that is it is a a ritual bath in other words what's they they could purify themselves from the Rivera how do they purify themselves by getting rid of their um foreign women now who is this individual he's probably a big Sadiq did he personally marry non-jewish women it seems like he did because he says we rebelled against our God and yet there's a very important camera and in some of your Naveen it says it's on that but it can't be on that because [Music] wonderful beautiful gamara never married a goddess woman we're not even look at a non-jewish one says if you want to be my hour of the year you need dayonim who were appointed by the Nazi the day before you can't just show up to court right says invited seven zucchinim to the Attic he got there and lo and behold they're eight so I'm gonna said uh Rabbi said who's here without permission gets up and he says it was me I came here I didn't come here to even our brother Shawna I came here to be able to be an apprentice to learn Halal myself you want me to leave I will leave so remember I'll say no you sit here you are worthy for all the years to be uh Sanctified through you but said we can only sanctify the new moon if you're invited says the gamara really was invited why did he say with me he didn't want to embarrass Ed person who did right says the gemara similar to the case of Rebbie Reby was darshaning see and Robbie smelled something he said phallic I could smell garlic from A Million Miles Away who dare to eat garlic and come to my share Robbie said that embarrassing someone I would have been caught right away [Laughter] got up you see you ready you have see Rebecca already learned from the gemara you take the blame for yourself right it says got up and he said it was me and he left and after if he got up and left everyone else got up and left in other words they learned nobody wanted the person who did it to be at fault in the morning rep shim and the son of Robbie founder of he said if you ate garlic and you came to the share them but rather I did not want to embarrass the one who ate the garlic where did he learn this behavior from he learns this from Red mayor because there's a story that a woman knocked on the door and it matters she comes in he said one of you guys in the base matters was makatish me yesterday baby imagine now now look up malcus to someone who's Mechanicsville that's not the way to do it so red mayor got up and he said on Shelby McNair he said he gave her a get so what happened everyone else got up and gave her a get also why did ramire do this not to embarrass the guy and the grass where did Romero learn it from he learned it from who took the blame for being around being invited where did he get it from he was in the senior cuddle he learned it in Ezra plastic base where she said reboot to Ezra Ezra we sinned he didn't sin but he didn't want to embarrass those who did Sin so he took the he took the took it on the chin for the team right says gamara um and the gemara cites is that but there's a difference here yeah is saying we he's saying not only did I we in plural sin in all the other cases the individual got up and said I'm taking the blame individually so it means no one else sin but that's not what did it's not that he is removing the question about who else was sitting by stepping forward he said you all did it okay good but maybe tomorrow's Lima Israel why is he including himself in it why is he including himself to say you know I'm the only one that didn't sin and everybody else did but he could also say it if he says beneath is thrall he's not saying he or you're not saying he was part of he's not saying he's not part of it okay I just don't think that the lesson in terms of it's not exactly parallel no okay so look so it's not even some apples to apples Listen to listen to this point for a minute they want to ask where is from from Yeshua or from my shopping has a famous question on this Kamara that why did have to learn from a mayor who learned it from who learned it from Chicago learned it from Yeshua who learned it from Maisha just say that but mayor learned it from Maisha why did Romeo have to learn from his Rabbi he learned it from his Rabbi he learned from Israel why can't you say I learned it you know from the from the first generation so you know it's like people who say yes why you do this I follow the the path of the rambam to a lot of good Island between you and the rambam you know you don't follow the random your father of your generation why says something very interesting and that is you know people say if only the sky was alive then I would listen to the Godzilla but today we don't have good Island right that's like the most common refrain people always say no we don't have good Island anymore you should know that if these earlier exam were alive you would not be able to learn from them you couldn't relate to them well the way he says it is maybe they couldn't even relate to you and we're down here so either you know then that the the better way to say it is that we would not be able to even wrap our minds around who they are and what they mean to us so gives them for each generation the good Island that we have today are catered to us and they're the ones who we need to learn from person can't say yeah uh who's you ready no I don't listen to my Rabbi or any other rabbis in this neighborhood my rap is a villain they're going so the villain's not your Reggie you have to have somebody who you learn from right but that's uh that's a very important limo you learn from Yoda Allah from in Sanhedrin and that's that limit we learned from this pasta in Ezra okay now look at this very interesting person now the the malbum explains that in fact in a way was responsible because as leaders and especially and especially these zaveros were done beforehetsia the leaders are responsible for not speaking up and not protesting now we asked last time why didn't the leaders protest why didn't they say anything so look impossible viata now and now this is a very important word and now and now says the Bible means that they were about two perform an uh Institute something that was very daring and very courageous and that is they were going to force the Jewish men to get rid of their Geisha wives now you don't think it's a big deal at the end of the day whether you whether you agree with what these people did they were married to these women and they had children so to forcibly tell people get rid of your wife get rid of your children is not something that people are just gonna say yeah you know no no problem give me 10 minutes this is definitely going to be met with great resistance and obviously it's gonna be met with great resistance because there were great people in arts Israel and nobody could do anything until Ezra got there and in fact the album points out on the word viata in plastic Bays the Atta yeshu mcphail Israel look back in possibilities and now there's hope for the Jewish people why now says before Ezra got to Israel there's nothing the good Island could do about it why what do you mean pull up called kairis and says they don't do anything it doesn't do anything what what could do something you need the the red bottom need to be invested by the government with jurisdiction over marital issues over religious issues you know whether you agree with the rabban or you don't it's the fact that until now they control marriage means that an artist is from most marriages are Orthodox so it has a certain uh it gives the people in Israel certain security as irreligious as somebody may be if they want to get married in Earth's Israel unless they want to go to Cyprus and you know get married some other way the fact that the robotum have authority over marriage invest them with a great power now Ezra was invested with this uh Power with this religious power if you look back in Paris Zion foreign whoever doesn't follow your religion hey Lamaze either I'm going to kill them or I'm going to uproot them or I'm gonna torture them in other words Ezra is being invested with by the king of the world with religious Authority so until Ezra comes as great as the godalem were which remember who who did we have there okay back to Ezra the beginning of Pakistan the album we spoke with that many times that the ancientes said the world stands on Torah avoidance which was avoida and Nehemiah built and Ezra was so even those rhubaval and yahushua were very great people they were you know their hands were tied they had no religious Authority they cannot enforce people marry Jews so now Ezra comes and that's what the posca means so now the Jewish people have hope so therefore he says like this now now is there anything better than for do to raise a guy sometimes bezen could take extra legal measures but within the legal system it does not there are not too many allowances given to besden to really take action Beyond somebody that we give the guy malcus so we'll take Marcus and it'll continue to live with him he's only as powerful as what the governing Authority allows them to do right no different from them and from Ezra or Mala or whatever so no a Jewish melach a Jewish King if he's giving autonomy right if he's reigning on his own if he's really a puppet of somebody but even but let's say the Jewish people would have been autonomous even in an autonomous Jewish state there's very little Basden could do if someone marries a gun has non-jewish children living in his house what are you gonna do look I give him Marcus now what there's no capital punishment you don't get capital punishment for living with a guy so what exactly is bezen going to do over here know they're fine so we won't get an Alia I don't do business with him but they can put sanctions we're dealing maybe with thousands of people we're dealing with many many people if an entire communities have married so but if they had the real power yeah and then we never gotten to that so now the question is they're looking to be invested with extra legal power as a business there's nothing they could do there is no Melech right now there's no King Jewish King a Jewish King could have extra legal power so the Malibu is going to explain they're about to do something that as a nation a nation sometimes could co-opt the power that a king would ordinarily have foreign let's seal a covenant for our God to get rid of all the women and those who are born from them by the Council of God and those who tremble to fulfill God's Mitzvahs they will help us now what does this mean what does it mean like the Council of the Torah there's a famous comment of the zayar that the 613 missiles are 613 8 size 600 613 pieces of advice which fits very well into the language of the postok by the Council of Hashem written by the Council of Hashem the Torah says you can't do it Tara doesn't advise you not to do it but the zeigar understands that all the midst of Sultana their Sound Advice send them away where do they go to I mean Jose yesterday Israel I mean yeah maybe not maybe so maybe it's more than really to take them out of the land the malbum says this is what I want to bring out from the pasok that Ezra understood that I peed in Tyra there's very little he could do to enforce this rule and he needed to scare the people with stricter punishment than the Torah had to offer what's he gonna tell the people whoever doesn't matter whoever doesn't get rid he's gonna get mouth kiss it's not the biggest biggest uh deterrent in the world so therefore Ezra imposed and created a new kayak and that is that if the nation as a whole is macabo something with a schwa then the nation attains the status of melach the same way the Melech represents the interests of the people and therefore he could take extra legal measures so too if all the people agree to something with a covenant with a they're elevated they gain a certain elevated status that they can impose punishment even stricter than the terror itself so the people who have the guy usual wives are going to take us so Ezra enforced to Rob him to take a schwa that they're going to get rid of their wives whereupon if they don't take care of the get rid of their wives now they are going to uh be able to be faced with death penalty wow there's the status in halal of the shua that is taken under duress they were forced to take ashore does that have the same I lost the status well Ezra did not force them but this was sort of uh you know a critical moment in their history where Ezra gathered in the makama miktos and he sort of rallied the people to motivated them agreed to take the Shiva right I listen to the language of them album like we find Sesame they're forever wanted them more to seal a covenant and he would be able to punish and meet our punishment to Claud Israel through this Torah procedure of a national schwa okay and therefore come is telling Ezra kiola we're with you be strong and act as a gun up and he made the princess and he went so we know that Ezra when he heard this news for the first time what did he do he tore his garment s that the Jews had married got him he tore his garments he plucked at us here he sat desolate until the evening and in the evening he got up from his fast which means he was still fasting but the plastic says when the day was over he still couldn't eat so the position he went to this um chamber he didn't eat bread um couldn't drink the treachery of the gala now we're going to reveal something now who was Ezra was Ezra as it was the navi because we find in Malachi also he is dealing with the the intermarriage and they're familiar derives that Ezra in fact was the navi Malachi why would you call Ezra that was another name why Kumar says it was the same person what's the same person same person you see Ezra aside from being in the suvim also said Nevada he said is recorded and say for Malachi and by the way it fits in very good as we pointed out for the malba many times that again they fortify the amoda and the camera fortified and as a fortified right now if Ezra was Malachi what was the very last of Malachi says that's the last navu in the Torah even so if Ezra's responsibility is to enforce and uphold the amoratory that fits in very well with with the fact that this was his last prophecy okay I'm not confused about the sequence here of the fasting and he now gets the support of the people he should be upbeat well here's the thing as he's returning to Earth is thrall he got the report and he fasted and when he gets there I think this should have come earlier okay he faster than them you know and then that whole series of well he got at first Ezra receives a report about the the what was happening but he did not yet take action all he did was he dive in publicly again sort of takes responsibility on behalf of the people and He suggests this procedure whereupon Ezra still is so mourning that he did not break his fast yet the fact when did Olympian when did that happen that's it before he broke his fast in other words and so they all agree yes and then he got up so he was visiting during this whole yeah he had not broken the test yet even after he made them swear it says look in plastic hey he made them swear and Ezra still was so distraught that he went to the special lishka the special chamber and he cried and he still didn't break his fast this happened when he first came this sounds like it happened I believe later I believe they didn't tell him right away because we're going to see that it happened in Nissan erc1 times I think on the 20th day of Kiss slave and we know Ezra came back earlier than kiss slave when did Ezra come back foreign the chronology of when these events were happening okay we'll we'll uh go into this next time you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com