The Book of Nechemia: Chapter 5 - Poverty in Jerusalem

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com it's actually quite appropriate to learn say for nahemiah on Shiva Thomas after until the walls of you shalim were broken so now we're learning about the walls of design being fixed so we should talk about to see the restoration of the uh but in terms of the date of when the walls that we shine were breached the first time so the mishna says in the SEPTA Tinus and you just learned in that feeling that this is one of the five tragedies that happened on Thomas right we read it in the house this morning and then however if you look and say for Year meow impact base the plastic says in the fourth month on the ninth day of the month here the hunger was very strong and the pastor says the walls were breached so it's Astera the mission says it happened on your Zion and the posix says it happened on the ninth so the gemara says who remembers of the gemara says we shine it was the ninth of Thomas it was the 17th of Thomas so why do we fast the 17th says that's the Corbin that we're suffering from today therefore we fast on the 17th the that's the answer of the Babbling however the usami gives a different answer your xiaomi says apostick says in year Mia the ninth and not the 17th it's a big Kasha says you show me the plastic made a mistake [Applause] says you show me the Plastic Man the mishna got it right the pasta got it wrong man was under the siege the lotion of him so you show me is they made a mistake they got the wrong date so the question is you want to say the mishna but the Novi made a mistake how could you say the navi made a mistake so Tyson says what is the shami mean toe um it was so disastrous it was so catastrophic there was so much bahola there's so much confusion the people wrote the wrong date they didn't know if they're coming or going but why would the plastic write the wrong date the answer is the plastic wanted a capture for us the confusion of the time of course the navi knew it was the 17th the plastic wanted us to get a little Glimpse how terrible the situation was cesus Forum the pasta did not want to change from what I thought so it doesn't mean the xiaomi doesn't mean that they actually didn't know that the navi made a mistake but rather they wanted to preserve the the catastrophic effects of the time if you read the process how do you know his computer answer is the date yeah you can't just learned you have to learn it together with the tars of alpha okay so therefore it's very appropriate to be learning say from The Cameo today because it talks about the restoration of the walls of yerushalayim okay we're in parag dalid and we're going to be reading from pasok your dalid so nakami tells the people who are all scattered in different locations of the wall look this is not good for us to be scattered we're spreads in here dalid I did says the place that you hear the sound of the surfer comes to Elena that's where you should gather to us our Gods will fight our Gods will fight for us we're a pair of dalid okay so so that's um in the place that they hear the sound of the sofa says you should gather there will fight for us okay now this is a very interesting possible this is not only a gamara in Aza tough on the days it's also a gamara and bra size and that a zombie base okay a very interesting thing before we learn the plastic we're gonna take a poll when does what why well when does the day start when does the Day begin at night him when does it start no no not when there's a night start when does the day start today the daylight which one it's nice which one you want okay so the plastic smells like this and we would do the work half of them would hold on to the Spears foreign until the Stars coming out so we see two uh seemingly seeming number one they started the day alloys 72 minutes after our lives 4 25 the fair started today this morning right right okay and the day does not end the day ended very long day so a day could be 16 hours 18 hours 20 hours if you're gonna go from Alloys to taste today now is this a conclusive proof that a day begins at Alloys and ends and says not at all that's when they started and that's when they stopped stop to say that they end stays just saying that's what they did so that's all we need further second also at that time I said to the people ish each man venara and his servant yalina they need to sleep in your sign because they have to work during the day they need to be on guard at night the night will be a watch Let Me In other words they basically didn't get sleep because while they work during the day they were on guard from the enemy at night and the day was from this definition of day and night is because it says at night we guarded and the day we did malacha and they already defined what their day was in the previous classic from alloys says the gemara in brachice on days says that we see from here but the day begins and it ends with broadcast [Music] you can use a big brother okay looks like that too yeah than the brown one got two shelves up an announcement from a sponsor Ed okay based on the days says the gamar like this Kamar says when the night when the day is over simulator even though there's no proof there is a hint we did half the guys are holding the spears okay so that's the right that's the zakira that the day begins Alloys and ends nates says and it says why do I need another person that even is not conclusive from had it just been from you would think they started the day early and they ended late it doesn't necessarily mean that day begins early and ends late okay so this is an important that you learned from you're dying veinani Bianca on all right now and not I not my brothers not my servants not the men of the watch that are behind me we do not take off our clothing what does that mean that means they're on guard 24 hours a day and at nine o'clock at night they don't put on their pajamas and slippers and their their robe and sit back and relax no there's no resting ish each man sending into water what in the world does that mean that's going back on the word ain in the beginning of the Posse this is something they don't do they don't even take off their clothing to lie down they don't take off their clothing to launder their clothing all they do is right in other words nobody takes off their clothing to to send it to the laundromat they take a shower they were good they were good okay who they worried about being attacked for they were worried about being attacked from a group of uh of residents of who used to live in new shalim and the outside who wanted to to stop them from from building the uh walls of each line okay so now now that the wall has been complete now we're going to learn about some of the challenges that they faced in the times of Nehemiah and what did about it and challenge number one is going to be the tremendous poverty the people we're suffering from people do not have a way of supporting their family to the point where they were indebted to other Jews other Jews lent them money and as payments these Jews would collect these people's movables and then their land and the people had no way to support their family the outcry of the people and their wives was very great because of the word l means because of their brothers the Jews now what does this mean there's a lot of poverty so who's gonna deal with this who's gonna come to the rescue what about Ezra the name of the State Fair is safer Ezra what happened to Ezra what happened where's Ezra now we asked this question before when the Wolves of the city were being built who was building the walls of the city what happened to Ezra so we said earlier well Ezra was specifically appointed to be the head of religious activities the building of the wall was the not a religious activity that was the infrastructure of the city and therefore Ezra was not really authorized to be involved with that but here we're dealing with the religious state of the people where is Ezra Daniels where is because activity not religious Monday to bring the uh the uh so as I say if you remember that we learned a malbum and say for Ezra we learned in amalgam say for Ezra which is very important to remember if you want to remember how to remember it it's the zoo like going to the zoo park Zion the malbum delineated for us there were three areas of authority and they were divided among three groups the first area was the avoid in the basement the Binion based on mcdosh that was conducted and that was led through two people through Bothell and Yeshua he was a good guy yeah then that is called the amuro avoida then you have the Ahmad Ezra that's why when Ezra comes to the sing Scene It says who Ezra Allah and the matter connects Ezra Allah um that Ezra was like and then you have the the auspices of social welfare in charge of social welfare so here you have people need parnosa who's the natural uh leader for that that is okay so what happened hey Piata and now excuse me plastic base now the the sukum are going to describe for us three groups of people each one within with a different taina yeah some said banenu our sons there are many we need to buy Grain the north law we need to eat we need to live in other words we have big families we gotta support them help us out Rashi says they're giving a reason why they're crying out yes some of the poor where many and now you know what we have to do you know how we're going to make panasa now we're gonna have to sell our children we have to eat so you have to sell the kids that's the only option and they were completely but as slaves to the Nobles to the aristocrats right that's what some people said foreign we have to buy Grain in hunger who are these people there are some poor they had already given their real estate to other people as security for the loans they took out to be able to buy for another word they had no they had no money they couldn't buy food so they borrowed a thousand bucks so the the aristocrats said yeah how could I trust you you can pay me back so he said fine take my take my land take my land the question is what interest rates is the question well we'll see did they well well let's see about that let's go back to public base for a minute the plastic says foreign means many we have many many kids kids says that's not what it means look in the Royal bag and possibles we have not we have all many of them it's very unusual expression we many that's how you talk we're raising them since when does the word rabbit mean to raise well their their back says like the person says we raise them and we grew them up I have another proof you know we are in the Torah rabbit means to raise if you look on the radakan hamesh there's very interesting so we think Prue is two raise them like this pasok Robin a national Robin we raised Peru be fruitful and raise them so next time you have to drive your kid to carpool so you have to have in mind to be makayam the Mitzvah Dai Raisa of uravu it's a Mitzvah to raise your kids whoever okay okay goodbye yeah fine now now there's another Shadow River the album says excuse me we are lending them out the ribbous says we have to give our children as security to take loans on them for ribbous so in other words these Jews are being taken like um like the word um okay so that's the second group the second group said we had to give away our real estate as collateral we borrowed money Lomita for the taxes of the king foreign we already borrowed money on our fields and Vineyards and therefore since we had already Rabbi said what's the difference between pasta gimmo and pasta salad they're also talking about their field as collateral not for the government the IRS has a lien one is for the government taxes one is for their own you know so current tarashi the the fir a lot for the government's Posse is for personal loans the second was where they have for government that said yeah for IRS that's what we have to we have taxes we got to pay that's the difference six the first person is for ourselves second positives to pay the IRS City they gave the taxes so so impossible in other words plastic down as they already gave away their fields in the previous years and now they have nothing as collateral right past the gimmel they're afraid this is what they're they're going to have to do and this is what they're doing okay like the Flesh of our brothers is our flesh are we any less than our brothers that they're lording over us that they're hounding us is our flesh stiffened in their flesh Kevin our children are like their children their children are like ours in other words why are they better than us who are they new we have now had a force our children our daughters to be slaves for years there are those among our daughters that have been pressed we don't have the werewithal to get them back our filled in Vineyards already belong to others says Rashi foreign as the rich people just because they're rich people think just because someone's Rich who means they're smart that doesn't mean they're smart it just it's just uh the stroke of mazel that's the hashgrapher but what happens okay isn't that a situation so now in mishpatim it does talk about the concept of evidence however selling your daughter or son as a slave is a last option only once you've sold all your movables and all your real estate that's the very very last option they want to be able to uh save their assets should you say that rich people should really you know together with the uh with the rest of you know that's no problem well social which goes first you said yourself or send the trial what goes first selling his daughter over your son over yourself over yourself selling your son there's no there is no such thing as song or something there's no institution and Judaism of selling your son only your daughter only who's a minor one why make more money like a Russian bride or something like one of these days well it doesn't say but that the now over here I don't think it's only talking about they sold their uh minor daughters it could be they went against the halacha and they sold even uh my uh look they sold their sons there is no institution of selling their sons so apparently it was a very desperate situation and what these onion wanted was that the ashiram should give him a break forego the loans and let them start over so the plastic says I was very angry about this when I heard their outcry they said and I heard these words I was very upset I was very disturbed I was very aggravated what does that mean in in gumari you have a lotion of that's old what happened these people came back now they're coming back and in this period of time they I don't know from Real Estate or they they took back their ancestral lands what's the difference but it's not like there was a thriving economy in your shalim what are you gonna do for a living room they came back and were able to reacquire their The Equinox or being in the house it was an ancestral land perhaps their grandparents or great grandparents and they reacquired it but what does it mean by imole what does that mean control you're emotional they get very emotional they couldn't think straight there's a lot of pressure going on huh mean to take counsel why because the word meleth really means someone who acts with so now she learns my heart gave me advice the right thing but the album says like you were saying that sometimes the person gets angry the anger takes control of them so value Malik liebe I ruled over my heart in other words I acted rationally all right and I quarreled I I reprimanded the Nobles and the officers and I said to him are you are you indebting your brothers are you being a money lender to your brothers says why are you doing this you're lending them money so you can take the real estate and take their children give them the furnace even though if you look in the safe what's a bigger mitzvah is it a bigger message to lend money or to give sadaka you're better to give what he said is it better to lend if you're dealing with somebody who you could lend them money and they could take that money and start a business and invest and you could get them on their feed and this way you can actually give them more because you're lending to them you can event then it's better to lend it to them because it's not as embarrassing to them why because because they feel they're not taking it Tobacco they'll give it back but when you're dealing with an uneven there's no way to pay back then it's a bigger Mitzvah to give it but my ton of Gamora to give it to DACA so uh says look who you're dealing with over here why are you acting like a money lender I did this very diplomatically I was able to gather a large group of people around me to to gain momentum though to gain momentum to my cause when I'm reprimanding them I got a lot of people around so they should feel the pressure you with them we bought our brothers the Jews foreign what in the world does this mean says think about what happened how did we get these Jews back to Earth's Israel you rich guys you redeemed them from Bubble you paid the ransom to bring them back that's how they got them they they paid for the rights to bring these dudes back and now what's happening today uh yeah I don't think we we had that before it doesn't mention that another I thought they were ransomed in order to come back didn't the king say okay I mean they didn't pay anything well what's their answer maybe the other guys who were part of the uh people were trying to discussion but when the family is doing he's explaining to him how absurd they're acting first they Ransom them to bring them back to Earth as well now they're buying them as slaves eventually they're gonna when they don't have money they're gonna have to sell them to guyim and then they're going to be called upon to redeem them so you might as well just give them the Matana before you lose all your money was they originally Ransom that's what the plus success so what kind of Ransom apparently from this plastic you see that there were some Jews right she says that were bashivya that were purchased from the game so the policy says we purchased our brothers the Jews our soul to guyimano in accordance with our means you're gonna one day sell your brothers to gaim and then you're gonna eventually buy them back Venom carolano they'll be sold back to us so you might as well just give them the gift now and and allow them to stand on their own feet because any way you can eventually one day have to spend the money when after you sell them to guyan this is [Music] going to buy you yeah fine okay but remember is trying to convince them to buy them back this is not a Torah issue this is a social welfare issue oh it's a terror issue to teach them that they have to give the doctor at the proper uh that's a religiousism this fell in under the domain of uh social welfare they were silent they didn't have anything to say and I said you're not doing good you need to walk with the fear of God from the shame of our enemies the guardian what does that mean from the shame of our enemies was telling them was you should really walk with yours Hashem but even if you're not a yarisha Mayim and even if you're not ready nevertheless you need to act as if you're walking with your session why so that you don't see have shame from the going they're going to say that what are they going to say about you when they see Jews learning over other Jews there what do you think the guy am I going to say it says and don't think I have nothing to lose because I also have money lent to other Jews and I personally will forgo my loan the gamani and also my brother's an RI and my servants I lent them silver and grain death return them as of today so they say in their fields come in The Vineyards they say they're Olive Orchards their homes um and the hundreds of pieces of silver the green hatiraj and wine that you are owed by them that they too have to be my you want the rich guy we will hold it over here wish you all an easy fit uneasy you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com