Parsha Perspectives for Today (Tazria/Metzora)

good morning everyone thank you so much for being with us in my video there we go thank you so much for meeting with us this morning for our study of parsha this is a yong-ha edition of our partial perspectives will try to specifically draw messages for today as we reflect on what is the greatest lost the greatest devastation in our history blam Atia of humankind and trying to draw some lesson some messages particular to today from our Pacha offering par shoppers we have the honor of a double pocket as rhea and matura i want to our generous sponsors for this year dr. Becky and Abby cats and family and memory he's father David Grossman mr. president bin Menachem mulish thank you to the Katz's for their generosity and their leadership around the world and their friendship and their helping a sponsor for sure precious the Ginza page 608 in the arts grow stone commish and begins with the story a woman who gives birth even emotionally more God spoke to Moses saying open a show and yaki says Rhea the elder Zahar Ayesha Keith says Rhea woman conceives and she's birth to a baby boy the two most of us haven't claimed he does soft ah then she has a certain impurity she needs to purify herself from that it says yucky says Rhea if it won't Steve's and there's a matter there laughing debate does conception need to happen naturally in order for the laws that the Torah now delineates to be true namely that if the 8th the day after birth falls on Shabbos bris Mila the abreast supersedes the laws of Shabbos is that only true of she not only delivers naturally we know you'll say no for the woman was the c-section a baby born through cesarean section does not proceed Shabbos that bris would be delayed of the following day the question is if a baby is conceived not naturally namely through IVF or using one of the brilliant bless technologies we have today would the supersede Chavez with the Brisby delayed post can debate the word Keith Kazuya to conceive visit only through a natural conception as well oh wait their machine Imam Bassam I saw on the 8th day this takes place and there are consequences 33 days and so in so 4 to 7 days 14 33 66 depending on the birth of male depending on the birth of a female very very interesting Aristotle also fuller quickly Lahav zeal he uses these exact numbers for 17 7 14 33 and 66 and so on but I want to draw your attention to Rashi rabbit she says here noting yucky sesriem the woman conceives in gives birth Amaro similar to shame zero social Adam Africa Megan Mackay evolved my separation ships cattle rustlers marketers Naima hiya both just like when it comes to the story of creation first we have the creation of a hive of the animal kingdom the animal work we have domesticated not domesticated and we have fowl and only then on the sixth day of creation do we have the creation of man so - now we find out of the same analogy the same order as patient itself what is wrong some way talking about what is rashly talking about their inferring the question that bothered then maybe not you which is what is the Smythe's perishes what is the connection the juxtaposition of the end of last week's Paschal to begin this week's at the end of last week we read about the laws of Cassius what are the criteria that determine whether an animal is a candidate to be consumed whether it's kosher or non kosher criteria for animals birds fish so turtle wonders what is the connection between the animals of last week's fire shot and then the beginning of this week's partially shaky says Rita the birth of human being and that's what he's teaching the same way in the order of creation first God created the animals and then God created man - we see the whole of the animals and now we come to an hour parsha the laws machine just like its ear a social other than the creation of man followed animal so to the Torah the laws of man follow animal review of its mass Kiev of the near wonders - Torah what does it mean kiss Shane what does it mean the Torah of man follows the Torah of animals what is the Torah of man so he says the followed the Torah if you look in the camera Monica has all several times those reasons name and a Rademacher ballotine what it was man created less wise man dependent creation but the remaining Tollefson what does it mean Torah is last and he says the following ain't susima bahama this is symbolic it's not just a sign yes boom God though there's a foundational axiomatic principle we are deriving and learning from here Cesaro says a stack of Ric O'Barry Alma God did not create a random way he didn't just take this project that he's know let's mix like called man let's make animals let's make it go heaven and earth let's make food that's maybe time you know intentional it was all strategic Taco Bell Raisa uber a Alma God looked into his Torah and he created the world meaning first he knew what were the that he wanted to inculcate what were the ideas he wanted to cultivate with it's created a world constant those values and ideals he wanted us to be disciplined created telling called food and sexuality he want us to have a time you must to be able to understand different relationships parent-child employer-employee master-servant husband wife all of these are paradigms and reason which we create and connect to uh Shem his stock oh boy I see looked into his Torah so it's not that God created a world and then he said I think you lations I need governing principles I need rules in order to operate in this world so he didn't create the world and then make the instruction manual he made the instruction manual the Torah his stack of ERISA he looked into that instruction manual called the Torah hoobarama and any created a world so Torah and creation there's a synergy they were done simultaneously this is not just a theoretical idea it is in practice how do you know that says when you know common it's considered for a moment that's because I'll say taiyang meat sauce never missing i the 613 commandments that we were given at her scene ie we have 248 positive and we have 365 negative and as I'll tell us it corresponds with the anatomy of the human body the 248 pounds of Commandments are connected Rumaki varnish above them the 248 Oregon's Lindsey Marcos Kavya moe the 365 negative prohibitions correspond with should I give him the 365 arteries sinews veins within a person forget anatomically medically right now how you count them and calculate them and does it actually is it accurate but what has I wanted to communicate to us is that the Torah is not simply a response to the world that was created the world is the response to the Torah and what God wanted us to understand that's what it means I haven't my Vina can call Tork Allah says review him that Avram observed the entire Torah even before it was given how where did he learn Torah from I'm gonna believe me may acts Malamud the medicine braziers Rama tells us he learned it from himself he counted his own against he counted his veins and arteries and he understood 248 365 now I know how to live in this world the human being is a living model a living example of what the Torah of what the world Howard meant to live so therefore that's what it means cable cha turn about you see there came a dear Sonia - nothing your dad told us so if we understand the secret the foundation of our very creation we can understand the Torah that governs of us the idea of the values of Y we are of why we are here I saw another beautiful idea I'm from Ravi ahkam RA a radmann it says the follower has seen the shuttle evident why was it what does a Russian mean just like in the order of creation first it was the animal world then it concluded the pinnacle of creation was man generic human man so too now when giving the teller that govern first we talked about the governs the animal world and then we move over to the laws that govern the human world says the Ravikumar a raftsman my doing whenever alderman but here I'm Bree Arakawa her if man is the pinnacle if man is the peak if man is the closest to following in the footsteps imitation of Hashem shouldn't we have been first a priority why are we last listen to what he answers the Cavani was done intentionally it was done and strategically why because Hashem wanted man to come into a world in which he would look around and marvel we would see the minutia the details the animal world we would see the thousands the millions of species we'd see them on the land and in the air and in the water we would see and we will marvel Liz Bonnin of a hacker but GABA Saborio Bishop Baraka Lila he designed it in this order and in this way so that we would look around at this world we would see a sham everywhere and we would marvel but I want to just lastly share with you the third shot in this opening suck huh suck which other thing very much relates to today yo my show ah and one of the lessons were meant to learn from it and it comes from the Sun so for emotion so for Pressburg says the herself of the follower why specifically rules in the laws of he'll close to MA we're talking about impurity contamination we're talking death we're talking about negative energy force influence it is specifically here in the context of the laws of Tama that were given this teaching King she is you know social Adam just like the Atia of man was listed after animal so to the top man comes after animal and to answer the question the sunsoft were points out that the Metris the Gemara Rachid specifically says the word yet zero so as opposed to what other word what other word might you have used since this I'm so far Bria so if I were to describe shi xuxia mani bodacious Marie assalam we call of the Berea all of the creation of the world so one of us Arab eyes employing the word yet steerer rather than Bria a much more natural and listen to what he answers he says yes sirrah to fashion to craft a mold mobile a like a robbery at a gas station Adam you serious the word that we used to describe the physical construct the physical molding or shaping of a material a material object grittier mora a thing like a root initial atom the word maria needs to create something metaphysical the word yet sheila comes to create something physical behind it's here my socks on Britta Salima Bree the Sodom karma luck oh so when it becomes a fashion more than the physical creation of man we were last Varro who last by the way because the order of creation follows the hierarchy we Lance in sophistication we advance in purpose we advance in the closeness to God by the way some point out that it's not man who is the pinnacle and peak of creation if you follow the orders of the six days of creation man is created the sixth day but man is the penultimate creation who is the ultimate creation what is the pinnacle of creation who is the most advanced and sophisticated part of creation woman is extracted from man woman is the is the end some like to say but we see the creation of the androgynous figure together of man woman in combination as the pinnacle or peak of creation so says the size of sulfur in the physical world man is last but in the spiritual world man is first and this corresponds with what we saw him hero from sin that God looked into a world he looked into his Torah and he said I have created this world to give man an opportunity to a relationship with me I created a world for the world of souls every soul that was destined to exist was created in the moment of creation and exists forever and is only housed in this physical world for a finite period of time which in the context of eternity is actually rather store so the physical manifestation of our being we are a soul that has a body we're not a body that has a soul the physical manifestation of our of our being the body is the peak comes after animal but the spiritual part of who we are our soul came from the time of the very creation of the world a moment the conception of creation we are the factor first Lathika sonata summer services why were these laws taught in the context of Tula caching she theory social democracy up a mock I wrote with my sebaceous tourism is for my chakra Taurus bhai both lanes in the term a numeric on what's the Torah Hill costumer in other words when we lend them only our physical being we live in this material world we're gonna guide it by the pursuit of the material then we've made contact with Tamar that breathes impurity the purest who we are the best part of who we are is our soul is our godliness is our discipline is our dignity the lowest part who we are is our base animal physical part of who we are and one of the lessons of Yamashiro on a lesson of history of the Holocaust is how in Germany we're supposed to be arguably the most sophisticated the most cultured the most advanced segment of society at its time who were the Nazi Party you know they they did a study of the members of the Nazi Party and what degree of education they had and disproportionately their degrees were advanced graduate degrees PhDs these were not the dregs of the society the mobsters the lowly of society who rose to be able to invent a final solution who systematically put together an attempt of genocide to exterminate an entire innocent people these were supposedly the educated the culture the advanced but you see that if there's no soul if there's no God if there's no connection to that which is absolute objective morality guiding us to a world of light and goodness and truth you see what can happen even to a physical being who supposedly are more sophisticated and advanced who represent progress and evolution over the animals are in fact lower and less than the animal world what the Nazis did what they accomplished was worse than what animals would do how animals would bathe work charged with repairing this world to transforming it to a place of godliness to see filter of our soul not through the externality is superficial of the material or the body and the Nazis represented with youma show up Marx is worst of humanity when you manatee actually forfeit their soul and instead are driven like animals even one can be intellectually advanced and sophisticated and yet when one acts like an animal forfeiting their soul then in fact for the entire purpose of creation of why we are here Ishika sorry of the elders offer Amara seem like a shame she tear us so Africa Baima hi both kosterow so our Torah which should sure just inspires govern us which should inform us and which should push us each and every days to be better than an animal who came into that animal impulse don't give in to the animal instant don't give in to the animal behavior which of course is the connection to what's about to come after because the laws of tarrasque that now take up the bulk of both of our partial Saskia and Matsuura also reflect happens when man gives into that base instinct to gossip about another to be driven by ego ego stands for edging God out when God out when you're driven by your ego this world is not enough room for both us and God so either we're driven by the directives by the image by the vision that Hashem wants us to live our own lives and how we're meant to repair his world or were driven by our ego we've ended God out and instead we gossip which driven by our arrogance by our Envy were driven by our desire temptation lust and all of that yields a life of Sorrows which we'll talk about momentarily why is Saros the antidote and what way does that in what way just help us heal or rehabilitate us from that experience but the message I want to begin to with and share with you and I think permeates not only had a partial but what today is about is to remind us what can happen when we do not promote and we don't nourish our soul or godly instinct but instead we allow our animal Drive so because gossip destroy relationships friends that could hurt partner sushi it could create a world that sorrows and he much more to condemn estate you could have the rise of a power a Nazi Party who was democratically elected by a people we're looking for fit their godliness and their humanity to act literally the group of like a group of animals is what can happen he saw Julia the elders occur Tora social Adam our Torah who we are who were meant to be how were meant to live our lives has to be transcended be greater has to be further progressed than the animal world in this context the Torah tells us something very interesting parakeet base PASOK love Torah says within the most humanitarian of a stomach especially so Lola who been known of the solar saw Tessa wait ela Cohen on the completion of the days of her purity a woman is given birth for a son for a daughter she brings a sheep in the first year and she brings as well as a Corbin Ben Yona at or a young daughter of Turtledove and she brings I'm a peso homo she brings them to the opening of the OMA where the where the coin is with the Cohen is awaiting it's a very interesting law the woman who's given birth brings Kerberos one of the carbona she brings is actually a sin-offering there on banquet so huzzah because the woman on the labor dead who is enduring tremendous pain long before she was able to receive a today's woman you know they joke in Boca Raton natural childbirth you know the definition of natural childbirth in Boca Raton is giving birth without your makeup on it's natural childbirth I joke I won't say who because I have to live with them in quarantine now but some people ask for the epidural when they get the second line back on the pregnancy test that's when they're ready for the epidural but in antiquity before the epidural woman endured terrible pain from childbirth that was the consequence of hammers behavior each of us suffer from that judgment Adam hava and the snake and and there are bond quotes from cross also a woman on the labor bed would be agony screaming in pain and no matter how much Lamaze but says breathe deep relax it's okay she is busy cursing him out and saying I am never do it again I am never having another child it will never happen again and of course the moment she knows that the child in her arms and gets the joy and knock us please God she she regrets that pledge and therefore the Karma sacrifice is commensurate with it but among the sacrifices she's told to bring a Ben Jana or a tour she brings either a a dove or a turtle dove a young dove or a turtle dove very fascinating this Jana this dove that she's bringing fact is the very metaphor for the Jewish people and for our relationship we just read in a week ago sadly we've read it to ourselves not together ensure that we will again in the future but we read sure sure sure sure Missa is the custom of many is to read it on Pesach whether to ourselves or out loud and in there we have a beautiful beautiful puzzle that my dear friend simcha liner turned in made faint it's a famous song that sauce that's like a great song history leagoo see right I see you on a CTV cheer sure we sing show her mouth describes hush polling out to us and he says pitifully yahoodi open up your heart to me God his words of perfection when he connects with us miss Celia classy open up your heart to me says the Ramona shallow poem and how to speak on how to see my sister Raya see my love Yona see my dove time I see my perfection now I understand why God says open your heart to me write the whole story sure sure are these two in love the husband and the wife a sham and asks the donor Neriah and they can't connect their timing is off one makes the gesture one takes the initiative the other is unavailable and it's this effort their sink until they finally connect and one of the messages of shares is that our relationship with Russia Moscow book and I'll just add here with Jung my show as well that when we consider the systematic extermination of a six million of six million dr. David Bernstein who offered a talk turn our show just before mine and he's speaking again later Dean of parties an expert in the Holocaust share the statistics from the demographers do you know that every other people who lost in some cases like the Russians multiples the Jewish people lost in the Holocaust has not only recovered those numbers but surpassed them the Jewish people are the exception 75 years later and we've not yet gotten back to the same population that we were before the Holocaust that is the almost unprecedented impact of that devastation and it can help relieve one with theological dilemmas with the question of why bad things happen to good people of where it is God theodicy how could have happened so we need to know from share Sheeran and archaea and in general that there are questions that are better than the answers that we not only don't we know we can't know to know we would be god and somehow we have to find the strength to put one foot in front of the other like Aaron and last week's partially dumb our own the de Maya ie the place of a Greta the ability with silence to put one foot in front of another last night and you can run YouTube my courage be strongly enough i interviewed dr. henry and mrs. rosie baron they both were sent on the Kindertransport they met an orphanage or married 71 years ago so 70 never seen parents have the courage to love that word themselves and therefore save them bike with them on their way and Rosie's father was the order and her of the hidden true love to raisins not credible but we I asked them at the end of the interview last night and again I encourage you to watch it it's Tom the my youtube channel how they maintained their faith and they said oh they quoted from the pun amateur row who said some people don't answers I choose not out of the questions they said we look at our lives children grandchildren great-grandchildren great-great-grandchildren not what was lost and by focusing on the good we put one foot in front of the up we choose not to have the question from them we drop quite we draw a physic strength because you know it's not lip service what they endured and what they lost and yet they have that ability like so many of our survivors who are pillars of our faith we hold on to them and they rose the source of business but of course it's understandable to be plagued by questions to be plagued by question she remembers the story then not always are we have a high with a shame relationship fluctuates there are ups and downs there are moments we feel connected and close and there are days that you'll marshal our coil with a sense of questions where we are overwhelmed with disbelief or not understanding but in this context I should piss Celia open your heart and I understand all the other metaphors I understand my sister my love my perfection of what is your Nessie why does a shell call us my dove my duck why specifically of all the animals dog is man's best friend why the Dove I've never seen someone cuddle with a dove I've never seen someone take the dog for a walk I've never seen someone grieved tremendously at the loss of their dove dove is not man's best friend why does Hashem employ the Dove miss feely open your heart to me like a dump what is it about the Dove so they weren't even enough cook from a days tells us number of yokomen Amala go knit that are you making sneeze me how two of the guests on the mall about Leona from the other one said if the tota had not been given to us we nevertheless even without the Torah could have learned some of the principles and the values with which we live our life we could have lived modesty from the cat and we went to Steve ping it and we wouldn't learn our iris monogamy from the dove and we would have learned good manners from the rooster animal lovers love this Gomorrah Erin Gough cooked you can look at the animal kingdom this great work ethic there's great loyalty there good manners there's modesty from different animals we can derive different models of how we ourselves also members of the animal kingdom can live our lives so what are we learned from the dub says that Gemara we learn monogamy from the doves and not gonna be from the Dove what does that mean so the meditation share share alpha 1:15 2 says that the owner of the Dove is innocent graceful distinguished and most of all the owner is the dog of his faithful and loyal the where's the spire going to and these are the character traits against which we are measured yonas nee-sama see hashem says open your heart like my innocent pure dove open your heart be loyal and be faithful and we see exactly in this puss ik which is why I'm bringing it up now after childbirth the woman's obligated to bring these sacrifices as we said kosher birds only the Ben young duck and the tour the turtle that were brought as poems and whatever the target gives us the option of bringing either of these species it always mentions the tour the turtle dove before the Ben Yona the Yadav our Pasha is the one exception who mostly mate elemental of us Toby Kennish Nozomi Allahu Ben yo na o tour in our partial the one exceptionally of the Ben Jana and then the Torrey release to tour the venue happier mccroskey the last night to meet them our students though I always encourage you to have your McCroskey dose of follow inside then you know that the Bala to look at the ballot or Wrexham Bala - Ramon are possible Jakov Menasha the son of the rush the hamako mocked in terms of jnana whenever the Torah talks about these two species it always puts the tour the total before lead of hurts me can except for here why Shane Thiele offended the Indian Teyana Masika tour Ben Zuko miss bow miss Avila lava a no mr. big laughter says the bar to him normally when it comes to most sacrifices the birds are brought in pairs so it doesn't matter which species he choose from the birds are brought in pairs but when it comes to this particular carbon only one bird was you the or the turtle doves you me and the birds are instinctively and naturally monogamous and loyal from life if its partner died it appears they won't meet with another for the rest of their lives so says the Beltran when you're taking only one bird better to take any no no you know why because the venue owners gonna find someone else on the tour is not only from their loyalty their monogamy their faithfulness and from here avoid the great bar to the outer helm said the quality of the Dove that were bit to emulate when a Shem says open your heart my sister my love my perfection my Jana what is God saying open your heart be as loyal to me the turtle dove to emphasize being wants from us is loyalty don't be duplicitous don't say one thing and act another be faithful and be loyal and I would argue to you this is another one of our lessons a lesson here on your mashallah and a lesson for the rest of this having to do with the notion of gossip and the result are people who say one thing they stay up others behind their back we are meant to be loyal loyal to humanity and loyal to faith to a shaman loyal to one another and loyal to our family to what I believe is the core of what it means to be family to be boiled to defend Tamsin back to stand up I always tell my children when you fight it on it's unacceptable it's intolerable but it's forgivable but you know when you're in school someone's picking out your sibling and you join in the bullies that is unforgivable because of the core of families to be loyal to one another is loyalty to be there to stand up to give the bend the dare to have their back it's family it's friendship it's what it means to be our people it's what it means to mana dates what it means to be in our future bloodshed and it's one of the lessons we learn it's the lesson we learn from the bin young to just paused for a moment within the Pacha we're gonna come back live a lot talk about we're just getting started but I wanted to just share with you for a moment on this opening section because all the laws the halacha is about childbirth and there are so many hamako suppose I'll give you an example are you - are you allowed to what do you call it let me start labor and none of you can answer me because you're all muted right now are you allowed to schedule it are you allowed to you would think I would know because most of my children were born this way I'm forgetting but are you allowed to schedule and start labor so that's a hard question if of course medically it's mandated the doctor tells you there's a reason the fluid is low the baby's in distress or there's a reason induce labor Thank You Joyce and thank God for the chat are you do slitting Berger so if this metal can mandated of course well let's say you want to for convenience I love you shouldn't be born on your grade on whose birthday where the doctors throwing anything you want that doctor to do it and there's no medical room whatsoever can you induce labor so I love the question why is it I love Jim because number one number one it's our last question because you put someone in a life-threatening situation when you go into labor labor can be life-threatening so can you do so electively but of course it's to give birth to the child of course but to do so electively is that permissible number two believe it or not one of the great posts Kim discusses the question you see cuz I learn from our parsha what is this baby doing in utero in the gestational period the baby is learning of course we're tapped on my lip and cost to forget what we've learned then the question is why why bother to begin with and the rough point out it's what gives every julep intially in its back to total when you light that spark within the Jew no matter how can I affiliated but how distance no matter how far they strayed some was alive in them why because ultimately mutuality godliness Torah is familiar to us why is it familiar because we learned it in the womb it's all learned from here one of the great posts that you induce labor spital Torah you're denying that child the opportunity to learn what the greatest Rebbe and the greatest covers to ever the angel in the womb don't delay it unnecessarily so we learn only some office and something more about a bris Mila and scheduling about childbirth and inducing childbirth we learned off his laws about a PDF of what's permissible with the reproduction technology today so this is the area of a lock and I wanted to join you extruder as your mashallah for just a few moments we'll come back to Pasha to halakha question which are almost beyond our comprehension that we can t believe or imagine asking what am I talking about alluded to last night in the conversation with the bounds but today's really young my show on the hog vara it's a big question and it was very controversial and yeah mashallah was first on our calendar not everybody agreed to its establishment there are religious personalities the brisker of and his nephew rabbi salivate check at why you the known affectionately toss that's the rub objected mashallah they felt that all of Jewish tragedy and suffering is already encompassed and included in we have a day set aside called Tish above they protested the Amish oh yeah my shower falls in Nice on it's still nice on that in month something - it's so incongruous that we are omitting talent on the one hand and yet we are grieving and mourning Yahshua on the other there were secular objections and I have a whole talk I gave him history of mashallah you can listen to it on my website a Torah it is a fascinating history to you Monsieur but ultimately am I sure I was chosen and the date that was chosen was connected to the uprising of the worst Organa and therefore it's called Yamato are not only the destruction Booya mashallah the hag hoorah means mite and reflects the Jewish people's strength in that there was this organized rebellion the Warsaw Ghetto and often there's an emphasis the physical resistance and physical belly and during the Holocaust but there was another and it's important to focus were incredible problem heroes who led such resistance and some aboard and Warsaw and elsewhere but there's another form of resistance that cannot be neglected or overlooked and it's what's called spiritual resistance when Jews didn't lose their faith when Jews didn't forfeit they'd be when news didn't stop being lawyer on another and knows it's time that is an expression of a spiritual resistance when Jews maintained a ambition and aspiration to a logic like men in the circumstance it is a spiritual resistance it is to look at the Nazis the SS hitler yimach Ananda's Akram and say you can do me food and deny me free you've got a bacon break my back you can torture me and you can kill my family but you will not take my word and be tougher than will not pay my faith and fidelity and nowhere do you see this more I think in an organized way then an extraordinary set of Chile's I have volumes it's it's at least my values I haven't called Shiloh said she must mean my maqam rubber frame oh she's that saw was a rubber the company ghetto and let us intrusion and in that covering the ghetto it was a great time of Hoffmann rather people turned him with their how lucky questions a lot of questions did you hear what I just said in the car from the ghetto and then death camps people turned to him without laughing quick now that to me in itself is unbelievable literally a believable there are people you know I had to make Pesach for the FIR where's God do you know that I've I've had to be limited and quarantine to my air-conditioned comfortable home where is God and I'm not suggesting or minimizing the pain the suffering for people who have no income right now we're afraid they're gonna pay their bills it is a very difficult time for people struggling loneliness and depression it is a very difficult time for people who have loved ones who've been sick who have lost loved ones I I have my cousin it is an extraordinarily difficult time I am not minimizing it at all all I'm saying is look at the legal loopholes and the glennon seas and the coolest and look how even then not everybody maybe not even most but there were some who expressed the spiritual resistance who chose to be a soul even when they were denied their ability to be a functioning body they continued to ask those questions and five volumes of these questions and when I like to study the truest member Mach number of oshri an amazing amazing girl who by the way scribbled the notes of the questions he was asked he talked about an additional layer of the spiritual resistance is that he wrote down the questions and his answers I think without the convenience of a library the line or Oates on a hakama brilliant mind and he hid them and buried them under the ghetto and later came back in 1959 publish them expanded upon them in the truest me my Mac there's actually a one-volume in sponsored from the Holocaust which is an English translation summary it's not a direct translation of many of these so we had time I would learn some of the tubers with you in the Hebrew we don't have time I just read to you a few of the questions in the English and I chose specifically questions connected to the beginning of our parish shop having to do with the area of pregnancy gestation of bris and so on yes question here again I was gonna read to you we don't have the time to read to you from the Hebrew did you hear from a couple of family had assimilated in the non-jews there was nothing in their daily baby that distinguish them from surrounding with Alania Gentiles they lived a life separate from the Jewish community they did not keep the Covenant poor father Algrim had never circumcised their son before T Roman the cruel enemy decreed that also now yuji's must leave the city government healed with him too ghetto setup an attendance low but this family was taken along with the rest of the Jews like sleet sheep to the slaughter all their assimilation turned out to no avail the man was cruelly murdered by the germans and his wife and were compelled to suffer exactly but all the other Jews were satisfied the ghetto walls the member of the family naturally asked themselves why must be some bonds Gentiles and they couldn't have proceeded that the Germans regard all Jews equal women the annihilated ultimately however their uncircumcised suck up the powerful sense of kinship and love the fortunate brethren he saw a way of rejoining his people but there was some comparing mohel and legato who would circumcise this twenty seven-year-old man a Jewish surgeon a man who desecrated Chavez publicly was willing to put on the circumcision so I was asked if halacha allowed the doctor to circumcise this young man in the ghetto this 27 year old man who was raised as a non Jew because it assimilated there but if only we assimilate the soul accept us will be safe and yet then as now the world cruelly reminds us that no matter how badly you try to fit in your different Europe will get to them but danke Schoen you are a lonely people - you're meant to be and now at 27 years old when he realizes that his destiny is inextricably intertwined rest of his people he wants a risk but there is no there's no shimmer Shama Samoa in the cup the ghetto only this irreligious surgeon is the proper is it okay to have a bris the beginning of our Pasha through a non-religious surgeon this was the question that he asked in the Covenant you know he was asked on August 28th 1942 a woman who had become the ghetto a woman who became pregnant in the ghetto was afraid the Germans had decreed that any pregnant woman would be murdered so she wanted to know was it permissible to get an abortion the only way to spur life was expensive the life in this unborn child again I'm not going through the answers that Shoeless and the end the breath the death first to see quotes i'm sharing the questions they give us a sense of not only in practice what women for women what people were thinking and worried but some of the spiritual resistance and heroism I shared many times the question of the of the 11-year old boy who says throw hosiery in the ghetto he says you know you and I both know I'll never make it to my bar mitzvah I'm not gonna make it to my bar mitzvah but I cannot go to my death without knowing what it's like towards filling so even though I'm not the age out of Bar Mitzvah can I start wearing filling if I have the right mindset and if I protect myself I behave in the proper way can I wear it filling no I'm not yet thirteen can you imagine that's what's on his mind that's his question in that time many of our young children would say Phil and God when people around me are being murdered corpses lying this beat people are willing to give up on God when their wife either at work in our day and age tragically we can draw strength when we learn just some of these questions the child of a Jewish woman and a non-jewish man after liberation from the Germans they supported one another he has a long question that tells us his unbelievable story of a Jewish woman who had a baby with a non-jewish man during the war was the only way she can survive and now what was the status of this child does he need a conversion the non-jewish with a non father some of the other extraordinary questions that that came up first of all a construct on this question against effort sorry not that one now coach Pitts of Yellin mayor show him somebody saved a child from the Nazis and the two of them survived together and he had no biological children of his own he adopted this child but he had saved and he wanted the child when he got called to the Torah and the child Suba that the child would consider him the father how logically he would be called to the Torah son are the one who say no adopted him rather than the sons own biological father when the war was over this iver with the Child survivor whom he had saved survivor ask LaRoche tree can he be called to the Torah with my name rather than his father's name an emotion those who are heart-wrenching chuhwa that would that dishonor his biological father who was a martyr who was among the key notion his father was a Cohen and his father was murdered by the Nazis and would it dishonor him listen to this tension this young child should he be called by his biological father who lost his life on kiddush Hashem or caught by his adopted father who saved him life and gave him life by the father who first gave him life in this world or by the father who saved his life in this world what an incredible question that he is that he is asked destruct me I saw this question that will get back to the parachuter cachet in rona rocks show them as some asylum self-conscious feel about seaboard it struck because of the extraordinary time in living we bear getting into it right now but there are people when it was simple maybe it's permissible again in Israel to make porch mignon a mere pesos mignon backyard manana if it's from when it's permissible even if it's permissible is it smart not getting into any of that right now but this question last anniversary in a very different context in the Covenant ghetto they were Jews who were hiding they were Jews who were in hiding spaces so they couldn't see each other they could only each other can you combine and create a minion and you can owe each other but you can't see each other you shan-rock showing this miss pilant is that how I feel about Seaborg does that constitute to the Seaboard what an incredible question he was asked and think the contrast to our time were choose to put ourselves in such circumstances having the privilege of being able to save ourselves and the virus hunting us was till then when that question was asked in the context of others who were trying to destroy and kill them let's get back to the parsha we're gonna get back to your mashallah as well combining the two with the encrust kodesh the great PSS the red parent you'd be better to give a rather Kasich PASOK base we've moved on now what is the majority of hysteria and matura are the laws of saros the spiritual leprosy it's not a physical dermatological disease it is a spiritual manifestation of a spiritual ill sir ass sarasu is the result of being mozi shame rom you use that gift of just speak ill of others to Gosselaar others destroy their lives you have forfeited humanity to last you were a mote see shame Ryan this is introduced but now there's some emotion the Ottoman work in the article page 608 God spoke to her and he said oh no - yeah bored Bastardo say such a powerful sermon Harris if a person has on their flesh well blemishes any of these blemishes no yeah but or basura but make it's our ass that is a manifestation of the spiritual it was called pass and woohoo viola are not going Luba means they are brought to our macoing or honeyBun up on em or of this children just thing to note they move up your bra bra what does it suggest if you have to be brought close what is it about where you are you're far away if you're capable of a gap gossip other people you're far away from em you can't chunk shul and you can't hold it the greatest time and they can't hold yourself such a from Heyliger Aaron Lafayette and in your interpersonal relationships you gossip and you're envious and you're cruel and you you dismiss and marginalize and judge others if you're close with gardening's to be close to this children if you're not close to this children don't claim to be close with him you who viola going you have to be brought close to God why because then you have to rise you were far away from him you need to be brought close why does it say of them we have a matter of the use often of other words not awesome we often see the description as ish or gather why Adam Adam key yet born bizarro Adam parenthetically the camera says that he saw an Akuma sock mussalam are not called Adam or them as a name or label specifically for the Jewish people why is that it's not derogatory it's not degrading it's something which actually is a charge to us Adam comes to the word Adama it means that from the moment we're not arrived we're not complete but I've done from the Adama we are meant to be growing aspiring were meant to be reaching we're mentally reaching and so recently I don't number where Domon Aleph down the hour of God is done in ur this is element came to me another minute dhamma to be growing how can we be growing because adam i love dumb the i love the olive black college borrow for the revolution alum dummies in our blood is who he is who we are he is part of our makeup we are meant to be that selam aleykum but I'll show you a different interpretation of seriously lisca says the following fascinating christian he says the word and the word gather can be in the plural i'm a shame varam what's the plural of adam what's the plural about them there is no plural of adam and that's why here it says Adam key yet business around but is no plural of Adam you see meant to live as one to the unified to the United were meant to co-op were meant to be loyal were meant to be faithful were meant to of the Dove in our interpersonal relationships when you gossip when you slander when you marginalize when you judge when you exclude it then you're not functioning with the rabbin you're not functioning with the Seaboard you've excluded yourself you've made someone else feel like school that is unforgivable it's intolerable any residents are asked Adam cannot be in the Russian Robin ich can be an honor game ever can be varied the BTB Robin there is no formulation of in the plural because that is the message of the of the of the matura and so notice anything suggested the ballet muster say while ominous maja why do we have passion from the guy who has read Sarah comes in each mini is the laws of caches so are the laws of saros why are they connected will be juxtaposed one after the other and it's such a beautiful and important idea it's very sick but because the Jew has to be just as concerned of what comes out of as we are about what goes in our mouth we're very strict I've 17 apps and four phone number emergency phone numbers to check hexane even in Trader Joe's I can figure out what's kosher what's not kosher even with these theorem no one's ever seen before everyone a scrupulous vigilant careful Pesach the shyness that came in cash was the shadows that come in we're so careful Mitchell and hopefully about what goes in our mouths but these two are opposed she says really mitzvah because of Jew what it means to be a Jew is to be as careful of what comes out of our mouth and as careful as what goes into our mouth to be careful para que o possum ma skipping right alone and there's so much to talk about in terms of in terms of these the laws we learn from each of these sections in each of these references we learn extraordinary laws the language is to ace first its Apophis and and so on so on ah tipping hand because I want to be able to to get to a couple more ideas parakeet Gitmo Cossack mem hey now that's a Rashomon Megan Becca W for a member I'll show you a philosopher at the time a time a micro what is a horse the rehabilitation process for thee for the matura the person with turns his government has to be torn and the hair of his head has to grow and he cloaks himself up to his lips he is to call out Tommy Tommy used to call out Tommy tonight why does he call out tummy tummy where does this come from why is he called tummy tummy so rash she says you know what he's calling out to me dummy doctor dashing machine eschew tummy we hit for Shamim a new part of this process is the shame of calling out don't come near me I'm highly congest don't come near me they can in do sort of zilberstein in the cheapest that he put out already for coronavirus I was learning it over Pesach he talks in there that one of the lessons this virus is extraordinary contagious that's why the flu may have made more the flu may be more dangerous of terminal but kovin 19 is even more contagious and suggests resume first in one of the lessons that we learn is just as something can be so contagious and it can impact the entire globe in the whole world for the bad so too can our behavior be contagious for the good you know not only is their physical contingent in the form of a virus but there's also spiritual agent when we spread gossip when we create a negative picture we depict images and ideals that values that are that are antithetical to what the total wants from us there's there's scared there is a physical can go viral and spiritually negative I arrow or we can create positive energy and light we can make things go viral and changes in a most positive sense so it says right part of the rehabilitation process once egomaniac who's edged out is how many times even after declare I'm Tom I stay away you know near me I'm highly contagious to be quarantined that was a word that six weeks oh we only use when we studied partial sesriem at Sarah Lee is the word contained until recently and yet precious Austrian matura was that the individual who had this spiritual malady had to the front end they had to isolated and they declared Tommy Tommy a Cara they declared tummy tummy in order to warn people to stay away they come on at the layer of it come on cough hey I'm an alpha very important layer for us you know the cleaner Tommy taught me because uh people this way were able to dive in for him I'm not judging different people differently people are you know so the nail is something perhaps is private and confidential as they can and they go through it on their own with tremendous great strength and to be swinging my Bold heroism there's no judgement them but if somebody hesitates and wonders is it okay to let people know the Gemara derives from our Cossack not only is it okay good thing to do because by everyone know your name god forbid one and can be added to tales loose people can Davin and meritorious acts their benefit and for their name and for their good and therefore the mother learns from here Tommy Tommy yeah let people know when you're going through something difficult not as a form of selfishness or to feed your ego let people know because you are asking them to Davin on your behalf but the flucos with the Shia Horowitz had another of a time any Nicola and he said the said the following based on the Comerica dish the government conditions and that I in tells us call our hotel good Mumma Purcell anybody looks at someone else and in fact eight seven anyone who criticizes or judges someone else doing simply sizing the quality do things within themselves la Pucelle what you invalidating someone else be Mumma Cosell you're really only revealing about what you have your own life the truth is that we are all there to one another we wanna the mirror to ourselves and what I don't like what can't stand in you is really a reflection of what I'm struggling with myself maybe even when I can't stand with what's up my moomy puss l am a ton mega Kragh if you declare someone else's Tom a really your tonight posts up call a post on the movement pose so this proves the turn around them but on the knuckles it may be a pedicure just lucky Diana Rama tells us a fascinating hope the lamb mom says that anyone to get married : of us be slower because cos cap when they come and say we're doing we don't have to investigate we can trust them as a Kazakh we can believe them and in fact what's the exception there on mom says if you see family who Quarles who Vickers who fights you see a person who he doesn't get bongos always hypercritical of others then you have to worry that passing and others they're really revealing and reflecting in themselves that to be my eating so strong that indicates there has suspicious it undermines fault that they in fact are considered to be kosher therefore he says not necessarily tell me you call a Popo so what we dislike is really often reflects what we dislike within ourselves to more very quick important important ideas I want to share number one but Douglas so the very next supposing member tells us but shave me hoots lahmacun mo Shiva the person who spoke ill of another where is it in place coach Lamar Khanna lone isolated outside why is that the rehabilitative process Zalman swarovski was a Ruffin public for the word Israel after war has a safer us I am Allah Torah and I want to thank my friend refined free who shared this split he writes in the Seifert apparently it was edited out somebody I mentioned this in the recent panel I did with my lord Sachs and somebody emailed me that the reference I'm about to tell you was edited out of the English translation that was mine matura so it's not a neat English translation but I promise you it is right here in the Hebrew the Hebrew additional or precious does real but that gave that the person spoke ill of others has to sit alone why is quarantine why are they I salute he says you need to know nygma because the person who can speak this way of another should call a whole um kulilin Ibrahim Bush Sheila they think you know the whole world was created just for me but home by Olin goes on the homesickness a Shia after a cloud person thinks everyone else is competing for what really belongs to me it's mine this year to serve me Lafitte heretical other Musa to Maggie he really wants mouse to dock from a my game was written many many years ago the one who gossips is spreading a contagious virus on my Gotha and when they spread their contagious virus called got there and to destroy the world because they believe the whole world is here only to serve them and he says really I really love me I shouldn't kill my TV my starts they themselves should die from iPod they spread this virus called gossip they should be eliminated from the room but I shall his pity on them and therefore instead of actually eliminating them altogether Hashem says bad ugly shake me hooked on my funny Michelle they should be isolated and alone you got something cause they feel alone and isolated that is she knew turbulence you know how painful that is you cost someone ballon uni looks like to own their for the gossiper is quarantined the gossip isolated ossifer maximizes social distancing can't come near anyone else is this is the part that's edited out has several shop adidas do you know what it means to be so veil the pain and the suffering loneliness of ISIL of quarantining he says study one about it I mean what seeing the safer we find it in this from the book called Brahman Singh Caruso Shaboom the super- about that she needs something on the ocean it / young there tells the story if somebody was safe from I'll he cut down the Shalini Manor done the tour come at our attention what such about that whole huh to work the food it would and after sitting for a long time because I had to speak he forgot how to operate they lost their mind because that's the active loneliness so Thomas Ruskin look him up not finality that you'd necessarily think was bang matura reference to Robinson kuru kuru would quote this the story about what it means the punishment of being alone why does he quote it cuz he's the person who gossips as to know what it's like why am i sharing this because part of world so uh what is anti-semitism millions people it was prophesized about us that we are hanging on Livadia shown the same work but dad he has some isolated quarantine bill am i russia's said about us that we are hanging I'm LaVon initial we are destined no matter how hard we try to fit in the map are we try to belong the matter how hard we try to be participate as part of society I'm livid Anya stone we are destined to be a people alone and isolated and that's what anti-semitism ultimately isn't it it wants to see us as to us as the other and not we should embrace it because it is our destiny we should understand well against we should understand we are fighting could the hour is late but really I wanted to get to the most important I had so many other ideas I wanted to talk to you about but I wanted to get that most important just too close to you with the Gupta but the P is that's November the piñas that's the random the pious that's the number of columns comments should be assessment dr. David Bernstein just spoke about those who participated in the last zoom this morning and when he took us on a walking tour of the worst idea the PSS forever I could speak about him now for hours in fact I did and I'm lying talked about his history and background his tragic let me come down well we don't have time right now PSS the rapper was a reverend P is a stone which was near war so before they or he was a facility lever he was innovated amazing break for educational models and paradigm is introduction to his work Commerce at a meeting and the students obligated is a must-read for every P and for every teacher in his way of thinking of how we need to train young minds today he was an incredible spiritual person who put shall shoot us on another level was very very real he was Nico he composed he played music and he tragically tragically lost upon himself was in the Warsaw Ghetto and was murdered by the Nazis hammam a shell should avenge his soul an amazing extraordinary person and much of the revival of Olney ocassi the shul in Woodmere my rabbi moshe weinberg Urshu was named after h Kodesh after the PSF Moranbah because the name of the sermons that he gave could you imagine we talked about a spiritual resistance of asking those kinds of questions trying to keep our waka even in a know in a concentration camp this is another expression of spiritual resistance for a rabbi to get up and give sermons in the get out for there to be an audience to hear those sermon interested in hearing sermon Russian in the ghetto to hear about God hear about faith optimism to try to make sense of it there in that horrific it's mind-boggling it's almost impossible for us to uh yet he did so we have a collection of women they two people were buried in fact in the there was recently a documentary that was put out but the earning Shabbos the earning Shabbos the extraordinary story of the the documenting of the Warsaw Ghetto and the war that was buried underneath and three separate places the Shabbos archives two of the three were found I think I didn't see it but it was a parent an amazing documentation we told of it and in the ionic Shabbos archives Zingo Blum I think was his name were included the writings of the PSS so the issue kodesh are the dresses that he gave in the Warsaw Ghetto an amazing book came out a couple of years ago from so dr. Henry Abramson my friend who wrote Torah from the years of the Rif 1939 to 1943 the historical context of the East qodesh to learn the Espada's to possess the rebus rushes in the Warsaw Ghetto isn't itself extraordin what the great gift that dr. Abramson provided for us is to say that the a Scottish rites very cryptically if you learn the holidays conditionals he never connects the drush is giving in the parsha he doesn't actually connected to the horrors they are enduring to what they're going through he simply gives the dress--i with oceans and hints but he's getting at but he doesn't draw connected dots and draw the line the gift that dr. Abrams gave us in this book is he connects the dots and he draws the line he tells us here is what was happening in the Warsaw Ghetto when the past Nuremberg gave that drug so you better understand it and I want to close our time mourning our passion clasp on your mashallah by sharing with you what the PSF forever said in the Warsaw Ghetto unpurchased Azaria Minnesota it was nice fun of the year five seven zero zero eighty years ago and here's what he said April 19 with me and I'm reading to you from dr. Emerson's work torn up from the years of the rift in April 1940 were so Jews were distressed to witness the initial construction of walls in several parts of the city up until this point the tradition of Jews in certain parts of Warsaw goodbye the administrative degree with few permanent physical fractures demarcating the boundaries you know debates between the Nazi bureaucracy over the utility of a ghetto and the inconvenience II would post on a non-jewish population disrupting transport and access to various institution locate in the area so there was a debate not whether this was a human thing to do debate on the moral and ethics around truth Jews but the inconvenience to the non-jewish population of what a ghetto would mean arguments over the specific boundaries in the Jewish district could continue for months requiring periodic adjustments but the ominous meaning of the barrier was not lost on the Jews they were to be sealed in Czech car as head of the Newton rot was charged with the emotion of the Nazi order we're to supply both the materials and the labor the Reavis Thurman April 13th 1940 and you have to understand this is such a gift dr. Abramson gave me I learned through the sermon and he talks about saris of a bias what happens when the walls of a home come up flicked it with the spiritual leprosy I was in the diagnose what is one me through this it is we should the pastor Tom wherever you take apart the walls you discover what's really in the home or not the things but the people is very very beautiful why in the world was the PS that's the wreck talking of walls in April 1940 in the worst again but with this historical background now we first begin to understand and appreciate because they were building the very walls of the Warsaw Ghetto it was on everyone's mind how they were further being constricted and closed in so their heavens Russia April 13th 1940s that concerns the community drove in content ovens from ancient are reading into his engine the oblique manner that would be understood on multiple levels by the audience he began she's kind of regarding the treatment of a physical structure played placed under quarantine their sufferings of the plague known as Erasmus after sevens of quarantine the home was to be destroyed before them interesting happens the home discovered treasures previously hidden in the walls of the ammonites who lived there before the Jewish people conquest of Canaan the words of the river let us understand so the peace that's the red book April 13th 1940 standing in the Warsaw Ghetto why is one required to seal the house for seven days at the outset when afterwards remove the stones once the plague is visible one knows that treasures gonna be found there it's especially true according to the understanding of their unbound celina in the works of my holy father the plagues on houses and clothing are supernatural occurrences and are only for the benefit of the Jewish people in order to reveal hidden treasures why then the Torah commands us to render they have some purity on set why went in seven days why not do it at the beginning asks the PSSI River to restate the route of his question if it's our asses to be understood supernatural signals and Jews that are hidden treasures on the walls why quarantine shouldn't the Jews simply destroy the walls once the first indications of turn-offs are evident one can only imagine how his question must have electrified its Hassidim seeking guidance in the meaning of the walls under construction the ghetto the Rebbe is reference to the MRI treasure alluded to a been a hidden benefit in the walls but at the same time his words contained the hint of rebellion was the advocating the kitchen the walls be sabotage here's what he wrote this is what the what the what the rabbit said this is what's in a Chico dish in truth the intent of the term rabbits commandments are beyond our grasp we can however perceive illusions where we know and believe that all of God does for us even heaven forbid when God strikes us is all for our benefit again you're listening to these words from the comfort of your air-conditioned home or whatever technology you're listening but the rabbit was uttering these words in the Warsaw Ghetto April 1940 and he says we know and believes that all that I should do does for us even a god forbid when God strikes us is for our benefit at the present time we see however we are not solely smitten with mystical flickers but also passive but those that distance us from my share there is neither primary Torah school nor yeshiva neither study home which to praise a congregation or mikvah consequently a glimmer of doubt arises within us is it possible that even now Russians intent is for our benefit if it is for our benefit Hashem should have chastised us with those things which would have drawn us closer not with any more study in prayer and the fulfillment of the entire buffet answering his own question the Revit probe further by specifically referring to the present condition of Warsaw jury the punishments the spring of 1940 serve only those shoes from my shin how could the most possibly hold good tidings for the Jews of Warsaw what did they mean and how should I see them relate to their construction the Reber related returned from russian by digging deeper into the tamara kitchens which noted that only a member of the carnem and the authority to close the home under quarantine a non priest even an expert can only render an opinion the rebus concluding words contain several distinct messages he validated the suffering of the Jews and it's the latias impact on the spiritual growth he remained steadfast on his faith and the developments were son are beneficial the larger plan of a Shem and finally like the expert is not a member of the common the rabbit could only stated resembles a plague he could not definitely pronounce that it was in fact a plague there kidding the quarantine by analogy he could only speculate as to the meaning of the get over walls it resembles a plague but at the same time to believe with perfect faith that there was an ultimate divine purpose which will ultimately be revealed as a valuable treasure his response to his concealing them troubled by the meaning of the walls bounded their fears but urged them to strengthen their faith in divine providence wow what a message in the water you know connecting our partial through illusion and hang it's only that you know what even it feels were being quarantined and even if it feels he tells the Jews of the worst like yet oh I like us to come up a comma a million billion times more for us going through the time that we are going through when we feel what do you mean I shouldn't you want me to be closer let me come in - sure let me be in the basement let me go to the lamictal easily let everything flow smoothly I show where are you we need to know that just like then there was the period of quarantine before once on the blessing there is the blessing and it's part of a master plan and one day will come Jesus never was able to strengthen the Jews of Warsaw then and through his words today is a kernel of rafasa yoginah Leino he strengthens us today in our time may each of us have only good health strength and happening is on this DMI show are we pledged to fight anti-semitism tonight to show loyalty to one another and to our chairman like the dog and please got in that merit to be able to come together soon speedily in our time thank you