Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: Gods Eternal Love and Reconciliation

[Music] okay everybody it's good to be back and I'm still a little jet-lagged so if I fall asleep forgive me if you fall asleep I will not forgive you enough okay that but anyway I want to talk a little bit about the seven half tourists of comforts again we do know that the Mitzvah of reading the Torah and Shabbos and on yom tov is a rabbinic mitzvah it's not a Torah Commandments but at some point in time the cockamamy augmented the reading of the Torah with an excerpt from the prophets that is called the haftorah now the origin of why there is a half Torah is an interesting question it actually dates from the time of the initial persecutions of Antiochus that in the early stages about the Oakland is rain he prohibited the public reading of the Torah but for some reason he wasn't monitoring the prophetic books and the like so the original origin of the haftorah was a replacement for the Torah reading at a time when we were not allowed to read the Torah eventually British M we were able to reinstitute the reading of the Torah but nothing in Judaism ever gets dropped so as a result even when we had the Torah reading back we kept the haftorah as well when I was a child I came up with I thought a brilliant etymology that haftorah meant like haftorah you know prophets are less important than Torah haftorah you know maybe that's what it is that's why it's called half Torah but then when I got to have Dulla that didn't work because a half dollar I don't I do it ever so up but Haftarah literally means announcing for example in the Haggadah Ain muffed here in remember the answer to the Kalam a must here in acara Pesek we don't announce after eating the carbon peso afikomen which literally means bring on the desserts so Lahav tear is actually to announce and that was the term for the haftorah because the profits are essentially announcing to us what we're supposed to believe and what I was supposed to behave and and the like I don't want to get on a soapbox here at least in the United States and in many so-called Modern Orthodox congregations there is a custom that the öyou itself has criticized called the kiddush Club where people will leave the governing at a certain point in order to make kiddush and consume some alcohol before they dove in mussaf now the question is when would they leave so they typically leave from the beginning of the haftorah till after the rabbi's sermon after the rabbi's russia and then they want to come back and rejoin the show for a moose off' putting aside the idea that they're missing the rough structure which as a rabbi thought was somewhat important to but the haftorah is a feel for where we're supposed to hear the after it's a technical coming and missing the haftorah is kind of just as bad not quite just as bad but it's very close to missing the torah reading itself now so the historia is a talk on astronomy but what's interesting is the Cohanim really didn't care what the haftorah is meaning to say the concept simply is as long as the haftorah is connected in some way to the parsha every community was free to choose their own haftorah and that is why indeed we have Ashkenazim we have spartan we have yetis we have Chabad we have italki italians we have Taemin him simply because it was never a matter of halakhah that you have to have a specific haftorah for a specific parsha rather the chromium simply had a general guideline that it should be connected to the Torah reading and each community was free to choose would ever have told her they thought was most connected because obviously for any parsha there are many there will always be more than one candidate that will be connected to the Torah reading so the Cohanim were kind of indifference what was chosen however there is one major exception or two actually two major exceptions in which the haftorah for certain times of the year is not linked to the parsha Shavua but it is separate and that is we are told that the three weeks before the ninth of of we must read three Huff Toros of tragedy no matter what the parsha is talking about and the three Huff tourists of tragedy that's called shalash to para noosa three half tourists of tragedy after the three of tourists of tragedy we have Sheva Dennis tempte we have seven half Toros dealing with the theme of comforts and redemption those are the have tourists rereading right now and then that takes us all the way to Rosh Hashanah and then we read half Toros dealing with the themes of chuhwa of repentance of returning to God of seeking God's forgiveness and the like and the hummin were mikheyev they obligated excuse me that we follow this particular pattern now we are now in the seven of tourists of comfort we read two of them already all seven have tourists are from the same Prophet the Navi Yeshayahu Isaiah is the great great prophet of comfort it's really from the latter third of the of the book what's interesting is yo-yo on one hand is the prophet of comforts but he actually lived chronologically more than a hundred years before the besan mikdash was even destroyed so he is giving us comforts and Messianic promises even before there was a Corbin and there was a a a goalless now the order of the haftorah does not correspond with the order of the book meaning all of them are taken from the same latter third of the book of yo-yo but in terms of the order of the flowers sometimes a later chapter is read before an earlier chapter one point I just want to note is you will see that they have tourists of comfort more than double the Huff tauros of tragedy retribution and punishment the punishment of terrorists are only three and the comfort of Taurus are seven that's more than double and that is really kind of a lesson for life that when we inflict pain on people whether it's our children whether it's our spouse whether it's our parents whether it's really anybody in order to take away the pain it's not enough that you have an equivalent response you kind of have to go beyond because pain and rejection can be so deep and so painful and so devastating that you might almost give a ratio that for every hurtful words you have to counter it with more than double and it's not that I don't mean superficially just how many words do you say but in terms of the intensity we have to bring in factors off it's up in the case that's the intensity that we brought they're hurting someone seems to be more powerful than the intensity we bring in trying to make up it's as if to say anger is very powerful and seeking forgiveness tends to be quiet and passive when in reality you kind of need the same intensity or more more to kind of undo the hurts so that's really one of the lessons why Hakodesh Borko has to give us a nakami Baqi flame a nakami that is more than double because we've been so hurt and devastated and broken and demoralized in our gullies that we need more of that comfort that is the LED one of the lessons of the shevardino septa that we would apply in our everyday life in terms of human relations as well but the question I want to explore tonight is this in part just via Sun on which we read two weeks ago this happened to have also have been the creosote aura of the ninth of of just the week before so we actually read a portion twice a Sunday tsch above and and then the coming Shabbos we read and this is really a very very important parsha in the torah that one should read and contemplate because it really describes Cullis it says moshe our brain was telling us key so lid bunny move neighbor nimbin or shunt ambiorix when you will have children and you will have grandchildren they know shunting and you will have become habituated in the land you get used to the land you think it's all yours and then you will sin and worship idols and adopt the ways of the nation's God says there are going to be consequences to those decisions there will be godless there will be horrible there will be persecution there will be suffering but then the Torah says movie costume Misha message Emmylou Ke$ha and precisely from that suffering and persecution your heart will be opened and aroused and awakened to seek out God key Sidra shenyu because you will seek him but called above a Carvajal knife shackle with all of your heart and with all of your soul and bits are laka and in your suffering room it's so look I'll call that Vermaelen all of these things will happen to you what will be the result of your suffering the shafte ad Hashem Aloka you will return to God and you will listen to his voice and when that happens he will then gather you he will bring you back to the land he will give you all of the blessings that he promised to your of us so what does the Torah say the Torah itself creates a pattern sin creates suffering and garlis suffering and golus awaken us to chuhwa and from Chuba we then get Redemption reconciliation comfort so note the pattern suffering leads to chuva chuva leads to gula now this pattern is in the Commish itself so obviously it's what a Shem says is what's going to happen let me just point out that when the Rambam describes the Messianic process which is the in gathering of Israel the bill of course that's already started brother Shem the building of the mikdash Messiah the Rambam says any astray only go and elaborate Shuba there will be no final redemption until the Jewish people do children now how that's going to work is kind of little perplexing because Bertha Shem many many people have done chuva and all of us really when I say true but I don't just refer to what non-religious people need to do obviously even people who are shomer mitzvahs all of us have a lot of Schubert to do but still we are very very far from everybody doing Juba and yet the random says a nice really Garlin ella bache over the Jewish people are only going to be redeemed if there's true ver that may be the bad news the good news is but God promises that that's going to happen now how is that going to happen is is a difficult question because from our limited perspective we don't really see any real possibility can happen I mean brakesh em we make inroads we might you know we try to be much beyond people more and more Jews are discovering but realistically speaking is it gonna be everybody and how is it gonna be everybody I have no idea but the Rambam says that is the divine promise so the Rambam is reiterating what the Torah says from the sufferings of the Gullah s-- will come in awakening for of chuva and from the chuva will come Aguila so we have the Torah we have the Rambam unhappy the Torah this is just showing how this is articulated in different places and let's look at art the order of domine let's look at the Amidah let's look at shamone Ezra we ask a Shem achieve a new Aveeno lacera sefa Hashem caused us to return to your Torah house the rain will bring us back to do chuhwa blessed art uhm who yearns and desires our Trueba so first we pray that a Shem should help us do Chubin i love let me stop there just to digress for a moment it's an odd thing to say we pray to God God help me do chuhwa I think about this because I'll have a famous statement a kolbe - am I am oh it's me your resume everything is decreed by God except your decision to serve Hashem and to fear us him meaning I am decrees if I'll be rich poor healthy sick that's up to God but Hashem does not decree if I will be righteous or not righteous that is free will Hashem does not agree as the Rambam writes in Oklahoma if Iran were to decree that I would be righteous then why should I get rewarded if I behave in a good way if I shall decree I would be evil why should I be punished LMI it's a dove or pusher that Judaism believes in the fundamental idea of free will which is the show rich is the root of accountability of responsibility of virtue there can be no virtue without the capacity of choice there can be no responsibility without the capacity of choice so if that's the case how can I pray God you know make me righteous God make me do children sign up to God it's up to me but the answer is you cannot pray to God God make me it sonic that's not up to God God says it's not my affair it's your decision but I can ask God to send me experiences in my life that will inspire me because we have another teaching if on one hand we have a teaching that says everything in that is in the hands of heaven except my decision to worship Hashem to serve Hashem we have another my maha song that says a ball the tire if somebody wants to become pure Messiah in law Hashem will put into their lives the resources that will bring them to that position you'll meet the people you need to meet you will encounter experiences it's all up to you now that's not a contradiction to bethere a-- because that is a result of your conscious desire my desire is i want to become close to Hashem I may not know how to do it so he will put those events right what's the famous Buddhist saying when the student is ready the teacher appears so Knob Noster brood is saying but little mice it's very very true and it corresponds to what scholars saying there are two mom arm that they're very related one is habala tyre he who wants to become Messiah in law God will give him divine assistance the other maybe it's even more well-known Buderus are dumb roads la ley the path that you want to go Melissa no so is the path that God is going to put you in so that's not a contradiction to bethere ax because it is after all my own choice to desire that path Hashem will facilitate it now what's an interesting philosophical question is ok so I can pray the message m should help me do too but because I'm saying I want to do Chuba so that's my behavior can I pray that somebody else would you chew with that now this is an interesting question let's say for example unfortunately recommenders lon sometimes we have what are called off the direct kids or kids at risk who are no longer keeping mitzvot and maybe even doing worse things whether it's drugs or the like so we often will tell the parents that's going through such a difficult heart-rending challenge Darvin for your child now here philosophically you do have a difficult problem llama I can dive in that I should do Chuba because I'm expressing my desire to do chuva so then that's an exercise of bashira so then a balla tire Messiah no so the director there much delaila from ELISA know some in other words that's not a contradiction to believer but if I pray that somebody else should you choose let's say the person again maybe you kidding well maybe my child also wants to do sure with that that depends but let's imagine you have mama sure Russia Gummer I pray he should do too but well why would I sham answer that prayer that's totally on that person's but here now if you remember this is the famous story in my circus Broncos between rebbe mayor and his wife Gloria who is a very very wise learned woman where every mayor had certain regime that were persecuting him and he wanted to pray that they should die God should punish them and Beria his wife told him that is not the right thing to do because Deborah de Mello says eat a mocha 20 minarets sin should disappear from the earth not sinners do not pray for the destruction of sinners just pray for the destruction of sin in other words that they do Java and therefore there's no sin so that my Shah actually asks the Kasia in my shot huh that's I yeah I think I just adjust that point a minute ago he said when you pray for your own Shuba that's Buderus or the road Salish belief in ourselves yes so once but once again once you're praying you know you're praying for people who might be similarly inspired I did search the place we'll use Friday worship it's broken down yeah so there's a priest to a shed then there's a shot the end definition to turn their hearts to the truth right right right right so so so the consignee actually runs cosmas actually writes an interesting thing he says the power of prayer is so all-encompassing that prayer can even supersede the operational principle of free will so you can actually pray that God should take a Russia and inspire him to true which means therefore Lamaze kind of like the husband ish achieve a new Avenal is Sarah Sarah is not only a prayer for the people who want to do too but that God should help them but indeed it's even a prayer for the Russia itself okay but going back to the sequence what do we have I pray that God you taught me to children Salah Claudia he then forgives me because the consequence of Chuba is forgiveness and then go Elias rail there is redemption so the point is in three places the Torah which is of course the most important the rambam and the sitter the pattern is it is chuhwa that brings Redemption and without sugar there is no redemption without you where there is no comfort so the question is why does the pattern of the half tauros work in the opposite direction what's the pattern of the half taurus from suffering there is comfort and redemption and then from comfort and redemption comes chuhwa Baqarah we see the opposite idea instead of suffering leads to comfort and comfort leads to Chava the pattern should actually be suffering leads to Shuba and Shuba Leeds to redemption right you don't get that you don't get the comfort on they go Lula for free Aeneas rayul nigo them the Jewish people are not redeemed a little bit you've except with children now of course that would the calendar a little bit because that would actually mean we read the chubarov tauros the guide after Tish above and then my restaurant were doing comfort but nevertheless thematically this would be the more logical so to really understand this question let's go back a little bit in the very first parsha after we read after tisha buff and that parsha is purchase via sauna and Moshe Rabbeinu is giving a farewell speech one month before his one month before his death and he's now who is he speaking to a new generation people who were either born in the desert or people who were less than 20 at the time of the exodus because the old generation has all died out at least the men have died out actually many older women xià enter Eric Israel but all the men have died out except of course for yahushua in Kalev our own is already dead Maryam is already dead so it's our own colleague and Moshe I'm sorry I'm sorry yoshua car life and motion Moshe of course is going to die your Chi one color we're going to enter the land and Moshe Rabbeinu mentions to this new generation that he will not be able to enter the land because he hit there he hit the rock instead of speaking to it or whatever his I Weber was and he says foreskin on election play so he'll a more I pleaded with God at that time Debra nah please let me cross the our Dame please let me enter the land and Rashi points out s Shannon is called madness Kingdom that's when you pray to wash em and you recognize you don't deserve anything you're just asking for I'm not knocking him and which points out that if anybody had in entitlements to something it would be Moshe Ravana and yet it's precisely the greatest tsadikim that understands that every gift Hashem gives us his Phenom is something we don't truly deserve it comes from kindness and mercy and he begs Sasha please God let me enter the lands and the meddra SH tells us he's saying I don't have to be a leader I can be a follower I don't have to be a person I mean unbelievable I could be a bird or an insect let me enter the land talk about what love for Eric Israel is and moshe rabbeinu says for you saw bearish mb but God was angry at me the mug him because of you but yo Mirage I'm a lie and Hashem said to me Rob la it's enough talking stop Altos if that bear a lie owed Kedavra has a do not say another word you're not going I'll give you a consolation prize I'm just repeating the puss ik go up on the mountain you will see the land but in this physical lifetime you will never go into the land by the way as you know a lot of you shall I am was built up and settled by the tome Edom of the Vilna Gaon and the time Edom of the Vilna Gaon in the mid and late 19th centuries built many of the neighborhoods outside of the old city walls you mean moshe may assure him na Kawashima they were actually physically built not just settled they were physically built by the Tom Edom of the ground the president of the medina Rivlin is a direct descendants a reviewer Rivlin was one of the Tommie Degrassi has a very has a very touchable ethos going back to the from Edom of the of the gras and the Vilma gown himself you may know actually wanted to come to Eretz Israel and he left Vilna to come to Eretz Israel and he wrote a farewell letter to his family which some sad Orem have it's called D Gareth's Agra in which he gives his final instructions and around six months after he left he left without his family just just himself he mysteriously reappears in Vilna and never explains what happened never explains why he changed his plans and the like and to this very day there is a bit of a mystery associated with why the Vilna Gaon did not carry out his plan to come to Eretz Israel but his Tom Edom said I'll P Kabbalah that the Vilna Gaon was a reincarnation gilgul of the neshamah of moshe rabbeinu and the same way that it was decreed that moshe rabbeinu could not come to eric israel even the gilgul of moshe rabbeinu she could not come to Erica's realm now as a total digression let me share with you the fascinating thoughts of professor re Morgenstern's professor at a religious person but a professor at Hebrew University who wrote several books and these related topics of the Vilna God's view of Mashiach and the lake and he points out a very fascinating anomaly this is just a fascinating historical tidbit that apparently when the Vilna Gaon left Vilna he made a detour to amsterdam supposedly on the way to air which is relevant now the problem is if you look at a map amsterdam would not be the way to go it really was growing backwards and he came back to Vilma from amsterdam so why would after damn be a stop on his way to where it is route given the fact that he's going in the opposite direction so professor Morgenstern says to following we know that a few years before the run kala died of moshe haim Rosato had died I died at a very young man he died before the age of 40 and the ROM Kyle was a phenomenally great kabbalist he first he was born in Italy then he went to Amsterdam and then the last two years of his life he lived in Irish Israel and died of a plague he is buried again we're not even clear where he's buried the official cover is to Varia but many actually say he was buried in Akko so the official cover may not be the actual cover of the ROM howl the reason why there are now moved by the way is he always got in trouble for teaching Kabbalah Kabbalah and they first wanted to excommunicate him in Italy then they want to do in Amsterdam he finally went to Eretz Israel to get away from it and unfortunately he died shortly after he came to Eretz Israel but the Vilna Gaon who never met the ROM cow had a great great great see we don't realize now that I'm Hollies revered factory bike essence it was one of the great experts in the ROM class teaching today everyone is moksha of the RAM Hall in a tremendous way one has to know in his lifetime he was constantly persecuted denigrated by greater abundance I told me.they from him who thought he was dangerous who thought he was heretical remember this was a short time after shopsite sorry so people thought there I'm Kyle perhaps is another reincarnation a no pun intended of a false messiah and the like and the ROM cow said he had revelation smelly own Navi they thought it was very very dangerous so he was ordered in Amsterdam not to teach Kabbalah at all now think about how the hidden Brucker Palestine works in mysterious ways on one hand the RAM Kyle was so filled with Kabbalistic knowledge and insights and he was not allowed to teach it and he obeyed it but he had to do something with this time so what did he do thus a firm is Sealaska sure him and Derick Hashem were written precisely because the Murata because the ROM how could not teach Kabbalah so we had to write non Kabbalistic works so the reason cloudy Israel has the ethical treasure of Mithila chicharrón and the philosophical richness of dara hashem is because he couldn't teach kabbalah the Rampal wrote many Kabbalistic works but for most of us they're totally inaccessible darris hashem and Massoud Shammar accessible because there are cabbalistic but in a sense the RAM how pulled the wool over their eyes because although Mozilla Chairman's Eric Hashem are not written with Kabbalistic vocabulary they are in fact tribalistic works that they are based on the Kabbalah theory and that itself is a testimony to the Rama Kyle's genius that he was able to express deep Kabbalistic ideas without but but as if that by translating them into regular Hebrew that most people can understand that that stuff was a very big talent because people who are Kabbalist they tend to be social kueh in a technical arcane complex vocabulary that they have no way of communicating the idea to somebody who's not a MOOC oboe which can take many many many many years the realm Kyle was able to do them be it as it may the ROM Kyle in his lifetime was near DAF he was persecuted he was rejected he was considered to be a troublemaker he was banished from different communities but the Ville McGown considered him to be a great great colors and in many many ways the way the ROM cow entered the Jewish Pantheon forgive the mixed metaphor the Jewish pantheon of Godot ylim was through the Vilna goons as coming of their own power now what's interesting is that the Vilna Gaon had heard a rumor that when the rom how left amsterdam to go to a rich Israel he had left behind manuscripts that were buried that discussed Messiah and go so professor Morgenstern has a thesis that the Vilna Gaon wanted to see the ROM calls curse of him and then go to Eretz Israel with the intention of bringing mushiya and that's why he made the detour to find those manuscripts now at that point what happened is now a mystery either he did not find the manuscripts or the Vilna Gaon determined that the time was not right to bring Messiah now we're not clear exactly what happened but he came back to Vilna and he never spoke about it again and no one ever had the nerve to ask him so in the sense it's it's it is so because um why the Vilna Gaon didn't go to Eretz Israel but the Tom Edom said it is because he is a reincarnation of Moshe Romania so Moshe Rabbeinu says to the new generation I begged and I pleaded to be able to go back and God said you but here is the one word I want to focus on God was angry at me because of you now that's a jarring term because of you meaning to say you made me lose my temper I hit the rock because you were complaining and I lost my patience and I hit the rock it was your fault I'm not going that's a very jarring statement you know we hear this all the time somebody punches his wife god forbid and says she made me do it now it might be spouses can be irritating on both sides to be sure but you know you can't you can't blame somebody for your crimes and certainly if a regular person doesn't do that it shouldn't do that motion Rapinoe is telling the Jewish people it was your fault that I'm not going in so think about that it's a pellet how could motion we're way to blame i'm israel for what the Torah describes as his faith so because of this the Midrash tells us that we're miss translating the word lamont 10 the modelsim does not mean does not mean God was angry at me because of you which was your fault but LeMans 10 means for your sake for your benefit LaMontagne God was angry at me for your sake for your benefits now in what way is that true in what way would it be to the benefit of the Jewish people that God was angry so I'll give you three answers one answer is the Med wishes own answer then I'll give you an answer from the malbim and then I'll give you an answer over the run which is the main the main point that will connect to the seven of tourism Comfort the Metro says that Moshe says it's to your benefit that I die in quits larette's because that will enable the resurrection of the dead for all of the other people who died in quits Lawrence what's the prat so the Madras gives a homey muscle let's imagine I'm walking in a dark Street and I lose a coin a coin falls out of my pockets and you know I want to find the gun let's say a shekel falls out of my pocket I'm eight listen I made up a a coin now I want the shell I'm afraid I don't like to lose money I want the shekel or ten our Road falls out of my pocket but I'm a little embarrassed to ask you hey can you help me find can I go out because you you're gonna think you know what a cheapskate you know so what I might do the measure says is because I'll probably keep my eye on it is I may drop a ten shekel cone and I'll say hey can you help me find the ten shekel and once we're looking for the ten shock L will see the Agora as well of course again this is a dangerous strategy if you don't like to lose money but let's assume you'll keep your eye on the ten check up and say oh I lost ten shekels help me find it and then the idea would be once we're looking for the ten shekels will find the ague rather ten O'Groats as well so here's what the Midrash says if Moshe Abena would have gone to Eretz Israel then what's gonna happen for the hundreds of thousands or millions of Jews that died in foots loritts they're like ten aboout it's not worth that shams efforts to go to cuts lords to resurrect them whatever that means exactly it's right Hashem is not gonna bother to be Makka bets the Mason of course Loras it's not could I uh since she's gonna be looking for Moshe Rabbeinu that's the ten shekels so Amalia he'll get the a garrote as well so the Midrash actually says that Moshe Rabbeinu says to be a Israel it's to your benefit that I die in hoods larette's because that will enable the resurrection of all of the Mason who died in hustlers of course there's another measures that says that when those mason get too weary to sell it'll be a painful process because essentially they're going to be dragged underground I guess even across the Atlantic and the Mediterranean they'll be resurrected as and then their bodies will be dragged slept all the ways will not be allowed or whatever it would be so that's why there's an in Yin even if a person died in foots virus to be buried in Eretz Israel he won't have the sorrow of being dragged through the caves so to speak in order to get to Eretz Israel okay that's what the Midrash says the malbim gives another answer the mob limbs answer is the following if you remember there's a capital of tehilim that mm ella birth whoo ah ha kodesh describes the Corbin base on mikdash and he describes the destruction of who shall I mean Eric Israel and he says MS Marla debate a song of David Elohim God Baal Nicola Sava the have come into your inheritance um Oh as usual I'mI'm they have made Jerusalem a ruin they have taken your servants and they have made them like prey for the vultures so the gomorian Burgos asks Akasha this is a tehilim that is very sad it describes devastation it describes destruction it describes Cullis why does David call it means more lid of it mizmor is a joyous sort it shouldn't be called miss Morland of it it should be called Tina the Dove it's a lamentation the Gomorrah asks miss Marla cupboard for this and the glory says yeah there is a certain simcha here because when there is a base on Nick - then part of God's fury gets expended on the eighth's amend the of on him meaning when we sin we create a meet Assad in an attribute of justice we create our own F we create a certain divine anger whatever that means exactly but when there's a physical structure that God can destroy that diverts some of the anger if kospi Shalem there wouldn't have been a Mick - to destroy then more of God's anger would have been on us and therefore Deborah de Mello says there's a certain simpler that there was a been based on Mick - because of what is called Shafak , so I'll Eights him the evident now unfortunately that was not to the exclusion of human suffering but the human suffering was less because part of God's Hema was the destruction of the base so now this is the Gomorrah in Brussels so now the malbim says something very ingenious the malbim says there is a metric that tells us at moshe rabbeinu entered Eric Israel he would have built the base of mikdash immediately and any base our mick - that moshe rabbeinu bills could never be destroyed now you might think that's a good thing but no because what's going to be when we have all of the of Eros there will no longer be the Shafak Hamas ol8 Sevilla venom so that can actually result in a greater destruction of amis well therefore Moshe Rabbeinu says Hashem was angry at me for your sake it is for your benefit that I'm not going because that way the base of meekness can be destroyed and will have the Shafak karma so his anger could be poured on a Sevilla venom so that's the second interpretation of La Mancha but now these were peripheral really although they're there they're very interesting answers I want to share with you the insight of the run the Ron is Robin who Nissim he was one of the great great we shown him in Spain in the in the 14th century the 1300s and here is what the Ron says in his famous safer Russia Iran and the Ron says that the book of devar him is a book of Moosa right moshe rabbeinu is about to leave the world and he needs to give us toko he needs to point out our failures our inadequacies our flaws the mistakes that we make the arrogance that we might have when we will attribute all of our successes to ourselves Kohi vos mu D and the Ron says it's absolutely essential that whether you're a Rebbe whether you're a parent whether you're a teacher you point out a person needs discipline a person needs guidance a person needs hot rocker a person needs to know when they're going in the wrong way and that's absolutely essential and when we don't do that we are failing in our duty as teachers and as parents but the Ron says that's necessary but it's not sufficient side by side with pointing out a person's failures and a person's mistakes you have to point out their greatness their potential how beloved they are in God's eyes how much abilities they have to be good we have to build people up because if the only message a person gets is that they're a failure if the only message they get is they're bad they're wrong they're mistaken they're misguided that does not encourage people to change and to grow actually one of two things will happen either they will become defensive and simply turn you off or the other way around they'll take what you say so seriously that their spirit gets broken and they feel there's no way they can get better so one of two things will happen either they will ignore you or the other way could even be worse they'll take they'll internalize your message to such a deep level that they will be destroyed inside so then for the rod sense yeah a person needs mussar a person needs guidance the person sometimes needs tough love but the tough has to be with the love and the love is a recognition the communication of a recognition that you're a good person you're a worthy person you're a person that Hashem loved I love of course as a parent to teacher but more importantly even Hashem loves so as a result the run says that Moshe a Boehner throughout the book of de varela is alternating between these two modalities and as you look through the book of Javari I'm noticing there are words of rebuke words of discipline words of criticism coupled with you are the children of God God loves you because you need both to give a person tokoha without combining it with the love that a sham has for him breaks the spirit to tell the person I'm okay you're okay without any type of talk like that leads a person to be aimless not directed not focused it's a very delicate balance you have to have both and the truth of the matter is when the toka comes from love then the person will take it in the person will take it in you know dr. Abraham risky tells the story that you know he grew up as the son of Reseda sure Bobby the Milwaukee Rev and as hasidim do when they blow chauffeur and rosh hashanah during mussaf they blow it in the silent shamone Ezra as well as the repetition now that's a little awkward because number one not everybody is up to the right place that's true and number two nobody can move around so sometimes let's say above about okay I cannot get a sound and you need somebody else you know the chauffeur has to get passed around to somebody nobody can move so he tells the story that one time the Baltic a had a lot of problems during the silence phone yesterday and they're passing around the show for it and when dr. Christy was eight years old he happened to get the chauffeur and he blew it perfectly so after that the problem is of course if a cut that blows show four nobody's Yotes it so after dampening everybody was wondering you know cuz nobody saw who was that one a wonderful chauffeur blower and when they discovered when that when his father discovered it was his eight-year-old son and unfortunately there's nothing you can do because the derisive chauffeur they already heard before I mean the chauffeur of mousse if he can't make up once you've Devin's Musa I mean there's no point in blowing again I mean you've dived in the muscle already so he writes good on one hand his father was very annoyed and upset and even angry and told them you know you had no right to do that but intermingled with the anger and the criticism was an unmistakable pride that his son had the ability to blow chauffeurs so well and he said that was kind of the combination in which I'm proud of you even if there are things I don't like that you're doing and think about the situation that Moshe Robina was addressing look at it in this particular level how scared people are these are people that are either born in the desert or were relatively young when they left with Ryan most of their lives have been spent in the desert environment now the desert environment is a supernatural spiritual cocoon the mom is falling from heaven traveling water clouds of glory when they cross the yard line and enter Erica's Rell life is going to be very very different they're going to have to dig their own wells they're gonna have to plant their own crops they're gonna have to have their own armies they're gonna have to build cities one could understand how scared and frightened they are and of course they're not going to have Moshe Arab aina so they're scared they're frightened they don't feel up to the challenge says the run when mojo Boehner says God was angry at me for your sake this is what he means look at how beloved you are in God's eyes you and your forefathers sinned against God over and over and over and over again and God forgives you and you're entering Erica's realm I sinned against you I lost my temper I got angry I called you rebellious ones I hit the rock in impatience I did not treat you with the car vote and the honour to which you deserve Hashem says to me one strike and you're out for you sob air Hashem be among him God was angry at me because of your honor because of your dignity because he doesn't allow me to insult his people to degrade his people therefore what's the message don't be afraid look at how much love Hashem has for you look at how much Hashem looks after your dignity in your covered therefore you can do it you can make it you can be successful so instead of what we thought was the initial shot oh it's your fault and I'm not going in it's the other way around which was for your glory and you're covered that a Shem is not letting me come in and this is rule about them if they have up come see how beloved you are in God's eyes don't be afraid you can do it Hashem has given you a great challenge but when he gives you a great challenge he gives you the Cocos and the abilities to meet that challenge you can do it don't be afraid and I would said that the first words that we recite every morning is modani we thank God for giving us life and we say at the end rabbi immunise aha your faith is very great now that is actually a fragment from a Pacific in a huh and people asked Akasha that is Munna is something I have in God so why does it say your faith is great it should say robber and Munna see my faith in you is great now the Emmis is grammatically it is actually not a Tasha because a Munna in biblical hebrew does not mean faith a Munna and biblical hebrew means faithfulness dependability reliability so we say uhm are reliable and dependable but in colloquial usage we do use our Munna in terms of belief so this is very casitas like to focus on what does it mean when I say your faith is great and they say a beautiful thought they say it's a Shems faith in us is very great there are times in which we lose faith in ourselves because we sometimes don't have the support systems family or friends or employers it's a tough world out there we sometimes just feel inadequate but here's the the points every single morning that a Shem has returned your neshama so you check the obituaries and you're getting up today Hashem is basically saying you still have good that you can do in this world because otherwise why would I give you life I have faith in you I believe in you well maybe easier said than done but if the beret ullam says I believe in you then why should I be affected by what other people think right Hashem said right so that's really the that's really the message so now this is the run so now let me go back very quickly to the original question that I started off with and that is the pattern of the huh photograph's is tragedy comforts redemptive that vancouver kasha is but under the pattern that we have to follow the tragedy or the persecution gives rise to chuhwa and the chuhwa gives rise to comfort so why do i first internalize comfort before i do too but the answer is this the answer is there's a distinction between what you might call chronology and psychological awareness it is 100% the case gula will not come until we do children so the sequence is going to be from ghul us will be java from chile they'll be no comma yes but the question is psychologically what is going to energize you to do chuva if I've experienced godless I've experienced rejection persecution my spirit has been broken I feel that God has rejected me and this kid whether it's a national event like the Holocaust or whether it's the individual sufferings that we go through if I feel rejected if I feel unworthy where will I get the wherewithal to think I can have a relationship with God so consequently even though it's true that the actual gula will not take place until we do children that's that that is true but the vision that will enable me to do chuhwa is the vision that God wants to redeem me that God wants to comfort me that God wants a relationship with a that God loves me and therefore the half tourists are not following the chronology of events but they are following the psychological process that a person needs to go through in order to be brought to children meaning nobody does chuhwa unless they already have a sense that gosh IAM loves them because if i feel a sham hates me i don't have anything to start off with I know when I'm confident if I shims love then I can have the courage to change and become better and therefore the earth tourists are a very very important part of our preparation for youngnam narayan because by internalizing over and over again the depth of our m's love I can now approach the avodah of Trueba with a sense of joy and the sense of hope and a sense of courage and that is the pattern of from the godless you then become aware of Hashem love of Muhammad and then you come to the idea of true right so that would be the basic theme of why the HUF terrorist father at that particular order so anyway bears is a sham we should be zalta to a colder stove elbow of course the clown is a month of love that the primary remiz of ello is an abbreviation Aniela Dodi anni literally I am for my beloved from Shira Shira fado d-league so even though in many ways people look at ll as a heavy month of heavy heavy soul-searching one cannot forget that the whole essence of the month is one of love and reconciliation may Hashem help us to take advantage of that great gift thank you [Music]