Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: Same but Different - Collaboration, not Competition

[Music] hello everybody we're back in our home base of Yael and we actually have some life a few by participants here as well and our prayers and arts felis are certainly that number one all of us all of the world should should recover and be healthy from the McCulloh and they also want to say that our prayers and arts felis are specifically for what's going on in america now which is unrelated to corona but two different rioting and social unrest and violence and again I'm not here to make political statements although I think we certainly have to condemn police brutality and that's something that asks stop and has to be controlled but at the same time the old cliche that two wrongs do not make a right and to respond to to violence with violence and with looting and with social unrest is certainly not the way that societies will come to show them again we hope and we pray that all of this turbulence whether corona related or the general social unrest related should be harbingers and precursors to mashiac this could be part of the Kavli mushiya the birth pains of mashiac all of the man-made constructs that create what is called the veneer of civilization can collapse overnight and really it's because I'll say one of the signs of Yamoto mushiya is the recognition of a la ilaha illa Allah we know Sheba shamayim that there's no one that we can rely upon except that and if that is the lesson that we get from all of this then indeed that would be a very powerful silver lining in the dark clouds that all of us face and we hope that the faster we can learn the lesson the less we'll have to go through all of these different service so let's try to be quick learners try to absorb this truth and be as Ritesh m there should be she'll demand refuel and brihat uglify nephesh in the in the world as we now know it so I want to go back a little bit we celebrated Veloz and then immediately afterwards we went into Shabbos partial snow so but I want to speak about purchase now so and I even though it's a little it's not the average Israel calendar but it actually is the Curia Satara four-foot suarez this coming week because on Shabbos they were cooler with keeping the second day of school so I know we have some cuts Lara's listeners so I will actually go with your calendar of this particular week parsha snow so is actually the longest parsha in the Torah and although it is not the hardest partial to lane because very very interestingly at the end of the parsha it enumerates the carbon notes that the Nassim the heads of the tribes brought each nnessee brought it on a different day so the first 12 days of how Kamata michigan their worker bonus of the Nassim and interestingly enough the carbon is exactly the same for every day so if you're about coral you get a certain break here because although there are many many sukham but the Trump is the same the words are the same so that's why it's a little easier than perhaps other party outs I which don't have so much repetition and it's worthwhile to pay a little attention on the idea that why does the Torah repeat the carbon out of the museum over and over and over again we know that generally the Commish does not waste words and in fact many many hala Hotz are learned out of a single letter award extra word the tire is not going to give you a sentence if it could have conveyed the idea in a word the Torah will not even give you a word if it could be if it can convey the idea in a letter there is certainly economy of expression so why would the Torah go over this 12 times the Torah could have just said knocks on man I mean I doubt the head of the tribe of Judah who is the first enough seat brought ABC a-to-z and then you could say but Yasu called him I see him Kaka and all I'm going to see him did the same thing so okay even mention their names right then the same with this and they all brought the same thing even that so you would have had 12 verses but you wouldn't have had to repeat the whole listing multiple times so I just want to share with you two very quick answers to that question answer number one is really from the Midrash rava I'm partial snow so the meadow shravan partial snow so is is on the largest part of the tour but it's also the largest Midrash of the torah meaning there are the most pages of Midrash in this parsha and part of why it's so large is that the mesh goes through the Corbin of each nussing and shows that although externally every single naseeb wrought the same thing symbolically and spiritually each item had a different meaning with respect to every single nothing so the gold bowl that yahooza brought did not have the same meaning and chocolate and Kabana as the gold bowl that you Zuckerberg and therefore the Taira repeats the idea that the museum brought the same thing to teach me that although they externally brought the same thing each Corbin was fundamentally different and indeed that's all idea of Belgium generally I think I've mentioned a number of times that in the Torah the concept of a tribe is a major element of self-identity you're a Jew but not only are you a Jew you're a member of Reuven or Shimon or ISA or zvolen now today the concept of tribal identity is relatively insignificant in Judaism in fact is totally insignificant unless you were calling her a lady most of us have no idea what tribe were from and it's not something that we think about but certainly in the time of the Torah and the time of the first base of Nick - your shave it was a very important part of who you were every shave it had its own nací every shave it had its own portion of land you had your own formation in the desert you had your own flag in fact even politically it was very very important in many ways the Shiva team once they came to Eretz Israel each shave it regarded its land as almost a sovereign state this is before there was a king it was similar to the colonies or the early idea of statehood in fact if you go to go back to American history the Civil War was fought not so much over the issue of slavery the silver civil war was fought over the issue of secession did a state have the right to secede from the federal government meaning were States considered to be sovereign entities or were they nullified to this central authority that people point out that prior to the Civil War the term United States was a plural noun so you would say the United States were in agreement because prior to the Civil War every state was regarded as almost a sovereign country which had kind of just an agreement to work together on certain matters after the Civil War United States became a singular noun the United States is not the United States are now you find a very very similar issue in the book of Shelton you may recall one of the very sordid and tragic incidents in the book of Judges involve a certain concubine that a man took in he was traveling and he took his concubine into the tribal area of Benjamin and she was basically raped and left to die and the man was so incensed that this happened that he actually cut her up into 12 pieces again that itself is amazing and he sent the piece to every shavin obviously there's a lot of social breakdown here but the SWAT team demanded that the tribe of Benjamin extradite the offender the murderer to stand trial by the sweating they saw this as a national crime and the tribe of Benjamin refused to extradite and the Rambam explains because the tribe of Benjamin asserted that each tribe before there was a king was a sovereign nation we were united by religion which is like Catholics right you have Catholics and France and Catholics in Italy strangely enough the Jewish people in Eretz Israel regarded the tribes as separate city-states in which there was no jurisdiction and our civil war was fought over that story of peel egg is forgiven so to me again III I'm going all the way back to my college days I was a student of political science that's a common pre-law major so political issues interest me very much and it is very very fascinating to me that the central political issue in peel egg Ashby giver was exactly the central political issue in the American Civil War and that is why the appointment of a king came very shortly after P Leggett forgive up because there was a concept we had to be one nation but why am i bringing this up now I'm bringing this up now to highlight the idea that what you might call tribalism was a very important element of Jewish self-identity and this is something that we almost have totally forgotten today and why would tribalism be so significant after all do we need another source of this unity isn't it enough that we're all Jewish so in a positive way the notion of tribes is very important because it indicates the idea that in the formation of community and octants God does not want conformity and sameness every tribe had its own unique approach in a vote that's a sham the Sahara was the tribe that did full-time Torah learning zvolen was engaged in commerce etc and what God is basically saying is we need actors we need community we need togetherness we need unity but unity is not the same as conformity community is not the same as sameness it's precisely the fact that there are different approaches in serving God that creates beauty and majesty within the Jewish people and ultimately gives the greatest glory to God the Midrash says that the beauty of a garden lies in the different colors of flowers you can have a monochromatic garden you can have a garden of only red roses and that has a certain beauty to be sure but for most people there's a certain joy in different colors different textures whether you call it a mosaic or whether you call it a tapestry or whether you call it a symphony music right if you played the same notes over and over and over again that would not have any beauty that would just be noise it's precisely the different notes that creatively now-dead I'm not referring to movements that reject the Torah that's separate that's a separate matter but within the framework of Torah there is so much potential for diversity that is why whether it's Ashkenazi inspired him different types of Spartan Timonium Ashkenazim Hungarians polish Russia and liquorice maracas and Syrian Iraqi we can look at that as a weakness and indeed when it degenerates into maloca and cynically Nam it's a bad thing but it's also a cause for great celebration that God has created a system were many different types of flowers flourish and that creates a beauty and on the Israel right there are two models of unity there is a unity that might be called a melting pot a melting pot is when everybody obliterates their self-identity to become a homogenous part of a whole that was the model in the United States in the early decades of the 20th century right if someone would mention the idea that we ought to have Spanish as a primary language of instruction in the public schools they would be laughed at in the early part of the night of the 20th century because the response is you're in America you're not to speak English that was also the model in the early years of the State of Israel with sometimes disastrous consequences in which religious timoni children were forcibly shorn of their payoffs as well as as refugees from the Holocaust but the deeper type of unity is not the unity of the melting pot but the unity you might say of the salad bowl in which you look at a salad you have lettuce tomatoes peppers chickpeas whatever it is different colors different textures different tastes different smells and they combine to create a beautiful harmonious home this is a deeper type of octaves this is an octave that doesn't obliterate individuality but it's an actress that celebrates individuality and that is why tribes are so important tribes are so important because they represent that within the miss Garrett within the framework of Torah there doesn't have to be sameness there can be individual geek shots and they are all legitimate because God is infinite and therefore there may be infinite ways of connecting to God again let me emphasize within the framework of the Torah and the mitzvahs there are kind of the common denominator that unites us and thus in the mid bar you have all the difference for Tim and they are surrounding the Mishkan in the middle because the tabernacle of God is their focal point is their Center is the goal to which all of their efforts are directed and that is why the Taira emphasizes that although externally than the CM did the same thing either's repeated 12 times because within the sameness there is also difference different meaning different Kabana different significance so all of us are keeping Shabbat but I bring my perspective you bring your perspective right all of us keep kashrut whatever it would be but we have different understandings and different ways of connecting so consequently answer number one is that the repetition of the Newseum is there to teach me that even if externally we're doing the same thing each of us brings a unique perspective and meaning to it and community and after it and whatever cloud the keeping of Torah and mitzvot is not designed to destroy my individuality but to create a framework and mechanism through which it can be expressed okay that's answer number one answer number two makes really an opposite point the first Nazi who brought right you had 12 days of dedication right the carbon out of the Newseum were brought from Rosh Hodesh Nisan through the 12th of Nisan and every day a different Nazi brought a carven the first Nazi who brought the first Corvette is a famous person his name is not shown been Amina death and he is the head of the tribe of you Huda if you remember mcgillich drugs and not shown is actually mentioned at the end of Magilla throat not Shawn was the ancestor of Boas who was the ancestor through Rus of yishai and abducted so the Royal line of death comes from including Messiah comes from not shown then Amina tough now Sean Baylor mean the dog was a great hero he was great in faith at the splitting of the Red Sea when many of the Jews were paralyzed with fright because they're between over the proverbial rock and hard place where the Egyptians are running after them and they're facing this ocean or the sea and not shown with full Emunah jumps into the sea up to his neck or up to his nose according to some opinions and the sea opened up in the merit of his emunah so nation' was very very great and he brought the various corbino's that he brought but then the next day the next one is Masson el ben sua who is nasi Sahar now it's interesting that when it describes in the Sun L bonsoir the turi uses an unusual grammatical formulation by youma Shaney he created the Sun L bonsoir now he created this on the throne Hebrew it's a little ambiguous we translate nisonger bonsoir as the subject of the sentence miss Sonya Oh bonsoir brought the Korman but you can actually translate it as the object of the sentence he sacrificed the Sun Oh Ben sewer he sacrificed himself because keep in mind that day two is a very critical day day 1 the great map shown brought a magnificent offering animals incense gold silver Nissan Oh bonsoir has to make a decision the next day is this a competitive event or is this a collaborative event he might have had the attitude if not shaunb enemy nada brought X I'm gonna bring x squared and that would have created a competition in which each one is trying to outdo the other not Xiang subordinated his egotism his gaya his desire for prominence by bringing exactly the same offering that not shown but I mean of did and as a result he established the pattern of all the other Nassim that in the service of God the goal is not competition and self aggrandizement but for all in this together that was an amazing thing again if I could use another American history analogy George Washington was the first president of the United States had to make a lot of decisions for example many people wanted him to be President for life and if he would have done that he would have established a pattern that the presidency is like a monarchy he is the one that says the president should only serve for two years and that became like a minute of the United States until FDR during a World War two and the depression but at four terms had addressed the other they passed a constitutional amendment you only have two terms or what do you call the president you call him your excellency your majesty there were many people who they were so used to the British mores call them your majesty Washington was Cavalia so in the Sun all been sewer mohab Dale gets the George Washington credit although he was second of creating a pattern that we're not here to compete we're all on the same page and as a result I can rejoice in your mitzvahs just as you can rejoice in mind mitzvahs this is not a zero-sum game where if I win it's your loss and if you win it's my loss rather these are win-win situations when goodness is in the world I can rejoice even if I don't get the credit for it because ultimately it's not about me ultimately it's about God the greatest inertia Rebbe from Azusa and there are many stories about transition right he's the one that said that I don't understand what it means to thank God for the bad as well as for the good there's nothing bad ever happens to me in spite of his poverty and the light but transition once said if God would come to me and say you can change places with our Medina or Moshe Rabbeinu I wouldn't accept that deal because let's assume I changed places well that would be good for me I would have all the merit of Avraham but what does God get out of the deal there's still only one opera min one mocha if he would say I'll make you a second I've run all right I'll consider that because then there are two of realms in the world but if it's simply a question of me being a Brahman I've run being me where's the gain forgotten and that's something to think about you on the kasi nish has a very interesting discussion in the safer immuno Bataclan it's a beautiful beautiful little book the husband is wrote on a Munna and trust in God and he makes some very important points which is not the main point of our discussion but he has what I think you might call a very mature idea of be talked on sometimes people think beat Oakland is if you just hope enough God will give you everything you want so if you need a car you need a new car so think about that new car and they get a new car the next day now the husband it says and unfortunately that doesn't always happen we pray for the sick they don't always get better things happen the talk line does not mean everything will come out the way I want it to come out but it means everything has a purpose everything has an ultimate good even if I don't understand it so the bow be talk light is not necessarily going to be spared from tragedy and difficulty sometimes he will be a chef has great mercy but sometimes God's fish Bono's are beyond us so the bow be chuckling is not necessarily going to have an easier life externally but the bow beat Oakland is full of courage and resilience because he knows that no matter what happens dad is going to give me the strength to grow from it and to go on that gives a person great joy but it's not the naivete of Pollyanna that everything will will turn out great but the understanding that even if things don't turn out as great as I hoped they are great in the sense that they can be very very positive and uplifting so that's the say for em you know be taught home but even the moon will be talking he talks about a lot of things and he gives an interesting thought experiment about how much of our mitzvahs are bound up in egotism and a little disheartening in a way he gives know that let's imagine this is his experiment let's imagine you're a person who loves that loves to have guests on Shabbos and yontiff and whenever you see a new face in the show you go over to them and say oh please be my guest and it's Friday night and you don't have any guests you didn't see anybody this week and all of a sudden after my Ref you see a new face you see a stranger and you're so excited that you'll have the opportunity for an SS auction and you go over to the stranger with a smile and an outstretched hands and you say Reb you I'm so happy to see you I'm so happy to meet you can I have the honor of inviting you to my house for Chavez and the it tells you oh thank you so much but just three minutes ago so-and-so asked me so I have to go I'm going there stop the cameras do you feel good or do you feel bad so the constantly says traveling again this is a hard cut by Memphis if your concern was I want to help this person I want to be sure he's taken care of then assuming that the host that he's going to is a fine person let's make that assumption then it doesn't have to be you Baruch Hashem you're taken care of I'm so happy you're not going to eat alone but if the Mitzvah is about egotism recognition honor glory or even just telling yourself what a great guy you are then you're gonna feel bad because you're not gonna have the opportunity to show up now let me be very very clear I'm not saying and because it is insane that the facet of the person that feels bad is not a fencing even if we have mixed motives are cus it can still be as a wonderful wonderful thing but it does indicate that we're not always doing it for God we're often doing it for us and then the sium the sun'll been sewer turned this into a collaboration a ffice a working together instead of a competition and that's why the Taira somewhat monotonous ly repeats it over and over and over again is they they all did the say no they so those are the two answers why the Torre repeats then you see him over and over again one that even though they did the same it was different but number two the fact that they did the same shows they weren't in competition with each other like so I saw YouTube video you know people sometimes like to boast kids kids like you but I don't think it tells to do it that much about how late their Saders went this year was different so I do tell villages no just an imaginary action between two yeshiva Boys one guy was saying oh we went those two o'clock and the other one said one to four o'clock and that says we went till eleven o'clock and then the other guy was saying we went to live oh man we went to Lewis we're still going on there that's not how ridiculous competition can can get in this sense let me recount the story and I think I may have said the story around a few months ago but it's worthwhile to review a little bit about the point of virtue of the great great Rev of Parnevik unev it was a city in Lithuania Punisher of survived the Holocaust indeed let me point out in Lithuania there were 800 community robbed on him and 799 of them died the Ponte Vecchio was the only rough of Elettra shakeela that survived and he came to Eretz Israel of Yosef Kahneman and he was somewhat obsessed with the idea that he was the only survivor and and because of this he saw that he had a special role for my Shem and to rebuild Torah not only with the world-famous Ponte Vecchio Shiva but with many many Shiva's orphanages hospitals base Yaakov's yeshiva katanas hedorium one of the great great great builders of Torah at the same time the pun of a giraffe was a person who was very tolerant very open in his day they did not say Tuckerman on your mouth smart and they flew the Israeli flag the first time I heard about the punter for of I was part of a trio of a snifter in 1968 I believe when I was in ninth grade in high school so I remember I was severe I was very new dia she by just I just covered to an area Sorrell in Baltimore I was a ninth grader and the whole yeshiva and the Machine of the high school got together to hear the Rosh Yeshiva give a respite for the pun of it you rough her she looked was very close to the fun of it you wrote and it was in Yiddish I didn't know what was going on I was like falling asleep but at that moment something happened that I have never seen I had never seen before and I have never seen since I had never seen it since the regime ax said everybody should sit on round two morning the party I woke up with clear huh sit on the ground I've never seen that I've never seen that since are you even in marriages row but that's how how great the putter pitcher applies and the Punisher of was a great gud Alberto yeah but he spends most of his time traveling all over the world collecting money he was a legendary fundraiser in fact the satmar rebbe said about the putter future of after the first moon launching in but that was also around in the late 60s whatever it is there was a discussion of whether there's life on other planets so the punter future up so the satmar rebbe said i don't know about the science but I can prove to you there was no life on other planets because if there would have been the Punisher of would have been there collecting money if he was not there if he was not on Mars there was no life on Mars that's where the Kepler represent so the story goes the following that the punter pitcher of once came to Chicago and when he would give at Russia it was filled not only with Torah inspiration but with stories with jokes with history all sorts of things he was a tremendously entertaining speaker as well as they learned it speaker so he comes to Chicago to collect money and the same time that he came a mushy look from the much smaller in of our Turkish even Bnei Brak also came when the nav article Miculek saw the Punisher of he froze because he said I'm not gonna get anything tonight the front of it your of is so charismatic you know there'll be nothing left for me so the Nevada Commission up decided okay I'm not going to collect money tonight I'm just gonna sit in the audience and enjoy a wonderful to Russia so the part of each arrived gives a wonderful Russia full of jokes full of Torah for the freezer full of inspiration and people are pulling out their checkbooks and they're going to give very very generously and at the end of the Drescher the punter Vetrov says rabbi psy there's a very very fine man here who was collecting for a wonderful yeshiva and Bnei Brak please give him all the money you would have given me well suffice it to say that the Nevada commercial look did much better than he normally did and he went to the punter future of and he said Rebbe I am so so grateful for what you did but I really don't understand it you traveled from Eric Israel all the way to Chicago and then those days didn't Eve did they didn't even have jet planes so it was a much longer trip and you know you're elderly and you gave up all of the money that would have gone to your yeshiva to be given to my yeshiva so the pun of it you're upset I don't know what you mean your yeshiva nyah Shiva we are all working for the same team we are working for God's glory we are working that people should learn so if we can collect enough money for 20 people to learn for a year why do I care if those 20 people are in the pun of it your base metric or than a vertical base metric what's the difference now let me just say this is a very very rare attitude even among great Russia humans everyone has their own institution that they care about but the fun of it your of saw everything in the sense of bringing glory to Russia there's that you see but there's that Kashima each one has its markup each one has its legitimacy each one has its place and the punter future serving doesn't make a difference if it's Maya Sieber your yeshiva as long as we're both trying to do as gems work in more modern types a receivable who's like that was reb nothing Sri Finkel the colonel of Rockland the head of the mirror yeshiva it said that he would often collect money from here and then leave if he was in Lakewood or Nerys RAL he would give it out to them in fact because of this Amir had a rule that he someone always had to accompany him when he did his fundraising and took the money right away he would give it away but his hash buffer was tourist hour and I think that that's the attitude that we should try to develop at our own lives the idea of rejoicing in the mitzvahs that other people too because God's name is glorified mitzvahs are not about egotism it's not about competition it's not about self advertisement it's about glorifying a Shem so when I do mitzvahs I'm happy not because I did it I'm happy because a college bar whose name was sanctified and when you do mitzvahs I'm happy because the shams name was sanctified and that's one of the lessons of Messiah and Sewer but to go further with this let's go back a little bit when the torrent describes the contours of the ideal camp so the Torah says that certain negative factors must be expelled from the Jewish camp and it mentions three sources of Touma that are expelled from the Jewish camp that is the Messiah the leper the love the sob is a person but they got a real flow and the time I met the person who comes in contact with the dead now Rashi based on the Gemara explains that these expulsion z' are a little complicated because in fact the Jewish camp is divided into three sections there is the Michigan and the courtyard of the Michigan that more or less corresponds with the Temple Mount today and from there and then around that is the camp of the Levites alluvium and around that on four sides is the camp of the Israelites the Matsuura is expelled from all three camps until the leprosy goes away the Messiah is even puts me McConnell Israel these of is permitted in Makena Israel but he is expelled from makhani Shekinah and maqam Olivia so if he's a lady he has to go into the Montana yes well until he counts seven days and purifies himself and the third level of tumor the tummy Mets who is tummy for seven days and he has to be sprinkled with the ashes of the para Dilma is actually permitted not only in machina Israel but is even permitted in maken la lluvia but he's prohibited in machina Shekinah again and I'm oversimplifying here and I do know it's a more complicated question but that is the basic reason why today most post Kim say you're not allowed to go on the Temple Mount because they treat the Temple Mount as the camp of the Shekinah and all of us that's ever been in a cemetery at um they met and we can't get purified no matter how many days it's been until we have the ashes of the para Dilma and therefore this Holika even applies today so it turns out that this Mitzvah that is called Chi Luwak to mayim the explosion of the impure takes three forms Messiah is excluded from all three Java is excluded from two and is allowed in the third one Tom a mace is only excluded from the machina Shekinah as N is allowed in the other two what is the symbolic understanding of this idea of shaloo Athenaeum so let me share with you a thoughts of rhapsodic of Lublin rhapsodic says that just as Pirkei avos tells me there are three positive powers that elevates our relationship together that's torah learning torah a voter divine service of prayer and corbino's and kamila Scots and acts of loving-kindness right these are the factors that bring holiness into our lives and into our communities there are three negative factors that destroy and banish holiness and those three negative factors are tina tina is a jealousy envy Tyva excessive must for hedonistic pleasure and materialism and the third is covered ego arrogance self-advertisement so what is Pirkei avos a will be a lesser or copper says hakima a type of our covens the jealousy the lust and the desire for honor mote C&S our domina olam they take a person out of the world you lose your world to come and not only deal is your world to come but even your life in this world is miserable if we want to create a society of holiness if we want to create a a family of holiness if we want to create a personality of holiness we have to try to eradicate to the best of our abilities will never be complete about this the negative destructive qualities of kena ty van covet so here is what rough setup says symbolically the machaira represents jealousy and envy why is that so because we know that the primary sin which causes leprosy of the flesh to materialize is Lashon Hara the evil derogatory negative speech we say about others but if we look at the symptom well Shannara is a symptom of a deeper cause the deeper cause of loshon Hara is often the envy and the jealousy that I feel about another person I want to cut that person down because I'm jealous of their achievements so when the target says banished the myth server from Kali Israel symbolically the tourist messages try to eradicate the negative and destructive coax of jealousy jealousy is a totally negative trait there is no redeeming quality in jealousy and that is why jealousy via the messiah is banished not only from a commercial Cena and Martin Olivia but even from Maxima Israel because as difficult as it is to eradicate and it is very very difficult to eradicate there is really a zero spiritually there is a zero tolerance for the media of jealousy because jealousy is simply begrudging the good that other people can accomplish in their lives now you may ask achacha how can i say that jealousy is totally bad is there not a well-known statement in hustle that says cannot so friend the jealousy that Torah scholars have for each other Marva karma increases wisdom because I want to be better because I want to compete with you so you have to understand that there are two ways jealousy can take to take effect if the jealousy is I see that you're accomplishing so I want to accomplish that might be a motivator albeit it's not the highest level that's called shallowness ma but that could be a legitimate motivator but there's another type of jealousy which is not I want to raise myself because you're doing so well rather I want you to fail I want you to fail there is nothing redeeming about that again it's human nature where you know all of us might be guilty about that I'm not suggesting that I'm on any pedestal but in terms of the legitimacy of that emotion it is a poisonous negative emotion that we should work to the greatest degree possible to eradicate how can I want someone good to fail by the way this is an issue that comes up in a lot of contexts it comes up with dieting in fact there's there's a whole documented phenomenon there let's say you have it's made more slimming than with men but you know with men too you have a group of people you know that are overweight and one of them decides to go on a diet and they are that person is successful there'll be all sorts of ways that members of the group or that Erica are going to try to undermine that success they'll say have a piece of cake you look like a rake you're so thin what's gonna hurt you you know you're so different than you used to be you used to be friendly and warm and now you know you're standoffish what is going on here it's a painful process to describe is that you know I'm jealous of the fact that you have been successful in something that I have not been successful in it is human nature but not everything in human nature is good and we have to try to work on that so the machaira gets expelled from all of Claudia's realm because the materia represents kena and the Kiner of wanting a good person to fail is totally negative we then come to the south now deserves obviously is they you know they a person that is suffering from a sexually transmitted disease zebra is gonorrhea so that's very much connected to Tyra too much lust obviously but it's a little tricky as this our relationship to physical pleasure is more equivocal than our relationship to jealousy jealousy at least I could say in theory is totally traif but physical pleasure is a very very different thing on one hands datura legitimates physical pleasure after remember the nausea which is also in preciousness it was a sinner and Rashi says because he's depriving himself of the legitimates pleasures of wine the Talmud rule me says a person will have to give an accounting for every pleasure of the world they could have enjoyed and they did not because God put pleasures in the world whether it's color music the taste of food these are vehicles by which we express appreciation these are vehicles that can heighten our spirituality so Judaism is not about asceticism it's not about renunciation we're supposed to enjoy the pleasures of the world that's why we make breakfast we thank God for water for bread for meats but at the same time if you're overly invested in the material and essential your mind and your heart is not going to be attuned to look nice the spirituality so it's kind of ambiguous kena is bad tybo is potentially number one necessary to some degree you have to eat and number two not only necessary but even desirable and good provided you have a certain balance it's not the unequivocal evil that jealousy is syrup Sadiq says this is reflected in the idea that deserve does gain admission in Mehsana Israel Mahoney's show represents ordinary life you're an ordinary person you're a bail only a certain amount of time is legitimate and proper in your life although the zombies in excess but at least he's allowed because what dissolve represents which is the color cooked IVA has a certain legitimation but as you graduate and you become a more righteous and holy person which is the waving who is the spiritual teacher you become less involved in the material world let me explain why not by a self-conscious ethic of renunciation but simply because you're no longer interested in those things that seem like childish and insignificant you know when an adult stops playing with children's toys although it's also got toys of their own the adult is not making a decision I'm not gonna play with these toys anymore it simply happens automatically because I'm involved in other things so it's not like I'm not going to have this piece of cake because I'm going to be an ascetic it's simply the lady gets less interested in because he's connected to tell him so that is why deserve that represents Tyva gains admission in machina israel but is excluded from Makarova via which are the higher more ethereal levels of a voter session so the messiah equals kena deserve equal stiver now the third association is a little more subtle the third association is ton named ace equals covet and that's not so clear but Sarah is jealousy because much of Mahara comes from jealousy dissolve is Tyva because Ziva is a sexually transmitted disease but what is the correlation between Tom I'm ace and covered so here if so doc says Ottoman hava were originally supposed to live forever death came into the world as a result of the fate of the eight sawdust but what was the enticement for kava and then Adam to eat from the eight sawdust well so doc says it was an appeal to their ego because the Nakhla said to Sabah the day that you eat from the fruit you will be like God understanding the true nature of good and evil whatever that means exactly in other words the eight sadhus is being marketed as a God pill that's the ultimate appeal to the ego you will be godly you will be godly and death came into the world because of covet because of ego because of the idea that we want to be more godly than we are and that is why death came into the world not so much as a punishment but there's a consequence because in many many ways we are godly we are made in the image of God we have intelligence we have creativity we have moral autonomy we have free will we can create worlds and destroy worlds in many many ways through our harnessing of Technology but death is the ultimate reminder that there's an unbridgeable chasm between creator and created so death comes into the world because of arrogance and divert and that is by the way why we why we become liberated from death when we connect to ashes because ashes is a sign of humility right death is a consequence of Gaia liberation from death is when there is humility so if we understand therefore that just as Messiah is connected to jealousy and love is connected to Tyva the tumor of mace is connected to covet we can now see an interesting thing I'm going to give you two propositions which are totally opposite and both they're true one is egotism Guyver provoked self-advertisement are destructive and evil and take a person away from that that's proposition number one proposition number two is the most important thing you can have in your life is a sense of cobalt of my significance of my work of my value how do you reconcile those two propositions the short answer is that modesty does not mean I think of myself as a nobody modesty means I have to recognize my strength my goodness my talents my abilities because if I don't recognize what I'm capable of accomplishing I'm never going to accomplish it and therefore the very reason God put me in this world is not going to be fulfilled so I have to have a sense of my Worth and my value but I also have to know that it comes from God and I don't use it look down at people they're disparate people and I respect what other people have to now the old t-shirt God does not make junk that has to apply to the way I look at others and it has to apply to the way I look at me the person has to know their value the great musky Achrafieh rhythm of mere review from Lovitz said the person who is unaware of their faults is a fool I think I'm perfect I am a foolish person but the person who is not aware of their inner greatness is a tragic figure because they will never be the person they were supposed to become so here is the thing therefore the term a mace that represents covet a sense of dignity and worth not only is necessary for mukundan youth Ralph for the normal economic and social life it's even necessary for the lady to grow in our own assertion I have to know that I matter it's only at the highest point when your momma connected with that college party you can then allow your ego to slip because you become the candle that is lost in the light of the Sun in other words think about it Rockets why we just had a launching after a long hiatus to escape the gravitational pull of the earth you need a tremendous thrust a tremendous thrust once you're beyond the atmosphere so then then the absence of gravity can allow things to fly around or to orbit without so much force so so - to come to us yet I need a certain amount of ego if I don't have a sense of egotism I'm not gonna think I could finish I'm not gonna think I can do deaf yummy I'm not going to think by learning matters I'm not going to think my job inning matters I gotta have a sense that I can accomplish something I'm a capable person I'm a talented person I need that egotism so to speak not only in daily life but in a later session but when you reach that connection to God you've escaped the gravitational pull that's pulling you down then you can get rid of that egotism and that's why the Tom a mace that is covered he's not only connected to machina Israel and Martin Olivia and I'm sorry even to bakken Olivia it's only in Loch Ness Athena that we excluded Tommy mates all right so this is the absurd ex beautiful Hesburgh and she wants to man the exclusion of those who are where to me this is a difficult process in life to work on kina to work on Tyra to work on carve-outs and especially to understand that with Tyga on one hand were supposed to embrace the world and get joy from it but not let it control us and carve out how to balance healthy self-esteem with humility and modesty these are difficult challenges but ultimately this gets rid of the garbage that prevents are connecting to God and then we can work on the positive factors of Torah avodah Camilla sauce onion you know she volos is called salmon ma controversy no the season that God has given us the Torah why don't we call Shavuos is a man Kabbalah Tara say no the day that we accepted the teller why is the emphasis on God giving rather than on our accepting and one of the many answers that is given is God gave the Torah at a particular time and place but accepting the toner is something we have to do every single day every single day we re accept God's Torah by our commitments and it's not simply oh I keep the Torah because I accepted it three thousand years ago but I keep the Torah because I really single thing so in these weeks after suppose we shouldn't feel that Kabbalah cetera is over but rather as Casal say the whole young beyond every single day yeob a network of Hashem the words of the Torah should be new and fresh and vibrant to all of us so I wish you saw that we should be sofa to experience this Baraka and then once again I may Hashem bring referred to the world and may I shall bring Shalom to our brothers and sisters in the old country in the United States and suppose recession may it all be a precursor to the coming of Messiah thank you [Music]