Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: The Tainted Lineage of Moshiach :Goodness in the Guise of Impropriety

[Music] ok everybody good evening and I hope service was was nice I'm actually going to talk a little bit about something connected to show us and that's Magilla Truitt so there's something I wanted to to share with you and Miguel icterus is one of the what we might call one of the jewels of Tanaka it's a very short book a very beautiful book a very poetic book both a romantic book a spiritual book and there are two different questions that people often confuse as being the same thing number one why was Miguel address written number two why do we read it on shores those are absolutely two different questions the reason why the book was written has nothing to do with us Magilla stress originally was not written to be read on Shavuos so first the reason why the book was written according to Cazale the author of McGillis verse is none other than the na'vi Shmuel Hanavi wrote McGillis risk and he had primarily one basic reason for writing McGillis before shortly before he died he wanted to establish the legitimacy of the lineage of David hemella because after all he is the one that anointed over the malakas King shortly before his death and he wanted to be sure that mm Elex lineage would be accepted what's the problem the problem is that the Torah contains a prohibition in partial ski states a low Yafo emoni amoeba coliseum a Moabite or an ammonite now these are the nations that were descended from Lodz incest with his two daughters after Saddam was destroyed lote was with daughter number one and she named her son mo of from my father and lote was then the next night he got drunk and he was a children number two and she named her daughter a moan from the nation and my nation and the son rather from a nation and I'm gonna mow over there for descended from Louis daughters they were conceived literally in incest and the Torah says even if they convert to Judaism and they are Jews the Jewish people are not allowed to marry with them lo UVO ammonium or v bacala shem now interestingly enough the reason the Torah gives is not because of the incest that is not the reason but the reason is because of the selfishness and lack of compassion all devar I share low kid mu at semble Efimova maíam that when we were on the verge of entering the Land of Israel we have two paths we wanted to pass through the Moabites and the ammonites ori and they refused to give us food and water even if we were willing to pay for it and it was that selfishness that cruelty that lack of compassion that invalidated the ammonites and the Moabites from entering the congregation of God even if they convert now the halacha happens to be for reasons we'll discuss that that only applies to male Moabites and ammonites it does not apply the females so Ruth herself is a convert from the nation of moas as a result she was permitted to marry boas and her descendants would therefore not suffer the taint of being descended from the Moabite however this Holika was not well known and consequently shimosawa through a ha'qodesh that there would be constant aspersions and attacks on king david's lineage coming from the tainted Moabite woman so shuo wanted to write a story showing that Boas who was known as the Gordo had or again we don't know that from elsewhere but it was understood by that contemporary generation that Boas was like Revati yourself rebel Yosef you know a great great Thomas Holcomb and Boas married Russ in a public ceremony ergo the halacha must be that female Moabites are permitted therefore david hemella has not tainted a very very simple basic reason Shamala Navi wanted to establish the pub Olek record that Boas the girdle hador married Russ therefore it must be that the prohibition of the Moabites only applies to the male it does not apply to the female that is the basic reason why he wrote the story of routes to legitimate the lineage of Javid hemella that also explains why there's a curious omission in the story that's because I'll tell us existed and there's no remnants and that is the following according to kazow Boas consummated his marriage with risk and he died the next morning he died the next morning now Schmoyer does not give us that detail in Magilla Taurus and the reason is quite quite obvious what will people think here we have a person who marries a Moabite woman so initially people say well if Boas did it it must be okay he's then struck by lightning the next day what are people gonna say hmm I guess he didn't do the right thing now in reality was really the opposite Boas was very old he had lost a wife he had lost a phenomenal number of children according to kazow he had a hundred and twenty children sixty sons and sixty daughters they all died he was alone he was bereft he was old he was sick he didn't want to get married at all God kept him alive artificially so he could consummate his marriage with risks he didn't die as a punishment he was kept alive supernaturally so he would do what needed to be done nevertheless this type of detail would be prone to such misunderstanding that shamila Navi felt it would be better to leave it so be it as it may the basic story of roots is the story of how this woman converted to Judaism and she embraced the Torah with with love and with devotion and with commitments and it shows her kindness and compassion to her mother-in-law and how Boas who is of the lineage descended from Yehuda consummated his marriage with Ruth and from that Union came David hemella and eventually mushiya right so much she comes precisely from Rustom alibi in fact not only that but it's interesting that as hateful and hated as is the nation of Ammon and Moab Messiah comes from a combination of Ammon and Moab the Rambam writes that Messiah has descended not only from Deborah Miller but Messiah is descended from know David had many sons Shalom Oh is the one from where she comes and had many wives but one of his wives is nama harmonious nama the ammonites so messiah is descended from roost the Moabites who married boas and they are the son of a and over there is Aisha and yeesh I had a son Dov it and then of his thousand wives one of them was nama harmonious and that is the Messianic light so it's a very fascinating thing that Ammon and Moab are in fact both of them are the ancestors of Mashiach Ben bend of it now one interesting point that I want to discuss though is the following Namie goes to mow of with her husband and her two sons or two sons Mary Moabite women Wilson Orpah Naomi loses her sons loses her husband comes back to Eretz Israel her two daughters-in-law originally go with their or paterns back Russ remains and Russ eventually marries boas but the way Russ Mary's Boas it's almost like a seduction the army tells Russ go to boas in the middle of the night when he's asleep he's sleeping in the threshing floor and lie down next to him and uncover his feet now granted it was not a true seduction because they did not have intercourse that night till after they were married but you know it's something certainly a typical of a Jaco girl certainly would not do she comes to a man in the middle of the night relies down next in and says marry me boas is kind of shocked and confused what is going on is that the way for ASA Noah to behave so there's a very deep meaning here the feeb shots now you're me understands how critical this marriage is Naomi understands were through a ha'qodesh that Boaz is towards the very end of his life in wash of a metallic Naomi understands that this is the relationship that's going to produce double hemella and produce mushiya Naomi understands that boas is not taking any initiative Boaz is not making any overtures so one could simply learn she wants to shock boas into recognizing what his obligations are look at what I made Russ do so you'll realize how important this is and the very fact that her behavior is shocking operates as something that will shock boas and to recognize into recognizing that he just have to act there's a closer relative but assuming that other relative gets out of the way Boaz is going to be ready to step in had Naomi not in that shocking way Boas never would have even thought that such a union was possible he was old she was young Boas miss vara logically did not think this was a shidduch that was mah team that how old it was Russ we don't have an exact age but but there was a probably around a 40 year difference between them boas was much much older older than risk indeed you'll recall that Boas remarks tourists God will reward you for not seeking younger people and going to me Russ was obviously still relatively young she was able to go into the fields and gather and bring back rain through her mother-in-law and the line so this is why Nami did what she did but the ZOA offers a very very deep explanation that has very interesting and difficult repercussions for modern life the ZOA and again this is the ZOA itself is difficult to understand it's based on rough cooking another interpretation of the sower we know that in the world there are forces that are forces of negativity and evil now unlike Christianity that actually looks at evil as some type of demonic force that is fighting God like the Anti Christ or the like we actually believe that evil itself is either created or at least enabled by God in order to create free will in order to create struggle because there is a concept that goodness is only goodness when it's chosen and in order to be chosen virtue there has to be the capacity to make negative choices so evil you might say is a necessary evil and evil ultimately gets its energy from God and although God does not want us to go down that path but he enables us to go down that path because that facilitates the higher values of bashira of freewill moral choice because once again if there wouldn't be the capacity to choose evil our choosing of good would not be virtuous would just be mechanical there is no virtue in choosing good unless you had the opportunity to choose bad and unless the bad paid off in some way right imagine you had a world where every time you choose evil you got an electric shock and it goes up five volts every repeat offense well okay at some point you would choose only good but you would be no better than a pigeon in a skinnier spots even the dumb pigeon pigeons are not smart crows are smart but pigeons are not particularly bright but even the pigeon knows if one lever gives it a shot and the other lever gives it a piece of coin it's going to choose the piece of coin you understand if God set up a system we're good guys always win in the short term and bad guys always lose then the good guys would be good not because they've chosen goodness the good guys would be good because they've chosen expediency this is actually a a very important idea in in some sense you almost have to have a world where evil has short-term triumphs short-term triumphs because that's the only way morality is truly chosen as opposed to simply doing what's evermore most convenient so that's what I say evil is a necessary evil so there are evil forces in the world and these evil forces whether in the guise of people movements in Kabbalah it posits demons whenever you want to visualize it they often prevent holiness from coming into the world right Kabbalah uses the phrase Citra Acra the other side so as a result the Zohar posits sometimes great and powerful goodness can enter the world only if it goes under the radar only it becomes in the guise of something that's not so good you know we have an English and expression a wolf in sheep's clothing well here we can invert the expression you sometimes have to have a sheep in wolf's clothing imagine in a graphic way visual way you have these guards and their job is to prevent good from entering the world so the guards have to be fooled the good has to dress up like bad and when it dresses up like bad the guards let it in even though it's actually good so the Zohar says quite an amazing idea that goodness sometimes enters the world through the cover of a parent sin and the parent evil and you see this totally in the history of the Davidic line which culminates in ultimately mashiac in redeeming the world let's go back right Russ is the great-grandmother of Giovanna Miller Bruce comes from Alma Nemeth hominin MOA had their Genesis in incest two daughters slept with their father on two successive nights it's quite strange that mashiac should be descended from relationships that were incestuous right that's one aspect of it now let's look at Boas Boas himself is descended from yahuda and Tamar now remember the story of yoohoo Dan Tamar right Yehuda had his daughter-in-law Tamar Tamar was married to one son air-air died Onan fulfilled a ye bum by marrying tomorrow none died Yahoo they had a third son Shayla Yehuda did not once his daughter not to marry Shayla because she thought she was a dangerous woman that I thought sons were dying so she kept her like a widow so what did Tamar do she dressed up like a prostitute and she enticed Yehuda you did not know he was with his daughter-in-law when she conceived the child Yehuda did not know it was his child and he sentenced her to death debris burning because she effectively committed adultery based on the concept that she was beholden and betrothed to his third son although it's an unfair situation cuz Judah was not allowing his third son to marry her but still she was somehow connected to that third son and Tamar you'll recall was willing to go to her death and be burnt instead of humiliating him she would not reveal his identity she simply said the man that gave me the staff and the money belt is the man I was with you who though was the only person in the world besides Tamar who knew that that was him and he stepped forward and he admitted etc but Tamar was willing to die what do because I'll say the famous was out better to throw yourself into a fiery furnace rather than humiliate somebody publicly so nevertheless from that union Tamar had twins one son was called Zahra and one son was called parrots parrots is the ancestor of Boas therefore the ancestor of David the ancestor of mushiya so look at look at what's going on here on one hands beside Russ you have the incest of Amon MOF meet sad Boas you have the the prostitution so to speak of Yehuda and Tamar huh well again the whole ethic status is very complicated it's before mountain tourists so the normal Holocaust don't apply here but it was at least quasi adultery because it was understood that she was beholden to shayla now the truth of the matter is units behavior is very very unfair on one hand he's condemning her for adultery because she was beholden to shayla the third son on the other hand you who day is not letting her marry the third son so you just kind of using inconsistent positions here you can't marry my third son but you are married to him and therefore you're guilty of adultery and that's why he was going to sentence her to to death Boas and rushed itself has the appearance of impropriety where she comes in the middle of the night and she lies down next to him and of course the fact that rust herself is a Moabite even though the halacha is female Moabites are permitted you see from many gamora's image russian this halakha was forgotten again and again and again and again and people constantly raised accusations that dublin hemella is tainted because he comes from the accursed Moabite people even though how luckily it was not a problem so what you see over here is that everything about the generation of devil hemella yes ok I'll get to that everything about the generation of Jovana Mela is shrouded in sin in taint and impropriety let's even go further there's even more than that that's what Joey Poston was alluding to it is said if you remember when Schmoyer was commanded to go to each eye and anoint one of his sons as king he goes to zion says bring me your sons and Hashem will tell me which one of them is King and seven sons are brought and there are handsome and tall and righteous and very capable but Shmuel sees that none of them are the one that I shall shows he then asks he shy do you have any other children do you have any other sons and ye she says yeah there's a guy that's taking care of the sheep but you know you're not interested in him Shamu L says bring him to me and that of course is love it now the question is why didn't you shy bringed of it in the first place Shmuel Hanavi said hashem has commanded me to tell you bring me all your sons so Yishai just decides not to bring one of them aisha is known as a great psychic the Gemara in fact says each I committed Noah verus at all so how could he disobey the commandments of the Navi so the Midrash says a very very amazing thoughts the Metra says yeesh I did not know that David was his son until that very moment doubled is around twenty eight years old at that time certainly very close to 30 and the Meldrick explains this is a very wild story that as Yishai was getting older Yishai himself began to question whether he had a hectare to live with his Jewish wife because she's descended from rusta Moabite and perhaps female Moabites are prohibited and therefore he stated so what the Yishai did was Yishai separated from his wife and he took a non-jewish maidservants so cohabit were thinking that because he's tainted and cannot marry regular Jews he could live with a ship like an honest non-jewish maidservant his wife disguised herself as the maidservant and she actually was with each eye when he thought he was with the maidservant when he saw again it's really almost a replication of you who then Tamar when he sees that his wife is pregnant he thinks his wife committed adultery and dove in hemella a mom's there a child born of adultery so Yishai when he was told to bring his sons to show L didn't bring duh but he didn't think of it was his son dove it was a mom sure now dubbins mother told him the true story but for whatever reason this was kept secrets for many many years and when mm elephant tehilim describes very often how he was humiliated how he was made fun of how he was rejected the meddra SH connects it for almost 30 years he was treated as an outcast he was treated as an illegitimate child he was not treated as a son of Isha he was treated as an object of shame and derision and that is the meaning of the pus akin Hallel Evan masu jabón 'i'm the stone that the builders rejected i sell the rosh pina has become the main cornerstone and bonum could also be read by Bonham the stone that the sun's the other sons had rejected eisah LaRoche pina so once again mm ella is characterized as a moms are a product of adultery and then finally let me point out then in the next generation Shalom I'm Elif is born from bat Sheva and let's consider the relationship of dubby than bat Sheva now it's true that the Gomorrah says dove it technically didn't do anything wrong or yes et had given bat Sheva guests and she was technically divorced because soldiers used to give their wives gettin before they went to war but spiritually the relationship with bat Sheva spiritually was adulterous because it was understood she would go back to the husband and from that relationship came slow marmella who himself is the ancestor of mushy via his marriage to nama the ammonite coming back to incest all the way back so you really have kind of a almost a soap opera of all sorts of sins the incest of Ammon and Moab the apparent prostitution of you who Dan Tom are the seduced maneuv Boas by Russ coming to the Goron coming to the threshing floor in the middle of the night the accusation that David mlus may be a momager from his mother committing adultery although that was not true in her marriage to Isha David committing a parent adultery with Bathsheba and then marrying an ammonite woman who herself is a product of incest going all the way back the Zohar makes the point that the soul of Messiah is such a tremendous holiness that will change the world that will redeem the world that will elevate the world but the greater the holiness the greater are the forces of evil arrayed to stop that holiness from coming into the world so the only way that home is coming to the world is if it comes in the guise of impropriety of a Vera of things that don't look quite right because that relaxes the vigilance of the powers of evil that let this come in now the implications of this are quite quite interesting controversial difficult both rough cooking rhapsodic in different ways point out that this is a key to understanding certain developments in modernity that on one level are very much against Torah but contain sparks of holiness which need to be extracted rough cook in particular actually mentioned feminism obviously he was writing in the early part of the 20th century in which there was a movement in the world for women to have certain equality's and rights of cook said the concept of the dignity of women that they should not be oppressed they shouldn't be abused they should be treated let's say in the workforce with equality that was actually a good and noble end that would be something that would replace the misogynistic tendencies not not so much of the Jewish world but of the world generally and that was a legitimate and proper idea when he came into the world masked with all sorts of perversions considered today when you have various feminist arguments let's have women rabbis or women hate them also I don't want to give it to the specifics but you often find that Jewish feminism often turns into an attack on how logic structures and rough cook basically says that is the Sheep that enters the world in wolf's clothing and the difficulty is that when good enters the world intermixed with a lot of things that are wrong it takes a great deal of wisdom and discernment to be able to separate the good from the bad it's like a beautiful fruit that contains poison there is a beautiful fruit there but there's also poison that will kill you unless you figure out how to separate the Zionism was another example of cook says the yearning to come back to Eretz Israel the yearning to rebuild their rich Israel in both a physical and a spiritual way was a noble and holy feeling that emanated from the deepest recesses of the neshamah but the Citra accra would not allow that holiness to enter the world unless it came under the radar through the guise of secular movements that to some degree were even antagonistic to religion and to God so in the phenomenon of secular Zionism rev cook saw a holy and Noble and good idea that was entering the world in perhaps a form that was not appropriate others have said this was even true about something like the reform movements and again I'm saying things that are that are risky but and that is the following we have Cooke writes that in many many communities Orthodox religion from life had become stale it has become wrote it has become routine people were going through the motions without feeling without qivana without passion so various rebellions arose against traditional Judaism which were spiritually attempts to bring vitality renewal new energy but they got perverted and they got distorted into various rejections I'll give you maybe a more relevant example than even reform that is so many Jews turn to Buddhism or even Christianity but Buddhism is even the bigger attraction nine out of ten English speaking converts to Buddhism are Jews now on one line one level you could say that's a great tragedy Buddhism is technically about us or etc god forbid what type of world is it when our children are seeking idolatrous religions are you in Christianity but there's something very deep here because often often the Jews that are seeking these religious outlets are actually very very deeply spiritual people they are turned off by what they perceive as the superficiality of Jewish life often not in the religious world they're turned off by the materialism by the decadence by the lack of God discourse so they're seeking a connection with God they don't know where to go so they go here and there they're going totally in the wrong way but it emanates from a deep spirituality they're looking for something they're not content to simply go on the career merry-go-round to get the golden ring they're looking for something deeper in life they're looking for something more in life so on one hand it's a tragedy that that's where they're going on the other end it's a blessing that they are looking for God and at some point we believe if you look for God even if we're going in the wrong direction you're gonna find them one way or the other so the phenomenon we're describing is a very deep and pervasive phenomena that there is good that enters the world but somehow in its transition from the spiritual source to the grungy realities of everyday life sometimes that good gets contaminated and infiltrated and that's how it enters the world indeed but at that point it can become poisonous unless you figure out how to separate the good from the evil right the tree of knowledge of good and evil meaning good and evil and good and evil is intermixed that can bring death now last year there was a very prominent rabbi in London rabbi Drake who was a Sephardic rabbi in London and he made a speech about the Jewish approach to homosexuality and you may be may have heard about this story this is a really really sad story in some ways and he said things in a way that I personally think should not have been said but I'll tell you what he said and I'll tell you that and when I heard it it didn't even bother me because it is well within this type of tradition he said again I do not endorse the way he said it but he basically said gay rights gay marriage these are good things for Jewish people because they teach us that men should not be ashamed to have love and care and concern for other men yes it's wrong that it turns into marriage and sexual relationships because that's what the Torah prohibits but the basic idea that I should be able to love a man as well meaning love in terms of friendship like dubber than Yona son that's a good thing and when men have been unable to have those types of friendships that was a bad thing and therefore the gay rights brings to the world this idea that men can have emotions and men can have feelings and men can have friendships that are very deep now let me tell you that the reaction to his speech was very very explosive because basically you have a rabbi in Orthodox rabbi coming out and saying gay marriage is a good thing for the Jewish field just that lying alone as a result he was like one inch away from just losing his position and although eventually the London based on the latter him to keep his position I believe I like this unbelievable thing I don't I would stay as a rabbi if I had this condition that he has to submit every sermon he's going to give to the approval of the London based on and I am he agreed to it I don't think I don't think I would have agreed to it but okay now I wouldn't have said what he said obviously the Torah considers homosexual relationships abominations toee votes and particularly in this age where so many of the boundaries are Matus - they're all confused there needs to be clarity that the Torah prohibits things okay and a rabbi has to be extra careful Pirkei avos says how come in he's ah Haru they did raise him be very careful how you talk so I think rabbis were made a mistake but as a matter of fact what he said happens to be true at the same time and this is exactly the Czar's point that in evil there is a kernel of good which can then get distorted and abused and exaggerated and miss applied and we need to be vigilant about that but that doesn't mean there's not a good that you can't extract his point is exactly ruff cooking ruff Southwark so when I heard it it didn't even shock me that much because yeah this is of course uh duck this is Malthus based of it this is how we understand feminism and Zionism and even the movements that rebelled against traditional Judaism coming from a desire for his hot-shit for renewal that's why ref kook saw in even the rebellious nests in strum kite he saw something positive people seeking some type of renewal although they're they don't understand the right way to do it and they're not turning to the right sources and so this is a powerful idea it's a controversial idea it's a dangerous idea it's a subversive idea I understand that so don't tell my employer I don't want to get in trouble in Maya Shiva but nevertheless there is something true about this fundamentally and deeply true and this is what the so are sees in the notion of the tainted lineage of Java tamela but there's another point I want to make as well maybe a simpler point and that is the following idea we know that before my shipment of it comes there is a pre Messiah called mashiach ben yossef descended from Yosef and Mashiach Ben Yossef it is said is going to be killed in the pre messianic Wars of Gog and Magog and will pave the way for mushiya Ben Yadav it affect the original rights when you say in shmouna Ezra but he sayd of it may Rolla so hot a thing may you speedily speedily established the throne Ford of it the throne Ford of it is Mashiach Ben Yossef was due so you're actually praying for Mashiach Ben Yossef release aid of it may well ahsoka definition when Yosef so we know that although Yosef indeed was a king in metrium but ultimate redemption comes not from Yosef but it comes from David and shaded Yehuda why is that so so the Avenue nazar says a very very beautiful thought he says yo safe and Yehuda and of it as well represents two different ways of dealing with sin when Yosef is subject to temptation Potiphar's wife tries to tempt Yosef no safe just says no no yo safe represents the power in the world to resist sin resist evil and that's very important we need to know we have the coop to make the right choices in life you who'd on the other hand represents a different aspect when you Hooda is tempted by the Tamar thinking she's a prostitute yahuda succumbs to a parent sin but you who that teaches us when we fail how we come back to God with chuva and repentance Joseph is the leader that teaches us how not to fail Yehuda is the leader that teaches us when we fail how we come back the prusik says in mich light and proverbs Sheva ye PO Sadiq become the Sadiq falls seven times and gets up again that actually refers to spiritual failures the sadiq can also fail the sada can also sit but the Sadiq doesn't give up hope the SAVAK maintains a Munna both in God and Rooney and himself and he does not allow himself to be vanquished by the spiritual defeats of life he goes on he recreates he rebuilds he does not get discouraged now a king certainly the Messianic King is supposed to be a role model of inspiration for us but the role model of the person who never makes a mistake the role model of the person who is perfect is not really the role model for us because we're not perfect but the person who fails and makes mistakes but teaches us how to come back that's the person we learn from that's the person we grow from no runner back in the 1970s when art scroll started and the whole genre of biographies of great rabbis biographies of Godot ylim began so afoot nur was initially critical of some of the biographies of Kedah them because these biographies painted these rabbis as super human creatures who did things that were beyond normal comprehension so about if he might say when he was four years old he knew the Babylonian Talmud and at five he did a see him on you show me and that is Bar Mitzvah yet finished shoka norik a thousand times with the Prima gotham's commentary and you read about superhuman achievements that are so unbelievable now we're foot there was a little critical of that approach because her foot you're basically said okay I read about things that I'll never do and my children will never do so I'm entertained I'm fascinated I'm amazed but how does that bear and how I live my life well here footer said you have to understand but although indeed there were many good olam that were blessed with great great brilliance but they too had struggles in their lives they too had issues they were grappling with and in many many ways we would learn much more from understanding their struggles and even their mistakes and their failures then we would from simply describing these unbroken successes now how logically there is a problem in writing that type of biography Russian Hara there there are going to be issues in fact it's so fascinating that I'm speaking about this the day after the Patera of a great rabbi who tried to explore these issues in exactly this way you may have heard that rev Nelson kamenetsky the son of Ravi a cough come in as he just died when the Solinsky was a great grocery Shiva in aerica Sorrell here before coming s Keys older brother and revenues become an esky route around made more than twenty years ago a was supposed to be a biography of his father called the making of a gud 'l and this book engendered extreme controversy because there have nothing decided that he wasn't only going to write about his father he was going to write about the whole yeshiva world in Eastern Europe and all of the problems that were faced whether it was secularism whether it was involvement in communism whether it was you know boys writing to women etc and even he wrote about struggles Reverend went through and his father went through and this book was excommunicated was put in siren because how dare he rides anything negative about GU Dolan and he wrote a second edition where he tried to take out some of the more controversial stuff and that got put in favor it's interesting I remember the book the book I don't own the book but it is available online but but the way it worked was the book was sold in stores for twenty-five dollars after the book was banned rev Nelson withdrew it from so somebody was selling bootleg copies on eBay for $500 now you can get it online it is actually a phenomenal book rev Nelson made a freshman and the freshman is very very true that you need to know the struggles the Nishio knows the failures of even our greatest because then we learn how they became great and then we learn how we can become great so that is why the Mullis of um Israel was not given to Yosef who represents the person who doesn't make a mistake but to Yehuda and of it who make mistakes who fail but then show us how to come back to a sham with with Juba and that's yet another aspect in the ins and outs and the question of a lineage of Davina Mela now again this is a a controversial idea the notion that the greatest leader on some level is the leader who struggles with the same types of issues that we struggle I think all of us know this even in the context of parenting although you have to think about how much do you tell your child your child is grappling with a certain issue it could be anything it could be drugs it could be sex it could be without whatever the issue might be and let's imagine that you at one point in your life was grappling with that issue this is a very hard quiz a very very hard question as a parent meaning on one end I don't want to tell my kids you know any bad stuff I did on the other hands they could benefit so much from knowing that you went through the same struggles in how you came out in a good place in a right place and that could actually be a much more helpful bit of information dentists members like good people don't do that sometimes good people do different things but we have to learn how not to be crushed how not to be defeated how a shaman is mercy enables most mistakes not to be irrevocable correctable we can get beyond it and this is yet another reason so that we have two concepts in this Tainted lineage issue one is the idea that evil can only enter the world I'm sorry good good can only enter the world in the guise of apparent evil and the second is that to some degree true leadership has to be connected on some level with the flaws that people struggle with and the end as I say this was bred out so beautifully in rev Nelson coming that Sookie's safer genomics was nipped where was it yesterday or the right after service he's a crow Borak I think he was treated very very poorly by much of the religious world his cabrona was the same shamayim and it was quite again a very very fascinating instructive and meaningful type of book that that he produced to understand these these miss yonas so that's kind of what I wanted to share with you about McGillis ruse and once again one of the things you see is how Naomi saw how important this marriage was this marriage was the predicate of redemption it was not simply a marriage for risk that's why the word go L is used over and over again the word go L Redeemer and although Redeemer can be used in a more narrow context I'm redeeming a field I'm redeeming a particular person but I think it's fairly clear that Shmuel Hanavi is using go L not in the sense of individualistic redeemer but in the sense of the source of the ultimate to Allah that will come to to ami Israel so be as recession and the afterglow of vows I hope that we will take these great great lessons to heart let me say as well that the measure says that one of the very important lessons of Russ is to teach us the reward for those who behave with kindness and compassion that much of the Baraka that came to us was because of the kindness and the pheasant that she showed for her elderly mother in law and this reminds us therefore that Camilla to us Adam is one of the ways that we bring divine grace into the world and into our lives and that should certainly be a lesson that we learned from so I wish you well and a good good week well that's that's pretty [Music]