Rav Yitzchak Breitowitz: A Tzaddik Lives by His Faith

[Music] okay hi everybody good good good to see you um I will refrain on political comment but I think U most people feel that the US election was good for clausell although I have to admit I overheard your point and it is an interesting point that some feel that um if people truly believe that the situation in America is getting better for Jews then it may have the detrimental effect of people feeling less of a necessity to come to erel so so there is indeed an up you know a downside even to something that looks on its face to be good for CLA Israel it is a very excellent point and we do have to remember ultimately now Trump could be a sh in in a number of ways but he's not mashia and he's certainly not God and uh Asal say ultimately a am the only one the only thing that a Jew can trust in is indeed the United States motto on its own coins uh in God In God We Trust so we have to remember even under circumstances that appear to be very you know hopefully positive for cl Israel and M for the world that our our complete has to be in in in Hashem and of course that also means come to ER Isel we shouldn't use this as a reason to kind of stay put so so actually AR's point is actually a a very good point that one has to think about uh today's Shear is dedicated Raa for bar and for the lasting Unity of the people of Isel and for all of those whose Health has been affected by the war Al benzer as well as Le nishas Doras mosha AR and SAR this is Mrs Debbie finlin Whose y site is the 12th of marvan and this is dedicated by her children Ephraim and Naomi finlin and Hana Jerel again I don't want to get too personal but I've mentioned before that um I am from Hartford Connecticut and Mrs Debbie felstein as well as her husband Rabbi uh official finlin were very very influential in my life and in the lives of many many uh kids growing up in harrid to be marar of them to bring them to Torah and mitzvos so they are very very important parts of my life so to me it's a personal honor uh to be able to give a sheer uho nishas Mrs felstein and I I guess when Rabbi felin's y side comes there will be a dedication for him as well he z um we'd also like to dedicate the following okay that's that's for the future okay yeah and an anonymous contribution was made for the of as well as the hostages uh to return safe and totally healthy to their homes and we pray for hashem's protection for all of CLA Isel and for the GMA that should be B uh last night and today uh the 11th of maresin was of course the the yard site of Roa we're already the next day but since I didn't teach chair last night just want to say a few words in honor of Rao and uh once again uh we know that the idea that ra died on the 11th of kashan is not in the itself but the medish indeed identifies this as the as the date and the gamar tells us or the medis tells us rather that yobu did not bury Rael in the mar yov buried Rael on the road to and the med says because yov saw withes that when the Jews would be exiled to Babylonia they would be passing by that particular Road and therefore would would for us in as the says in this has been put to music a number of times there is the voice in heaven of that ra is crying over her children they call her M ra and says she refuses to be comforted because of all of the suffering of the Jewish people but says to ra I'm just quoting a withhold your voice from crying and your eyes from tears there will be a reward for all of your good actions the Jewish people will eventually be reunited from all of the lands of their enemies F and they will return to their boundaries Rael is considered to be of all of Theos andos the most powerful vehicle to awaken Divine Mercy for CLA Israel now again it's obviously the case which is true with all Graves of sadim we don't pray to the sadik we don't pray to Rael we pray only to Hashem but Rael as it were adds you know ra is an inary uh uh for us in terms of her prayers and what exactly is the secret of RA what is the great of RA people don't always realize ra of course died in childbirth as she gave birth to Benyamin so Rael died in the course of building Amel that's an interesting point uh this was the last of the and ra according to the was only around 32 years old people don't realize raal died as a very very very young woman and she was not she did not even Merit to be buried next to yaku and the kak of her prayers the medis tells us is because originally Yakov worked for seven years to marry ra and then at the last minute you know Lan was going to do a switch and Yakov had Yakov had anticipated switch and therefore in the total darkness he and Le he and Rael had agreed on special hands motions and as a result Leia would have been discovered at the wedding night and would have been rejected and what Rael did was Rael gave those secret Sim over to Leia in order that Leia should not be humiliated at least the night of the wedding now there are a lot of we'll probably talk about this later when the Kish itself talks about it but there are a lot of questions here on one hand we could say what a righteous action ra did not to embarrass her sister to spare her sister embarrassment on the other hand she did the action at the apparent expense of Yakov rant used to say famously that it's important not to be a sadic on somebody else's the is Rael doing something to benefit her sister now yes it's to the detriment of Rael and that's her self-sacrifice but it's also to the detriment of Yakov who wound up having to work another seven years yeah he actually married Rael just seven days later but he had to work another seven years uh because of it I think we have to assume and this is what the mam say that at least in retrospect yakob saw this as a good and Noble deed that had had Rael known that Yakov would have been makit Rael couldn't have done what she do but she knew that yakob would understand that this was good and this was necessary for CLA Israel now I just want to make two points it is important to understand the nature of rael's sacrifice because by Rael giving up those even though L it only turned out it delayed her marriage by a week but R didn't really know that because remember there was a belief that the OS had that uh Lavon had two main daughters ra and Leia then Bill and Zula were the maid servants and Y had two sons Yakov and ASA so the thought would be the older one Leia would go to ASA and the younger one Rael would go to Yakov and that's why Leia was always crying so when Rael switched it so that Leia would go to Yakov from their perspective that means ra was condemning herself to be the wife of Asa now brem that wasn't hashem's plan but in terms of their perception Rael was condemning her entire life her Destiny her future she was condemning herself she thought to a life of living with a Russia and not only that but her progeny would never be part of the Jewish people so there was a devastating sacrifice that from her perspective she was making and she did did this not to spare or to spare the embarrassment of her sister there is another interesting point as well you know kazal have a tradition that the a kept the whole Torah even before it was given the Torah is not obligatory until Mount Si but the with rues understood the Mitzvah they understood it's like the DNA of the universe reverse engineering they look at the world and they see how mitzvos are keeping everything around everything alive and they kept the T intuitively shess and shabus we don't even understand how they could figure that out but they figured it out it wasn't obligatory but but they kept it so one of the big questions mafora Mas is that although the Tyra does allow polygamy the Tyra does not allow a person to marry two sisters even when polygamy is permitted you can't marry the sister of your wife you can't marry two sisters so the big question is how could yov marry ra and Leia if Theos kept the whole Torah before it was given again this is a question I think I'm going to address it more length later but I just want to mention the famous yod of the ramban which maral does not like but the ramban says it and that is the idea that the a kept the whole Torah is only when they were living in erit Israel when they were in the Palace of the king they kept the king's laws when they were living in they did not feel a to do that meaning once the Torah is given it applies both in ER Israel and outside ER Israel but they're they're keeping the Torah based on their spiritual intuitions of Holiness so the ran says in they didn't feel anas to keep the whole Torah since yov married ra and Le in Aram in so therefore it was okay but says the ramban that is why Rael dies shortly after yakob returns to ER Isel because erel is a higher level of kadan so now here is the thing if ra and if Ra was aware of this when she gave up her opportunity to be wife number one and she positioned herself as wife number two she was condemning herself to death when they return to erit Israel because it would be the second wife that would be the prohibited wife the sister of your wife and therefore once again even though contrary to what people think that uh R was delayed for seven years she was not she was only her marriage was one week later uh but she in effect put herself into a death sentence so basically you see the magnitude of her sacrifice on one level she might have thought she was going to asov and on the other level even if she knew she was going to Yakov she knew that tragically she would die very very soon after Yakov returned and a even so she was she basically said I don't want to cause pain I I don't want to cause humiliation so as a result Rael turns to God and Rael says look at your people feel their their pain see their humiliation and if Rael could give up all that she treasured to spare her sister that pain you Hashem can also forgive us and look down upon us with ra and compassion ra Rael cries over her children and in rael's marit the Jewish people will be redeemed so again one of the what you might call um Silver Linings of War uh as tragic as it is is it does create a hisus it does create an arousal for Redemption you know when times are good and simple we don't necessarily think about mashia we don't think about G time you know it's going to life is good enough the way it is but when we're in difficult situations that's when our mind does turn to the gide of GA and and theart side of Ra would be a time in which we recognize the need that we have to have GA to have Yeshua and be as may be a an intercessor for all of of is as the promised uh you you said you were at K last night there were lot a lot of people okay so that was just I just even though I say today is the 12th of but I wanted to mention something in honor of of RA of RA uh now we come in to the great birth of the great and it's interesting that uh the announcement of the birth of kind of occurs in two different stages and it's not really clear why you need both events at the end of at the end of last week's para you know sometimes we're used to par so by the time we read V we we don't think about the end of but you got to read the continuously right the breakup of paros is simply because you got to read the Torah every week but but L said it is a continuous narrative now we find at the time of the of bris when AB was 99 years old told him head of the angels that you will have a child from Sora your wife it will not it will not only be hogar you will have a child from Sor your wife I will establish my Covenant through the child you will have with Sor your wife and not only that but Hashem tells him what the child should be named so it's not because Sarah laughed or whatever it is that he's called y hasm said ahead of time you shall call his name Y and the PK says Abraham fell on his face and he laughed everybody laughs right Abraham laughs so s laughs later and Sora laughs at the bris too they're two different episodes of sar's laughter the idea of he shall laugh so a first makes a point that he who laughs last laughs best meaning to say meaning maybe in this world Jews don't always have a lot to laugh about there's a lot of sorus that we have but is always that reminder that there's going to be that redemption in which we will laugh as D says that when the G comes our mouths will be filled with with laughter so the announcement that Sor will have a child in a year's time was already given to Aram at the time of the bris at the time he was commanded for the bris so that's what we see at the end of par we now go uh just three days later because Paras fa Begins the third day of his circumcision in which Three Angels who come in the appearance of BNS or or just people come in and Abram gives them hospitality and the Angels or or people so to speak know they're Angels but they look like people they say your wife SAR shall give birth in a in a year and and the like so it's a little bit of a strange situation why the basora the announcement of y's Birth has to be communicated in two different ways one is by the direct communication to AR before the Brisa and the other is by the visitation of the Three Angels three days later now K give us at least a partial explanation they basically say that normally a child or anyone that gets a bris is weakest on the third day remember that's why Yakov that's why shim and Ley killed sh the third day of after their circumcision because they're weak and ab aino after all was 99 years old he was no youngster he actually circumcised himself and he's weak Andes made it very hot that day so AB would not be disturbed by guests or Travelers because people don't travel on hot days so he thought that would give AR a break but instead abam is sitting out in the hot sun waiting for so as it were says well I can't I can't win here Abram defeated me so I better send him some guests otherwise he's going to sit out in the hot sun the whole day and that's why he sends them the three malim it's too hot for any other regular human being to travel so the MIM come and they make believe they're eating Etc and kazal say There Were Three Angels uh the angel Mikel uh uh came to beas to say that Sor will have a child the angel Gabriel came to destroy sadom and the angel Rafael came both to heal Abraham from his pain and eventually to save Lo from sedom and even though we have a cloud thatal only does one thing but Rashia underscores the medish that healing Aram and saving Lo are both matters of rescuing people from their predicament and therefore that's called one shus Etc so which means but still even with this K we don't really have a complete answer I mean you're telling me mik's job was to tell Abraham that Sora is gonna have a child well Hashem already told Abraham that Sora is gonna have a child so just as a general concept it's hard to understand why the birth of Y has to be announced or communicated in these two different stories one is AEM telling Abraham at the time of the bris Mila and the other is the visitation of the Angels three days or the third day after the bris so the sh Mish says a very very interesting Insight that is relevant to marriage in general and he says we know that each of the ofos had a very very distinct spiritual personality M talk about this Abraham represents the attribute of loving kindness giving compassion benevolence but Abraham's compassion and benevolence needed to be counterbalanced by sora's Inner Strength and discipline so Abraham represents Sora represents gor and therefore their Union was complete because it embodied the need to have both and and gor that is why a for example later in the paraa uh was was not able on his own to expel is because that's the opposite of it was only Sora that understood that is would be destructive to the entire plan of God's covenant and call Israel and that's why Hashem said whatever your wife Sarah says to you listen to her she understands the imperatives here that is why the by the way at the end of the para is called the of not of for to give his life for God that's y's nature y's nature is like his mother gabura so gor you're acting in accordance with your nature Abraham's nature is giving benevolence for him to act against his nature that is the idea of Nan that's why it's called the Nan of Abraham rather than the Nan of by the way I just want to mention just as an as side it's not really my my my share tonight uh two interesting little points I mean listen the aada you can talk about your whole life to try to fully penetrate the mysteries of the AAA but I want to mention two interesting points about the AAA that a lot of people uh don't don't know uh Point number one is that the safer C Coen who was a Mak the Tet of the AR brings in the name of the zo now the reason I'm saying it this way is we haven't really found the zo so I can't tell you where it is in The Zo but the C Coen brings it in the name of the Z that Abraham actually killed y that the ARA was actually completed and that's why it mentions that Abraham returned with his two youths it doesn't mention he returned with y and and now you understand why s died she thought y was literally literally killed as a carban and Y was gone for two or maybe three years and then walks in one day a miraculous see this is the meaning of the statement that you find in K in ouring we askem see the ashes of the this is a phrase in D so you could ask a very simple Kasha what is hasm looking at there are no there are no ashes of on the was never slaughtered Hashem called it off the last minute so one p is that since abam was willing to do it so spiritually it's as if it was done okay that that's but according to the Z it's quite literal there was burnt as killed and burnt as a COR and that is what Hashem is looking at but there was a miracle of imagine how uh you know how amazing that is that's just three years later whatever it is y walks in some say that that was the shock that killed SAR you know Etc so that's oneish that the safer brings in the name of the zo again I I wouldn't call this the majority position in kazal but it is a a view that is recorded the second interesting point about the ARA is a point that is made by thean the famous RAB one of the great great weon him and he actually says that Hashem didn't command AB that's why he uses the word no he says please do it meaning the ran says if abah would have said to God I'm not going to do it because you made me a promise that my seed would be from Y how can I kill y there will not be children from y thean says AB would not have been punished for disobeying the Commandment of Hashem Hashem is saying I'd like you to do this to demonstrate your Devotion to me but if you don't want to do it you have the right not to do it so the ran says the greatness of abrah a was that he wanted to do the will of Hashem even if there wouldn't have been any negative consequences to him by doing the will of Hashem and for by doing the will of Hashem he he thinks there'll be tremendous negative consequences so the ran says that is the ultimate test of the devotion of Abram that's again a very very big that Thea was not even a it was simply kav a statement of preference I want to test Abraham to see if he'll do my will even though I'm not commanding him uh to do it this is aish of the of the Dr okay but be be it be it as it may going back to the idea of why the B of has to come in two stages so the Sham says if we understand that Abraham represents loving kindness and Sor represents gura so in a marriage that's why you need a balance right you need a balance you don't marry somebody who's a clone of yourself because where there's not going to be growth if someone is exactly the way I think the way I behave so what have I gotten I've just doubled myself it's BFA the different way of looking at things that creates a schut it creates a Perfection a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts so you need the balance of so the shame takes it further the true shus of marriage is when each person incorporates in their personality the good quality of the so it's not simply I'm this and she's that but within my mat I incorporate the goodness of her and she incorporates the goodness of me and that way we become joined we're truly one because each of us incorporates the aspect of the other right this is an idea of a marriage um so here's the thing therefore Abraham could not be Z to perpetuate CLA Isel till within his mid of he Incorporated the gor of s and Sora could not be the mother of am Israel till within her gura she Incorporated the of ab so abam Incorporated the Thea of Sarah by Brisa Brisa remember uh Hashem appeared to Abraham with the angels in a l name mamre in The Plains of mamre it's outside of KRA mamre was Abraham's friend he was a Canaanite but he was Abram's friend and Rashi says why did mamre get the Merit that that's where Hashem comes to Abraham because it was mamre that gave Abraham the advice to do the bris and therefore to reward mamre for giving Abram the advice about the bris revealed himself in M because didn't want to do BR so all the asked the question what is what on Earth does that mean what abam was going to not do Brisa God told him to do a bris what does abraam need M to convince him of anything so the and other the other say following Abram of course was going to do a bris Hashem said do a bris he's going to do a bris but the question is should I do it publicly or privately because after all abah's whole was to bring people to the by showing hashem's kindness hashem's compassion hashem's benevolence this is a wonderful religion belief in God is full of goodness and kindness and now he's gonna start showing people oh yeah but you also have to sever part of your male anatomy Abraham feels that's going to defeat his whole mission that's going to communicate cruelty barbarism cutting so AB said okay I'm going to do AIS I'm going to do it privately monre convinced him no you got to show people that unconditional obedience to Hashem whether it's Pleasant or not just as the aada showed that later so therefore mamre gave AB Thea to do the bris publicly not just privately but Brisa is an act of gura it's in other words it's basically taking something of inner strength discipline so what did abam do in effect he Incorporated in his Persona the Midas of s SAR in turn could only receive the B when she incorporates the of which is outstanding characteristic so the shame Mish says the reason why we have the two stories of's the announcement of yak's birth is Story number one is a incorporating Sarah and Story number two is SAR incorporating Aram and when each one incorporates the goodness of the other they are now ready they have a perfect union they are B and they are able to create an this is a a thought from the shame from the shame Mish but what happens is that s is in the tent and the angels come to abraam and they inform him and it says s is in the tent and SAR is old and she no longer has the way of women and SAR starts laughing in the tent and she saysi after i' I'm worn down am I going to have Rejuvenation and then she says Adon and my husband's pretty old too and the angels immediately say to AB why is SAR laughing saying that she's too old to have a child so already point out in that although she did talk about the withering of her flesh she never said the words she is too old she actually said he is too old to have a kid uh so why did theim say she said she's too old so it's so this is brought down that in order for there to be Shalom bias between husband and wife you're allowed to deviate from the truth the MIM didn't want to say something that might hurt Abraham's feelings and therefore there were M and this is brought down that this is one of the to deviate from mems to make Shalom right so uh if your wife asks you do you like my hat or whatever it is you know husband was supposed to say husband was supposed to say and vice versa by the way same same thing don't uh don't put each other down if that's going to be that's going to be hurtful okay but the MIM criticized s for her laughter why is she laughing does she not believe that Hashem could do anything so there's a lot of kasas on that there is and then of course then she denies it just I didn't laugh so what what is she denying is she is she number one is she lying number two Hashem already told abam that he will have a child from s that was par the Assumption seems to be that abam would have told her that this is in other words this is not the first time she's hearing this so why is she laughing number three k say that in point of fact exactly at that point she started menstrating her body changed so she sees Hashem is doing Miracles so why is she laughing right right now that she sees it in her own body and finally abraam himself left when Hashem gave him the news abraam is not criticized for his laughter why is Sarah criticized for her laughter why is there a double standard yeah so at least with respect to the last question why does Abraham get away with it so to speak and Sora does not get away with it so there actually is a medish that says that the mus the to that the angels are giving to Sarah was intended to go back to abam as well that AB is also being criticized but for the covet of abam you know the wife takes the bullet so it often is right kind of gave the it's actually very similar a little bit again why why the woman Bears the brunt is an interesting question I'm not sure I have a complete answer for that but it's similar when Aron and Miriam are speaking lanara about Moshe Miriam gets the punishment even though that's a message to Aron as well so the medis suggests that the criticism to S is also a to that's what the medra suggests but the cover of ab hasm didn't want to criticize abam directly that's answer number one on that question answer number two is very fascinating and that's the tarum uncus now unas is an Aramaic translation of the Torah unas was a g he was the nephew of a Roman Emperor and converting Judaism actually put his life in danger but he became a tement of rabi AA Etc and we consider his tarum to be very very exact and the thing about tarum unus that is different let's say than tarum yonasan benuel or other tumim is unus is literal unus does not directly incorporate midrashim and other things and because of this it's the D ofas to be consistent in Translation again unless you study unas carefully you're not going to always notice this but when you have uh the same word that appears in different places the Der of the tarum is not to paraphrase it's always to have the same Aramaic translation and whenever he takes the same word in different places and there's a different translation you always have to ask yourself why and this is a very interesting example of where unas does have different translations when it comes to's laughter he fell on his face and he laughed the tarum translates as he rejoiced when it says s is in the T now V is the same word as except one is masculine and one is feminine the tarum translates it that's kind of a scoffing laughter meaning there are two types of laughters I can laugh out of Joy I can laugh out of disbelief so the tarum says skepticism the tarum says Abraham's laughter is joy sar's laughter is skepticism now the problem with that is the Tyra uses the same words so why does the tarum assume there's different meanings is precisely because of this Kasha the tarum is trying to answer a Kasha without asking the question meaning how come aram's laughter is okay and sora's laughter is not okay aram's laughter is joy sora's laughter is skepticism and that's a terce that's a good terorist to the Kasha but the problem is of course that the teror uses the same uses the same uh the same words and anyway this doesn't answer the other questions why is SAR skeptic why is she skeptical her body is changing Hashem already told abam what's going on so the ramban says the following the ramban says that Sora had a right to be skep skeptical in a way that Abraham didn't abrah hears it directly from now the ran actually suggests quite amazingly that Abraham never communicated this prophecy to sah why not ah he was busy he was getting ready for a bris Etc oh didn't have time so SAR never heard yet that she's going to have a kid the first time she hears it is from the Angels so the ran says actually very P AB hears it from Hashem so of course he accepts it Sora hears it from three guys she doesn't necessarily know that they're Angels three BNS come in off the street and they she hears them say oh your wife is gonna have a kid the ramban says yeah she's skeptical but not because she lacks auna she's skeptical because who are these guys what are they telling me now the ramban is not answering but her body changed already that that that that that's a medri that would be aasha but the ramban says Abraham laughs out of Joy SAR laughs out of skepticism but her skepticism has a partial justification because she sees them as bin she does not see them as angels of God so the question becomes so why are the Angels Critical of her so the ran says an interesting is out that when someone gives you a braa you never know who or what the conduit of blessing is crazy guy comes in and starts giving you bras you say Amen you say Amen she should have said amen she should have said who knows who knows they happen to be Angels taka but you know she didn't know she should accept the possibility they tell a famous story some people say it's not a true story so I have to always cover myself I don't want to get you know emails about it's not a true story maybe it's not a true story I don't know but it it makes an interesting point that a man in B BR had a daughter who is getting a little older and she was not yet married like 28 30 you know kind of old made already you know uh in in circles so the person went to the stier K's father we used to say when I was growing up Rim keski was the stier son now people say it the other way around but the stier was a great great G and sadic and he said you know my daughter was not to what do I do so they say that the Styer asked him when your daughter was born did you make a Kish so he he said no because the minog was not necessarily to make a Kish and he said Ah that's your problem because when you make a Kish everybody even it's a newly born girl everybody goes over to you and say may you be Z to take your daughter to the and marry her off and like a hundred people go over to you it's even tiresome as it were and you never know which person Hashem chose as the conduit of braa and therefore you were you Mona from yourself and from your daughter the channels of Braha that could have brought this blessing into the world so he says to the disciples what do I do he says make a Kish now in honor of your daughter's birth so she's 30 years old he makes a Kish what are you making a kidish for this is in honor of the birth of my daughter we're a little late but you know we want to celebrate the birth of my daughter and everybody comes and gives Bros and The Story Goes she gets engaged two weeks later uh because he said amen to all of theas again I know I don't want to hear from people I know some people say the story is not true but but the story is in books in the story books and it does illustrate the ramban's point the ramban's idea that even if SAR thinks she's hearing from the bins you say Amen you say Amen you never know in what guys malim comei come so many stories about coming this like this beggar or that beggar you never know don't turn away the BR ofes and actually say the blessing of a simple even ignorant person should not be dismissed don't let it be light in your eyes of course that reminds me a little bit of a famous story involving the rugged shubber gone who was very very sharp in which a person came to the Ron and asked for a so the Ron says I'm not a although he was but he was not a rebbi says I don't give bras says I'm not a rebi so the person said back well butal say even the BR of a simple person should not be should not be taken lightly if even the BR of a simple person God like you so the rer said why why don't you give yourself a bra directly so instead of my giving you a through a if I give you a you're making a if a simple man can give a give yourself a you're you're a simple man so give yourself a you don't need a you don't need an extra step uh to go beyond and that's kind of a typical rugged shover retort very very sharp sharp huh can't give yourself a well okay that's an interesting somebody else yeah so that would be all right that that might be that might be an answer BR always means going outside of yourself like kazal say a prisoner cannot free himself from his prison cell he needs some outside force to take him out of his out of his prison C okay so so according to the ramban we have a little bit of an understanding which is connected to zaras and that is aram's laughter was joyous except because he heard it directly from God sora's laughter was skepticism because according to ramban she never heard the message from Abraham she's hearing it now for the very first time she has no immediate reason to assume these are angels of God so in a sense her skepticism may have justification but the malim criticized her because she should have at least acknowledged the possibility that this is so this kind of makes sense because it both differentiates sar from abam but it also does not portrayer in a negative way because her behavior was understandable but nevertheless the one question that Still Remains is number one it seems to be a little implausible that AB didn't tell her although ramban says that and number two this explanation does not account for the physical miraculous changes in her body that already occurred how could she be skeptical she sees that the miracle has actually happened right so based on this thees offers another explanation that is truly very very fascinating he actually understands that of course abam told Sarah so even before the Angels come she has heard from AR aino that Hashem has promised us has Creed for us that we will have a child she knew the knowledge so the angels are not telling her anything new other than maybe the time that you'll have the child and the light so what's going on says the says the the difference between Abram and SAR is not that Abram is laughing out of joy and Sora is laughing laughing out of skepticism not true Abram laughs out of joy and Sora is laughing out of Joy same thing so why is Sora criticized because the issue is when they laughed Abraham laughs as soon as he gets the message from Hashem SAR laughs only when she perceives the physical changes in her body so when the MIM say this is the why is s laughing they're actually saying why is she laughing now and didn't laugh before and this goes back to an issue of amuna amuna is I believe in Hashem I believe in what Hashem says but the question is is a as real to you as what you see and experience in your physical existence to a ainu the message of God that Sor will have a child is as real to him more more so than physical reality so the laughter that you would experience when you see the physical changes the laughter that you experience when the child is born Abram already had that on the amuna level it was as real to him as a physical msus again more so SAR heard the message and she certainly believed it she 100% believed it but it wasn't as real as a physical manifestation so the laughter the spontaneous laughter that comes when you see something amazing didn't come until there was a physical change so this is really a very amazing Abraham laughed out of Joy Sor laughed out of Joy but Abraham laughed as soon as hasem gave him the B with s there was a difference on some level between hearing something from Hashem and experiencing something from Hashem and if there's a dichotomy between the message from Hashem and the physical experience on some tiny little level tiny very tiny little level there's a of now this is difficult because we we are told in a number ofal that sora's madrea in many many areas was greater than aram's madrea Sora was a greater propheus and the like but at least with respect to this particular area again this is a very subtle the difference between the word of God and the physical manifestation of of God's promise that to the Bal and Muna of the highest level there is no difference if God said it it is as real to me as if it happened and that was a the fact that Sor laughs only when her body changes means the promise was not as real to her as the physical body change and this is how the understands the nafina the difference between the laughter of abam and the laughter of Sarah the laughter was exactly the same the issue was only the timing when did the when was the laughter induced this is not like the tarum the taramas drus differentiates between laughter of joy and laughter of skepticism and that's how the understands it as well but the says both are the laughter of Joy this is the notion of the reality ofun you know the um thear uh recounts R daring various psim about the future Redemption of the Jewish people and he has a draas that theid the walls of Y will be walls of jewels diamonds rubies emeralds that will be many many Amos High imagine a wall that's you know 100 Amos high of rubies and emeralds all of those things and thear says a certain talmid heard this teaching and thought to himself it's above a mice can't be literal it doesn't really mean that and one time he was on a boat on a ship and and the ship got lost at sea and when he was lost he saw on the face of the ocean big slabs of jewels that Angels were cutting up in preparation for the walls of yam and he was very excited he saw exactly what ran had said so when uh they were rescued the ship didn't sink he goes back to his rebi he's so excited he says to his Reby he says Reby everything you said is true I saw it with my own eyes and R said to him until you saw it you didn't believe it you only believed it when you saw it so thear says unfortunate end he looked at the T and the T burnt up okay have that's a general idea you have to understand sometimes sometimes the looked a scance at certain Tom and they were burnt up that way because the talmid didn't have the amuna until he saw it it till he saw it and you know um there's a famous say if you mourn over the destruction of Jerusalem you mourn over the bikes you mourn over the gas of the Jewish people he who Mourns over Jerusalem so the way we normally translated is he will Merit to see the joy of Jerusalem that's how we normally translate meaning you you suffer you'll Merit to see the Yeshua but if you translate it very very literally Z is a present tense it's not a future if it meant as I just translated it he who Mourns over Jerusalem will Merit to see the joy of Jerusalem then what should it have said Z is different if you're Z you marit right now to feel theim of it's aov It's present it's not future and one of the explanations is that once again like the is saying this is the nature of a baluna that when I know and I believe there will be a Goa there will be a Yeshua there will be a br the belief is so real to me it is so powerful to me it is as if I'm experiencing it this very moment it's the same it's it's kind of very strange idea to say it but in the middle of my Gus I'm experiencing the comfort of Hashem because it is so certain and therefore in terms of certainty I don't have to await when something happens externally it is real and therefore the comfort that I feel I can have even right now this is the power OFA and Muna is more real than what you see with your physical eyes they the Kat the on that's the katbi or somebody told the katari that there's another who claims to see thep every suus say he sees he sees the huge piece the kutar rebbi says I'm better I have a moona that there're there says but you see with your eyes you know who says optical illusions right you can see things with your eyes that aren't there when you have a Muna that is the ultimate the Ultimate Reality I'll just end with thear makasar makas tells us that uh mosenu of course was given 613 mitzvos from Hashem and later generations try to reduce them I don't mean reduce them by eliminating Mitzvah but by creating categories so you could encapsulate these 613 in categor so D reduced it to 15 it goes to thear goes through different numbers different so I just want to talk about the end of the process the n m reduced the 613 Mitzvah to three principles one is very famous I think it may be on the National Archives it's not a famous US building Sayes what does God ask of you to do justice to love kindness and to walk with humble humbleness humility before God that's the Torah do justice love kindness so by the way this is a talk for another time doesn't just refer to sleeve length and skirt length you know whatever it would be SAS is an attitude of humility in the face of Hashem so those are three principles yes reduced it to two principles shim Mish keep Justice and give charity now this more or less corresponds to a so what's the one that eliminated he eliminated why is that why would he take out so it's interesting thefor say that each generation is making the list shorter and shorter because people are less rightous now is a wonderful thing but when you're in a generation that is not keeping hashem's Torah you sometimes have to be a little more conspicuous in your abod hasem meaning ideally we should do Mitzvah privately you don't have to see my learning you don't have to see my doming that's between me and God but yes is Mame sometimes be public be open people have to see I know a story it's kind of a bizarre story and it's a little bit of a tragic story I I knew a man he's not alive anymore who was a sh Mitzvah he was uh religious but you know he certainly was not connected to learning Torah in any way you know he he wasn't didn't study Torah but he once told me that his father was a great great great who was extremely humble and he was so humble he never wanted anyone to know including his own children that he learned Torah so he would get up at 2:00 in the morning and learn for a few hours but he always had a newspaper next to him so if anybody got up and saw him in the kitchen or in the dining room he would immediately cover the gamarra with the newspaper and simply say um reading the paper I couldn't sleep some of the kid caught him one whatever it would be now you see the problem here the man was humble the man was modest but he didn't want his kids to see him learning doing doing mitas sometimes you got to be a little public sometimes you got to be a little bit of a Bala look at the fact that I learn all the time or whatever it would be so that's a remise that even though is the highest madrea but sometimes you give it up right you read asadoras you got to be more conspicuous you know I was a a sh Rabbi for um for 25 years and what we do in America I don't see them do it here that much is every sh every Yeshiva has a banquet every year and you always have a guest of honor you go to somebody guest of honor and this is the typical Shak Laria that every synagogue Rabbi goes to every single year the honores generally do not want the honor because usually if they're deserving of H they don't want it they don't want it right so what's the line that you always have to give them he says I know you don't want it but for the good of the congregation for the good of the community you need to be recognized you need to be honored so people will look at you as Role Models that's the that's the line we use right that's the way we get people uh to be honores and and and the like and there's a point to this the point is that sometimes you can't be overly modest you need to be seen for the good that you're doing so that's why yes eliminates that okay so we went from 613 and then intermediate levels down to three down to two but like they say some people cannot walk and chew gum at the same time so even two principles were too complicated so reduced everything to one principle which is the foundation of the whole Torah and that's the P sadik aad will live through amuna his faith in Hashem his trust in Hashem can amuna and be are maybe different concepts but they're very very closely close to way basically Yuna is more of the intellectual understanding is when I have security and serenity and Tranquility because of my amuna so essentially is the applied amuna in your actual life and this is the foundation of everything and the lesson of the par from the is that amuna is the Ultimate Reality of the world and it's even more reliable than what we see with our physical senses so in this time of the day after the art site of we have to have the in the coming of the mashia in the b in the yeshu is not to give up to keep on persevering and be may we be to see with our eyes what we already know in our hearts so [Music] it's [Music]