Remembering What Amalek did to You and The Three Shepherds with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] everybody welcome to the ubuntu midrash welcome home to tara the truth is we once again are not in lockdown but we there's a icy snow storm out there didn't want to risk anybody falling so we're doing this all online well hashem we have a beautiful crowd and we're going to talk about pasha zakhor in a sense because pasha zakar actually commands us it tells us that we should remember what a male egg did to us on our what on our way out of egypt when you were leaving egypt you could find this in chapter 25 of deuteronomy verses 17 18 and 19. the question is what did they do to us on our way out of egypt if we have to remember what they did to us on the way out of egypt so then we must what know what it is that we have to remember so that's we're going to focus in we're going to go back to exodus chapter 17 specifically verse 8 but you'll see we're going to deal with all these verses that happened to us when we left egypt because this is what we're supposed to remember i'm going to read these verses because these are the verses you need to know again because we're not going to really go back to it and remember what amalek did to you on the way on your way when you left egypt when you were leaving egypt that he happened upon you on the way and he struck those of you who were behind most all of the weaklings at your rear when you were fate and exhausted he meaning amalek did not fear god it shall be that when hashem your god gives you rest from all your enemies all around in the land of hashem your god gives you as an inheritance poop to possess it you shall wipe out the memory of amalek from under the heaven you shall not forget so it begins with remember it ends with with do not forget we are going to be reading this these words in deuteronomy this shabbos okay let me just read it in hebrew because it's very important to hear anyway it'll enter your consciousness these are the this is the word of god we're going to deal with that what happened to you derek on the way with [Music] wipe out the remembrance of amalek mitaka sashamayam underneath the heavens do not forget now what we're going to now focus in on is the actual occurrence when we left egypt a mother came and attacked us it's true you go to exodus chapter 17 verse 8 there's no question it says came they came from far away they came all the way from the other end of eretz israel meaning the jordan somewhere in the jordan they came all the way across the negev and they came into the sinai peninsula and they attacked us on our way to mount sinai just keep in mind so what it says in rashi first of all the very place that they attacked us is significant it's a place called rethidim dalid men came and fought with israel in refugee what does rashi say it says amalek came now god juxtaposed this section to the verse right if you have to look and i do beg you because we're going to see it in in in um in deeper deeper deeper levels the previous verse like we're going to be dealing with exodus chapter 17 verse 8 9 10 right on till the end of that paragraph but what came right before it right we complained about not having water it's going to be very significant very significant no water we complain who do we complain against both moses and god in fact moses calls this place masa mariva right he he calls this place a place of of contention and strife and what are the last words the jewish people say right before a mullet comes if you don't think it's significant whoa put on your seatbelt it is the most significant point of the evening and that as we said is god with us or not what do we call that we call that lack of a muna a doubt we're wondering what because things aren't going exactly our way all of a sudden we have a doubt and who comes and attacks us based on that doubt amalek and it's no small it's it's not insignificant that the gamacher that the language the the value of the word amalek is the same gematria as the word safe which means doubt no question about it okay so look what rashi says right away this juxtaposition to the previous verse is the lord in our midst or not implying the truth is i am always among you and i am always prepared for your necessity necessities but you're the ones the jewish people who ask is the lord in our midst or not now right away we're going to see i'm focusing on rashi for a second because when we go into the clear car he's going to discuss this idea that we're talking about now by your life he says the dog will come and bite you and you will cry out to me and then you will know where i am what do you mean we don't know where god is until the dog comes and bites us unfortunately unfortunately you know the old adage is you know the owner takes a stick and he's kind of nudging the dog perhaps he's playing with the dog but he's hitting the dog and what does the dog do it turns around and it bites the stick it bites the stick why should be biting the master okay we know that the dog's not gonna bite the master but he's biting the stick because he thinks the stick is hitting him it's not the stick that's hitting it it's the master and this is what we have to learn when our enemies come against us it's our fault i i know this sounds absolutely crazy and perhaps even counter-intuitive but we're talking metaphysically here we're going to discuss the idea of opening an opening for the enemy to come in if we don't allow that opening to happen the enemy has no chance has no powers has no abilities to affect us so i hope that will become clear he the rashi goes on and says this can be compared to a man who mounted his son on his shoulders and set out on the road whenever his son saw something he would say oh father take me here let me have it give it to me and of course the father would give it to him they met a man and the son said you know have you seen my father lately the kid is sitting on his father's shoulders you know it reminds me of this old story of this you know i know it's not true but it's a a mashallah it's an analogy that to our people's lives what they see you know me and god are like this hashem they talk to hashem every time i see the sandy beach i see two sets of footprints i see us walking hand in hand but whenever i go through very traumatic and troublesome times i turn around and i see there's only one set of footprints where are you god where are you i feel abandoned no i'm not gonna say it but like you silly boy you silly person you hashem would say that's when i carried you that's why you only saw one set of footprints of course there's an analogy there are no footprints god doesn't have feet but you get the idea anyway they in a man they met a man and the son said have you seen my father so his father said to him you don't know where i am he threw his son down off of him and a dog came and bit him now the truth is that there's another part of the measure that we should see at the moment and that is that there's a king that tells his soldiers my vineyard is surrounded by a fence and i put dogs in there don't break the fence if you break the fence you will get bit and anybody that braced the fence would get bit so here who's the king in this case the king is hashem okay the dog is amalek the jewish people are the soldiers right if you break an area of defense you will get bit you have to keep the fence intact so let's just the measures continues russia doesn't bring the whole thing but the king is represented by god and he placed in the vineyard a dog that bit that would be a mullet the king said to anyone that breaches the fence meaning disobeying god will be bitten by the dog the son of the king that's the jewish people came and they breached the fence they sinned and they were bitten by the dog and that's why it says in our in chapter 17 verse 7 the previous verse that's when the jewish people said is god among us or not now what we do for those who are not aware we use the clea car as the basis for our conversation and you could go on to the ibanez website there should be a link down below okay in the description box that gives you just the link to the website but it's five pages right genesis exodus leviticus numbers during you have to find which portion which book and then which parsha and which year and you'll see all the hebrew only the hebrew soursheets the one who get gets english sheets from me are those who are regulars online and if you want to join you can join there's also a possibility for that so send us a whatsapp or send us an email all the information is in the description box below okay so let's begin with the clear car we use this for the outline for our discussion i don't make any of this up if you want to know more of who the client car is i'm happy to tell you at another time but not right now but okay if you heard the maharao he's the talmud of the mahara that's all i'm going to tell you right now so we start with the clear crown he says and a mullet came and this is our verse right after we asked is god there or not they come and fight with us in repeating and of course we already quoted the medras oh well it's not exactly but this is another madrish that amalek is like a flea like a fly some kind of mosquito something that comes and really whatever is this move is like a flea and it comes in it wants to um it wants to suck your blood or wants to enter your your skin it wants to nourish itself from your wound and he also brings down just one one of one sense from the measures we already said about a king who surrounds his vineyard but anyway let's begin he says the way these mashalim these analogies we spoke about and the way they are explained and the logic behind them the shivra who al derek he goes into great length and great detail in partial spray sheet now we're not going to do that but we will fill you in in chapter 4 verse 7 right after cain and abel make their offerings and only one of their offerings is accepted kane is despondent kane looks depressed kane is not emotionally well uh and you know perhaps rightfully so he's a little upset so that posix says the pesach god says to cain who's down and despondent that you could improve yourself don't get so uh don't get so depressed this whole idea of free will of of having to you know not having your corbin accepted doesn't mean it's the end of the world okay you can improve yourself and find forgiveness for whatever and but these important words is by the entrance by the entrance is where sin is is awaiting to ambush you it's crouching now this is a lesson for all of us right don't think of it externally this is within you but we will discuss this on an external level because we're talking about a malik we're talking about a fly but the yates are out so he begins by telling us the the the rabbis in gamora brachos explain that the fly is what the it's hara the evil inclination is compared to a fly what is it about a zvu this fly this flea this mosquito its power is not in its mouth it's very weak what does the cleo card say that its mouth is actually very weak lasso's not buster charlie it actually cannot penetrate healthy flesh that's why it's looking for a wound it's looking for a scab it's looking for an opening or come over here over here maybe here right look for a place where there's an opening ah [Music] wherever would find an abscess or a boil that is where it will begin to enter or expand the flesh sham that's where it will pounce that's where it will crouch the pizza and then it will open wider it will expand the opening this is how the evil inclination works it has no abilities it has no power to attach itself to a righteous person someone who has all of his ducks in order meaning his actions are all for the sake of heaven and it can't it cannot open for him any opening that would need to receive purification in other words he's doing good already ah what does he do though he'll come to make one impure and then he'll make this opening remember we're talking about someone who's not a complete sadiq and he already has an opening he'll make his opening even wider sham yearbots lahar that's where he will make the attempt to make wider this opening basically means until there's no hope the person is so far gone whether it's with his medos or hearing in terms of physicality whatever it is the person has it's a little bit plain word because the word hamas hears with the samick instead of the stuff and therefore it's like the anger of hashem that's the real verse changing it over until not the anger of hashem until he becomes so criminally corrupt that there is no there is no um healing now i just want to talk in terms of like bringing it down because to our level it has to do i believe just being able to be honest with yourself you know some people are actually incapable of being honest with themselves but if one could be and you should pray like if you feel you have any doubt about your ability to be honest with yourself pray dive into hashem that you have clarity so you can't have truth so you can be honest with yourself because there's no way that you could i mean really make it successfully in this life in a metaphysical way right you could be criminal maybe you'll be successful but in terms of religion and i don't like that word being observant having a relationship with hashem and other human beings you have to be able to be honest with yourself otherwise you will not grow you will not um let's not just grow you won't be able to work on your character in any in any substantial way so the um tell us in 39a quoting a verse from leviticus chapter 18 24. now this verse you'll see it's towards the end of a whole list of ancestral relationships in other words things that are forbidden to do it's called sexual perversion uh like sleeping with a close relative right so towards the end it's talking about bestiality let's talk about homosexuality and one of the verses there says don't become impure with any of these you see that this type of sin causes one to be impure al and so what the clear car ends this paragraph off with is of the mitami otsumo ma'at the idea is that a man a person makes themselves a little bit impure this is where the problem begins you yourself do it to yourself you make yourself a little bit impure mitami mo sahar bay but the forces that you unleashed right begin to um expound you know make bigger the pizza the the the whole and you become more and more impure anyway the clear car ends this paragraph paragraph off by telling you that if you want to know more about it go to genesis chapter 4 verse 7 and he explains it i guess in length over there now this is what amalek does calls manchester us the whole time that the jewish people are like this right really let's just say at peace and at completion and at perfection whatever level that you know meaning making all the attempts to go in the upward direction so that's one aspect the whole time that we're in that let's say framework also in terms of interpersonal relationships with other jews with other human beings if we're also shalom if there's peace amongst us we're going to talk about two dimensions there's a supernatural dimension that we have a relationship with hashem in that sense so as long as you're working on that relationship and you're working and trying to achieve achieve trying to achieve towards perfection or completion or perfection right so that's good and also in your interpersonal relationships then us cannot do any damage to you they can't come against you and they have no abilities they have no power the kashiros and bamasan mariva but when they saw us at a place called masamura again in chapter 17 the first eight verses right we're starting with chapter with verse 8 of chapter 17 when the molly comes but what happened before there was this strife and quarreling that was happening and who did we have strife and who are we quarreling with it says both with moses and with god we were squalling with human beings and with god and that was our downfall meaning that allowed amalek to come anybody is aware of the hebrew the language was which is used for every one of their encampments and they were stationed at different places it says over and over and over again they plural they encamped they rested they encamped except one place right at the base at the foot of mount sinai a few days before the giving of the torah it says israel encamped singular meaning as rashi says over there there was a absolute unity and that unity allowed us to receive the torah so halawa right this is what we should be striving for are we ever going to get there it's not up to us right the work is great the days are long but it doesn't matter we have no right to ever give up striving okay okay so now we mentioned about both ideas the riv beneath ben ahem and all the channel before my torah all of them were with strife just as rashi mentions the partial system if you want to look up the rashi in chapter 19 verse 2 and we also contended and tested hashem on the sotham as hashem they tested hashem gamimashen that means that they we also had a riv a contention with hashem and therefore they found an opening and they opened it up so that we would be required to have purification and immediately a molly came the avo malek i'm not going to go too much into this but keep in mind that the word karaka karaka right the carcada they happened on the way it is a language of just happenstance because that's what amalek believes they don't have this strong idea of god as the creator and the all-powerful all let's say organizer that everything's under his control right they want the world to be healthcare as if you can do whatever you want they had no fear of god is the verse said so basically the word karacha implies like in bilum right we see that word god speaks to moses v the yikra that's diff that's a that means he spoke to him but by billam it's a different usage okay it's bamikra and also over here it's right that was what we saw in deuteronomy chapter 25. that's one level of karakov the word car as we know outside it's very icy kerak is ice car means cold car is cold that there's the analogy that the jewish people on their way out of egypt were full of passion and going towards mount sinai coming there in the land of israel and the amalekites wanted to cool us off it's like a bathtub a hot water one drop of cold water is really not going to do a whole lot it's really not going to call us off but that's the intention to call us off so derek they came out to ruin our faith and bring us down that's calling us off from the passion and of course kerry the word kerry which means and spilling of seed there's another level of coral khabadaric that they sodomized us or they raped certain individuals specifically male men because it's the wasted seed and we're not going to go into that now but that's what it means also all this was done all this happened what was their motivation what was the mo of amalek kadeshi in order to cause a separation in order for us to have hashem removed from us entirely they did not like this idea you know just think about if you ever read mein kampf i certainly i did not but there are certain paragraphs that i'm familiar with and this is exactly what hitler your moksha mo you know you should write and basically this was his idea to um he wanted to get rid of the jewish people because the jewish people brought consciousness into the world they brought morality into the world right so he this is a this is a malice wanted to have us removed in the relationship that would be relationship with the jewish people that the only place that we find holiness this is what the gemara says is where you find a offense around sexual immorality in other words you know we have the separation of the sexes at certain times right so don't become too over friendly with the other sex right the other gender and it's good for mankind this is for holiness where you want to fight holiness and of course in synagogues in the orthodox synagogues they have a separation when we're trying to reach holiness that the men pray in one area no distractions the women pray another area so they can talk and i'm kidding so there's no distractions okay so here we go that was the idea but we're going to go into no new a new a new level here on account of what we just mentioned about um right they introduced this idea of sexual immorality through homosexuality and that was their goal that was their goal that's what they wanted to separate us from you know involve us with sexual perversion and that would separate us from hashem but they also wanted to separate us from from um from human beings so let's talk about this he says whatever they're trying to do is to refuel you they him in other words the words reflui means weaken your day ham as their hands they wanted to weaken our hands now our hands were already weak we weakened them ourselves and that's that's going to be an important point here because i just want to go back together we're the ones responsible for making the gether separation from sexual immorality and account of that then they were able to attack us because then our hands are weak we caused the hands to be weak the question is what does that represent we're going to go into it because one of the main themes i'm going to talk about tonight is on this hilltop while we're fighting a mullet you had three superheroes right three superheroes you had moshe sitting in the middle you had who you had core and aaron on either side of him holding his hands when his hands went up we were victorious we were able to fight off on malik when moses's hands went down again what does that mean we're talking about weakened the hands his hands weren't down they were too heavy so these two people aron and were able to support his hands that's why he sat down it would be easier at arm's length at arm's level to hold up his hands okay so here we go we're mentioning this idea that there's going to be two types of salvation a supernatural higher level salvation where hashem is personally involved and creating a miracle and that is when we were like this with hashem and also through natural human relations when you're like a uh you're doing hesit you're helping people you're just a nice guy you work on your character you don't really ruffle the feathers of too many people people there to help you you help people people help each other so as long as the network right the matrix is not really upset so therefore like if you need it alone people would sign for you or be even willing to give it to you right so there's gonna be two levels of salvation one is called supernatural supernal and the other one's called more natural and we'll talk about them right now so basically it's like this through the weakening of the hands we just said by having weak hands we forfeited we we missed out the opportunity to have hashem create a miracle for us because he was removed from us there was a removal sore hashem the masala to the eat and also we were lacking a more natural salvation which comes as a result of people helping each other why because their their hearts were against each other their hearts were divided their hearts were totally in a different direction they were on different pages and that's why it says write the previous verses talking about moses calls the place masamura the place of contention and strife arrived in israel right through the the quarreling amongst the jews and the testing of hashem but and by what when we said is god there is god amongst us or not that is called having strife and quarreling with hashem ayesha hashem those were the words they used and what happens immediately immediately miyat yavo malek villahem and right away amali came and fought with israel at a place called repeating now we're going to talk about the word we're feeding refugium itself has certain letters right raish it's the same letters as per redeem purid means separate the places where there was a separation and also the word means meaning the letters can be changed to raphaedian the weakness of hands so now we're getting a little insight what moses hands going up and down and how but we have to talk about the what this represents for us so vaha mahal tell you that both concepts the way that we have a uh we'll call it a unity amongst the jewish people that's on one hand and the softness or weakening of hands what what does that have to do with anything both ways we can re-structure the letters again can mean deemed separate or raphael dying he claims that they both complement each other they're both into inter interdependent through both types of separations hashem by god forbid separating ourselves from god with period levelship and am and also the separation of the hearts that we have with each other that brought us to what we're calling refi onyadayam this weakness of hands now for this very reason this is the very reason that we didn't have any water in this place we were complaining there's no water because there was no water why was there no water because we were weak in our hands now again we have to understand what this means we were we were weak in torah we were weakened to her we accepted the torah even before we left egypt that's why we we went right got moses says to uh pharaoh they're going to serve right let my people go so they can serve god right this idea of serving god they were they accepted the idea that they were going to be free they were eventually going to go to eretz israel but they were going to receive the torah they understood so by accepting the turing before they left it's as if they were willing and fully accepting the torah so here you have this idea that they were weak in their hands from from the torah at this point whatever torah represents the truth right it might wasn't written yet but the concepts were all were all there from abraham isaac and jacob amuna so there was no water in repeating because they were weakened in their hands from torah and what do we know that the water represents water right water is representative right all throughout the torah you see it right it's like due from heaven it comes from a high place and goes to a low place you have to be humble you have to be like a cleave it's macabre right your the the water comes from a high place and it goes down to a low place and it fills up it's also life itself the torah is compared to water alkane and that's why they were lacking so the real world i know this comes a shock to many of you the real world is a spiritual world this world we live in is just a an illusion okay if we're really doing what we need to do everything will fall in place okay so here you're talking about the idea there was no physical water there was no physical water as a result of their weakening of hands from the torah which represents water just as a side note the jewish people till this very day do what moses constructed he constructed a gazera that there should never be three days without a public torah reading this happened in the desert and it happened then you know the idea okay we were complaining there was no water moses understood there was no torah there was a weakening of torah and he's the one who instituted of course they have to receive the torah that every what do we have mondays thursdays and shabbos show this afternoon public torah readings there should never be three days without a public toe reading and this is a probably one of the first rabbinic commands right moshe was a rabbi moshe rabbenu so this is called rabbinic judaism started when in the desert with motion okay so the last point here in that paragraph is not only were they lacking this physical water as a result of the metaphysical idea of lacking torah but the water itself was given from a rock called right even if they weren't yet at the mountain called kharav there was a rock called kharev and that rock is what and gave them the water and the it's the very place of makkom of cabal satara khorev is a name for mount mount does mount sinai okay now for this very reason himself for this very reason that malik is compared to the fly because of israel they had no abilities they cannot enter they cannot attack they cannot succeed as long as we ourselves do not have any type of opening and that's why we saw the measures that brought out the idea of the the king the analogy of the king who surrounded his vineyard with a fencing and he put a dog inside call me she it's brought together anybody that breaks the fence it's you you're breaking the fence the califor bite now what does it mean that it was through the opening and making a break then it becomes an opening for the dog and the dog can uh can then bite you this is exactly what amma lake does it comes and it's israel it clings to the jewish people it attaches themselves to the jewish people are you they shame us it's only because we opened we made the opening then they can attach themselves so too haman right we're going to be reading the megillah and like in a week like a week and next thursday night eight days from now by the way okay we're gonna talk about this is moses today right now this is moses yard sign but we're gonna get to that shortly i got ahead of myself haman next week thursday night we're gonna read the megillah he comes from the seat of amalek shabbat malik he had these exact claims this is the claim he mentioned let me kill these people i'll pay you even right didn't want the money he says go for it right but what is his claim in esther chapter three verse eight yes is there is a certain nation they're very strange they don't do anything like we do but you know what they're separate i mean they're spread out well mufuzar means spread out a mufurad and separate his claim is the jewish people have no unity then i can get them because i'm a malick and i can get them as long as they are spread out and there's no unity remember this when there is unity our nate our enemies have no power and where's the unity begin here in the heart what the person feels towards his brother of course with hashem as well and now the cleo car ends by explaining on both levels mathur ishmael who this idea of separation are spread out each person from his friend umufrad minishina as well as being separated from the shrine this is the only thing that would allow amalek to have any power over us now we did speak about these words refugium but now we're going to go into very really nice explanation i mean i really love this because we all know perky avat right says here this is the first chapter second missionary sadiq he was one of the last of the onsheikanes godola he was involved with the prophets we're talking about the beginning of the second temple period and he was left over in the ancient nazir and he used to say three things that the world stands on three things the world stands on three things which means without torah without whatever although the means we'll have to see it could mean service in the temple with the karbanos it could mean prayer the truth is it means both but let's just say whatever service to god is service to god is not just a votership of late which is in the heart but also the actual offerings which really were i'm going to say in place of our prayers but they accompanied our prayers we were supposed to be praying when the offerings were brought up i'm not talking about communal offerings by the way but the conan were also involved in taking care of the personal offerings but let's go into the refugee dime because it's really still vague what does it mean weekend of hands yeah we discussed this idea that they were weakened the weak hands in respect to torah what is the turd the torah was given me oddly odd the actual torah was given from hashem's hands to moshe's hands okay we're talking about the the tablets but in terms of the tablets represent the torah or if you want to say it's actually transmitted from person to person so that that's what it means from hand to hand but there's a remis there's a hint of handing it off right the idea of the torah is being transmitted it's being handed off what about tefila to feel i said is the evoda the service that is through nasius copaym which is the um the priestly blessing now the truth is even if you pray like this this is how we used to pray once the gentiles started praying like this we didn't but we could pray like this you raise your hands you raise your hands in prayer but also the khaneem the priest would raise and they still do to this day by the way if you come to every straight we do it every single day outside of the land depends what congregation it could be smarty might be once a week right could be just the holidays for ashkenazi but this is still practiced today the raising of the hands um so there's an idea of strengthening of hands hands when it comes to prayer and meet us from the idea of gameless when one gives charity one does sadaka when one does kindness it's usually one person to another again an idea of hand to hand not hand to hand combat but hand to hand kindness right hand to hand kindness reaching your hand into your pocket and getting what you can or it could be clothing could be blankets could be whatever it is just the kindness is miadlian now a proof for this is actually in the idea that who supported moses hand yet aaron on one side you had on the other who are these people we know our own is the brother of motion and is actually miriam's son so miriam is it's the triplets right you're not triplets the the three musketeers so to speak we're going to call them the three shepherds right with respect the three shepherds moses aron and miriam and they came to support moses hands they each represent something and they came to strengthen these three ideas that we mentioned in perky a vote is this is what the jewish people are founded on these three principles torah avodah avodah again i said is corbanos or prayer really synonymous with each other and gomer giving kindness each one of these three people represent one of these but who are the three people these are the three shepherds mosha aron and miriam now in their merit by the way you had three major i don't know we're not gonna come events but we're gonna call them um all right in the merit of those three people moshe uh arun and miriam you had three very substantial occurrences in the desert and that was the man the very fact that we had food to eat this heavenly angel bread called mana that came on account of moses we will soon see the air we call it the heir miriam it came the water came from the rock on the count of miriam and anane covered and the um the clouds of glory now we're going to see some very interesting ideas here because after each one of these people died that's when those three things stopped but then they re they continued on until moses died and then the death of moses 30 days later they all stopped so you had the man on account of moses you had the bear mere the water came from miriam because of miriam's merits and then uncovered on account of of aaron so biscuits moshe that's the man because the torah was not given except to the generation that ate the man in the desert the air miriam the the the spring that came out of the rock that supplied all the needs supplied all their needs that was all in the merit of miriam what did she do she was hoisin remember pharaoh said to his you know your heaven and miriam they were the ones they were the ones who were involved in saving the the jewish children so not only did they keep them alive and not kill them but they kept them alive they gave them life by giving them food and clothing and shelter as the verse says in exodus chapter 1 verse 17 they caused to live they caused the jewish children to live these males who pharaoh wanted to kill so that's it and the anonymity covered that all came in the merit of our own that he was involved in the in the carbon right that's what the priestly class does he was involved in the service of the offerings and that's what caused the shrine to rest on the jewish people and the cloud of glory to rest on the mishkan on the tabernacle now when when amalek heard they heard it says they heard that what that um that aaron died the truth is it says that they saw the the clouds of glory leave and when they saw the clouds of glory leave that's what happened um what happened here somewhere so if you go to numbers chapter 20 verse 29 and again to 21 verse one the whole congregation saw that iron had expired and the entire house of israel left for aaron for thirty days the canaanite king of arad who lived in the south heard that israel had come by rube the spies and he waged war against israel and took from them a captain this is the second time that amale came to attack us look at rashi over there he heard that aaron had died in the and that the clouds of glory had departed okay so you can go through that uh rashi um so in the merit of iron fine so when aaron died this talk recovered the clouds of glory were removed now the truth is they came back meaning until moses died because it's interesting they didn't all die in the same month and yet we'll find another verse that here in zaharia 11 8 the very fact that we're calling them shepherds the prophet himself calls them shepherd he says i cut off the three shepherds in one month i could not tolerate them moreover they were too much for me it's really the first part in one month who are the three shepherds that all died in one month you look at the gomorrah in times 9a that it discusses how these three sadiq these three righteous people at each given time that's when you know the water stopped the clouds stopped the mon stopped but it didn't really i mean it stopped temporarily and then restarted again after each one of there's death except when moses finally died and that was a um in one given month because it happened exactly 30 days after moses died that everything stopped so you go through that gamora over there it's very interesting now we have this idea that um all this was mentioned parkas parashat about aron and from there you have arayash israel hatsila minamali that it was on account of the anunnae cover remember that protected them against the enemy this is a very harsh statement i'm about to tell you but our enemies are a whipping a whip for the jewish people forever so that's what it means returns israel now the torah itself later on the god says assyria is the rod of my fury the meaning that when hashem is mad at us he sends agents he sends agents and amalek is an agent now what happens as a result of this moses wants to get a lesson across for all generations it's so important he holds his hands steady in like i think you'll see in verse 12 right he hand he holds his hand steady in the munna in faith he wants to remind us the jewish people about these three pillars torah avodah and gomer this is exactly why moses stood in the middle of course after he his hands retired it was easier for him to sit down and they hold his hands from either side but he was in the middle then he represents receiving the torah biato in his hand arun and they they supported his hands from this side and that side he had the merit of involving himself with the corbanos i.e prayer in his hands and who's the son of miriam his his he stood what do you think on top of this hilltop where all these fighters are looking up they should be looking at miriam it would be inappropriate it wouldn't be modest and therefore her son stood in his in her stead and and he represented what she represented which was gomer as we know that she fed those boys who she saved from pharaoh now let's go to verse 12. we're going to talk this is really fascinating stuff okay verse 12 says his hands were steady in prayer or faithful until his son has said until the sun set what do we need to know this for it's unbelievable message here kiama lake boley and be made moshe we know yeah that the amalekites that came of course in time of moshe when moses was alive this was what we call the morning where the rays of light in the very beginning of our birth when we just start out as a nation comes amalek that's in the time of moses and afterwards what we call the sunset meaning a full you know history when the time of murder and esther they come again against us okay the kumalayim haman mizoramali haman was from the seat of malik and this is considered this man shimshon of this would be considered the sun is setting because this is when you know nebuchadnezzar came we would went into exile right and this point is towards the end of that exile so that is called the sun is setting for the jewish people just rashi mentions over there now go back to genesis when mo when yaakov gives a blessing to bin yaman who are mordechai nester they're from the seed of benjamin as the as mcgill sester said right ishimini if if um if mordechai is from benjamin ester is his cousin right his adopted daughter but nevertheless they're from benjamin benjamin is the one let's just say like this anybody that comes from raqqa they're the ones who are supposed to wipe out and kill amalek that would be where we get mashiach ben yosef from by the way so we're going to talk a little bit about the meshiach coming up but in the meantime binyamin is the seed that's where murder esther came from and in the blessing in chapter 49 in genesis 27 it says so let's look at it says you said it's verse genesis 49 here benjamin is a wolf he will pray p-r-e-y meaning he will attack uh in the morning he will devour plunder that's morning and in the evening he will divide the spoils in the in the the uh so in the evening he will divide the plunder so this is talking about do you know that the the houses the the wealth of haman was given to esther and murakai to divide and that's what it means over here in the blessing to binyamin in the evening they will divide the plunder in the days of mordechai and esther that amalek's wealth will be divided that's why it says the he o that's why it's referring to moses moses himself will keep his hands steady like an amud like his merit will be in existence until the time of murder and esther um that the merit of moshe stood all through time until this time of murder nestor obviously and beyond as it says in megillah mcgillit esther um kevin i'm sorry in the gamora megillah came in yet but by yerak aadhar now just think about it today is the seventh of adar just one second when humming through the lots he was extremely happy that the lots fell on the month of other because he knew that moses died he died so he figured this is a bad month for the jewish people what he didn't realize is that moses was also born on the same day the seventh of adar so in other words the month of aadhaar actually has a good you know simmon let's say but anyway he says the clear car mentions that hum was ecstatic he was so happy it must mean this is a good sign for me because moses died but what he didn't know of your day no lad moshe so we're dedicating this not i don't know if we can dedicate you know something to moshe because moshe is the the greatest prophet that ever lived the greatest teacher that ever was but because it's the seventh of adar we might as well take advantage of the fact that this is his birthday as well as his yard site he went on to the next world but um what's his name uh haman didn't realize that so so look over at mcgill we hear from that shaman save our motion mace with thomas he actually thought that the merit of moses had passed on meaning he didn't realize about his birth he only realized about his death and he thought this was a really good sign because if moses died then so too his merit must have died he made a huge mistake the very fact that moses was born in aadhaar there's actually a great marriage for the jewish people during aadhaar and that's why it says going back to our verse that his hands were steady until his son is set that's why al cain tiknushan that's exactly why we have three major issues mitz's concepts going on during purim itself torah we say that the jewish people actually accepted the torah out of love on purim or from another angle that they accepted the orator in other words at mount sinai we we had accepted the written torah but we had not yet fully accepted the oral tour until this time in um in murder and esther or we didn't accept it yet out of love okay so that's one idea ki blue the kimloo it says in mcgill at esther in the actual book of esther in chapter 9 verse 27 that they actually stood up and accepted the torah masha kawakibu but it's past tense they actually accepted what they had already accepted private previously avoda what about the service so what we do is we fast right there's the fast of esther the day before but we also scream out this is called a voter ship a life right as we say it's prayer so the avodah is idea it's almost through fasting it's like we're burning the fats right the money that you could have used to buy a shawarma whatever other food give away to sadaka and you'll lose i don't know a couple ounces right of fats so that's like burning the fats in the temple as a corbin as well as the screaming out cranked out to hashem that is prayer from the heart and what else do we do we do mashlach we help the poor but we give gifts to friends food gifts and mishloch manos is the great act of kindness to other people now davarak hair so now we're going to at like another level i'm going to talk the time of the mashiach because it says until his sun sets i just want you to know that the soul of moses is the same soul as the mashiach it's the same soul because david is also the soul of so just keep that in mind about era of shimsu we're not talking about necessarily only the time of murder and esther but in all future times meshach does come then until moses's son has set now think about this in in numbers chapter 31 verse 2. moses was told take god's vengeance out on the the midianites for the sake of the jewish people and after that war is over you will die god says after the war so then your soul right you'll be um collected to your people now moses knew that and moses did not delay this war right if you were told when you finish uh this task then you will die so you will draw that task out as long as you can or you're not going to start it right away moses started right away and he did it quickly knowing that he was still going to die when he finished the task in the common zoo even though he knew he heard he understood that his death was dependent on finishing this vengeance on the enemy the midianites he didn't delay this one bit he moved forward and he took it like like a man let's say right mushroom the base yaakov apparently it's the it's the it's the desire of the jewish people to see the um the vengeance on their enemies while they're still alive and that's why it says on boash himself his hands were steady in prayer or faithful until he took vengeance out on for the sake of the jewish people actually he didn't even care that he was going to die afterwards the hainan he saw so and it was it was as if he gave his life for the jewish people he gave his life for the jewish people this is moshe rabana he knew that this is something had to be done and he didn't delay and he gave his life now there's a hint about mashiach the yamosa mashiach the end times the days of the meshiach it says in the madras and quoting it says which means hashem in let me just see um the lord is his way is with the tempest and with the storm with a tempest and a storm the word suffer is a storm of basara is a storm but let's call it a tempest in a storm is his way so the word suffer is a storm that's was referring to moshe why because moses when he was a young boy an infant he was placed into the marshland where there were reeds and the word over there it says in chapter two of exodus chapter chapter two verse three the tassem right miriam placed him in the reeds so that's referring to moses ubisara this tempest or this whirlwind that's elijah the prophet of the aosha allah he went up in a whirlwind he never died and what do we learn from this that also moses is going to come with elijah the prophet elijah is going to announce the coming of mashiach moses soul is the same as the meshiach now couldn't refer to masim that moses will get up into amazing but i'm reading it also that moses himself will come and it says in psalms chapter 8 i'm sorry 89 37 it says this is referring to the meshiach his seed will be forever and his throne will be like the s-u-n just i want to make sure it says the sun shemesh before me so the words over there is the kisa kashemis negdy and we're talking about remember moses's hands were steady until the coming of his sunset so too over here his throne is like the sun against me okay this is king david this whole idea is that moses's hand stood with a munna until the very end until the moshiach comes and there's another verse in 2nd samuel chapter 23 verse 4 where it says as light in the morning when the sun shines also messianic prophecy over there ukulele referring to a new dawn at the the time of the mashiach and misrat hashem through our ability to keep these three ammudim like our life depends on it right torah avodah and gomer that we will merit we will merit to see and at least through resurrection of the dead experience the coming of the meshiach so with that why are we supposed to remember what amalek did to us and not only did he do to us but he will do to us in all generations it seems like you know we've seen the physical maleik whether it was in nazi germany how many years ago 70 80 years ago or whether we see it in suicide bombers today right that's the external the external enemy can only get to us when we're lacking on the inside when we make these uh mafuza or mafurad when we're separate and we're not connected with hashem so mizrat hashem will continue to grow i know this was a long shear but we had a slow start so mizrat hashem they'll take questions and i'm just going to say shabbat shalom partial zakhar listen well remember what america does and happy poor and poor shabbat shalom [Music] is