Rinat Chaim: And a Flourishing of Strength To David Your Servant with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

Heat. [music] Heat. [singing] [music] [singing] My birthday [music and singing] [music and singing] shalom everybody. Welcome back to the bait mash. Welcome home to Torah. A warm welcome. We are in the Sith. This is the safer written by Raayen Freedellander on the tilas of Yumoyan as we mentioned before every class. Hey, just because we prayed for it one day or two days of the year actually even on Yamipur besides the two days of Rashashana these are things we've been doing for all year long. So we're taking one little paragraph at a time. We're on page 25 cafe where we d and we say that we're asking God that it should be a flourishing of the strength of to delvid your servant. Okay. What is it referring to? It's based on a in psalms. It's 1327 shaman. The Pik says and this is God. There I will cause the horn of Dove to sprout. What is Karen? Right? Interestingly enough, Karen not only can mean a horn, it could also mean rays. And I think that Michelangelo created a uh a statue or maybe a painting of Moses where he has horns because the word Karen not only means rays of light which was emanating from his face but apparently there was a call a misinterpretation and he put horns on his head. Um I think there's also a statue of Dove with horns on his heads. But the point here is that the word horn we're going to define as something that is mamazak we're asking well it's a it's symbolic of strength that the um the p therefore I will cause the horn of David to sprout the strength of David the strength of msiach mikushel hashure miterin Since the main strength, the might of the shore of an ox is expressed or is revealed in his horns. I don't know if you ever watch any of these um nature films. I mean, if you go to a uh rodeo, you can see it live, but uh you're from Texas, aren't you? So, yeah. So, like uh if you don't get to see it live, um you can certainly see it on these documentaries. So the strength of the bull is in the horns. There's actually a proof of this from the Gmoran Herios and it mentions these words. When Dov and King Solomon were anointed with the holy holy oil to be king, they there was a a Karen. There was a horn. The oil was placed in the horn and then put onto their heads. Okay. And their kingdom last the reign last forever. Okay. Continued for a long time the both anointed with a jug a container. And the Gomorrah mentions and we know as a fact their kingdom did not last. Okay. So Yahweh was one of the kings of Israel in the north. Sha was the king before David and he was not from he was not from Yehuda. It wasn't supposed to last forever. Okay. Oh, by the way, just to keep in mind, normally the way the king works is that they're anointed, but not always. Just like the cone, the first cone were anointed and then after that they weren't anointed because it continues through the bloodline. King David was anointed and therefore every king that was not in dispute would not need to be anointed with oil. But if there was a dispute, the dispute was settled through the anointing with the oil. And that's why King Solomon was anointed because as we know there was a dispute among some of the brothers. Okay, that's some background. The reason why King David's um reign lasted and Solomon's land reign lasted meaning through that bloodline was because the true kingship was handed over and given to Yehuda. Therefore, what we do understand is the kingship that comes through David and through Solomon is everlasting. And because of this, that's why they were anointed with the horn. Meaning anybody from the house of David is coming through the original anointing through the herin through the horn which is strength. And what else does the Karen represent? Therefore, it symbolizes the strength and durability. the kuma um of the the kingship through the house of David. Now in spite of this or on the other hand the kingship of king it was temporary in order to ultimately help the the kingship of the Jewish people. This was um this is why he was only anointed with a p and now with a karin. So what are we requesting? What are we requesting from that? that were requesting that the the strength and durability of the kingship of the house of David should sprout a new tit renew itself and go back to way it was originally. the rim. Now we do say the sprouting of the horn and what he wants to explain is how is a a horn grown a horn. Oh, I was going to bring my my my chauffeur. It has ridges and and right you look at it and it grows. I don't know how often whether it's monthly, yearly, but at the end of the year you can see the ridges like in like in a tree. a tree. If you cut a tree, you can look how old is the tree by how many rings. So too, the horn grows incrementally. And that's important as he says that the horn grows in stages little by little. All of a sudden, it's not like uh uh one day you close your eyes and the next day there's a horn, right? Before there was no horn and all of a sudden pum suddenly there's a horn. No, it doesn't grow like that. That's exactly what's going to happen when the final salvation and the final redemption comes. It's the the redeemer, the Messiah is going to be revealed. Not at one moment. It's going to there's going to be a process and it's going to go on for a long time. Well, I don't know how long, but not in a gradual process just like the Rambam writes in the laws of kings chapter 11 and he says, If there shall arise a king from the house of David meaning through the lineage of Solomon that isra he's fluent he's learned in Torah the mitzvah and he's occupied with the commands of God like David his Father in accordance with both the written Torah and the oral Torah. This is the Rambam the Le turn the page and that um he's compelling. You know you talk about religious coercion when Msiah comes there will be religious coercion. It's something that we're you know we're not there yet. So there is no such thing. We have to be careful not to uh instill religious coercion and that's Messiah's job. We we have to educate our brothers because most of it's due to assimilation and ignorance. So we we want to educate them and turn them on. We want to instill a love for the Torah and for amra and for Israel, for the God of Israel and for the mitzvah of Israel. That's our job right now. We're right now in the stage of Hill, right? We're in the world of B hill. And it's through love and care and concern for our brethren that we should do what we can to educate them. But when Messiah comes, he's going to compel or force Israel to follow and to become strong and uphold the Torah and he's going to wage the wars of God. Now, at this point, the Rambam says if someone's doing all that, he's a possible candidate. He's presumed even possibly to be Messiah. But the key is Mashiach Vai. So if he actually does all these things and he's quite successful and he also builds the temple in its place in the right place and he or rebuilds the temple in the right place and he's kra he's able to somehow gather all the dispersed of the Jewish people from around the world he is absolute certain to be Messiah Khaz Z also tell us this is in Midash which I have in front of me but I'll read the I'll read the words from here. So rebiere said in the name of rebuili but he said harishon go aon so like the paras that were in just like Moshe just like the first redeemer the first one to deliver us he will so too whatever there was we'll see a certain um caveat certain details certain the themes so too the final Redeemer will fulfill the same ideas. And what is that? We know the first redeemer was Moses. He was he appeared to them. He revealed himself to them. And then he was hidden from them. So too the final redeemer. He too will reveal himself and then hide himself away. I'm going to read the rest and then we'll go to the English commentary. So just like and we'll see Moses appeared on the scene. Things got a little bit difficult for the Jews. And I'm not saying he lost any um hope, but to a certain extent I think and I'm not the one saying this. I've read this. Clear mentions it other people. He was impatient. He wanted instant results. He thought that if he went to even though he was told he's not going to let you go, but it got worse and it took time and it would seems like there's different opinions. He went away for 3 months. Some say he went away for 6 months and he went back to Midian which we'll see shortly. But what [clears throat] it teaches us that if there are stages and it doesn't happen all all at once. Now I have the midrash in front of me and I'll just read the comment over here that mentions it just says when pharaoh issued this decree that was that the task masters of the people and the foremen went out and spoke to the people saying so said Pharaoh I'm not giving you straw. Now you have to get your own straw and still keep the quota which was extra work. So the medra says that when Pharaoh issued this decree, Moses packed up. He went back to Midian and remained there for 6 months. While Aaron was still living in Egypt at that time, Moses returned his wife and sons to Midian. Okay. Uh there's different opinions. Later on, Gizro brought Sipora and Moses's two sons. Much later. Okay. So, 274 in the art scroll here. This was based on the advice of Aaron. Moses returned his wife and children to Midian so they would be safe until the situation [clears throat] in Egypt stabilized. He did. He relied on Israel to bring them back to him after the redemption from Egypt so they could participate in the giving of the Torah with the rest of Israel. The uh bure explains Moses originally brought his family to Egypt because he thought the redemption would be imminent. But in this his first conversation with Pharaoh, Pharaoh denied his request to free the Israelites and to the contrary decreed their work would now be harder. Moses realized the redemption would not happen at any time soon. So he sent his family back to Midian. And why I say when um when when when Moses says, you know, look, things got worse, you made it worse. God says, "I'm going to show you what I'm going to do to Pharaoh." And Rashi says, "But I'm not going to show you what I'm going to do to the 31 kings in Cananan." So already there, there was a decree. He was going to lead the Jewish people in. It seems, it just seems not. Look, he was human. He was part human anyway, partial, but he still had a character. And it seems like one of his deficiencies is it's really hard to say that about Emosa, but other people say it that he was a little bit um impatient. Okay. Wanted to see instant results, which is not a bad thing. It's the question is how do you deal with it? Okay. So now the next paragraph we mentioned of it's specific specifically to David your servant we're talking specifically about the kingship of David should go to your servant David because he's your servant the king like we see the news today with whatever happened in Venezuela with the leader what's happening in Iran with the leadership what happened in Lebanon with the and the leadership, these are um tyrants. These are tyrants and they're not really for the people, you know, but but David, he is God's servant. that the um this king the whole idea of this kingship is also wanted and needed that he does not feel as a king that that he's doing it for himself. He's not acting as a dictator for himself in order to place some kind of fear on the people for his own need. Ella the reason if he does that which is it's appropriate for a king to have to place awe on the people was rather Ella Evan Hashem only because he's in the service of God and he is God's messenger not for him his own selfish aggradisement and we have this saying it's a famous saying whatever the slave servant acquires it automatically becomes the kings. So he wasn't doing it for himself because he didn't have anything. Everything was of his belonged to God. Therefore, David used all of his rulership in order to give and proclaim Hashem as the king over everything and every meaning everything in general and all details to in order to fulfill and observe Hashem's Torah. and to do Hashem's will. Just like it says in Deuteronomy 17:E 19 that the king has to write a safer Torah and he has to carry it around with him and learn from it. It says regarding this safer Torah, he has to have it with him. Hayimo the corabbo. Not only does he have to have it, he has to read from it. when all the days of his life in order that he should have a healthy fear. He should learn how to have a healthy fear of Godzos in order to observe and to fulfill all the words of this Torah. That's the PK. So it's he has to carry with him and he has to learn from it always constantly constantly in order for him for him to know that all he is is an agent a messenger of God in in order that but how [snorts] he should behave and how he should lead the people in serving God. And that's what it means, right? We're asking that there should be this growth of a horn for David because he is your servant that he he's the one who's going to guide the people to serve Hashem. Okay? He's going to serve the nation to serve Hashem. So, we're all looking forward, right? We're looking who is the perfect servant who is from the seat of David, right? We're looking forward to that happening, but it could be. There's going to be even though we say Mashiah can come in a blink of an eye, right? And he's sitting by the gates of Rome putting on bandages one wound at a time and taking them off. Um there is this sense of urgency and at the same sense there is a process. We even have in the prophet right Akisha and Bito that there means that he'll happen quickly in its time. Why those two words quickly and in its time. In its time means we have to wait till the year 600 or quickly could mean any day. It seems like there's a little bit of a combination, right? It's going to happen hopefully quickly but still even then it's going to happen in as a process not as a shock and awe but in a slow and perhaps even natural process and vis can greet the Messiah and see not only the bas mikdash be rebuilt all our brothers and sisters come home but the end to anti-semitism M I promise you when Messiah comes there will not be any more anti-semitism but also won't be any converts. People cannot convert anymore because they might be converting for the wrong reasons. Now is the time you have free will and uh we have a conversion program here and um it's it's many of them all over the city. They're kind of packed. They're packed out. They're at the limit and I guess what do they say? I mean you really one of the questions that the um the basin will ask the potential convert are you sure you want to join this persecuted people and these the answers that each one of them give they they say I I can't turn back I feel my Jewish soul uh and I I want to join this this I'm going to call it the suffering people but Hashem also is suffering he goes down into Egypt he's with us in our troubles in our pain. And it could be that they really want to just connect to Hashem. They're going to connect to Jewish people, of course, but uh that Hashem is on a certain level suffering in this galut. And the one of the reasons we go into gullis is to pick up many of these sparks. And so we have quite a few in our in our community. And we welcome them with open arms. And um we'll collect all the sparks before Mashiach comes. So anyone anyway we'll continue this next week. Have a great week. C too. [music] [singing] [music] You [singing] [music] see your [singing] body [music] >> [singing]