Rules of Negotiations with Edom | WAR OF AMALEK (29)

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Many times, not once, not twice, but countless times, the Jewish people have had to defend themselves against Adam through different types of negotiations before tragedy struck. Yakovu himself had to negotiate with the leader with the source of adomash and he actually showed us the rules of how to negotiate with adoman's war of series shows us endless depth of the Torah and how it includes everything including how to negotiate. Now, those that have followed these rules of negotiation over the centuries have brought salvation and have brought relief to am that have much blood on their hands, including those that are leading Israel as we speak. These politician Zionists that literally care less about the Tawra. And that's the reason why we have our brothers and sisters still hostages under the Hamas terrorist for 600 days. We are approaching two years. So we have to obviously see what's the difference between those that have succeeded and those that have failed. Now in section 24 says this is how our strategical tactics are supposed to be in regards to dealing with the nations of the world. And it was clarified And it was clarified in several places by our sages and hinted at in the Torah at the beginning of commentary by the Ramban. Now wrote this in many of his works in clear fashion, but those that delve into it see that it's literally endless with depth. Similar to what we said about the writings of the Rogachov of how every few words he would tell you something and then tell you go look at this place. Now, if you were lazy like unfortunately some people are where you tell them, listen, if you want to know the answer, go check the guide that we have about conversion or the guide that we have about wigs and why they're forbidden. Uh the guide that we have about wasting seed and all the different guides that we have that are interactive guides that literally had hundreds and hundreds of hours spent and invested into them to just simply prepare them. Needless to say, the years that it took to make all the content. But some people, they want to answer on a silver platter, and therefore they never really get the answer. They only get confusion. But if a person delves into the Torah, delves into the sources, into the details, they'll see that it's much bigger than he thought, much deeper than she could imagine, and most importantly, much clearer than they could possibly even think. Vasman is reminding us again about those that unfortunately are put in positions of power of the Jewish people to represent us, to protect us, to negotiate on our behalf by kissing up to the goim, by kissing up to the nations. And has said it time and time again in each one of the sections of this contress that nothing good will ever come out of these people that are kissing up to the goim. Not the Ben Shapiro of the world or the Dennis Prager of the world or any other so-called Jewish leader that is constantly kissing up to the nations because they think that that's the way to make peace. In fact, it's not only not the way to make peace, but it's not the way of Torah. And those messengers are not really representing the Jewish people. They're not representing Am is rather than representing themselves and their own self-interest. So instead of repeating what we've already said, we now have to learn from Abasim what is the tactical strategy supposed to be. He tells us to look at the Ramban. But before we look at the Ramban, we have to look at the Torah as far as what is it and understand the vastness of the Torah and how it's unlimited in the Mishnav one of the foundations of our oral Torah and needless to say the foundations of all Musar in chapter 5 Mishna number 22 to Benbug says one of the sages by the name of Benbug says delve into it delve into it because everything in is in it. Meaning delve into the Torah and delve into the Torah and you will find anything you could possibly imagine. All seven levels of wisdom exist in it. And who is this Benb Bugbug? The sages teach us that he called himself Benbugbug as in a acronym for Bengim. Bengim, son of convert, son of converts. Some say he was a convert himself. Some say he was the son of converts. But needless to say, this righteous convert, extraordinary ga, knows enough about the Torah to tell you with absolute conviction that everything you can possibly imagine that could be of any value, of any good, of any wisdom exists into the Torah. Now, of course, we could take his statement at face value and be happy with it. But why? When we have much more to look and see this further in the perhaps maybe the most difficult inas we have four prophets delving on this idea of everything being in a Torah. What do you mean everything? You always Rabbi, you always say everything is in a Torah. Are you telling me that business is in a Torah? Yes. Are you telling me that uh you know how to develop a relationship or protect a relationship or fix a relationship is in a Torah? Yes. Are you telling me that uh everything I can possibly imagine even including secular subjects like mathematics, archaeology, sciences, that's in a Torah? Yes. Everything is in a Torah. In fact, even this sh and this conversation is in the Torah. King David said in Psalm 119 verse 96 page 21A quotes him that he spoke about the Torah but he did not did not define how big it is when he said to every goal I have seen a limit but your commandment meaning the Torah is exceedingly broad meaning that the Vid is saying that the Torah is endless. But what does it mean endless? What does it mean broad? So came Job, the prophet Job who clarified further in Job 11:9 saying, "Longer than the earth is its measure," meaning the Torah's measure and wider than the seas. So here Job is telling us this Torah has no size. It's longer than the earth. It's wider than the seas. You can't comprehend. Okay, but we need more details. Came the prophet and said, "Then he spread the scroll of the oral law out before me, and it was inscribed within and without, and in it was inscribed lamentations, rejoicings, and woe." This is an Ezekiel chapter 2:10. It's referring to a scroll that was shown to Ezekiel of the oral Torah and the dimensions of the scroll are not given. Nor does it inform of the size of the Torah. Again, repeating the sentence of how the Torah is endless. Yeah, but you saw a scroll. Isn't the scroll? Doesn't the scroll end somewhere? But said something different than the others where he said, "Well, you really have lamentations, rejoicings, woe, meaning you have all types of things in it." And the says, "What? Tell us more." Lamentations is referring to the travels of the righteous in this world. Meaning that the difficulties of the righteous people could only be understood if somebody studies the oral Torah. People always have a question of why does it look like the righteous people suffer and the wicked prosper. If you study the oral Torah, you will understand. Furthermore, it says it's a lamentation and they shall lament it. In Ezekiel 32:16, what about rejoicing? This is referring to the reward that's given to the righteous in the world to come. Where it says in Psalm 92:4 with singing accompanied by a harp. And what about woe? This is referring to the travels of the wicked, the shim in the world to come. As it says, calamitous happenings upon calamitous happenings will come. Meaning that when the punishment eventually comes upon the wicked in many cases, it will never end. And if you dig further into it, this is also one of the places where it talks about gay. In fact, just a couple of earlier, the talks about gay and the different punishments for different people. But so far we've had three prophets. Who's the fourth? Zakaria. The extent of the Torah's vastness was not defined in scripture until Zakaria benid came and defined it. Says the as it is written in Zakaria 5:2. And he said to me, meaning Hashem said to him, what do you see? And I said, I see a folded scroll. Its length is 20 ammut and its width is 10 ammut. And if one unfolds it, it will be 20 by 20 ammut. What is this talking about? This is giving us some sort of measure. But this is not amote like we measure in this world. These are divine ammut. meaning as if it's a divine hand. We can't say God's hand because God does not have a hand, but a immeasurable amma. And the says, it's written in the the prophet Isaiah 40:12, who measured with his fist the sea and the heavens with the span he gauged, teaching us that the heavens measure one divine handspan by one divine handspan, which is one quarter of a divine square. Consequently, the entire universe is but one in 3,200 of the Torah. To clarify, Zakari told us that the Torah scroll that he saw all together measured 800 square divine ammut. The heavens, which is the entire universe, is one quarter of a square divine amma. Meaning that the Torah is 3,200 times greater than the size of the universe. Now, why did we need four prophets to tell us this? That's because these prophets are each telling us a different aspect of the Torah. with increasing depth. There are four parts of the Torah. Thehat which is the plain meaning, the which is the exedical derivations, what you understand from it, the details, the stories behind it. The third is the which is the mysteries of creation. And the fourth is which is the mysteries of the divine. And these four prophets gave us each aspect of it with David referring to the Torah in only one dimensional sense by saying it's a the commandments are exceedingly broad. He's referring to the first level of the Torah which is the plain meaning. The prophet Job discusses two dimensions because he says longer than the earth is its measure and wider than the seas referring to the two levels of the and the introduces the third aspect the scroll that's written on its back as well as on its front. This is referring to the third level which is which is a part of the esoteric hidden side of the Torah. Hence, it's written on the back of the scroll to convey that it's concealed from view. The scroll is viewed by Zakaria in a divided way, divided into four sections. It's written on both sides, folded into two, and only Zakaria depicts the full extent of the Torah with all four of its parts. In so many words, our sages are telling us here we have prophecy. So no matter what you look for in the Torah, you will find it. But if you don't believe that everything is in Torah, not only will you not find it, you won't even look on the statement which means the Torah of God is complete. The Balto famously said that despite all that has been written about the Torah, which is more than anything else that exists in the world, there's more writings about the Torah than any other subject out there. He says, despite everything that's ever been written about the Torah, it is still complete. It is still perfect. It is still untouched. Meaning all of the millions of books that are still available today are not even 1% of the entire Torah. It's still complete. It's still untouched. And therefore all the information that's in it, all the wisdom that's included in it certainly includes the tactical strategies that we have to use in negotiations. years ago, my dear Ra, Rabbi Fry Kaklon started writing a book about all of the wisdoms that have been discovered and to show where they're already located in the Torah. After several years of writing, he actually discovered that there was a great by the name of Arial who was a genius and actually preceded Rab Fry by 120 years who already wrote a with similar information calledm. But of course you look at the book and you see a masterpiece where was a genius not only in telling you oh this discovery look in the mid such and such that discovery look it's in the that mathematical principle look it's over here in this par that uh scientific uh principle or discovery is here in a mid in the he told you where everything is so we're talking about somebody that not only knows Torah, but knows obviously secular knowledge, enormous knowledge. But over the last 120 years, there's been many more developments and discoveries and therefore there's a lot more to write. And that's why till this day Rab continues to write the seaf in the I've mentioned a few times in the last few shim about the the memoir the life story if you will or personal journal of Maz called Leman. He writes that when he was young he had some bad friends. What does that mean bad friends? So that these friends used to aside from learning Torah they used to go to universities to learn secular knowledge but he was forbidden from doing it by his father. His father said absolutely not. And these bad friends would come back to the Talmud after they studied some new principle, some new idea in the university. They would come to the Torah and say, "Oh, look, we have learned this mathematical principle, this scientific, this that." And he was afraid that this would disrespect the Torah. So he studied on his own a couple of the foundational principles and started finding different sages that clarified it that discussed it and little by little found countless places in the Torah of where these are discovered where these are discussed centuries if not millenniums before of the modern day at the time scientists even knew it existed. Torah and he came back to his bad friends who were showing off what they learned in college and he asked him questions but they couldn't answer. They start asking him questions and he was able to answer everything about the information they learned for six months, for a year, for more in school. He said, "Okay, now that you ask me some questions, I want you guys to figure out this equation for me. Give me the answer." They tried. They tried. They couldn't figure out. They went back to the school, asked for the teacher, the professor to help them. He couldn't figure it out. He went to one of his colleagues, he couldn't figure it out. So, what genius gave you this? Oh, it's one of the bahim in the Jewish community learns to all day. Well, can you please ask him what's the answer? They come back, they give it to says, "Yeah, of course. Here, this is the answer. And this is the source. Look, it's an Mishna over here. It's an over here. It's an Midrash over here. This discussed it here." Why did I do this? He said to show you that everything is in the Torah. And from that point on, literally they would ask him, anytime they couldn't figure something out, they would come to him. These kids, these young guys, including the professors, would come to him and ask him questions about what they're learning in university that he has in the Torah. Why? Because everything is in the Torah. Now, in the world of politics today, of course, everyone has an opinion, but anyone that's on the sane side that understands that 600 days of keeping our brothers and sisters as hostages is not good for anyone, needless to say, for Is have to question why is this the case? Well, first you have to see who's negotiating. Now, although the one that's constantly in the headlines is BB Netanyahu, what few don't realize is that BB's foolishness is not only in his negotiation terms, but also tactics. Because who is he sending to be the middle people between Israel and Gaza? Qatar and Egypt. Qatar that actually funded the terrorists to buy the weapons to go murder thousands of Jews on October 7th and beyond. And Egypt that's no less anti-Semitic. So when the terrorists say, "Listen, maybe we want a swap one for one hostage." Qatar says, "No, no, no. That's too little. Ask him for 100 100 to one." This is who BB sent. And if that wasn't enough, you'll send some lefty liberal that hates Jews and in some cases is questioned whether he even helped the terrorists more than he helped the Jews. So what do you have as a result? 600 days of hostages. Why is this the case? Because although BB says that he studies Tanakh every Tuesday, he has a sh every Tuesday about Tanakh, he studies it as an intellectual stimulization, intellectual stimulation because he does not believe that everything is in a Torah. The Ramban said, "I lost many years studying secular material because I needed to show that it's all in a Torah." So, you have one of the tell you, "Yes, archaeology, the sciences, mathematics, these subjects have to be studied because you're going to use them in a Torah and it's going to clarify different things. In fact, asked his talmid to translate a book about engineering so that the bahim in the yeshiva could understand better when they're learning they're learning about botanics when you know in regards to with not just the but also how to plant in the field, the size of the field, the separation between the different types of species, archaeology, you need to know these different principles in order to help you understand the Torah. In fact, if you look at the Kazunish's writings, he's not the only sage that has diagrams and different small pictures in his commentary in order to show you what does it mean a corner, what does it mean? a certain shape, certain distance, there's two places, there's three uh uh a uh pools of water between them, which way they're shaped, all types of different things. You need to know which one is allowed to use it, with an without an. What's the bottom line point? that the Torah is not just an intellectual stimulation, but rather something that a person has to have as part of their everyday life for every part of life. Now, the politicians don't believe this because in a political world there's a very simple way to succeed. How do you succeed as a politician? Lie. But lie with confidence and make sure not to get caught. But if you get caught lying, then deny it by lying even more with even more confidence. That's the political world. So now that we understand that the reason we're not succeeding is because these politicians, these leaders do not believe that everything is in the Torah. We now have to see what is actually in the Torah that brought us because he said that these rules in regards these tactical strategies of how to deal with the nations are in the Torah look into the Ramban and that's what we'll do the Ramban who wrote extraordinary amount of Torah and commentary about every aspect of the Torah something that it's unimaginable how someone could write so much, know so much. He wrote commentary on every verse in the in the book of Genesis in chapter 32 verse number four and five. It's a story of how Yakovinu sent messengers ahead of him to Asab his brother in the land of the field of Adom. And he told his messengers saying, "Thus shall you say to my lord to Asav, so said your servant Yakov." So the Ramban over there says this section was recorded in order to inform us that the holy one blessed is he saved his servant and redeemed him from the hand of one more powerful than he. As a side note, we see that Yakov is not interested in fighting Isav, even though Yakov is shown in the Torah to be extraordinarily strong, whether it's through the literal Torah where he opened up the uh the well for when any other time they needed to open up that the cover of the well, they needed all of the shepherds to gather together and open up. He did it by himself. Or if you look at the midrash, the loes brings up the the wars of Yakov and his sons, how they fought against several nations at a time and won. And Yakov was the strongest among all of them combined. So Yakov was extraordinarily strong, but Yakov did not want to fight with Asav. He didn't want to fight with Adon. Perhaps it wasn't the time to do so, but he needed a salvation because Asav was coming to meet Yakov with 400 battalions. Not 400 soldiers, 400 battalions. Each commander having its own separate battalion. He was coming with all of Adam. And the Ramban says this whole section of the Torah is to tell us how Hashem saved Yakov, teaching us the first principle that Hashem redeems his servants and sometimes by sending an angel. But further it the Ramban says it's also to teach us that Yakov did not rely on his righteousness to protect him from harm. Rather he exerted himself with every capability in order to secure his salvation. This is to teach us another principle which is that a person should not rely on their merits in order to gain salvation against their adversaries. Rather, they should plan different strategies, use whatever gifts Hashem gave them, whatever tools Hashem gave them in order to protect themselves. This was all an introduction to what the Ramban says next. And there is also an illusion to future generations. Meaning that what Hashem wrote in the Torah about Yakov and his experience and his tactical strategies to fight against Asav and protect himself was actually a prophetic instruction set for Am of Adam. It's an illusion to future generations that everything that occurred to our forefather Yakov with Asav would continually occur to us with Asav's descendants. And it's thus fitting for us to hold fast to the path of the righteous Yakov that we should prepare ourselves for the three items for which he prepared himself for prayer for gifts to appease Isav and for saving himself by means of war including fleeing and thereby being saved. So the Ramban tells us there were three tools that Yakov had in his arsenal to use against Isav. One, pray to Hashem. But prayer is not enough. You praying that you'll pass the test, you praying that you'll find somebody to get married to, you praying that you'll make money, you praying that you'll know Torah is not enough. You have to also try. two bribes, gifts to appease. As we see later on that he sent them a whole lot of sheeps and donkeys and all types of gifts. And lastly, by means of war. Sometimes war is running away. Sometimes war is weapons and blood. And Yakov had all three of these to prepare to. And Yakov had to do this as the Ramban says because he was going that way anyway. Meaning there was no way for him to avoid running into Asav. And the reason why he called him tell him uh say to my lord to Asav perhaps it's because Yakov was trying to tell his servants that are going to see to treat him with respect because if you come to negotiate with a dome with a chip on your shoulder by making fun of them By insulting them, the negotiation is not going to go anywhere. At least not anywhere positive. Later on in the same para in chapter 32 verse 9 where the Torah says if as comes to the one camp and strikes it down and then the remaining camp shall survive where it talks about how Yakov is instructing his family to separate into two camps. There the Ramban gives us further instructions just like he says this incident where Yakov is telling his family to separate into two camps. It's not just the obvious which is number one protect yourself in every aspect. This also includes investment says the Ramban. Don't put everything just in one thing. But furthermore, he says this incident alludes to the future indicating a divine miracle. What is this divine miracle? That the descendants of Asav will not make decrees against us to eradicate our name. Rather they will maltreat some of us in some of their lands, concentration camps, murderers, pilgrims, inquisitions. Yes, a dome will do that in one part of their land, but yet they will have another king also a dome in a different part of the world that will make decrees in his land to protect us. So, one of their kings makes decrees in his land against our property, against our bodies. And yet another king of theirs in his place somehow is merciful and decides to save the refugee Jews from the first king's persecution. And this is what it says in the midrashit that if comes to the one camp and strikes it down, this eludes to our brethren in the south and therefore the remaining camp shall survive. This alludes to our brothers in a diaspora. This is Midrasha section 763. And our sages understood this to be something for us to know for the future. Of course, anyone that has spent any time learning about the Holocaust knows how the Nazis and the powers of evil, whether it was from Germans or the Italians, did everything they could to destroy the Jewish people in Europe, in the Middle East. But yet we had different parts of Adome, different descendants of Asav actually protect us. Whether it be some Germans, some Russians, some Americans, we can never say all because it's simply not true. But nonetheless enough that we see how what the Ramban is telling us that these are instructions for the future and these are in so many words prophecies of the future because that's the way akadosh mahu designed the world. There will come a time where there are horrible decrees, the Spanish Inquisitions and the Holocausts where it seems like the end is near. But a kadosh designed it in such a way that not only did he promise to always preserve am but also preserve us in a supernatural way where one of a do is trying to annihilate us while another is trying to save us. Now after this we see already that Jacobu is telling us first and foremost if you're going to negotiate with know that prayer is a must war is a possibility and a bribe is as soon as possible. possible and even if all fails don't ever think that this is the end of Israel. Later on in the para same parad chapter 33 in verses 15 and 16 where after Yakov meets with Isav he gives him the gifts says what all this what what what is all this for no I want you to take it to show that you're pleased with me. Meaning it's for me, not for you. And Asav says, "Okay, so let's go together." Yakov says, "No, no, no. That's where it stops." But he can't tell him, "Listen, I don't want to be next to you. I don't want to be next to your soldiers. This is still Asav. This is still a dome. Yes, we're enemies, but I don't want you to feel disrespected and thereby want to go to war. Yes, we're on two different sides. Yes, but that doesn't mean that we should fight. So, Yakov shows us another tactic in negotiations of how he gets away from this request by yourself and he tells him that no, we're too soft. I have children. Uh they're they're not going to survive going with your people and their horses and their speed or my, you know, way uh animals. You go your way, I'll go mine and we'll meet up. And the Ramban says over there again, just like told us he would, the Yakov's intention was that he didn't desire and his men or their company at all. He didn't care for them. He didn't want him next to him. And all the more so he did not want to accept Asav's offer as an escort if it was his intent to travel in a different route. But beyond that, the Ramban says, "Our sages saw yet another piece of advice in this story for future generations." Meaning, we see the the basic meaning that it's related to the story at hand. But we see each one has a secret within it that's an instruction set for Islav. And the sages teach us in the mid says the Ramban about when he would go to have dealings with the government, the Roman government. Before he would go, he would look at this para and thereby not take any Romans with him on a journey. He has to go meet with the government as a Jewish leader. So, of course, there's a bunch of Roman politicians say, "Okay, we'll take you there." And he would do everything possible to avoid that and tell, "No, no, I'll go by myself. I like it. I'm slow. I take my time. I'm also going to stop by my cousin's house and my grandfather's house and this and that." No, I'll go my way. Don't worry. You guys have done enough. You told me that the Roman uh uh king Caesar will accept me. Thank you, but no thank you for coming with me. And he would do this by looking at this par and knowing that this is the way you had to do. But one time says the midrash and I did not look at the Torah didn't look at this specific part of the Torah this and he ended up taking the Romans with him some and what happened by the time he arrived he had sold every part that he had on him including his coat. meaning that these Roman politicians, these so-called messengers and helpers extorted him and everything that he had on him. Oh, listen. If you want to get in, you have to give me 10,000. The other one says, "Yeah, if you want to get in, yeah, but do you want to get in on a Tuesday or you have to wait a month? Another 10,000 for the second guy. And listen, you want to be able to get back survive the way back another 10,000. And all of this is the midash because he did not look at the para before he went and he ended up taking the Romans with him. Why is this the case? Because the sages had a tradition that this specific part of the Torah, this specifically this section is the chapter of the exile. And when he did not look at it, he in essence got a divine Musar message because whenever he went to Rome to the court of the kings of Edom for whatever communal matter he had to deal with a decree on the Jews, whatever taxes, all types of different issues, he would look into this chapter in order to follow the advice of the white of of the wise elder, the uh Yakovu. and future generations were to see from him his behavior from Yakov's behavior and act in a similar manner and therefore when I did not follow this instead of avoiding the company of the Roman escorts to take him to the to take him to Rome these politicians he took which not only was a mistake of taking him with him but also risk the fact that he could have become friends with them in the past. He didn't he didn't have the the Romans escort him to Rome and therefore did not befriend anyone unless it's unless it's something that was needed. But here he didn't need anything. He had the Torah. So when the Romans came with him acting as if they're friends, he quickly found out that they're not his friends. They're simply looking for their own personal interests just like all politicians. and they disregard a person's ownership of his own property. See here we see how of course even that one time that he did not look into the Torah obviously he didn't forget this part of the Torah but sent him a divine Musar message as a reminder for him and for all future generations since it was obviously written by the sages of what happened here to learn from it that the Torah is not something you just look at once in a while in order to stimulate yourself mentally in order to keep up with the weekly Torah portion. But rather the Torah is something that you need to use every day of your life for your life. to rub me brisk shalom used to say that when it comes to dealing with adome even though gave us three different tactics to deal with adome prayer bribe and war usually the bribe is what works one time there was a new mayor in Brisk who issued a horrible decree against the Jewish people. Now the Jewish people have dealt with decrees in the past and usually they would just simply bribe the mayor and that was it. But this mayor did something different. He issued a decree against the Jews and also a public warning against anyone that tries to bribe him. So now many of the Jews were like, "Oh, all is all is lost. All hope is lost. What are we going to do?" The told him, "Get a bunch of money together. I'm going to go bribe him." He said, "No, didn't you hear?" He said not just a decree against the Jews, but also woe to the one who comes to bribe him. Say, I heard I know what he said. You're not understanding what he said. I understand. Gather a bunch of money and give it to me. I'm going to go bribe him. Of course, in those days, they had for the Torah. They listened to what the Rav said even though some were certain that the Rav is not only making a mistake but the Rav is not going to make it back based on what the public warning was. Brisk gathered the money. 10,000 rubles, enormous sum and went on his way to the mayor in the middle of the summer where was hot and everyone there was wearing light clothes. But the briskerv arrived at the mayor's office wearing multiple coats, gloves, thick socks that you need for snowstorms, huge boots, a hood, literally as if he's going through a snowstorm. when he arrived at the place said whoa what do you want this he said I'm here to bless the new mayor to give him a blessing they saw this strange old man that's wearing multiple coats and jackets and socks and boots like it's the middle of winter in the middle of summer they they didn't know what to do with themselves okay we'll let you in let him in and the mayor started laughing as soon as he saw the briskarov says What's wrong with you? Why are you wearing so much clothes? The brisk says to him, "It's because I had a dream that there's going to be a huge cold front, a major storm coming in one hour from now." And I believe the dream. The mayor started laughing. What? This? You are the wise one, the leader of the Jews. This is what you believe. And the Briskov says, "Yeah, of course I do." What? You don't believe it? The mayor says, "Of course I don't believe it. It's silly. It's the middle of summer. But I had a dream." Who cares that you had a dream? Okay, you want to bet on it? The Briskov says, Briskov says, "I'm willing to bet you 10,000 rubles that it's going to happen in 1 hour from now that my dream is true." The mayor says, "Really? Absolutely. I'll take you on that bet. Absolutely." The briskar takes a 10,000 rubles, puts it on the table. He says, "Here you go. You keep it here. I'll come back in an hour." And if it's what I said, you'll give me mine plus 10,000. If not, you keep the 10,000 to yourself. The mayor couldn't be happier. This is the easiest money he's ever made. And then he says to to Briskarov, "Why did you come here for anyway?" goes, "Oh, you know, the decree on the Jewish people, you know, why why why I figured maybe we talk about it." Okay. Okay, fine. I I'll think about that. I'll thank you for this bet. The brisk waits one hour. There's no storm. There's no cold front. There's no snow, there's no hail, there's no rain. It's still hot in the middle of the summer. Nothing changed. But what did change was that the decree was canceled. You see the difference between the regular people and the briskar was that the briskar knew the rules that Yakovu prophesized of how to deal with adom were the words of God. It's not something he made up out of his mind. And therefore these rules are always applicable. What about the fact that the mayor says no bribe? You're right. He said no bribe because he felt ah taking a bribe is it's beneath me. How could I do it? So it's not he doesn't want to bribe. He said you have to know how to give him the bribe. The wisdom of the kamim was not just add 1 + one all the time in order to arrive at two. The wisdom of theim was to know how to arrive at two using different equations with the conclusion that we want by using the holy Torah. This is why told as please take this gifts take them. It's not for me. It's not for you. It's for me. I want to know that you that you like me, that you're happy with me. Says, "No, I don't need it. I have plenty of money. I'm a multi-millionaire." And Yakov says, "I know it's not for you. You already have plenty, but it's for me. It'll make me happy to know that you're happy with me. Because Yakov knew that it's beneath Asav to accept a gift, to accept a bribe, but he still needs to get it because that will appease his heart and make him go away. Unfortunately, when you have leaders and followers that do not believe that everything is in a Torah and that that Torah is not the way to solve every single problem, then the end result is that they always get in the way. In one of the stories that brought tragedy to Is in ways that we will never know, but needless to say, it brought tragedy was at a time when Shalom had a meeting with the number one priest or pastor in Russia. Very powerful person, the equivalent of the pope over there. And before the meeting told his people, I need to make a special golden manora to give him as a gift. Of course, they got it prepared. Beautiful golden manora. met with this powerful pastor and in the quickly in the meeting he gave him the gift and of course the pastor one of the people that was there witnessed the meeting says it's literally like the pastor couldn't think of anything else other than how beautiful this gift was. He was amazed that he's even getting a gift needless to say such a beautiful gift. says, "Right now is the time." Tell him that we should both sign a letter that says to our mute people that Jews are not allowed to hurt the Christians and the Christians are not allowed to hurt the Jews and both of us sign it. So they translated and told the pastor the message and he was so enamored by this manor. Sure, sure. Of course, I'll sign it. No problem. Okay. Get a piece of paper told him. Get a paper. So they got a piece of paper and started writing and the pastor is eager to sign this letter. But then one government official who thought that he's smarter than said, "No, no, Rabbi, we can't do this. Why not? No, we could do it another time, but we need to do it on a special piece of paper with letterhead and proper way. Nice and respected. Told, no, no, no, no. Now we sign it right now. Forget the letter head right now. The way hand won't handw write everything. No, Rabbi, this this could uh this could be a problem politically because it's not the proper paper. Forget about the proper paper. Let him sign it now. No, no, we we'll get it done. Don't worry, Rabbi. We'll get it done. We'll just send him a letter professional, structured, neat, unletter head from the government and the rabbi and he'll sign it. No problem. And this politician, this Zionist who thought he's smarter than the rabbi put a stop to this. And unfortunately, that letter was never signed. Not on that day and not ever. Imagine the protection that this can bring any Jew that's somewhere in Russia about to be attacked by a bunch of anti-semitics. But then they're reminded that even their own leader, their own religious leader says, "You're not allowed to hurt the Jews." Imagine how many lives would be saved, how many bruises would never have happened. But when you have somebody who doesn't believe in and they think they can do things better, then even something like this unfortunately can be put to a stop. This is another reminder of how deep the Torah is if you study it. A person can study the Torah and see nothing. Because they say, "Oh, Moshe, Hashem spoke to Moshe. Oh, where's the wisdom there? Where's the wisdom there?" If you're trying to interpret it with your own mind, with your own limited intellect and knowledge, then it's the same thing as a blind person trying to describe what the moon looks like or what the sky color is. But if you go to the words of the sages, those of current and past generations that understand what Torah is, that have toiled and have dedicated their life to serving Hashem and is learning his Torah, then you at the very least have a precise map of how to get from point A to point B and arrive at the destination that you need to get to Without that Torah, without the sages of Israel, a person could look into the Torah and literally arrive at a different religion. This is what happened with Christianity. They say they started with our Torah, with our written Torah, but unfortunately they ruined everything when they said there's a continuation to it that was made made by a bunch of people that were not witnessed to anything, were not knowledgeable of anything and denied that the written Torah that preceded them is divine and eternal. and thereby they arrived at a different religion. When you look into the Torah, whether it's the Torah or it's the oral Torah, you'll be able to see the word of the living God and you'll be able to apply it to your life. Whether that is to apply to your life in business, in scholarship, in marriage, in teaching children, whatever it is, certainly you will never arrive at the falsehood of Christianity in the New Testament. Regardless of what they call their man god, whether it's Yosh or other names they've come up with in recent years, you're never going to arrive that that's truth. Why? Because you'll see that the more you know about the truth, the easier it is to identify falsehood. The more you know about the rules of the truth, the easier it is for you to simply ignore any falsehood and not even waste your time with it. But the less you know about Torah, the more difficult it becomes for you to identify what's fake. This is why many people follow these so-called political messengers and leaders. Some that are literally in the government and some that are, you know, podcasters and people that make videos online and say that they are trying to do good for Israel. In reality, all they're doing good for is themselves. Without it's impossible to do good, not for Isl. So this is another message from giving us another clarification that everything is including the instructions that we need to use today because we are the future generations and we are the ones that have to deal with adom. Sometimes we have to pray, sometimes we have to bribe, sometimes we have to war and sometimes we have to run away. But either way, it's one of those options. How do you know which one to use? That's what you go to the for to know which ones they tell us. We follow the instructions of the that's following the Torah. Thank you very much for learning with me. We'll continue to learn together soon. Anyone that wants to support and donate, you can go to our website bzashem.org. 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