Ruth #8: Why Do the Highest Souls End Up In the Lowest Places? - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

[Music] good evening and welcome to our eighth class on the Book of Ruth here at the yeshiva via Sheva that net you know they tell the story about this man who died and he happened to be a very very unlike individual the problem was in this community there was a custom they would not bury anybody unless a positive eulogy was presented by the member of a community about the deceased the issue here is that the man unfortunately was a criminal he was loathed he was disliked he was a disgrace to society so the community gathers for his funeral and nobody has anything nice or kind to say about this man the rabbi gets up and he says rabbi said my dear friends we have this ancient custom we cannot bury a person without a eulogy somebody please stand up and say something positively so we can bury the man but to no avail everybody remains seated nobody had anything nice to say about the guy finally one hour two hours three hours people are piloxing an old man in the back raises his hand he says rabbi I have a eulogy the rabbi says is it positive he says yes it's going to be positive they call the old man up he comes up he gets up at the podium and he says my dear friends I want to tell you that his brother was much worse well you can understand what a compliment how positive a compliment that is when the best thing I could say about you is that relative to your brother you are a kind person which brings us to the issue that we have been dealing with the last few weeks and that is the difficult - the blemish that tarnished the complicated blood that flows in the family destined to be to represent aristocracy to become the royal monarchs of the Jewish people beginning with King David and ending with his descendant Messiah King Messiah it's been said by great people that yes lean which by many is considered a very prominent thing is akin to something specific you know somebody once came to a great Rebbe and he says rabbi I have great uses my ancestors were extremely prominent and distinguished people so they're ever told them let me explain to you what yeesus is yes just coming from a prominent family is like the zeros after a number so if you have number one or even better number two number three then yeah five zero six zeros seven zeros never mind eight zeros at there's something to talk about but if the first number is a zero then as many zeros as you have to it's right it's futile it's of no benefit so they're ever told them if you are something if you work on yourself if you make something out of yourself if you challenge yourself if you refine yourself if you become at least the number one then all the zeros will add up to something but if you remain a zero then all your uses all the lineage all the prominent generations that you come from your ancestry really will become futile but if you're somebody on your own then useless doesn't matter the blood that flows in our veins from previous generations the genes we carry the values passed on from generation to generation both genetically and by role modelling both through nature and nurture we don't have to elaborate is extremely significant which brings to mind the question why is it that Providence had it that the family which embodies Georg Jewish royalty and aristocracy the dynasty of mouse mouse was based dubbed the kingship of the house of David it's shrouded in such complicated genes on every level to the extent that for generations there was a question of King David the father there's a - the grandfather of machine was a complete Jew because he comes from a Moabite convert discussed at length in previous classes and in last class we explored two aspects number one why the lineage of Jewish of Jewish man of Jewish aristocracy of Jewish Jewish royalty comes particularly from Moe of why such a strange and difficult and complicated and questionable lineage the second issue we discussed is why the birth of this particular family is shrouded in so much secrecy we're often those involved in creating the seeds that will produce King David and produces descendants and produce mysterious are clueless as to what is going on why tonight we come to step three after discussing the lineage discussing the secrecy the mystery we now discuss the promiscuity namely the dynasty that produces Jewish royalty seems to come about continuously through relationships and unions which seem morally questionable much promiscuity behaviors that on any level don't seem completely appropriate certainly not modest certainly not the Torah way of a relationship and yet it's particularly these relationships that will produce mushiya we don't have to look far let's begin with Ruth's ruse the Moabite begins with a relationship between a father and a daughter light and a daughter when he's drunk rooster self comes from the Moabite nation and she is as the gomorrah mother bas recalls her emotions by the bastards had the Caliph emerge the mouse was the mother of royalty light in his daughter if we go to her husband boy--is he comes also from questionable relationships you who then come where their relationship was not very modest Homer was dressed like a harlot like a Zion and you who the went to her and they had a relationship and then it continues Yishai the grand son of Roose ruses son is Ayesha is his son and he wants them a relationship with his maid as discussed in previous classes but his wife dresses up as the maid and he thinks it's the main and really it's his wife his son is Dov addd who has a relationship with but chavos so very complicated morally and from this comes King Solomon you who then Tamar come from Yaakov who marries two sisters he thinks he's marrying Russell he's really marrying Leia why so much apparent promiscuity to produce the seed of King David of King Solomon of Mela HaMashiach Amma shave himself the secret of their to this has been revealed to us by our great master that IRAs are a by Isaac Luria by its incluye the greatest Kabbalist of jewish history who lived in swass his yard sites his anniversary of passing is on the fifth day of of he died in the year 1572 shin Lama days and is interred in the holy city of swass and one of his works is known as char how gill Ghulam the portal of reincarnation it's a work that deals with three incarnations throughout history it's of fascinating work and then Adam element s the 38th introduction that I result shares with us the Kabbalistic secret to this enigma I'm going to ask you to open up source number one in your curriculum is right below the video there's a PDF with a curriculum please look at source number one and we have here the language of rabbi shai and we tell the student of the original transcribed his master's teachings das as Diaries all know Keeley alum Shanice amygdala me I'd whenever a soul is very great EF shallow he'd see Amina clip Al Ahly they murmur of a tabula we cannot take it out of the shells of the forces of negativity that our shells they eclipse and they cover up the truth of godliness and holiness we cannot extract these great souls from these shells only through Shri curry and neshama Starbase Dulles many great lofty souls by MBA Emirates or the pulmonary Shia are born as children of complete ignorance people and sometimes children of wicked people the famed of Adar Melek Oliver Sheldon disaster about of it logits Amanda he'd sign him his soul cannot be extracted from the external forces that eclipse godliness ellaby say mice only through that particular story certain of yishai ovide of it Shabab pill except a messiah that his father thought he's having a relationship with his concubine with his mate and really it was his wife he Lulay caste if it would have not happened in such a way like he knew who are it sign him Lutz is loyal the external forces would have never allowed this soul to emerge into the world the Kanes aheh Tom shall Tamar this is the reason why Tamar had the type of relationship she had with you who the ruse why ruse came about the way she came about of the type of relationship she had with bias Baraka hezonia of the harlot the whole Shire gave him and all of the converts sometimes very lofty souls who were born non Jewish parents mouths a base dovish a mousy based over this is true about many kings of the house of David Oh Marcia is true about mushiya himself said by him mirus uma zboob yoo-hoo divot amar mushiya comes from dovid and slim which comes from rooster mo vite which comes from light and his daughters and roosts herself her relationship with boas was not the most modest relationship she comes into the field the middle of the night and exposes his feet as we learned earlier and it comes from you who Dan Tamra's relationship yoohoo Dan Tama gave birth to pirates and parrots was the grandfather of Boas who married Roose and they ultimately gave birth to ov a then you try and of it so it almost in every generation you find again that there are relationships here that are morally difficult to comprehend and understand rebbi akiva have made one of Celsus rebbi akiva himself the great giant of jewish history is a descendent of cicero one of the arch enemies of the jewish people zu e am me remove it as a bull shark others Barroso a semi clipper this is a scheme it's a trick that God performs with the Clipper with the shell o my ramaa Isola I see neshama sugar God the Caesar to release from her a soul that has been robbed by her what is that result telling us in cabbalistic literature history is understood as a major battle continuously going on between kaduche and cleaver between the forces of holiness and the forces of negativity and antithetical Ptolemies the forces of holiness are called kedusha the forces of Unown leanness are called clip a clip amines a shell it's a husk which covers up and eclipses the truth of existence it eclipses the truth that everything is connected to God it eclipses the truth that there is a holiness does godliness diss goodness and everything and that the truth of everything is that it's a reflection of God and it reaches its ultimate potential when it reflects God clipper covers up this truth and creates a dissonance of fragmentation between the universe and God clipper operates both on a microcosmic level and in a macrocosmic level both on a micro level and on a macro level the battle is within each individual within our own consciousness and psyche and it's also true the world at large but here is the paradox nothing can live without God even klappa because the source of all life the source of existence a source of vitality is godliness is kedusha so khalipa oh so lives from holiness in other words even clipper doesn't have an independent existence in reality because nothing can have an independent existence in reality because if it's truly independent from God it would cease to exist even as a cover-up so the very cover-up has to be fueled by God himself and that's the paradox of cleep in other words the real truth of clipper is that it receives its very nurture from holiness now it has a certain amount of nurture that God gives it in a very concealed way because it would be in a revealed way it wouldn't be able to be covered up Sleeper means that its source is covered up but because of this clipper always seeks to attach itself to holiness in order to receive more vitality and more nurture because doesn't have its own oxygen source doesn't have its own source of vitality it needs holiness continuously and the greater the holiness the more intense the kedusha the more intense the aspiration and the battle of clipper to hold on to it you know a thief doesn't go to the homeless to rob them you go to a bank why do you go to the bank because that's where the money is that's where the cash is right if you're ready going to steal you don't go to a regular home the big robbery they're big thieves go to banks khalipa looks for that which has tremendous potential for holiness that which has tremendous energy and opportunity and that's what it grabs which means and this is one of the very interesting ideas in Kabbalah and in Hasidic philosophy and spirituality that sometimes the holiest things end up in the most negative places not because their own holy because they're so holy and therefore there's such a battle - such a competition to receive nurture from the source as a result of different cosmic processes in history beginning with Adam and Eve eating from the tree of knowledge that weasel explains the Clipper got ahold of certain souls and these Souls they will not let go of easily because these souls have so much power and so much divine energy and so much holiness they don't want to let it to go how do these souls then become liberated this is the trick that reason reveals to here the trick the scheme now we call it a trick I mean God owns the world as they have to do tricks but the point is is a certain system in which God created the world in which the world progresses to its destination throughout history and that system is usually not on their mind even by the creator himself just as there's a system called nature which is not undermined by the Creator usually unless in unique circumstances this process of kaduche and Clippers are not on their minds so what's the way to get these souls out of their notches what do we do the trick is if the Clipper sees that these souls will be introduced into situations that are very promiscuous very unholy where the chances are that the soul will become even more corrupt by descending into the world and being born under these circumstances there is so much darkness engulfing the birth of this soul that the soul probably will degenerate morally and spiritually even more which will allow the clipit to receive even more nurture from the soul because as we said whatever has a greater potential for holiness has more potential for life that's what the clipper wants so whatever has a potential for holiness but it doesn't but does not attach itself to holiness it allows itself to nurture the khalipa that's what the clipper want smooth so if they can allow these souls to come into relationships that will corrupt the souls and schlep them down then they will be able to receive unbelievable nurture and vitality from these Souls and hence this is the way to obtain these souls so the greatest souls of history Avraham Avinu as their ezel explains then come some Terra ruse the mother of Messiah comes from a relationship of light in the daughter clipper looks at the relationship of light than the daughters is what can come out of the seat what type of soul will come from the seed the clip allows a great soul to come in the relationship between light to the daughter the Clipper looks at a relationship of you who then Tamar in the street dressed as a harlot ah now remember Clipper is a cover-up it looks at things externally that's what it's about externally this looks corrupt this seems morally questionable here I want to send in the soul Roose and boyars at night in the field it's immodest this is where I want to send this all so generation after generation it's in these relationships that the seed of Messiah enters into the world there's an interesting story that illustrates this they tell a story about a man a diamond merchant and he once was traveling and he had to stay over at a hotel and when he came to the front desk they told him you know that all the rooms are taken if he wants there's one room that has somebody there and they can give him a bed in that room but they warned them they said you know that guy is a shady character just be careful you're a diamond merchant you're coming with your merchandise the owner of the hotel was his friend he said just be careful he's a very shady character now so he takes the room he didn't have a choice and he's in their room and he has this very expensive diamond and he doesn't know what should he do with it she just leave it in his bag I mean he was very suspicious that his neighbor can wake up in middle of the night and steal his belongings and hide them somewhere and then deny it so we should he put it she put it under his pillow should he put it in his package and he put it in his bag he was extremely afraid he was actually right because after he fell asleep the thief his neighbor in the next bed woke up and suspecting that this man has some precious merchandise began to search in Dda was carrying a very very precious diamond worse worth tens of thousands of rubles that he wanted to sell and the thief who suspected the nature of this person and his possessions began to search and searched and searched and for hours he searched and the thief could not find it why couldn't the fee find it where did he put it where did he put it I asked you that the thief could not find it did you guess he put it in the bag of the thief he put it in the very bag of the thief himself so the thief was looking everywhere in every place that belonged to the wealthy man including on this pillow and in his pockets and in his suitcase but one place he did not look at NIST gazook bomb ganas in battle he didn't go to his own place to his own to the thief himself he didn't suspect there would be by him why would this gem be by me so sometimes when you want to protect something very very precious you kind of put it into the bag of the thief you can't keep it anywhere else over there won't be stolen over there won't be touched over there in a way it's very safe the Clipper would not allow these Souls to come into any other relationships they have no way of coming into the world the way they come into the world is shrouded through layers and layers of promiscuity that's how these souls come this tells us something very very important in life and that is that sometimes the greatest things are to be found in the places we expect them least and sometimes the greatest treasures are present in places that seem very filthy sometimes the greatest Souls the greatest moments the greatest experiences you will discover in places that you did not expect them and that's the deeper meaning of that Meldrick and you can open up source number two that's famous matters that says much sauce seed of it of the I found my servant of it hey I'm at saucy we did God find of it what love it was lost love it was a child born the answer is bestow him I found him in style it's time you found of it was dove it comptes dine dine was a corrupt city but that's real white lived and from the relationship of light and his daughter comes my of Ruth's who was the grandmother of King danke David matzah seed of adavi I found of it with a knife when my fountain was dying a place that everybody says is hopeless it was destroyed light escape and that's weird of it was found and this means in every person's life themselves sometimes you look at yourself when you see very difficult challenges obstacles negative forces and often what that means is that it's potential in your life for greatness for holiness is enormous and that is why there are so many challenges and so many obstacles because khalipa wants to receive nurture from that which has an unbelievable potential for greatness and holiness and if that can be corrupted that is her greatest victory that is what diarrheal explains why the soul of the dynasty of Jewish Royalton of Messiah comes about from generation to generation through these very complicated circumstances now my dear friends let's get back to the story let's remember what has happened in the story in the fourth chapter of the book of verse Roose meets boa's her relative her husband's relative the middle of the night she asks him to redeem her to marry her Roose asks her to wait till the morning the next morning because he's going to finish it up and the next morning Roose encounters yet a closer relative to roost and he Boas offers that closer relative to do two things number one to purchase those fields that Naomi ruses mother-in-law and Roose want to sell as a close relative to them he should purchase them so it remains in the family and number two this comes with a condition that he should also marry Roose purchase her field and marry her when his relative hears this he refuses he says no I will not marry us he refuses to do it and now let's continue the story ruse peyrac Dalit PASOK Zion the seventh verse of the fourth chapter of the book of rows now please open your curriculum right below the video you have a PDF document so we can read this passage inside visiophone and Bistro this has been the custom in a earlier period of time among the Jewish people al Hajj Allah when it came to redeeming something selling something waha Tamura or when it became when it came to substituting one object for another object like I am called over to validate every transaction shellfish now live in not only ray you the man took off his shoe and he gave it to his friend visited a bistro and on this there were witnesses who were testify concerning this acquisition among the Jewish people this is somewhat of a cryptic verse and it's hard to exaggerate and on how much conversation this verse arouses and brought out in the literature of Jewish law beginning in the famous tsugi in the famous town Munich this section of track de baba metzia my system of Mencia da from my page 45 and the next following pages this introduces us to the first the first time to the concept known as Qingyun khalipa which means that cos ich the acquisition that happens through an exchange Qingyun khalipa let's explain briefly what is going on here in Judaism ownership over a property any type of property for that ownership to be transferred from one party to another party it cannot happen only verbally there has to be some form of what we call a Qingyun an acquisition some act which is performed and as a result of that act of acquisition the ownership of the property is transferred from transferred from one human being to another human and it legally becomes yours and now it does not belong to the other person to the seller it now belongs to the buyer different types of properties have different methods of how we acquire them how we create what we call a Qingyun acquisition and this occupies a major central an occupies significant amount of discussion and Jewish law and Jewish literature in the Talmud the area of acquisition and exactly the method of how it's done there is a method of how you acquire real estate there's a method of you how you acquire an animal a living a living creature there's methods how you acquire movable property known as metal Tolan etc etc comes the posture Karen says there was a tradition in the days of yore among the Jewish people if you wanted to sell something to somebody I want to sell you my property something that belongs to me or I want to exchange my property for your property so I'm going to give you a table and you're going to give me a chair aha goula if it's Redemption which means he Redemption means here is sale because when you buy something from somebody else you're redeeming it from him or from her or you're substituting one property for another property either you're buying it you're giving him money and you're receiving an object or any other form of property or you're exchanging tomorrow you're exchanging one thing for another thing the way they did it is a man took off his shoe and he gave it to his friend and that's suffice to create the acquisition to create the transferring of property and they were witnesses who testified that this act this transaction happened I gave you my shoe and as a result of that I actually now own your object this is what we call King and halep in an acquisition through Halle pin which means I take off my shoe and essentially as the Gemara explains him a second baba metzia DAF mom's eye and it doesn't mean necessarily it's true but it means something that belongs to me and it could be even something that's very cheap that has no value some but it's something that's mine and I give it to you who gives it to whom will soon see but let's assume now I give it to you in other words let's say I want to buy something from you but I don't have the money right now do I have to give you the money in order to own it - no there's a method called collip and i take my shoe and I give it to you and as a result of that in exchange for my shoe you transfer to me the ownership for your property this is called Kenyan sell it but I give you an object of mine even though it's this not the money really I owe you money but even before I give you the money just by giving you this shoe or this handkerchief or this yarmulke this Gardo or this shirt by giving it to you I transfer it to you and as a substitute you transfer to me the ownership for your property that's a lagoon the a lots more what's a lot more we substitute an object for an object I give you my object you give me your object this is how a she explains the pus ik in my sector baba metzia da from Zion there's the famous opinion of Revenue Tom quoted in the Raj being conditioned of Kafka's Raveena Tom explains that this pasta actually refers to three types of methods of acquisition al haggler refers to a regular sale either through money or through physical acquisition say I give you money to buy your home and when I give you the money the home becomes mine or other things like map out Allen which means moveable property which according to Jewish law i acquire through physically taking them physical acquiring them that's the first alligoon then there's a lot more what's a lot more is Ezra Bennett um this is when I exchanged one object for another object which are more or less the same value you give me your table I give you my chair you give me your power I give you my donkey you give me your sheep I give you my cheaper my god that's a lot more and then there is the third aspect shell off each na way I take off my shoe and I give it to you here I'm giving you my shoe and you're giving me your house now our house is a little more expensive than a shoe even after the recession but this is the concept called Kenyan halibut I do not have to give you the full value of the house rather the very fact that I gave you my shoe in substitute of what I gave you you give me the house later I'll have to pay you or whatever our deal is and maybe it's a gift but I give you my shoe and that suffice is for you to give me something even if it's far more valuable then the thing that I gave you then the object that I gave you this is our ever unit um explains deposit three levels of Kenyan Raschi however says it as I said before Allah goula is a sale from money but even before I give the money I give you my shoe and our tomorrow is substituting an object for an object how does this come in over here this is an introduction to pass a guess the PASOK is giving a premise that the way it used to be in Israel was when you wanted to sell something or substitute something you took off your shoe and you gave it to the person and as a result of that you obtained ownership of what he had to give you comes past the cast take a look a bus a cast by your America gorilla by us the Redeemer tells buyers the Redeemer the one who's a closer relative to roofs than by us the one who by Baez was also a relative of us how was by as a relative of rose because Baez was a first cousin of ruses deceased husband of Macklin Boyer's was the son of Sal mine who as we know as a brother of alley melon who was the father of ruses husband so Boas was a first cousin but there was a closer relative we know him as plainly almighty the anonymous fellow who was actually Baez's uncle le Malik's brother and Baez therefore offered him first to purchase the field of Ruth and Naomi and tamari ruse but the man refused so very meager alibi as the Redeemer cosmos Cannella you acquire what should you acquire acquire the rights that I had as the closest kin of rose to purchase the field and marry her I'm giving you now these rights values life now my and he took office true and gave it them what's unclear is who took off whose true that boy estate of his shoe and give it to the gorillas that the girl take of is true and give it to bias the difference is not only the meaning of this plastic the difference is how this particular method of acquisition is achieved and this is the fame babe famous argument in a sex tape of a mat SIA DAF MEMS ayan and the argument is also in med Rishabha here in ruse the skinny flippin happened Michaela of shall maconel orbic a love shall cleaner does it happen through the property through a garment of the owner or of the buyer of the one who's transferring the property or the one who's obtaining who's receiving the property and this is a big argument you could say king and caliph in happens McCaleb so machina which means if I want to sell if I want to give you my home or sell you my home or sell you my animal or sell you any other property or give you any other property by giving you even my shoe that transference of that shoe even though it's only as true as a result of that that's a method that suffice is that the entire property to give you is now transferred to your ownership and I cannot regret it anymore the transferring happened acquisition has been achieved and there are witnesses will testify or you could say how Lipan is Michaela of shell cleaner the one who wants to purchase it the receiver the buyer the recipient he or she is the one who gives the shoe to the seller and as a result of giving you something of mine I receive and return that which you want to give me as I said before the different methods either it's two things that are equal or the thing that I'm receiving is far more expensive and valuable than my shoe and yet khalipa is enough to create a transferring of ownership of anything almost anything not everything but almost anything works through khalipa there are some exceptions discussed in the Talmud and Jewish law so which one is it who took off his shoe the girl told by us obtained the rights so he took off his shoe who did the girl take off his true and give it to buyers that buyers take off his shoe and give it to the dial this is an argument in the Talmud in the Madras what's the halacha dial off is king at alipin is mikhail of shekinah it's the one who's on the receiving end which means that according to mark heads boyars who took off his true and he gave her to the he gave his shoe to the Goyo now he received something in return what did the guy I'll give him a return he gave him his rights what are his rights his rights are as the first Redeemer who has the rights to obtain and purchase the fields of Naomi and Ruth and that was now given over Tobias he's second in line and he now represents he takes over the place of the guy oh and now he is the one who does it just to give it a practical application I'll give you an example a lot of people don't understand what they're doing so it's it's it's it's a good thing to emphasize it's before pacer you're coming to sell your comments right so you come to the rabbi and if you'll notice the rabbi asks you to sign a document and write the address and what you want to sell to the non Jew for paisa but before the rabbi does all of this the rabbi will take a handkerchief or a yarmulke or a garret Oh a girdle and he'll say take right and you'll take the garret oh and even before fetching it you'll already give it back to him right what what are you doing why are you doing it why you give me back to what are you giving it back to this is what's called the king and khalipa the rabbi is giving you his guard to like his shoe which is not very valuable I mean a guy tool can be a few dollars there are guard tools that are more expensive guard tools are girdles that I send and pray with they circle there but they separate the two parts of their body during prayer with a girdle but it could be anything of similar any type of cloak or garment even something very cheap and the rabbi gives it to you so he's giving you something now it becomes yours in exchange for what the rabbi has given you you're giving him something what are you giving him you are transferring to him the rights to work as you to serve as your representative to sell your helmets or your home or or your property to the non Jew for paisa so a few years ago I went to sell my helmets by a prominent rabbi and you know he was giving his girdle to people and he didn't even let go he was giving it and and and they were giving it right back so he didn't he didn't even bother to let go so I guess the mischievous side and me I took the guard though and I took it away and I held it and the rabbi is waiting there with it it was it was a humorous the rabbi is away waiting there with his hand you know he he wasn't even looking at me he was just expecting to have it back and then after a few seconds he didn't get his guys come back he looks up and he says what's this I said you're a bright Harry how do you know I want to give it back to you he says Oh finally somebody who knows what can you help in this so you have to understand what you're doing you'll go to another event and you'll see they tell the cost and they tell somebody else here hold the guard - this is actually an acquisition you're acquiring something and as a result of that you're giving something you're you're giving over a certain right you're you're indenting yourself to something so technically it belongs to you the rabbi gave it to you if you want you could be a nice guy and give it back then but that's a gift you don't have to give it back I don't mean to plant any ideas and you but legal you don't have to give it back to him this is called the kingdom Holly pant for something very very cheap a guard till a shoe you get in return something major eating at a house and this is a legal acquisition in Judaism it was an oh no in tradition and that's what happens here bias gives his shoe to the guy oh and as a result of giving his shoe he gets back the rights to Mary ruse to redeem the field of Roose and Iommi which usually is the rights of the first the closest relative who's alive and this man is the closest relative she transfers these rights to by us as a substitute for the shoe that's the more or less a brief outline of the legalistic dimension of these two spoken but now let's let's take this a step deeper what's the meaning the xylophone and be strong this has been in a former period of time the custom among Jews in other words it was not the contemporary custom when ruse was written and the Gemara and Baba Basra tells us that Bruce was written by Shmuel Hanavi small the Prophet who's the one who coronated thava naama left by the way right so this was written generations after us if this wasn't the custom he says verse Allah formerly Israel it used to be the custom the Malbin points out beautifully if it would have say Miller fun them it means it's an old custom but it continues now to lift funny means it's an ancient custom but it's seized they don't do it anymore now we know King and Howlett pin was done it's done till today but the kiddush here was done with a shoe go back to pass exile like I am called over to endure it to validated shellfish now it was done with a shoot the actual method of acquisition is part of Jewish law throughout all of the generations today we do it often with a handkerchief we do it with a girdle with a guard till we do it with a yarmulke continuously it's done with these objects very rarely is it done with a shoe but was I still upon him it used to be done with a shoe and buyers went back to that custom he did it with a shoe what's the significance of this why they stopped doing it with a shoe and they changed it to another part the malbim has a very interesting legalistic complicated interpretation it is an ingenious interpretation but it's beyond it's beyond our discussion you could look in the commentary of the movements very interesting I want to discuss with you today a somewhat spiritual and mystical interpretation it's fascinating in Zoya parshas hookahs there's a long long smooth about this passe why they used to use a shoe and in the commentary on ruse no one has shown a shisha it's a very mystical and fascinating commentary I'm Achilles rooster was authored by Arab a new Schlemmer al kibbutz one of the great 16th century Cabalists of swass he wrote a commentary on McGillis Esther Manas la vie he wrote a commentary on McGillis rouge show us he shy he was a brother-in-law of their amok Rubino moisha cordovero the author of the parties remind him the orchard of pomegranates are you sure he discusses the Xillia precious hookahs at length I want to take one idea of this desire and discuss it more it's very mystical very mystical very abstract but I want to discuss it and more concrete and practical terms that we can relate to what is a shoe a shoe allows us to tread on the earth on the ground what would happen if we would not wear shoes two things would happen first of all you would hurt your feet you would hurt your feet when you touch hard surfaces or pebbles or rocks besides that you would get very dirty even if you won't get hurt you get dirty so the shoe really creates a a partition of separation it protects our legs it protects our feet so that should be something separating the lower part of our feet our heels and the hard surface of the earth and the ground that's the reason why we wear shoes but there are exceptions when Moses when moisha is approaching the burning bush what does God tell him shall no america care mahkumat Amendola vadimus qaeda shall remove your shoes from your feet because you're standing on a holy soil we know that kaya named the priests when they served in the temple they had to serve barefoot without shoes in these cases in these places of holiness we do not want a separation between your feet and the ground we want that your feet should be directly connected to the ground why because when you're treading on earth or on the ground that is a hard surface and it's dirty and it can damage you and hurt you and maim you then you have to wear a shoe then you have to separate yourself from the earth you need something to protect you but when you're in a place of holiness of transcendence then on the contrary we don't want a separation between your body and the locale of holiness take your shoes off your feet here there should be a direct contact between your physical body in the place of holiness this is the deeper mystical reason and we discussed this in Chapter three of ruse why when somebody dies a husband dies unfortunately childless there is the Mitzvah the Torah known as ye boom Leverett marriages where if the husband has left a surviving brother there is a mitzvah that his widow marry that brother even though usually that's a relationship that is forbidden in the turret to marry her brother in law even after the death of your husband in this case when the husband died childless it's a mitzvah on the woman on the widow to marry her husband's brother what happens if she doesn't want to marry him or he doesn't want to marry her then there's the section Mitzvah the second option known as ELISA what does Khalid 'aa a special shoe is made for this for this man the brother of the deceased of the deceased man and the widow the skelita which means she unties the shoe and she removes the shoe from his foot and it's this act which allows her to marry any other man what's the meaning of this what's the significance of this the significance of this is that the idea of he boom is that by her marrying her husband's brother the legacy and the life of the childless man will be perpetuated through his former wife and his brother so that child that's born to the new couple will carry the legacy of the brother and according to Kabbalah will also be a reincarnation of his soul so this will allow the brother to continue to maintain a presence in this world and that's the metaphor of the shoe because the shoe is what allows us to have a relationship with the earth if you want to stand on the earth you need to have a shoe with the shoes like the intermediary that connects the body to the earth so the shoe is a metaphor for that which allows us to remain on the earth when somebody passes away they have no connection with the earth and just as the shoe is that object which allows us to be connected to the earth the brother by marrying the widow is allowing his brother to continue to maintain a presence on earth when he refuses to do that he so to speak relegating his brother to the spiritual universes and dismissing his soul back to the chamber of souls in heaven she removes the shoe because the shoe represents that act of allowing the dead man her husband to continue to live on earth it's the connection between the soul and the earth like the shoe is the connection between the body and the earth so the shoe is really a metaphor for the physicality that the soul needs in order to live on earth in this world now we can understand the deeper one of the deeper meanings and what the passage is saying and will preface this by a very strange Madras the Madras says right here the Midrash says in the passage I envisage lafon and Bistro this was the custom among the Jews aha boola violet surah and look now in your sources open up your curriculum and we have their quota demand it's a fascinating mattress the mattress is what does it mean Aloha Hula Valley Mora suck the mattress listen our gula the xylophone him in the days of you are when the Jewish people just became a nation they praised God for the redemption Allahu Allah that he went through a split Red Sea and they said Zak Kayla van wie you here is my god let me adorn him let me exalt him let me beautify him but then a lot more then they became enthralled by substitutes when Moses disappears they create a golden calf and they say a lay like a feast all this is our substitute for God our gula initially they thanked God for their Redemption and when they were redeemed they celebrated God and then came a point AAHA Tamura what they began to celebrate was the substitute not the redemption but a substitute with what was the substitute a golden calf as the past success until and via merest avoid them is sovereignist racialism they substitute their glory through the image of a bull a calf eating grass as the madras puts it quite sharply let's take a look at the curriculum lashavia modem leila gula in the days of yore they thanked them for redemption Zek a leave our mayor acts of a lot more now they thanked for the substitute a muhammad new voluma shooked some Hashanah destroyed Achilles there's nothing as disgraceful disgusting and grotesque as a bull while it's eating grass when it's eating grass its lips become this configurate and then spit are running from it spit is running from its mouth it's a disgraceful moment it's not just they exchanged God for a golden calf they exchanged it for a golden calf eating grass in other words something disgraceful empty hollow disgusting this became their God Allah who love Allah tomorrow this by the way for people who are interested is the reason why I am the Saturday old satmar rebbe yulish Teitelbaum of blessed memory composed his book his famous work called al higuma the AL hot surah based on this pasa con this mad rush how does this come in here to this plastic what this couple we're talking about her shoe we talk about an acquisition through a shoe I gave you a shoe and I got from you your property right that from you your rights let's understand the xylophone and be royal this has been the custom among Jews Jews always understood that like I am called um if you want something in life to endure fish Allah fish now live in nothing there you have to remove your shoe what does this shoe represent that shoe represents that we're not in a place of holiness we're on the earth that the earth could damage us and make us tarnished and dirty and hence we were assured when you're in a place of holiness you remove your shoe because then there has to be a unified holistic connection between your body and the earth the Jewish people always understood like I am called over if you want something to and there shall a fish now they remove the shrew and turn it into a holy environment the Jewish people understood that for anything in life to endure for love for our relationship for a marriage for family for business investments friendships for something to endure there you have to remove the shoe and create an environment of holiness what will really endure is godliness transcendence a delight refinement morality goodness they understood that the main element in acquisition if you want it like I am cold number if you want it to endure if you want to be able to hold on to your property not just during your lifetime but it should endure for generations then you have to connect it to holiness to spirituality to godliness to transcendence because that's what endures forever that's what remains eternal godliness is eternal soulfulness is eternal truth is eternal but then there came a time where people stopped removing the shoe to create acquisitions they became a time where the motto of acquisitions was on the contrary it's narcissism it's about me having more you having less the whole acquisition became centered on what I can have in the most concrete selfish pragmatic material way it was not connected to a person's spirituality to a person's destiny to a person's relationship with God acquisition became divorced from holiness acquisition becomes a form of narcissistic desire for more and more and more without appreciating holiness in a person's life wasn't this essentially the debate between the pointy almighty between the Redeemer and by us deploying niall money wanted to keep his shoe on he understood that position purely in terms of what benefits him at the moment he tells boyars when bias says I want you to marry ruse panache this is my Selassie I'm gonna destroy my prop when I'm gonna this my reputation by ruses earth that I'm gonna buy but you want me to acquire Roose what do I have with Roose is a Moabite woman she's not popular she's a convert she's impoverished what's there what do I have with rules why shouldn't I destroy my family wife's then destroy my children I'm half fluent I'm popular and powerful panache this is my colossi I want that cuisines that can benefit me what was the result of this philosophy we don't even know his name ploy Neal money we don't even know his name no memory of him now take Boas boyars understood the power of holiness buyers understood the power of subtlety boyars understood the need to connect not only to the concrete into the material but they also to connect to that invisible voice to the coil the medaka to the silent invisible presence of a living God he understood the need to connect not only to the body of things but to the soul of things mashaallah fish nollie - take off your shoe and create an environment of holiness and he cast his lot with whom with this woman Rousseau from a material perspective had nothing and yet together they built up the most enduring reality in Jewish history Mallos based of it the dream of redemption the dream of machines dozens of times a day we mentioned lyrical I America barakamon Tosh of Vicki Sade of it of the Camaro beside the Falcon s semeth dahveed out of the Samara sense me of rock a mammal whose base dove it mushy ha ha they built up something that's eternal the dream of malkos the dream of royalty of selflessness of leadership of redemption of transforming the world boy has knew how to take off his shoe Lahav dil I think he got it from this pasta you remember some of you remember this it's a little before my days but va's Olaf on him it's all history in October 1960 Khrushchev the leader of the Soviet Union the successor of Joseph Stalin iam actually came to the United Nations and when a Philippine delegates began to attack and criticize the Soviet Union that it devoured Eastern Europe and it deprived its citizens of civil rights of human dignity and rusev supposedly removed his shoe and began pounding it on the desk in the United Nations and it left an impact he took office ooh so laughs now I the only problem is the Soviet Union and the ethos of communism although it was very much against capitalism but it created an evil and a hell all of its own as Winston Churchill once said capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth socialism and communism is the equal distribution of misery a misery all its own that's what the matter is saying rejoice lafawn and bistro there was a time the Jews understood I'll haggle although they knew what Redemption was then our Tamura then there comes a life a time you don't even know what redemption is and you substitute authentic redemption for fake redemption it's like when people use different substances to become happy our Google instead of happiness that comes from real Redemption our Tamura you create false shallow shallow substitutes to get yourself high to feel good about yourself you give yourself false highs that lasts for an hour for a day or a week or a year but then they leave you empty and how low and shallow cuz not the real thing instead of a real god you have a golden calf and you look at the golden calf and you say this is my god goula volatile or you forgot to take of your shoe you need holiness you need transcendence you need truth you need godliness you need MS you need truth not substitutes by us was that great person who restored the dignity of what it means to be a true took off his shoe taken off his shoe he connected with something [Music]