Sefer Yona: Chapter 2 - Yona's Tefilla From the Depths of Despair

this store class is brought to you by torahanytime.com the last air of Chavez of tough Chennai involve and we're going to plow through a few extra took him in say for yoina and we learned last week that you know was in trouble on two occasions the first occasion was when he was thrown overboard obviously he's thrown overboard he's in the water he's drowning he has no air and he's bit Sarah and he cries out Hashem he's saved by the male fish the male fish was roomy was comfortable there was a lot of space there and things were good and as we know when things are good we are not as motivated to cry out tashem as when we're being choked you know one of the reason why uh Sarah occurs is so that we could beat soyak to Hashem and we need to beat saik to Hashem interesting uh there's a famous masolicus rambam and the ramban about Fila the rambam holds the concept of three times a day and the precise muscle is rabbinically ornated but the concept of philism while the ramban says no te filo is rabbinic however it's Fila Sarah is daryisa even the ramban who says that philosophylla at a time of distress Isa so of Salvation would say the rambam agrees that Fila base Tara is daryisa that's why the ram mom says Fila every day is derisa because every day is a nice Tara every day the the vicissitudes that man endures in this world and the challenges man endures every day we're we are hanging on the kindness of Hashem and every days and eight Stars well the first aid Sarah for you I know is when he's thrown into the water then he smiled by the male but he doesn't dive until the male spits him out as we'll see into the depths of the sea the first time he was just thrown into the ocean now he's thrown into the depths of the sea and now he's sort of at the bottom of the sea where the the uh depths of the water are coming crashing down on him and then finally he's swallowed by the female fish and the female fish it's also very cramped in there and but to say the least it's a suffocating stifling situation and that is the third time Yona is in Sarah and even though this parox speaks about the prayer of you know nevertheless it's not uh just one long prayer but a few took him dedicated to each one of these three difficult matsavim that yoina is in and the first one is one who's thrown into the sea so we begin with gimmo sorry please park Vegas from my distress El Hashem to God vayanini and he answered me me beten from the belly of the pit that's the belly of the Duggar from the belly of the Daga you heard my voice now the rambam writes a lot of showing that saaka is goyrim to remove the Tara and the reason for that is my color says in patches bashallah that at Surah comes so that we should cry out Hashem so of course when we do cry out Hashem it's it uh words off the Torah and it brings an end to the Tsar okay foreign you threw me into the depths to the heart of the Seas with rivers encircling me Baraka all of your Breakers Breakers are powerful waves there's a famous mansion in Rhode Island called The Breakers famous hotel in Miami yeah why because it's on the water and uh it's it's constantly being hit by the waves on your waves alayavaro pass over me foreign the winds the the stormy the stormy whirlwinds so this refers to the first Sarah Moscow remember pasta gimmel began any that could actually be broken up into two parts I called out tashem for my distress that's a and v is it begins to explain that which it says karasi mitsara first he threw me into the depths is that's a reference to being thrown off the boat into the sea of any with the rivers encircling me now why would you call you know he wasn't traveling on a river he's traveling on an ocean why the reference to the river separate from the sea the water of the sea is stationary and gathered us but at that time that the storm that was storming in the sea hayam was from the depths U the Waters of the sea itself were moved the nasu yam lamata and it started to move everything down nikonahara was called the river at that point in time the water was not stationary Eagle it was drawn in a circle basically a Whirlpool well that's the currents you know especially when you have cold water that means warm water they could swirl you all kinds of yeah he's moving into water so the water was swirling this stuff of it and circles him round and rounds of us then comes Barack Obama he wasn't floating on the waves like the story of Rabbi Akiva rachnoph he fell to the desk where the water was gushing down with the waves passing over his head that was the first Sarah so Jonah is now reliving The Experience being in the ocean being in the sea with waves passing over his head what did he think at that point of time what did he think what happened to him in the water I mean we said that there was more oxygen or air in the world well how what was his attitude says and I said sometimes it could be refer to I thought Nick rashti I am being chased away from before your eyes that God is throwing me away you ran away first I at this point of time I'm being thrown from before your eyes ah but when I saw Rashi says that you preserve me all these days I I knew oh habit I will yet again gaze upon your holy hechal your base time figured all hope was lost yayna thought God was rejecting him and he was dejected however when he saw that God was sustaining him he realized he would yet again be saved and see the base says that I was being chased from before you after the martial you see a sunny when I saw the miracle Shabbat that the fish swallowed me and I remained alive bro you see I saw in other words thought God's love for him was no longer he didn't have ashkaka to him but I see her still upon me and with this I know that I will yet again gaze upon your holy and what did he thinks when he was thrown out of the dark so Doug was like we'll see we'll have to see we'll see so that's the first section of the tefila so the teal is introduced in pasta gimmel pasta gimmel has two parts when I cried out Hashem from my distress and from the best end of the show I cried out to you and then we begin with the first distressed and hey talks about yoina being thrown into the water Now we move on to the second distress and like we mentioned he was swallowed by the male fish but then he was he was spat out and again he's in the water but when you hit the force of the ejection propelled him even to the depths of the depths so the possible water surrounded me to my soul meaning it sounds like he was much deeper in the water to Heim the Deep yes encircled me suf the Reeds larochi entrap my head rubby yeah the Reeds don't survive down there let's see we need white remember we mentioned from Pierre de valazar that when Yana was in the fish the fish sort of gave him a tour of the the Miracles and the wonders of the sea so this reference to suf refers specifically to the yams of says Rashi Swift Yama the yams of Tully we're suspended above my head God showed him the Sea of reeds were crossed it shall you stay in a hadaga the two eyes of the fish became like two windows and he was able to look out and see at the windows of the submarines the the eyes of the fish were like two great windows and you know was taken to where he was taken to the yamsa let's see them album afafuni where were they where were they from harshest when he was thrown overboard wasn't in the answer no no he was in he was on the sea and the Sea they were headed to tarshish but then he was ejected from the boat says the album afafuni so I am afterwards when the fish ejected him to see us foreign not the water that was on the surface of the sea like in the beginning the first time he was just to this sort of The Superficial level of the sea now he's in the Deep the fish swam to the Deep to the iMac to the depths and that's where it spat him out to the yams of foreign which is the water above the time in other words he when we say the answer was above his head it doesn't mean you know he it was right here I mean way way above the amsuf was way above his head because the maim of the yams of is the water above the time the water above the time is called larashi so it doesn't mean the answer was growing out of his head it just means it was well above his head now there is an idea and scientifically there are mountain ranges under the Seas right some of the mountains on the sea and big valleys are taller than Mount Everest right so look at this plastic Harem your attitude to the edges of the mountains I descended huh to the edges in other words it sounds like he went under the mountains Hearts the Earth brija body it was like bars against me in other words he went so deep that the Earth the underground mountains were also above his head he went below the lowest points of Earth in the sea so he went to the humanish went kamatica went to the core of the earth he went under there under the Earth the Earth was above him were against me Liam but what happened and I went up you brought up from the pit my life Hashem my God look at Rashi Rashi says he went so deep he went to get him for the Earth Rashi says let kids say her immorality to the edge of the measurement of the mountains that were said on the depths your attitude I went down anio Marti I said the Earth are like bars against me Kennedy lamella opposite me above me many Sagar it locks me in I'll never leave foreign it means opposite against now how do you read these words she says going back on what it said I said I was cast away and I said the Earth are bars against me forever but I foreign by the way gehenem is not a good place you brought me up from here the Henry now unbelievable yina actually traveled through so many wonders he saw the yamsov he saw gehenam and remember the mountains all right and he said imposter K I will yet again countenance the your Holy Temple well yoina's last stop was under the Makai hamiktash there's deep deep down under the base of mcdoches is water and he was under the Makai hamiktas he says you brought me up and now you are opposite and now I am opposite the holy shalayam maybe this this is certainly another reason why this is so appropriate to read on Yom Kippur how everybody no matter how low we sink no matter how far deep in the Underworld somebody may have descended how close to Gahanna we may be ivanishum could always bring us up to the point where we're standing in the makama so everyone all of us we have the opportunity to raise ourselves up with the help of Hashem somebody once told me um about a woman once told me he heard from the Santa Maria that you know it's very hard for a person to do chuva after all the Republicans gamachu at 26 to climb all the way up there is very very difficult so what does Hashem do Tasha is 25. God positions man at the 25th level and he says don't worry that toy bear you don't have to go from 0 to 26. he positions you at 25 and then he says just take one step Okay so um here Yana is um and interesting that Fila of yayna he davined we're hidden now at the base of so it's not all of these Miracles happened to him even before he doesn't God rescued him for our shampooed him there right he didn't get there by himself he would have no way of knowing where he was relative to what was so far above him yeah it sounds like God put him in the depths and the fish the fish spat him out in the depths and here Jonah is uh in the gehennum so to speak and then the fish brings him up to the makama mix and it's at that point that he davins brought it there no the Ducks spit him out um must have brought him there who brought him there had to be the second fish no because you're already spit out well he was spit out to the depths to the gehennam right now who went to the mokama how did he get there how who gave him the ride was it the dog or the duga it could have been the dog the duck spit him out already no otherwise what was the what did that guy do I think she was the transport okay let's see class now let's see them the kids say her immorality because in the depths of the deep the mountains cover the the abyss above to the point where the Earth that covers the Deep the Earth is above it all right and even so you brought up my life from the deepness I was swallowed by the female fish she brought me up Hashem foreign now she join us in the female fish and things are a bit very cramped inside the female fish I don't know if you coughed like that could have been with a different tune but things are not good for Allah as my soul was fainting as Hashem zakharti I recalled Hashem about Citrus where you wrap yourself around yeah but when the expression when we refer to the soul the imitsudacian says it's a lesson of atifa when a person is in Sarah he sort of again wrapped up in himself like one end is wrapped in the other but usually and the Ebenezer says it means um fainting also the radak says that when a person is tremended sorrow the person's uh nephesh is tiktar his breath is short you feel like you're gonna faint so what happens and this is a reference to inside the female fish when things were extremely cramped but says if foreign this is an explanation of him calling out from the belly of the fish apostle gimmel Ana he's close to death all of the the eggs are pressing against him he remembered Hashem I remember to pray the Lord and three pens will have tiach and to promise commits that he will fulfill God's bidding and go to the city of ninvee and tell them to do and my Tila came to you from your Holy Temple which again is a reference to that which are go to the Holy Temple but he was right there right he was right beneath it but but here like we saw in Rashi earlier it was not just that it was directed to the Holy Temple but it was actually diving at the Holy Temple and so the mountain says he was in the Deep waters on their heart scene now I'm sure that um you know many many of us have doubted that the koi cell in our lifetimes and maybe we've even gone to the uh the Muslim quarter there's actually a part of the Western Wall in the Muslim quarter which is even closer to the karishakadashim I want to have it over there or you can go underneath the tunnel and you could even Dive In by the tunnels oh they have a place that said this is the closest I don't think even you have ever made it to the the abyss on of water under the the um so look I would put that on the itinerary yeah so I love I made Happy song I went to the edges of the mountains okay so now these are the three parts of yoina's FILA the next pasok is quite interesting the next plus it goes like this mishamrim have leishov o those who keep empty vanities their kindness they forsake those who preserve empty vanities they forsake their kindness doesn't mean they forsake God's kindness their own kindness so I believe there are many interpretations Rashi says as follows those who guard and observe emptiness who observes emptiness they observe emptiness right they forsake God's kindness what does that mean the fear of God your their kindness and their goodness it's their own kinds you know not of course work was kindness like this in other words they forsake the fear of God has done all of their kindness that comes from you the word refers to all of the kindness that they have which comes from you is another way of saying you Hashem yeah as if they forsake you but instead of saying they forsake you it means they forsake their own kindness their own kindness is sort of a code word to their to the source of their kindness to God but as we Apostle you it is then a continuation but not I says but I in a voice of Thanksgiving I sacrifice to you I shall not dharti my vowels I will repay them Yeshua we'll see what this means like this so according to Rashi the first part of the public is the source of their kindness which is God yazaba they forsake you in other words all if they have like desire never recognize you but not me I will show you gratitude for your your salvation I will bring you sacrifices and that which I vow I will fulfill meaning I will go to ninvee Yeshua Hashem and according to Rashi he's going to read it because of the Salvation which was coming from Hashem look at Rashi avalani Amy Cana I'm not like them hello with Carl Toyota with the voice of Thanksgiving this is but the Perkins revolution has a different translation what happened to those 70 men who were on the ship from the 70 um they converted Miss shamrim have those who keep preserved emptiness who used to worship idols those The Source where they thought their kindness came from they forsake them and what do they do they convert foreign for the salvations which came from Hashem Yeshua the word Yeshua as rasalanu get up to help us so it means because of the salvations of Hashem let's see how the red doc translates this plastic he translates mishamrim now that he accepted upon himself to go to an invade to rebuke them he says consolation to Hashem to himself interesting miss shamrim havelishov the men of ninvee who preserved emptiness and believed in avidazara in other words why didn't he want to go to an inve because he didn't want them to do chuva because it would look bad for carliso so he's now consoling himself Mission they're not going to do truth anyway Michelle those who observed you think they'll just forsake it they won't really forsake it and therefore they'll be liable to be destroyed anyway so it's okay if I go to them and tell them to do chuva it's not going to work tells him to go there because doesn't doesn't he realize it it's likely that they're going to do true otherwise well maybe you know Hashem is giving them the opportunity but he's sort of consoling himself I could go because anyway it's not gonna do anything yeah now let us see them album here some album also oh excuse me that's how the album touches the password that a beautiful shot of them album excuse me that's the shot of them album they're not going to leave their ways and therefore therefore I blocked sacrifice to you in a voice of Thanksgiving of course we know there are four people who have to show gratitude to God and one of them is someone who travels through the sea yard I will bring a sacrifice to Thanksgiving and I will thank you for your kindness where did he make another till now the net that he means I made another so now I'm going to have to apparently the net which which was the nether the nether is he made another to go to an inveolo doesn't say that he made it but we see from here he must have um that which I'm afraid that if Malachi rice Israel I'm afraid bad will happen to claudiusrall because they'll be compared to the that's why that's why he referred from going in the first instance Yeshua Hashem from all of their troubles in other words the malbam reads the plastic also always has a ingenious way to read the pasak Rashi read it I'm going to pay back my vows Yeshua Sal Hashem because of God's salvation the Malibu reads it I'm gonna go to an inve because I vowed to but I'm afraid that this will bring bad to cloudy so no Yeshua sawashem I place my trust in God that nothing bad will will come out of of what I'm doing right it's as if it says and I place my I I put my put my hope in Hashem it says that it refers to the fishermen who converted yanu is saying I am confident they may have converted but ultimately they'll probably go back to their bad ways as opposed to me I will commit to my uh Kabbalah dog so God speaks to the fish that's interesting well this is Mr Speaker I don't know and Ryoma is also a lotion of rock I mean soft that's right it's supposed to buy that fish generally are very obedient you know you don't have to speak to them harshly you ever try yeah they don't listen they don't listen to the top of the tank if they don't listen God said to the fish doesn't say you can infer a website by what happened well maybe maybe what he said to the doc's so disgusted the dog that the Ducks spit out Jonah maybe you said something negative about uh uh Jonah he said hey but one of you is making a political Edge no he said the Vietnam War culture get rid of it well let's see them album the Marvel of course learns that Hashem did not literally speak to fish Hashem does not speak to fish [Music] instead he engendered the spirit of the fish to take him to the edge of the sea and Propel him to the dry land now we have a messiah the Pikachu says the the fish spat him out 965 parsa now that's 965 pesos about 4 000 miles foreign bang his head on anything too hard that must have been another miracle that's very hard Landing yeah but the Melbourne says how do we know 965 parsa so if you look at the words and you count up the Gematria of lashem Hashem . amazing the Gamache of lashem Hashem 965. well you would think that this time After experiencing all of those uh wondrous experiences this time Yona is going to go to ninve Lamar so God spoke to Yana a second time saying now the first time you said call out to it what should he call out to it nothing it doesn't say here he says call out the calling that I will speak to you um [Applause] says excuse me the Melbourne is and in first from the fact that it says the second time um third time this is from what we say and say there is the one who anointed in the year 3062 from the creation of the world he basically lived 202 years that means he lives from the day that he began to prophecy Maya 202 years we don't find any other prophecies throughout this time except for the two prophecies that he prophesied on inve because from the time he began to prophecy until zacharya became the king we're 202 years we don't find any other prophecies and really this this is appropriate that it happened to Yana that he wasn't able to prophecy anymore because he sort of uh was disgusted with prophecy Hashem he didn't want to fulfill God's bidding the ifla but it's really a Wonder ful why contradicts himself yeah foreign in the times of Jose then mostly he prophecied another 10 years Beijing right the only divorce we see are of these Universe yeah but that barbarinal says that the last one Begins by saying that he only spoke to Yana twice he anointed Yayo and then he lived until zacharya reigned and we don't find during this time only two prophecies and invade but here's the problem why because if the avanos says that he prophesied six years before the qurban that means that's well that's after the time of zakaya that means he must have prophecied 10 years in the times of Menachem two years 20 years we made Pekka and three of Hosea so that means another 137 years and also the prophecy of ninvee was at the end of his life how could we prove from the fact that God did not speak to him before this occasion that God is for sure going to take away the prophecy from him he hadn't yet he hadn't yet refused yeah it's mentioned in malachim so I did not mentioned this it's mentioned that the prophecy that haishea that um that one of the Kings will restore the Jewish borders that European would restore the Jewish borders it's mentioned like Hashem prophecy to Yana that means let's read this and we'll delve into a message from next time another question is that 40 years from the time that you're in a prophesied was the destruction of Sherman but describe and if you add another 80 years and that's astira to what the um that's what he says six years before the horben so there seems to be a a number of details which are hard to reconcile and coincide will discuss it more next time okay you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com