Sefer Yona: Chapter 4 - The Malbim Explicates Why Yona Wanted To Die

this store class is brought to you by torahanytime.com so today Friday Eric normally do gemara the first session but we're almost finished safe for Yana so we're gonna try to complete the safe air so the Melbourne had a very interesting understanding of Yana's second command because the first time Yana was basically uh commanded to tell the people to do chuva and that was one of the reasons why Jana didn't want to go because he didn't want them to do chuma we'll crawl out some of funai and the second time um Yana is just told Kum Lake napakas so the Apostle Kevin said that Jonah did what which means he took it very literally Yonder was actually masupuk if he should tell them about the first umua and rebuke them or he said well look this time God didn't tell me to rebuke him he just told me to tell them they're going to be destroyed in 40 days and therefore Jonah did not actually tell them to do chuva however the people of ninvee sort of figured out on their own that if God is letting them know that they're going to be destroyed then obviously he wants them he's giving them the opportunity to do chuva because God doesn't just release information as a press conference FYI if the advantage time is sending a navi to tell them to do is sending a navi to tell them that they're going to be destroyed obviously it's in order to give them the opportunity to do chuva which they do and they know to believe young and here's a guy comes in he started yelling at them and they believe him and they change their whole way of life how do they know so okay that's a good question he probably told them or word probably got out about what happened on the ship um oh the Ibanez or even uh it says if you take a look on paragima pasigalev is all 70 guys on the ship they went to ninvee and they told them you know we better watch out for this guy listen uh listen up to him because he's not a regular person they told him the whole story and that's the reason why they uh they believed yeah that's what I mean Ezra says in paragimo possible and they and they sort of outsmarted him they figured out they needed to do chuva now we're gonna see it wasn't a real chuba they didn't do a real chuva um because uh like we mentioned are not even able to do they just deferred punishment and tell us that they went so far as to return the beams that they stole they took apart the buildings and they returned the beams and last week we mentioned that some server has very remarkable shot that the plastic says via shuvu um because I'll say that they actually returned the beams that were in their possession and one of the questions that Sam said for raised is of course they did otherwise it wouldn't be chuva so it's only a takana later that you don't have to return the beam that you stole but that's not in effect and another question is why is it called Hamas it actually was in Hamas they stole it hummus is when you pay for something forcibly also what does it mean so some services like this that even though you're kind of the beam and it's enough to pay with it but it's nevertheless um you should give it back because um you should give that because otherwise it's Commerce in other words saying is that if at the end of the day the biolum really wants his Bean back even though technically you absolve Yourself by paying money but since the owner is not giving it to you willingly so then it's considered uh Hamas so there are some server like it says like this the common were not masaki the takana for the ancient inve but each person returned from his bad way he was azadakahara and he and they um when the shorts had in and otherwise in other words the words um they returned from their bad ways is that every person who had the beam stolen from was Michael was um every person had the beam stolen from was Michael and said you know what it's enough if you just pay me ah so mamela then um it would be considered Hamas because even though the owner um is accepting payment but it still Hamas and therefore not all they didn't do that they didn't rely on that instead they actually returned the beam okay so the last plastic in parag gimmel God saw their actions that they repented from their bad ways like him and God relented that he spoke to do to them he decided not to do this now there's a well-known hazal that the first mission at the beginning of the second paragraph of Titus says that what would they do on a Tinus they would take the aura now to the city streets and they would put burnt ashes on top of the Tava and on top of the head of the nothing on the top of the height of the Afghan everyone put ashes on their own head and the zakain the Elder Statesman would speak different and he would say as follows my brothers it doesn't say God saw their sackcloth and their fans because what did they do they put on sackcloth and they fasted now where does it say they fasted so you could sign good but doesn't say God noticed their sackcloth and their fasting what does it say God noticed their actions it's all about actions it's not about externalities and um okay so the question then is if God is only interested in actions and chuva so what do we fast for if God doesn't look at the tightness anyway if it's not really meaningful to God God cares if we eat or not eat the White Water matter to him if our cells are ingesting nutrients or not actually he's our father he would want he would want us to eat but without his Google recognize everything comes from him but God doesn't want God is not interested in our fasting so if he's not just not fasting so what do we do it for what's the point I hope I thought to maybe do something about our lives hunger that's snoring way in US because so do it if God only cares are doing it like Nike says just do it that's why my shoe with tequila and then finally it's broke up [Applause] Fila and dude sadaka but what do you need Titus for with that one thing why do we fast so The Village says but in general habakkuk Ava The Joint says took him that actually the word chuva and what is Russia tables interesting you ready it says the going chuva is Tinus sock ET doesn't really answer the question kindness sock v a fair has made the slot colors also brings us down the name nariza meaning all of these things are ingredients to bring you to do chuva but if a person just fasts and he puts on sackcloth and he puts on ashes and he cries and eulogizes and then the day's over and he's the same bad creep then he has not accomplished anything anyway we move on the mountain says like this at first they just regretted their actions I've always shoveled with myself but they didn't repent with act however by rectifying their sins through actions but after the command of the King has comma same God saw other actions that they returned with action that The Returned what was stolen therefore therefore God relented on evil in other words when they first just regretted it that wasn't enough for God to pull back the xera the hagams oh I hear the mountain says the only Avero we find that they rectified was stealing they didn't Rectify idolatry because since Pixar's in was only sealed because of Godzilla like we find by the Dara marble that rights Hamas is that technology if it was supposed to occur to them naturally based on the constellations then they would still be deserving a punishment because they were serving up with this and they were under the control of the constellations God would not break nature for idolaters in other words like this there are two types of punishments one type of punishment is that based on the natural order of the world the person is so to speak predestined to fall prey to the vicissitudes of nature so if the reason why they were going to be punished is because they served up a desara and therefore they are placing themselves under the the danger of nature so God would have said look I'm not saving you but they weren't falling prey they weren't supposed to be punished through the vicissitudes of nature it was a special that they should be punished for gazela and now since they Rectify that God is sparing them from this lava lamb but now that naturally they weren't supposed to be punished now that it was a uh divinely pre-ordained punishment and when they repented for gazella they didn't do it and he allowed them to conduct himself through nature um and and that's why they were saved so basically what God is doing is there was a decree on them for a specific reason that specific reason was no longer relevant and now God re puts them back under the forces of nature okay that is the conclusion of parekh gimmel we now begin the Final Chapter of save for Yana okay now don't you might have like um vicarious hunger pangs because you think it's from Kippur no relax it's Friday or Shabbos you ate breakfast this morning you're full you're content we're just learning Joanna now okay but it's not actually Yom Kippur fine parag dalid plastic Olive it was bad Tiana in in English today in 2016 they say big time right really bad value carloy and he was angry why you know um now the Grandma's gonna say I'm a false Navi now really they outsmarted him because he never told them they could do chuva and they really wouldn't say he's supposed to know because they figured out they could they could say to they could do chuva but yanu is very upset okay says reviews it was an illness what illness is it it's an illness called depression it's an illness he fell to sadness he wanted to die so advice we see from here that sadness is a highly it's an illness and it could be very devastating to the point where Joanna couldn't couldn't tolerate it anymore and why was he depressed look yeah maybe but they would have to do a full tuba what does it mean a full tuba chuva Sai from gazela aside from their opinions and their attitudes they only did chuba from their actions meaning they returned the gazella kamasha casa bayara chemists they still served Idols like we said they never did chuba from abadazara and regardless nevertheless God relented heaven understood why is Hashem allowing them to survive it's not because they did a real chuva because they're not doing a real trip it must be hashems allowing them to survive to be a thorn in the side of the Jewish people and that is what agitated in other words he has been the inspiration to get the to do a quasi-chuva to ultimately be a thorn in our side he said that means more is my life's Mission my life's mission is to cause harm to my people um and I gave Channel he was the navi he gave his life for the Jewish people and vegan who also heard him he saw these apparents unfairness of the fact that the ancient Envy are going to attack lies and they're worse than usara says to God this is not good foreign please God now what does Anna mean where else did we have Anna we had on uh in pack days plus Again download and there the word Anna we said there were six took in that Anna's with a hey as a bakasha well here it also seems to be that Kasha oh no please Hashem hello this is what I always maintained when I was still back in arts Israel that I don't want to be the instrument to cause these people anime to do a foustatuba and then they're gonna be a thorn in our side I'll kinky Dumpty level that's why I ran away in the first place interesting Joanna did not learn his lesson or or maybe he felt yeah look you God you tell me to go I'm gonna go but now at least give me the courtesy that you're not gonna allow them to survive if they don't do a real Juve and now they're not doing a real tuba because I know I knew God that you're such a compassionate God you'll accept a fake chuva you accept a mediocre pedestrian foreign by the way what order is Khan and Barack from here is that the order we stayed in now is Joanna counting all these no and this he's Counting the Obama says a very interesting thing here we have how many of the yugamomi does what five times rights those who are musakians were soymek at the end of the United States where is that from mija it's not from Yona why because [Applause] Hashem was not over alpesha ten inve he was not moisture but he was just Mara half he deferred it so Erica pay him is appropriate to say here but ultimately nebuchadnezza destroyed them but when cloudy Israel returns to Hashem Hashem is noisy oven he actually beers the sin he doesn't just defer it why why because we're sharing we're his people and therefore because we're his uh anger on it on the natural many times in our history but we had uh sometimes the natural suffer because of uh you know our actions but we have to complete forgiveness but uh to cloudy soil it's shayak a much higher level of rachman and that is nicely oven actually Bears the sin he doesn't just defer it but he wipes it clean not always but to it's only possible these will be nice to claw Israel or your gemilar yeah correct so look at the mountain plastic base hello is still in Israel ninvee before I went in this was my position I knew you easily Relentless I knew you never intended to punish them and you're gonna and you regretted it immediately even though they didn't do a real chuba Zara they never repented and therefore I got since you were just looking for any little pretext to abolish xera that's why I'll came I didn't run away because I thought they would do a real tuva if they would have been done a real chuva gazunta hate they deserve it down look I I'm never one to to shy away from causing people to do chuba it's because I knew that they would continue to worship idols and you would not destroy them and they would still harm us that's why I didn't want to go to the science of her food right they should have told them to go there so what is he he knows better than the courage so that's what he said I know better than you that's why no he's not saying I know better than you he was just saying I quit that's it I'm done he was more concerned with the welfare of the sun that's us the Jewish people and the welfare of Hashem he was more his heart was more with his people than with his God and like we mentioned that is usually that's often is a high standard of us to do it even though he was concerned Hashem has the interest of Venezuela at heart it still leaves he's in contradiction to a cottage World well I don't know do we find anywhere that yeah I know is punished we don't know like we mentioned we mentioned that when um we mentioned that when Ubuntu told my shabano um and the plastic says and the question is where is moisha running and the Ebenezer says not like the empty brain people say that he was running maybe he was afraid that someone's gonna say I'm going to punish two three four five six seven eight Generations so much albino sort of interrupted Hashem says well exactly who are these Sam Cipher says himself ran away Ran So to sort of interrupt Hashem and because I'm sorry for quotes ramban who also says explains it's the darak of the royal Israel to jeopardize their life at the risk of being murdered for the welfare of Chloe Israel this was sort of sort of a common attitude of the leaders of the Jewish people and um until this day the the leaders of the Jewish people are faithful Shepherds and they don't uh they don't live leave their flock almost to a fault now we don't find anywhere necessary that Jana was punished for this with the rest of his life no we don't they may have been punished we don't know no if it doesn't say then we don't assume it so this is he wasn't happy with them he was teaching in particular a message but it doesn't mean he was punished for his attitude well you understand like this Hashem and now God foreign take my soul death is better than life again we mentioned once that Joanna According to some was a Google avelio Navi similarities being that they both asked to die similarities being Elio is the one who's the son of the Isha has who died but United is saying I'd rather die in fact the zyar comments um that the the request of Yana is very similar to the quest of Elya Navi but the difference is Elio requested it for Khloe and and Joanna requested for taivasan Israel in other words what Jana is saying is I would rather die than cause harm to my people says Rashi says the amalbam if they didn't do that and nevertheless they're gonna remain and be a thorn in the side of the Jewish people then guess what just take my soul I cannot be the cause of this he was the cause I know I was behind him no okay apparently you can't live with it can't stand it he can't live with that be know it that knowledge that he was the cause correct yeah foreign does it really bother you that much what does that mean yeah it does he just has to die I mean that's got to be the quintessential rhetorical question Yonder just says please kill me Hashem says does this really bother you like like look is Captain Obvious over here what do you mean does it really bother you yeah it's what he just said he said kill me seriously the same well right let's see what this means what was Hashem asking foreign were you practicing over a good thing that now you're upset that it's not happening because we know that if a nobody says something good is going to happen it's got to happen but if a navi says something bad is going to happen doesn't have to happen Good Tidings have to come true even if we turn sour machine but the promise of vegetables that if we do tubular example I'm talking about they're gonna say you're a navi shaker look if they say that it's just rumors and you know anyone can start rumors about any event there's no legit uh legitimate basis for them to claim you're an Avi sheku you said something bad is going to happen everybody know that nabula Laura is contingent on on your behavior okay so here we have the special effects like him all of a sudden and God designated he caused to grow oh good point okay I was just testing you if you're paying attention okay here Yana left the city he sat east of the city and he made for himself by the way according to you xiaomi the whole prophecy of yayna to go tell the people of ninvee to do chuva took place at the simras place we made a sukkah he said under it in the shade will be in the city so he made a sukkah her after so what does this mean let's see them album by yoshima he thought like this what do you mean what will be he sees God's not destroying them so what was he waiting for eign that's a good question so my mom asks in his beer in his Shea lice why did he sit east of the city he just said Hashem relented on the xera right here when he dive into die it must have been after he saw that the xera did not come into effect right so what's he waiting to see then he already knows that nothing will happen like this look obviously the zero is bottle and there is not going to be a complete upheaval foreign there's no question something will happen because if they didn't do a complete shuva okay so the general xera obviously became Bato but there's got there there's there's got to be some punishment that's going to happen like the story of Diego Chicago foreign like we find in the egal even after God relented and he forgave for the egal but some people were smithing so what do we see from there we see from there that when God rescinds xera there still can be the aftermath the you know when there's an earthquake what are you for sure the aftershocks so so here too also when God makes it the Creed even if he rescinds it there are repercussions so young those wanted to see okay what's gonna happen to to some of the people there why the East is supposed to North South West uh so why the east where isn't very relatively usual I am an invasion we're in Persia in Assyria so it's north right Northeast so he was facing Northeast no why was he facing Northeast I met him he was east of the city down facing west but he went to the east I told her why did he go to the east I went Northeast whether he was facing the door but why did he go to the east what is the significance of it telling us yeah we first we find when when other Marie shine was thrown out of Garnier then where did he go the East why now why the East is always a place of like Refuge you take refuge in the East so y'all know so to speak looking to be taken out of this world looking for some um protection and he went me Academy so what happened and God designated a kikayon a and it went up above to be shade on his head to save him from his evil is that's impossible to maybe to get as much sale yeah not as much as it can tell you Connor has difficulties is uh keeps out all of a sudden it must have been super hot maybe it was close to Guyana well he had to suck up but the sukkah did not have Scott and he would take refuge in the walls of the sukkah so in the morning when the sun was in the East he would have to sit on the East to protect himself from the sun he sat under it meaning under the walls under the shade of the walls and when the sun was in the West in the afternoon then he sat in the west of the sukkah but the problem is what did he do in midday in midday that sun beat down on his head and beat him down and it was very depressing the language of he rejoiced over the kikayan a great rejoicing is very unusual if you're very hot you don't Rejoice over the shade maybe you have relief maybe you have uh respite but to be Miss Samaya it's not a simcha it's just just a relief you know maybe he took this as a indication of a college purple made this decong film to protect them that a cutter Sparkle didn't want him to die saw some positive in him and it's gonna save him but he didn't want to be saved he wanted to die no no so now we have some SIM card because he figures it was a cottageboro food that gave him this but he wants to die he just asked God to kill him he thought he rethought and now he's got this calculated now that there's a kikayan and God obviously wants to save him why does God want to save him if he had just asked to die because he only wants to die he only wants to die because he sees God is saving Envy must be going to destroy them otherwise he would not miraculously save me so says foreign if it says he sat under it in the shade there must be that's must mean some places had shade some places didn't must be the shade was not in the key the fun is Rocky in the morning he had to sit under the East wall um and in the afternoon there's no shade at all foreign to save him his head which was very apt to be struck by the Sun by isama why something must be happening in the city um so that he'll be able to see the recompense of the wicked and that is why yoina was so happy why now because there's a concept in Tanakh is happy when they see Revenge sees that Hashem punishes the wicked he rejoices now nowadays it's not politically correct to sound happy when rasham suffer no all of a sudden when rasham suffer that everybody has to eulogize how wonderful they were what great sadikim they were if you have people who are mushrasim and they're wiped out all of a sudden we have the mourn human tragedy that's the unfortunate world we live in but inside of the Sadiq the Sadiq recognizes that when he hears on the radio some kind of Hollywood actor died of Overdose they're happy because of Russia he's a mushkus he was a toyava he was a Russia and God punished him okay we'll break over here you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you like torahanytime.com