Shaar HaBitachon Lesson 35 with Rabbi Shais Taub

continuing in chapter four we have been talking about the seven areas of life in which you have to have the talking so he spoke about area three which is your own health and area two which is making a living in area three which is interpersonal relationships then we started speaking about the spiritual stuff which is category number four was the mitzvahs you do that only affect you and then category five was the mixes that you do that affect others and now we started talking about character category 6 which was totally spiritual the reward in haba in the world to come and rebel mckay started discussing um reasons why this isn't something spoken about explicitly in tanakh and we mentioned last night that obviously in the svadham of musa and siddhis and kabbalah that you do find this stuff and in fact that was one of the answers we said last night that it was um it was an oral tradition which later on became recorded and we have it now we have it today because it was recorded it was written down but um that was our our main question why is the ilm haba stuff not so clear in tanakh and we went through a number of answers now actually i want to share with you a chart i got this chart from hyeno and i also want to mention again i've mentioned before that the text that we use the hebrew with the vowels and the nice crisp layout that is from hyena which is a wonderful publication and they are coming out with a book in soon on so shared this chart with me and i'm going to share it with you so spoiler alert there's going to be seven reasons why the reward of the world to come is not mentioned in the torah and how many of them have we covered already okay material man cannot fathom the spiritual yeah we spoke about that i remember speaking about that uh two it was better to transmit it via oral tradition yeah we spoke about that and number three the generation that received the torah were spiritually immature and uh i think that's as far as we got i think we did three out of the seven so now we're moving on with more reasons more reasons why toyota doesn't speak explicitly meaning the written torah doesn't speak explicitly about the reward in the world to come okay oh mayhem and among the reasons that are dependent upon god after the person has done what he's got to do there are two more factors that are out of the person's hands what are these factors joacha the first shield bene adama vedas allah the first is that he enlighten others in the service of the creator maybe he exalted and teach them proper conduct commission calls for like it says um and those who turn the many to righteousness will shine like stars forever and ever yamanet says those who rebuke meaning help others go on the straight path will have delight and good blessing will come upon them it's when the upright individual has acquired the merit of promoting righteousness in others together with the merit of his own righteousness and the righteousness of his faith in the merit of his faith and patient submission then ye roy league he will be considered by the creator worthy of receiving the reward of the world to come the reward in the world to come is a funny thing because it's not just dependent on you doing the right thing it's dependent on on your influencing others to do the right thing which is not entirely in your hands um somebody told me a great vart who told me avi fishoff told me recently maybe he said it publicly too but he told me that um i mean this is a famous thing that neyak didn't save his generation he only brought his family on the tava the whole generation of sinners got wiped out and he had to come back in a gilgal as a tikkun so who did he come back as meisha he came back as maisha and when did meisha make a tikkun for nayaka when malaysia had the offer the same offer as nayak essentially save yourself let the whole world go to hell and save yourself when was that after the ghetta ego misha had an offer that the abhishek would restart the jewish nation just from him and maisha said no save the sinners and if not erase me from your book so the caduceus lady says meghani erase me write the word mechania raise me isis the waters of noah so when did nayach fix the mainayak the waters the flood waters that he caused in the world by not bringing people to teshuva when he came back as maisha and he stood up for the sinners but uh you know that that means that even being a perfect jew is not really being a perfect jew because a perfect jew means you were perfect you were perfect you were perfect he was perfect right it's not enough even to do everything you supposed to do you checked off all the boxes and it's still not enough because you didn't influence anybody right so that's the first factor that you don't earn alum haba just through doing everything right because you could do everything right it's still not enough because you got to do everything right plus affect others the hashemi and the second thing there's a factor here of hashem's grace and generosity gratuitous kindness unearned kindness commission kosovo like it says grace oh god is yours and that you reward a man according to his work and the reason for this that if a person's deeds were as numerous as the grains of sand on the beach still chocola it would still not amount to even one of the favors that hashem does for us in this world so all of the deeds we could do for him wouldn't even amount to one deed that he does for us hate how much more so if the person didn't only do favors for hashem but he did some um opposite of favors if hashem is going to be exacting and hold him strictly to account in demanding gratitude for all the favors hashem did for him his good deeds would be canceled out by the smallest of the creator's favors toward him so any reward bestowed upon him by the creator therefore is clearly not deserved on account of his deeds because technically if you go by the actual math here the the fact that he does reward us in the world to come that's because of his grace toward us again with the context here is we're not we're explaining why taylor doesn't really focus on the reward in the world to come so he said one reason is because you could do everything right but that's still not enough you got to help others that's like you know judaism 2.0 but 2.0 is part of the regular judaism and that's a whole discussion for another time um and then the second thing is at the end whatever you do really is not what you're being rewarded for because if you were really gonna add it all up you know what he owes us what we owe him he doesn't owe us anything and we're you know way way behind we're indebted to him okay so the fact that he in the end lavishes us with with reward is only because of his absolute kindness okay now of course the next question is what about punishment all right punishment however in this world and the next both types of punishment is justly deserved a debt that man must pay allah said only that hashem's grace overcomes it in both worlds kamehameha says hashem to you hashem is kindness he being compassionate pardons iniquity and does not destroy how many reasons is this i think now we're on the fifth reason out of seven um another reason that scripture doesn't elaborate on reward and punishment in the world to come is because the practice of goodness is of two kinds me mano nistor a mask of allah of zula sabaira salah there are those kinds of kindness that are concealed and none but the creator observes them like the duties of the heart um and then there are those that are seen and then in and not concealed from the created beings those are the mitzvahs that are obvious because you do them with your with your limbs so for the fulfillment of the observable duties the stuff you do with your limbs the creator bestows of an observable reward in this world the game and the fulfillment of the inner hidden duties he gives a hidden reward what does that mean reward in the world to come the alkanes david oliver shalom bimila shimada alohanian therefore david referred to it in language that gives expression to this kamehameha as he said how great is your good that you have hidden away for those who fear you and so too with punishment the revealed and the hidden you have those two categories okay so reward and punishment really there are two kinds and they correspond to two kinds of actions obvious and apparent actions meaning stuff that everyone can see you doing and then hidden things and nobody sees nobody knows um and i i don't think it means because nobody's around it's like if a tree falls in the forest and though is nobody hears it doesn't make a sound you know so if you put on phil and there's no one to see you putting on fill in is that considered concealed no no that's revealed because it's a thing that somebody could see but think about something that is totally um emotional or mental talk about your your level of of of vegas you know your your devotion to hashem your kavanagh your focus your uh purity of of thought your love of hashem all of hashem faith in hashem you know that's stuff that nobody can see not because nobody's around but even you know you're standing in a crowded room nobody can see that stuff thank god right okay people scrutinize enough as it is right can you imagine that can you imagine if people could start seeing like your ava vegito so it's not enough you can get judged on an aesthetic now you're going to get judged on your aviva hashem's promise to his people that for visible service stuff you can see there will be visible immediate reward in this world that's what's explicitly mentioned in parishes is talking about tangible consequences in the here and the now it's not talking about spiritual consequences in the after world in the afterlife he guaranteed them for sins that are revealed that you can see you know actions uh that there would be the same thing i don't even spell it out but leficia because the mass is you know they say the alam is a gala the masses there's a rhyme for that in english also they only relate to tangible stuff that's why science is such a popular philosophy even though it's not a philosophy it's a good way for finding out about how physical stuff behaves but it's not a very good philosophy for life but people use it as a philosophy for life because it's very relatable because it's tangible now it doesn't answer any of the deep questions about life but who who cares about deep questions about life most people don't lei machinister not the hidden stuff slash and that's what it says the hidden things of hashem our god and the revealed things are for us and for our children for all times don't worry about hidden things worry about revealed things the americas and it it says if the people of the community in any way hide their eyes from that person then i will set my face against that person and his family that's that's talking about stuff that's revealed and no ah but what about service of god and the opposite of service transgression that are hidden in the heart ding mulum it's logical it's just that these things be paid to a person in this world and the next because it's hidden stuff so it gets paid in the hidden world therefore scripture left out mentioning them uh let's just rattle off the seven i think we have two more okay let's just finish it off oh mayhem another reason is safer that in the reward and punishment mentioned in scripture the prophet speaks with the people of this world about reward and punishment in this world um and since yeshua ben sadak was in the world of angels like we mentioned previously he walked among the aimed him which are the angels since he was in the world of angels hashem said to him i give you special permission to walk among the standing ones meaning the angels this is the way of offering inducement or endur or deterrence it must suit the time and place understand this meaning everything has a time and a place this is not normally the time in the place who may have in another reason the purpose of the world to come is only none other than to cling to god and to draw near to his supernal light commissioner kasich like he says your righteousness will go before you the glory of god will gather you up the amer and it says the enlightened ones will shine like the brilliance of the sky the emirates says to be illuminated with the light of life and this can be attained only by one who finds favor before god saying thus the favor of god or finding favor before god is the source is the essence of reward commission kosovo like it says his anger is but for a moment life is in his favor and his you know when he has good will toward you the ahmed passions and impaired which you mentioned before which speaks very much about overt obvious rewards in this world and punishments also uh in particular he made illusions that teach of this favor illusions he hinted to this favor before him and that's what it says valley sigul i will not reject you the ummah says and i will look upon you with favor i will turn to you in favor of i will be to you a god your god and you will be to me my people okay so let's look at it one more time let's wrap it up for tonight okay why the reward of the world to come is not explicitly mentioned in theta we said it was hinted to one material man cannot fathom the spiritual so why talk about it meaning nobody can nobody could really relate to it two it was better to transmit it via oral tradition and we have that oral tradition now today in exidus of mosaic three the generation that received the title were spiritually mature somebody wrote in the chat they were compared to whom if you don't like that answer i got six more for you what do you want me to tell you four man on his own cannot earn it it's a reward from god right you can't even get it on your own anyways we spoke about that because everything you do is still not enough until you give it away number five it's a reward for the inner hidden intentions of man right the the reward in this world is for the stuff that's visible that you can do that's obvious to others but the the hidden stuff that's all that generates a hidden reward and therefore it doesn't talk about it six the prophet speaks in words that are acceptable to and understood in the human mind uh seven the ultimate reward is to find favor in god's eyes the details are not important fine so those are the seven reasons why reward in the world to come is not explicitly dealt with in tita anything else i'm looking in my chat here nothing you don't understand at all like none of it you lost what are you lost okay first of all you know what safer this is what is that no you don't even know you don't know what say for this travis oh it's your first time here okay that's your excuse fine travis second what part of javascript is it shot of it talking okay what chapter is it chapter four okay what part of chapter four are we on we're talking about spiritual stuff the reward in the world to come that's totally spiritual as an aside as a side point asks a question and he says if this stuff is important how come you don't find it in tanakh by the way you know that that's like a thing that people ask a lot right do you know that that's like a thing that smartypants is i think that's the technical term for them smarty pantses is that the plural smarty pants smarty pantses you know what a smarty pants is what do you how what's lushner album of smarty pants smarty pantses do i even have any power left on that i was a dog does here don't don't don't don't don't touch it what is it there's low battery mode it's still moving how many percent 20 or 10. i missed it but it's uh pants is already plural and there's definitely word nalem how about yeah i know there is he doesn't say there isn't he says there is i have a lot of editing to do on this one yeah i know i already accepted that i accepted that fate you guys want to hear it no no george no no so it's the thing that smartypants is ask a lot about why they say oh the oil mahabo is not in tanakh got added later that's what smartypants say what about the last reason hold on a second uh the last reason the ultimate reward is find favor in god's eyes the details are not important yeah that's that was the last reason why yeah you forget but someone wrote me in the chat what about the last reason i forget what it was but i disagree [Laughter] oh why is it not important okay so this is my little editorial now obviously it is important because in the end after tanakh not in tanaka but afterwards this stuff is recorded and there's a great deal of information about it so obviously is important the real question is why if it's so important isn't it in and i have a smartypants theory of my own that this whole discussion is an anachronism okay you know what i mean by an anachronism like chainmail chainmail used to be a very popular item it was very helped you know chainmail you know what chained malice right armor but it's an anachronism okay it's outdated it's absolute we have other ways of protecting ourselves today i think the whole discussion is is an anachronism i'm suspecting that in the times of verbena bajaj that there were a lot of philosophically inclined people who had a real problem with this and who weren't sure if ilam habbo was even an authentically jewish concept now i'm going to say what are you talking about there's a whole headache in gamora in sanhedrin it's all about call yesterday all about islam even in gemara i'm saying that you don't even have to look in this but i believe that historically speaking there were people who really questioned whether it was a for sure if it was a core jewish idea and and and even if it was authentically jewish at all and i think that's why rebecca is giving such a lengthy treatise on the topic now for us for us i don't really think it speaks to us because either you believe this stuff or you don't if you're learning crevice levels you already believe this and you already believe in in spiritual reality so it's not like you need somebody trying to fair enthrasa this question that nobody hears nobody's asking okay that that's what i think i think the whole discussion is actually a polemic uh philosophical argument to borin a particular polemic argument um that's anachronistic does that make sense what i'm saying is that helpful okay all right