Shavuot Special: The Unique Lineage of Moshiah through Dovid HaMelach by Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] welcome to the m welcome home to Torah a warm welcome a really welcome to everyone that's here presently and uh online watching this at any given time tonight's class will be broken into two segments one and I really want to speak about shuu the upcoming holiday and so we start let's start with Adam For example Adam lived how many years 930 years but he was supposed to live a th000 or more so 1,000 years kazal tell us that 70 years of his life he gave to whom he gave to David and how long did David live he lived 70 years he was born and he died on his birthday oh that's you know he died on his birthday as well not just born on his birthday for anybody that got that I know you did Larry but he also died on his birthday and what was that sh sh so this is part of the reason I want to dedicate this learning to this figure I I don't even have the words but when you hear tonight's lecture you'll have a much bigger a much greater appreciation for what King David who his personality who he was who he is still is and what the Messiah will represent as well so I I mentioned that Adam Harish Adam the first man he lived seven he lived 930 Adam I'm sorry then David was 70 the letters Adam himself like in other words the the whole blueprint of who Adam is is Adam harishon for the a or Al dalid the D is for David and the M the me at the end is from Messiah so the whole blueprint of mankind is from Adam which is the soul that special soul and then it became in into David and then it's into mashiah but really truth be told it's the same soul that mosha had Moshe was the Messiah okay it's the same soul and every generation that soul is in this world somewhere okay so just as an appreciation uh for DAV I just want to mention that see the Torah didn't doesn't just belong to individuals right and it shouldn't be it's only my Torah right the Torah actually belongs to the whole nation of Israel that's for starters and more than that the Jewish people are the heart of the world so too David is like the heart heart you know the king the king represents the heart of the nation and therefore whatever he represents is really a message and be to be able to relate to every human being you know with the intricacies of the relationships okay with L and his two daughters Ammon and moav and the Nations that came from those n you know from those daughters and then you had um and then you had Tom yud and Tamar intricate relationship that we're not going to discuss tonight in depth anyway and then you had of course who else Ruth and BOS which is a very awkward seemingly awkward relationship right and David has the most awkward and that's what I'm going to discuss tonight this awkward relationship that doid actually had with his father yesi right how did he come how did doid come about wait till you hear there's going to be now um let's start with Psalm 69 now I only have certain verses that I want to share with you but this gives you an idea who is or at least when you hear these verses you're going to say what that's and then we'll go into it a little bit so save me oh God for the waters threaten to engulf me that's how he felt I am wearied by my calling out and my throat is dry I've lost hope in Waiting if this isn't the Jewish people's predicament for the last 3,300 years it's unbelievable the more numerous more numerous than the hairs on my head are those who hate me without reason right all the anti-Semitism this is doid who's the heart of the Jewish people must I then repay what I have not stolen right they're asking for us things that we haven't even stolen Mighty are those who would cut me down who are my enemies without cause we have enemies all around us oh God you know my father and my unintended wrongs are not hidden from you now this is where we pinpoint it is for your sake that I have born disgrace that humiliation covers my face what was David feeling what what experience in his life caused him to emote this I had become a stranger to my brothers and Aly in to my mother's sons crazy we know this is how David felt what made him feel this way out of Envy for your house they ravaged me the disgraces of those who revile you have fallen upon me right the Jew Israel represents God we're God's ambassadors right the SAR Al were God's ambassadors those who sit by the gate talk about me I am taunt by drunkards disgrace breaks my heart and I am left deadly sick here's another line that's um unbelievable I hope for Solace but there is none he's looking for Comfort but there's no comfort and for someone to comfort me but I find no one they put G in my meal and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst okay these are only certain uh lines but we know that King David had tremendous amount of challenges through his life okay but what made him feel so alone in disgrace what exactly caused this um so we know that he was born now just to get this idea you had Ruth then you had OED then you had yesai then you had David okay so yesai sat on the San hedrin he was he was actually um the head of the San hedrin now David when he was uh and the King he also sat on the San hedrin unbelievable what King David did when he was in the San hedrin he judged he judged the people you can see that in 2 Samuel 8:15 but you know he's the one who decreed that we should make a 100 blessings a day okay through his San hedin they instituted part of bone that we say every time we eat bread after we eat bread the blessings after the meal the blessings of on Jerusalem him and Solomon uh created the third blessing uh another interesting decree well and these are rinic decrees by the way H not being alone with a female now in in you know in a secluded area if you were with a mar like if she was married that's already decreed in the Torah you're not allowed to be with her in a secluded area but a single woman King David decreed as y oh yeah didn't yeah it's a rabbi command in other words daa from the Torah itself it's forbidden for us to be alone with a woman a woman who's not our wife who's married but a single woman is King David um in his genius right genius I think uh people make fun of Vice President Pence because they shouldn't but they do that apparently it was well known in the um in the campaign you know before he was uh before Trump was even elected that I guess it was lefties or um anti-religious people were making fun that Pence has a policy of always leaving a door open if he's ever in a room with a woman I don't know he got it from us you know or he's just intuitive he knows what's uh what's good for him right okay so yesai was an amazing person yesai was one of only four right individuals who who um who never sinned never sinned right I know there's a verse that says there's huh but he caus suffering to David so how can we say that he didn't sin wait till you hear what suffering he caused to him he didn't know he didn't know what didn't he know what suffering did he cause them wait to this is what we're going to talk about tonight okay exactly you hit the nail on the head we know that when David was born and as you mentioning there's um such derision and contempt over his birth and and and really this is what he means when he speaks about this idea that I was a stranger to my brothers a foreigner to my mother's sons what was this all about he wasn't even allowed to eat with his family at the same table they put him in the corner you talk about a black sheep he was the black sheep all right whatever that means um so they always sent him out go take care of the flocks they were hoping that a lion would kill him and eat him and you know that he alwaysed was Victorious over all these animals anyway that came to attack him but there was one person who stood by him the whole time and that was his mother because his mother knew the secret what secret am I talking about her name first of all was nit okay don't forget that it's a hard name to remember but it's easy enough cuz who else has the name nit what what happened let me tell you this is where this whole idea of sh is a celebration of the oral Torah yes it's true it's a celebration of receiving the Torah itself but there is no Torah without the oral Torah it wouldn't the rest of the Nations have the written Torah they don't have the oral Torah we received both it's amazing and what I'm going to tell you now everybody Christians and Muslims they all know about King David right that the Messiah that he the seed of Messiah is going to come through King David how how's that even possible do you know that it says in our Torah that a moabit is not allowed to enter the congregation of the Jewish people how does what does that mean does that mean they can't convert or does that mean if they do convert they can't marry means that they can't marry if you look in um in Deuteronomy chapter 20 3 I think yeah verses four and five so no ammonite or moabit shall be admitted into the congregation of the Lord none of their descendants even in the 10th Generation shall ever be admitted into the congregation of the Lord what does that mean so believe it or not as I mentioned to you King David sat on Stan hedrin yesi he was the head of St hedrin boas was the head of s Stan hedrin what does St hedrin do if you look in chapter 17 of Deuteronomy whenever there's a doubt you go to the court and if the court has a doubt they go to the higher Court until you reach the place that Hashem has chosen and you have to listen to what the court says the court has the right to decide whatever the right they're deciding there there's Integrity here these are the 70 of the most righteous people who who are full of wisdom and Ru KES really filled with the spirit of God and they're able to use the tools that God gave them to make the determination this is not called the doctrine of man this is the doctrine of God okay this is how it's done and whether or not a moabit could enter the congregation is no question it says it black and white correct well guess what Ruth comes she's a moabit is she not so there was always a tradition from Moses's time that this was only about the men not the women but because of a few reasons could be because no mob women had ever tried to convert before or in or in a long time so it really wasn't an issue and it was forgotten right if if things aren't happening on a regular basis so you kind of forget about it okay so it was forgotten the the law the application of the law was somehow forgotten and they debated it as time went on the Sanhedrin sometimes said you know what I think we made a mistake and the women may not enter the congregation and then they made a decision a few Generations later this they they can enter the g into the into uh marriage with the Jew if they converted properly went back and forth so Boaz actually pin right his San hedin said they can marry they can convert and marry into the Jewish nation and he even proved it right put your money where your mouth is and he married Ruth right now he died the next day right but she became pregnant and we had OED fine so by the time yesi comes around yesi is now the head of the Sanhedrin and he himself has doubts what if boas was wrong what if the Bas in B was wrong they had the right to change it well he didn't change it but he was afraid now this is where things get a little sketchy what did he do if he had a doubt he's he's considering himself a Jew right as a grandson of Ruth a moabit and now he has doubts whether she was allowed to marry BOS which makes him pule to marry a Jew so he's separated from his lovely wife nit after seven children and he thought if I'm puzle my seven children are also puzzle so what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my handmade the the the the female slave of the house and I'm going to make a condition with her what's the condition listen to [Applause] this he says I'm going to free you on condition right you can free your slave and she becomes a Jew but he did it on condition if I'm really a Jew because it was permissible for Boaz to marry Ruth then you're also free as a proper Jew and whatever child we have will be a kosher Jew but if it's forbidden for me uh let's say I'm um I'm blemished I'm really not allowed to marry a Jew then you'll remain a a sh a a a non-jewish slave and um you're allowed a a a a moabit convert is allowed to marry the sh so at least the kid won't be a mom's there it'll be whatever it is a status but not as a Jew okay so what do we have here he made a now his handmaid told his wife this is like come on listen they already weren't sleeping for many years that's already she knew his dilemma and she felt bad for him and now the handmaid comes and says your husband wants to sleep with me he wants to have kosher children the whole point was the seven children you have with you is in doubt how do you think she feels she feels terrible right but she she supports her husband so they made a deal just like R and Leia right where R was supposed to be with Yakov and there were certain signs and she gave him over to Leia and Leia was with Yakov remember the first night so too if there were signs she gave them over so yesi slept with his wife not knowing it was his wife he thought it was his handmaid and any time that he was supposed to sleep with his handmaid it was always his wife he didn't know it so the question you asked earlier did yesai um if he was sinf free how is it that he gave David such anguish that's a sin he had no idea that he actually thought that his wife was with another man remember 3 months later she's spr pregnant and he thinks he didn't sleep with her what would you do what would youa do to Tamar you kill her your your your wife who you didn't sleep with is pregnant it's adultery you kill her he carried that he had rman he had such love for his wife it overshadowed everything and he remained silent what about her though what pain that after this child is born they put him at the pasture they don't let him sit at the table and eat he's the black sheep of the family because not just yesi but all the brothers the you know word gets around even though you're thinking right somehow everyone knew if yesi is putting him out the pasture everybody knew this is a illegitimate son or thought so can you now you follow what's going on how do how could he not recognize wife I mean did it have a blanket just with a little hul in it or no that's that's illegal it was dark listen if she wore a certain perfume she wore the perfume of the handmade it's supposed to be completely dark okay we're not going to talk about this how it happened but trust me this is the how it happened okay this was before electricity okay it was before electricity if you want to say that that's fine too um we're not referring to that point no from the there you go um so this whole idea I told you we're celebrating the oral Torah because what are we celebrating King David kosher he's kosher there's no blemish right and he suffered all the way through and his mother told him the truth what that your mind meaning from your yesi not from somebody else and yet they all remain silent 28 years until uh Samuel the prophet comes right you know the whole story Samuel comes to anoint a king from yesi Sons and the story is unbelievable where do we have the um here's the at last Samuel come said to yesi after looking at all the other children and deciding yes no maybe no you can look at 1st Samuel 16: 6-12 so Samuel says to yesi what after the seven kids he he already uh you know puzzled he already said none of them are the king are there no Lads remaining he answered a small one is left he's taking care of the sheep so Samuel says to him send for him and have him brought we will not stir until he comes so he sent for him and had him brought he was of Rudy complexion with red hair beautiful eyes and handsome to look at God said meaning through Samuel rise up anoint him mesiah anoint him for this is the one so we have a a much better idea now of the anguish when we read Psalm 69 that was only a window a small window into all the other Psalms David is being chased by his enemies what he felt for the 20 first 28 years of his life in his relationship with his father and the love and care um and and um warmth that he felt the empathy of his mother cuz she also went through a tremendous um pain just as as he did so what I wanted to get across in this little lesson was the tremendous value that we have for the oral Torah and the non-jews who all believe in some kind of Messianic figure coming through David hello you must accept that we have a valid oral Torah we know we do we don't have to fight we don't have to prove to any anybody anything but many of the Gentiles fight with us right and say oh we all have the Torah the Torah is for all of us and you know what the truth is that the the written Torah what God wants you to know is for you for the Gentiles as well but what the real meaning behind every single word and every single Nuance you can only find through us we were there we're the witnesses we stood Mount Si and this is Shu Shu is not just about accepting the written Torah it's really about the acceptance whether it was forced on us or not okay let's just say it was forced on us the Jews didn't have much of a choice we had to accept it help us in our mission don't work against us okay work with us we actually have a tradition of what the Bible means okay so you can team up with us right or you can drop off the face of the planet for I care right but but we have a mission and it would be nice if you joined us in the mission of supporting us in letting the world know um I give classes on seven no laws right on the um on what it means to be a noahide and I will put a link down below that you could check that um series out but for the Jews out there this is our holy um the rich Heritage that we have and if you dedicate yourself this sh right to learning more about your own Heritage and dedicating yourself to learning Torah I would suggest for the non-jews to dedicate themselves to learning the parts of the Torah that is relates to them okay which is a vast amount unbelievable amount but that if we all be open to accepting the Torah and I think this I've spoken about this before the word for CER Torah which is now going to be the next lesson K Torah is ker is the crown of Torah the crown is not placed in the right place right the corona is not in its right place we need to put the Corona in the right place 620 letters the word ker is 620 C 20 T is 400 re 200 620 letters represents a 6113 for the Jew and the the seven mitzah for the no if we all accept the ker of Torah as the most important thing right putting it back in its right place I'm going to just bless you and I'm going to guarantee you you'll have life in the world to come that's all I can guarantee you I can't guarantee you anything else but you'll have life in the world to come so with that we'll start part two [Music] hold