The END of a Thing is Better than It's BEGINNING with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

Heat. Heat. [Music] Shalom everybody. Welcome back to the Bate Madrash. Welcome home to Torah. A warm welcome home to Torah. We're in Pares Kisavo. As you know, we all know we deal with the clear using the um the essay as the basis for our discussion. I encourage everyone, there's a link down below to get up the Hebrew sheets on the para. You have to find the year, but you'll eventually find it. It's next to the video on the uh on on the website. So, that's where you'll find the original Hebrew sheets, and we encourage you to use them. For those who are here, I'm really sorry that it came out so small. H the clear car always deals with fundamentals, concepts in Judaism that we all need to know, we need to be aware of. And um that's all I have to say right now. I will mention something later on about uh the unfortunate situation that happened with uh Charlie Kirk was a great lover of Israel. We're going to talk a lot about Erit Israel. We're going to talk a lot about humility to a certain extent, which someone who's a sadic, even non-Jews, can fit in that category. And uh I don't know, I'm assuming he was a pro-Israel, pro- libertarian, um free choice makes him already pretty much a sadic. Questions whether he was okay, let's not go into religion. He was definitely pro-Israel and pro- free choice, which is very important. So, we're dealing with Deuteronomy chapter 26 1 and two. The Clear quotes a part of each verse, right? As it says, if you look in the source sheet number one, by the way, if you want to get the English source sheets, you send me an email and you'll we'll add you to the list and it will be when you come into the land. That's the Hebrew that he gives us. when you come into the land, it will be when you come into the land. And I'll just read the English. Which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance and you possess it and you settle in it. And then he quotes the Hebrew from the next the beginning of the next verse. What are you supposed to do? You're going to take the first remember that word first because we're going to deal with the mitzvah of the first fruits. And you shall take from the first in Hebrew may ray sheet of all the fruit of the ground. Now you may think that means all the fruit any fruit right almonds and pears and apples. No, it's only the seven species as we're going to see the quote from Deuteronomy 8:8. But he quotes the cphree that says what does it mean may rashit from the first theoret not all first fruitsim not all first fruits are obligated in this particular mitzvah see that's why you need a noral Torah you just read the written Torah you don't know you don't know what it means you'll make mistakes. What are you going to do? Come up to your shell. I'm not going to say they're going to knock you out, but people, you don't need to carry all your first fruits. It just doesn't apply. There's no obligation. The only obligation is on the seven fruits. And we'll see. How do we know? Like it says in Deuteronomy chapter 8 verse8 which you will find source number three happens to be it says a land era and then it says again zas she so in English the word land appears twice a land of wheat and barley vines which is the grapes and figs and pomegranates by the way it also means wine. But anyway, vines means the grapes, the raisins, and the wine. So notice there's the word eritz appears twice. So we actually have a ha when you're going to sit down and eat certain fruits. There's an order of or the order of what you're going to make the braha on or what you're going to eat first. And so it doesn't go like 1 through 7 as you may have thought. Right. Right. that the wheat is more important than the barley and the barley is more important than the grape and the grape is more important than the figs and so on. No, there's actually that whatever is closest to the word land. So basically since you have two sections the latter section is two which we said is the olive or olive oil and the honey which not honey bee honey but it is date honey. So you have just you know technically it's basically one and then six in the order that's the order of preference of blessings. One meaning wheat and then olives and then two I'm sorry then three which would be barley. Well it's a little bit complicated because barley and wheat are almost in the same category but then you would barley number three and then number seven dates and then you go back to the order of three four and five. Okay. So, it's 1 6 2 7 and then 3 4 and 5 in that order of Deuteronomy 8:8. But what we're looking at is actually the word land. So the land itself is which land that's only obligated in arits is also you know people don't know that. So just as the we're in the first paragraph of the meaning just like in Deuteronomy 8:8 the word land is referring specifically to the seven special species of that are used to praise the land of Israel afan. So too here in the mitzvah of it only applies to those seven meaning. So those are the seven species of which the mitzvah first fruit applies. As we continue onward the clear says it's already been written in a safer called duties of the heart that the now the word nethish does mean soul usually means intellectual right in the intellectual soul which separates us from the animals. However, I just want to emphasize here the Rambam uses the word or translates the word and understands the word seikho as most of us do meaning under it's the understanding it's the intelligence right we use it on the street and say you know the person has seo or he doesn't have right he has a certain level of intelligence the the the um the maharal which the kakar is a student of translates or understands the word a spirit. So I like to translate it and it makes sense as the intellectual spirit. Okay? It doesn't matter. We can call it the intellectual soul for the time being. And what is it that we are? We are a soul, but we're also a body. So he says here that the intellectual soul, meaning the the duties of the heart explains that the soul is Right. What's the word? It could mean to win, but it also means to be defeated. It's the soul that's the underdog. The soul is weakened from the bo from the physical powers with three claims or three arguments. There are three concepts where the physical body is actually stronger. Now we're going to use terms like the Yates. The evil inclination that's more connected to the physical body. Whereas the soul has no evil, right? It's pure. That's another difference between us and them, whoever they are, that we believe our soul was clean from the beginning, right? Forget about what we call the uh original sin. We're not dealing with that, right? God created our soul and it's pure. But the body has desires and it brings the soul down and it has certain strengths. And we're going to discuss those three strengths. And we're going to discuss how we can fight those three strengths of the Yates of the evil inclination in order for the Yates for the positive inclination to overpower the evil inclination. Right? We talked about free will. I'm going to tell you right now what I think when ever, god forbid, there are these um school shootings or mass shootings that they call them. And I don't know what you want to call the people that call for gun control. You want to call them lefties? You want to call them progressives? I have no idea. But mankind, the greatest gift that God gave us is free will. He created us in his image. If I ask you what image is that that we were created in, it says God has no image. Well, I'll tell you what he is. He's the ultimate in free will and we're just an image. Like if I put my hand here and you have the sun is right, the light is going down. What do I see on the paper? I see an image of my hand. It's not really my hand. God is indescribable and infinite. And when it comes to the ultimate of free will, he is it, right? That's God. That's how do you define God? The ultimate of free will, that surely would be God, not me. I'm just an image like and like like you know what I mean? An image is like it's not even there. And the truth is it may even be an illusion that we have free will, but we ultimately have the will to choose whether to do good or bad. In other words, we might be doing the act anyway, but what is my intention? Is my intention to do good, to choose life or vice versa? Going back to the statement here that the the soul is kind of defeated or reduced, right? Becomes the underdog overpowered by the physical powers with three claims. Now, we're going to go through them. The first claim is this. As we all know, a Jew has what we call a bar and b mitzvah when they're 12 and 13, right? Respectively, male and female, fail, female and male, 12 and 13. And so when we're born, we're born with the Yates. Okay? So whenever we are going to get the Yates to is when we are 12 or 13, we have an older brother. The Yates to has an older brother who's always 12 or 13 years older. And what happens when you're living for 13 years before the other brother comes along? You have customs. You have habits. Let's hear the words. The very fact that the physical powers pre preceded by 13 years, it was already in existence for 13 years before the positive influences of your your heart and your your inclination for good. It only comes and enters you. Now, what about non-Jews? They don't have barb bar and bach mitzvah. There's different opinions on makus. Some say yes by non-Jews it's also the same age. Uh there's more stricter opinions that it comes much earlier. As soon as a non-Jew is able to recognize the difference between good and evil, what is good and bad? Because according to the Ran, there's not seven laws or seven principles. Any mitzvah in the Torah that is either logical or moral, a non-Jew is obligated. So, it's not just seven laws. Just letting you know that background there. So like uh the opinion holds 12 or 13 like when Shim and Ley we were Ben No before the Torah was given and they they took upon themselves to uh let's say to wipe out or to take revenge on who? On the family of inm who raped our sister. So you should know there's precedents for taking revenge, but it wasn't really revenge because they were of Misa. They were obligated to die according to seven no laws because setting up a system of justice is one of the seven laws and the city of Shm did not want to bring to justice the uh the culp the perpetrator of the rape of our sister Dena. Going back to the clear he says so the person right is already by the time he's 12 or 13 or she's 13 12 then already they areal they're accustomed habituated to follow after the physical powers it's already become second nature the horror has already become second nature within man by the time they reach 12 or 13. That's the first advantage the Yates has over the Yates. The second thing from the very fact that a human being cannot live one day, right? They can't exist without eating and drinking which is physical. However, we do know, right? We see it with our own eyes. People who don't learn Torah or do mitzvah still exist. They eat, they drink, they they're in existence. So what's the advantage the Yates has over the Yates? So it's able to keep in in existence just through eating and drinking. It keeps you alive. But the person who does mitzvah or doesn't do mitzvah isn't killed. It's not a matter of life or death seemingly allegedly, right? We know otherwise for our souls, for the health of our souls. And what's the third claim that the Yates has over? Now, before I even go on, we mentioned before the sh about these three diminishing things, right, Kanuk? So, we're going to find out there are three mitzvah that are going to counteract against these three things of the eight. Okay? So keep that in mind. So we dealt with number one the the claim or advantage that the harah has over theat is number one it's older and you're more accustom. Number two you can't really live without the physical eating and drinking but you could theoretically right live without the Torah and mitzvah. The third thing is Right? We're talking about the physical world here. So the the benefit the the the pleasure one experiences when he's uh using his yates is usually immediate and it's not immediate at least in this world and it's mash it's somehow tangible somehow perceptible some kind of benefit or pleasure otherwise why would you do it why would you act on your which is not the case when it comes to the pleasure the soul may experience through Torah and mitzvah because when do you when do you um perceive it or experience that han in the world to come right it's not immediate and it's not perceptible right you don't perceive it you don't um it's not tangible which is the opposite when it comes to the soul it's not percept you know the the pleasure is not perceived received. It's only going to be experienced later on in the world to come. Now, it's based on a verse and I want to talk about this verse. It's actually quite amazing. It says in Isaiah 64:3, see that on number four, uh the highlight part is no eye has ever seen. I ra is basically bas you can read the whole verse and where of no one had ever heard had ever perceived by the ear no eye had ever seen. This is talking about the promises of the prophets for the world to come. Guess what? There's a famous argument who's greater who's on a greater level the completely righteous person or the bal chosha the one who returns from sinning and doesn't sin anymore who's greater so there's a good that discusses different ideas of who the prophets were talking about and they gave great promises of such bliss of such right such promises of the world to come yet the gammorra says whatever of the two is on the lower level. So in other words, if the argument would end if that the baluva is greater that a sadic cannot even stand in the same place as a besua. So what does that mean? It means the balu is greater. So all the promises that were given in the Torah were drum roll please counterintuitive for the lower level. The lower level gets all those promises. And what about the greater one? Nobody can even describe it. No eye has ever seen. It's indescribable. It is so great, so high, much higher. Think of whatever was described times I don't know, put a number, multiply it by a certain number. It's so much greater. So, by the way, who's greater? The Bachuva or the or the the completely righteous person? From the Gomorrah? may think that it's the Baltua, but the truth is that the Gomorrah doesn't conclude anything. And interestingly, Rashi says here, the Gomorrah brings in Isaiah 57:E 19, peace, peace to the far and to the near. We know that God's name is Shalom. So, which is closest to God? Shalom. Shalom. To the far and to the near, says the Lord, I will heal him. So according to the opinion right there's going to be an opinion that the that the um the balu is greater that's why it says to the far peace peace meaning your relationship with god is greater if you were far to start with and then you came close as opposed to the second opinion right well let's just say so the first opinion is that the righteous the completely righteous person is not as great because in terms terms of the relationship to the word shalom shalom, it's more distant. So who's greater? The Bouva because he was far at first. According to the other opinion, they use the same verse. You're talking about somebody who is a completely righteous person and they use the same verse. So when it says peace, peace to the far, it means far from sin. They were far from sin and that's closer to shalom. But Rashi says here on that verse, interestingly enough, the second part of that Rash, he says to the far and to the near, both are equal, right? They're both equal. H he who aged and was accustomed to my Torah and my worship from his youth. That would be the the gamar. And he who drew near just now recently to repent of his evil way, says the Lord, I will heal him of his melody and of his sins. And according to the Gomorrah, there really is no conclusion. Although many of us feel and believe that the bachu is greater maybe not maybe it doesn't really matter because Aron Cohen when he was at Gamor and he felt where am I in this scheme of the corbanos for the the the tribes right in paraso all of the different heads of the tribes brought corbanos for the for the actual the the dedication of the altar And because of the thought that the altar and the the the tabernacle itself is a tikun for the and ley the kim had no participation at all in the kgo. So they didn't need to make a tikun but nevertheless what does the tad gam feel like aon I want to participate and god gave him a great reward which is lighting the kaneka manora we should say the manura in the temple and not only that that after god forbid that the temple should ever be destroyed there would be a holiday called Hanukkah that would be um remembered for all time and does of course relate to the kanim the kashma Okay. So basically where where we left off was the verse in Isaiah 64:3 I and Lorra. So you now have your three categories. Category one where the Yates has a strength of claim and the person already developed a second nature that he's more margil. He's more regil with the Yates and therefore it has a second nature. it's already like embedded the the negative uh tendencies. Number two, that physically and I want to add this idea. My mother was an overeaters anonymous and she explained to me when it comes to addictions, you know, people usually go what they call cold turkey, which means you totally stop on the button. Maybe there's a detox, but you're basically no longer consuming that which you're addicted to. However, when it comes to food, she explained to me that would be the hardest addiction because you have to eat every day. You h you're you have to there's like it's not even it's not even a question. And therefore, there's no such thing as cold turkey. Therefore, you need a lot more self-control when you're involved with um food addictions. Okay? So, that's number one. Number two is that you still have to eat. Whereas if you don't do to mitzvah, you can still survive, but you can't survive without involvement in the physical world. And we're going to discuss a little bit more about that later. And the third thing is that the physical han, the physical pleasures, when it comes to the physical, it you can feel it, let's say, immediately or at least you perceive it as opposed to the spiritual pleasures which are not perceptible. and you're only going to really experience it in the world to come. And that was the last thing we said. Now and because or from the aspect of these claims by the there is this um you know deflating of the where there's defeated even um mitzvah harb that's why we were given all this all these mitzvah we were given the Torah and all these mitzvah to increase What that by doing the Torah and that weakens the physical part of our lives. Now, how does that work? We're going to discuss a little bit when it comes to food especially. But we know we all know the story of Ra Luckish and Rabbyan. Okay, I'll re I'll try to say it over quickly. Ra Luckish was not a religious Jew. He was Jewish. He was the head of the bandits. He was like a Tarzan type guy. Lived in the jungle and the forest. He swung from trees to trees. And he basically was a pirate, a bandit, the head of the bandits, right? Where they have this guy um Robin Hood, right? It was like a Robin Hood kind of guy. Number one, he saw Rabi Yohnan swimming. Rabioan was known to be very pale and very I'll use the word healthy. Okay. And Ra Luckish thought he was a woman. And he jumped into the water. And Ra Ravoknan understood the reason Ra Luckish came was because he does look like perhaps a woman from far away. And he um he promised him he saw the coach, the power, the the potential in Ra Luckish. And he said, "If you commit yourself to learning Torah, I'll give you my sister for marriage." And at that moment, the Gomorrah describes that Raakkesh lost all of his physical power. Because as soon as he accepted it, as if he already learned it, that's how much Rakkesh bought into the idea of the willingness to learn Torah. So there's a certain weakening of the physical powers. Now he gives an example. He says just like what the forbidden foods. Now what does that mean? The bakaya says that when we and we don't I don't think we need to say this. When we eat we become stronger. And not only that, the forbidden foods, like if you ate a bear or a a horse, I can imagine the Vikings, what they ate, right? They ate all these forbidden foods. So, they were very strong. The very fact that you limit what you can eat makes you weaker. Maybe more healthier spiritually. Okay, that's what we believe. You're it's only a spiritual health that really is increased. And it's increased because you're diminishing the physical power by not eating certain foods. I hope that's clear. And he says like this um he brings these ideas. This is how um by diminishing what you eat is going to act against these three claims. In other words, it's going to help your overcome your now mitzvah. We actually find three mitzvah in the Torah, right? And we're talking about the first fruits. Okay, we find three mitzvah in the Torah. Shabbo, Alav, I'm sorry, Alavana, Zoo, Vim, Kala, Truma, and Bikorim. There are three missiles in the Torah that will act against the Yates of Harah. And what are they truma and bikorim? And all of them are called reit. So as we speak that the yates which we didn't discuss yet is called reit. Um remember Yakov had a wrestling match with the angel. Who which angel was that? Rashi tells us that's the angel of Asav. The administering angel of Rome of Asav. As by the way, right, his administering angel is the Yates is the Satan. I don't want to get too much into bashing the other religions, but I have to say the word Asov and Yeshu meaning the Satan Asov. What was Asav's? What was so bad about Asav? Not only was he born first, which we're discussing here, that he came out first. He came out all hairy. What does it mean to come out all hairy, he came out already made. That's what it means. Au. It's as but it it's the same letters. Asu as he came out already made. Can you imagine feeling you're a selfmade man? I had no help from anybody. Not certainly not from God. Right? I made myself. Hello. That's pretty up there in terms of ego, right? There's no room for God. Right? was a famous rabbit that says someone asked him how do I how do I find God how do right he says where it's God is where you let him in right you have to diminish your ego as we're going to see these three mitzvah are ego diminishing and allowing you to have that relationship with God as opposed to I am a self-made man I'm just giving you a little bit insight we're going to see it very soon how are each three of these mitzvah is called rashit. So in numbers 65 verse 20 on the source sheet [Applause] it's number five the first portion of your dough you shall separate. So this is the kala. This is the separation of the dough given to the levim and the kim. This is rashit. It's called rashit first. Then you have trumis and messer right. This is what you're going to give to the cone and levim as well. And in deuteronomy chapter 18 verse4 which you will see number six also it's called rashit rashit. Okay. This is the first of your grains that you're going to give over. And what about bikurim? That's our verse. The borim also called reit. And it will be when you come into the land, you take the first of all the fruits of the grain. So you see that these are the three rayit. Now the truth is there's another thing called rashit. Another triple header. I like to call it what was my was my phrase my famous. It's the Holy Trinity in Judaism. It's it's going to be God, the Torah, and Israel. They are one. Okay? We're going to get to that shortly. Right now, we're doing dealing with three mitzvah called that counteract raet, which is, you know, the devil, right? The Satan, the power of uh the the Sar, the administering angel of Asav. And it's not so far to think that the administering angel of Asav which is the Satan is okay because Asav fits that category. Now right here the is called and we're going to have these three mitzvah that are ratio. They're going to counteract the yates. How do we know? As we said, there are these three um premises that the has over the okay mitzvah. That's why we have these three mitzvah which are going to diminish your ego. We're going to see which are called these three mitzvah we saw are rashit, right? You have it's going to cause a change up in order. It's going to Right. We said the the is first. Well, guess what? These three mitzvah which have first in them are going to take precedent. It's going to come first and push the out of the way. And that's how I'm reading it. Shalom. Because the purpose of these three mitzvah are in order to defeat or conquer the the power of your desires. And now this is the Rambam. The Rambam explains Rambamitzvas. The Rambam alludes to this not really so much in the Tamil mitzvah but at least in his safer called the guide to the perplexed but it's understood regarding this mitzvah of first fruits what we're now quoting mitzvah the reason for the mitzvah of first fruits in order to subdue the inclination this negative inclination to bring him down and to not to what? To control to control the desires that have overcome the person. I want to stop here and speak for one second about the alleged whoever this person is, the murderer of Charlie Kirk. Whenever you see, did I mention this already? Whenever you see these mass murders, these mass killings, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, the left wing, they come out and they're telling you, "We have to control. We have to have gun control." Guess what? What we need to do is control ourselves. See, the right wing, most of them, the religious right-wing understands that we're created in the image of God and we have free will, right? It's all coming together now. The free will, we can control ourselves. But see what happens is they are in touch with their animal natures as atheists. They cannot understand how we can control ourselves. So they feel they need to control the guns. If you control the guns, you they're going to control our animalistic behavior. But a a biblebelieving, god-fearing person who believes in free choice knows it's really up to us because if they take away the guns, they'll come with knives. They take away the knives, they'll come with screwdrivers. They take away the screwdrivers, they'll come with who knows what. We don't want to give many ideas, right? But this is what it comes down to. The the reason for this mitzvah is to teach you. And what are you doing? You're separating. This is food. Remember, you can't live without food. There's also the which loves new things. We're going to talk about that shortly. But by separating, you're separating yourself from the food, right? You're actually separating something from your own desire because you desire these new things. You're you're helping your har to be in check. Listen to what he says. that what happens is that these first fruits are very beloved loved, right? They say that if someone actually does something on their own, they create something, even if it's only 10% of what somebody else gave you as a gift, you cherish what you produced more. Even if it's only 10% then what someone else gave you as a bonus or a free gift. So the very fact that the person was involved in the production of it right especially the bikorim but specifically because of a desire for new things. And how do we know that? Look in Isaiah chapter 28 verse 4. Where do we see it? Is it on here? Anybody see it? Yeah. Number eight. It's really the latter part as a fig that ripens before the summer, which if the seer, the person who sees it, sees it, he will swallow it while it's still in his hand. Now, that's what it seems to say. He's actually swallowing it while it's still on the tree. That's how the desires can get ahead of us. As the rashi explains, what does it mean while it's in his hand? The time of the ripening of the other figs, which because of its early ripening, he pounces on it and swallow it. Swallows it while it's still in his hand. But the clear says it doesn't mean his hand. Look at the next verse in Job 15:32 number nine on the source sheet. The word the kipato means the branches. So it doesn't always mean hand. A kaf means a palm. It can also mean and does mean while it's still in the tree. Can you imagine going over to a tree? Forget about a braha and contemplating the the kindness of Hashem. just swallowing it up while still on the tree. I mean, that's called instant gratification. I mean, that is a real problem. So, that's the that's the verses he brought down in Isaiah 28:4 as we saw that the person wants to swat while still on the branches, right? while it's still on the in his hand. He swallows it the clear explains that the hand doesn't mean cough of a hand. It means the branch while still in the tree and we saw the the the puss in Job that the word the kipato means its branches. There's no question about that. Now the very act of separating the truma or the kala or the first fruits you're separating it hashem for the sake of the glory of god you are overcoming you have control over your inclination you are negating yourself you are cancelelling out the ego of your own will for Hashem's will and that is the language of the Rambam up until here that was the language of the Rambam. Now let's go back into So the idea of giving up that first fruit, it doesn't even have to be a lot. We're talking about one fruit, the first one. You go down to the to the to the orchard. You tie a little red ribbon, a little yellow ribbon. I think they say tie a little yellow ribbon around the old oak tree. Well, we're talking about a fruit tree here. So, it could be right. You want to tie that ribbon. So, now you know that's the fruit that you're going to bring up to. So, this is going to break the word. How does that work? And it's also giving you this breaking of your desires for new things. Men, I don't know if women, I think women, they who am I to speak for women? I have a wife. I have daughters. They like to window shop. They want to see what's new. Men also, they want to see what's new. We want to look at what's new. Kimoko maestros the right. So too when it comes to the the tithing and to the separating of the dough is he's separating it before he can eat from it. He has to separate it. You know that if you eat food that wasn't had trum taken it's just like eating pork and maybe even worse. So you know people oh yeah I'm in Israel everything's kosher. Not true right? You have to make sure that whatever you eat had the trumas and mice are separated from it. So, but the idea is you're breaking your Yates by stopping for a moment thinking, do I need to separate and I want it? Wait till you hear what the Yates says to you. The Sahara does speak to us, right? We'll see what it says. And as a result of separating it, the will speak to you. What's it going to say to you? Me. Yal. Who's going to eat this? You're putting You're You're put You're putting it on the side. This is good food. Who's going to eat that? Who's going to eat it first? Who's going to get the first taste? Shouldn't you get the first taste? You're the one that worked so hard. You're the one that made all the effort. You should get the first, right? There's a there's such a desire to just taste that first fruits. So the very fact of separating it, you're basically renouncing the separation is a renouncing of before you take pleasure, you're masher, you're breaking the har through the process of these mitzvah. So tell us in there's actually a measure that says the whole world was created just on account of three things. Don't worry, we're going to get to Israel, Torah, and God in a second. But we're talking about these rais these three mitzvah that are rais for the sake of whatever rais is the world was created. And what were the three things? Kala, Mser, and Borim because they're all called and we know an Rashit Ella. There's no such thing as Rashit except for as we mentioned, right? Micer and this is each one of us as a human being. We are a small world. We're an olam katan. We're a whole universe. And we said about the whole universe can't stand unless it has these three things. Meaning we have to break the the purpose of this world is for us to in ourselves to work on our character. Okay. right? The world would not be able to exist from if let me read again the person this would not be able to exist from the aspect of the triumphs because of those original three claims that he's older right that the uh the uh can you know with with the physical pleasures of eating and drinking you could list exist on but not the spiritual part and it's all immediate instant gratification those three claims. So he says like this zulas except for the fact that these three mitzvah these three mitzvah it's coming to break to knock out these desires the power of those desires and you have the answer. By doing these mitzvah, you have what to say and how to answer your evil in inclination regarding his three claims. This is by the way the tell us because of these three mitzvah that are so too the Jewish people will merit three things that are also reishon. Asov, we're going to be able to cut off our enemies. We're going to cut off the seed. We're going to be the first to cut off the seed of Asaf. As we know in Genesis 25:2, you'll see that number 12. And the first one emerged red the Yates Harishon Admoni. So this was as we mentioned, this is Asov. He came out first. We saw by Jacob by the uh the wrestling with the angel that the angel the angelic force is the Satan of over Asav and if we could do that and remember the zeros asav is a malik as a result of killing off a malik what's going to happen will be z to build the base mikdash in Jeremiah 17:12 as it says about The basa mikdash or the tabernacle exalted as the throne of glory exalted from the beginning may reon. So is the place of our sanctuary measu. So the the if we can overcome as then we get i.e. um kachenu our holy temple and then what happens what's the name of msiach is a makus there's four possible names the truth is there it's really no makus because the four different opinions what are they you know how easy it is to remember me for shin for mech is yin which is this pik we're going to And so remember those four names. It's the acronym of Messiah itself. So there's four different possibilities. And this quote here is from Psalms. Oh, no. We're in Isaiah 41:27 referring to Messiah as whoam. So if you look in what did we just say it was in Jeremiah 41 27 the first one to Zion behold that is Rishion but then he gives the following verse because my one of my children's name is Yinon I named him Yakov Yinon you listening that Yakov Yon means shall live forever so Yakov Yinon and we know that Yakov never died and Yinon it says here In number 15, Psalm 72:17, may his name be forever before the son, his name will be magnified. His name is Yinon. Okay. So as the Gammorra says that I mean sorry as Cleakar explains that you have these three concepts. If we can overcome a malik then we get the basa mikdash. we get and we get Msiah. Okay. So, it's well known that the Yates even though there are these you know um how do I translate that? So, there's these three good claims there seemingly good claims the Yates has. Nevertheless, ready for this? It only has a good beginning. Trust me, I know that the Yates has a great beginning, but it doesn't end well. It doesn't end well. Okay? So, we're going to compare that to those things that have a good beginning and ends well. So, the it doesn't have a good ending. uh meaning the the end it doesn't have a good ending. How do we know? Look what it says in Cohelis. Cohelis is Ecclesiastes 7:8. The end of a thing is better than its beginning. Better the patient in spirit than the hungry than the hungry in spirit. The best thing is yet to come in the end. So meaning to say you know the right way to go the best way to go because it has a good ending. That's the Torah and mitzvah the have a beginning and they have an end. And guess what else they have? Actually having a intimate relationship with Hashem has a beginning and an end. Now when I say that God has a beginning and an end, I don't mean that he's finite. I mean, as they say in uh Christianity, I don't know where it says it's something. I am the alpha and the omega. You've heard that expression. So we have a couple ex-Christians here. Guess where they got it from? We're going to see in Isaiah chapter 44:6. So in Isaiah 44:6, so says the Lord, the King of Israel, and his redeemer, the Lord of hosts, I am first and I am last. And besides me there is no God. Right there, you don't need the other religions to tell you that God is the beginning, the end, and everything in between. All existence emanates from Hashem. So what do we see here? The very fact that the person goes after the council of his inclination that has a beginning but it has no end. Right? Doesn't have a good ending. of nicrois. There is a concept that three things are called rashis, not mitzvah. We said there were three mitzvah that are called rashis. Now we're talking about three entities, three things called rashis. One god is what does it say in Isaiah 44:6? I am the first and I am the last. That's God himself. So we see that Hashem has a beginning and an end, not in a finite sense. And what about the Torah? It says in 111 verse 10 when the whole paragraph is talking about the Torah, the beginning of wisdom. Torah is the ultimate wisdom, the beginning of wisdom. So in Hebrew raises again the Torah is called raises and what about the Torah being a so we have here in in Cohelis near the end chapter 12:13 towards the end of Ecclesiastes the end of the matter everything having been heard meaning all you have is Torah and mitzvah and therefore it's called the s in number which 19 at the end of the day meaning at the end of the Torah and mitzvah That's all there is. And and what about and and the mites you shall guard and the third thing that's called rais is of course nikruis the Jewish people are called rashies as it says in Jeremiah 2:3 that kesh is to holy is right Israel is holy to the lord the first of his produce and you see it is called the Jewish people are called rishies now that's very Nice. They have a beginning, right? What? So they're called races. What about the end? What are the Jews called in the end? Thearish are at the end in Psalms 37:37. Observe the innocent and see the upright. For there is a future for the man of peace. Shalom. There is there's what? There's a future and there's a there's an end to whom? To the man of peace. Who's the man of peace? Only Israel's called the man of peace. Remember that. Whatever the guy name is in uh in Qatar who's in charge, the prime minister. Remember that Mr. uh Saudi Arabia guy, what's his name? Solomon. Muhammad. All the Muhammads out there, right? Remember, only peace through Israel. When there's peace in Israel, there'll be peace in the world. If you're not letting us have peace, you won't have peace. Remember that shuvi it says in song of songs how do we know that the Jewish people the man of peace return return oh oamit return shuvi shuvi and that is regarding Israel and what do we know in proverbs 23:18 Because of this there is a future and your hope will not be cut off. Just remember this is talking about Israelit when it comes to who God Torah in Israel. Okay. These are the holy trinity of Judaism. The Zohar says right that what? How does it go? Okay. that we are one. This is the holy trinity in Judaism. Actually, there's another one. The other holy trinity in Judaism is that man gives the seed, the physical part, the woman gives the red, the physical seed, and Hashem breathes in the nama. Every man has three partners. The father, the mother, and God. And in the in the word Adam alf which is a gamachi of 45 you have within the word you have aim aim that's the mother that's 40 al 41 then you have a which is three alf bet so that's 44 and then you have an olive Adam oliveme is 45 within man you have one god the father and the mother and therefore you have that's what uh I like as the holy trinity. Um but getting back into this I wanted to tell you guys from the beginning this is pages and pages. We only went through the first of many pages. I encourage you go down in the um link below and there are um what's the word? Aside from the source sheets there are links to other years that we've given similar sharim. You'll get deeper insight. you'll get a broader spectrum and keep learning. Bizantem will have a shir next week. It'll be the last shar of the year. Until next year, I'm wishing everybody first we start with Shabbat. Shalom. Have a great Shabas number one and a great life. We always say but but before we get to that, have a great year. Uh whatever is left of it, take advantage. The last week of our of the year always is used can be used as a tikun for every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of the week of of every Sunday of the year that passed. We can make a tikun. We can improve our lives for a Sunday, a Monday and Tuesday that will make a tikun for all the Sunday, Monday, Tuesdays for the last 54, 52 weeks, whatever this past year had. And so we wish you not only a great chabas and a great life, but definitely a shva and we'll see you next week. [Music] You see your shing. [Music]