The Fall of Hamas and Acquiring the Knowledge of G-d by Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom everybody welcome back to the Y M welcome home to Torah a warm welcome home to Torah here we deal with the fundamentals the absolute fundamentals that every not just Jew has to know I think everybody on the planet earth needs to know uh we deal with the uh the commentary called the clear he is one of probably was the tud mhak of the maral Learned under him learned under um the uh theodes and an amazing story in history we're not going to get into that now for those who are familiar down below there are links where you can get a hold of the Hebrew Source sheets and we do we encourage you to learn Hebrew and we're going to go through the Hebrew um if you're interested in the English soures which are just sources that the cleard brings down if you're interested in that send me an email and we'll hook you up uh I have to give I have to give a very I'm going to call it brief I have no idea how brief this introduction will be okay and that is number one there's a dedication from our student in the Netherlands mean she was here and she had to leave I don't know if she wants her name mentioned might be anonymous but she is dedicating this Shear in the Merit of uh of am Israel they should have they should feel and experience true safety health and protect special protection at this time amen now I usually don't give a I don't I I usually don't talk politics my wife warned me don't talk Poli politics and I'm not going to talk polit politics but I think what this um introduction is is necessary uh I just want to speak about the resilience of the Jewish Nation especially at this time we are under attack oh yes the world thinks we're attacking or we have been attacking believe me we have to fight back and we were attacked but to start with just understand we our nation is 3,500 years old okay we weren't born yesterday we experience the atrocities of the Assyrians the Babylonians the Greeks not to mention the Persians again uh the Romans the Crusaders all kinds of programs throughout Europe and forget about the way yes treated us we'll talk about that surely of course the Holocaust with a capital H and recent history just know we never give up and what I'm about to tell you is what is going on is biblical I'm not going to say biblical proportions cuz that's obvious VI but it's biblical and um actually it's a big understatement for us to say that but how ready for this they have underestimated who we are as I mentioned we're 3500 years old there is no such thing as the history of these particular peoples it's a collection of Sudan Sudanese Egyptians Iraqis Lebanese right the this this people called the Palestinians were born in 1964 there always was I won't deny uh foreign um citizens natives to this area but the true natives as we're going to talk about today are are us it's called the land of Israel and it belongs to God and he gave it to the people of Israel now if you don't believe the news reports because many people saying this is just it's unbelievable like you cannot even believe that this is possible so just know that most of what's out there is either from CC you know um the uh close circuit television on the isim um but most of it's coming from where from the terrorist's own upload to to YouTube I mean how stupid can they be right someone commits a crime not just any crime a crime against humanity we're going to about to talk about so for any of those who do not believe the reports it's all over the world um so you have um the witness testimony which totally corroborates what they have put up and what the CC foot TV footage puts up and obviously this is not the time to speak about all the sad stories horrific stories atrocities um totally inhumane and I will use these not in quotes because this is emis It's war crimes against humanity um to begin with murder rape torture I mean they burned people alive we're talking about civilians you know our Jewish brothers and sisters and I don't know if I can say this but they beheaded children they found 40 lifeless bodies without heads of children on one particular place forget about all the stories that are coming out everywhere else abuse of the children and of the elderly um it's it's unbelievable um now it happens to be one of the greatest is redemption redeeming captives we have to do everything we can and from the latest report is that we Israel is turning off electricity and food holding back food but guess what it was in order and it is in order to receive our hostages you it's it's not a long-term plan this is a necessity okay we are at War these people attacked us and it's all documented okay um in Jewish law you're not allowed to you know there's different degrees of Holiness so you can always sell certain holy objects to buy even more Holier objects the holiest object in Judaism is a safer Torah a safer Torah cannot be sold except for two things is that's to marry off a daughter and and to redeem a captive this is like the the holiest thing you can do with your money and so therefore anyone who is and we're really talking about the whole Jewish people behind the Army right anyone who is supporting the efforts I'm about to cry to redeem these captives have to do everything they possibly can to help the war effort the war effort meaning the first pro pro Prospect of getting these hostages back alive and of course Yan is helping in that process as well so there are links below and how you can help um but I want to talk about this later later in just a few minutes how the unity how the Jewish people are doing everything they can already in this effort and everyone can be a part of it the next subject I want to mention is about yishmael we are in the gas of yishmael there's no question about it and I would say drum roll please because this is a good thing yes will do Tru it in the end in the end we don't know when the end will be but I think it's coming and I'll tell you why we were about to sign a deal with sod Arabia and Saudi Arabia and Iran do not get along and Saudi Arabia does not get along with Hamas it's not it's not the the Brotherhood that they're there that they that they support so there's this building up before the great fall I'm sure you've heard the expression the bigger you are the harder you fall you know as Satan as the uh as the nations are coming to an end and they realize wow you know then the uh the ugly head uh raises its head so to speak speak so I'm I'm going to make a statement that Hashem has given them a false Hope of Victory I mean it's very sad for us and these carbonos as we would call them I would not call them but that's how uh Israeli media calls them um but to a certain extent I understand that that terminology um it should be through their merits many of them were I'm sure many of them were were very righteous people they were dearly loved by so many people and uh whether they were observant or not they were Jews and they were full of Mitzvah which reminds me ar ar Torah wasaba Raba what of the Aros is what we we um parade around with so to speak I mean we hold hold hold the Aros up high in the Bas and mikdash we pile the biggest Aros we can on top of the the altar the AR represented those Jews who did neither Torah nor Mitzvah and yet P just because they're Jewish because they're proud to be Jewish no matter where on the spectrum of observance they were or are this is our Salvation through and you know coming from an observant sounds strange but this is the lesson as we I think not just sukus but especially but all of sukus were working on Unity supposedly allegedly that's the whole goal of bringing together all these different meaning together for real true unity and I think sounds going to sound strange but I think this is like a a little bit of a summation of what Rabbi kessen spoke about that Hashem heard our decree he he he made a judgment I'm not so sure it was so negative it could be in order to bring the Gula quicker this has to happen and it sounds strange sounds strange but as I'm about to tell you that hasem built up this False Image in their minds of Victory and it's only going to be their downfall just imagine the Nations I mean they don't realize the Jews we're talking about the in gathering of the Exiles Jews from all over the world so you're having I don't know it's 30 different countries they took hostages from like 30 different countries you got heads of state who are quite upset and uh I want to mention about the uh similar similarly Hashem did exactly this to Egypt 3,300 years ago what did he do to Egypt besides asking us to take uh the jewel the jewelry and the riches the gold from our neighbors that was only where we were so we did that God told us to do it we did it in the meantime the god destroyed all their Idols but he left one behind called the bapon that bapon they believed was the god of riches God of wealth God of gold right and God left that so when they came 3 days later to chase us down because we were supposed to return in 3 days 3-day journey by the time they get there 6 days later but God set them up for the biggest fall it's like just hear the words they took all their gold and put it on those 600 chariots because they thought oh if that God still exists that's we're going to worship Our God Like That by putting the gold on the horses and on the Chariots coming to get the Jews because because BS of phone still existed but God set them up and then what did we do after they drowned all that gold all those wealth all the riches came up onto our side of the seashore uh of the of the of the sea and we collected that and we collected much more than what we even left with now just imagine a second if we would have left with all their riches it would have weighed us down what a h Hashem had them carry it for us through the desert for those three extra days that we didn't have to even carry it okay so basically this idea is not a new idea I also want to mention through remz and I'll say a little bit in Hebrew for those who understood good no more needs to be said um about that on this uh broadcast who uses their own people's human Shields and this is you know it's beyond it's beyond the pale they're not human right whoever is behind this and the people who are involved in it and the people who support them and I guarantee you I always thought maybe 5% maybe 10% well this is when the time to make a decision for those people in Gaza you can escape you can leave you can turn in you know Israel actually called many of the tribal leaders and told them where they can go where they can hide and we have a lot of intelligence oh by the way this was the biggest intelligence failure ever everything that could go wrong went wrong and I'll tell you the lesson is my understanding there's no one to rely on except for Hashem of course we do use hopefully intelligently what we can but in the end of the day we have to rely on hasem um just imagine whatever concessions Israel had already given up we uh took our own brothers and sisters mostly forcibly out of Gaza it was an oasis and you see what it was after uh uh um Kamas took over it could have been the use of money of international money for playgrounds and hospitals and schools and it was used for Terror it was used for tunnels it was used for ammunition for training okay the last thing I want to talk about is actual Unity it's unbelievable hundreds of thousands of Jews have been called up and they have 150% it could be underestimated but at least 150% uh actual showing up uh one of my own members called from the United States wanted to come over and his commanding officer said don't come we got too many people showing up as you know anybody that went to donate blood stood 5 hours in line and was turned away okay the amount of people coming up um the amount for just before I start with that the idea is Torah prayer and CID and kindness so we're learning Torah tonight we're going to focus mainly on that prayer intensify your prayer especially the last word shalom have intention for the entire time but at least in the beginning at the very end um the like I mentioned about um the amount of every Sho has Collections and boxes and boxes and boxes whether it's food whether it's clothing um but there are specific groups uh buying uh for the military what they need extra gloves extra socks extra underwears whatever it is need in terms of military equipment I don't want I don't want to speak about that either at this moment um but there are many displaced Jews from the south and from the north now there at least in the beginning there were 9,000 um hotel rooms reserved for these people so they're coming without any clothes basically many of them and so there there's clothing there's diapers you you name it every possible thing that a uh a family whether they're old whether they're young medicine all kinds of and this will be in the Merit of our Redemption okay when we're going to singu but not yet there's going to be a point in time we're going to sing and I'm glad that we have other people because I am oh we have a lazyy here uh I'm not a great singer I'm a great follower when it comes to singing don't worry we'll do it together and make it great okay so tonight's year is a little bit long and we're start we started a little bit late so we're going to start in the very beginning so usually I go word for word I think what I'm going to try to do maybe I'll do it anyway I'm going to read fast in the beginning but I'm going to slow down so if the Hebrews too quick for you put it on 75 on your YouTube why did the Torah begin with a base the first letter of the Torah is a bet shouldn't it have been an Al well the name of God God starts with an olive maybe even the name of God should have been the first word we're going to hear some very interesting ideas from the clear Le throughout the Book of Ecclesiastes King Soloman Compares he uses many analogies of the Torah to the Sun or the Sun to the Torah and when I say son I mean s u n just so there's no uh questions here okay and uh I do actually have two um examples if you look in number two and three of the source sheet that's Ecclesiastes 1:3 and Ecclesiastes 4:1 what prophet has a man in all his toil that he toils under the sun this idea of takish right and in Ecclesiastes 41 that I returned and saw all who the oppressed who made Under the Sun again he through this is just the beginning right throughout all of uh Ecclesiastes there is the comparison of wisdom and the Torah to the sun now how does the sun proceed at least in the northern hemisphere what whatever I don't know how it works in the southern hemisphere I have to use my imagination but it starts in the East probably the same way but it goes to the South I'm just imagining if you're in the southern hemisphere maybe goes to the north but okay so it starts in the East and it proceeds eastwardly but then goes south that's why all the dues and all the buildings in Israel are always facing south cuz we're in the Northern Hemisphere and you want to get at maximum sunlight so the sun proceeds from the East and then goes towards the South but it's going west the whole time and it settles it sets in the west which means it's like it's like a bet and it's open toward the north so he mentioned here say back in Hebrew the way the sun only travels in three directions like the like the letter mosha the Tor itself was given through mosha and his face Shone like the sun as we know he had to cover with a veil perhaps the reason is I mentioned earlier that the the last standing uh Idol in Egypt was called the balone so there is this understanding in tanak that the Yar comes for what it comes in opposition to the Torah but where's it coming from what direction it's coming me from from the north and it's it's trying to break through and therefore it's open the Beth would be open on the North and then there's a few verses here one's in Jo yoel and it's number four in the sore sheet and the northerner I will distance from you and then in job 37:22 it mentions um right the golden Splendor comes from the again the idea of gold and Splendor is talking about the gold itself gold riches and the the releast the desire for riches Right is coming from the north and that is tah this is an opposition to the Torah there's nothing wrong with wealth per se but the desire for the wealth that could be a problem and he I think it means in majority of cases wealth and Torah run away from each other in other words they they really don't work that well with each other okay uh pampered Yeshiva students don't learn as well as hungry and poor Yeshiva students just a fact commotion now this is a little bit tricky um King David said in chapter 119 of Psalm to so he how do you want to translate unti so it's good for me that I was either impoverished or Afflicted either way it's the same roote and see how in order that I should be able to learn your Torah so other words without the distractions of comfort I think that's you know what I mean I don't think you have to maybe I'm wrong I don't think you have to actually suffer that much you could put yourself into a position where like a pavos it's good enough just to eat bread dipped in salt and have water in other words don't always go for all the luxuries right if you live on steak your whole life okay unless you have a sexual diet but okay if you live on luxury is very very distracting but anyway the CLE says this is not the place to speak anymore about it now he he brings another idea why the BET Begins the Torah it's very uh it's a good possibility to explain what he's about to say by way of this verse it says in Mish you'll find this on number 7 page two of the sore sheet wisdom has built her house and she has seven pillars by the way it is talking about wisdom it's talking about the Torah the Torah actually has seven books not five we call but in Bidar where you have the two upside down or inverted nuns you actually have 85 letters there's two verses we go out to war we take the Torah with us um that is a book on its own so B midbar is actually broken up to three books whatever is before that first nun what's ever between those two nuns and whatever following the last nun is a book in itself the Torah is really and just to give you an example how strong the statement is Kaz say it but um this PK says it also about wisdom she's shun Her Seven Pillars um when it says we went up armed by the Egyptians so the clear says what do you mean we went up armed how could we have gone up armed we weren't trained if you're not trained you're not going to what are you going to carry a slingshot but it the measure says we each had five weapons and we knew how to use them what does that mean couldn't be because we were slaves and we weren't trained for this so his claim is that we actually went up with the five books each one of us went up with with the acceptance not the physical five books in our hands but the very fact that we were willing to take on the Torah when we left Egypt already it's as if we went up armed and that's why they translated we went up armed however many explain only one fifth went up some even 1500th I mean many Jews were were left behind let's just say like that they were actually died in Egypt during the ninth plague of Darkness so Kashi says there when they went up armed he says clay Zion now clay Zion literally means weapons of war but just use your imagination clay Zion they went up with seven you're reading it as they went up with five and we already know that means like they went up armed yeah they went up up armed with seven the seven books of the Torah okay that's didn't go didn't go over everyone 's said I see that's good so so this um statement Isa that the wisdom built her house right that's how we translate it wisd w wisdom has built her house so even the word b really the word building is Bina right the wisdom the wisdom is built through the you know through the bricks of wisdom is built uh the house again the house referring to the BET BET is bias bias means house uh that the whole Torah is based God created the world with wisdom through wisdom and the base represents that this is a little bit cabalistic but basically this is the foundation of the Torah and I would actually go far as to say the foundation of the family and the home and you need a uh a be in your home which is only going to come through the uh the female species okay now we're going to get some meat and potatoes here this is a supposition that it seems just from the first glance that it would have been more fitting that the Torah begins with the name God because it starts with an alive or the very fact God's name you're going to start a story with the most important character God God created the world I mean at least right he says here now the truth is that unfortunately there was a very dark period in history during the Greek Exile and they forced us Tom me it's with a p p t o l m y Tomi forced the Jews we we we're going to call this the subian where they were forc 70 sages into different rooms rooms no mning to translate the Torah into Greek they didn't have communication they didn't have WhatsApp they didn't have any other social media there was no way for them to uh uh confide in each other beforehand or during and this was all through rues the Holy Spirit came upon them and each one it's very unusual that you get two Jews in one room to even agree here you have 70 Jews not in the same room each in their own room and for some reason they all made the same changes the gor actually tells us what changes they made I'll just give you an example cuz we're going to talk about one major one but um uh Tommy's wife her name was rabbit and it says in the Torah but a rabbit is not Kosher so they thought each one well if we put in that the rabbit's not Kosher he's going to kill us or off with our heads or whatever maybe all the Jews be very upset we don't we don't want to upset the king whatever it was through R KES they all changed it to hair whatever another word for a s very similar animal h a r e E I think I think English is not your first language sounds about right R yeah okay so um so that was the deal um but here we're going to talk about another change see as I mentioned if you say in Hebrew in the beginning created God that's literal translation we translat in the beginning God created but if you look at it literally and if you translate into Greek it would come out Elohim sorry then they would understand that something called brait created God that's how the Greek translation would be if they did it right meaning did it according to whatever Greek grammar but they didn't want to make that uh assumption they didn't want Greek people to make that assumption so they changed the wording to say in whatever Greek Elohim B that it was God's the first name God created in the beginning okay just bear me out here if I'm not making any sense I'll repeat it make sense to everybody so they changed it okay and regarding this idea the commentators everyone was happy even right we we we appreciate the change they made but now just if someone was contemplating is there a god in this world how do I know God so there's a book right he gave us the book but it would be remember God is invisible how do I see him how do I know him how do I recognize him so the clear card is saying it's only through his actions his action is the creation of the world and we're going to talk about that through looking at the world and I'm going to call it physics we'll see later why I do through looking at science looking at the world looking at nature looking at astronomy you will come to a recognition that there has to be a Creator through all the creation the the action of his hands all the things he created testify and Proclaim and give a trustworthy testimony on the fact that there is a God now we understand why has to come first because we'll see why okay we'll see why but that's the creation and only afterwards then it informs you about Elohim about God now if we're going to go with this premise that you needed to talk about the creation first and then mention God's name well if that's all true then you have to put creation so you know that there's a creation before you have the word God cuz you know God through through his creation so then write elim at least push God as close to the beginning as possible out of Honor or respect to God that every possibility to push forward the name of God um it's logical to put earlier on in the in the verse now I will admit this a little cryptic and we'll probably not go too deep into what this means but it sounds like a contradiction we said earlier um but that the act the actual M God's actual existence is not really dependent on words that come before his creation which he claims other people hold other commentators hold that the the word Bret represents so let's just move on because now we're getting into the meat and potatoes all that was just an introduction vote there's a book called The aada an ancient book and he's um there's a mid that says now remember these words well and you'll see this in number eight in Psalms 18:36 it says towards the end of the verse you have treat you have um actually let me just read the whole verse in English you have given me the shield of your salvation your right hand has supported me and you have treated me with great humility I'm not going to translate like that I don't like that translation sorry I going to say like this your your humility has made me great the words are and your humility TB has made me great it's it's an unbelievable thing what we're going to try to dissect this how does this whole Torah this introduction to the Torah King David is referring back to this verse according to the medish remember God's humility he puts his name not first and somehow that makes I'm going to say David but really the Jewish people somehow great let's find out melik an Earthly King let's assum he has a big ego or at least he has a legacy that he wants to leave behind for whatever reason his name will come first someone give me an example Saudi Arabia it's King sad so you know maybe you can make a conjunction into Arabia shell of the family of sod but no sod has to come first I thought of another Trump Tower it's called Trump Tower not Tower of trump right okay so I don't know if it's ego or Legacy we're not going to get into that but the idea is that an Earthly King likes to have his name first and if he doesn't have it he might have a a a pouting fit when it comes to the very Act Right the very mentioning of his act that is his name I just want to mention we're going to talk about the name Yehuda later but I I just feel right now the name yeh is the name of God with Aid you know towards the end but it's in the middle of the the doid represents this world this physical world the four dimensions the Jewish people are God we have God's name on us we have we're I explain it we are God's emissaries SAR Israel that's what Israel means SEL we are the ambassadors of God we are his I'm not even call administrators we are his ministers okay based on this idea that just by mentioning the actions of God you're already mentioning his name and his creation name now we're going to get into some really deep ideas and he ask you to think about this and concentrate on this idea M what exactly is his humility is we're talking about God's humility what is God's humility B in this what is this you made me great how did that increase or make us great I don't get it his humility makes us great and that's the clear's question the clear is beginning to his answer that it makes sense to me to say the following not Rashi had said and we can look at rash I think it's on the first page um I only brought half of Rashi at this point we'll bring the other half later uh look at source number one so the verse calls out interpret me okay so here the Hebrew he just says Daren that's the exact words of Rashi um okay let's move on ah I want I want to read the rest of that Rashi towards the end because the word RI we're going to deal with the word RIT for the sake ofit God created the world Rashi says the last two lines God created the world for the sake of the Torah it says in in Proverbs 822 it says I have this somewhere I thought I did and okay don't worry about it I know the Hebrew in my my mind for some reason so um when it says dark right the beginning of his way so the Torah is called RIT dark and well for the sake of Israel Israel is also called RIT for the first of his of his produce of his grain soit for the sake of RIT God created the world for the sake of Torah and for the sake of the Jewish people keep that in mind let's go back into the and he says shik you know why God created the world on account of Torah and Israel because they are called RIT that's how we know God created the world on their account meaning to say now this is deeper because why does the world need to know this it's impossible the cleard says it's impossible he will give you a third way but right now he's giving you two ways it's impossible to know God exists the existence of God the only way you can know about the existence of who he is is through his actions as we said and his actions the act of his hands was the toah and the Jewish people Al nikis that's why both the Jewish people and the Torah called RIS because through both of them through the Torah in Israel lead it introduces it's a way to come forward to um to understand the almighty it's through the Torah and through the Jewish people now he's going to describe the Torah tah is the Torah publicizes when was another word it's um advertising but it means publicized it's the Torah itself that publicizes or advertises this concept of ex nilo that there actually is a Creator who created the world from nothing and he is our God and what do the Jewish people do their very existence that's why Wow yes asav the Nations I want to mention something H Raba is the final judgment on the Nations and I repeat what I said in the beginning God saw fit to bring the Gula faster and closer that's why immediately the following day this happened and the fact that I mentioned that every single intelligence um um failure happened it's called the the hand of God it everyone has to know this is unbelievable it couldn't have happened other than Hashem I'm going use the word allowed it to happen made it happen was the producer and choreographer of this and it's all going to be ultimately we don't see it now it's ultimately going to be for the good and the downfall of the entire Empire of Ismael hear my words please God and what about so so we just mentioned that's um both of them then the Torah we we mentioned what it does the Jewish people know how to publicize to spread the message I'm going to use the word gospel in a Kosher Way the existence of God that the Jewish people from Abraham down the Isaac to Jacob to the 12 tribes to their children children till every one of our fathers told us and rebies told their students it's from Human to human transmission all the way back to aarish and who is he he was the one who he saw the world in its desolate mean meaning he was he knew he was alone until it was quite populated I couldn't figure out how many people lived at the time but he knew from just me to the rest he understood what happened the previous 5 days I mean he wasn't around the previous 5 days but he realized this is a new world I mean besides that he Hades and prophecy and saw all the world's history from beginning to end but at least he knew what it was from and he's an aid Adam the first man was certainly a kosher witness a trustworthy witness and the idea that the world was created which would be testimony proof on its uh the fact it was renewed it didn't exist before and then became spread out the knowledge of this this transmission was spread out through whom through whom through the Z is through the Seed of Abraham Isaac I us word Jacob but we're talking about the Jewish people through him so first of all that's the two ways that we know about hem through his but then there's I'm going to call physics it's called physics a science and physics and astronomy looking at the natural world however he does not suggest this leave this to uh your average bloke not everyone can stand up to this uh test of knowledge understanding physics to to come to a recognition of the existence of God through examination investigation research whatever is involved in physics deep thought of the phys physical world and then come to the knowledge through all that exists now when he says three worlds we're going to discuss this is is very mystical the tone the lower world that's the world we're in and I'm going to call that physics the phys the physical world although the next world is the heavenly bodies that's also going to be dealing with physics the third world is the Angelic World which I will then term metaphysical meta more meta than physical and then you have the top of existence and that's God who controls everything so let's go through it the way the cleard describes it as a cist wood this is the order so from the very beginning what one needs to do is to investigate and to contemplate the uh the essence of the existence in this lower world because remember we have the Torah and we have the Jews but then we have this new thing called investigation understanding out of all these four worlds or we're going to talk about four worlds he said three Worlds the one at the lowest level which is basic physics call Basic physics that's the easiest of what he's going to describe and we already know most of us I'm talking for myself does does not have a handle on on physics okay but anyway so after you master you become a master in physics in this world then you graduate to the next level of investigating and understanding what is in this next level the middle level which we're going to call I'm going to call astronomy the heavenly bodies he's not using lightly then from here you grad you go up by way of the rungs of a ladder the steps of a ladder now the is is the Angelic world so that's where you get to and then misham from there you're really going to the top rung then you come to a firm grasp of understanding that there is a God who is found to be writing the word ro ro means above riding on but I think what it really is referring to the control of when you're riding on a horse or a donkey or even a car maybe nowadays it's different with self-driving cars but I think you still have to push a button to make it self drive right or whatever but the idea here is that you're that God is in absolute control okay then now how do we come to these ideas amazingly through the dream that y that Yakov had at um the night he slept in beel which is the Temple Mount by the way and he imagined he had a vision of the uh the lad so look at number nine Genesis 28 12- 13 and he dreamed Behold a lad set up on the ground and it reached and its top reached to heaven and behold angels of God were and descending upon it and behold the Lord was standing over him so let's go to the Hebrew now the Torah describes the latter as standing on the ground now the cleart says that is the yov let's say the Jew or the human being can understand firstly the grasp the concepts of this world this lower World ver Sha where the top the top of the um ladder reached the heavens that's already the middle or let's say the second rung up which is astronomy the heavenly bodies but the Angels were going up and going down on that that's the that's the Angelic World behold Hashem was standing on it uh that or standing upon him so that implies the highest level then one can reach the highest level the most perfect level a grasp of understanding Hashem we should all get there slowly slowly l through our learning of Torah and our Open Hearts however in truth the truth is he doesn't want to burst your bubble you know I have a Kusa with a guy from MIT a physicist and he explained the whole thing to me that there are many unbelievable many many not just professors real deep thinking scientists who have come to the belief and knowledge of God through physics it's EMS I mean even Einstein there are some contradictory phrases and quotes but it seems as if if he understood there had to be a power behind everything so he says through through going through this way not everybody is so smart is so intelligent has the mental capacity to come to this grip of understanding the ass of God you know why because because when you do this first of all man himself is in a very dark and gloomy Valley so to speak a dark world this is this is a very physical world it's it's not transparent is what I think he's trying to say it's not so clear therefore it's sufficient it's enough for most people like you and me to come and grasp this idea that there's a God in this world either through the Jewish people through the cabala meaning the rece reing a transmission of this information all the way back to Adam arish or from the Torah I really don't think Torah alone because you have to have Jewish I'm talking about the people who are not Jewish you have to have Jewish commentators you got a g on Bible and maybe they don't have it anymore in every hotel room they obviously came to wrong conclusions many times all the way back you know back when I'm going to repeat what I said over and over if anybody wants to learn the Torah and what it means you have to go to the Jewish sources right you go to the Jewish sources if you're not around any Jews okay you can buy books on Amazon but only read to kosher Torah sources because the only way you're going to come to the truth otherwise one of the biggest failures of mankind is they made religion they created a God in their own image they suffer and they think God is suffering and we do know that God is only suffering because we're suffering okay let's move on so we spoke about the idea that it's enough it's sufficient for man toh to learn either from the Jews or from the Torah so K tell us now we have to understand this is an amazing idea the Angels they say kados kadad Hashem so God's name is mentioned the fourth word after three words then God's name is mentioned we the Jewish people we say is similar to the the pattern elim God's name appears third in the Tor in the Torah in the shma it appears third third word Angels only after the only the fourth word so with that little background he mentions this idea in that in this lower world we we mention God's name only after two words and the example in Deuteronomy 6:4 hashem's name is the third word but when it comes to the Angelic forces they're only going to mention God in the fourth word after three whole words as I mentioned in Isaiah 6:3 when it comes to they don't have a they don't have they they have Clarity their Clarity is so strong they have a kakam they're I don't know how to describe it but whatever their acknowledgment of hashem's presence it's clear and it's pure it's clean it's and they can go through they're not in this physical world and they can go through the without the Torah they don't need the Torah there is no Torah by them and it's not even necessary by them they have no yet but they're able to see with Clarity all these worlds and understand Hashem on the fourth Rong so there able to to mention God's name after kados kados kados now he's going to explain it again and it's not so easy the this is talking about the angels that their a their comprehension begins with understanding whatever is below them they know exactly where they come from you know we don't realize you know the master we don't realize who our master who our maker is but angels have no problem with that there's no such thing by the way I mean this is there's they don't have free will there is no such thing as a rebellious Angel right our understanding of Satan is he's doing exactly what God wants him to do and that's to test us to bring out the G the best in US believe it or not he doesn't want us to fail he wants us to overcome him but that's his job and the angels don't have this so they they're not in this this physical world as we know it um so the next thing that happens is through their understanding they can sanctify God below and that's why you say Kad Kad Kad all three levels as we described they already have a full understanding of the middle level they understand that hem is their master and King they know exactly on their level the third level up exactly who boss and who they are and then they really truly understand for some reason they have Clarity and they can sayem's name after sanctifying all three of the lower worlds but when it comes to us human beings sh we don't have the clarity we don't have the mental capacity right it's not so clear to us we said that the human beings most of us cannot come to this examination and investigation and research because it's so vast therefore it's sufficient for us you know there's not too much of expectations on us we come to recognize that um that hem is Hashem only after two two words such as is now this is interesting we sayma and then we say is so the what isma really doesn't just mean to hear it means to understand it's referring to the Torah itself listen to what listen to the words of Torah not Torah this Torah is the Torah itself when we say every day we're we're we're saying listen to the Torah and then when it says is listen to Isel know that Israel is a way of it's m it's it's something he created which has a transmission of of publicizing who Hashem is Turn the page right it's the idea of the transmission that goes around and is publicizing B Isel within the Jewish people from under Abraham okay so it's going through us but it's the transmission that took place between Adam and the first man until Abraham in the 20th generation what was what was abrah doing he was spreading the good news right he was letting everyone know that there's one God and you can get rid of your idols and all the good stuff and there's morals and whatnot right we don't kill our children right Kish Rashi like Rashi explains um on verse 24: 7 do I have that here on the sheets number 12 the Lord God of the heavens who took me from my father's house so based on that verse let's see do I have a Rashi on that yeah let's look at that Rashi on page three and the top the Lord God of the heavens who took me away this is what he was telling people but he didn't say the god of the earth like in verse three um he said to him now he is the god of the heaven and there's the god of the Earth because I made him familiar in the mouths of people this is what Abraham was doing he was sharing the good news right when when he took when God took me from my father's house he was the god of the heavens but not the god of the Earth because mankind did not acknowledge Him but that's not the case now now his name is more familiar mean he wasn't familiar then but he's familiar now so that is a very interesting Rashi that go that Rashi is explaining to us why why why um why Abram called God the god of the heavens at this point in time because he was going around letting people know about God who made men knew and through him we said was n nit nit par he publicized God and not through the world but especially through his own seed through Jacob's seed and and and he mentions Yehuda so there is a verse in Psalm 76 verse two God is known in Yehuda it's Psalm 762 God is known in Yehuda in Israel his name is great I mentioned before the name Yehuda you can see it here it's y with theid this is our job is to make God's name great in the world so the CLE cards then continuing now we understand why it says and only afterwards Elohim because it actually is referring to all three ideas there are three ways to know God braet so the word ret we already said that's referring to Israel and the Torah because it's called rim and through the creation Bora you come to know Elohim now we never really answered what did it mean through your humility has made me great so z z God's an God's humility by putting his name not first right an Earthly King his whatever Legacy ego whatever it is has to come first but God put us first okay he put the jewi people through a rem before his own name this in truth is the glory and the these are all kinds of words for Glory you know the the value and the greatness for the Jewish people that's what King David meant when he says through your humility you have made me great just think about it the when he created the world he created man last and he built like the whole world so when man comes it's already there I mean it's like a festive meal you get invited to festive meal imagine come oh yeah come to my birthday party but please come 5 hours early to help me set up okay I mean it's it's nice and everything me you're really close to the birthday boy or birthday girl but nevertheless isn't it more to the person if especially if the deserving of it you don't need help I mean look we have a lot of guests so you know there are some sometimes where we ask guest to come a little bit early to help but anyway the idea here is um is that Hashem had everything prepared for for Adam for for mankind that he was involved in the you know he lowered himself so to speak I do want to say one more thing that is um this idea that the gatria of udk VK God's name he created the alphabet he created the alphabet and he created the world through the alphabet through the sounds through the permutations through the combinations of letters and if you take a dictionary I mean there are there there really are no onlet words right they're prefixes and whatnot but every word has to have at least two letters most three right Roots have basically three letters but there are some with two if you take and I wish I brought this with me but I'll maybe um I'll figure out how to send it to you guys if you want it there's a thing called gatria there um the name of the letter B so in other words Al is not just one and B is not just two and gimmel is not just three but each letter is spelled out so Al is Al p b is bet so Al would be a GATRA of 111 bet would be 412 gimmel would be whatever right there's a whole list and it's unbelievable so out of the 22 plus letters you have the the the final letters also have dematrius they're in the 70s and 80s and up except for three letters y hey and V they're way down the gatria y v it's 20 V depends how you spell it but the v v so that's 13 right and hey depends how you spell there's different ways but they're way down e no matter how you spell it it's way down and if you take just those three letters we'll take all four I mean we have it's three letters but there's you know what I'm saying there four letters in UK VK if you add up all four letters it's still going to come out lower than any one individual letter which starts in the 70s and 80s so God who created the universe created us the whole world just for us that's we know we're alive and we know our history and we know the promises that God gave us in the Bible and we see it unfolding through very before our very eyes and the next piece which I don't think we're going to have time to get into is say we'll talk about that so basically I don't want to skip this point I was about to make that Hashem he's so humble that he when he created the world he created the language his own name is the smallest of any possible any other word his own name is the smallest and yet he has created the world just for us it's an unbelievable concept and should enhance our amuna we have to know that everything is really for our benefit for our good even though we cannot see it and uh I think that at this point because I do want to talk about the next partu I'm sorry about what's ritak says this is a r quote from Rashi that he talks almost prophetically that the Jew that the non-jews are going to call you thieves they're going to call you thieves and this is what the whole world I shouldn't say the whole world small part of the world a vocal minority has called us thieves remember we start off by saying the land of Israel the people of Israel the Torah of Israel the god of Israel they're all intertwined so since we're all intertwined I want to just before I get into this R I don't know who will stay and who won't stay let's sing this and I'm I'm I'm going to cry I'm going to cry but with all our heart with all our heart um it's called a we uh say this on Mondays and Thursdays before we bring the Torah back into the ark when we give Mish bars and we're praying for different people whether it's for the Medina whether it's for people who are sick for uh the people in the afterlife I'll read the English first if any of our brothers members of the House of Israel find themselves in trouble or in captivity whether they are at sea or on dry land May H May the Hashem the omnipresent have mercy upon them and deliver them from their trouble to well-being this is a prayer it's not just a song but we're going to sing it in a meditative way from Darkness to light right um when we say Darkness to light it's um well let's just talk about the first thing from trouble to wellbeing is the and then from Darkness to light it's and from captivity to freedom and we're asking that it happen speedily in our days so where all our hearts are broken I mean we cannot imagine what it would be like but every single Jew in Israel that I know knows somebody or knows somebody that knows somebody a relative a cousin a neighbor an old friend a son a grandson who has personally been affected in sometimes the most horrible way I I'm I'm assuming you all know the regular song [Music] tune for [Music] man he can sing it over and over and over again and mean it and connect with every single Jew cuz we're all one and if we don't as R Weinberg always said he's not the only one that said it many G had said it before this Hashem wants us to be unified and when we are not Unified he will make us unified so we can him make us unified is not always the best option in other words we can make ourselves unified and offset any plan of Justice to unify us this seems to be just saying seems to be perhaps a way to unify us and it's working okay so we want this long-term plan we want to carry and take this feeling of the unification of the the Jewish people from here on in with no breaks no more interruptions I'm going to sign off even though I'm telling you the next part is so fantastic I will sum it up shortly maybe it's like this that it's a lot in that Rashi but he quotes rabit who some say with his father some say it was a rebi um that one day right if je if the non-jews ever said you guys are thieves so remember the original actually we didn't say the question but the original question in that Rashi is why does the St why does this the Torah begin with uh Genesis just go right to the first instruction the book Torah is a book of instructions so the first instruction we were ever given was this is your roses you know in the 10th month you're going to take a sheep or a goat and on the 14th you're going to slaughter it the 15th you're going to eat it you're going to leave Egypt and dot dot dot dot dot this is instructions skip to chapter 12 of Exodus what do you need all this so you need this to know that God created the world the world's not heer when it comes to taking the Sheep it says it has to take has to take from you which means from yours means don't steal don't take your friend Sheep by the time you get there if you didn't have if you just started you wouldn't have an understanding you would say to yourself Moses made this up what do I need to I can take whatever I want but once you have the whole story here and not only that that God gave this land first he gave it to the Canaanites we came in they were here we had to wipe them out so God gives the land to whom he wants don't forget that Hamas yeah you ain't getting it okay and uh to the rest of the isite world even in your own books God gave this land to the Jews and I know many Arabs who've told me they have done Chua they say I know the god of Israel is great we have lost all the wars they have lost all the wars they base who's the strongest god on Wars and it's not that far-fetched okay our God is mightier than your god well guess what God has set them up for a big failure like the Egyptians and they theu have a great week a great life let's start with the Year have a great year have a great winter and a great life and we'll see you here batem next week call [Music] to oh it