The Hidden Soul of Moshiach - Vayeira (Rabbi Dovid Kaplan) (Weekly Parsha)

so page 86 so yesterday we're talking about how they're they're they're leaving uh they're leaving town and then we read that that's let's pick it up again from POS six uh five lines from the bottom so they tell L to get out right we read that yesterday that's the sh sh right Y is uh how does the Arts go translated by the way he lingered lingered is a he he lingered in a kind of a he L I would have translate he lamented it really means he delayed he carried but he there was a lament over here he wasn't a happy camper and part of it is because we said yesterday that the guy he's losing all his wealth he's losing everything the uh you know for a man a wealthy man to lose everything it's a crushing it's not a question of being able to feed the family not just because of what am I going to do about feeding the family there's an element here of in in two when was it 2008 the big financial crash so there was a wealthy wealthy Jew who came to one of the Rabon and he got wiped out he he was wiped he was cleaned out and went 2008 and he came to one of the rub on him and he said to him you know I have nothing left to show for my last 25 years other than my 45 minutes a day of adafi it means a person who is a businessman or a person who's working to accumulate money that becomes your life I once asked a fundraiser here from wor years ago one of the main fundraisers he's no longer with theiva but I once asked him theiva was in having some Financial struggles could you believe it and uh the uh so I once asked this guy imagine you know these guys are fundraisers everybody knows when the market is up so then you could go fundraising when the market is down you're not you're just not going to do well so I said to this guy I don't understand something if a man is worth $80 million let's say a guy's worth $80 million and you knock on his door the market is down so now he's worth $79 million he's still got plenty of money to give you so he said to me you don't understand he told me David you don't understand the psychology of a donor the way a donor works is what you what he has now is him that's his identity that's who he is cuz that's what his life is he is $80 million when he makes a profit Market is up so for a certain period of time until he joins it with his current savings it's what's his excess money where he's going to give a certain percentage to Sedaka but once it's connected up to him now he's $82 million that's who he is right now I'm 80 $80 million that's not money I could give away that's who I am it's like giving away your finger you wouldn't cut off a finger to give to somebody once I have an excess if I had another finger then I could cut off and give to somebody but if but if that's who you identify Lo is identified with his money is not just the fact that boy I'm going to be broke where am I going to get my next meal what what have I done everything's gone there it's a terrible terrible feeling I I've never experienced it because I never had $80 million but the the the the the idea of losing getting wiped out cleaned out you've just been stripped of everything you've tried to accomplish in life which is uh which is besides now the financial worry in my family the kids and how you're going to support everybody number one number two there's a pusk and Calis Co is always Ecclesiastes does that help you or we could just say Calis either way oh oh oh what's what's Co Ecclesiastes oh right oh good old Ecclesiastes right you cois which wrote and there's a that says y please open that doorer there is a uh wealth is waiting for a wealthy man to his detriment oer sh the one who has wealth the wealth could be sitting there to much to his detriment for example Kobe Bryant when you don't own a private helicopter you don't crash in a helicopter when you own a private helicopter you could crash sometimes I knew a man unfortunately a religious man who had his own plane and he flew his plate he was a good pilot but he and he and two grandchildren died in a crash for a man because sometimes sometimes you have your wealth and the wealth may be good for you sometimes the wealth is just sitting there and it may be your downfall sometimes you have a guy you have a guy is a wealthy man and a wealthy man and he gets kidnapped because of his wealth so oer sh the B Vero what brought Lo to this state to begin with his wealth brought him to sto when he got kidnapped he was kidnapped by wealth and the wealth took him to Stone so then he now now you're broke now you're running for now you're running for your life so so lo lo starts leaving okay then it says they told him in the B two lines from the don't look back now we started talking about yesterday why he shouldn't look back one of the reasons you don't look back is because you don't deserve to see the divine presence because we're going to see later God rained down the the the the sulfur and the the the the the the what the fire and the sulfur God rained it down and by the way the MRA says you ever been to the Dead Sea you know what it smells like as you get closer by the Dead Sea that sulfur smell very bad eggs bad eggs right they get a very annoying smell a very very annoying smell you know that the med says you know why we're annoyed by that smell sulfur hot sulfur especially is unpleasant and that awaits Sinners that awaits sinners in geham that smell the hot sulfur oh that's what it smells like I don't know if it smells like it but it's hot and it's hot so right and it's sulfur we smell sulfur somewhere in in the Sha level a person is nerv the reason it bothers us is because somewhere at a Nisha level we're getting nervous about uh you know I don't want to end up down there with the heat so it's not just the physical sensation of the smell not just the physical sensation of the smell wow that's a really annoying smell it's because it's it's it's reminding us of something unpleasant that there's a potential unpleasantness what yeah it's actually hot in Ghana no it's worse than hot it's worse than hot the the the the the the the the way the guar says is that the uh fire is 160th of the heat of gehenna the hottest fire here yeah you want to avoid it if you have it's it's like one of those things that we want to avoid what does it mean it's hot has a question person I if you ever been embarrassed hey something embarrassed in public you really did something yeah yeah something that really embarrassing happen what's a sensation when a person's embarrassed you almost feel hot yeah you almost feel hot you'd like the Earth to open up and swallow you and you almost feel hot the fire of G is a physical fire there's an embarrassment a sense of embarrassment especially it's a slash embarrassment disappointment it's like embarrassment SL disappointment when the person is shown you could have done this and this is what you did and you you a low a low achiever and you could have had this and this is what you achieved in life where you could have achieved so much more so if there are people watching that you know it's like like somebody gives you back your test you got a bad grade on a test which isn't even the worst thing in the world trust me it's not the worst thing in the world but but but it's still if other people see it it's embarrassing and a person got an eternal bad grade you know not so pleasant that's that's what we talk about the fight of GNA but you got nothing to worry about Shai you're good so you got nothing to worry about we're talking about those people but that's why sulfur has but when you do smell sulfur it's got a bad smell so the sulfur is just a reminder of oh there's a place I want to avoid that's what the medish says in any event you're not allowed to look back because the Shina is there the divine presence is bringing this down in stone so the M Angel says you don't deserve to see the divine presence you're not much better than them that's what we said yesterday ainu the next morning he will see it because I you know you're good but there's an interesting I had an interesting thought here he says Don't Look Back why because when you look back you'll see the divine presence and I think that this is also a little bit in your own life my own life all of our Lives if you look back in your life about the path that's you've taken or the path you've been LED on you'll see the divine presence there I mean sometimes in life once you time passes and you look back and you see you know a lot of things that happened to me did not make sense and it was clear that took me by the nose and led me from place to place because you can see behind you with hindsight you'll see the divine presence there that's when hasem says to when I want to I want to see you and said you could see my back you can't see my front you'll see the back what does it mean you see the back of Hashem he not a physical what does it mean to see the back that means with hindsight we could often pick things up in life like you know didn't make sense that this would how did you end up here well because something happened I made a decision not to do that and I made a decision to yes do this and I ended up bearing this person because that other person who I thought I was going to marry but then I found out their father doesn't have money so I married this person and I made her father lose money because he didn't want me to marry her so they wanted to marry this girl who never had money and and and and and so on and so but you see that the C is moving you around in life how did I end up in this job well I tried to get another job and I didn't get the job and then I had a friend I met the next day who said no about this job none of it made sense logical on and I just that K is you look back you see K sitting there right behind you he's he's he's he's we don't see it while it's happening but often with hindsight we see how do you know that the Mira the Mir yiva escaped Europe during World War II and they survived rived the entire Yesa they went to famous Mira they went to Shanghai how did they get to Shanghai you know how they got to Shanghai they crossed the Russ they took the Trans Siberian rail Railway which had been built in the 1800s they took the Trans Siberian Railway what was it who needed a Trans Siberian Railway what were so many people going to vladist or whatever it's called what was a what and all a sudden the Mira had a train ride a first class train ride across Russia and it was just sitting there for so h you start to realize oh I wonder why why this railroad was built to begin with and so on and so forth that's why he says Don't Look Back okay now take a look in order to understand the next the next the next idea uh which is pericu test P page 88 now in order to we're going to have to backtrack for a second let's read the PK so it says uh four lines to the bottom on page 88 a very very very interesting idea when God destroyed the cities of the Plains everybody see that three lines of the B God remembered he took Lo out from the turmoil when he turned over the cities now I a question I understand how did Aon V get into the picture here says hasem remembered ab and therefore he saved L how how did AB get into picture here because uh AB was AB brought Lo with him everywhere fine but now Lo's on his own what's it got to do with this point he's only saving loot how did it get to AR where's AR I know what happened before but how did AR get in the picture over here so take a look at rashi rashi says PK 29 it's the left column it's the left column last line there's the last line of Rashi so Rashi says not Rashi also bothered by this question I it should just say he saved Lo what do you mean you remembered so Rashi says what's the connection to what did he remember about a Al Nar he remembered he knew that Sor is A's wife he heard a say to the Egypt she's my sister Top Line say second in page 90 he heard AB say she's my sister he didn't remember it he didn't he didn't mention it he had compassion on what AIC so what does it mean he remembered a and therefore saved Lo he remember what LO did for ab aino what did L do for ab aino he didn't R him out when they got down to me try that's essentially what he did AB V was my sister and lo heard and he didn't say anything I mean you know you got to that for that you know I mean you got to be a really low to be a snitcher there nothing lower in school than a snitcher right nothing worse than a snitcher you snitched what are you snitching for so Lo say oh he didn't snitch so what's so great about that doesn't doesn't you know okay keep the place over here and turn back to the end of Paras Noah turn to page 50 you heard a you heard a problem you heard a problem over here what is so Magnificent about not snitching that you deserve have your life saved what's a what's a wonderful okay take a look at page 450 for a second and we'll see so if you look at five lines from the bottom on page 5050 says these are the descendants of gave birth to and now Haron gave birth to Lo so Lo that makes Lo AR's nephew look at the next POS and his brother B Sarai and no are both Daughters of Haron that means arra married his niece Sarai is aram's dead brother Haron she's a she's the daughter of Haron which makes a s and lo are what siblings they're siblings they're brother and sister oh they're actual oh now it makes it a little clear so my older brother my older brother said you know what theot is they come down to mitan he says who's the who's the girl oh it's my sister and he's he says it's my sister and they're paying him a lot of money and load is standing there and he's thinking to himself as you people say yo what's up with that bro you know hey he's there getting she's worth a lot of money and he's saying it's a sister she is my sister I should be getting if you're already selling her I should be getting the money and that you didn't there you didn't snitch that's already a marit you gave up money for it no that's that's already a merit for there you deserve to have your life saved just just to not be a a jerk in not snitch that that for that you don't deserve don't deserve to be saved here you gave up the money to you didn't say anything oh now that's the hardest thing in life my father Olam used to say if you want to test somebody's Devotion to religion he was never impressed by the externals he was never impressed by a lot of shaking during daving and you know talking the talk he used they use the Expression put your money where your religion is H expression put your money where your mouth is he say say put your money where your religion is you're willing to spend money on it you're willing to lose money on it now you're religious CU then you're playing for keeps that was always the way that he put me in my place any claims that I made in my deep wisdom as a teenager he had two words he'd say to me that put me in my place want a bet that always backed me off except for the few times that I didn't back off and I lost money how do you like that then I learned it took a while but I learned listen if you're so sure put up put up put up or be quiet as the expression goes put up or be quiet never heard that expression huh hoodie no no neither did I I heard it a different version of it yeah as we all did okay now at the end of the day there's another very interesting very interesting uh uh lesson over here which is you know Lo he you know he he went to bat for his guests he had guests who came to the house and he went out you know he went to he thought these guys were going to get get get get you know abused by the people of stow and L goes out there he puts his he put his neck on the line for these guys he had lot he brought them into the house he hosted them yet the biggest Merit that he has is what he's silent what does that tell you about silence at the gar says a word is worth one silence is worth two and to be silent to not talk to Restraint of of verbal expression is one of the most difficult things in the world and a person who doesn't say something my wife has said to me many times you know sometimes you're saying something you may say something that's going to hurt somebody's feelings or you may want to bark you know snap at somebody and you don't say it you just don't say it it's like it's not the time to say something and the hardest thing about it is it's a Mitzvah to not say it the gar says the same way it's a Mitzvah to say something that will be listened to it's a Mitzvah to not say something that will not be listened to a mitah a restraint a little self-restraint the biggest problem is but nobody knows when you don't say it nobody knows nobody knows what aoic I am when you go and help a little old lady on the street carry bags on a hot tast everybody say hello everybody you know I'm one of the 36 of the generation but when there's something that I could say I want to say lanara and I don't nobody knows nobody will know sheem knows that's what makes it so hard what's Lo's Merit over here Lo's Merit over here he did a lot of active things yet the thing that saves his life is restraint that he doesn't say what he shouldn't say now I'm going to tell you something that's going to blow you away they L goes off to the mountains with his daughters and you have here one of the mo strangest episodes on several different levels one of strangers episodes in the Torah and it's going to get stranger as we go along page 90 so they go off to they're in a cave page 90 second line from the top he's there with his two daughters the older one get ready gentlemen fasten your seat belts the older one says to the younger one our father is old art there's nobody to marry us they thought the world was coming to an end they saw destruction all around them they just thought that the whole world is going they they they you know the place you know they they just thought they were that this was it so they come up with an idea let's get our father drunk we'll live with him we'll lie with him will keep the world going we'll have children I have a boy you'll have a girl may they wear each other you know what so one way or another whatever the plan was they give him wine to drink the older one lies with him was not aware of it and the commentary say the M says he was aware of it afterwards he wasn't aware of it at the time because it was drunk like Lo which is a status a certain status of drunkenness by the way if you if you're ever drunk and you perpetrate damage you're drunk and you break something you have to pay according to you have to pay except there's a status called if you get as drunk as lo you know basically your roommate in college if you're if you're basically as drunk as Lo then you're already not responsible for your actions I mean you're totally on planet zorch you're completely not not not with it so Lo the first night impregnates his older daughter okay now the first question here is all right let let's go let's just read a few P then we'll put all together the next day the older one says to the young one yesterday I lay with him let's make get him drunk again now you'll come you you'll live with him and get and get pregnant they give him wine to drink the younger one lies with him again he wasn't aware and the two daughters of L get pregnant from their father that is not an eternal uh uh praise for Lo she has a son named moav which sounds like May of from my father it's like naming your kid fatherson he's the ancestor of Mo son of my nation who she was a little more Indiscreet the mother of moav was more indiscret like his name is fatherson or dadson dadson or whatever you want to call it and then later on in history the Jewish people are allowed to be a little rougher with the moabites than they are with the ammonites they're allowed to fight with either of them but in the Merit of this of the am of the second daughter being more discreet later on in history the Jewish people when they confront Mo of and Ammon God says you can't fight them you're not allowed to take you're not allowed to conquer them but you are allowed to torment the moabites you can't torment the ammonites because she was more discreet so this is on the other hand and here starts the trouble the moabite one took the initiative in this Mitzvah and therefore she has a descendant who joins the Jewish people four generations before the descendant of the ammonite who's her descendant who joins the Jewish people David comes from The Descendant Ruth Ruth r r from Mo converts to the Jewish people four generations slon who becomes the mother of of of of schlom of raav the son of schomo schlomo's wife now first question here they run into a cave where' they get the wine from where' they get the wine from where the city Stow is being destroyed and everybody's running out grab the Boos grab the Boos we're cook you know gra and that's what you're pulling you're pulling wine with you that be a lot also and yeah got a nice amount listen you know where you're running away grab the grab some something to drink where where to get the wine from where' to get the wine from I what you know okay so there are two opinions in the one opinion is they used they they produced a lot of wine they were very wealthy they had a lot of Vineyards they used to hide the wine in caves they store it in caves and they happened to run into a cave that was a wine oh I love when that happens you know you're running for your life because there's total Destruction and hey look a Liquor Locker just when we get there what what could be better as we get to the cave hey okayy what you know what it's it's not the worst day I thought we're having a bad day over here and we got some uh sha whatever Chateau whatever the French some French name of a wine that came from Stone yeah there there okay that's one opinion the other opinion is the wine got there miraculously either way either way if they got lucky one out of one out of 100 luck or it was the wine they got there what does that tell you if it was got there miraculously what does that tell you Hashem wanted this to happen and you have over here what's called they felt the world's coming to and we got no choice L is criticized because he was interested in the immorality he was just an immoral person the gor says that he was totally totally preoccupied with immorality and so he ended up with his own daughters that was his punishment because he's so preoccupied with it that was his that was his pursuit in life they were actually trying to do a Mitzvah here they're doing a mitzah because their intentions were pure their intentions were pure and it's called there's something called an a lishma an a lishma means you're doing the AA for the good of the cause and there are rare exceptions where that could be done the wine got there is assisting now listen to this rosha Feinstein you've heard of right okay rosha Stein was the RV in a place called Luan in white Russia and one day this is documented that is documented I looked it up again yesterday just to make sure I got I got it straight because I heard this years ago I've seen it as a source a couple of times in the igos mosha the his his uh rosha Feinstein's uh ransa H responsa in the eighth volume in the introduction it goes through a biography of his life and one day there was a man in luban who developed a rare condition life-threatening condition his tongue started swelling his tongue was swelling he was having trouble breathing apparently and he was on his deathbed and he told everybody to leave and he called mosha who was R he called him into the room and he said toosha I know why this is happening to me last week we read para's Viera and he read about what the daughters of L did and he started talking he was talking disparagingly about loads of daughters how they could behave so immorally to go cohabit with their father he said a couple of nights ago he had a dream and two elderly ladies with their faces covered came to him and they said we are the daughters of L and what we did we did for a very very positive reason which I'm going to tell you in a second and because you disparaged us that's why it happened and the same way that the spies who spoke bad about the land of Israel their tongues extended down to their belly buttons remous spies that's what they died Therefore your tongue is swelled up because you disparaged us where we had good intention and what OSHA Feinstein heard the guy say and then the guy died shortly after OSHA Feinstein wrote that it it it it very likely to have been because it made a lot of sense he didn't say for sure it was he doesn't he just said it's very likely that it was true that's what he said okay what was their intention what was their intention they understood or sensed at some level that at some point there is you know there are certain potentials spiritual energies and potentials that are circulating in the world they knew that there was some sort of energy that one day there's going to be a story about a messiah who is a an Immaculate Conception that godfathered him and they knew that if L they come out of this cave they could have made up any story they wanted they could have said yeah you know you know this this wrong came from Hashem and uh they wanted to make sure that that nonsense doesn't get spread in the world and which is where the true Messiah comes from and as a result of that that's why they named their father they named after the father said everybody should know this was we're pregnant from the father not some sort of Immaculate Conception nonsense and as a result of that that was that was their good intention and he disparaged them for naming for being so indiscret that's why he was punished that's where finding wres so you know in 19 I think it was 1972 if I'm not mistaken do you ever hear Franco Harris Pittsburgh versus Oakland playoff game last last play of the game Oakland was up by four or five points last play of the game Pittsburgh's got the ball they're on about their 253 yard line they couldn't even throw hell Mary they're too far so the quarterback throws it downfield one of the Oakland players bats the ball down I think it was Jack Tatum he bats the ball down and Fran o' Harris was a rookie running back picked up the ball about six inches off the ground he caught the ball rumbled in about 50 yards from for the touchdown pit Pittsburgh won and they were calling it The Immaculate Reception that was the Immaculate Reception you don't remember that oh you don't remember it I do the Immaculate Reception every kid in America if you'd ask the kid what was the immaculate every Catholic kid that you'd ask him what was the Immaculate Conception about he he'd say about Franco Harris that's why he was convinced yoska was Franco Harris no question about it so they they knew that this nonsense about an Immaculate Conception what they call an Immaculate Conception we call a mser because yesica's mother committed adultery that's where he was born so they called an Immaculate Conception we call it aamer and therefore that was their that was their intent over here now the big question becomes you know okay at the end of the day this is incest what are results from here what comes about as a result of this Messiah a great place for messiah to come from why is Messiah have to come from here I mean couldn't they couldn't come up with a better start for mhia the whole the whole nation started from incest you don't have a better place for Mia do that bother you is that curious why mhia have to come from here because they thought it was the end of the world fine so ab and Sarah could have had Messiah you know he could have had a Mah as a straight descendant of of of the Jews you're right but yeah you could you could have say why do you have to have this and what happens now watch this you want to say you want to go for a ride thank you for a ride okay let's Trace where does mesiah come from he comes from two from two lines he comes from the line of Yehuda and he comes from the line of Moab now if you take a look at the the the Messianic process it's a remarkable thing Yehuda cohabits with a woman who's standing at the crossroads behaving like a harlot and she has twins parrot and zerak which is where messia comes from he comes from parrots from the Yuda line and you know the med says she was perfectly kosher and she was Tor and he himself was being pushed by the angel to to to cohabit with her at the end of the day the end of the day on a resume it doesn't look good and they you know the whole story is a bit bit what the English call Dody you the whole thing looks a little dodgy isn't that what you call it there you go dodgy right and that's on the Yehuda line one second then you have on the Moab line incest and then what happens is you have this woman named Ru who ends up meeting this guy named Bo guy he's a NY named Boaz and how do they meet she goes down to the Grainery at midnight she goes down to the Grainery at midnight and in the most unsn manner make sure that he understands that she wants him to to to marry her okay so Boaz now has to convince the son hedrin that she's allowed to marry into the Jewish people because she's from moite the Torah says moabites are not married to the Jewish people so there's a raging debate and Bo convinces them males are forbidden not the females and everybody says he's right we Pas and he can marry her so he marries her and the next morning he dies now even the least cynical person in the world you know can you imagine a guy sitting at a table I don't know if the food has got a he right heure I think it's a good heure I'm not sure the guy takes a bite out of the meal out of the out of the food he chokes even the least cynical bir I guess it wasn't goer and the next morning B dies well I guess you know but what happens she gets pregnant they have a child who has a child who then hands doel oh de oh came from came from Bo look look at that line so the the the line and then what happens where does the Messiah come from he marries who first he sends off to go get killed in war then he marries his wife that's the wife who M then comes from schom comes from that line what's going on here everywhere you touch it everywhere you look in the Messianic line from both sides something didn't look it's like it was okay after the fact that the whole thing doesn't look good everywhere you go so there's a there's an interesting cabalistic idea here which I don't know the first thing about cabala I'm just telling you what what the words say the cabalistic idea is that there are certain Souls that have to come down to the world and these souls are so you have so much kadia in English it's translated as holy they have so much kadua there are spiritual forces of evil that can interfere with the development of these Souls no idea what that means but that's a fact these spiritual forces of evil there's only one way to get through them you could deceive them they could be deceived how is the Des of miach meant to get past them the way it works is the Nisha is placed into all these kind of questionable relationships when the forces of evil see oh it's Yehuda with a Yehuda with some lady on the on the street nothing Good's going to come from that so they move away well it's a Bas and Russ at midnight well nothing good can come from that so they move away it's do in a wife who's husband he arranged to die and nothing good could come of that the entire thing is in order to create and the same thing with L and his daughters in the cave what could possibly come out of an incestuous relationship what good could possibly what could come so the forces of the forces of what do you call they move off to the side and therefore the Nish of mhia is able to filter its way through and get to where it's supposed to get to how do you like that that's what's that's what it says that's what it says there's another approach by the way there's a that's the cabalistic approach where that's the cabalistic approach there's another there's another idea which is the gorra says don't you don't appoint a communal leader unless he has a box of reptiles behind him anybody want to guess what that means D no no you's got that's the that's the expression the gamor uses we have an expression in English for it we call it English skeletons in the closet don't point a community leader unless he's got some skeletons in the closet why because you know if he's really a a a a blue chipper without any flaws in the background may go to his head we want the leader to stay humble so that when leader says points out your flaws and he gets a little bit it may get full of himself well listen you know you also aren't you also have something in the background over there you also got something in here don't they check all the politicians they they do background checks on them from the time they were in fourth grade oh you once got caught cheating on a test in fourth grade you know that that sort of thing so we don't want the communal leader Messiah is going to come along msah has to be very humble he's got to deal with everybody and messiah's background comes from comes from a very very questionable questionable Point comes from a point with what do you call the daughters float in the cave and you to they'll keep them humble that if if nothing else they'll that'll help to keep him humble and therefore that's that's where he comes from okay gentle we'll stop here M I want to do on Sunday we have to get to the uh we have to get to the birth of Yu and the aada