The Humble and Poor Shall Take Refuge in the Name of The Lord with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

Heat. Heat. [Music] Shalom. Welcome home to Torah. Welcome to the B Midash. A warm welcome home to Torah. We're have a little bit of surprise tonight and what we're learning. We usually use the clea car and I do encourage everyone to use the original Hebrew sheets in a link below tonight and maybe not forever but from now on maybe we'll be using a new safer by the clear same author. So I want to make a disclaimer. Whenever I mention the clear I mean gioreim okay is written by the clear that's obviously not his name it's the name of his most safe most famous safer called the kakar his name is Schlommo Ephim Milunchitz and uh mainly in this safer he's dealing with midrashim on the para and he's going to explain something I think is fundamental as we always deal with what we call fundamentals Now I also want to make um a uh it's not really a fundraising campaign but I want to thank those who have already given to the kaim to fillin fund. We're almost halfway we're almost halfway 15 pairs to fillin has been requested. These are kaleimm who are requesting to fill in to to wear. They can't wear them in battle even though that's really the way it was done. We wore them in battle, but at least they wear them in the morning for half an hour, 40 minutes. It's a bigoot for us to be participating in providing to fill in for those kaleim that want to fill in. Obviously, they don't have their own which tells a lot about them, their holy yen that want to do mitzvah. So, there will be a link down below as well. You can find the para sheets, you can find the link to donate, and we encourage you to do so. And again, thank you for those hashem who have already given. So again, a disclaimer, every time I say the kakar, we know we're talking about the ear gorim, unless I specifically say it's in the safer in the safer of the kakar. So the first thing he brings in parasal is a medish. And I couldn't actually find the full medish, but pieces it's peacemeal together. Okay. So, basically it's it's um based on the um the first of the verses of numbers. Speak to Aaron and say to him when you light the lamps, right? We're talking about the the manora and we know everyone translates it as when you kindle and that makes sense to translate it that way but the root is when you when it goes up when what goes up the nare and we're going to see how the nama the soul of man is compared to a candle we are constantly you know our soul wants to rise to the occasion it wants to blossom forth It wants to grow. It wants to experience. It really wants a closeness closeness with the and and therefore it's an aliyah. The root of the word is an aliyah of the nishama so to speak. So when you light the lamps, very nice in English, the the medish basically says that there were four things that Moshe found it very difficult. Mosha he found it difficult what to understand to perceive and these are them and in simple terms the candalabra what it should look like how it should be made the holy shekele for the beta mikdash the kban which kban we're not going to discuss these things and but what is common is the word Z or Z is used in the Bible for these four instructions. So the word Z the med says that Moshe found it difficult until Hashem so to speak showed Moshe with his own finger. Meaning he literally had to show him something he so he could understand what it looked like. And he brings four different verses right number one is in Exodus 12:2 theim where in also in Exodus 30:13 this is what you should give when it came to the corbanos in 6:13 and the corbanos and his sons had to give as well as the minora z mas that you find in chapter 8 verse 4 which is in our para z. So the word z the common denominator showing you explaining to you that Moses had to be shown or God found it necessary to show Moshe with his finger so to speak that's all we have but obviously we're going to focus on the manora right we're not really going to deal with the other things the clear right the begins au Boat in Gammoros it explains part of the history but basically when a person finds himself in a state of sha where he's dwelling in a peaceful state and we can go back to Jacobu. It says he was sha and Hashem brought the sale of Yseph. He disturbed his peace so to speak. So too when the Jews reach a certain point this is not coming from Hashem. is coming from us. Unfortunately, we get complacent. We wax in fat. Uh well, we'll see what it means. But basically, when the when the when the Jew when the when the human being at this point is dwelling in a certain state of you know what shave is a tranquility, a certain state of peace, he the person is boet. He kicks. That's what it means. But we're going to translate as rebel. Means he's kicking. He's reacting. Right? When you're in the doctor's office and they take a little hammer and they hit your right below your kneecap and your your your your leg goes flying up, it's a reaction. It seems like there's a unfortunate, right, we're going to be warned about this. a natural reaction when we are in a complacency, when we're experiencing a lot of goshmas and wealth that human nature then rebelss because of the abundant good. We're going to try to learn how to not kick, right? That's going to be the goal to have a state of gratitude. I think I discussed this before. I would change the name of Judaism, the religion to the grateful ones, right? We say 100 a day. The first thing we say when we wake up in the morning is I'm a Jew. I I am a grateful one. I am so grateful and I admit that I owe Hashem. Hashem doesn't owe me anything. So he says this is well known that this is human nature. And he brings a verse in Deuteronomy chapter 32:15. You'll see this in number four on the source sheet. Yeshurin. There's a nickname for the Jewish people. The Yeshuin the Jesherin became fat and rebelled. You grew fat, thick and rotunded. And what did Israel do? They forsook forsook the God who made them and spurned the mighty rock of their salvation. So this is what we say is something actually more unique to the Jews than anyone else. The clearar says based on this verse, oh he brings another verse, sorry. He brings also in Deuteronomy 31:20, right? When God's going to bring us to the land and this land is a land flowing with milk and honey which Hashem had sworn to our forefathers and we're going to eat and we're going to be satisfied which is not a bad thing, right? But we're going to end up being so fat living on the fat of the land. We're going to turn to other deities, God forbid, serving them. That's means provoking Hashem and then and unfortunately even violating the co the holy covenant that we have with Hashem. I just want to point out the word nat. Na means to provoke Hashem. And it's no coincidence many of the words in Hebrew like for this country called the Soviet the former Soviet Union it's called Russia. Russia in Hebrew means the evil ones. Besides that they're also in the north we'll talk about later. And then you have China. It's called sin which is s which is hatred. And you have kni we all know what they are. They definitely fit the category of provoking Hashem by coming after the Jews. That's the lesson in anti-semitism. If you're gonna like burn your tus, right, you think you're so smart, right, that you're you're the one to give the Jews rebuke, but that means you have to know that the Jews were chosen and they have to correct themselves. But the anti-semitism is coming from the wrong place altogether. That is very not good. Thank you. Okay. So let's go on. So the clear card says so this character trait I'm going to use the word unfortunately but obviously it is very fortunate we were chosen from all the other nations. So we have a greater responsibility and and also we have a greater yates. But nevertheless he says that this particular kind of trait is unique by the Jewish people that whenever we get to this place of complacency of wax and fat, we end up because of the abundant goodness rebelling. So out of all the different character traits, Hashem, let's say he reviewed, he looks at the Jewish people and he sees that actually the best trait for us is called an poverty. Now what are we leading into? Because even though the Jewish people are called kohanim, we are a kingdom of priests. We're called kohanim and we are a kadosh. We're a holy nation. Within the nation, we have a group of people called Khan. In other words, the priesthood. There's a priestly class. And they are given no real rights on the agricultural aspect. Of course, they can still do some work, but their main tough, their main job is to be judges and teachers. And we're going to see some verses that are going to explain why it is that they are not necessarily impoverished but let's say separated from the physical world separated from physical work right that we give them right we give them the trumas and mus the tithing the different types of tithes and also they're going to be eating from what we call shan goa from translated as the godly table right right from god's table, so to speak. Their portion is in Hashem. They're not going to basically they're not going to be land owners. So, in this para, we're talking about the transference of the holiness from the firstborn to the Levim and the Conim. So, because the Con are part of the tribe of Ley. Um, okay. So, that they could do the service. Originally the service in the temple was was set aside for the firstborn but due to the golden calf the sin of the golden calf that we're talking about the 12 tribes got involved with but ye ley did not le when I say ley I mean the kim also they did not uh so they were za to be and remain let's say the teachers and the priesthood uh to guide the Jewish people in the right direction. So he claims that an was something that Hashem looked for and saw and thought was good in order ready for these next words that this is the whole reason that one could be submissive or right submission you like I I heard that the word Islam right the whole nation of Islam whatever they want to call themselves they're based on submission they got it from us right we have a master of the universe And um you know, usually I crack jokes about Christianity. I'm not cracking jokes. I'm just saying that they steal our religion. They plagiarize it. Islam basically means to be submissive to God. Again, they got it from us. So God wants us to be submissive to him. And the greatest way for that to happen is, and it's hard to swallow, but to have let's say a certain level of poverty. Okay? Now that may be hard to swallow an element of poverty not poverty itself because there's no mitzvah to be impoverished. So this element element of poverty we all know that his top right talks about perkot talks about this in Judaism to be satisfied with little right and and we're going to see that is going to be the main trait for the kim for the levim kain loi. So too in the future look in Safana that's a number six on the source sheet this is about the future this is the messianic future and God will leave over means Israel the remainders of the Jewish people I will leave over in your midst a humble and poor people it doesn't literally mean poor in terms of wealth physical wealth but it means broken in the sense that you have opened your heart you're submissive to Hashem and they and as the verse says and they shall take shelter in the name of the Lord. That's where the portion that they are deriving their physical benefits from are from the uh the hand of God and of course that will help their soul and their nishama to receive to be a receiver straight from Hashem. I'll just read it in Hebrew because it's so beautiful in Safana 3:12 the God says I'm going to leave over the people who were survive the survivors these are the as it says the humble and the poor hashem they find shelter in the name of the Lord. Okay, back into the where we left off. So those times, those times that Israel finds himself with abundant goodness and they end up rebelling. That's when Hashem decided, right? He he selected he separated from Israel a group a group called the kanim and theim. This is a family that they are mishar elon that they are what? They are servants of the most high servants of the supreme one. Well again I I already said that the Jewish people are called kohani. It's not like we called us. God called us. And he says as a nation we are we are the priesthood of the world and the noides are the layman. And so those particular people called the Levim and the carim the priestly class they will not have a portion in the land like all like the rest of the Jewish people only what they're going to receive or merit from what we call the gava God's table the heavenly table and why I like this word that they will not become in their wealth. But I think the word ashram sounds like an ashram to me. So in other words, Jews, stop looking far east for your spirituality. It's not there. Right. Shalomu. So God is trying to create a situation for the not to become extremely wealthy to but rather they should be trusting and relying on hem. And why why is that so important for a few reasons? One of them is in order that they will be able to atone for us. They are the intermediary so to speak. They're bringing the corbonos into the in the temple and certain things that they're wearing and certain acts that they do actually help atone for the Jewish people, bring forgiveness for the Jewish people. In order for them to do that, they have to be on a level. You hear this? They have to be on a certain level of purity and sidkas, certain type of righteousness to be able to do this. So therefore they have to be and I'm going to use the word again his taboot satisfied with very little and this is what kazal say now this is a complicated um it's called a midish but it's basically it's from the cifree it's based on the pk in Deuteronomy 18:E2 where do I have that on the source sheet okay look at number eight I brought one and two so in Deuteronomy 18:es 1 and two the the Levit the kohanim, right? The entire tribe of Ley. In other words, this includes the kanim. They're going to have no portion or inheritance with Israel. It's not talking about the world to come. It's talking about the physical land. They're not going to have. Now, interestingly enough, you should know even though there are 12 tribes, right? The Levian were scattered throughout and they had cities, right? There were basically 42 plus another how many? Six. Okay, you had 48 cities. In the future, you're going to have three more. Okay, we're not going to get into that now. But basically, in the future, there's going to be 13 portions. Who are the 13th portion for? Messiah. So maybe it's like his family, not just Yehuda, but particularly his family gets a double uh gets a portion all by themselves. But anyway, going back to coming into the land of Israel, there's going to be a portioned 12, what do you call it? 12 uh tribal portions. The levim are going to be scattered throughout. They're not going to really have their own. Uh the Lord's fire offerings and his his inheritance. They shall eat, meaning they're going to eat from Hashem's table, so to speak. But he shall have no inheritance among his brothers. Again, referring to the physical plenty. The Lord is his inheritance. And in Hebrew, just so we have it clear, Hashem Hashem is his portion and that's very important to know. Now there's a very complicated rashi on this that we will have to read because the only way to understand what we're about to enter is to understand the rashi. But let's start with the clear and then we'll go back to the rashi. The clear card says somehow or another the won't have they're not going to have a portion of five and they're also not going to have a portion in their brothers which is somehow the number seven. So, we have two different hints to something of a of an inheritance or a portion of five and another hint to a um a portion of seven. What in the world is that? If you look at the rashi on Deuteronomy 18 verse two, you'll see it number eight on the sore sheet. I will just I'm gonna actually sum it up. In the beginning, Rashi's saying, "I really have no idea what this five and seven is." But it could be it could be that there's five there's five tribes on the other side. And it may not be tribes, we're talking about nations that we took over, right? There's only two and a half tribes on the other side, but there were five nations that those two and a half tribes took. Okay? And on this side, that's why Erskanan, it's like the the land of the seven nations. So you have seven nations for the tribes that are on this side of the Jordan River. And you have five nations that we took the land from. It was given to us by, you know, it was promised Abraham uh on the other side of the Jordan River. So one is just a physical allocation of seven non-Jewish nations that we took right in the land of Cananan. And then on the other side of the Jordan is five. So that's one way to understand the difference between the five and the seven. And Rashi does say I'll just say what he says. This is in reference to inheritance of the remainder among his brothers. This refers to the inheritance of the five. And Rashi says I don't really know what it means. However, on the other side across the Jordan and onwards, so you have five nations and who are those five, you have Sikhon and Og that's on the other side. And then God promised to Abraham actually 10 there's going to be uh three nations as well on the other side. That's the Kennaites, the Kennesites, and the Cadmonites. You can look it up in Genesis 15:19. That's five. And that would be on the other side. Also, Ley doesn't have a portion there, and he doesn't have a portion on this side either where the other seven uh Canaanite nations were. But that would be just the way to physically um arrange it. This the later part of this Rashi says, "No, it has to do with timing." Okay. So, basically what happened was, and I'm going to try to do this the best I can to sum it up. It says the second is the inheritance of the remaining seven tribes. So, basically, Moses and Yahushua, they originally aortioned five tribes to this side of the Jordan. Okay? That would be to Ruain Gad, the half-tribe of Manasha, Yehuda, Ephraim, and the rest of the tribe of Manasha. So that's five. You have Ruven God, Minasha, Yuda, and Ephraim. Right? You got it. Ruain God, Minasha, Yuda, and Ephraim. That's five. Okay. So in other words, in times of history, so in terms of five and then seven, so the first five tribes were a portioned while Moses was still alive. And later on, if you actually look in um in Joshua 18:2, Joshua actually gathers everyone together in Shilo and he rebukes seven tribes for not taking for unfortunately taking their time in their conquest. So in other words, you have the five tribes in time that were given over while Moses was alive and then you have the latter seven tribes which took their time and Joshua even said why are you taking your time basically and so you have in terms of that try to understand what it means five and what it means seven you have two different ways to look at it physically the five nations on the other side of the Jordan and seven nations on this side of the Jordan that he took over or in terms of time first was allotted five and then later in history was allotted seven. What the clear card is going to do is going to take it to a whole another level. He's talking about character traits of his taput in order not to become not to um to be full of yourself. Okay, it's important we we're supposed to not learn from the Gentiles. Okay, so the these were the worst of the worst the the people that were here. So the clear continues. [Music] So obviously there are many ways to explain the five and the seven. Many of the commentators explain it differently. the ani and the clear card says but I'm going to tell you what I think this is a hint everything we just discussed about the poverty the the fact that the levie and the khim do not get land it's a plus because they're going to be our judges okay they're going to have clarity of the Torah And he says those that class the priestly classim they were chosen they were selected from amongst the Jewish people and they were not given a piece of the land. Why shalom? So they don't become rich doesn't mean they can't become rich. They're not going to become rich for the land. And that way they will be able to act as atone, you know, atoners. they will be in the position to help the Jewish people be forgiven because of the Jewish people's because of the rebellious rebelliousness that the Jews experience because of the great amount of goodness and wealth. Now another medish, it's actually a little bit of a typo. of the rabb you know chapter 2 uh number five it's written over there is that verse okay so this verse is numbers 8 verse 19 and we're going to deal with this oh it's an unbelievable thing I don't know if you ever noticed it I don't know how you could have not noticed it but basically I've given the Israel I've given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and his sons from among the children of Israel to perform the service. Now notice how many times it says the children of Israel. I always tell you you have to learn Hebrew at least. Don't be afraid to break your teeth in the English. You would never get it. Rashi says the children of Israel mentioned five times. Let's go through the English. I've given the Israelites as a gift to Aaron and his sons among the children of Israel. One, to perform the service for the children of Israel. Two, an intent of meeting and to atone on behalf of the children of Israel. Three, so that the children of Israel four will not be afflicted with plague when they approach the sanctuary. I counted four times. But in the Hebrew, Israel once twice is third time is four time there won't be a plague Israel fifth time they translate as day so you wouldn't have picked up you might have been read the English and say Rashi says it says five times I don't see it you have to learn the Hebrew you have to look at the Hebrew but what is the reason that in one verse we're called the ben is refer referring to the benra five times and this is specifically as the Levites are being used to atone for us so that we are not uh let's say punished or afflicted with a plague when we the Jewish people want to approach sanctity in here the sanctuary itself explains this idea that five times it's to declare the affection that God has for us. Five times are a uh a a hint to the five books of Moses and so that there won't there won't be a need for us to approach so that there will be no need for them to approach the holy sanctuary because if they do approach there will be a plague. So the Coanim are preventing the plague. They're actually bringing blessing to us. They're preventing the curse, okay, through atonement and whatnot. All their service. So the clear continues to say right after the verse, right? Five times the Jewish people are mentioned and this is based on the what exactly is this analogous to? It's basically analogous to a king who has a son or a father that has a child and he the child goes to school. He goes to bate safer and the father asks him or the king asks his son are you eating healthily? Are you eating okay? Are you drinking okay? Um how's your temperament? Right? Do you feel energetic? um are you're walking to school, you have the I the greatest um motivation in mind and when you're running sorry when you're leaving school are you sad to leave school or are you happy to leave school? These are the kind of questions that an interested father would like to know. So the clear says so if you really think about this analogy Why was the the author of this measures using the whole analogy of a child going to school or why was he mentioning right? Are you eating healthily? Are you drinking healthily? Are you getting enough sleep or you're resting well? the clear wants to put his whole thesis together. This is all about those meos, his character traits that well, we'll see. He's going to list them that the Jews could have negative traits through food, through drink, through not sleeping well or being tired or going to school for the wrong reasons or can't wait to leave school for all the wrong reasons. He says that this um this goes along the way, you know, the whole that we mentioned five things that wealth can cause to the Jewish people. The gorim the cogga these five things are actually the cause the etsum the reason for the rebelliousness and actually causes a lot of divisiveness riv as well as nega plague and here they are first thing hey olive mous that food causes it results in What's gous? Hottiness. Coarseness. It says in Hosiah, that's Hosea 13, number six, number 12 on the sori, when they gazed and were satiated. They were satiated and their heart became hotty. Therefore, they forgot me. Right? Unbelievable. Savvu the yam. Yaram. They raised their hearts in hoiness. So not going to get into too much what they did but this could be referring to uh the actual revelation itself and going back to navu but we're not going to go there just take it for grant for for what it says here that that when you become sad satiated god forbid one can become okay and that was a verse in hosia and what about drinking. Drinking. We're talking about drinking wine. Really, the drinking can cause haughtiness. It says in Habacook, look at number 13 uh 25. Chapter 2:5. And surely he whom wine betrays, a haughty man whose dwelling shall not remain. In other words, it's not good consequences. Who widened his desire like the netherworld and he is like death and shall never be sad. And he gathered all the nations to himself and collected to himself all peoples. But in Hebrew it says wine. It says wine in English too. The bog gah g becomes a haughty person who really has almost like goes into exile. The consequences are not good. What about the third idea? Are you getting enough sleep? Are you feeling well? Is the food going into your system properly? This is laziness. Laziness. Can you believe it? Someone would become lazy in performing mitzvah. They're basically sleepy and drowsy at the wrong times. Right? It's okay at midnight to have a a good schluff, but uh 2:00 in the afternoon or 10:00 in the morning, like it says by Rashim, it says in Psalms chapter 90 verse 5. Now, this is a little bit hard to understand because I think I left out the Zion Sha, right? You carry them away. The zor zor is like a flood uh like a sleep. The sleep is not a good thing. Too much sleep is not a good thing. As we learn in the 48 ways, sleep is overrated. It's uh minimize sleep is one of the 40 ways to wisdom. But anyway, too much sleep is not good. And then number the fourth one on the way to the bafer um toem basically through the act of rebellion one separates themselves from the instructions of God. Okay. And the last one we're talking about leaving the Bafer that even at the time the no one's learning. Oh my god, what a great mitzvah you're learning. But if you're only learning to make yourself great, right? To selfrandisement. That's not a good thing. So the clear sums it up. And not so because of the his because of the concept of poverty right that therefore they don't have a portion in these five character traits which right they don't have a portion they're separated from a lot of food and drink. The things that they are given to eat are holy foods. They're so holy that they're not going to fall into this trap. We saw that the um the the tribe of the not just Levian but specifically the Kim when they go in to serve in the temple. Look in Vikra chap 10:9 that is number 15. They were commanded the children of of Aram were commanded do not drink wine that will lead to intoxication neither you nor your sons with you when you go into the tent of meeting meeting. So you shall not die. So in the Hebrew, right? Don't get drunk. Okay. Continues. They're also warned, right, about being lazy. I mean we do know that after many generations the mishim there name they're very careful and they're passionate about the service in the temple even the are commanded regarding as we just mentioned therefore they were given physical labor carrying things and and and doing things literally means to shoulder. this Torah that they shouldn't run away from the BA mikdash when they finish their work like a child would run away from school when school leaves but the Torah goes out from the BA mikdash right to out of Zion comes the Torah now let's go into Mali Chapter 2:7 that is on the last page. What is the priest's job? Right? What is the job of the what are their job? So it says over there for a priest's lips shall guard knowledge. They're there when people have questions. Right? It's theim and the it's not only the job because it says in other about judges in those days and most of the judges probably were coin but you didn't have to be a co to be a judge but there was a a a very um narrow job for the coim and that not only to serve but to become the judges to become the teachers and it says says over there in Hebrew cohas their gu their job was to guard the the the religion to guard the the the the divine wisdom and to pass it down and it says and teaching should be sought from his mouth right anybody that had questions go up to and that's where you find the mainly too that he is a messenger of Hashem. The Cohen are messengers of Hashem. Now, keep in mind, we had read Leviticus, I think it was chapter 10, verse 9, don't get drunk. Two verses later in number 11, I'm skipping a little bit, but number 17, uh, chapter 10 11. And if this is a a Moshe, the job of the were to instruct the Jewish people, right? Regarding all the different laws that God had told over to Moses, Rashi says this teaches you that it's forbidden. If you're a rabbi who's giving over lectures or sakalaka, you cannot get you cannot be drunk in that state. I read Rashi. This teaches that an intoxicated person is prohibited to render hakic decisions. Okay. So, continue on. And they're also warned that when they're teaching Torah, not to do it for self aggrdment, not for holiness, but rather for the true purpose of spreading I'm going to use I like it. spreading the the gospel, spreading the truth, spreading the real, you know, everything else is fake news. There's a lot of fake news, the real gospel, not the fake gospel. The good news, the good news that God loves you, okay? Therefore, they're commanded to stay away from wineus because that gives off that uh consequences could end up being hardiness. And as we saw that was in verse 9 he brings verse 11 right away there's a close close proximity to giving over instructions this is what it means now when we say this portion will not be to them the of those five character traits which anyway relates if you notice back to the non-Jews according to one opinion even the other opinion one's to a time one has to do with physical but nevertheless it's taking over the land where non-Jews had bad who had bad character resided okay so you're staying away from bad meidos and that's what it means they won't have this inheritance of bad character traits they won't have a portion of these five let's say negative character traits which is what really causes the rebelliousness and within the brothers. So this hints within the seven which is the Jewish people's main part of Israel that hints to the idea of I'll just read again within the land. So that's on this side of the Jordan. The Nakat 7 Zion hints to Israel who goes with the Yates. By the way, there are seven names for the Yates and there's different ways to look at them, but one of them is as follows. Um it says ina some say it was Yeshua beni that God called the Rah, which is evil. Moshe called the Yates an orel which is uncircumcised. Do a called the tame which is impure what did he call it or that means a hated one. Yeshu Isaiah called it a mikshot which is a stumbling block called it Evan. I don't know exactly why. I have to look into it. Yoel called the haroni which is a hint to the something in the north. And by the way, I just want to maybe stop for a second where Persia is called in the north. Even though I don't see it on a map. I don't see it on a map, right? There's different ways to look at maps. Okay? But it is north, but it's mainly east of us. But it is northeast of us. In other words, you look on a map, it is. So that's how the evil comes from the north. Some say it means Moscow and Russia, but some most talk about most of the khazal speak about come the evil coming from the north is Persia. And we are on the brink of maybe, you know, a six-minute war. And of course, we're going to win. So there's nothing to worry about. Sleep sleep well at night. the when we left Egypt. So, Hashem destroyed all the idols of Egypt except for one, it was called the Bal Safhone, right? If you look in Exodus chapter 14:2, so God left the balophone. And this gave the Egyptians this idea, oh, maybe they're not all destroyed. The balophone was the god of wealth. And they decided even though the Jews took a lot of wealth out of Egypt. We only really took from Gan. We took from our neighbors. We didn't Egypt was pretty big. We didn't go all over Egypt and collect. They actually did us a favor and brought it to us. How did that happen? Hashem left this one idol balon, the god of wealth. Remember this ties into this idea of wealth. So they said, "Oh, this is how we worship the god of wealth." They put on their chariots, 600 chariots, all their gold, and they brought it right to this to the sea, and they got drowned. And gold is pretty heavy, but Hashem created a miracle where it came up onto our side of the sea. Okay? And so, it was a very interesting trick, and I want to show you a verse. I I hope I have it. Look in Job. You have to look it up. Job chap 12 verse 23. This is what's happening today in the world. Whenever you see the Jews go down and the non-Jews go up, right? A lot of anti-semitism, a lot of crazy um um laws coming out of the UN and different places. We have this saying in English, the bigger you are, the harder you fall. Hashem created the situation for the Egyptians where they, oh, they had their hope in that last thing and they put all their gold into it and bang, crash, it came up on our side after they all But look in Job 12 verse 23. Listen to this. If if we could paraphrase, the bigger you are, the harder you fall. 12:23 says, he's very small print, so forgive me. 23, he exalts nations and then destroys them. He brings them up and then brings them down. Okay. And so there are seven names for the and all of them are goyan oer kiniskar. There are seven names for the yates and all cause kenyan oer kenyan oer it has a desire. I mean if we didn't have a yates and we have to keep it in check people wouldn't go in business. People wouldn't create things right. The very fact that there's a desire for wealth could be a good thing but it has to be in check. But that's what he's saying that all of the different names of the look the essence of the is to acquire wealth. So this priestly class doesn't have a portion in the wealth or in the inheritance. Therefore, they won't come into these five things, right? They won't come into these five character traits. God forbid to enter like the seven names or character traits of the however in opposition to this in light of that. So even though the harra has seven names, there's a parallel car something corresponding that there are seven groups of righteous people for the future, the world to come and they're hinted at through the seven branches of the light of God so to speak five names. So in the reward the spiritual reward we're going to call lair hanes the the nishama is compared to a lamp I don't know if I brought this down but we said we have this verse in proverbs right that the lamp of god is a soul of man okay so the the lamps the the the the why does the shahelit shvit the flame it's always trying to go up the soul That's all it wants to do. That's how he said in the beginning. It's an elevation. It's a ascension. It wants to go up. So these seven branches of minora represent the seven groups of righteous people of the future. Okay? And there they par. Oh, so first of all, like we said before, there were these five negative traits in the nisham itself. There are five names. There are five different levels of the nama. You know what they are? You have the nephish, which is the lowest. You have ru, you have nish, you have the and so there's five levels of your nish that parallels to the five negative character traits. And he says this is the basic. So this is the hidden meaning um the mystical meaning of the verse that you're going to raise up the nero. Now he says there are five. So this is the hidden meaning of the verse as we read this is our part how our para began that balos when you raise up the narrows we're talking about the five narrows the five levels of your soul towards the center right el maminor the center candle which is actually how is it arranged the wicks were all pointed towards the center that's three on each side and then the center one was pointed towards the west so you had on the north and south pointing north and south to the center and then the middle wick towards Hashem towards the western what do you call it the the peroit towards the holy of holies okay so he says it's towards the the center shall illuminate the seven candles these seven candles are the seven groups of sadikim as we will explain shortly. Hooray that the this priestly class is separating themselves from these five negative traits that we talked about. This is why in the verse the ben is mentioned in that verse five times. Leim Israel. Remember the leim are atoning for the Jewish people who unfortunately the Jewish people are involved in those five things. And now we understand why the analogy was used for this child who's going to the Bafer to the school that Israel that that the child is the Jewish people. But how do we know that? Look in Hosea 11:1. You'll find that in number 19. For when Israel was young, I loved him. Israel go. God loved him and he called him out of Egypt. I had the Christians take that and wow, what do they plagiarize that with? Okay, so here we have this statement. What does it mean that my child is going to baffer? He's going to Hari. That's the school. That's the school of all schools, right? The mother of all schools. Hari where they received the Torah. And who didn't receive the Torah there? The non-Jews. They said no thanks. What's in it? No way. No. How? So that's why it's talking about because it's referring to this great and awesome day of revelation. to exclude the nation. They did not accept the Torah. This has to do with hashka, divine providence. Divine providence takes place in the land of Israel for the Jewish people on a whole another level than it takes place outside the land of Israel, even for Jews. Okay? But God is more particular. His eye is on the land of Israel. His eye is on the Jewish people. So he's more medic. He's more careful exacting with the Jewish people's behavior than he is with non-Jewish people's behavior. But since the Jewish people accepted the exactly what we said, that's why it says he's asking his son, are you eating properly? Are you drinking properly? Are you getting enough sleep? How are you when you go to school, you have intent to carry the message, right? To share it with the world. Are you running away from school like you you can't wait to to get out or you just want to recharge your battery so you get back in the game, right? That's what it means. That's what it means when he's asking the child like he's asking Israel. He's concerned about their actions. Right? So it's [Music] he's making that connection those five things he's connecting to the five character traits we mentioned that cause all the problems and he just lists them again right unhealthy food unhealthy drink and he lists all the same verses we mentioned before and he ends by saying at the end of this paragraph actually just goes on for three more lines onto the next page which I didn't give you but um so the last thing was I'm going to read it and he asked when you're leaving school or right when you're leaving school that's the time that you're separating yourself from the words of Torah and you're not right you're not eager to return. You want to leave that those five things. He says it was with those five things that God separated. He separated these people, these priestly class. They don't have a portion in the five in the five things. Remember, this is all in order for them to have the ability to atone for the Jewish people. Um, at the time that the Jewish people are leaning away, meaning off the Derek. Okay. Now, it's very interesting. We're not going to go into this, but this piece is absolutely fascinating. Um, I I highly suggest that you read it on your own. There's no reason you can't find the guburim. If you're really interested, I'll send you the pages. just shoot me off an email and with that I think this is give us a lot more insight not just the superficial reading okay but a lot of depth and hopefully we can all work on our character whether we're Jews I'm Israel listening so whether you're a Jew and you understand you have a special mission as a priesthood it doesn't matter if you're ley or not the Rambam actually says that every person even a non-Jew can elevate themselves to the level of ley. They say I want Hashem to be my portion and they dedicate themselves to a life of purity and learning and carrying the message of course. Um, so obviously it's more important that the Jewish nation get in line and as far as the Gentiles as individuals, right? We don't see nations accepting the Torah, but Hashem we find unique special individuals who've accepted upon themselves publicly or not to keep the seven laws and to carry on the mission for for mankind. So, with that, I hope I gave you a taste of what it's like to learn a Hebrew text, some of the fundamentals of Judaism, and uh I'm wishing everyone everyone everyone here and everyone in on the on the uh YouTube uh a Shabbat shalom and a great life and a life dedicated to the ser service of Hashem on no matter what level you're on or who you are. Cult [Music] My birthday You never [Music] sh [Music]