The Nations May Call You Thieves and You Will Know How to Answer Them with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom Alim everybody Welcome to the m welcome home to Torah um we deal with the fundamentals here we encourage you to use the Hebrew s sheets so down below in the description box there is a link you just have to find the right para the right year the right title and we encourage you so you can learn Hebrew and really the the how do I say it the real Tom the real taste of Torah is going to come through the original Hebrew uh so that's something that we hear at the I of b m encourage you to do uh I want to mention that tonight's Shure was sponsored is sponsored by uh somebody who donated uh the food we had a delicious I think it was delicious everyone enjoyed themselves uh Thailand food and the learning is in memory of so have that in mind as we learn be Nish okay so we have people on Skype we have people here in the B madash and we have you of course uh on Cyber world we are in pares Vera this is the second cidra in shos in part in the U Book of Exodus and we're going to deal with a very small portion of the clear's uh take on the first verse actually it's the second verse I'll just read English first and then read it in Hebrew and tell you some of the things that will bother the clear and we know that should bother us as well and they need to be resolved and again I mentioned we deal with the fundamentals so verse two it says God spoke to Moses and said to him I am AEM in previous classes we spoke for hours just on that one verse okay the a el Abraham and God says to Moshe that I appeared to Abraham to Isaac and to Yakov as K shakai and it's by the way it's English Source Sheets if you want you can actually email me and you can add we'll add you to the email list which sends out the English Source sheets it just helps that you don't have to go through all the different uh sarim and flip pages so we're actually in Source number one now um so God says to mosha that I appeared to Abraham Isaac and and yob and as as a character in other words the names of Hashem do not tell you of his Essence there is no way I mean Hashem is beyond uh description but names are should I say character traits somehow midot in which he manifests himself so when God says I appear to Abraham Isaac and yob as this as K shakai and I'll say it once everyone knows what I'm talking about El Shai shind but he says my name that is I did not make known to them so that's a very strange thing because CLE car does point out earlier on that shouldn't have been consistent IE I appeared to them this way but I didn't appear to you yet this way or or vice versa or it should have been I made myself known as this but I didn't make my my self known as the other name should have been consistent known known or appeared appeared and he goes at length and has some really good discussions about it but we're not going to discuss that necessarily although we will be discussing the names so based on the first verse again I'll just read in Hebrew it's important to read Rashi so Rashi says yes that's what God says I appeared to whom the forefathers great with this name kakai which according to Rashi it means that I God made promises to them in all of which I said to them and there's a few examples I am the almighty God meaning kakai however with my name YK I did not make myself known to them now it does not say LTI but rather right rather so what does that mean I did not become uh known one second so it's not written my but my name yud did not make known to them of course he did because he actually appeared to Abraham and says right God yud appeared to hasem to Abraham and he says I'm K said his letters he said the letters of his name okay take a look at number four on the S she chapter 17 verse one of X of Genesis Abram was 99 years old and God appeared to him okay so it's yud look in the Hebrew y Al and he said to him I am K shakai okay so that's just an example okay we're going to get some other examples okay so the clear Begins by saying like this this I just want to also preface he gives four explanation to this verse and we're only using one of the explanations called D okay so I I I beg you to go into the CLE car and see all of the things that he says but we're only going to deal with one aspect the clear is making this I'm going to say a hypothesis or supposition here that hes who wanted something by revealing himself finally in this generation happens to be the 26th generation from the creation of the world 26 is the gach of YK so he he may have appeared to Abraham as udk VK but he didn't manifest himself because in a certain sense the yud is the Fulfillment of the promises whereas the kakai is a making is making the promises that will be fulfilled okay so the CLE car is making this supposition I would underline this I would try to get this into the kishkas according to this thesis here the Reason God is now revealing himself to Moshe as Y in this generation there going to be a very deep and understanding reason and we will understand it better than we've ever understood it before according to where I'm going to explain it according to the clear that what does God want to do at this point this is before the 10 plagues he's telling him I'm going right I'm going to exp I'm going to I'm going to manifest myself right now as UK VK through the 10 plagues because what do I want to do what does Hashem want to do he wants to he wants to publicize into the world the whole world should know that he the blessed one is the one who B yes mi now yes usually is translated as something from nothing I personally don't like that translation and I think you'll understand why in a second we call Hashem also another name a what is a there's no end but he is pure energy or pure spirit and not physical in any way and we see the world we see as Manifest itself in a very physical way now I don't really know that much about Einstein and how he made up these numbers eal mc^2 I have to admit I don't know but using my imagination that the world really before the so-called creation was Pure Energy pure God and that's iron or a and then you have a manifestation in the physical right which we call creation but so people prior to this moment in history hisory could have and probably did believe that there was a Creator but it could be according to the cleard there was something missing and that was that it was yion that everything everything every molecule every atom and sub you know Quantum particle is only manifest because God wills it into existence that's how I'm going to assume that's what it means yes K the word K I understand it not just that God is the creator but the truth is according to Judaism he is creating the world every I'm I'm going to use the word nanc because I I I really don't know what's smaller than that but try to every single possible moment he is ruling the world into existence and therefore it's God has a need well he found it necessary let's say like that Hashem found it necessary he could have just taken the Jews out of Egypt right just like I always say he could have created the world just by blinking his eyes but he doesn't have eyes he could have created the world by snapping his fingers but he doesn't have fingers he doesn't have a voice he doesn't have a larynx yet he spoke there was a reason why he spoke that's really to teach us to to watch our language and that we can create and Destroy with our language anguage I'm sure that's not the only reason he created with speech um I'm sure there's a deeper reason with when you think about vibrations and molecules and all that but there's a reason why he according to the cleart felt this is a perfect time the 26th generation we're about to go into the land of Israel uh why Hashem wants to bring these 10 plagues okay it's true he says I'm going to bring you down to a land you're going to go to a land that's you're going to be a stranger a land that's not yours and you're going to be afflicted and you're going to serve them and I'm going to judge them okay but the judgments didn't have to be this sever number one and we do know that the Egyptians did go overboard so that could be part of the reason why it went so bad you know for them and believe it or not you know the the the five books of Moses is not just prophecy it's super prophecy and what happened to our forefathers batem happens to us as well in a good way and I think that if we look at the current events uh we see evil um popping its head up so to speak and bem we will see Miracles we already are seeing Miracles um but similar to we'll call biblical um what's the word biblical proportions okay but why would AES do this he felt or he had a it was necessary to make these Miracles or these plagues however you want to translate mimes in order to know and believe retroactively remember during the first six days of creation or let's say five days of creation there were no witnesses to the creation when when when Adam was created the world was ready like a set table right you had he had food he had drink he had everything he wanted so this is the according to the clear all of these 10 plagues were in order that people Shall Believe retroactively that Hashem again created the world from nothing yes now if we look at chapter 7 7:1 17 that would be on uh the sore sheet number two as the plagues are beginning so said the Lord right with the first plague with this you will know that I am yud V so remember he's introducing himself to motion saying yeah they didn't know me as YK but your generation will and with this you will know that I am YK V I read the whole verse in English behold I will Smite with the staff that is in my hand upon the water that is in the Nile and it will turn to blood right by the way if you look at Rashi very interestingly he therefore uh smote their deity and after let's let's go back to the beginning since there is there's no rainfall in Egypt the Nile ascends and the wers the land right all they have to do is dig a little canal and you got all the water you want you don't have to pray to Hashem you don't have to look towards heaven in in Egypt you look down and they held that as a deity the Nile River was like a deity the Egyptians worshiped the N therefore Hashem smot their deity I mean you know the thing that represented their deity and only afterwards he smote them we spoke about this also in the beginning of the war uh that we're presently in how some of the uh leaders of uh Hamas and and Iran were were falling like flies should I say uh and uh this was a sign for us not that they were their deity they definitely worshiped them in certain ways I mentioned that about Muhammad also they're so afraid to make him a deity that he's a deity right he's like he's like Christians have a deity and they're they're they have a little bit of sense not to worship humans but they they have the they have such a like a human nature to do so that they go overboard not to do so you know with not knowing where they're buried and and whatnot and there's fights between the Shia and the Sunni over this anyway onward so the clear brings this verse and another verse not only is in this right with this you will know that I am the Lord but also so by Jethro by ISRO in chapter 18:1 if you look in 1811 which is number three on the sore sheet okay so we know that he was a a priest Kumar some type of a priest and he worshiped all kinds of things until he finally came to realization and he says these words now I know that the Lord is greater than all the deities it's number three on the souret and so it says Elohim right and the Rashi says there you know I recognized him in the past but now I really recognize him even more he was really a truth Seeker um than all the other deities this teaches us that Jetro was knowledgeable about every other type of idolatry in the world there wasn't a single Pagan deity that he did not try to come to to worship so with these two verses the fakar is trying to say look this is the time this is the time where Hashem is making himself no and he begins by telling us you know that there are many commentators that speak how how is it that the um that these signs in Egypt these plagues in Egypt somehow showed that this lesson that God said he wanted to do according to the car to show that he was not just the not just the creator of the world but the creator of something from nothing and that's why the clear says the verse says elov he appeared to the forefathers just as kakai Mo what does the name kakai actually represent there are many many explanations there's a maybe two or three top ones and we'll stick to them it's a shame that die so that's not so simple to explain what that means but I'll do the best I can so it it actually shows on some level that if you think about the creation if you're going to plug it into creation the little that we know of science right we know very little scientists know very little that if there was such a thing as a big bang they claim that there's a center point and everything just goes out further and further further and at some point the according to even science that things kind of slow down a little bit they're not and guess what even science are discovering that what the thesis that they're standing on there's things that are let's say uh Beyond physics what they thought the laws of physics should be they're discovering they know nothing really about uh physics because some of the things they're discovering go beyond or they go against known physics that even they're claiming that the world is coming back in on itself and some are saying that it's the speed as it gets further and further out there's less uh friction because there's less molecules they're not even sure what speed of space even means these days but anyway just if we could imagine if the Big Bang is is is a true idea that God says enough right so maybe that's the same way with with the world we don't believe in evolution the way Darwin does but it could be it could be according to um Dr Schroeder there are ways to explain in 6,000 years uh the development of the world could have happened in the same same 6,000 years what could have happened in 14 billion years there's ways to explain I'm not going to get into it but what does it mean when God says enough that things stop uh EV evolu is that a word evolving thank you um so that could be because you know we don't see it you know and how long ago did it stop okay they have this thing called The Missing Link right but anyway that's not our our idea so what does it mean that he said to the world um die and it could be sorus right enough sorus enough pain and the you think about all the promises that Hashem made so if the promises come true that's a good way to explain how the the sorus the problems are resolved there's many other ways there is a art scroll commentary it's on page 318 in the uh Stone Edition and uh I'll just read it just a short p a short part God's names as is well known God's various names represent the different ways in which he reveals himself so that the names used here represent differing ways in which God revealed himself to the Patriarchs and to Moses Moses had had the revelation of Hashem God's highest manif manifestation yet he questioned God's ways while he while the Patriarchs had maintained their strong faith even though God had revealed himself to them only with his other name kakai the latter name so we're going to deal with at least what our scroll says the latter name kakai it derives from the word die which is sufficient and denotes God is the one who sets limits on creation by establishing the laws of nature the limitations within which the universe functions also it represents God's establishments of limits to the success one enjoys and the suffering he must Endure by comparing the revelation of Moses with that of the Patriarchs God was chastising him for his insufficient Faith um later on he says Rashi explains the name Hashem the name right yuk revealed to Moses represent present God as the one who carries out his promises for God who was now prepared to fulfill his pledge to free Israel and bring him to the land and that's what we're going to focus in on but although the Patriarchs were told that God's name was udk they had not seen him in practice as having kept his promise for the time had not yet come for the land to be given them nevertheless they had perfect faith when the proper time came and that Hashem would fulfill his promise okay with that in mind we just have a few lines left in this paragraph that's what we say here that the we know that hasem was the creator but that that point that particular point was missing something from nothing and the CLE says this is what it means when it says that aspect of the manifestation of I did not make known to them the very name right it says it means is he actually caused all manifestation of creation every molecule every atom every subparticle and all of existence extends from him that this somehow authenticates this idea of K the very fact that God is I'm sorry was is and will be his very name authenticates the idea that all of the all of existence and you say time because it is time and and um and material uh you know material existence is inter T at least according to Einstein at least according to Einstein please hold on for one second and therefore there is nothing that exists outside of or that comes from him this first Rashi of all of Genesis is so fundamental in fact when I read it the first time I felt like it was prophetic knowing the current events of what's going on today and that is that he quotes ritak could have been his father could have been his rebi uh could have been previous generations but he's quoting a famous quote from ritak that it doesn't really make sense that the Torah which is a book of law is starting with Genesis right what do you need all this background story for if it's a book of law just start with the first law ever given to Jewish people as a nation which is right there's going to be the first month to you and remember in 10 days you're going to um you're going to take a sheep and attach it to your bed or a goat and and then you're going to uh Slaughter it on the 14th and then you're going to eat it on the you know the whole story leading up to the Exodus the laws the laws the laws right isn't that what Torah means it actually means instructions but it it could mean laws and so he does quote this very powerful um uh PK and I think I did quote it here on the English Source sheet towards the end and that would be H look on the underneath eight right you see it says Rashi on Psalms 1166 so in the middle of the Rashi he brings the verse the strength of his Works he related to his people to give them the inheritance of the Nations what is the most cherished piece of real estate on planet Earth it is AR where we're sitting right now okay so it's Hashem that is the inheritance of the world the inheritance of the Nations and then this is what Rashi says in in Source number eight for if the nations of the world can you imagine if the nations of the world would ever say to us you're I don't know how to say it you're robbers you took the land by by force you conquered by force the lands of the Seven Nations you know what the Jews are supposed to reply this is the answer to why right rut as why isn't it the book of law start with the first law this is a necessity that we respond the entire the entire Earth belongs to Hashem the Holy One Blessed Be he created it from this we learn from the story of creation that's why Genesis right the first several chapters are there and he's the one Hashem is the one who gave it to whomever he wanted where whoever he deemed proper and you know what right is an Africa Canan is son of so Canan really are Africans or Egyptians whatever somewhere over there maybe Kush and they came over and they settled the land and God allowed it he gave it to them temporarily and then when their level of sin grew keep this in mind then he it was like a combination of us not really deserving it but not being as bad as them I mean we were Idol worshippers in Egypt we weren't the greatest sadikin maybe we didn't speak lashara maybe that already was enough of a SC to get us out but whoever God deem proper whenever he wished yeah he gave it to them in the beginning and he took it away from them and he gave it to us by the way I have met some uh people I'm calling Arabs uh Palestinians I they're Palestinians but Arabs and uh they told me back in the day when I uh used to work with them in a certain field that they believed without a doubt that God is with the Jews just look at the wars they lost every war they in their minds whoever wins the war that's the god that's behind it they even claimed this that we took down the Soviet Union can you imagine that the bunch of uh mothers in North America right Jewish Mothers they took down the Soviet Union it's just unbelievable where people but that's what people do they they think that based on Wars who wins the wars is basically who the greatest God would be so what I think if you look in um Rashi on Psalms 116 it's the bottom of eight what does it mean here the strength of his Works he related to his people when he gave them the inheritance of the Nations which is there Israel he let them know his might his strength and his might and in the midash he wrote for Israel about creation so why is Genesis there to let them know the Earth Is His and that it is in his power to settle in it anyone he wishes and to move those out and settle others so that the Nations will not be able to say to Israel You're thieves you've conquered the land of the Seven Nations so let's continue with the clear so the clear continues that part part of this answer of God is to Moses because he complained because he had a confrontation with God by saying lot why did you make it worse now we already know that God already told them Pharaoh is not going to let you out so what did he expect so what does it mean when he says why did you make it worse it may not be what we thought so the clear says even though God already said to him in chapter 3: 19 that you'll see on uh number six on the swore sheet um well actually if you want to just go back to where in Exodus chapter 5 ver 22 and 23 that's where Moses made this complaint he even says why you send me but in Nexus 3:19 God out told him I know the king of Egypt will not permit you to go you're not getting out so quick so the clear says MOS what did Moses really want to know was it really an argument or was he trying to get information out of God according toar he wanted he just wanted to know why is Pharaoh being so stubborn right and I look at the the situation to today why are these people being so stubborn just take a look at Gaza and they think they're Victorious right it's it's it's worse than um a sand pit I mean there's nothing there so again why did far he made it worse right and the Jews experienced a much worse type of slavery they had to go and get their own straw keep the same quota it was double time overtime and this really bothered Moshe so the CLE says and this is his answer and I would say drum R please he first of all why did God even have to do any of these plagues right if it's in order to make the plagues that's the question itself what do you need them at all for so God is answering Moshe exactly what he was asking why did you uh strengthen Pharaoh's heart why did he become even more stubborn and more harsh that's what the answer is I am I am I am the one who created everything again we weren't there assuming that people believed there was a Creator but perhaps they weren't uh finely tuned to the understanding and belief that it was okay so let me just read again except to Abraham Isaac and yob his individuals I only appeared as the one making the promise again it's a very broad understanding that he said to the world enough for some reason proof that he is constantly renewing creation and that all creation stems from him if that's the word they use and that's why it says in ch in verse three chapter 6:3 that was our original verse I wasn't known to them therefore I feel a need to make things come to a head right to make things even worse Pharaoh is going to be so um stubborn When anybody would give up again the cleard strengthening his argument that it's really in order to get this one point across that he is the creator yes now thear thear says exactly what we're all thinking why now what's different from this day than any other day right for whatever this is the year 244 or something like that so from creation so you had Abraham Isaac and Jacob they never asked there wasn't a need until now to say I am UK okay and this is how I'm going to manifest myself why now in this and I gave it away already 26th generation in this particular generation this now these days uh to reveal myself to you Moses and the people of Israel as you okay that's why it says in verse four verse four you'll see number S I also and also I established my Covenant with them to drum please to give them the land of Canan Now's the Time to go into the land and we saw Rashi in the beginning you're they're going to call you thieves so now at this point I'm I as God I'm going to create these 10 plagues I'm going to show the whole world I'm in charge okay this is a nice U running theme here so if I don't right now I'm about to bring the Jews into the land of Israel if I don't make it known if I don't make it so public knowledge right now that the whole world belongs to me we hear these words before that's when they're going to have right to call us thieves I mean I'm like ringing out of my ears here right we hear this on the news every day that with a strong hand you Jews you ahead and you k your kosim your occupiers you you stole the land of the Seven Nations and they're going to say God doesn't right God's just God's Not Just he's not even protesting he's encouraging them and then people might come to um heresy or denial of God by say saying that there is no judgment and there is no judge the world's hefer right that people do whatever they want that's exactly the opposite of Yiddish kite of Judaism and the klear explains this earlier in par brait where PK chapter one PK one exactly like we just explained Al REI y now says LMA Arts right if someone's going to say well isn't it true that God also you know in the days of Abraham Isaac and Jacob he promised to give them the land and it wasn't necessary then right they believed well guess what they were believers they were Believers Israel You're going to miss the point that at this point is when the Jews are screaming in pain and we should all screaming in pain for what's we're going through right so at this point God sees he hears the troubles the the pain that the Jews are going through and this is going to be the time of the Redemption meaning to say the themselves didn't need proof they were believers they were faithful children who believed but when it came to the rest of the Nations they didn't need this knowledge yet of Al but now we're about to go into the land of Israel sh I God heard the moanings the the pain of the Jewish people and now is the time to bring them into the Holy Land the land of Israel therefore God found it necessary to publicize now through the 10 plagues and whatnot maybe it's 250 but all the different signs and wonders I am the one the who brought all existence into existence the entire Globe the entire world belongs to me and I'm the one who chooses and decides who gets what land and that's what it means in verse 8 if you go to chapter 6 verse 8 which you'll find number 10 on the source sheets the last Source right God said I'm going to bring you to the land which I raised my hand I basically I swore to give to Abraham Isaac and Jacob and I will give it to you as a Heritage in Hebrew right I'm going to give it to you as a as a Heritage I am the Lord so the cleard ends by saying because I through the 10 plagues prove that I am uh all brought all existence know there were no witnesses to the first again five and a half days of creation six days of creation till Adam was born with a full table set table right right now I'm going to re reconstruct the world re reenact the creation of the world not only I created the entire world and everything that's on it therefore it's my hand I'm the allmighty all powerful and I'm giving it to you and you're not thieves I don't care right what they said because that's what the medra says that the the goam cannot call us right it's very strange the this is the goam cannot call us thieves and we have in the Bible we have right well in thees we have Yakov start with Abraham Abraham buys Mar MP yakob buys as a burial place for ysep and King David and right King David buys the um harab from Arava these are three purchases that are clearly written in a document that's thousands everyone agrees it's thousands of years old it's not like written in you know 1948 1947 right this is a a legal document that this was purchased and a historical document and yet the medor says these are the three places they cannot call you thieves and yet we look around and they are so what does it really mean according to one of my rebies it means that you have to know that you're not a thief you have to have this inem that this was I mean it's a this is the most valuable police uh P piece of real estate on Earth you have some Realtors here from Miami but we know this is better than uh the prices are even higher here than Miami um per square foot you know anyway so bem with whatever is going on the news we should strength our own faith and know it's according to the clear right we are believers sons of believers and apparently according to him that these MIM the the plagues this now he's going to manifest himself um in in a you know in a way that shows everything is Manifest through him simply simply put okay so will continue uh to learn and grow in our faith and our in take on more Mitzvah and in the Merit of our let's say obedience and our faith together with unity we will overcome and with that um we'll see you next week and have a great life [Music] oh