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Shalom welcome everybody back to the
you've been a beat madrash welcome home
to Torah a warm a very warm welcome on
this Autumn nights right it's not yet
winter but Baruch Hashem we've had rain
here in Earth Israel
um we are dealing with the Clear Car in
parashat raw
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the English sewer sheets as well the
clear car deals with the most
fundamental issues in Judaism and I
think he has a very unique perspective
um within Ghazal it's within the
framework of hazal now we have the first
verse is in chapter 18 verse 4.
of Genesis
and he meets up right he's really
interested in doing
he's just doing hypnosis or him he's
sitting by the entrance of the tent in
the middle of the desert and he's
looking for somebody for some people to
help and he finds right it comes across
these three will call them strangers for
the time being really they are angels we
don't need to know that at the moment
but he says in verse 4 please let a
little water be taken
the word
means what shall be taken he it means
he's not asking he's not taking it
himself number one it shall be taken
this is key to tonight's class
understanding
it's like third person someone's taking
it and he's asking that it be taken but
he himself is not taking and it says
only a small amount of water is that how
you treat s with just a small amount of
water well there's an important lesson
right that we should what what sadikim
do they talk little and they provide a
lot right as opposed to those other
people who are not righteous who speak a
lot and do little
okay so he asked for a little bit of
water should be taken
ham so their feet should be washed
and then the next part of the verse is
going to be key in our discussion
so in order that they should recline
under the tree
I do understand that a tree has a lot of
shade and in order to recline or to
relax or to gather your
you know
your your senses after traveling through
the desert it's good to relax and to
recline but what does it mean
why under the tree usually the word is
not just to recline it's like to lean to
lean against the tree and the clear card
is going to point that out and explain
why it says under the tree now before we
even go further let's just see Rashi
because the clear card will quote the
Rashi
it says there that he thought they were
Arabs
who prostrate themselves to the dust of
their feet
and what does it say next he was strict
not to allow any idolatry into his house
now just compare that to lot see in the
Hebrew
the Rashi says
that he thought they were Arabs
and that they worshiped or bowed down to
the the dust of their feet on their feet
the hick Pete Rashi says and they were
what's hickipede mean they were
concerned they were strict they were
mock peed
says he thought they were Arabs who
prostrate themselves to the dust of
their feet but he was also very strict
not to allow the idolatry into his house
now what's the idolatry is the idolatry
the dust that they worshiped
hang on
however lot in contrast lot was not like
that he was not so strict the verse
actually says if you notice in verse in
Source number two Genesis 19 verse 2
when he is involved with a similar
situation with with angels or let's just
say strangers
uh offering
the opportunity to do to Dhaka and facet
a kindness and charity it says and to
stay overnight and wash your feet so he
didn't put wash your feet first avram
wanted to wash their feet before they
entered the house he says let's you know
make your beds and put your pillows out
and then we'll wash your feet
so
as Rashi says that Lo was not machpeed
was
considered strict and not allowing any
idolatry into his house by making sure
their feet were washed first things
first now with that little introduction
let's go into the clear car so it's on
page pay uh hey it's the last two lines
for those who are accessing the Hebrew
sheets online it's just the top
uh line of the sheet you you have but
anyway it says
and he quotes Rashi right away
so avram did not want to have any
strange worship
into his house
now that all makes sense because we have
an orator that tells us this is exactly
what happened
but the clear car has the next four
words which you need a seatbelt I mean
who would say such a thing after reading
Rashi he says
this is far-fetched this doesn't make
any sense this is nonsensical or even
illogical
according to the clear card now he has
to back up his statement to make such a
strong statement
and ready for this there are certain
laws when it comes to vote Azara
showtimes
is it on account of foolishness or let's
say brainless fools or spoiled fools
that you're not going to let any dirt
into your house any dust into your house
how's that possible that we're going to
make up a whole rule because there are
some idiots that worship dust so no dust
comes into the house
well wait a second
La Mexicans or Hashem
none of us were Jews we know that a lot
of people worship the Sun and there's
all kinds of sons which s-u-n or s-o-n
right there's all kinds of suns Shemesh
means the Sun in the sky
do we black out our windows from having
sunlight come in of course not
right we don't do that so what kind of
craziness is this
aren't there many people that worship
the son and yet we don't forbid
the sunlight from coming in so why would
we forbid
dust from coming in
so I want to refer you to Gamora and
saint hedrin but before we do I should
read the clear card he says this is the
halacha Elisha
we don't forbid sunlight from coming
into our house and we don't forbid
dust from coming on our house this is on
pave at the top
do you know that if somebody worshiped
okay
a mountain the Grand Canyon what are we
gonna do blow it up
but we're gonna just you know figure out
how to Nuke the place we don't do that
because it's it's anything that is
meaning connected to the ground
cannot become itself forbidden to
benefit from you can do hikes you can go
camping you can go swimming you can
enjoy the mountain
right we're not supposed to enjoy
anything that is used for vodazara
yet if it's carcass Olam it's part of
the God's world it doesn't so what do
you say there are people that worship
the sun we're not going to be no more
free vitamin D
I mean it's quite enjoyable to sit there
and have some sun rays on you
so Angora Sanhedrin
47b I really underlined the main point
here
it happens to be I'll just read from the
beginning this teeth this is number four
on the source sheet this teaches the
just as objects of idol worship are not
forbidden when attached to the ground
the gamor interjects by giving us the
source now the source is in Deuteronomy
chapter 12 verses 2 and 3. you shall
utterly destroy all the places in which
the Nations whom you are to dispose
dispossess serve their gods upon the
high mountains
just keep this upon the word upon
but not the mountains themselves and
upon the hills and upon every leafy tree
you shall overthrow their altars break
their pillars and burn their sharing
with fire but you don't break the
mountains you just break that which is
upon the mountains okay so that's the
source for that
let's go back into the clear car now we
understand that you cannot forbid the
Sun
you cannot forbid the Dust
that's his first statement then he says
I'll tell you what he makes even more
sense now
okay now this is where you need to like
take
a grasp
a grasp of air
shalom
he was not interested in sharing a meal
giving from his own bread
for people who are not fit like Idol
worshipers they were Idol worshipers
were you going to just clean the dust
off their feet and that makes everything
okay
no he wanted to cleanse them of their
Idol worshiping thoughts
is it enough just to
wipe off a little dust
he says
he thought okay you know what maybe
they're Arabs
now these are Arabs back then I mean I'm
not so sure if we can equate them
today's today's Arabs but we'll talk
about three thousand four almost four
thousand years ago whoever they were
alkane Russell
his goal was that he wanted to help them
return in Repentance
by the removal of their false gods
of their their foreign gods that are
within them
means within them again just wiping off
a little bit of idol worship dust is not
really going to change the world
however I do want to make a quote
there's a famous verse
we should all know it I think it's in um
I don't know if I got it on here did I
um
I don't know if I have it on here
the idea I can't believe I forgot it
anyway there's a verse that says oh it's
number three on the store sheet it's a
perfect place
and number three it's Psalms 34 15. 34
15. surmeira the assetov
in order to get to that place where we
do good sometimes or many maybe most of
the times
we first have to remove ourselves from
Evil right so remove the evil in order
to do good sometimes that's the first
step take an alcoholic or a drug addict
they want to be on well on the way to
recovery but the first step may be
stopping right we know that by truth we
have a whole list of what
stopping the sin is part of the process
of truth it's part of the early Pro
early part of the process of Judah
okay so he goes on and he says like this
in order to get rid of odazara
you only need to chop up a little bit of
it you need to just get rid of a little
bit of it a little bit of it is already
a beginning
now I have a Gamora here in
it's number five a votazar 54b
as well as number six of Ozark 53-a
I think we'll read number six first just
understand how it works
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as a non-jew worship something
doesn't make it okay for us to use it it
was used for idle worship so in order to
negate that tumor
something has to happen right obviously
if you crushed it up and made it into a
powder and burnt it that would be the
best
but the Gomorrah says the mishnah says
how does a gentile revoke the status of
an object of vital worship if he cut off
the tip of its ear or the tip of its
nose or its fingertip or he crushed it
even though he did not remove any even
though he didn't remove any part of it
in all these cases it's re it's he
thereby revoked the status of vital
worship oh it's not so simple
what if he spat or urinated on it or
dragged It On The Ground through
excrement at it the idol is not revoked
because that could only be temporary
whatever even though it's small it has
to be even though it's um it's a small
chip that's good enough now that works
with a real pestle a real Idol just to
break a little bit that already negates
it
well I think what the clear car is doing
is equating that with a little bit of
water on Dust
yeah because the in my mind I see that
as the equation he's trying to make
because he says
avram asked for only a little bit of
water that's all he asked for and that's
why he says
just bring me a little bit of water
now it also says meaning the third
person not him and perhaps it could be
the Angels these agents but not his wife
yukoch shall be taken
and you can
meaning through someone else not through
Abram himself
otherwise he would said I will take or I
shall bring
it's you whoever he's speaking to
it shall be brought
him
just by getting rid of a little bit of
dust what does that help it's inside
them it's they're brainwashed
Imam
so what do you do you get rid of just a
little bit of the Dust they're they're
uh they're crazy ideas their whole Idol
worshiping ideas is
established well established in their
hearts it's a process to get out of it
and we deal with a lot of people who are
Bali truva people who are converts
people who are Benigno left the church
anybody who was
lost but now found understands it's a
process
avram doesn't have the ability to make
this person change he can give he can be
a role model he can be an example he can
be a kidish Hashem he can give him the
information but it's a decision that
each person has to make on their own
it's something that is not within the
ability of avram to do
that's why he's asking the water shall
be brought by the person themselves
basically
voice therefore you know we're talking
almost poetically therefore water shall
be brought us even a small amount of
water shall be brought
in order that they should be Sanctified
themselves their own hearts
this is only in their ability and not in
our Ram's ability
so now the Clear Car of the odd Harem is
from a deeper sense some kind of a hint
that's what a Remus is it seems like one
can say the following
we mentioned the words
which literally means to recline under
the tree
and that's why it says such a thing
would have made more sense and we do
speak like this the people want to lean
against the tree it doesn't say to lean
against the tree he wanted them to rest
under the tree
so now put your seatbelts on
what he wanted to say what he is saying
the essence of avram's speech is based
on judges 9 15 just similar words
come he's telling these people he thinks
they're human beings come and take
shelter in God's shade in God's Refuge
look in judges 19 9 15. look at the
Hebrew
then come and take refuge in my shade
you understand this is what avram wants
them to take refuge in the shade of
Hashem just like Rashi actually says in
Numbers Chapter 14 verse 9
where
it says but you shall not rebel against
the Lord and you should you will not
fear the people of the land for they of
our they are as are bread their
protection is removed from them we're
talking about sending the spies we want
to know is there any protection is there
any Godly protection I just want to get
some background here job was a righteous
Gentile who kept the seven North High
laws he was really up there it was
perfect I mean he really was at Sadiq
and when God when Moses says tell me if
there's a tree there or not just if you
look at numbers 1320 it's on the same
sheet number nine
he says what is the soil like
is it fat or lean are there any trees in
it or not now I know it says trees but
in Hebrew it says tree it says
now by the way what's job's last name
anybody know what job's well it doesn't
have a name but he's from the land of
Utes
hey oops
same as eights Moses wants to know is
there any protection any Godly
protections or any righteous people
living there that when we try to go in
and wipe them out we're going to have
what's the word uh
when you go to what's resistance and
opposition you know in in Heavenly sense
so that's what it means over here Rashi
says over there
if you look at Russia on that verse I
think it's 14 9
he wants to know their protection is
removed from them
he says over there their shield and
strength their virtuous ones have died
namely job who protected them
another interpretation the shade itself
is the protection of God had departed
from them meaning once job dies the
Heavenly protection has been removed so
now we're putting this all in
perspective
so he goes on he says
I don't think he means on the the side
of mysticism although he was definitely
a Mystic I think he means simply in the
sense on a simple level from our
tradition as I mentioned the verse in
1320 in in the numbers where Moses says
imayan is there a tree there are not
meaning is there Heavenly protection
similar to what is said now just think
of this a second when we were at memory
VA and we complained and after we
complained we asked this question
such a similar language we had little
faith and a Molly comes when as soon as
we say those words the next phrase a
mother comes and attacks so this is all
about a Muna
avraham wanted to bring them out of
idolatry
into a monotheistic monotheistic
worldview
to get rid of and shed the idol
worshiping ideas
so he says this is what the message that
Abram was saying to them
rest yourselves relax yourselves re lean
lean yourselves under the tree that
makes sail that makes
protection that makes shade
the REM is he was hinting to the true
protection there's only one protector I
shared
in which under his protection all living
things exist and he ends with these
words
anyone who is enlightened will
understand these words and then that
would imply to me that it is a
kabbalistic idea but we should bring it
into 101 Judaism 101 how can you be a
Jew how can you be a noahide how can you
be a human being on this planet and not
understand what's happening in front of
you now these next two lines I think
answers uh Aaron's question or somebody
asked us so some say yes
right even Adam that's who we are we
come from the ad the ma that's where we
come from and it seems like right even
the the birds the animals have a mixture
of water and and the mud or just pure
come coming out of the earth so since
everything emanated to a certain extent
in our physical sight right the way we
see the world everything emanates from
the earth
since everything came out of the earth
and I think people call it as I
mentioned Mother Earth or Mother Nature
so we know we came from there guess
where we're going back to we're going
back there and there's a famous verse I
can find it here on my sheet
uh it's number 11
Genesis 3 verse 19.
when God
will say curses the ground with the
sweat of your face you shall eat bread
until you return to the ground for you
were taken there from
meaning from there for dust are you are
and to thus your return
that's where you came from the dust the
L of and to the ground you'll return and
now you understand why a a fool might
think I'll came that's why people will
make the mistake and says
that there's something Godly about the
earth I came from there going back to
there so that's a mistake and this is
what avram wanted them since they were
dust worshipers sand worshipers that
this is probably what they were thinking
and he wanted to bring them out of that
mindset now we're going to move on to
verse six so you'll find that number 12.
it says avram hasten to the 10th to the
tentasara and he said hasten meaning
quickly three saw of meal
now I'm going to skip the word and fine
flower knead and make cakes see there's
no vov in the Hebrew he says Mahari
which means quickly in feminine meaning
he's talking to his wife
that's three measures
and it says Solas
I'm just going to tell you is a general
term for flower but it also means the
coarser of the flower in in particular
Solas is another name for a flower but
it's the finest flower it's well ground
okay
need and make cakes okay now Rashi right
away says the fine flower was for the
cakes and the the Kmart
let's say the Solas the fried flowers
for the cakes where's the kemma which is
the meal uh was basically either like
you use starch to thicken things or they
actually used it to seal the lids on
pots or they might have used it like
ever see those what they call in in
England they have these uh pot pies
so if there's boiling stuff going
underneath it would get absorbed into
the roof of the of the pie but okay
so there's all kinds of reasons why you
would use the finest flower for the
Brooklyn bakery cakes or use the chemma
for uh let's say waffles who knows
anyway
so the interesting thing that we're
about to read in a gomoran baba mitzia
87a which if you're on the The Source
sheet ready number 13 mentions and I
just want to make the under really the
underlying part part is the important
part remember the verse says make ready
or quickly make bring three measures of
flat flour
comma fine flour as we said one is and
then the word solace so according to the
Gomorrah it says it says flower but it's
also fine flower it's a great question
what do you need both for
so now ribiotox says now any women
listening to this
we'll we'll discuss it there'll be
plenty of time to discuss what it means
here from here we learned that a woman
is more stingy with guests than a man
now this is not the main point this is
what what the Gomorrah says and
therefore
Sarah wanted to use the ordinary flower
but avram had to persuade her
to use the finer flower
now I will I want the rashio Nakamura he
actually says here
Solace you know what
avram said hey bring the flower bring
the the fine stuff and she said I'm
gonna bring the not so high quality
flower what's going on here
so it's like this how do I explain it in
a PC Ms truthful way
I mentioned that
women in general in the old days were
vulnerable to attack
the weaker of the two Sexes and there is
a certain protection
okay so when a man marries a woman he is
the giver he's the provider he's saying
I'm providing you shelter clothing food
whatever it is you need I'm taking
responsibility she has no responsibility
in the contract
however there is some reciprocity
reciprocity is that a word and so
therefore you know she to a certain
extent is going to give him things
now when it comes to just when it comes
to let's say a muscularity right the
truth is according to Jewish law
he's he he's supposed to provide all
these things and if she's a little side
job
you know and he's a mensch he'll say you
can keep the money you make but
according to the Allah that she's going
to give him the money she makes okay now
so he's ultimately responsible for how
the household economically is run
to a certain extent she's not second
fiddle I mean look she might make more
than him they have a different
arrangement you know that can be
arranged but let's just say the general
thing is what I just described the
general way
so
if someone comes knocking at the door
and says I'm here to collect the doctor
so she was she should confirm with him
how much she's going to give she they
could make it up already in advance she
doesn't have to ask every time but she
knows everyone comes give him twenty
dollars something special come and talk
to me we'll write him a bigger check
but she's not going to just give in fact
it could be she's even concerned she
runs the household
and she she has a budget so she sees
that he's giving too much to Dhaka she's
the other partner
she's like you know maybe you should
talk to me first and we really need a
new couch we need a new fridge and
you're just writing off these checks
it's a you know it's a partnership so
she runs the house and she's a little
bit concerned that maybe it's dipping
into the budget
okay I think that's what shot is here
that we're going to see that we just
read the Gamora and the clear car says
foreign he quotes that it's written
kamach and it's written Solace there's
no question of both are written says
for some reason we have this masara that
from here we actually learn that the
woman of the house is a little bit more
begrudging a little bit more stingy when
it comes to to guests than the husband
now Rashi says
he said bring the finest flower and she
said
now he now uses logic to prove this keep
a half exact because if it was the other
way around
this never would have been said you
can't learn this
who
because if he would have said kemach
how could she take the Solace how could
she take something that's so much more
valuable if he said take the Lesser and
she went ahead and took the better she
would be violating the the contract or
the um the agreement that they had who
is she to just go ahead and put out more
expenditures
It All Belongs to him
but in order to reduce the expenditures
which is davar F sharp which is entirely
possible
this is a way for a woman to
either flatter or appease or husband you
hear this girls saving money right you
need a pair of shoes you can buy 500
pair of shoes or you can buy two for 250
dollars wouldn't you go for the 200 you
know to the okay anyway I don't have to
give anybody muser I I need my own move
sir but there are lots of jokes you have
to admit it's out there about men not
giving their wives the credit cards
right you don't know what's going to
happen Okay so the best way to flatter
your husband is to come home and tell
them how much money you saved I know
there's a joke in here somewhere I think
in friends Jennifer Aniston came home
and you know she's a little bit the
mythrough knock means
um anybody knows
means spoiled and I think she said she
saved so much money today she like
brought like 10 bags home everything was
on sale she said so she added up all the
money she saved but it was like whatever
you get the picture let's go on
I thought peace
now it is true when you just read the
text the language infers that he said
both right because that's what the text
says it certainly implies he said camak
Solis
however we have to understand that they
are two different types of flower we
said one is more coarse and one is more
fine
and he says the clear card says
which is
this is what the cooks use to either
absorb some of the moisture the soles
lugos where is the finest flowers for
the Brooklyn Bakery products
says I heard is what I understood that
the word kamach is a general term for
flower it includes many different types
of flower shame Cola Liga fought
it includes the better flower and the
less quality flower
but avram right what did he mean the
avram holds sea the akrai me blush
he what came out of his mouth was the
language of kemach
he understood that's what he said
but when he said
he was telling his wife take the best
stuff I got guests
the avram
um the Accra believer but after he said
it he said to himself
I know I said I know what I meant
but you know what I think she's going to
do she's going to take the cheaper stuff
knew
that his wife was a little bit stingy
when it came to or him how can
that's why he right away quickly says he
was cameras
get the camera but the Solace of the
camera
solution it's the soulless part of the
hammock that I want
um
when he originally said
he meant bring the camera for the stuff
that's cooking so we can thicken it up
but he was afraid that she would take
kamach also for the the cakes that's why
he explained it as solace
okay let's go to the last paragraph
y
because her eyes were tight meaning
begrudging stinginess
okay lonely
you don't see in the narrative that
sorry did anything of course she was
there she's the backbone every nothing
could have functioned in the kitchen
where's the pots where is this I mean I
know my house I don't mean to embarrass
anybody but I can't find nothing without
asking my wife where's the butter
he loves us to clone it certainly seems
from the text that she didn't do
anything okay nammar the truth is it
actually says
those angels promise you're gonna have a
child born to you but he's talking
they're talking to avraham and they said
I'm going to return to you didn't
mention Sarah
Lola I'm returning to you
nothing that doesn't mean it's not
return sorry it's having the child
but I'm returning to you
she didn't deserve it's not in her Merit
that she had a child it was in the Merit
of avram's hacknasis or him for those
next Shabbos is the next Shabbos after
two shops now
thirty thousand Jews descend descend to
a higher altitude than we are to hevron
to spend Shabbos in heaven Sarah
listen such
there's so many organizations that are
set up there that will give you the
meals and the shelter and whatnot
anyway it's a beautiful place even the
Arabs hold by Ibrahim right their father
Ibraham was a master of hakunas
of providing shelter and food for guests
but because she was a little bit
miserly when it came to the orchem come
the Indian had been Omar even when it
came to the her own child being born
they promised to Aram coming back to you
yell at Ben it was in the scoot of him I
hope everybody not just the women are
taking this
of being a little bit more giving to the
guests also we should viscous or him the
Merit of Sarah giving birth to Yitzhak
basically
our organizations
it's that's it's based on a pasok that
the whole world is founded on hasid
okay so everyone should know that now we
just find this also similarly by
shunamit right Alicia was traveling
around and she decided
to do hackness or him to the highest
level she built him an attic room or
some kind of a separate room seems like
it was an upper floor room
and she had a child
Katana we have that verse in
uh Second Kings chapter 4 verse 10.
you'll see this on the source sheet
somewhere
and number 17. now let us make a small
world chamber so she took the initiative
she's talking to her husband and placed
her in what a bed a table a chair a limp
a lamp and probably a small little
fridge like you have in your uh Circle
right I mean you know
um so that when he comes to us he will
turn into there
so the last page the
the
pasik is ascribing because of her she's
the one that came up with the idea I
don't know if she took the hammer now
and maybe aliyad but nevertheless she
took the initiative
that's why a few verses later in verse
16 it says
I think it's on the last page
um the uh at this Alicia says at this
time next year when you will be alive
like now you will be embracing a son he
promised her a son
that the Merit of having a son was put
on her see she knew she took the lesson
she knew to be as a giving and open with
the resources as possible
she learned the lesson she was perfect
how you can get better than that who who
does such a thing put a addition on your
house so when the prophet comes by he'll
have a place right
foreign
that it was a tribute to her the Merit
of doing the right thing with with the
guests and not him and this is opposite
this is opposite what it says here
meaning by avraham because in masculine
God to the angels are saying to him
because of you because of the the
but what about lot
lot also had a wife
he had a wife a famous wife
you're laughing what does it say it says
by Chapter 19 Verse 3
in Genesis you'll see the 19 on the on
the source sheet and he urged them
strongly and they turned to him and came
into his house and he made them a feast
these were also the angels and he baked
unleavened cakes says he baked them um
she did not
he did it
so it says you have to be sitting down
everyone's sitting down it's
marshmallowishta from the verse he made
the matzus not his wife Al came there
for NASA's Nazi melach this is why she
became a pillar of salt
now if you don't believe me
look what it says on that Rashi you'll
see it number 26 I'm sorry it's Chapter
19 Verse 26 number 20 on the social his
wife looked from behind him and she
became a pillar of salt
it says why did she brush he says why
did you become a pillar of Sword she
sinned with salt
she was punished with salt right me to
connected to me to measure for measure
he said to her lot said give a little
salt to these guests
and she said
no
what it's an evil thing to give or him
salt
she replied also this evil custom you
wish to introduce into this place
so
there is a connection now between salt
and
not only by her
but wait to hear this
maybe let me try to explain it if people
have money sitting in their bank account
accruing
interest
right like it's salty you're salting it
it's preserving the money
it's like salt but when you give your
money away You're earning you're really
earning
Heavenly Heavenly reward there's a
gemara in casubis
it's a very sad Gamora it's about the
after the destruction of the temple I
kind of want to just go through it real
quick but
Ben Gurion he had a daughter
um this
was riding on a donkey and he saw her
she was I mean it was horrible right
we're talking about she was she's one of
the richest women at one time she was
taking bought used barley when I say
used I mean eaten barley
out of the dung of donkeys in Jerusalem
that had been these donkeys were owned
by Arabs she was so poor that she just
she subsisted on the undigested barley
within the dung when he saw her and she
wrapped herself in her hair I mean she
really had no clothes on all she had was
her hair so she said to him you know my
teacher sustained me she needed food he
didn't even recognize her she said to
her who are you she told him that she
was the daughter of knock knockimon Ben
Gurion and he said to her my daughter
the money of your father's house so
where to go we're talking about the
richest man there were the three of the
richest men in you shalim
they could have between the three of
them
kept Jerusalem I think for 20 some 20
plus years uh fed heated and and with
light you know they had all these
storage houses of oil and wood and and
food
so he asked her how did you become so
poor she said to him my teacher is it
not that they say such a proverb in
Jerusalem
sought from money is lacking it's casser
meaning there is nothing which with
which to preserve it and prevent it from
being lost
some say the proverb asserts the
kindness hasid is sought for money
meaning using money for acts of kindness
preserves it as opposed to in the bank
uh preserving the bank Give It Away Give
It Away obviously you know to help
maintain your own level of uh you know
lifestyle but this is today's lesson
what do we we learn a lot we learn a
tremendous amount of fundamental
principles
and number one you know we meet people
let's start with ourselves but we meet
people that are confused about a munis
and Hashem
so first of all we can be good examples
we have to work on ourselves first
um we could invite them for meals
in the old days we used to say that uh a
trollent could make someone from
right you bring you invite someone for
lunch you just never know where it would
go just to be a kiddish a role model at
your own table
but just in terms of has to find out
what you can possibly do to help people
the whole world is built the podcast it
and you have no idea how far that goes
in reaching uh real a moon in other
people
um we saw that yes it seems it seems
that women are a little bit more uh
tight-fisted when it comes to working
but we see it's not true that all women
are like that
we understand perhaps why
but still maybe the men should get
together and let the women or let them
women or have a discussion to try to let
women know that it's okay to give a lot
more than you're giving because it's so
important to the world
and this last idea just that putting it
in the bank account is not really going
to cure
it's true that you may and you probably
should figure out ways to invest your
money but not all your money
okay just a third of it
anyway so we'll end there and I want to
wish everyone uh a great winter I mean
for those who in the south southern
hemisphere a nice summer but we're
praying for rain and in a few weeks you
guys will also
um I want to wish I wanted a great job
is and the information just letting you
know that for the next few weeks we will
not be having class uh I'm going to
America next week and I'll be there for
a simple my niece is getting married
spending a lot of time with family and
we'll be back here I believe I believe
on the 8th of December so until then
stay tuned and uh we'll see on the other
side have a great life
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