The Truth about Vicarious Atonement in Judaism! with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] everybody welcome back to the infinite midrash a warm welcome back to toyora tonight's class i'm going to tell you it's what do you say it's off the charts it's going to be off the charts we're dealing with parshas honey you have to mute yourself thank you and we're in um chapter 20 we're going to be starting with the second verse in numbers and we're dealing with the death of miriam now interestingly enough i know this phrase is very familiar to those of um who had a christian background a concept called the vicarious atonement now there's a huge misunderstanding because anything that the christians took on i shouldn't say anything most of the things they took on has its roots in judaism but unfortunately unfortunately for whoever's sake for the world's sake they perverted and they i don't know i i corrupted these concepts so there is such a concept but we need to define terms because the word vicarious implies a substitute in terms of atonement so it's not exactly a substitute but let's assume for a moment there is some kind of a substitute but also it has nothing to do with personal salvation in other words in judaism the concept of as we will see that miriam's death or the death of righteous people can and sometimes will atone for whom for the nation for the for the people but not as individuals per se everyone must do chuva you still have to do your own personal work but there will be a mitigation there will be a lessening of the punishment there will be a lessening of the severity of the punishment there'll be a lessening of a prosecution on the jewish people as a result of what we will refer to for practical purses as vicarious atonement but don't let's not use that term because that's not a hebrew term we will discuss it in hebrew and you'll become more familiar with the jewish concepts and where perhaps the church went wrong okay that's just also now another idea within judaism regarding this idea is there's no obligation to believe it it is irrelevant whether you believe that person was righteous and died and there was a mitigation of your sins or not it's totally relevant if it's a fact that it's true it's true no matter either way it's true and even the word as we will discuss is a kapara kapar means atonement or that's how it's translated anyway it really means a covering there's a covering over as if when god comes to judge there is like i said it's less there's a mitigation circumstance here there's less judgment okay and in fact the covering of the ark the holy golden ark is called a coporus that's the root the word means to cover over now it also has another interesting um another interesting uh translation interpretation of the word it also means an oxymoron which and believe it or not that's what parsha sukhas is really all about right how someone who is in a state of purity who goes and sprinkles this paradigm of water on someone who's in a state of impurity he himself becomes impure and the person who was impure becomes pure so keep that in mind that also the word kapoor wrote the the concept here we're talking about is also translated or interpreted and understanding as an oxymoron keep in mind that the very cover of the holy ark is that very place that the divine voice speaks to us from right where there's um not just divine speech we're talking about divine inspiration is coming through this caparate so keep this in mind this is going to i think change our whole view of what this this concept is now let me just tell you what the concept is and then we'll get into the nitty-gritty of the clear car and i just want to mention we hope that the people watching this learn hebrew and there are source sheets on the yibbana website and below in the description box is a link you just have to find which book genesis x and leviticus whatever and which um parsha and then of course which year because we don't know which year you're watching this right now i'll just give you a clue this is the year 5781 from creation you figured that one out the concept is [Music] just as corbanos as the offerings that we offer in the temple atone again whatever atonement means in terms of covering over in terms of forgiveness so too af so to the death of the righteous also serve the same purpose okay so one of the things we've already discovered just by me saying it is this a jewish concept and it applies to many tadikim not just one okay and not only that that's another very important point is that sadiq we're talking about is not a complete relationship completely righteous he or she has to have had been human being with a aspect of sin meaning they could not have been perfect without sin because then they could never atone and experience any pain or suffering okay so we're going to get into that's why the christian concept is just way off just way off everything i already mentioned but let's get into the nitty-gritty so we're going to start with verse 2 in chapter 20 where it says like this the congregation had no water now this is 39 years later what do you mean no water we had water coming out of a rock for 39 years but all you have to do is look at the previous right the first verse is we had arrived there and miriam died there was buried there that's verse one and verse two there was no water the cleo car is telling us that as a result of her death there was no water meaning because she died there was no water does that make any sense the truth is for 39 years we had water because of her and once she died there was no water why what's going on so right away he tells us from a certain aspect of punishment there was a lack of water now in judaism when we talk about punishment from god our god is not a punishing god meaning it doesn't mean there's not we have a problem with the english translation the i don't like the word punishment but we'll use it anyway the punishment so i'm putting in quotes that we receive from hashem are actually love taps he is warning us he is telling us in a strange way you're doing something wrong and i'm going to let you know you're doing it wrong and i'm giving you a clear message measure for measure something that he's doing to us should awaken us we should have the insight and if we don't have we should pray for it we should learn torah we should learn what it is that we're doing wrong by examining our deeds and examining the so-called punishment so that we could figure out exactly what it is we're doing wrong so we could correct our behavior so now whenever we use the word punishment that's what we mean okay so apparently there was a lack of water as a result of a punishment and what does the cleo car explain to us was the reason why lefie shalom because we did not give her a proper eulogy we did not mourn for her how do we know we didn't work for her because the turret doesn't tell us it's it's like a it's a secret listen when it came to moses and aron moshe of the arrow nema it says it quite clearly now i'm just going to refer to two verses and you can look them up on your own in numbers chapter 20 verse 29 which means our chapter just a few verses later it says the whole congregation saw that aaron had died and the entire house of israel wept for aaron for 30 days and then go to deuteronomy chapter 34 verse 8. that's towards the end of the humish and the sons of israel wept for moses in the plains of maw for 30 days and the days of weeping over the morning for moses came to an end the word the binay israel actually let's just go through the let's go to the hebrew it says in 20 verse 29 the yirukola the whole congregation passed on the and they cried and then go to deuteronomy 34 8 and the very first word is the you the khuban israel that the children of israel cried okay for uh the death of moses so that those words do not appear anywhere here in other words the the view of there was no crying there was no feeling of the loss of miriam in fact what does it say in go back one verse to chapter 20 right we're in chapter 20 verse one it says the tamatsam the tikka bearshan she died there and she was buried there doesn't mention one place doesn't one mention one iota it doesn't even hint to the fact of the jewish people mourning her loss in fact keep a makam shameta in the very place that she died altar she was buried there immediately the nishkaja can make me late she was forgotten from the heart as we know that's how you know after a year anyway we do forget not entirely but there's a the the morning period is over it's finished after a year right and that's why we have to learn torah every year we can't go years without learning torah every day we have to learn torah and hopefully in it we'll have a cycle and because we forget after a year that's how shem made us we forget after a year now there's some good things about that and bad things about that there has to be closure right when someone passes on we have to move on with their lives but what did they do lo hirgisho behind they didn't feel or perceive her lack or the the loss of miriam at all and that would be a problem because for 39 years they received water in her merit in her merit nexus this is the very reason the water was withheld from them they lacked water today remember meet a kanegen media hashem wants us to be to know what it is we're doing wrong jewish people listen to me we have to live with an attitude of gratitude we have to thank people we have to recognize thank you very much kadeshi miriam so that we would know retroactively that the water came because of her as soon as she died the water stopped coming what we didn't know that for 39 years perhaps right where were we told that nowhere but now we know and now we have to um recognize that now this is the middle of the paragraph but there's a period and i believe the next few lines he's introducing the main concept it's a little bit you know continuation and perhaps a little bit of switch switching gears he brings down the gamora moet cotton at 28a and we will take a look at it i just don't know if we'll look at it totally right now i think we'll at the end i want to go deeper into the sources i want to be able to cover some ground to give you like the overall view and then we'll go deeper into the sources so in mod cotton it says like this chinese necromancers para that there is this juxtaposition between the death of miriam and just a few verses earlier the chapter before he's dealing with the whole chapter is dealing with the paradigma the paradigma being the red heifer and whatever it does to accomplish whatever it needs to which is to cleanse and to purify the people so that they can go up to the temple mount and bring crebanos and other basically it acts as a this spiritual disinfectant i like that word and we'll see why a spiritual disinfectant against this ritual impurity okay against the spiritual impurity and therefore what happens this is the statement this is all in order to teach you as i said earlier in the in the i don't know 10 minutes ago ma carbano's makrim just as the offerings sacrifices i don't like to wear sacrifices a corban the root is to come close these offerings allow one allow us to come close once you bring your bike in oh you locked it up so too the death of the righteous caused the same thing they also cause an atonement or a covering over or a mitigating of punishment however we're going to look at it but we have a few questions is the paradigma a corbin and is it in the is it the only corbin why here why does the misa why does the death of of of miriam appear here next to the paradumma we know we already received the paraduma in the first year towards right let's say towards the end of the first year at least by the the the first pesach in the desert at least by then that was um the whole mishkan was put up erected right you had uh we then we had pesach was told because people were impure and right so there was a purity process going already then so what do you mean 39 late years later it must be there's a reason for it remember there's other kerbanos all of vayikra so you're talking about all that was in preparation as well for the first of nissan of the first year because that's when kermanus was starting to be brought so why 39 years later put in this juxtaposition of the death of miriam next to the paradigma so the first question the clear the car asked is why is it over there by the product the first of all kibanet ain't not corbon it's not even a corbin right it's done outside of the mikdash now i should have made a better um a better picture but maybe you can't see it but basically what happens is the carbon all the korbanos are done within the temple compound okay there's very specific places and where it can be done inside the temple area itself here the this court i'm not going to call it corbin anymore but the paraduma is slaughtered outside on on the mount of olives so to speak on the mountain opposite but the cohen who does the um the slaughtering i'm not even sure if the cone only there's other opinions but the one slaughtering the the this um paraduma has to have a visual straight through the gates of surrounding the temple mount and inside into the holy of holies when he slaughters this corbin maybe that election is called a corporate it's not really a corbin but we'll so it's the paradouma it's outside the temple compound which we know corbanos are not supposed to be done outside the right outside the temple uh compound yet there is this um i don't know what you call it it's like an illusion that he's there because he has to be as if you can see the whole thing okay let's go back into the clear car and he asked another question well i shouldn't say a question he makes he makes a point now this point i think strengthens the question because we already said it's not a corbin and why specifically this this of all animals called the paraduma so he says rock mashem it must be based on this idea think about the second we find by the para aduma the word khatus now the word khatus usually means i mean in almost all cases it means a sin offering a actual corbenhatis a sin offering keep in mind the word khatus does not always have to mean that in fact if you go to chapter 19 of numbers verse 9 you will see clearly that the word khatus does not even come close to the the general term we've been using it that being a sin offering look at it says a ritually clean person so gather the cows ashes place them outside the camp in a clean place and it shall be as they keep safe for the congregation of the children of this job for sprinkling water used for cleansing the word he means for purification for cleansing and that's why i called it a spiritual disinfectant in fact in this past year there's one word i learned and i learned many words but there was when you purify your hands with that alcohol gel it's called purifying your hands so look at rashi what does it mean for purification or cleansing the word khatas right usually it's used for a sin offering here it's an expression of cleansing according to its simple meaning but according to scripture calls it akhata scripture is referring to it as a sin offering but it's not just keep that in mind okay it's not really the typical korvan as we already explained but rather it's more like a disinfectant okay just like the alcohol gel now let's go on now that we know that he says this is going to be the whole point now we have to keep this in mind it's an illusion he describes it in a poetic way and we will spend a lot of time discussing what it means he says these words kashem sha para baa look not this language just as the mother cow right a para aduma para has to be at least in its second year of life capable of having children and she's a para she's a cow the eggel zahav the golden calf that she's coming to atone for the jewish people sin of the golden calf not at individuals the nation so just as the mother cow comes to clean up the the feces the the the dirt the mess that her child made so too sedeket this particular woman miriam but in general a righteous woman what does she do keep this in mind this is very pro-feminist this this class this is very pro woman that what is she doing a righteous woman aim call hai the the the oral torah is calling her every righteous woman a mother of all living things a mother of life itself but me sosa that through her death that she ends up cleaning she's causing a cleanliness a cleaning process of the dirt of her progeny so even if you're not literally from that from her womb you're not a biological child of this righteous woman this righteous woman's life and therefore her death is serving also as a cl a a process of purification for again is it for you or is it for everybody it's not personal there's no personal salvation here this is for everybody okay now the smith happens to be four famous midrashim that expressed this idea these four midrashim are found in four different places and if you have the english sheets number eight um i'll tell you what they are in hebrew and if you go to the chapter in in leviticus chapter 16 you will notice right this is an akremos after the death of the two sons nadav and avihu of our own so what do we see all the laws of yom kippur first of all just like when did they die they didn't die anywhere near yom kippur they died on the first of nisan as well in the first year so you're talking about approximately half a year later give or take right a little bit more uh six and a half months whatever it is what six months six months and ten days whatever it is why is there death and then you have juxtaposed the laws of yom kippur okay there's a lot of reasons why but the reason the measures is bringing in is because there is a reason for these were righteous men sanctifying hashem's name very holy men who were who died and right away you have a concept of kippur of the word we've been discussing the whole night of atonement or a mitigating against harsh punishment i think it's a better way to describe it the second midrash is the one we were discussing the miriam tapara that we find in moa cotton and then the third one is the smikas miso aron the big day kahuna and the kapri now we could look at this this is also in the same page as miriam's death in moat cotton 28a that describes the the cohen guttals garments which are eight each one atones for a different sin now again it's not personal these are general sins for the people now i want to go through these sources but i want to go through them only after we finish this short paragraph in the clear car i want to go deeper into the sources but anyway the um and also impartial echev which i think we'll just spend a little bit more time on so if you notice he's okay one second not yet and he basically explains what does it say over there in part oh this is the fourth one in parshas ekkev it says like this it's there's a midrash some of mises are that the death of our own is mentioned very close proximity to um the breaking of the luchos so if you go just take a look we're talking about chapter 10 of deuteronomy verse 6 that talks about aaron's death but up until that point i think it's two or three verses before it mentions the very fact that god's now giving them the second tablets but he has to mention because the first ones were broken and shattered so what does it teach us by the proximity of speaking about aaron's death to the shibir salukos shikasha mitat sadikim that is difficult troublesome harsh is the death of the righteous just like the breaking of the luchos lucas are the tablets now the next part of this paragraph is going to sum up four benefits that we benefit from the i'll say the life and death of the righteous now three of them are really about their life and the fourth one is about their death so let's go through them that would be still number nine on page three so it says like this what is okay lefisha min called sadiq the ex extending or right drawing forth from every sadiq extending from every sadiq every righteous person yagiya livne duro will extend to that generation the people of the living on the planet at that time that means all of us whether you believe it or not whether you like it or not it's going to happen arba meaning there's going to be four benefits the very fact that these siddiqui are alive and pass on eventually they're going to be these four benefits whether you believe it or not this is a very interesting concept that the entire world will not experience famine and like horrible problems on their merit in other words they by them being alive they will nourish people physically meaning with food the food that we receive is because of their righteous deeds okay it says in ghazal in gamora broncos which i'd also like to look at in detail that the the ola the hanina's father said the entire world is receiving food on my son's account now we will see it that's true guess how much he ate kanina ate one bucket of caribs the entire week from shabbos to shabbos meanwhile the whole world had food we this is a very interesting concept he himself suffered he himself was a big sadiq and yet the whole world nourished because of him and yet he somehow suffered we'll talk about that i want to go deep into it uh continue just like we explained in partial if you go into genesis chapter 50 verse when the jewish people when israel took yakov up to mars pala to bury him there there was a stop on the way they were mourning the canaanites saw us morning but where was the place the place was called gorin that was a threshing floor remember yaakov himself came down to egypt there was supposed to be seven years of plenty which there was and then there was supposed to be seven years of famine which there wasn't he came down in the second year and because of his presence what happened to yaakov there was assist that famine stopped on account of the tsadik that sadi came and brought with him plenty of bracha and what happened as a result there was lots of food so where did they stop on the way as a sense of gratitude to the threshing floor where there is a either storage house of food or that's where it's processed also in particular we discussed this idea about the seven closest relatives right there were seven closest relatives that had cohen not a coin guttal but a regular cohen should natan himself for meaning go to their funeral participate right go to the cemetery and whatnot now it mentions six of the closest relatives by name the seventh one the first one isn't mentioned except through a hint because it says ero except for his closest relative now we would translate that as except for his flesh right relative and flesh flesh means skin except for his skin or skin is right and who's that who's his closest relative his wife right in the list there's no wife but we all know there's seven that's our tradition and our tradition is that that were those words his closest relative meaning his flesh means his wife but how does she become his flesh how's that without getting sexual here we're just talking about the very fact that she is going to hunt right he's going to sit and learn and she's going to go hunt now i'm kidding i'm being a little bit joking here that she will stand in the kitchen and cook and she sweats and all her love and energy is going into that food that she's preparing for him and therefore when she feeds it to him what does that food become his flesh so she's putting her flesh so to speak into the food that is now becoming his flesh that is the intimacy right through the stomach of husband and wife so therefore so we understand that remember we said earlier the mother is um is cleaning up for her child she's doing more than that she's monika she is nourishing her children through through the actual blood becomes milk right and the breast is where it's coming into and the child himself or herself is then it's becoming their flesh as well so he says that this righteous people they are acting in the way and we're talking about women specifically they're acting in a way like a mother who nourishes or let's say nurses her children and that's why in song of songs where some people know the song of solomon in chapter four verse five now there's two ways to interpret every verse in song of songs that would be allegorically and literally when i say allegorically i'm referring to using the oral torah to understand what was being said and literally to what it actually says not just to find it on my page anybody see it song of songs it's number fifteen on page six it literally says your two breasts are like two fawns look in the hebrew your two breasts are like these types of uh fwans like a baby uh bambi's the twins of the gazelle who graze among the roses right now that's the literal translation but the allegoric translation because of our oral torah says like this that those two breaths are sustainers who are they that's referring to moses and our own who are righteous people sustaining the generation in the desert are like two fawns twin of the gazelle who graze their sheep in rows like bounty okay let's go back into the cleocard because basically he's referring to these two breasts as mosha and aron that's how rashi explains it over there we also find in gamora tinus that it was because of miriam that they actually had the water coming out of the rock it's called the air ma and the air miriam and why why was that if you can remember back when pharaoh said or implied or actually did he wanted to have the jewish babies the male babies killed he was afraid because of his astrologers that the mashiach the messiah would be born and he had the babe the male babies thrown into the into the nile and killed and um there were two uh midwives your head miriam by the way who not only saved the babies from being killed but provided for all their needs they provided for their needs they gave them shelter they gave them food they caused them to live that's what the verse implies they caused them to live meaning they supplied all their needs so too this is what the miriam did meet at canadian media does only work does not only work in the negative it also works in the positive that in the merit of knowing what miriam did that she supplied the needs of these children these helpless children so too that she in her merit shyamal speaks that this miriam supplied for the jewish people all their needs and now we understand why there is a proximity right a placement of the death of miriam to the para aduma thus a lapara now we really understand we're talking about the death of a righteous woman such as miriam being placed in in the torah next to the paradigma which it didn't need to be we already discussed that in the beginning the paradigm is not even like a corbin and not only that there were other korbanos earlier on in vaikara and what not and even in terms of the timing so here comes aimha ego it's the who is the para the power of the cow is the mother of the calf the cat is the thing that ruined things right it came and fixed up cleaned up the mess that the child made so keep in mind that it's talking about and that's what many of the majority explain many of them before she explained that the the para aduma cleans takes care of purifies the sin again it doesn't totally expiate it and we still have to do truva right and we're still suffering till this day we know our tradition tells us that there may have been like expunged to a certain extent right a lessening of punishment because of the sin of the golden calf but we still have chuva to do okay and that's the first thing that righteous people do they lessen here they here in this case they provide for the needs that's what mean they provide for the needs while they're alive and even after they die what else do do what other benefits does a righteous person provide they teach they supply lessons about the benefit of following the way of god and keeping his misses kashbiros that's why the death of those righteous people right when they pass on patirato it's like the breaking of the luchos the luchas represent the torah as if the torah itself has been shattered when they pass on the third merit the third benefit that the people benefit from while they're alive that in their merit we are protected we are protected cut sail just like shade or shadow or a refuge protection just as a blanket just as a garment just as some type of um whatever a beggar beg in general means a garment but just as the garment pre is made for protection from extreme cold and extreme heat it protects one so uber motto and in their passing on through their death sar the word selam also means the their image of god right has been removed their protection the same word image of god and protection right it's it's a very nice poetic way of saying it but through their death the protection had been removed hareheim arumi and that as a result the people would be naked from any type of covering okay so we're going to see in the gemara itself those two aspects of the death of miriam and the big day kahuna we talked we talked about that already in in really quick but we're going to go into a little bit further and now we also understand in our chapter chapter 20 verse 29. it says over there the yeru kola eda the whole people saw that aaron had died i want to go back to that verse a second i think we actually quoted it maybe not let's see okay i don't have it here so i want to go to it i have it right here in front of me let me say 29 when the entire assembly saw it says over here 29 the okay we did read it but i wanted to refer to actually there is a verse i want to look at and in numbers chapter 20 verse 29 as i was mentioning the whole congregation saw that iron had expired and the entire house of israel wept now look in the hebrew it says the uru kola okay now i want you to go down for a second into the rashi it says remus it don't read it as the yeru they saw but rather as with its ray the ye ru the yeru they were exposed remember the covering the clouds of glory were in the merit of our own and when the clouds of glory departed we were exposed the clouds of glory were covering us just like it covers the cover of the aranakodesh it covers it and that's where we have that divine intimacy with hashem when these clouds of glory departed as a result of aaron's death look at rashing they were exposed because aaron had died and the clouds departed you know what happened at that point amalek saw that arrow died also what does it mean they saw they knew that it's actually since they heard it says they heard that aaron died where were they that they heard no they heard that the clouds departed from you know the spies around you know they in fact they could have seen the clouds depart but as soon as they saw the clouds depart they understood that this is an opportunity now to come and attack because the clouds of glory was our sail was our protection okay so now the that's how let's just read in gamora rosh hashanah with three lines down from the bottom on the clear car the yay the yodas with its seirei shiniru shiniru means they were seen they were seen meaning they were exposed through the removal of the clouds of glory shinnimshalabegan the clouds of glory are similar or compared to a article of clothing something that covers us the smikhol the big de kahuna and now we understand how each one of the different eight articles of the koingodo in a tone and that's why it was brought in as a proximity as well and the fourth and final reason or i should say a benefit to those who are alive as well as meaning us that when the sadhik is alive or that sadiq dies there's some kind of benefit here the fourth one is when they die shuhu the capra leia nissaso there's some aspect of again kaper of the mitigating of a defense of a forgiveness of an atonement through their death and that's the smikus lyom kippurim and that like we said earlier on about the two sons nadavanavihu passing on and then the laws of yom kippur and he ends with by saying this is actually easy to understand okay so if it was so easy to understand great i want to go through some of the sources now because they're just so beautiful ideas now if we go to um mo 8 cotton so you have that i think at the very last sheet if i'm not mistaken if you open that up the last sheet on the english says like this on the rib ami ribby ami said la 28a why is there a proximity to the death of miriam of the death of miriam to partial paraduma as it says the tamar miriam right after we read the chapter 19 that deals with the paradigma you see that miriam died to teach you that the paradigm is in the parrot it somehow atones for what specifically for the sin of the golden calf but in general all sin perhaps even the miso sunshine mikka peret and and that last piece even the death of the siddiqui and not only siddique but even sid kanyot even the righteous women and this is one of the important things that if you thought for a moment before we read this that maybe righteous men a tone guess what righteous women atone as well just in case you weren't aware of that that's going to be one of the hidduchin here and that they atone al-khattai duram for the sins of the generation meaning more it's not about a personal salvation dude get over it right and then the gamora goes on the big day kahuna why is there a proximity the death of our own to the um the clothing of the cohen just keep in mind i want you to look at the verses because they're very interesting you have in verse 28 that our own um moses was told to remove the clothes he'll actually let's look it up because it's um right let's look at 27 28 and 29 right in 27 actually 26 26 already tells moses that he should strip aaron of his vestments if our if moses is told to strip aaron and dress eliezer in them and then aaron's gonna die what more do you need then it says in 27 moses did exactly as god commanded for sure you don't need anything after that and yet in verse 28 it goes on and tells us again that moses stripped aaron's garments from him and dressed eliezer and aaron died there that whole 28 is superfluous you don't need that at all so therefore it's coming to tell you there's actually a a there's a juxtaposition between arun's death and the kuna the close of the kuna which was totally not necessary to say verse 28 is unnecessary except it is necessary to teach us this okay i want to go down to the comments down below on this page on the right side that um number 12 you bet and that so far everything we read was accurate to rashi as well as the words of the eerie it infers that the death of the righteous person listen to this idea the mika peret ali they hit aurorus now if you don't believe in all the metaphysical concepts that we've discussed just on a very practical level the death of the righteous people should awaken us should arouse us to do chuva shahi may the ba'am the tokaka that it will bring through becoming you know what i like the word and we should reincorporate it into our language being awoke really truly in a biblical sense waking up spiritually being in tune right with me to connect in media whether it was the reward or the opposite right really trying to understand being conscious and aware through being woken up hit urorus that will that is brought to the people and the rebuke the tokhaka that happens yotair but by her by the righteous woman or by the righteous man that dies you know you go to a funeral and you hear the eulogy the real eulogy where people get up and tell you unbelievable stories i shouldn't say unbelievable believable stories that are just so out of this world that is supposed to arouse you to say wow i am falling short on my own level i know i could be i could do more i could be more i could be nicer to my family i could be nicer to my neighbors right i have to do chuva you hear the level that these people reach through the serious nephesh through working on their character and you just know that you're lacking and that's really the truth when you want to grow spiritually you have to think how much you're lacking right how how far you have to go and that's okay and that is a practical point here so why would we say that the mesa of the righteous cause atonement it's through the remember it's all about truva without true it's it's nothing on a personal level on a national level that may happen whether you're aware of it or not the next idea is that the reason act the reason the torah actually teaches you limbda that the death of the righteous people atone regarding this concept we've been discussing the paraduma the reason there's a relationship between atonement of the righteous to the paradigma is not at all related to the idea of korban that the corben brings atonement no but rather that all types of corbanos you actually have they're usually either male alone in other words there's certain carbanos that are strictly a male offering meaning the animal is of the male species or they're either male or female you can bring either one it depends there could be some details for example a hat a individual sin off ring has to come from a a um one second um an individual is brought from a female but a cohen godo or a prince when he brings a sin offering has to be from a male okay so you have female male but there's in other words every offering is categorized either they're all male or like this could be sometimes a female sometimes a male but a paradigma is always a female always a female and therefore we're learning about miriam the righteous woman who's acting as the aim kochai as the female who is the mother of all life or let's say the righteous person who's the mother of all life is going to makapare for her children or clean up like the mother of the cow cleans up for the um for her children to teach us it's not only the righteous men who act in this way but also righteous women also perform this amazing idea um i just want to skip down to the next one you're dalid it's a very interesting piece and i do believe that i brought it down in the english this would be from gomorrah's vaccine so let's just look at it over there it is found anybody want to help me in the english pages okay yeah number six number six says in 88 being savage um that the different you can look at the english i'll just read the hebrew right that the eight different garments are toned for different sins so here we have it that clearly that the uh the the tone it which is like the robe that atones for uh murder and um like for example if you had somebody murder somebody they had a names a demeaning witnesses but they didn't give the proper um they didn't give the proper warning so we have a problem here there's no justice that can be done so this part part of the clothing of the coin gado will atone again is it for the individual murderer or is it because the people are responsible it's it's it sounds like it's it's a general idea here the mikhna sayim the pants are going to atone for gilearius for the nation if they sink into this sin right there's a certain amount of atonement that will atone for a sexual um sins the mitznefet which is the turbine is going to atone for a hoariness the avenate which is the belt is going to atone for hero lathe which is um thoughts within the heart the ocean which is the breastplate is going to atone for dimming like a lot of these are you know on the people in general the a fold the a vote is the apron which is going to make a tone for idol worship the meel which is the under shirt it's going to a tone for lush hara before hesia slander that was done in public that seats which is the plate on the forehead is going to atone for brazenness now the reef explains that the these garments of the coin godo they don't atone they're not going to tone for sins let me just read in hebrew big day kahuna in him it's not going to atone for the sin the actual sin that the person performed but rather what it does is that it helps or insists that the prosecutor cannot make the the person so obligated in other words it doesn't expediate it doesn't expunge the sin completely it's just like i said in the beginning there's a covering over okay the next idea is a very interesting idea and that is that usually we say before you can get atonement on yom kippur if it's a sin between you and god that's one thing hashem might forgive you that's great but when it comes to being adam there's a lot more you need to do you have to physically go out of your way to do truva and apologize to the person or make up some kind of restitution if it require if that particular sin requires it we call that being adam lachavero well guess what didn't we mention that the eel actually atones for lush and heart before hesia ah so here we have this idea tremendous idea that the para duma does a lot more than we thought let me just read the words this is in the words rabili ezra he it's like he's adding to the words of me that was the the second opinion about the big day kahuna he's adding on to what we said about miriam and from here we learned the righteous people who die they atone even on for sins when i say they die they don't that's not why they died through their death they actually atone even for sins made others between one person and another and this is what we find when we talked about the big day kahuna the the the high priest's garment for example that the eel is somehow a tones for lush and horror now if we hadn't learned that if we hadn't learned the second opinion rebellior we might have thought that the righteous the death through the death of the righteous people they would um not help that it would not help uh someone who is evil towards hashem or evil towards other people but we we learn opposite of that so perhaps also that's one idea meaning even if you're being adamant is also necessary in other words they're both necessary to teach us it's not only the death of the righteous men men many men have have through their death have found have brought atonement amongst the people but even women elegant mises nash and sitkanios that's the heresh that even through the death of women you might not have thought that and the torah is going out of its way to teach you that alpha appreciation common myths or shame you know they're not obligated so many misses so you might think that they're not as righteous not in all the case just because they have less mitzvahs does not make them any less righteous right they have less mitzvahs but they do them they're just as righteous as everyone else don't get don't walk away thinking that men are holier than women it just ain't true just ain't true okay so that is uh from the truman sedation okay now i want to go quickly into one of the comments on that gamora moed cotton and you'll find this and like this what is the intent mahakavana what is the intent that the paraduma the power doom itself atones right it's a very strange idea so uh toss writes that the paradigma atones for the sin of the ego the sin of the golden calf just like we said in the midrash about the shift the handmaiden who's in the palace she's uh she brought her kid in for the day and the kid made a baligang made a mess so the king says get the shifter get the handmaiden to come clean up the mess for her child so too the sin of the golden calf what happens how are we going to be atoned for that the mother comes who's the mother the cow and she's the mother and she cleans up the sin of her child uh romero he mentions he writes that just as the para the paraduma it it purifies those who are sinners i should say like this just as the para is me that in a certain sense the para duma allows the person who had sinned right to now go to the base of mikdash and bring corbanos and then find their salvation meaning their atonement right in other words the paradigm is not expunging the sin but what it's doing is allowing the sinner to go up to the harabayat and bring his sin offering and participate so too kohatus nika paris avon so too right the sin offering itself atones not that the paraduma atones but the paradigma allows you the sinner to go up and be atoned so two the death of the righteous people they are matajiris israel so the death of the righteous people purify and atone for the sins of the jewish people who aims their kitab the ferocious his written specifically okay the last piece what's the kesher what's the exact connection between the death of the tsadiq to the para aduma so the kesha between the paradumma to the death of the righteous the yaros divas writes that both of them are sigule blitam remember i mentioned the word kapara means oxymoron i don't even know what oxymoron is anybody know it's uh it's like two steers that cannot be resolved two contradictory ideas that cannot be resolved we saw that that's what the dictionary describes kapara so to say it's a kapara there's these two contradictory things that are very difficult to resolve that even king solomon could not resolve them listen to this just as the paradigma purifies without reason we have no idea why so too the right the death of the righteous also whatever mika peret atones for below tom without reason so too the aziosith describes this on the enyako he brings in the name of the nezer hakodesh that explains that just as the para aduma atones for the sin of the golden calf so too from this from what reason from the reason that the mother comes and cleans up the the feces the dirt of her of her child so too the death of the righteous person atones or covers over biochemical fascia remember we described her as the aim called hi the righteous woman is the mother of all life so too the death of the righteous is going to atone to be that it's from the source of all souls in the world and they are mataharim zahumat they somehow clean or purify or spiritually disinfect the souls of their progeny their children okay there's one more gamora i wanted to look at before we finish and that is a gemara broncos 17a that you will find on the sheets i'll tell you where yeah i think it's page five so it's very small [Applause] but basically the gomorrah says like this uh justice rebel you to send the name of rav dhamma ra rav vihud amarav says ravihud in the name of rav each and every day because now he is this is during the days of um uh hanina mendoza there was a boss call some kind of voice from heaven we call it a low level of prophecy it's not so low but it's where many people have kodesh and you're hearing the same message it's not a boss hole that is spoken out loud per se but it's spoken within the head of a group of people everyone hears the same thing have a good javas uh kola kulo nizuni bishvil and this bosco would speak out from harsinai and it would say that the whole world in its entirety is being nourished on account of hanina benin my son and whereas hanina beni himself only ate a bucket full of caribs from one shabbos from heir of shabbos thereof shabbas during the entire week on the right side in the middle it brings down it's a very interesting concept what gives us the nourishment or parnassa how much money do i make a year am i going to have enough food so basically there's a whole discussion is this left to fate in other words it was already determined how rich i will be me personally or is it um up to me so just to get an idea if you go to deuteronomy chapter 7 verse 13 it's an amazing thing because it talks about all the blessings that come to a person so this reward is this coming to an individual based on his own actions or is it left to fate so like i said go to deuteronomy chapter 7 13 and it says like this god will love you bless you multiply you and he will bless the fruit of your womb the fruit of your land your grain your wine and your oil just all the most beautiful blessings that there could be but guess what you go to verse 12. just go one verse before this all this reward is only going to happen if you listen if you observe and perform them so is it on us sounds like from here it's totally on us it's not left to think the choice is in your hands but we do have a question how can god say or how can the father of khanina say that the whole world's nourished because of him nothing to do with us it's fate or is it in our hands so listen to this comment below because this boss called this voice came out from heaven from mount sinai and it says the whole entire world is nourished on account of somebody else not me right hanina and himself lasted or survived on just one bucket of of um of carobs so the rashba explains that don bastira godoyla in order to understand and investigate this great discrepancy that we find binyani nelu of kabbalah scar receiving reward on account of the merits of person do we receive reward we basically say all the reward is in the world to come and there are pay wrote there are little crumbs of reward we can receive in this world behold rather in mord cotton he actually says meaning living human beings the populists that whatever parnasso whatever a person gets has nothing to do with his actions it's purely fate it's purely in the stars it's purely beyond our control but that's akasha that's a big question because we saw so many verses that describe the opposite like we just read in deuteronomy chapter 7 verses 12 and 13. it's totally dependent on what we do and you can bring many verses and he does like the ones we just read the ken kasha and he asked another question how can we even how can they get more even say that on account of one person one person the whole world is fed the whole world is nourished because of one person that is sounds like an exaggeration and not only that whereas by himself he only got one bucket how can it be we're talking about billions and billions of tons of food coming to the world because of this guy and he gets one you hear the question it's a great question israel you know what's happening through him all of israel the general the general people their mesonotav whatever nourishment they get that's because of his merits because of that one person's merits but adam prati but when it comes to the individual person that he that is not going to help the individual person that individual person is still relying on what hashem has decreed the decree of god whatever the stars say remember we can always change that okay that's a whole nother class how you can change your muzzle right we're not stuck in muzzle but apparently that was uh the mausoleum that the jewish people were benefiting from the merit of hanina of his merit we merit we derive pleasure from what he gained for us but he himself all he himself in heaven was decreed to get and and why that was because maybe um he had to suffer and that is part of the part of right the the righteous people suffering isaiah 53 if you just understand who the servant is the servant is the jewish people and through the jewish people if you come and learn torah with us as opposed to learning on your own or trying to learn on your own learn torah with the jewish people you cannot lose because then you will have the proper understanding and with that i'm going to sign off i'm wishing everybody a pleasant week a great unbelievable shabbos and a great life and we'll see you next week [Music] is [Music]