The Unique Kindness of the Jews with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom Al everybody Welcome to the ER the mid few people coming on now we have a few people here in the B mid H this is the really you know we call it the iate madash but we're not here we're not in the iate madash we are guests we are grateful guests in Era and um for those who are not familiar we use the clear to explain very important points this is very spiritually heavy inspiring also Al very textual um tonight is actually a short we're going to use a short text but we have a lot a lot to say about it um so for those who are unfamiliar in the description box below you can get a hold of the original Hebrew text that we're using and I really suggest you do so because it's really almost impossible to really understand what's happening in the para without seeing the Hebrew personally I want to start off by mentioning a special prayer of shal for Natan Ben zel and of course last week we gave a shout out mamash to Hashem for the Rua for our soldiers the protection of our soldiers and we're going to discuss that a little bit tonight uh I want to mention about akut and how important akut is akut means Unity the unity of the Jewish people uh that's been quite the theme for the last few weeks and specifically I just want to mention what I mentioned on Shabbat at our table about L har right if a is unity and it's so important in other words right we say right only if we're together will we win it's not an empty slogan Lush and Hara are the beginnings of the cracks and maybe even further in in disrupting and breaking down the unity of the nation so I just want to mention that in last week's pares inore in the midash it actually brings these words that by King David David actually prayed that the soldiers would not die in battle and still many of them did die unfortunately and that's because the med says there were tail B tail bearers among them and they would fall in battle so to protect our soldiers we must figure out we must not only learn Yehuda we must not only learn but practice right so the med ends like this over there you know the aav king Ahab I think that's how they pronounce it in English he was an idol worship he was not such a holy man in fact he was a very evil evil King and yet you know what the med says because they were not tail bearers they went out to war and yet they were victorious they were victorious not because they were sinners in fact they were Sinners but they were victorious because they refrained from Lush and heart in other words there was AK there was a sense of aus and AEM created for us on October 7th a sense of aus through the tragedy that took place and we should not forget our soldiers are on the front line fighting for our survival and if we're on the behind the lines causing trouble speaking lushen Hara causing disunity we're not doing them any favors that's for sure we could be on the front lines with them by praying learning Torah and for sure by not speaking lashan har and that because LBA om it's especially true LBA om is multi Shabbat Saturday night and it's not just about rabish shim Bai it's about his rebi rebbi AKA rebi AKA actually taught Rim everything he knows right I besides the fact that he learned on his own in in the in the cave with his son but his rebi and what was his rebi known for re AA to tell us that the most one of the most important all-encompassing mitv in the Torah is to love your neighbor as yourself so on this 33rd day of the OM which is coming up it should be infused with this whole concept of a and that brings me to the next Point our organization is called yes there's a famous expression built the world with kindness I'll just give you an example if you want to know what the Bible is about you want to know what God's about look in the beginning look at the end and you can figure out everything in between is under that theme so Hashem he brought Adam his wife that's a big for those who aren't married and don't understand that okay he clothed the naked he clothed the naked that's a big and at the end of the Torah that Moses was buried by God himself God involved himself inal a um the real true way of doing kindness so the whole Torah if you look in the first major Act and the last major act you could figure out all the acts in between are are based on this idea we're supposed to follow in God's ways so this leads to the next idea that I just want to mention that we have already we've collected your money we have you right people have donated for to fill in and we've sent over 70 pairs of theill to the front lines for our soldiers who many of them not religious who feel part of am Israel just like we are appreciative of them they're also understanding the the importance of aus and feeling part of the Jewish nation and have and taking on Jewish unity and Jewish identity and wearing to fill in so they're not cheap they don't come cheap you know and uh it's through your donations we have already contributed over 70 pair so I just want to thank you and anybody who would like to contribute through and we're going to learn about this today this whole class is about CID we'll see soon uh can donate through the link below we're going to deal with chapter 25 verse 25 in the clear car and the verse says like this if your brother becomes destitute Y is like going down or even crushed he's he's feeling listen financially he's feeling it okay he's feeling crushed he's destitute by the time he feels this Devastation on a financial level he's ready and prepared to sell some of his property now real estate doesn't come cheap here in Israel we all know that but more than that it's handed down through families as we see this par dealing with shita and Y in the beginning of chapter 25 we're towards the end of 25 we're going to see there's actually a very strong connection between the keeping the laws of shita and Jubilee to what to Poverty or to wealth okay there's a very strong connection between observing and keeping shita and Y to wealth and poverty there's a connection so in verse 25 if your brother becomes destitute and sells some of his Inherited property okay it says from his property so he's not selling his entire property so then what happens his closest relatives charity begin at home his closest relative who's related to him shall come forth and redeem his brother well redeem his brother sale the truth is it should never have to come to that that he sells it when already somebody is becoming in the beginning stages of financial troubles people should come to his assistance and we will see exactly why that's important you can guess now but I'll tell you I'll tell you that if some the the worst somebody's Financial situation is the harder it is to pick him up so you grab it in the beginning and it doesn't get so bad okay it's a very important concept and we'll see it more in detail but based on this um idea this Rashi says this teaches us that a person may not sell his field his property is Inherited property which he makes parnasa that's where his his money comes from except when under the pressure of poverty so hopefully the family comes and helps him with a job uh teaches him a trade does something set him up in business so he doesn't get to this point but so somebody has to sell part of their field never sell all your real estate keep some of it that's the first lesson also it says right some of it but not all of it Rashi says the Torah is teaching us proper conduct that if you do have to sell at least leave over some of for yourself and the last point and redeem his brother's sale meaning the closest relative that the purchaser the actual person who bought the property cannot impede the Redemption now for those who are not familiar we're talking about Inherited property by the Jubilee it goes back into the original person's possession possession so for example we're saying it happens every 50 years that it reverts back into the original person's possess possession so basically if if the person is down and out needs some money what he'll do it's called a lease he's not even really selling the property because he's selling it only for a certain period of time it's true that it's really in the other person's name during that time until the Jubilee but it's kind of like a lease and why do I say that so let's let's take some roundabout numbers so it the you're not selling the property forever you're only selling it for 25 years right it's 25 year lease 25 years until the next year so let's just work with $11,000 so if you sold it for $25,000 and the brother or the cousin comes to redeem it so if 15 years in so um he'll sell it back to him the the the new purchaser has to sell it back he has to sell it back for $10,000 right you're not going to get the full amount and you're not going to get less you're going to get what's worth of the lease that's still unused okay so it has to be done fairly and the purchaser has to allow the property to go back even though there's still 10 years left left on the lease even though he still has in his possession that $10,000 he should give that $10,000 um back and uh then the property is redeemed okay the CLE car Begins by telling us a medish and this medish I copied over I believe is number two on the it's telling us about the what's it means the close proximity justos or close proximity you have all the laws of shita and Y and then right away the next subject is your your your brother your friend your neighbor is impoverished so what does the measure say okay this is a little bit complicated during you open up your your fields and anybody can come in and take it's he it's uh it's ownerless and anybody can take I'm not going to say as much as they want they cannot take as much as they want they can only take up to the amount of three meals per day right that's how and if you have 30 people in your family you're responsible so you can take 90 meals per day okay but what happens is this if you're the landowner and you decide or even if you're not you're going to someone's field and taking and harvesting a lot and you're selling it on the open market so there's something wrong with that you're not supposed to do business with Kad with the fruit that's grown during the shita year you're supposed to only sell it you're allowed to sell it only for the amount of money it's takes the Harvest so in other words there's oats are based in the based in comes and they hire people who will harvest and let's say there's also Transportation costs so we're talking about bare minimum so if normally let's say apples are $5 a pound so this SM a year it's only $1 a pound because you had to hire people so it doesn't rot on the trees you had to hire people to get it to the market so you have gas and you have a truck driver and what not so they're actually supposed to be much cheaper but that's it that money that you spend is just under Ultra Basin the cost to get it to the market anything above that is Tainted it's so tainted that the money you spend and give to the guy the the fruit salesman is it's problematic it's it's holding on to this um impure it's really actually pure it's holding on to the Holiness of the kadash which you're not allowed to benefit from and it's going to be on that money forever so it is a problem so but in in general the concept is it's a problem you're not allowed to make money off of the uh fruits of of shmita and yet someone's doing this so what's going to be the end on the person trying to become rich will actually become impoverished and that in the English if you look at number two I'll read it to you there's a verse in Proverbs 28:22 an evil eyed person moves quickly after wealth someone who's quick to become rich he's he happens to be this evil eyed person who's moving quickly after wealth we're going to see the next few words even though the next few words are not brought till later in the medish he doesn't realize all of the lack that's going to come to him okay so the first part is the evili eyed person moves quickly after his wealth this represents those who engage in business in the sabatical year in that they think right that their goal is to quickly move to become rich meaning they do not observe thetical year and they think they will become rich what does Hashem do the Holy One Blessed Be he said to them by your life meaning I swear you will have a loss in the m matter since he did not observe the sabatical year the curse the aak the dust of the sin of what he did began entering into his money and he sells he used to end up selling all that he had so what is this magress telling us why is there this mik this proximity of the laws of sh and Y and then all of a sudden now you have this impoverished person in being discussed and all the laws thereof so we have in verse two right in the beginning of chapter 25 that the land shall observe a Sabbath for the Lord don't work the land it has to rest and then right afterwards already in verse 14 which we will see when you sell property when you're when you're when the person becomes impoverished and needs to sell his property and we're going to look at it right now even though yeah actually the clear card brings it down he says it's the third line down there's either an example or a simil a similar similar that's what an example is a similar example to this proof and that's the verse 14 where it says now in modern Hebrew I don't know if you would talk like this it's very Shakespearean but it says in English and you cannot really tell the double language of M in the English unless you want to translate it when you surely make a sale to your fellow je usually the double language is like a surely like it's a real emphasis but I don't see that in English it says when you make a sale to your fellow Jew or make a purchase from the hand of your fellow Jew when you sell the salable item to your now the truth is we're talking about movables and I just want to give you like a rundown in 14 we're going to talk about movables then we're going to talk about real estate and then we're going to talk meaning the person becomes impoverished that he has to sell his real estate like we talked about the field and then later on it's where the person is so impoverished he sells himself as a slave there's a progression I don't know if you noticed first it's movable so this verse 14 and it even says a purchase from the hand of your fellow mad K miad but here even in the double language Rashi says I'm pretty sure it's the Rashi but maybe it's the me we'll get to it it's like it's a causing of more sale there's a slow progression of degradation financially of going down um to a lower point on the financial scale by selling more you sell first the movables Matalin that's what it's called in Hebrew then the S the field that may be your house hopefully your house is next to your field and then lastly God forbid selling yourself as a slave which is like probably really degrading it's probably a very uh uncomfortable situation and now you understand maybe in the beginning we're going to see where Rashi says this is the time to help him and he he gives an example if somebody if a donkey has a load on its back and it falls so if you can straighten it up while it's still on it's you see that it's falling it's faltering if you can straighten it up and and and uh tie it down correctly you're way better off then later on after Falls even five people while the load is on the Dunkey won't even be able to lift up the donkey okay so let's go back into the clear third line down we use this verse he says this is an example to his thesis and he says you notice that there's a double language of sale which I mentioned already number one usually means surely but in this case he says why is it a double language of s that one sale is going to cause to follow another and this is where it really Nails it down because what did you do you sold your shita fruits which you shouldn't have that was already the first stage you were wanted wealth quickly and we saw as a result of chasing after wealth it's going the opposite is going to happen then that sale of the fruits that's causing the sale of the of the um the movables Metaline the the the movable Goods to your friend I do want to look at that Rashi on number three I don't think we did that Rashi yet so I want to see the the rest of the verse and then it says that last part you're not allowed to wrong another but it's usually Lo Sonu is you're not allowed to speak um disparaging to another human being so the truth is it's actually used in chapter in Leviticus 1933 no actually it's um I think it is Leviticus um do not I don't know where it is let me just sure it is okay uh you're not all lowed at taunt words to a Gare someone who converted how much more so I mean anybody else but you're not but you have 36 special warnings how to treat a g so the Torah goes out of its way don't be um uh don't use words that can hurt somebody especially to those It also says about a widow and an orphan anybody who's vulnerable uh people who um I guess that's the the most vulnerable people of society okay they don't have the the clan the family to come to their defense in most cases so H but it means don't wrong somebody so in business there is a h you're not allowed to charge more than one sixth the price of the market value why is that listen when it comes to real estate there is no such thing every what do they call location location location every property is unique and if someone's willing to pay for that view or for that tree or you know what I'm saying that parking spot okay but let's say for example you're selling ice pops ice pops they call us a shekele but you're in the goal on Heights at the end of a long six-hour hike I think that guy can sell them for three shekels which is 200% am I right that's so or 300% the point is this under normal circumstances it would be forbidden to6 above of the market price that's what's included in this particular mitzah um okay the last thing and you shall not wrong this means wronging through money which is basically what I just explained okay so back into the CLE car we're only um four lines in uh five lines in okay so the first thing we said was if you if you sell the the if you sell or you're involved in business with the fruits of of shmita year that's going to cause you to become uh impoverished and then you're going to end up selling the mat and then afterwards God forbid you know your property your Inherited property and afterwards the person may end up selling himself the so one second selling yourself meaning selling yourself to a Jew you become a Jewish slave all the laws of a Jewish slave apply to you by the way many people people have no clue what I'm even talking about a Jewish slave you're not allowed to work a Jewish slave like a slave so there is slavery in Judaism a a Jewish slave is only sold by the Bas in because he either owes a lot of money because he stole something and can't afford to pay it back uh or he's just really impoverished so a wealthy family a family that can actually afford to get him out of his his debt will buy him through the bast or he sold himself and then they have to treat him with utmost respect they can't even ask him to do something that they themselves wouldn't do so like tonight I cleaned the drain in my house I could ask if I could do it I could certainly ask my it's more like an indentured servant did that make any sense I don't know if that makes it any better but basically if you have only one pillow you have to give it to him okay uh if he's sold into slavery with his whole family you bring the whole family okay it's Rehabilitation you hopefully he'll learn a trade he'll learn something whether it's carpentry or salesman whatever it is he'll hopefully learn a trade he'll and when he's released you give him a gift you give him in Hebrew call pitsu like when you leave a job after X amount of years so you're getting a new start so this is a great that a family could do to someone who's impoverished go to the Basin and say we're willing to take um a pet project so to speak to help rehabilitate somebody but then the next thing is to a Gare now we're going to discuss does the word Gare can mean a righteous convert it could mean a non-jew in this case we're talking about a non-jew and we're going to see the difference between a g and a toov and a g we're going to see those words appear so right now this is talking about to a non-jew so either you're selling yourself and that's a really bad situation because they don't have all the laws that of the owner the Jewish owner of a Jewish slave of how to treat him you're talking about a non-jew who's taken and purchased a Jew and that's like that's like even a lower level right we talked about having to sell your family heirlooms than selling your your in inest in in your family uh fields and then we're talking about selling yourself to a Jew and then even worse selling yourself to a foreign Nation perhaps each one is more difficult than the one before and that is the pattern you will see throughout this paraa towards the last uh few verses in chapter 25 now the next paragraph says V let's see I want to show you something you must it seems it seems there are strange anomalies there are certain H changes in the languages and expressions throughout the par they actually teach this idea so what he's doing is he's letting you know I got proof for everything I said I'm not making any of this up in the very beginning right you're um and when the person is down and out meaning in the very beginning stages he's not really down yet but he's tottering he's right he's selling his movables we're not talking about real estate we're talking about the movables Lo his here it doesn't even mention and this is verse 14 it doesn't say the words when he is downtrodden it that those words don't appear cuz he is not yet and the cleard says very possible that when there are times that a person sells his movables again which could be heirlooms when does he sell some of his movables when he's not yet uh diminished in value so much that's the best translation El nit L he just needs some money now there's a period but when it comes to real estate right this Heritage the the property he received from his ancestors a even just some of it ano you don't have to turn pages I I put you're all in one page you don't have to turn pag oh maybe the English he's which means when it comes to real estate that's when you're really going to be experiencing a much more difficult Financial State I do want to did we read the Rashi in number three yet look at source number three we're talking about the Matalin and Rashi says its simple meaning is obvious this verse can also be exped found it to teach us the following lesson how do we know that when you wish to sell you should sell to your fellow Jew the actual Torah says when you sell you sell to your fellow Jew that's exactly what the Torah says so we have if you're limited in what you sell and there are Jews that need it you have to sell to your fellow Jew it's a it's a kindness and scripture says and when you make the sale you sell to your fellow J now how do we know that if you come to buy now that's the seller what about the purchaser you know there's a now that's if the product and this and the price are the same okay you want to buy something you have to buy from your fellow Jew this is going to be very important in a point later I'm going to make now if it's a better product or it's much cheaper you're certainly allowed to buy it from the nanju I do want to mention what is this idea we're going to get into it and I I want you to stay tuned when you lend money to a Jew you're not allowed to charge interest when it comes to lending money to a non-jew it implies you must charge interest why now this has been a very difficult thing to explain for thousands of years and I'm I'm going to explain it and I think it makes a lot of sense well the CLE car gives his idea and I'm going to add to it so when you purchasing or when you're selling your main business should be with Jews and then uh with non-jews afterwards let's go back into the CLE car he basically said when it comes to selling real estate you're already impoverished but he's not entirely on the lowest level yet his hand hasn't faltered entirely because the man is not on the lowest rung the Torah is warning us don't charge him ribbit ribbit means in interest obviously right you're not going to try to get money out of a stone what do they call it blood out of a stone or water out of a stone I wonder where they got that from can't get water out of a stone no blood out of a stone so here you have a person person who needs money but he's not entirely uh financially uh stripped you might take advantage thinking you could take get ribbers but the Torah says this is verse 35 so in verse 35 which you'll find uh number five on the sore sheet so if your brother becomes destitute and his hand falters before you you shall support him whether a convert or a resident so that he can live with you now how do I know it's a convert besides the fact that the uh that kabad translated as a convert look in the Hebrew it says G Vos AAR that's the Jewish that's the non-jew who totally converted call AED he's 100% Jewish and two separate things um later on we're going to see gav is a non-jew gav is a g a GED a righteous Gentile Jew a gentile who converted fully to be Jewish they're Jewish 100% And so if your brother becomes destitute and his hand falters you know beside you now that's also important says IM I don't know if I would translate it besides you I would say with you you shall support him he is with you we're going to see that in the clear very important this is the beginning this is before his total downfall Rashi says you shall support him and he says the words that I quoted earlier do not allow him to fall down and collapse altogether in which case it would be difficult to pick him up again from his dire poverty rather what you should do is support him lift him up while you're with him while you're with him while his hand is still faltering for then it is easier to help him out of his trouble to what can this be compared to aad a Dunkey to a load on a Dunkey now while it's still on the Dunkey one person can grasp it and hold it in its place it seems to be falling you can tighten the belt but once it falls to the ground however even five people cannot pick it up back into the clear sorry continue in the Rashi when we said it's a g a convert and or a resident so even if he is a g or a resident that means two people what is a resident so a resident the toov is any non-jew who's accepted upon himself not to worship idols but eats non- Kosher meat um by the way so there are seven rules seven laws for a righteous noide one of them is according to R May the the most important they're all important but I think the thing that really makes or breaks uh um a a um a righteous Gentile a noahide is getting rid of his idols getting rid of this uh this idea of idol worship that there's only one true God the true God of Israel the one God of Israel and everything that the Torah says and that the Jews have a special Mission and these people are committed to helping the Jews meaning helping the Torah come to fruition um the Torah the the Rashi continues so these people are called residents they are permitted to reside permanently in the land of Israel they're they're actually called I mean there's a g and then there's a toshav the the toshav is referring to a GE toshav and by the way I might as well talk about it a GTO shave is only applicable in its fullest when we have the Jubilee year which we're going to talk about soon um so in other words we don't observe the Jubilee year today and the concept of gav is not applicable in its fullest sense so non-jews cannot just come and say hey I keep the seven High laws I want to live in the land of Israel I wish that were the case but there's a God has his right wisdom it's only going to apply when a majority of Jews live in the land of Israel and I think it's kind of obvious we don't want them even though they're non-jews who have who are righteous and love the Torah and love the Jewish people they wouldn't want to be here and live with us and keep the seven laws but they still have a foreign influence so you have to have a majority of Jews to somehow offset that influence so to me it makes sense but that's just me um and we're going to talk about so gav is only when we observe y however I do want to mention that there are Basim and I think it's a great idea where a non-jew who you know righteous Gentile can go in front of a court of three Jews and publicly Proclaim that they are willing to do everything they can they accept upon themselves there's one God the god of Israel and they accept the Torah as the truth and they want to keep the seven seven laws so I mean I really think that since we don't have yo that it's the best thing to do I don't see the problem with that I think it's a great thing um and it's like preparation because we're all preparing as soon as the majority of the Jews will live in the land it can happen we'll talk about it it doesn't seem so simple later on you'll see there's a lot of um conditions to keeping yo but that is a major one um that while YoVille is not fully in in play there's no real gear to of today but we could try that's the main thing um so the C yakar was saying about this idea that the Torah is now telling you don't take ribbers from this guy because the now the L we second well my page of IM it says with you that's what it says it's with you while he is unstable while he's tottering before he has fallen he's still standing so to speak L and is not going the words um is not is um he's not yet um at his lowest point now this thing is quite obvious to you number right don't charge him ribbers but you see that he's not yet totally downtrodden it's just going to flow continuously in that direction unless you help him but whatever level when he gets really what's the word when he gets really down the just think about this like um M we said is is unstable but so once he gets to this point then he's no longer he's not with you so there's like this level where if he's just selling his Matalin or he's just selling some of his real estate you really got to do everything you can to help him but he hasn't yet reached the level of shame that we're going to describe shortly and that would be when he sells himself then it's public knowledge now we do have this idea when you sell real estate well I it does become public knowledge in other words today we have offices we have computers and there are titles there's even Title Insurance because people are always way on the up and up so you have to check the Deeds back in the day it was really Word of Mouth people knew when you lived in a place they knew their neighbors they knew who was living there who was squatting and they would tell them hey this property has been in this family for Generations so it's not like you had an office to go to to look up a deed it was somewhat public knowledge when a sale real estate sale went through but nevertheless what really becomes public public knowledge is when you sell yourself when the person ends up selling himself as a slave Shak this is the most difficult of all of what we described above and in verse 39 look in 39 and if your brother it's number six on the sore sheet it's it's Exodus sorry Leviticus 2539 and if your brother becomes destitute with you and is sold to you you do not work him with slave labor by the way so what is that degrading work you're not allowed to give him degrading work through which he is made to look like a slave I told you it's more like an indentured worker he must not carry you can't have him follow after you to the Mikvah carrying your clothes uh or to put on your shoes of course you're an older person you can ask nicely I'm sure he'll do it but you don't give him the degrading work anything that you wouldn't do yourself so the clear continues as the person who sold himself into slavery because when you sell yourself into slavery then it's already revealed with you about his poverty his impoverished State and his crushed and his ragged and pushed financial position after the fact that he was forced to sell himself into slavery and that was and now what's even worse than that when he sells himself to a non-jew when he finally it's revealed when he sell when he sold himself to a gar it's obvious and the g this non-jew is aware of the fact this Jew is really down and out very interesting how does a how does a non-jew living in Israel become wealthy there is um I want to look at number seven uh it's Leviticus 2 547 if a resident non-jew so in Hebrew it's a g v here H gains wealth with you and your brother becomes destitute with him then it says and he sold to a resident njw so in the Hebrew right there it says it doesn't say so the first part was either a a g a a n I'm sorry a g here is a the first time it says G is the um the the getic the the righteous gento became Jewish 100% And A to but later on in the verse it just says GE to without the V and we'll see Rashi um it even says about this non-jew you sold him to or he sold himself to uh among you or to an idol of the family of a non let's look and it says let's just look look that's obviously not talking about a Jewish convert okay um Rashi what does it mean a resident non-jew gav I'm sorry G VAV so he says there a stranger who is a resident to here meaning a nonu and even the tarul says to and means an uncircumcised resident now at the end of the verse it proves that this is one particular person so I stand corrected in the beginning it seems like it's two but two different people but at the end it comes back and it's talking about the one non-jewish owner of this slave of this Jewish slave so at the end of the verse it proves that it's one person when it continues without the V so it's going back on the beginning if a resident non-jew gains wealth you ask I asked how did he gain wealth what caused him Rashi asked what caused him to become wealthy I would say drum roll please but nobody has any tables here his connection with you he gained wealth through the blessing of the Jewish people okay keep that in mind for all you noahides I know you're online there all you noahides right you righteous Gentiles you right you want to come wealthy there's a blessing through the blessing of the Jewish people now what if he became your brother became destitute with him so the non-jew sorry the Jew he's your brother he became destitute what caused his destitution so this is a little bit degrading and this means when the when he hung around with non-jews what caused his destitution his connection with him because he learned from his deeds we're not talking about the G the G we're not talking about the righteous Gentile at this point we're talking about non-jews well what about we said about the family of a non-jew so the word laar lar means to uproot so it's an expression uh the expression means the Jew is sold to an idolator when the scripture says lar literally means to uproot and making it it refers to the Jew who is sold to the idol itself meaning that thing which is uprooted you become the attendant to it doesn't mean you worship it as a but you could end up chopping wood and drawing water for that Idol now that's as far as this Source she goes I have some other things I still want to add on here the clear then continues and he says we're like two lines from the bottom I think like we said in verse 47o so in verse 47 right your um your brother became destitute with with him it says with him so it says IMO I just want to go back to 47 right it says your brother became destitute with him all along it was talking about with you with you with you IM all of a sudden now he's sold to the and he's destitute with him so there's a change up in the language what does that mean therefore we need to say by necessity that this level of destitution where he sold himself to a non-jew is worse than just uh tottering and uh on his way down one of them is worse than all the rest and that's when it says with you sh y I'm not sure exactly how I can translate this to make sense but he's telling you the word imach was you several times that's where you're still the person is still on their way down but there are levels it's going down down down the tottering the unstability instability financially is going continue that's your chance he's still with you to help him but once he's emo once he's with the non-jew that is I'm not going to say it's beyond help but it's really worse than everything we mentioned above so now I just want to speak a little bit about how this all relates toita and the Jubilee I have met many Messianic they're really Christians they're not even Jewish uh Messi they call Messianic Jews but uh and they tell me they they have farms in Texas and they keep shita and they think I'm going to be impressed the only thing I'm impressed with is their ignorance and their inability I think that they're they really love the Torah so much they want to keep it but they're making and inventing their own religion the Jews right we don't keep schm according to the Torah today because it's tied in with Y it's tied in with a whole bunch of other things then I'm going to explain that sh is only observed from the Torah when Y is observed so you're going to ask me so is y observe we'll talk about in a second so what we do today is we're practicing in the land of Israel the actual Torah says it's only applicable the Torah itself says it's only applicable in the land of Israel in fact where are you going to get your fruits and vegetables during shita truth is we rely on Hashem he'll give a blessing in the sixth year according to the clear that your 6year produce will last you three years not that there's an abundance just think about this a second if on the sixth year you had triple the amount of work and you had to build Sil to to handle all that to me that would be like a curse but Hashem does us a favor he creates a Miracle Within A Miracle Within a miracle he gives us in the sixth year first of all most non-jews they do crop rotation because they believe that the minerals are diminished and it's going to go down in quality God says six years straight you're going to work don't do this Hocus Pocus with the crop rotation I promise you in the sixth year it won't diminish and not only did it not diminish but then we get enough for 3 years meaning according to the CLE car that it will be preserved you don't have to work so hard and that the miracle happens within your stomach that you'll eat a third less of what you normally eat and you'll be totally satisfied I actually forgot a very important part uh that I just want to add and splice in to this class that um in terms of giving loans to non-jews even though it's permissible and encouraged in terms of giving of taking interest it is a moral quandry so the the talud actually discourages it because of our involvement with the non-jews that we may learn from their behavior which is uh not so good however Torah Scholars people who really uh keeping the Torah in an exemplary fashion the the Torah is not going to uh discourage um other words they won't learn from the bad behavior of the non-jews so uh Torah Scholars are certainly allowed to uh charge interest to non-jews meaning give loans whereas everyone else is discouraged from giving loans alog together because of the automatic involvement with the non Jews now what I failed to add in a very important thing is why is it that when it comes to non-jews we should charge them interest whereas to a Jew we do not and um one of the lessons that I learned RAB by Yan Z he Living bew Well from Miami Beach Riva he explained and I I I want to just give a little bit of a preamble and this also works with our army okay we're not a Torah Army per se but we're Jews and we are the most moral army in the world and there are going to be tremendous amount of lessons from this war that the world will learn from how to create do War and what not to do so lessons will be learned but most important when it comes to how to treat your neighbor so the Jews there's nothing like the Jewish people and how they treat each other in other words I think the whole world knows you know what's so unique about the Jews they really take care of each other and um just try to imagine that the Jews gave also non-interest loans you know there's a Freel loan Society where we would loan money loan money to non-jews interest free would the world understand how to treat their brother no I don't think so and I think the rabbi y was was correct the very fact that we do not charge interest to each other and the world knows it the world knows that's how the Jews treat each other now imagine if a non-jew said to his friend another non-jew hey I need a loan well he says okay but I'm going to charge you interest so he says well where can I get a better rate oh go to the Jews they give all everybody interest free loans so what's going to happen the non-jews would never learn the lesson we are like to the Nations we give each other interest free loans because that's how you treat a brother and I say a brother we're talking about a brother from another mother we're talking about this cousins we're talking about 60 every Jew is a 63rd cousin of each other within so we're talking about how a society should run there's nothing like a Jewish Society they nothing like theid there used to be phone books you know Yellow Pages in Jerusalem in Israel the Yellow Pages had a thick section in the Middle with gim in other words free loan funds whether it was barring baby bottles on Shabbat or weekday or chairs or tables or uh electrical equipment whatever it is a gamak is a Freel loan Society where you can lend things not just money but also money interest free I borrow 15 eggs I have to be back give back 15 eggs I can't give back 16 eggs that's called interest so Jews do this and they do it to each other and if they had to do it to everybody they would milk the system these non-jews would just go ahead and tell their friends don't borrow from me because I'm going to charge you interest go to the non-jew they have to learn how to treat each other and give each other interest free loans this is a important lesson on how a society should run how you should look at people obviously businesses business when you're doing business you become a partner in the business and it could be you're going to benefit from that but when a person comes to you and says I need help I'm down and out awaken that heart of yours and figure out and I'm talking to the non-jew as well it's up to you it's not an obligation but if you want to learn from the Jews you want the wealth this is how it's done you give charity and it will come back I'm going to use the word it's going to come back to bite you which is interesting because the word for interest is to bite so if you give an interest free loan you will prosper so this isid the world is built onid the Jews it's very important that we're teaching the world this lesson and I don't know where in the video I'm going to splice this in but so we just mentioned that shita is only observed according to the rabbis there are opinions that we do on a Torah level but first of all even if we do it according to the rabbi level many of these the nature of what's per permissible or forbidden is mimicking what the Torah itself says therefore we at least when it comes to planting and harvesting they're going to be the most MCH Malo and then we have to mimic the rest because there are opinions that even today it is the r but no is not that's clear um what happens on um shita years so besides besides the idea of besides the idea of keeping l l laying fow the land so we don't plant and we don't Harvest and there are many other things we don't do we don't prune and we don't do uh other agricultural work um but also outstanding loans loans that are still due so that is still in existence okay so there is a way we now just think about this there's a concept what is considered the land of Israel so it's only in the land of Israel so there are parts of the Arava ARA there's Parts maybe of Gaza there may be Parts in the Golan Heights that is not Kad meaning there's a difference between when Joshua came and conquered and of course King David is part of that we'll call it the first temple period so we won those those lands through War I want you to compare War versus settlement I know settlements is a big controversy today but wait till you hear from what I have to say what Holiness Still Remains of the land when we came in with Joshua and we fought and we continued to get more land through battles that was we call that the first temple the kadua the Holiness of the land of Israel through of the first temple second temple period we didn't have many wars I don't think we had too many wars at all with the go it was only when they came to us and we we um reflected them but we didn't have any of these expansionist wars during the second temple and it was during that time that the Holiness of the land of Israel came through settlement so we and it was much smaller than when King David took over so the Big H question which Holiness of the land of Israel is in existence first temple then we were exiled and when we were exiled the land did not have contain its Holiness it was conquered through war and if it was lost it was lost so that was a much we'll call that the greater Israel that was the Holiness then second temple period is through settlement through civilization creating Roots Building Homes right like the settlements today Jews living in the land that creates the Holiness so the is we p in that the second temple period is the H therefore since it was much smaller than the first area we do farming during shmita we're allowed to farm south of Beva or east of or south of ashalon there certain places right and in the Gan Heights there certain places you have to check with your local Earth Rabbi but basically is only in and so I'm really impressed with these people all the way in Texas but it's uh anyway let me just talk about um y so y batem will come back in its full force we'll actually observe it and count it and there's a few other conditions it will be in existence will keep yo when a majority of the Jews live on the land of Israel which if you're looking at your watch could be any day right there's ingather in the Exiles slowly but surely not like a war but it's happening and who knows after what we see happening in Australia America Jews in Germany New York England go Australia we have somebody from uh Texas and so a majority of Jews have to land live in the land of Israel for yel to be enacted plus there's a concept it has to have the proper distribution of the tribes the tribes have to be living in their respective territories and that perhaps we need mhia perhaps we need Ali and B all that will come to be um slaves the laws of slaves again Jewish slaves has to be enacted um and it's also part of it it's there's a there's a connection because on the Y right the the slaves who said they wanted to remain after the 6 years were up are uh for forever but it doesn't mean forever it means up until the Jubilee year so those the laws of slaves are definitely going to be enacted um as I mentioned already oh okay so I already mentioned about the difference between war and settlement so let's let's end here um I'm sure if anybody has any questions they should write them down below in the comments and we'll take a look at them and I think right we should pray we're talking about not just the in gathering the Exiles the rebuilding of the temple the you know the Messiah should come but until that time comes and even after the Torah will still be enacted we have to learn how to treat our brother right start with begins at home our Institute is set up to encourage people to do not just talk about not just learn about but actually Implement andem will all continue to learn how to make it real have see there is empathy and sympathy but the bottom line is God told us to do it we must do it and it's enhancing when you have that sympathy and empathy and make sure that you treat your fellow I mean this is like the opposite right love your neighbor as yourself we learn reab says right and H don't do unto others that you don't want done unto you this is the only way you really know at the same time do unto others as you would like have done unto yourself and with that I wish everyone not just a shabas a good shabas right and a great life but a very happy Mish simple dick where we're really going to make the Torah of r as real as possible with that see you next week have a great life [Music] oh