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Shalom everybody. Welcome back to the
midash. Welcome home to Torah. A warm
welcome home to Torah. As you know, we
use the clea car as the basis for our
discussion. We encourage you to go to
the link below in the description box
and you will pick up the original Hebrew
sheets. The nuances that you can only
see in the Hebrew will help you h to
learn Hebrew as well. And I just want to
start off by saying that our kaleim have
been called up in mass the reserves and
there's been a great demand for uh
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and I want to encourage you to to help
and give. Okay, so here we go. We're in
chapter 6 of Numbers verse 23. It's
basically what we call birkas kohanim,
right? The special priestly blessing.
What you may not have noticed in the
English is the word co because it's only
in Hebrew. Of course, you wouldn't have
noticed it. So the English says, "Speak
to Aaron and his sons, saying," So Moses
commanded by God, "Tell Aaron and his
sons, but this is how you shall bless
the children of Israel, and you should
say to them." And then we have Beras
Kohanim, the blessing, the b the
priestly blessing that every father
knows because they bless their children
on Friday night. The mothers bless their
daughters, right? We bless our children.
It's it's so beautiful. And it begins
with these
words, right? Speak to Aaron and two
sons telling them co in Hebrew
covar thusly you shall bless. This is
how you shall bless Israel
and that is the verse we're going to be
dealing with. So if you looked into the
parha itself beginning with chapter 6:es
1-22 it's dealing with the laws of the
nazir the one who made a vow part of the
vow is a separation from
grapes in general more specifically wine
but anything to do with grapes and the
clear points
outra there is some kind of connection
here. Some kind of the very fact that
there's a close proximity to the
blessing of the kim to the laws of
staying away from grapes from wine
specifically. You must take notice. And
what he says is
it's a dis it's a very difficult thing
to explain. However, wine makes a person
feel good. A person feels elevated,
elated, but not necessarily will that uh
permeate the the surroundings. It may
not. In fact, we'll see that it actually
could bring quite a lot of damage. So,
basically, it'll make the person feel
good, but it won't necessarily bring
blessing to the world.
And even more
so, this is a very harsh statement, but
we'll take it as a fact that
intoxication, specifically with wine,
can bring whaling and cause curses to
come to the
world. Like it says in Gumar Sanhedrin,
there's actually a four-way makus, a
four-way uh argument. What exactly was
the original uh what do you call it the
eightas right the original tree of
knowledge of tora of good and evil it's
four different opinions and I'll tell
you the truth apple is not one of
them I it's very interesting why the
non-Jews think it's the apple and I'll
give you some insight first of all rebi
mayor which we're going to follow
tonight holds that it's the
grape Rabi Yehuda holds that it's the
wheat. Rabi holds that it's the fig. And
Rebe Aba of Ako hold it's the citro.
It's the
rogue. And
now so Rebi Mayor holds Oh, why why is
it not the apple?
So the garden of Eden had the smell the
aroma of apples. Alicia, you heard this?
smelled like that. So those on the
inside of the garden of Eden knew what
the tree of knowledge, evil, and good
and evil was. It's those who are on the
outside of the garden of Eden can only
use their imagination and it must be the
apple because it smells like apples, but
it shows you they're on the outside.
Those who say it's the apple are on the
outside of the Garden of
Eden. Okay.
Okay. So he mentions it can even bring
worse things into the world and we see
eight ge according to Mayor that it was
the gein meaning that it was a grape
vine and not only that what happened as
a result of you know Adam and
Eve it is true that as a result of the
consuming the wine or the ge it caused a
curse to come into the world through
Adam and Eve. He continues and he says
Noak but also to the seat of Noak there
was a right the very first thing that
Noak did after the boat landed or you
know hit land was he planted a vineyard
he did get drunk and his sons I'll say
his sons uh uh who which ones we had
three right Shame Yus and Kam
Shame and Yus came and covered him after
they heard but who who discovered
it. Not only did Kam discover it,
there's a makus on what Kanan did. See,
God already
blessed. So God cursed Cananan. So
whether it was Kanan, Kanan or Kam is
irrelevant this point. But the makus is
whether he was sodomized or castrated.
Okay, that uh one of his sons
um did or grandsons did. So wine took a
nasty turn for the world in rel relation
to lot and the last I'm sorry with Noah
and what about Lot? The clear mentions
Lot. What happened with Lot?
So listen, if you were if you discovered
or thought you were the last man on the
planet and you had two daughters, what
would you do? Well, they got him drunk
and I'm going to say they took advantage
of him in order to, you know, to keep
the world going. But it was nevertheless
a disgusting act, right? As we will say.
But the older one got him drunk the
first night. And what did he do the
second night? He knew when he got up in
the morning, he was aware of what
happened and he allowed himself to get
drunk a second time. And that could be
not sure that could have been what was
unnecessary. The first night, okay, he
got drunk, they got him drunk, but the
second night he allowed himself to get
drunk. He didn't guard himself against
getting drunk. And that brought u
negativity to the
world. Okay, let's
continue. Well, Milo, he's now going to
focus Clear is now going to focus on
that word co.
And he
says when we say thusly this is how you
should bless the Jewish people the word
co is going on what was just spoken
about which was nazerus which was
abstinence from wine and what do we
learn from that if the word is going co
this is basically on what was just said
that when you bless don't drink a cohen
cannot not have drunk cannot be drunk or
have drunken wine when he
blesses it doesn't say he shouldn't be
shik says he shouldn't have drunk
wine okay when he stands to bless the
Jewish people now interestingly enough
the raam brings
down that well we all agree you
shouldn't be drunk but the Rambam brings
down regarding ma service on a fast day.
So you'll notice here in you might not
notice this in because mo the ashkanazim
are not doing
bas the the priestly blessing on a daily
basis. So what happens when there's a
fast
day on at m time? So the so we'll notice
in the Ashkanazi world right that at m
if you dive in at 1:00 or 1:30 or 2
o'clock in the afternoon on a fast day
we won't
do but if it's later like really close
to from onward somewhere about an hour
before sunset then the kanim will do the
priestly blessing at mina um and what's
the reason see if there's a fast day
nobody Nobody's eating or drinking,
right? I'm emphasizing the drinking
part. They're neither eating nor
drinking. Uh and therefore there's no
possibility of of getting drunk. The
possibility exists when you eat, right?
At least in France supposedly allegedly,
right? They drink wine with all their
meals. So if you're not having a meal,
you're not going to
drink. Uh but the the uh the Gmorra
discusses this. What happens when you
have a normal weekday ma and you compare
that to a fast day ma? You may get
misongabulated and then confused just
like on a fast day you're going to
have at let's say 2:00 in the afternoon.
So you're going to say well why why
aren't we doing that at ma at uh on a
regular day? So people might get
confused. The Rabam actually held that
you wouldn't do it any of the time of
the year, meaning any of the fast days,
because you might get confused. And
that's really going back to a gamorrah.
But as I mentioned that we will do it
and the reason is because if it's close
enough to it's closer to service and we
know that a service you would
do. So the very fact that if you da late
then it would be okay. Now let's
continue with the
clear and he says right after he quotes
the brahas have to be said not
slurred right they have to be said and
more it says you have to say to them
you're going to give the braha through
your mouth as a intelligent human being
as if you were standing before a
king says
Ruven that if you cannot speak in front
of a king then that is like the
definition of drunk and therefore one
should not do if they are intoxicated.
Therefore, the clear car ends that
that's why there's a that's why there's
a
juxiposition
because the para of nazirus is
explaining is showing you that you
should not drink. It's not proper to
drink. So it says not actually is nazir
and that you're allowed a co let's say
before musaf on simpra. So everyone is
drinking. He shouldn't drink. He's going
to do can he can he be y kesh? Of course
by hearing someone else or by using
grape juice. Okay. So he can still
fulfill the mitzvah of kdouch. Okay. So
one question that may be asked right
first of all why not forbid wine
altogether according to one opinion. And
we know that kdish is supposed to be
done online for cups of wine on pesak.
We have a little bit of wine to get bum
on Purim. It actually says in the Torah
not to be a drunkard, not to drink too
much wine, not to be I don't know what I
don't want to describe what a drunk a
drunkard could be, but he's obviously or
she's obviously bringing a shame to
herself or himself and the family,
right? That's what could happen when
people drink too much. So, the idea is
to have
self-control. Okay? And now you want to
say, "Well, what about the other ones?"
Right? Well, wheat. I mean, come on.
It's a staple, right? Okay. So, figs and
citron. I don't know how many people eat
citroron. I make it. I make it for two
bishvat. But the idea is number
one, self-control. Don't eat too
much. Don't eat too many figs. You might
get we call shushu wheat. Don't eat too
much either, right? But the idea I think
is when it comes to grapes especially
self-control. But what I did want to
mention is that why did according to
some opinions Noah plant the vineyard.
Now it could be after spending a year on
the on the yacht there you know you want
to have a nice uh a nice cup of wine.
However, according to some, he was
actually trying to make trying to fix
what
had made a mistake with meaning to use
it properly. He failed. So, Odum failed,
Noah failed. What makes you think you
could use the same thing and and and and
make it right? So, it's it's a it's temp
it's tempting and it's a big niche. It's
a big stumbling block for many many
people. If you have a society that only
uses wine for religious purposes and in
extreme moderation, I think there's you
stand a chance, right? But when of not
abusing it, right? That's right. But
when you go to a kiddish club and you
know who can drink more, I'm not so sure
that uh you know there's too much pure
pressure and abuse that goes on, right?
But if in a healthy atmosphere where
people are moderate, then it's you're
you're the oddball out if you're going
to abuse it. Okay? So that's just what
I'm saying. I think it's to do with
moderation and society and pressure and
religious upbringing. It says in the
Torah, when I say the Torah, I mean the
Tanakh, right, over and over again. It's
not just mentioned once, right? It's
actually one of the 613 commandments not
to be a drunkard and you'll see it
throughout the as well. Okay. So I
actually think that applies to other
things as well. I'm not going to mention
what they are. We all know other vices.
Very good. Okay. So the next
paragraph that very word the clear is
saying it's
a it's somehow a sign a signature it
gives strength to the brahos themselves
just to know whatever the word co is
used it's like a signature it's like a
logo ah here comes here comes a braha
okay and we're going to see it so right
here it says
Right? This is how you should bless. But
with that very word is like a key, an
opening. Somehow it relates to
blessings. Abraham. One example that he
gives is in Genesis chapter 15 verse
5. It's number five on the source sheet.
God took Ara outside, right? He was in
the tent. He took him outside the tent
and he says, "Please look heavenward and
count the
stars. If you're able to count them," he
says. And then he said to him, "So will
be your seed." In other words, you
wouldn't be able to count your seed.
You'll be so blessed.
Right? If you can even count them. And
then he said to him, what were the exact
words that God said to him right? Right
after he said, "You're going to have so
many kids, you won't be able to count
them." And then the co, this is a
blessing. The blessing is like a stamp.
When you see the word co, you know that
it's a blessing coming up. Thusly will
be your
seed. It's a very interesting uh rashi
there, right? Pasha was you just took
him outside the tent. But according to
the midrashic interpretation, what God
was saying is you are not stuck in your
masle. According to your name and
according to your wife's name,
S I'm sorry, Aram and Sarai, you're
right. You're not going to have kids.
And I promise you, you will. So I'm
going to take you outside of
your fate. What the destiny? You're
going to change your destiny. You're
going to be above the zodiac. You're not
going to be affected by the zodiac. You
will you will affect the zodiac. So
that's what Rashi brings down as he said
to him, go out of your astrology for you
have seen the signs of the zodiac that
you're not destined to have a son.
Indeed, Ara without the hey Ara will not
have a son but Abraham will. Similarly,
Sarai will not give birth, but Sarah
will. And I'll give you a different name
and change your destiny. Okay, we're not
going to get too much into this other
idea that if you have to change your
masle, you have a need to change your
fate, to change your name, change your
location, but the main thing is to
change your deeds, do more mitzvah, be a
Jew, right? Go above the zodiac, be true
to your forefather Abraham, and act just
like he did. So, let's continue. the
clear was saying he quoted this
verse. Not only that, there's a few
other verses we're going to get into,
but the clear card
says as if fighting the what does he say
to Balac, right? He was hired by Balac
to curse the Jews, to make bad things
happen to the Jews. and he was quite
unsuccessful. At some point out of his
frustration he comes up with another
scheme scheme after scheme. He says
to co he says stand thustly I want you
to do this co on this
place regarding your carbonas you're
going to make these offerings where what
am I going to
do I'm going to make something happen
here you're going to make something
happen there with the carbonos and I'm
going to make something happen here but
he uses the word co twice and what is
the Clear explained. He quotes a medish
from Bakaya which I think it's worth
reading. It's on the last page of the
Hebrew. So he quotes the midash that the
brings down and I want to look at it
right now. He just gives a few words. He
says Bum was telling Balac you're gonna
bring the corbonos and that you're by
doing your corbanos that's going to
uproot or negate the braha that God gave
Abraham regarding the brit bayarim. The
britarium is where he says right your
um your seed your seed will be um
blessed so will be your seed it'll be
beyond a number okay so the idea
here is that it's by balak bringing
corbanos it's going to uproot the
promise that God gave to Abraham over
the corbanus of the
britbenarim okay and anime
where I meaning I being bum bum is a
sorcerer and kohanim is like a magic
formula as we will soon see and so bumim
is going to use the gift of the gab to
try to uproot the birus kohanim whether
through the gift of the gab or as later
sending prostitutes to bra to try to get
them to be cursed See, when you're not
doing the mitzvah and you're doing sins,
then the negative consequences come as a
result. So, if we look at the raven, as
I mentioned, it's the last uh page on
the Hebrew
sheets. So, the clear
is bringing. Let's take a look
at You have the sheets hidyat save co as
bum said to balac stand thusly the word
co regarding your corbanos while I am
going to make something
happen I'm going to manifest something
over here okay bum what did bum
sayanos his claim is that the Jewish
people are relying they're leaning on
the merit of the corbanos that Hashem
had promised Abraham and I like I
mentioned God says I'm going to give you
your seed is going to be so meaning you
know so numerous and Abraham says how
will I know and right away God says
because you're going to do these
carbonos and I'm going to show you an
art scroll and the medra shortly why
this is so important that Bum understood
that the Jewish people were being
guarded
because of those carbonos and not only
those carbonos that Abraham did but as
we will see the carbonos that we read
every morning if you come to Armenian
early enough right what do we do we do
carbonos very
important so the Jewish people this is
what Bum was thinking that since they're
relying on the promise of that God gave
to Abraham and also the himna
As our verse
says, both verses have
cafe. So too, he also said to Moshe,
Moshe said, sorry, Moses sent
ancients right to the king of Adom
in I'll tell you
where
in Numbers
20:14 look on the source
sheet it's number nine.
Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the
king of Adome. So says your brother
Israel. They wanted to go through. They
wanted to have some what's the word? A
comfort of some uh water, a little bit
of bread. Just at least allow us go
through. We don't have to cut around the
long way. You know, all the hardship
that befil us. But the Hebrew is right.
when you want something a blessing
you're looking forward to something good
co is
used that is the context over there so
the brought this as
well therefore what does he
conclude when bum said to
balac stand here thusly regarding your
your your
um your
corbanos bill was saying you're going to
take one portion you're going to take
one
side while I'm going to stand on the
other side and take the other side.
That's why he
says I'm going to manifest the other
one. So you're doing the kurbanus while
I'm using my my wisdom
scheming and the comment down below
where it
says meaning you're going to take care
of one
portion. you balac you're going to deal
with this carbonos and you're going to
basically remove the the part of the
that they had that was actually
mam that hashem was protecting them
which you're going to see one second how
did the kurbanus protect us whereas
Ian and he explains that's why the word
co is used twice and now it's clear in
the in the English store sheet I
quoted here let's find
it I think it's so number
eight number eight this is a comment on
the arts growish on Genesis
15:8 says how am I going to know and God
says you're going to do you're going to
enter this covenant with these carbonas
called the brit bayarim it's a covenant
between the pieces cuts the corbonus in
and he walks through
them. So Ara says, "How will I know?"
Aram thought that the promise of the
lamb was conditional on the
righteousness of himself and his offer
offspring and he feared that he was not
worthy to receive it and his descendants
might sin and become unworthy to retain
it. Can you imagine, God forbid, if we
became unworthy? It's a possibility. I
discussed this before. The Muslims
actually hold that we lost the right to
the land because why? Because we're not
keeping the mitzvah. You know, when they
say we don't recognize Israel as a
Jewish state, they might be right. They
might be right. Do you recognize it as a
Jewish state? Are we allowed to go and
build the base of Mikdash? No. If it was
a Jewish state, I imagine we would. It's
a state of Jews.
It's a slow progression and eventually
they will recognize us as a Jewish state
but we have to act Jewish a little bit
more right. Okay. So by telling him that
continues by God telling Aram to use
animals to seal the covenant God was
answering his original question. How
will I know? You and your descendants
will merit the land because of the
sacrifices you're about to offer.
Abraham's offering of those sacrifices
Benabatarim. Not only then, well, as
well as the temple offerings that I will
institute as a means of atonement for
your children. Now, do we have a temple
today? Can we make offerings? No. But
Avan persisted that one day the temple
would be destroyed. He knew what merit
would Israel have.
Then God answered, this is what God told
Avan that when the Jewish people recite
the order of the sacrificial service as
it is contained in our daily prayers,
God would consider it as if they had
actually brought the offerings. We're
going to call
this meaning when we don't have the
temple, what choice do we have? Our lips
are replacing the bullocks. That's a
truism. It's just a fact. But
what's what is the best case scenario?
That we have a rebuilt temple and we
have the corbanos koy as
prescribed. So I think it's just a
little bit of a uh promotion for the
minion, the morning minion of come and
say corbanus with us. And if you're not
with us, say carbonus on your own
wherever you are.
Okay. So now the clear card
says he wants to um
resolve what is quoted in the
medish. Okay. So there's a verse in
numbers
22:6. Where do we have that on our
sheet? Number 10.
So remember the word cuff hey it says
over there let's start in
English. So now please come and curse
this people for me. This is right um a
conversation between balac and
bum for they are too powerful for me.
Perhaps I will be able to wage war.
That's how we're going to translate it
for the moment. They want to wage war
against them.
drive them out of the land. For I know
that whoever you bless is blessed and
whoever you curse is cursed. We're
talking about
bum. So when it says to wage war, it
says
nun. Now if you look at rashi, we're
going to read it as
diminished. Right? When in modern
Hebrew, you have a manak. It's you call
it a discount or a grant. It's a
reduction in price. No matter how you
look at it, it's a reduction. He wanted
to reduce the Jewish people from 625,000
to less than 600,000. He wanted to wipe
out 25,000. Again, the number 25. This
was his goal, right? To go against the
braha of God and to reduce us. Because
as we explained in other sharim on this
para by the number remember Naso is
about the the um the census that we need
a gush we need some kind of minimum
number of 600,000 we discussed this many
times on this
para that's the magic number
600,000 and the only way to right so if
we had less than that theina would not
rest that's why there's a census and
we'll call it by the first of misan by
the first of er that whole 30-day period
want to make sure that God's presence
will rest in a permanent fashion. Do you
have to have
600,000? So, I'll say it outside, then
we'll see it inside. He wanted to wipe
out 25,000 Jews to bring the number down
below 600,000. He did not succeed. How
many did he succeed in wiping out
through the plague that was caused
because of the Jew sins?
24,000 one less. He wanted 25,000 but he
only succeeded in 24,000. That's what it
means when it
says, right? The word is to reduce. He
wanted to reduce it 25,000. You hear
this? Uh yes.
Look at the second part of Rashi on
number 10. Right. Simp the first one is
that's how we translate. I will just
create a war. I'll just have war against
them. That would
be but another interpretation in its
mishay term means to deduct
min. Okay. So min to diminish them. And
number 11 is my own comment. If you take
the
math there was two numbers 603,000 and
22,000. The Jewish people were
603,000 and ley was another 22,000. And
what does that equal?
625,000. So let's He wanted to wipe out
25,000. Let's go back to the clear car.
He
says, what exactly did he want to
eliminate from the measure? A
124th.
124th. Before we get into we talk about
Coanim, there's 24 gifts that they get.
There were 24 watches by the Coenim.
There's 24 ming by the Coanim. There's
24 uh what's the word? In
order
um to be a Cohen, right? You have the
Mishna here. I have the quote here.
There's the
perkot in perot the famous peravote with
the 48 ways to wisdom. It mentions that
Torah is greater than both priesthood
and kingship because to acquire Torah
you have to have 48 ways 48 ways of
acquiring the Torah but to acquire the
kingship right through the seed of David
there's 30 qualities and priesthood
there are 24 qualities so the number 24
is a running theme when it comes to the
kanim again the 24 watches that's not
how it started when Amnestra was small
in the desert. So Moses instituted that
every cohen had to serve once every six
weeks. It was basically six watches. But
as the families expanded and expanded,
obviously you needed more watches. And
so today I say today have today uh by
the end of the second B of Mikdash we
had what we call 24 watches. So
basically a Cohen served in the temple
two weeks a year right and with a 24 uh
week hiatus or 23 week hiatus between
and of course during the hake hadim they
all came and they all worked. So the
number 24 we said is a very uh
consistent number.
So he wanted to remove
124th of the Jewish people. 124th of
600,000 is
25,000. That's exactly what the clear
car is claiming here that he wanted to
wipe out he wanted to remove or diminish
20 24% 20 kick 124th of the Jewish of
the 600,000 people. And what is the
math? 124th divide 24 into 600,000 you
get 25,000. You wanted to wipe that out.
Well, guess what? There's to ask this
very fundamental question.
What advantage? What does he gain if
he's able to through his efforts wipe
out or diminish 25,000 Jews from that
600,000
number? And why did it specifically
happen that only 24,000 were actually
wiped out? Just so you know, I brought
it down here. So if you're not familiar
with sukim, it says over number 12,
right? If you look at numbers chapter
25, it's really verse 9, but I just
wanted to show you verse 1 and 9 that
Israel had settled in the bishim. The
people began to commit harlotry with
whom? With a benote mo. Okay. And then
what happened in verse 9? You may seem
but alf
24,000 Jews died in that
plague. Okay. And why am I bringing that
down? Because that's he wanted 25,000 to
die but only 24,000 died. The question
is why? What specifically
24 without doubt right? He definitely
wanted with certainty that he
lo he only wanted he only wanted to
uproot that
original or if you want to say the the
for he wanted to uproot the co he wanted
in our verse this is how you should
bless and what would he think what was
he thinking
that if I could only bring down wipe out
25,000 Jews that would affect cohanim
and he was right. You understand?
Because the shina only rested when you
have 600,000 and anything less than that
would affect
the would affect the security of the
Jewish
people. He thought if I can only bring
the Jewish population down below 600,000
my curse would affect them. I could
actually curse them.
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He was not successful. He didn't reach
that
number. The only thing he was able to
wipe out was
24,000. He never reached the
25,000 because that holy blessing of the
stood strong and guarded us.
So that the curse didn't have a place to
to settle and zero according to the
clear is a very dear
explanation. Now the clear wants to
describe discuss again the number 25
from the word
cobaro which we said is
25 is somehow right is somehow related
to the merit of the 24 gifts that we
give to the as it says in babakama 110b
if you look in source number 24 which
we're not going to read Um, but
basically there is this there are the 24
priestly gifts that were given to his
son and it's a little bit lumpish but
basically
in ready for this it's unbelievable. I'm
not even sure if this is where he says
it. Yeah, this is where he says it. So
the Coanim received 24 gifts. They
received 24 gifts from the Jewish
people. But he's saying that they
receive a 25th gift. It's kivaru. With
25 you will be blessed. But we got done
saying it's
24. What's the 25th blessing or gift?
The gift of giving. The gift of I'm sure
you've all heard that before. Listen to
this.
It's through the merit of the that
there's an actual blessing that's given
to the Jewish
people. If you're going to
ask what kind of benefit okay so very
nice you get a because you're giving the
bra. What benefit is there to the by
giving the bra?
that somehow we're going to include it
in the 25 gifts. It's only 24 gifts.
You're going to say the kim are getting
such han from giving a braha. They're
gaining so much by giving the braha that
it's going to be called a 25th gift. So
we all are familiar with this
idea. God says in Genesis
12:3, I will bless those who bless
you. The con are blessing us. That's not
a braha that that's going to fall onto
them. They're going to get such a great
blessing because they're blessing
us, right? I will bless those who bless
you.
How is it the receiving of? Think about
it a second.
So somehow another God is going to bless
thee because they're blessing the Jewish
people. They're going to receive a
braha. What braha are they going to
receive? So we learn out that that first
line, the first
line, God is going to give a blessing to
the uh the possessions of the Jewish
people.
If I say you have to give 10% or
whatever percent you have to give of
your money to the ki, if you're only
making
$100, you're only giving
$10. But if I'm blessing you with a
tremendous amount of wealth, the the con
are blessing you with wealth. Now you're
making a million dollars. So 10% is
$100,000. Big difference between $10 and
100,000. So the more they bless you, the
more you are blessed, the more you will
give them in return. You follow the
simple math. 10% is the same. 10%. Okay,
it's only
10%. But it's 10% of a million is
different than 10% of 100. And therefore
the kim are also going to get wealthy.
So that's the bra that comes back to
them. As he says,
It's like what do you
call recycling you know what do you call
you know it's coming back it's coming
back so it returns this returns also to
the at a time when the Jewish people
have so much more physical
wealth. So according to them of course
according to the theim according to the
percentages of course it's going to
increase the amount of gifts that we're
giving to the kahuna in within the
trumus and mistress because if that's
the ain't the
case
may where else do you remember we didn't
really have miserim so much that's a
rabbitic law but m from certain grains
or midisa And we were an agriculture
community. So if you know me sharim
right 100 gates or right so much more
than you would expect so much comes
out. If uh where else they going to take
it from the gy from the grainery or from
the yakv? Of course it's all going to
increase the the gashmi. It's going to
increase the physical wealth of the
country and as a result the Coanim
themselves will be blessed. Now this was
just a simple lesson right some deep
stuff. Trust me if you keep reading the
clear you're going to find some real
gems. Um what I do want to say is that
we're here to learn how to learn how to
think clearly how to focus. It's
important when you're learning. God
wants you to remember his Torah. He
wants you to. It's actually one of the
613 mitz. You're not allowed to cause
yourself to forget his Torah. So, you
have to do you have to learn over and
over and over. And there's nothing wrong
with that because you're always going to
find new deeper insights. We talked
about this
before, right? the idea of finding
something new and deeper and it's only
going to come from consistency going
over it and over and over and I give you
all of this is the first year after
shuis that we start off this year with a
greater commitment than we had last year
to find time right we can always find
five minutes maybe 10 minutes maybe more
to do some review and to go deeper and
and and stretch your muscle with your
Hebrew
Okay. It's It's only going to get better
as time goes on. Like wine. Like wine.
Like a good bottle of wine, right?
That's how we started off.
Well, it only gets better the older it
gets. Anyway, I wish you all not only a
s a good
summer, but a great life. And we'll see
you next
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week. Heat. Heat.
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your shing.
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