Tomer Devorah Middah #13 FROM DAYS PAST with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] everybody love me because hey good everybody welcome back to beyond the seven live from Jerusalem with a rabbi Arundel David Poston who I appreciate so much he's been sharing such wonderful material with us and uh uh lately we've been doing uh uh Tomer dvora series um and today is our 13th and I believe final episode in this series uh based on the 13 attributes of hashem's mercy and it's just such a joy to have Rabbi Poston uh share with us uh a great uh Torah content relevant to benay Noak that's beyond the seven and uh I just enjoy the time I have with him and I think today it's an hour earlier for him than what we usually do I didn't account for the uh daylight savings changeover uh and so I kind of rung him up an hour early because yeah the time clock changed for us but not them but uh thankfully uh the rabbi's prepared and so let's just tune right in shalom shalom Rabbi Poston always a joy to be with you and I am so grateful you've taken the time to share this series and we hope you'll consider doing more with us uh but uh that's it your discretion sir so uh yeah we're on lesson 13. Shalom Dan and Shalom to all the Watchers the listeners and uh people watching later it's a Saturday night this is early it's 10 30 instead of 11 30. it is what it is and I'm glad to be back and I don't know what we're going to do after the Passover holiday but I do plan to do something question is what it could be maybe um excellent as some of your subscribers ask some of the Watchers what they're interested in and maybe I think that maybe we'll take that into consideration because at this point we still don't have uh yet an idea I haven't thought about it I've really been concentrating on these ideas for my own self and I want to give another disclaimer even though I did say this in the very beginning in my humility my great humility that um this is a real privilege to actually go through this uh in order to give it over in other words you have to really learn it well I've always known about them thought about them but to really make every effort to implement in your lives in in one's life it takes um it's hard work it's not easy it's somewhat it goes a little bit against our nature the idea is that God wants us he wants us to follow in his ways he wants us to be more Godly and to be like him and these attributes of Mercy which were originally described to Moshe after the sin of the golden calf in partials keep these up is like almost like a magical formula that's how it's described that whenever you find yourself either in need of repentance de truva or need of help Heavenly help that one should say these attributes of Mercy that are listed in the in Exodus however it's obviously much deeper than that it's not just saying it that's I'm not going to say it's meaningless but it's kind of that's not what God intended God wanted us to actually incorporate and embody these attributes of Mercy that he is one of the 613 misses is to is to follow God and to be like God in terms of these character traits to be merciful the Hindus the novel idea that the the um that the Terminator explains is that through emulating God in these merciful ways Universal attributes what you're actually doing is you're open to the spigot you're turning on the flow the Heavenly flow not just for yourself which is obviously very important and meaningful but that you're actually transforming the world into a more merciful place so we are really at the end you know this is number 13 of 13 and it's called in Hebrew meme which is from days past so in uh in mija chapter 7 you have as the prophets are only to reveal that which we already know there's no new there's no new novel idea at all in any of the Nach part the Nadim the prophets in the writings but they are to explain I mean the role the prophet was to give rebuke to that which we already were instructed at Mount Sinai or for that matter for the 40 Years of the desert and so this is the last at the very end I'm going to give what they call a like a little bit of an epilogue um so I hope that I'll re forget to do that because I kind of have it like it says it's almost like a separate thing uh perhaps maybe we can just use that also maybe as a separate video so people can just hear that but anyway it'll all be included in in tonight's uh presentation okay so let's begin we what we do is we take the text if you over look at my uh left shoulder over my left shoulder that is the uh the English Hebrew uh text that we've been using and it's a very fine so we'll uh we'll use we'll start with the Hebrew all right there's a particular trait that Hashem uses with the Jewish people when ready for this when there's a finishing there's in other words it's over any Merit that we might have had with our forefathers just to do a little bit of review we said 10 11 and 12. 10 was amaz that was for people who just do the minimum they do the letter of the law they keep the letter of the law and yet Hashem has Mercy on them the next one was um uh kindness to avraham how we obviously so natural we would give more uh compassion and mercy on those who are who excel at you know being kind right we would just it would be natural so obviously to Hashem that's also natural we give a little bit more Mercy towards those who uh incorporate the attributes of Abraham in their lives and then the last one we did was the Merit of our forefathers so this last one is this one we're talking about tonight is when that's all finished you're looking at somebody and you cannot believe that they're you know from the seat of Abraham Isaac and Jacob right it's like come on there's nothing left there's like you know I don't want to say how evil they seem to be but they're not um they're not exhibiting any kindness and how how are we supposed to view them I just want to make another a little bit of the caveat and a disclaimer obviously if someone is so rotten to the core it's going to be almost you know let's say an exemption there's very few people like this where you wouldn't show Mercy you wouldn't show Mercy but for most people that we think of as evil to Decor they're probably not and that's what we're going to discuss when there's no more Merit left you can't think of the single thing to we'll call in Hebrews to judge them favorably because if you judge someone favorably normally if they're righteous it's quite easy or that's the the actually the law if someone's like a Bano knees you don't really know them they're most probably you know decent people but you're not like seeing it so you have to kind of make up make up a real story in your head how this person is probably doing it for a good reason but it came out the wrong way here we're talking about where there's nothing left that you cannot find a single point to judge them favorably which again would turn and open the flow of heavenly kindness from from Hashem himself so this attribute Hashem actually has with the Jewish people when the Merit of their forefathers had been spent and so too any other Merit there's just nothing you can find so what happens Maya said what should you do need from their aspect from who these people are that you're in the process of judging but we all judge you can't find anything proper there's nothing Worthy on their own that you could um judge them properly you know judge them in the favor well guess what how did Hashem judge us when we left Egypt remember we were Idol worshipers I mean we did a few things that were you know um on the ball let's say we kept our Jewish names we um we didn't speak Russian Hara it's very nice right we we did an intermarry we kept our clothes we said we kept certain things of the culture but basically we ourselves were not that righteous and yet to go to Jeremiah chapter 2 verse 2. that's correct all right uh Jeremiah 2 verse 2 says go and call out in the ears of Jerusalem saying so said the Lord I remember to you the loving kindness of your youth the love of your nuptials you're following me in the desert and in a Land of a land not sown so we had been like I mentioned in Egypt we were not the most righteous people and yet we were redeemed there is a certain aspect yes Hashem had already promised Abraham and Isaac and Jacob that their children would be redeemed um but what God is saying here through Jeremiah in the Hebrew like when you were young you know before you sinned before you became uh dirty and full of sin the love of your nuptials this is a hard word to say which it's like in other words the the marriage canopy the love that took place when we first met when we first um became intimate so here in this case we're talking about before you were even before you sinned so we followed God into the desert we had a certain amount of amuna a certain amount of faith um called a leap of faith whatever it was I mean you're leaving the uh The Cauldron of fire you know the the pit of the shrine okay but we went into a place where there was nothing growing and we had a lot of trust and Hashem really did take care of us through the through the Iman that came from Heaven through the water that came out of the Rock right through his um unbelievable amount of love that came from protection from the clouds of Glory so just to look at Rashi on that verse so Rashi says were you to return to me I would desire to have mercy on you for I remember the loving kindness of your Youth and the love of the nuptials of your wedding canopy when I brought you into the wedding canopy so when you're going to judge somebody there's going to be a point before they became evil I mean it was part of their life experience whether it was the first three months three years 30 years I don't know but there's a certain point in time where you could pretty much make a judgment that at one point he was not a sinner he was not evil so that's the idea here now the qurashi continues now what was the love love and kindness of your youth you're following my messengers Moses and Aaron from an inhabited land to the desert without Provisions for the way since you believed in me just that little belief that little whatever it is that every human being has I'm sure that every human being basically has this idea that there must be a creator that is taking care of me and loving me just like King David speaks about the Psalms but unfortunately we go through a nurturing period of you know a lot of Heretics and a lot of heresy and a lot of fake news a lot of fake news about what the world really is and then we believe it and we think that we're just Advanced um we're the most Progressive you know cockroaches that ever lived right like we come from an amoeba and that there is no Creator right the the whole world is what might makes right so we get conditioned but what happened before that right every child is probably born with some like looking at the nature everything is new everything is marvelous and wonderful and unfortunately whether it's through abuse and Trauma that we end up treating other people and like we were treated like we think that's normal unfortunately right and it's not so anyway we get condition that's the point so what happened before that conditioning is probably a very pure Soul right that's the idea in Judaism as opposed to other religions we believe that we are created all of us with a pure soul okay so that's how we're beginning this idea and the the remark continues that um that God actually remembers those early days just like it says in Jeremiah that real love that existed before and he has this Mercy on the Jewish people so I just want to go back into one idea why are we doing these series it seems like it's applicable or talking just to the Jews well as hopefully everyone who's watching this knows that yes could be the Jews of the canary in the in the uh in the mind whatever I don't know if that's the expression but basically we are the light to the Nations we receive this Divine uh instruction manual for life and we are obligated to live it in a very let's say Stern and harsh way and there are major ramifications for us if we don't nevertheless the whole world has access to this information through us like I said like the canary and the mine right well God forbid the canary gets sick start sneezing you know that uh whatever you know you know okay I didn't want to say that Canary died but we will discuss these ideas tonight so Hashem has this uh rahamim he's uh this Mercy on the Jewish people that God actually remembers all the misses that they did prior to them becoming evil right and all the good attributes were Hashem directs towards his world so then it says right he makes from all of them is like a treasury from which to have mercy on them Hashem that's what he really wants I I want to stop here just to mention the rabbi singer spoke about this so beautifully and I'm going to try to remember I haven't heard of this particular taken a long time but when you compare the god of Israel to let's say Christianity I don't know exactly who they even call God anymore but whatever their concept of God is that their God is actually the opposite of merciful I mean I I wish I could put the link down below if I'll look for him try to find it but basically the god of Israel has unbelievable Mercy even for the sinner especially for the sinner whereas um you know if you don't believe or is the whole idea that you're like destined to Eternal Hellfire is just it's kind of scary yeah without the payment of the penalty yeah yeah obviously there are things that we need fixing but Hashem is giving us the all the opportunities to do so and it's about improving yourself and improving your relations not just with other human beings so there's just like three relationships when you have you with yourself one you have with others and one you have with God this is what life is about a constant Improvement which goes back to God's conversation with Cain in I think chapter four and Genesis you can go back and read it yourself and read it with new eyes that Hashem is telling Cain kind that uh don't be so despondent this is before he actually killed Abel after his offering was not accepted but if you improve yourself you'll be forgiven Okay so it continues this last point of this paragraph is that this particular media number 13 is actually includes all the previous 12. raise amid the colellis coulomb okay and that's brought down from the Zohar so as the remark always does even though he describes the meat of God what benefit and how did what does it do what's the toe Ellis what's the benefit for man so too when it comes to men right this is how we should behave with other people even if you can't find any of the above points um in which to you know look for their favor what should one say this is what one should say when they encounter a person that they just you know they just can't find any good points in that guy you know there was a time before they sinned before they became evil and at that moment or those previous times obviously they were kosher obviously they were pure they were born pure that's another uh misconception well I don't know if it's a misconception amongst the Christians but it's certainly a misunderstanding right where they believe right I shouldn't say what they do because I don't know what they believe but I've heard that they believe that you're not born pure anyway yes you should try to remember try to become cognizant of the fact of the perhaps all their Good Deeds they did while they were young the years so this is based on a verse in Isaiah chapter 28 verse 9. right we should have this like there's a natural love that people have for babies right you ever look at a baby I mean there are probably some ugly kids and don't get me wrong but in the eyes of the mother and the father and the answer the uncles the grandparents hopefully so the kids I think God made them like I think cartoons base these ideas with a big forehead and the big eye it's just like so cute right so this verse in German I'm sorry in um did I say Isaiah chapter 28 verse 9. it says uh uh Whom Shall he teach knowledge and to whom shall he explain the message to those weaned from milk removed from the breast okay so this idea before we sinned we were you know sucking and drinking and people had to uh take care of our diaper needs and all that stuff um Rashi explains over there to whom shall he teach knowledge to babes who do not even have any concept of understanding when it says separated from milk they were weaned from milk the Torah is is compared to milk so you're separated from the Torah um well actually that's what the rash says here alternatively separated from the Torah which is called milk and removed from the breasts that means removed from before the Taurus Scholars so I hope that those watching they understand I think everyone watching understands well that um you know that Yehuda is the makro cake is the law Giver right obviously hashem's law giver but the the tribe of Yehuda the Sages um are the ones who guard this special tradition that we received the Sinai and that if you want any insight right don't be a thief and call yours right very important we discuss this idea in the Seminole height laws that uh one who's ice one who makes Torah their own living like as if it's theirs it for a non-jew is is very problematic however as I've said if you recognize where it comes from and you go and you learn from those Witnesses right God's witnesses as they say has said it so then you're not a thief because you're attributing saying it's all yours meaning it was given to you it belongs to you and I want a part of it I wanna I want that wisdom I want that Heavenly wisdom that was that was revealed to amishrao 3 300 years ago okay so the remark continues didn't try where we left off okay so basically from this point of view there really is no one who's unfit to receive our favor prayers and mercy I mean that's that's the summary however we're going to go into some details now that's the summary of page one I told you there's going to be another page we'll talk about the end um this is based on the book over my left shoulder as I mentioned he goes through different things such as the definition of the attribute so here's his summary so when someone is actually harmed by a completely Wicked person and it's clear that the harm was done deliberately there's no way to judge the person favorably with any of the 12 attributes which we had already talked about but what should you say to yourself there was once a time before the harm was done when that person was still good he should remember the good deeds the offender did when he was a child or at least when he was an innocent baby now from that perspective there's no Jew that's unfit to receive our Fair our favors prayers and mercy as we just said so if a person takes this perspective what he's doing he's going to wake in within the heavens this merciful attribute of me make Adam of from days past and what you're doing is you're bringing that element of Mercy into the world there is a statement I just want to mention the Zohar that says it says the rafuna said there's no juice so wicked that he has no good deeds through which he will Ascend to the world to come now this could be very difficult for you know a regular human being to just understand but in perkyo vote ethics of our fathers Begins by telling us actually each chapter begins with the same statement that every Jew is a place in the world to come now that doesn't mean there's a easy entrance ticket right it just means that I mean you have to really work hard to get out of it and in order to enter there will be a ticket I mean there will be a price to be paid but you get in so what does that mean for a non-jew it's basically probably the same concept I'll just take it and twist a little bit differently that every Jew has a ticket that has to be paid for so he's got an easier entrance but there's tikonim there's going to be pain there's going to be suffering there's going to be work in a spiritual way and it could be physical of course but that's how to get in but you're already invited so to speak whereas the non-jew I think has to fight a little bit harder to get in it's not a carte blanche Okay so you have the difference let's say you have the Jewel on one side which I described as almost like almost like Clark Blanche but there's a ticket there's a price to pay the non-jews to work much harder and I think that there's quite a lot of in between space meaning from a righteous now kind which most of these people I believe were watching are going to be fitting into that category um there's a um like a transformation when you have accepted and you're learning the Torah in order to become a Believer doesn't mean you have to become Jewish but that that is probably the major trends uh I'm using the word transformational process coming to believe that point of Effectiveness yeah the joy that we have that the Jews have is the Torah that was given in Mount Sinai and it hasn't changed and there's no New Testament there's no New Covenant that this applies specifically to the Jewish people and that I want to touch myself to them through their wisdom that's probably the hardest um as an as a Jew I'm only using my imagination that that's probably the hardest part of the transmit transformation because once you're there once you're transformed I think it's much easier because then you're you can suck up all the moves or Safari all these books all these books to talk about how to work on your character that's then then you're already in you you you're paying the ticket for saying I was wrong I inherited lies from my ancestors right that is so hard I can only imagine oh the initial transformation is is like you know accepting death uh in the sense that you know the way especially coming out of Christianity I mean to them it's like it's like you've got to accept death in your mind uh Eternal damnation to get out you know that's you've got to get over that hump right and uh so many uh have trouble leaving because they want some golden ticket that that is guaranteed you know it's like uh you if you bought a new car you want a warranty with that car uh why else would they get rid of their old one um but when you're dealing with a person's life yeah they've got to get over the notion that uh according to Christian theology for me to step away from it is eternal damnation but in reality you're you're fed a lie from from birth and you need to see it for what it is to cut the string so that point of transformation is probably the hardest hump to get over now in the same mishnah that says that every Jew is a place in the world to come in the Gomorrah that described it basically discusses that mishna mentions certain categories of certain principles that if a Jew doesn't believe or acts a certain way he's out there in other words it's pretty descriptive of what a Jew has to do to basically be on the outside and then it lists different Kings and different um people who I guess we're talking about as principles not that it's only these uh seven people uh but it mentions billum billum is a non-jew he's mentioned there and that is the proof I believe that shows you that actually according to Judaism that non-jews go to heaven it's in other words but take take this the description one of the things that a Jew in order to not go to heaven or let's say not be resurrected in the dead or have a share in the world to come is not believing that the Torah is from Hashem so if you don't believe the Taurus Rochelle is a Jew you don't go to heaven you don't have a real share in the world to come and you won't be resurrected now the fact that billum is listed in that and that means a non-jew too so that's where I understand that the Ramba makes the difference between a a a Pious and a wise nanju and he says that the wise non-jew will be blessed in this world for keeping the seven Noah High laws but he won't see the world to come whereas the pious one who believes in the red he believes in the Torah from Sinai that it was given to the Jewish people that's the person that we'll see a resurrection of the dead and wield the world to come so I think that as just an emphasis on the transformation the rest is what's as as Hillel said to the potential convert right love your neighbor as yourself the rest is commentary right you want to learn the whole story standing on one foot right love your neighbors yourself and the rest is commentary so I think that's the transformational part that I just wanted to mention okay so here we go let's go on now there is um another idea I mentioned in the beginning of this series about a philosophy called azamra it's love and he mentions this and teaches this that we have to judge even the worst sinner favorably we have to find his inner point of goodness however small and focus on it first of all just the concept of Love Alone with no Weinberg told us how can anybody be commanded to love isn't love and emotion how do you command an emotion so all of them before shame all the commentators explain [Music] it's the it's the Preparatory part you learn about God and how much goodness he's given to you so then you'll love him so in other words you the command to love God is more like in to investigate the kindness that he gave to you and once you realize the kindness he gave to you you will love him so in other words you're not commanded to love him you're commanded to investigate how kind he is and then you will love him so to in any relationship you have a relationship whether you're stuck in it or you chose it right but you want to continue then the best thing is to focus on the good aspect the virtues as ravino Weinberg says what is love it's the focus on the virtues so you do have a choice the choice is to focus on the virtues or the opposite I don't love this person I don't want to love this person I want to hate them and therefore I'm going to focus on every bad thing is that they've ever done to me or to someone else and I will I will hate them but you have a choice you don't have to hate them you could love them by focusing on the virtues so at this point the point of goodness can tilt to the scales in his favor and drawing back to juva you can actually like we discussed this idea on this Brightwood stem how can you pray for someone who's sick didn't isn't that a decree from Hashem so God really wants the person to be well and your prayers will help change his mind whatever uh adopt a more merciful attitude towards this person because people love him and need him and miss him when I say him and talk about her too he said forgive me if I sound like I'm just using certain pronouns but um the idea is that you can tilt this tilt the scales and that's the whole idea behind the showing favor or thinking about a good thing the person did I'll stop there just to explain so in heaven the person is being judged negatively and when he or she is being judged negatively actually it's going to affect the whole world as we say one should look at the whole world as if it's scales that are even okay and if one does just one negative thing it can judge the whole world negatively and it's you know hopefully uh right if the person just does one more midst of one more right act that God will judge the whole world favorably so now think about it you're you're thinking about this person or many people are thinking about this person how evil he is and that will give God nobody's coming into his defense or hurt the fence and therefore God's going to judge him negatively but if enough people let's say you with enough cavana enough intent can judge the person favorably so then God will rethink consider your thoughts wow he was a cute baby right before he said he used to help the neighbor then then when he got older and he robbed the neighbor but before he robbed the neighbor he was always there whatever so you're bringing this um Mercy into this higher realm and Hashem is then going to judge the whole world because remember he'll judge the person favorably which can tilt the whole scales which will not only affect you but affects the whole world which will affect you it's an amazing idea and you're bringing more Mercy into the world so what about Chula isn't true of the concept of repentance totally up to Free Will how can you pray for somebody to do Jeweler well are you praying that they do the chuva or are you praying that Hashem we'd love this person we want him to come back to the fold and not be a sinner so please afford him opportunities to do Mitzvahs wake him you know let you know how Shem will you know shake you a little bit to wake you up lovingly wake this person up how you know that's up to Hashem okay but you're praying for that to happen so they will that will have an effect so basically a little bit more and the wicked person is no more there's a verse here Psalms 37 10. you want to read it all right Psalms 37 uh verse 10 a short while longer and the wicked man is not here and you shall look at his place and he is not there it's it's mind-boggling but this is what King David is saying the in Russia just a little bit of time the the Evil's gone the hits and then you like um you concentrate contemplate his place and he's no longer there meaning this is an old discussion Ruby mayor had him with his wife he was being bullied and he came home he almost like cursed these people that they should die I mean like get rid of these people and his wife ruria was quite a phenomenon and she knew the Torah very well and she basically said that's not what the verse says the verse is not that evil shall be cut off but the evil ones right in other words sorry the other way around it's not that the evil ones will be cut off but the evil will be cut off because the duchova pray for them to do chuva the bottom line is you pray for them to do true but they won't bother you anymore and that's what he did and he listened to his wife and that cell the Gamora actually poskins like Brewery is his wife and not rubby mayor himself in that case okay so this is a very interesting idea contemplate the little bit of goodness inside of the other person and suddenly you'll see that the wicked person is no more since he has turned him into exotic meaning you turned him into exotic it's a very strange idea how can your words how can your thoughts change a person uh I think we have like examples when you let's say you're in an argument or you're in a heated either debate or it's just certain friction in a relationship when you lower the temperature when you use I'm not going to say call reverse psychology but when you can use that um you lighten the mood a little bit you you're more friendly with him or her uh you somehow downplaying the argument and you change either change the subject or whatever making a little bit light of it and you'll see that the person's demeanor itself will change right there is another verse in Milwaukee chapter 3 verse 24 that I want to speak about because many of us are parents and the kids that are listening they should know this you have Malachi Malachi verse 24. you'll get it verse 24 correct a chapter or three to verse 24 says that he may turn the heart of the fathers back to the children and the Heart of the children back through their fathers lest I come and smite the Earth with utter destruction so this is an idea that actually the fathers the parents we have a big responsibility for our children and we should we should really pray to Hashem that he is taking care of them I mean they're in our care up to a certain point I mean even when they're in our care believe me we need hashem's help but once they're you know going already to school going out of the house old enough to either live on their own I mean they need our prayers they need our prayers and um God will return the hearts of the fathers through the sons and the hearts of the sons through the fathers this is an ongoing thing so we should pray we should ask Hashem for Mercy I'll just tell you about my own children and I went through a period of time where I had a difficult time and I went to a big big Rabbi and he told me listen with it was Financial issues whether it was emotional whether without other issues he said you got to pray you got to pray listen these children are not just your responsibility it's true you're doing a great job but you need help and you should pray to Hashem these are his children cry to God these are your children you're going to take care of your children you're going to let them you know uh feel that there's nobody to rely on so uh no so you can you can have an effect obviously on other people as we're talking about and even more so on the people you really care about so keep that in mind okay [Applause] um the next idea when someone has been harmed by a person who is truly bad and you can't find any Merit to which the judge to judge the first person favorably what can you do you can still find some kind of compassion for that person by remembering how he was before he sinned this is just to go over the same idea so what when he does this Hashem views the Jewish people in the same way um even if he finds Among Us Wicked people with no merit of their own who have exhausted the murder of the forefathers as we spoke in last week's the last session Hashem still remembers the goodness we had from days past he remembers his love for us from before we sinned okay so now we're going to get into some nitty-gritty stuff okay so this idea of we make Adam from days past is actually the highest of all these attributes right all of the it includes the other 12. so through it Merit can be found for those who abstensibly have no merit it reconnects those who become completely disconnected recalling the love for those who thought they were hated um maybe subconsciously the per even consciously or subconscious person will have no idea that you're praying for them but that's I mean maybe it is true in these other religions they pray they pray but I've heard so many where they're praying for you know you you do go to hell but anyway one should pray for the other person to do truva and to come back so a Jew might have fallen into the darkest steps of sin but there's always a threat of Hope attached to him by which he can be lifted back at any time this threat is the love of God that Hashem had for him before he sinned when his soul was still pure and innocent who loves the most wicked Jew in the world more than we're capable of loving even the most righteous I mean get your head around that we know so many righteous people or we heard of stories with Abraham whoever is how we can love the most righteous people it doesn't even it writes pales in comparison that God actually has for even the most wicked can you I mean I would ask for a drum roll for that one that's like heavy duty what a thought I'm going to give you just an example from last week's parship well we had a double portion that could a um biaka pakuday so at the very and you said you heard the class at the very um end of chapter 29 it says the god that Moses blessed the Jewish people and what does that mean this is after the sin of the golden calf and God says I want you to build a mishkan now the mishkan acts as an atonement that's what the temple does it acts in atonement for our sins and and Moses blesses them the obarichosa motion and the Kumar asked the more itself is actually the major salsa what blessing did Moses bless them with I mean wouldn't even bless people to just sinned and then they have to make this Chica and this fixing so believe it or not it's an amazing uh amazing verse the verse is based on as chapter 90 of Psalms verse 17. and maybe and I'll just encourage people to go watch that video maybe we'll put a link down below May the pleasantness of the Lord Our God be upon us what does that mean um it's chapter of Psalms chapter 90 verse 17. that what's the pleasantness of God that's the Sheena that's the compassion part of God 90 17 reads and may the pleasantness of the Lord Our God be upon us and the work of our hands established for us and the work of our hands establish it this is talking about God that Moses blessed them remember this King David but he's writing about Moses actually we're going to say it wasn't even King David it was Moses himself but one second I don't get it too ahead of myself Psalms is basically attributing King David because he compiled it but he didn't actually author all of the uh uh Psalms in fact the tradition we have is chapter 90 through 100 those 11 Psalms were actually altered by motion and if you look at verse 1 of chapter 90 it says a prayer of Moses okay so this idea that this was the blessing that he gave that the pleasantness of the Lord this compassion of God should rest on us after we sin with the golden calf after we made this the structure wasn't actually built but all the vessels and all the pieces were ready to be put into place that God that Moses wants that the screener should rest with us so that what that we should know that we've forgiven and the rest of the world should know that we were forgiven I mean this is actually mind-boggling because for those who say you can only only find uh what's the word atonement Through Blood it's totally fabricated it's not even true but right here we find the atonement was just the actual making of the the structure itself which is going to provide our atonement um there is a let me just read that Rashi over there um well it actually says there that this is what Moses had prayed that the shrina should rest on the work of their hands in the temple but I want to read you a very um short madrish that describes like this idea that the Tabernacle itself it's called mishkana edus it's called a tabernacle of testimony what is it giving testimony to that we were forgiven okay so this is the way the major says that the Tabernacle bear Bear's testimony to the entire world you guys listen well it's not just us that have to know this that the entire world to what what's the testimony that he forgave them for the episode of the golden calf and then he gives the measures gives a analogy this might be likened to a King who marries a woman he loves dearly after some time he becomes angry with her and he leaves her so the neighbors ridicule her this just thinking like terms of the nations with the Jewish people they say to her you know repent or your husband will not return to you well after some time he does return to her Palace he eats and he drinks with her but you know what the neighbors write these other religions the Nations they're still not convinced that the king had become reconciled with her however after they experienced meaning they all saw and witnessed the vagrant fragrance of spices ascending from the house which by the way is what happens in the temple all of them realize that he had become leaning the king had become reconciled with her similarly the Holy One blessed me he loved Israel he gave them the Torah remember he called them a nation a holy nation a kingdom of priests and a holy nation right attempt you leave when they sinned after 40 days you know what the nation said oh he left he's not going to return to them Moses arose and then pleaded for mercy on their behalf what did he plead exactly these ideas that we're talking about now the 13 attributes of mercy and he replied meaning right Hashem said in Numbers Chapter 14 verse 20 of the Omar hashems it says it black and white I have forgiven you as you said according to your word he used these 13 attributes of mercy and God said I forgive you just as you said close enough correct numbers 14 20. and Moses then asked drum roll please who will make it known to the Nations and he replied to him let them make for me a sanctuary that when the nation smelled the fragrance of the smoke and it ascended from the midst of the sanctuary they knew that the Holy One blessed me he had become reconciled with them now by the way just a side point we don't have a temple today but we've had how many years did we have like 900 years we had a temple right 401st time 400 plus the second time and we're going to have Ezekiel right it's the whole idea we will have a third Temple now the point I wanted to make let me just think what it was um I'm sorry kind of space that for one second um okay let's move on and I'll probably remember what I wanted to say um let's just move on for a second okay and I want to take us now this idea that we had a temple for let's see almost 900 years true there was a point in time where we were actually exiled two years earlier and we're going to talk about this right now so 40 years before the destruction of the first temple Jeremiah Navi he already began rebuking the Jewish people for committing the three cardinal sins that would be murder idolatry and forbid relations now he warned them that the Doom that hovered over them would would occur if they didn't soon repent well they didn't repent they did not read but the the verse that describes the impending doom is pretty pretty harsh I want to read I want you to read Deuteronomy chapter 4. I want you to read both 25 and 26 right chapter 4 of Deuteronomy at 25 and 26. Deuteronomy Chapter 4 verses 24 and 20 or 25 and 26 yeah chapter 4 25 26 yeah 25 when you beget children and children's children and you will be long established in the land and you become corrupt and make a Graven image the likeness of anything and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God to provoke him to anger my call as Witnesses against you this very day the Heaven and the Earth that you will speedily and utterly perish from the land to which you cross the Jordan to possess you will not prolong your days upon it but will be utterly destroyed okay I want to focus on two aspects in the beginning and 25 it says you will be long established in the land now we weren't really there that long but in in the end of verse 26 you will you know you're going to go into exiled you're going to be around other people and um you're going to be eventually totally destroyed okay that means utter destruction I'm here you know other Jews we're not others destroyed it's got a liar he said he's going to do it you know what he did I want you to look at the the Hebrew word the in for the English says you will long be established in the land so in Hebrew it says the very word Vin no chantan is 852. that's the Gamache that's the value of the word we were exiled two years earlier in other words if we would have been in the land two years longer than that prophecy would have been fulfilled well we would have been utterly destroyed so God in his Mercy we didn't even deserve it I mean it looks bad right we got exiled two years earlier in other words yeah you're gonna have lots of children you're going to be in the land for a long time and then you're going to become so corrupt well guess what before we became so corrupt we were only just corrupt right we're only corrupt to a point we weren't like exceedingly corrupt I I whatever we could have been worse so instead of going to that point of no return God kicked us out of the land two years the land spat yeah in order that number in verse 26 where it says you will be absolutely destroyed right that never happened because we were never in the land for the full uh length of time that God spoke about as the 852 years I want to look at that Rashi on that verse you will be long established then no Sean Tim he hinted to them that they would be exiled from it at the end of 852 years that's the gamachu the numerical value of that word but he exiled them earlier at the end of 850 years he did this two years earlier than the Camacho than the value of the word in order to prophecy about them should not be fulfilled the prophecy of utter destruction should not be fulfilled this is the meaning of what it says and we're going to take you there and assurely that the Lord hastened with the evil in others he brought evil earlier on in order to bring upon us but really the Lord is charitable and I want to show you in Daniel chapter 9 verse 14. come on second Prophets oh Daniel's listed as scriptures right yeah Daniel chapter 9. verse 14. reads [Music] um and the Lord hastened with the evil and brought it upon us for the Lord our God is righteous with all his deeds which he performs and we did not hearken to his voice I just think that's just try to imagine you have to hear the Hebrew but Hashem hastened the Calamity he brought it forth the yish code Hashem al-hara he brought the evil earlier he brought yishikode it means to jump forward that's why we're in the springtime right now is almonds because they're the first to Bud uh the trees who butt early and he brought upon us but it says Hashem because God is righteous but Sadiq is like going beyond the letter of the law he he that's what he does in fact just to take you quickly to Leviticus chapter 26. similar words in this chat it's verse 44 and 45. in Leviticus correct uh 44 and 45. because this verse is talking about after the other verse in Deuteronomy mentioned that we're going to be exiled we're going to be in the land of enemies when we totally destroyed now we have to understand this verse 44 and 45 say but despite all this while they are in the land of their enemies I will not despise them nor will I reject them to annihilate them thereby breaking my Covenant that is with them for I am the Lord their god wow that is so profound this is his Covenant remember we break the Covenant he does not go ahead and keep reading 45 says I will remember for them the covenant made with the ancestors whom I took out from the land of Egypt before the eyes of the Nations to be a God to them I am the Lord now just so people understand what does it mean that God's going to bring the Calamity early the same thing that he can also bring the the um the uh the Redemption early I want to take you to Isaiah chapter 60 verse 22. foreign maybe just while you're looking it up this idea that he can bring the Calamity early and that which is what saves us right we saw that in those verses but verse 22 you said uh chapter 60 verse 22 60 22 says the smallest shall become a thousand and the least a mighty nation I am the Lord in its time I will hasten it now in the Hebrew you have to hear that perhaps you've heard these words beta means in its time means I'll bring it quickly uh hastenet so we have a tradition that mashiach has to come by the year 6000 that's talking about in its time so it's going to happen whether we're ready prepared or not it means if we are worthy if we earn it if we deserve it Merit yeah bring it even quicker so that's just some background um just to get an idea of the I'm going to call it recalculation right when you're driving with waves or if I guess uh whatever country you're in if you use some kind of GPS uh to get some point A to point B and it tells you to get off at a certain intersection or whatever make a right turn and you don't so then the lady or whoever voice you're listening to will tell you uh or maybe a little thing recalculating and then it will give you new instructions I mean Hashem knows everything so if the Deeds that we what we do is going to have an effect on the recalculation so that has to do with the ultimate Redemption as well um so even though he might have said you're going to be there for 852 years his love for us kicked us out two years earlier and therefore the horrible prophecy of our other destruction not only didn't it happen it didn't happen because God willed it not to happen because that's the Covenant that he made that it should be inconsistent with this Covenant sure that's consistent also with the verse you just read Leviticus 26. well there's got to be such a source of a strength in faith right for sure for the Hebrew people I mean you know like Rabbi I mean I when I was a young man when I was 18 I had a cliff accident I fell 240 feet down a cliff uh uh 150 of it was full free fall so about 15 stories was full free fall boom and I was ready you know miraculously rescued uh by uh uh firefighters rappelling down and volunteers hoisting me a long story short for me it's been one of those things that boom just stick with me and keep me driving forward that Hashem or a region and a purpose but when I hear you talk about how profound these incident is here in the text it must be such a profound uh Bedrock of faith for the Hebrew people for sure used to be yeah I mean even in the Holocaust when there were people who said you know where is God and then someone could turn around and show them the Bible and say are you kidding me it says right here all these things are going to be for you right all the curses and you're gonna ask Where's God it's like exactly like for its own right there and some people who I personally know it spread the whole Holocaust experience I could not imagine it's strengthen their faith in God because it was so Supernatural what we went through that it had to be only the hand of God never happened to any other people like this [Music] wow okay so let's go back into this where it says basically at this point about the 852 years the measure of their sins would be would be filled until it could no longer be born and they would be destroyed in other words God wouldn't be able to handle so to speak uh the land wouldn't be able to handle the sin of the Jewish people so in order to prevent the decree of their destruction from being fulfilled Hashem exiled us two years before the foretold time before the measure of our sins could be filled now despite this terrible low that we had reached Jeremiah begins his words of admonishment and warning with one of the most beautiful and inspiring expressions of God's love for us that we find throughout the Tanakh words that we repeat in our Rosh Hashanah daviding it says kind of read it already but basically go out and call nears of your shalim and say right we just read this in Jeremiah 2 2. so says Hashem I remember for you the kindness of your youth the love of your bridehood when you followed me in the desert into an unsung land so here's just like a paragraph I want to read out to you what if you're my call out to them he said dear Jews you are about to hear harsh words of rebuke and dire predictions of Doom but you must know that none of this detracts from hashem's Love For You Hashem still remembers his love for you of old he remembers your dedication to him and your complete faith in him you did not know the Miracles that awaited you or how you would find food in the barren Wasteland but you still filed Hashem into the desert with perfect faith and I mean that's really sums it up huh this is the way of God he recalls on behalf of the Jewish people the days that passed when our commitment to him was still strong he gathers all the missiles we've ever done since day of our birth and makes from there a great segula like a treasure house in order to have mercy on us now the attribute of Mercy includes all others as we mentioned in the Zohar okay there's still really a lot to go but I do want to get to that last wow I don't think I even got through half of the stuff um if you want to split the class if you think you got enough material for another hour at another time I mean no I I wanna I should always do a 13. I know maybe maybe that's the right way to go that'll get you maybe um I have a feeling that if I start another you know we break into two I'm gonna have to do a lot of uh recap and that would take too much time so let's let's go for another 10 minutes and we'll see maybe we'll break into two with this attribute Hashem remembers us on behalf of the ancient love he had the old love he had for us this love accompanies accompanies us at all times in every situation however low we might fall and even after the destruction of the base of miktash are harsh and bitter Exile when the dire predictions against which the prophets warned us had been fulfilled because still sees the into the depths of the Jewish soul to the place where it's still pure and innocent as it was before we ever sinned um you know I think I pretty much covered these ideas so what I'll do let's go to [Applause] the very end where I want to sum it up the seam is the epilogue okay this is going to be the epilogue and so what I notice is the stuff that um that I still have yet to talk about were things I already did talk about but maybe didn't go into such death depth but I think it's fine um there's I guess you know what there's one more point before we get into the last idea in Song of Songs chapter 1 verse 5 . it speaks about black is beautiful I am black yeah you have it Song of Songs chapter 1 verse five correct [Music] uh one verse 5 says I am black but calmly o Daughters of Jerusalem like the tents of qadar like the curtains of Solomon okay so this is a very interesting thing because without being you know obviously there's nothing racial intended here uh black implies I'm not talking about skin I mean here in this case we're talking about suntan but anyway um meaning full of full of sin and yet God still has this love by the way the idea of Jerusalem we have a prediction right it's talked about in Judaism that the borders of the city of Jerusalem will expand to the entire State meaning whatever the the land of Israel and the Holiness of the land of Israel expands through the rest of the world so maybe that's where garetosha will come into uh existence for every human being who wants to live in the land of Israel when Israel in conference encompasses the whole world but there's such a love even the Jewish people are called Jerusalem or Daughters of Jerusalem uh it's not talking about literally Jerusalem Summit Israel and therefore anyway this uh Rashi mentions this allegory is that the children of Israel say to the Nations it's true I am black in my Deeds but I am coming in the Deeds of my ancestors even some of my Deeds even if in even some of my Deeds are comely true if I am guilty of the iniquity of the golden calf which is true I was I can counter it with the Merit of the acceptance of the Torah just keep this in mind for non-jew accepting that the Torah is true that I'm keeping the seven knock I lost because God commanded me that is a huge we talked about this right that part of the transformation so anyway he calls the Nations the daughters of Jerusalem because she Jerusalem is destined to become the Metropolis for them all and this is predicted in Ezekiel chapter 16 verse 61. chapter 16 verse 61. forgive me Rabbi I'm my mouse is getting awfully oversensitive if I do use it so often uh verse 61 reads and you will remember your ways and you will be humiliated when you take your sisters joining those greater than you to those smaller than you and I shall give them to your to to you for your daughters but not from your Covenant can you explain that um yeah I'm gonna try but not from your Covenant suraji says but not because of your observance of the Covenant that I made with you but because of my kindness and my mercies so it's not because they can't become in fact they didn't but Hashem is keeping his word right not from your side but from his side that he is keeping his Covenant but you have not kept yours this is very important we are commanded to follow God we are commanded basically to judge other people's favorably again people who are righteous we judge favorably people who are venonine people like in the middle it's a it's it's Pious it's the right thing to do people who are extremely evil very few and far in between perhaps we should not act towards them mercifully but it wouldn't hurt to think about the idea that at some point they were righteous um so that I think basically sums up this idea now the summary that the book behind me on my left shoulder says like this adcon this is up until now this is the epilogue again we we've reached the third team that a person should represent like uh be similar to should follow the ways of his creator these are the attributes of supernal Mercy and what is their treasure what is their worth commercial just as a person behaves towards another human being down in this world so too he merits to like open like we talk about the the the the faucet the spigot open the flow of sheffa coming down with this unbelievable supernal trait from above it goes according to behavior I mean it starts with the thoughts I mean how are you going to treat him without humility Believe It or Not Just precisely as the person behaves so he influences above causing the same attribute to shine into the world I mean if that's not a summary of everything we talked about it's we're not finished okay so therefore one should not forget this you have to go and review them and review them really integrate them into your Consciousness into your awareness be cognizant of these things to the point that these verses will never be removed from your mouth in order that you should always remember them it should serve as a reminder and to the point when event happens listen to this can I show you something happens to you you say to yourself which media should I implement [Music] in order to overcome my own personal test to to emulate Hashem I should work on this Meda on this particular straight menu um you don't want to Veer from this attribute in order that this character trait does not disappear from the world you want to bring it into the world you can verbalize it I mean the idea is to be conscious of it right the words are actually very interesting when he says um it shouldn't be removed from the eyes of your intelligent which in other words your third eye your intuition your consciousness right be cognizant bring it into your constant awareness and um I believe I mean I'm only talking from experience it'll change your life it'll change your relationships with others it'll change the way people even look at you but it'll certainly change the way God looks at you because God will judge you the way you judge others and that is going to be the ultimate uh pH test you know you I I believe you want everyone who's listening would love to be judged favorably by God and it's measure for measure media connected media you have to figure out how it's it's an exercise It Ain't Easy oh no we've tested and tested many times until you oh Rabbi yeah all you can say is this is just so ring so true with me but uh often too often yeah the testing comes to push you know are you going to respond correctly and and I I find you know the beauty that's here in the uh the uh attributes of hashem's mercies just is is beyond compare but uh uh trying to uh put it into honest and legitimate practice uh I find there are just so many people that will just slurp it up like spaghetti as if you know something's owed to them and just take take take take and and I I don't know I mean I don't wanna I don't wanna cross any lines but I mean uh how do you hold back you know who owns the world okay all the money that you have who's really the owner Hashem so someone asked for sadaka charity okay so usually you you use the best um you know intelligence you have is this person taking advantage I don't know so give them a small amount so you check it out make the effort you find out it's he's legit right he's asking he has a uh what's the word you know a uh a handicap of some sort whether it's emotionally intellectually he cannot keep a job okay so he needs food you know what I'm saying like you're so many times we see people they're collecting charity and we think he certainly looks healthy why can't you work right uh you know for somebody who's they're not only they're not stealing they're not out there you know holding people at gunpoints they're not bullying people to give money the the legitimate like asking with a sweet voice so like it's a real sickness if they're totally capable you understand it's a sickness if they're actually capable of working and they're not working so even that reasons you can give them again a small amount um so you're Distributing you're God's distributor so you can pray on it you know you ask Hashem I'd like to have some clarity maybe when you do your homework on this guy on this person and until you do you give them a small amount you feel good about it because you know you didn't give them so much but you can get listen it's enough for a hamburger or whatever soda or you know a new blanket who knows wow well thank you for uh the advice you're always given Sound Advice I appreciate it beautiful lesson so far yeah so I don't think I think we covered it I don't think we have to go uh to do a second part um the question is what will we do after pesach and then I will leave up to some you know we'll we'll I'll be thinking about it I'll be praying to Hashem uh in the meantime if anybody has any suggestions we will take it in consideration we will think about it right so if you folks are listening up there if you have a suggestion that you'd like to see uh Rabbi Poston uh share uh I mean we spent uh oh a year and a half doing the 48 ways uh to wisdom uh and uh this Tomer dvora I think you know to try to do in 13 sessions I think there's so much more in this book uh you know I'm just looking online if I can get a uh a Kindle version in English uh um Dan I will tell you this is only chapter one the book has many more chapters but it's extremely kabbalistic I don't think that that is um suitable for the general audience in general but uh so people who do want to check it out it's not this file this copy only goes it's only chapter one uh I don't it could be there I do believe that the rest of it has been translated into English it just scratches on the the 13 attributes chapter one is strictly about the 13 attributes and then the rest I won't even tell you what it goes into other than it's extremely kabbalistic it's all about the Sphero and the different attributes on a a whole nother madrega a whole nother level wow we're not going to go there this this this session maybe in 40. I think it was a wise selection and definitely beneficial for me uh specifically we hope that you folks out there like it feel free to share that uh this video on social media make sure you press the like button uh give us a like and uh if you're interested uh I think uh are you still doing a a some sort of uh uh charity uh Outreach uh at eubenake and they can sure sure we could put a link below um before pesoch is a Jewish tradition that for those who can't afford wine and matzah and other uh food food items for the holiday which you know it obviously is very expensive um to help people celebrating dignity we provide food vouchers that we we don't get a discount on them but uh no I know they're actually distribute um for people in need that this is how we do it so we distribute thousands of dollars worth of these um to people who are bona fide in in need whether they're transitioning from work or some of them are actually handicapped in different ways and the summer yeah in the last several years getting to know any children yeah go ahead sorry the things that you're doing at Yuma are the real deal uh reaching out to people in need um and you're just uh we appreciate all that you do and so folks I encourage you if you're able and you want to support a good cause worthy cause uh in Israel go to ebay.com I'm sure they've got a a donations tabs there uh I know Rabbi Poston will make sure it actually gets to where it's gotta go uh champ of a person uh but Rabbi more than that uh uh this uh 13 attributes of hashem's Mercy just answers I needed uh for living and um more I still need to digest to actually be able to put into practice but I know it's there based on the lessons that you've shared and I want to thank you so much for that so um if you have a suggestion if you'd like to hear Rabbi Poston share uh after uh uh pasak uh we may start a new uh uh book series or something with the beyond the seven uh uh but uh I appreciate you uh sharing the theme of what is available for banana beyond the seven and opening our minds to the greatness of Hashem and the beauty of Torah and Tanakh I think this tomor devorah definitely uh uh touches on some deep uh seated ideas that the whole world can benefit from uh for certain and uh so um we're gonna sign out for today if you have a suggestion send it in the chats uh or you can always send me a message or an email um and we'll see it we'll take it under consideration uh so until our next session keep an eye out uh for our next post uh till then have a wonderful wonderful week everybody bye for now [Music]