Tomer Devorah Middah # 6 FOR HE DESIRES KINDNESS with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] hey good day everybody welcome back to another episode live from jerusalem with rabbi aaron uh david poston uh beyond the seven series uh he's been continuing with the beautiful work tomer devorah and today we've got uh lesson six in this series he's been sharing with us and it's always a joy to be with him and i do want to encourage everybody out there listening um rabbi and his group given a in jerusalem do so much work for those in need in his area and he's hosting a uh a fun drive uh for the holiday season for uh rosh hashanah yom kippur and sukkot uh so i want to encourage everybody you can find out where to donate and and be a part of actually helping those in need in jerusalem uh at his site yebenay.com maybe he'll say more about it but i know he's a humble fellow so uh yeah let's just tune right in and see how the rabbi's doing today shalom rabbi you're live on the air so good to be with you i am really enjoying this series and doing my best to take all kinds of notes so we're going to turn it over to you and look forward to hearing what you have to to to share i noticed your title you put up for he desires kindness yeah so malaysia and dan and to all the listeners and um happy to be here shavuot uh just before we get into today's topic for he desires kindness just to remind everybody this is the sixth in the series already actually i think this is the seventh um it's the sixth meda but it might be the seventh episode and we're basing it on the book over my left shoulder which is the tomi devorah written by the ramak ramosha cordovero 500 years ago in the city of spot the holy city of slot which i hope to visit very soon in the torah itself and when we talk at the chapter 34 of exodus god reveals to moses the 13 attributes of mercy in the prophets as we know the prophets don't reveal anything new they're only there to either rebuke or to guide the jewish people in the way they're supposed to behave so in mecca chapter 7 verses 18 through 20 i'll just read the verses who is a god like you who forgives iniquity and passes over the transgressions of the remnant of his heritage he does not maintain his anger forever we've already covered those those are the first five then it continues he for he desires love and kindness that would be the topic for tonight i'll just read the rest because the following verse verses he shall return and grant us compassion he shall hide our iniquities and you shall cast into the depths of the sea all their sins you shall give the truth of jacob and the love and kindness of abraham which you swore to our forefathers from days of your we as a custom repeat these verses on rosh hashanah when we do a ritual called tashlich where we throw our sins into a body of water but again it's based on chapter 34 verse 6 i think verses verse 6 and 7 but in verse 6 for specifically i'll read it to you and the lord passed before him and proclaimed lord lord benevolent god who's compassionate and gracious slow to anger and again these words and abundant in loving kindness and truth so in the hebrew in the exodus verse abundant abundant kindness rashi says over there for those who need loving kindness because they lack sufficient merits this is what we're going to talk about if you don't have that many misses in fact maybe even god forbid your work somebody is lacking and perhaps even full of sin however hashem is so merciful you know i don't know where these other religions come up with their notion of god being okay i do i think i do know where they get it from but everything has to be looked in full context not uh cherry picking and different things um what i want to mention before we get into this oh you asked me about so yibane our organization is based on kindness by the way right in fact the verse that says the world is built upon kindness that's how the world is built upon um so the world is built upon kindness so what we do is we try to encourage and we we organize groups to be involved in helping the needy of all sorts whether it's the old age homes especially during the holidays although since the pen whatever you want to call it the uh the corona i don't know you can say it whatever you know um getting into the old age homes has been very difficult um but um packing boxes working in soup kitchens when i say packing boxes i'm talking about specifically food food packages for different organizations and i'm happy to mention um that's every thursday morning in the um the um it's actually near rabbi which is shiva it's not far from horsamach it's like right around the corner and then um and then yada eliezer those are two that are extremely helpful in helping people in need and the soup kitchen of course the hiney soup kitchen we get volunteers all the time and people come back and forth from israel and they it's like the highlight of their trip helping people uh we do have a tradition that there are three very important character traits that those who are the descendants the descendants of abraham isaac and jacob and anybody could really join number one but even if you don't fully join you can still become a a righteous no kind accepting and connecting to the god of israel the god of abraham isaac and jacob who has these character traits meaning abraham isaac and jacob which is to be a rahman to have mercy compassion on people number two is to have a be a baishon which means have modesty it it usually translates as shame but shame it's not the shame in the negative sense it's a shame in terms of modesty and blushing um having a certain sense of modesty number three is to be a go male hasid to bestow kindness so this is we're creating the image of god okay so now that we know that these are the 13 attributes of god one of them is he loves kindness he desires love and kindness um in the hebrew of michael it's hesitates is love is a desire a strong desire for now even the word is an interesting word because it could mean and should mean in our context to go beyond the letter of the law right there's truth that's the letter of the law is to go beyond the letter of the law so we talk about somebody who is deserving a punishment or deserve even the word punishment we don't like to use but deserving a okay i think in this context we will use punishment usually we understand it to be correct of measures right god sends a direct message so that you will wake up right to be awoke truly waking up from your slumber of your sins and hopefully the message that he's giving you if you're if you're honest enough that you will figure it out that this is must be what you're doing because this is the media connected meter the measure for measure this is the message god is sending me and therefore i'm going to figure out what it is that i'm missing you know that's what a sin is you're missing the mark you're uh off off off off the off the tracks okay so hashem will mitigate right out of his love for kindness will let's say reduce again that punishment and maybe give that message more directly without causing that much damage okay so having that in the background we'll start with the words themselves within the safer oh so what i wanted to say let me just stick to this one point so so we have we collect money in order to distribute to the needy and uh everyone's checked out they're coming from either rabbis or leaders in the community people who have um you know financial distress and whatnot and 100 of the funds that we raise is distributed it's distributed 100 that is awesome and so the thing is that we normally start our campaign two weeks before rosh hashanah yom kippur and sukis in order to distribute but the truth is it takes a long time for us to actually receive the money it doesn't actually go into our account sometimes it takes almost a month so we started a little bit early and we're actually because why do we start a little bit early we also have more uh miles to feed and therefore we're asking for uh more money to raise trying to raise more money to distribute so we're just getting a little bit you know starting a little bit early right after tishbo we started the campaign so they can get a link at yibbenet.com that's that's right they can go to givenet.com or at least when i post this video it'll be below in the description box and maybe i don't know maybe you can put it as well sure okay i'll put it in uh so that's what we do okay now what does it mean he desires kindness as i mentioned the kindness has it like a haseed someone who's we call them uh you translate that in english as pious i don't know if that's a great translation but like they're the um the ultra orthodox that are strict that are stringent right because when it comes to the letter of the law that might be very nice but we want to go and god really wants us this itself as we will discuss tonight is an example god really wants us to go beyond the letter of law he wants us to experience what we call the spirit of the law in fact there's a gomorrah a talmud says that jerusalem was destroyed because we kept the torah and everyone asked obviously how can that be how can that be we kept the law and jerusalem was destroyed so the gomorrah says because we kept to the letter of the law we didn't go beyond the letter of the law which is exactly what hashem wants i hope that is a clear understanding heart's got to be in it right yep yep yep okay so let's begin the beautiful words of the ramak hello pirates new bill mcconnell we have explained elsewhere you do there is a place in heaven okay wherever wherever heaven is we're talking about even now somewhere in the upper spheres there are angels in the this specific um room where there's a tribunal taking place and they're appointed these angels are appointed to receive the kind deeds that each person does in this world truth be told there are angels that we create when we do sins as well so there's um you know there's a battle right someone is sitting there right now even though we're not in heaven but there are these angelic forces let's just say energy that we have created that is testifying right now about our good deeds and our bad deeds so all of these positive acts that we have done are they themselves the the acts themselves create these energies and the energies the very fact that they exist testify on our behalf that we're pretty good decent people which is fantastic truth is it goes the other way around too right so what happens kashira mira tadin when the opposite is happening when we have sinned and there are these negative angelic forces just their being is testifying on against us immediately immediately so these defending angels are activated as soon as we do an act of hesit an act of kindness they're activated and they're testifying on our behalf the karush baraku is israel and then hashem is showing his mercy he's be he's acting in a merciful way because of the kind deeds we did and it's because of this thing that he loves because he loves kindness since he loves it so much so then when the the smallest right we might not be living the greatest a life full of acid but as soon as we perform even the smallest act of hazard these angels these angelic forces run forth and begin to testify on our behalf isn't that a beautiful thing even if the person is guilty of all kinds of other crimes and and sins but as long as the jewish people as long as anyone and this trust me this goes across the board for the whole world as long as people are starting to act with hassan towards each other a tremendous amount of the sin is mitigated is is reduced right in god's judgment i just want to break for a second because i was learning with my cabrusa in the gemara it's more brofos 4b i want to pull it up it says like this it's it's a little bit awkward because it talks about angels and it mentions how the different angels let's say they fly so apparently mikh and the gamora goes into the details of how we learn this out but mikhail which is a let's say a merciful angel uh full of mercy he when he jumps to do a mission god sends the angel on a mission he does it all in one flight meaning he doesn't even stop to rest anywhere he does it in one flight like i mentioned the gemara itself goes into how it's learned from different verses gavriel which is the angel of din and judgment so it takes him two flights even though god sends him on a mission now that mission usually is going to involve judgment i'm going to use the word punishment but judgment let's say it takes two flights what's the point why would gabrielle have to rest in the middle in other words one flight to start with but he must rest take take a uh a rest stop just a breather and why do you think that is well let me just continue with the rest of the bryce of the gomorrah discusses elijah the prophet he flies in four flights when hashem sends them the angel of death eight flights meaning he's he rests seven times now if there's a plague and hashem is very angry and upset then he'll take just one flight so now wrap your head around this hashem is full of mercy for example michael will fly immediately all the way to his destination as we know angels there's no space or time but basically mikhail will immediately do what execute the mission that god sent him on where's gabrielle why does he rest in order that the person do chuva right hashem is full of mercy he's full of compassion and he really desires for the people for anybody who sinned to turn the life around and of course the angel of death it rests seven times before it comes and gets you however as it said during a plague it will take just one flight okay yeah just a side point it's not brought down here but i thought that would be very interesting so now what is hashem doing hashem he is so in love with this idea that the jews in this case all all of humanity anybody that's human is acting kindly with one another and hashem will immediately have mercy and compassion on them now commercial hype is now this is an example from ezekiel chapter 10 verse 2. now it's quite complicated because there's many terms that are used let's just say in kabbalistic terms you know we're talking about the chariot um and we're talking about wheels and there are different basically there's description different angels and what's taking place but this is based on a gemara and actually it's quoted in vaika raba 26 8. but here's like the the shortened version so this is how it was at the time of the destruction of the basa mikdash it says in ezekiel 10 verse 2 um come between the ophanim o'family the truth is the word of father doesn't appear there in that verse appears later it's gagalin or liga that means wheels but later on obviously the wheels and euphanim are the same it's the types of angels so as he says right we're discussing this angel or angelic force that is the officer of judgment and gevorah which is din judgment the nitan lo rashoos le cabel koko sadin and he is given permission to receive the powers of judgment between the ophanim which are underneath the kruvim from the fire on them his bath so these are some kind of hot coals that are going to go out and obviously destroy things okay so basically the judgment of the gevorah of mahrus and the judgment would grow stronger and stronger until it would want to destroy everything and even to exterminate the jewish people for they were deserving of annihilation and we know that that did not happen hashem had mercy and it was delayed and it was delayed in other words mitigated um to no end basically as you can read in verses eight and seven of the fresco the kuru theme appeared to have the form of a hand under their wings that is that hashem said to gabrielle this is what he said to him you know they act with kindness one to another even if they are guilty they will be saved and have a remnant in other words god will not wipe out the remnant god will not write wipe out the seed of israel and that's the bottom line okay so we see it in ezekiel chapter 10 you can read the verses and the commentary of course now the time the reason for this they've named me the zoo because of this very trait which we discussed is hashem desires kindness meaning to say the very fact that the jewish people are being kind to each other see even so when basically what does it mean god is desiring the kindness it's he desires the jews in this case we are a uh a light to the nations how we treat each other hopefully the world should have learned this lesson by now but unfortunately perhaps we're not the greatest examples we have to improve ourselves so this is about us and this is really about me who am i right i have so much work to do so when israel acts kindly and this aspect he remembers for their merit even if they're guilty in all other respects and that's the end of that paragraph however he goes on therefore it is proper for a person to behave with this attribute in kane we we have this concept called in hebrew to judge others favorably truth is there's a verse that says you shall judge your my people righteously so the the what does it mean righteously means on the favor of righteousness so when we see somebody and it's fitting to judge them improperly when i say improperly i mean obviously i mean properly but negatively that one should actually try their best they're darndest to judge favorably now i want to mention by the way there is i think we talked about this before there is a philosophy within um brezlav called azimra azamra azamra so what i want to do is go through a little bit of what it says in the kute maharan the le coute maran is one of the famous book uh written by the student of rabbi nachman and it's in 282 bet and it's one of the most famous and he tells his students out of all my teachings this teaching you have to take with you it's the most important thing that a person must always judge favorably even when they're perceived as doing evil now you have to search for something now everybody everybody who's ever born must have done something nice now what's what how's this going to let me just go back and talk about the general theme of the entire book what we do when we act like hashem in these attributes we're affecting i know this is very difficult to grasp because god is not affected by anything but he makes himself as if he's affected and that attribute of mercy comes into the world we've talked about this in the beginning of the series it's caviar as if and therefore we are somewhat in control of world destiny if we want to have mercy come into the world we want hashem to act merciful we act merciful and therefore the energy of mercy then comes into the world that's really the whole basis for this concept in this book and the series so back to the original idea that we were talking about in that judgment when we're guilty of so many things but we're acting kindly and we're doing such hesit and sadaka and charity with others what ends up happening is that hashem will mitigate the punishment minimize it and grant mercy because he desires that it's such a great desire of hashem that we behave this way that he'll reward it i mean he'll make it known that this is exactly what i want and you're fulfilling it even though the person or people are not acting so so rightly so here too when you see somebody what's happening you're seeing that person doing so many bad things but if you can imagine in your head that he must have been kind to one person in his life or he or she that they probably do some some right it activates those angels those angels that have been activated by that person's um good acts you're acting as another witness right there needs to be two innocents so if those angels are singular they're not that many right but you are testifying to their good acts because you're imagining where you know that they did at least one good act it is going to affect them their judgment we also spoke in the past that you should look at the whole world actually you should look at yourself okay it doesn't matter which one you go first with let's just say you should look at yourself as if you're in the balance all you need to do is one kind act and then you are no longer in in 50 50 but you are now to the merit and what you do will affect the whole world we've talked about but this is the way it actually comes to be by looking at other people as well if you're on the side of the negativity you're adding fuel to the fire so to speak for them and they're going to be judged harshly and negatively but when you're able to look at them and know that it must be something they did right because god wants you to look at that way because he desires kindness he himself wants to be kind so if you could be of assistance to him number one the way you judge others is the way you're going to be judged by others so it's kind of selfish which is fine but you're also helping the entire world by bringing in this metaphysical energy coming from the heavens so to speak so i'm going to continue with the idea that the lacute maran ramnoch breslav continues to teach teaches students you must find something good in that one thing that makes him not totally evil and we actually elevate that person through that merit again the at least in the eyes of hashem as well as the heavenly court this is going to help him in judgment so too it's going to help all of israel and this is another thing it's actually can help the person to do chuva you have the ability to assist obviously the ability the the choice of doing true is squarely on the person but we talked about before how hashem's kindness and compassion could bring in others we're fully guilty and yet hashem doesn't wipe us out and he keeps us around because he knows he believes in us that we're going to do trueva that this will also help and assist the person to do truva by judging him favorably how it works don't i don't know fully but we have an idea it could stir something within his heart so basically what you're doing is you're changing that person's status in heaven um yeah okay there is a verse in psalms 37 10 we don't have to read any of the commentaries but it says just a little longer it's psalms 37 10 just a little longer and there will be no wicked one what do you think this is talking about you can con you will contemplate his place he will not be there now simple shot the simple way is listen the guy's evil he's going to be wiped out snuffed out he ain't going to be around but the way that robin achman explains this is by contemplating the positive the merits the kindness that that person did you're helping to wipe out and mitigate the punishment and help him to do truva so just a little a little longer and there will be no wicked one he won't be wicked anymore you will really meditate upon his place things that he did positively anyway that's just another side point um by the way in our talk which is in our daily prayers okay there's certain days that we don't do this but we rest our hand over our head over our hand and we say certain verses so there's a verse in second samuel chapter 24 verse 14. okay it's second samuel 24 verse 14. ii samuel 24 verse 14 says and david said to god i am greatly oppressed let us fall now into the hand of the lord for his mercies are great but into the hand of man let me not fall now david had sinned he counted the people he shouldn't have counted the people there was a plague uh where let's say there was a threat of a plague and it was actually a threat of you know david can choose between different things that could happen he chose he chose the plague but it ended early but basically he's contemplating right what what's worse this the punishments of god when god has vengeance to take out or the vengeance of man so he clearly says david said to god i'm exceedingly distressed let us fall into the hand of hashem for her his mercies are abundant but let me not fall into human hands we spoke about this probably in the past as well hashem only wants to that's what he really wants to do he wants to forgive he really does man i'll tell you something man could be rough man could be rough i mean listen hashem has the ability to um you know um let's say forgive for the sins that you do against him he's got no problem what kind of harm did you do but when you harm a human being you really need their you need their um their forgiveness so it's much harder to pacify a human being you know hashem is relatively easy okay just keep that in mind that's what king david is saying okay um [Music] okay let's continue therefore it's proper for a person to behave with this attribute right even if um towards a person who harmed you or angered you should mate i'm sorry i skipped something over if the person has a good side just one single thing then shemati vlaherim if he has a positive side for example he acts kindly towards others omidatova or some other positive trait shamina in which he acts properly so that should be enough to negate the anger that a person has towards this person may i love the yerza libo emo and not enough to subdue your own anger against the person to be um appeased um the yacht and and desire kindness for this person and this is what you should say to yourself daily beto the sushi yes low it's good enough he has that one good point that's good enough for me i mean come on this is a big problem for so many of us i am i'm in on this okay so i'm working on this myself now the last paragraph he wants to stress about a spouse right and there's a good morning yavamos 63a 63a or 63b i'll tell you it's um 63a which i'll read in a second so he says like this though how much more so for your spouse especially a man towards his wife as the rabbis say in gamora yo vamos you know we're going to see a story about a rabbi's wife she did everything opposite of what he wanted every he says bring me bread she brought him uh rice bring me uh potato she brought him you know green beans it was okay it sounds superficial we'll have to see that she did everything the opposite anyway it should be enough we should say to ourselves right [Music] we should really thank our wives and our husbands right for whatever they do for us in fact for our wives they raise our children i mean that is a big job okay it's it's huge we men don't have a clue right we have a little bit of a clue but we have no idea how much goes into it and um so we should be so grateful and as well as they save us from sin so too everyone should say about everyone else yeah what should they say it's enough for me this good deed that he did for me or someone else or this good trait that he has and therefore emulate this idea of kaffitschka just like hashem desires acid we should see the positive in others so i want to quote this gamora here for you um do i have it right here yeah okay so rod's wife would constantly aggravate him when he would say to her prepare for me lentils she would give him peace if he asked for peace she would prepare the opposite lentils was his son and when he grew up you know what he did as a really you know you would think it was a good son right so now when his father says you know ask mom to get me the peas he thought he was so smart he went to his mom and says you know dad wants the lentils and of course she would prepare the peas in other words he thought he was smarter than his dad his dad couldn't figure it out all these years just ask for the opposite if she's going to give him the opposite ask for what you don't want right you're with me he's with me okay so when he grew up he would reserve reverse the requests that rav asked him to convey to her so the brav would get what he wanted so ralph said to his son here you know ever since you started um conveying the messages that i what i want uh let's see you know what i mean let's see what happens so he says your mother has improved now that you convey my request so he said back to his father it is i who reverse your request ralph said to him see this is not right what he's basically saying you didn't do the right thing this is a well-known adage that people say he who comes from you shall teach you wisdom i should have thought of that idea myself you however should not do so you're not supposed to do this right it says in jeremiah 9 4 they have taught their tongue to speak lies they weary themselves to commit iniquity meaning now if you reach a tribute such a request to me you will have uttered a falsehood that's not what i said i said lentils you went ahead and you changed the words and you did the wrong thing can you imagine i would have said without thinking about this you know why not you're getting what i really want so just say the opposite no so you have to be honest and truthful the gomorrah relates a similar story wife so is the son who thought he was doing so great for his father he ends up with a wife who would aggravate him nevertheless he would find something she would appreciate he would wrap it up in his show and bring it to her in other words the idea is to appreciate even those that people that aggravate you even those people that just rub you the totally wrong way you got to find some way to look for the appreciation and even ralph said to him doesn't she constantly aggravate you why do you bring her things so said isn't it enough for us that our wives raise our children and save us from sin it's exactly what his father taught him long ago and bottom line is we should show our gratitude to them and we have to find some reason to want to show our gratitude this is the way of hashem hashem chose us as his priests and again any any non-jew can join fully or even as a benoit to the point of being at like the rambam says the status of a high priest if you have fully accepted the god of israel you don't have to join the jewish people i know many do and they do become full-fledged righteous converts but as this station and your organization the nocai world center is to accept a few things except the one true god of israel as the creator of the universe to um to understand that the torah itself was given at mount sinai by god that it's the same torah that was given to moses that we have today and to support the jewish people in their mission from afar okay you can be a we don't have the status of the gyartosha but that would be uh from close up for those who know what i'm talking about and of course to become a full-fledged gert tedic that's uh free choice whatever you want to do um but there's so much more provide this in one of your last uh sessions i think it was two weeks ago uh you did a live session from ibn and it was uh beautifully well explained um in this week's spa show we speak about that the nations will say well you know this is your understanding in your wisdom you know we we you have something that we want so whether you're a righteous gentile and you grab the census you grab the corner of the garment of the jew and say we know that god is with you teach us um it's just it's wisdom it's ancient wisdom and there's no so you know i don't like the word ancient but i'd rather say it's new age there's nothing new under the sun so whatever is new is not new okay it's all it's always been there we just hopefully people will have the veil removed from their eyes you know growing up in the church so many people have inbred so much anti-semitism and and they're closed off from the wisdom of the torah because they think if you just look up actually that probably changed but it used to be if you looked up the word pharisee in the webster's dictionary i hope they changed it but it used to be um liars and hypocrites yeah because of the um because of the christian doctrine um but the truth is once you begin to learn what the jews have to say remember that the church was adamant against and first of all still is but against asking questions probably reading till this day reading the the tanakh in the original hebrew they just want you to use their authorized versions which are corrupted listen i'm i'm preaching to the the choir here you know i think you're all pretty much aware of this idea but once you begin to understand the the the torah is not at all what you were taught um and then you see the beauty and the wisdom and it's not us it's it's god it's it's his wisdom and hopefully we can live to be true you know express it in a true fashion so those righteous gentiles can actually play a big part in the redemption by mentioning to any jews they know who are far from the torah to get back into the program right i know i know quite a few righteous gentiles that when they get an opportunity to speak to what they call a secular jew or an unaffiliated jew uh is to um you know show them the beauty of their own of their own heritage and help them get back into it so yeah we we cut it kind of short but that oh no there's a whole bunch of other expressions i pretty much really covered everything but the book goes on with another eight pages um explaining pretty much what we said i'll just mention uh one short paragraph when a person who has been wronged or angered and he can find no way to judge the perpetrator favorably he can soothe his anger by remembering a good deed the perpetrator once did or thinking about a good trait he might have if by doing so he manages to soothe his own anger he awakens hashem's merciful attribute of for he desires kindness bringing that element of mercy into the world that pretty much i would say sums up the whole thing here wow um how it works there is an idea i mean even from a selfish point of view we have a verse you know charity sir saves from death right you know that uh that that pasic uh tsudaka matsumi made charity saves from death so um you know if you want to look it from a negative point i mean a per a a selfish point of view so why not right and even a ben no who wants to give charity in order to get a reward or in order to save himself from death why not why not but understand the global aspect that this is what the whole world is based on right the whole world is founded upon okay so if we're not doing hess it really it's a destructive thing so hear what he has to say now when a harsh decree a harsh decree hoovers over the jewish people for our misdeeds who has the power to overcome it who can stand in our defense who can hold back the destruction that looms over us a kind deed can do all these things and he goes on to describe exactly what we already said there are angels in heaven whose job is to guard the merit of the acts of kindness we have performed when the attribute of strict judgment raises accusations against us those angels stand before hashem bearing in their hands the kind deeds we have done here this money was given to charity and they say here was a favor he did for a neighbor where he gave a drink to someone who was thirsty or he gave food for the hungry here was this helping hand a caring ear a shoulder to lean on here was a favor here was a loan all these things are going to be um coming to your defense on the great and awesome day of judgment and that day of judgment is here it's always going on we're judged every moment don't wait until rosh hashanah don't wait until the day of your death every single day we are being judged of course not ultimate judgment but we are being judged every single day and every single moment it mentions all yeah all these acts of kindness are stored in a special chamber in heaven when the attribute of strict judgment raises its accusations they stand before hashem in their merit hashem has mercy on bane israel saying as we know he desires kindness even if we're guilty and deserving of punishment he will deal kindly if we deal kindly with one another hashem has mercy on us okay i can go on and on and on all right some really there is here's another idea i'm sure there's an expression in english and maybe this is it do not throw a stone into the well from which you drank so this is going back into the ancient uh midrash sources can you imagine i mean you have to see the appreciation appreciate it just the act of throwing a rock into a well now i understand that if if the well you can't reach the water you know you have a rope and the you know so i guess you can throw in um certain rocks that will raise the water level i get that point but that's not what they're talking about you're talking about you have an appreciation for something and then you're throwing a rock and you're showing you don't appreciate it right so yeah the major says do not throw a stone into a well from which you drank did the well mean to do us any favors okay this is a very important point the well is just an inanimate object seemingly right does the well feel offended if you throw a rock into it of course not but we must train ourselves to show honor and appreciation to those who have benefited us regardless of all other considerations in other words even if they did a kind act they had no intention of you in mind or even the kindness they just did it even for their own selfish reasons we should look at that and appreciate that they did for us here the baal shem tov says it we must appreciate the acts of kindness people do even if they do them for selfish reasons the baal shem tov taught that whereas purity of intent is important there's no question about that especially when we do other misses it is not crucial to the mitzvahs of kindness and charity it's not crucial obviously it would be great if we did have proper intent when we do uh acts of kindness and charity but in the end the recipient benefits from our kindness regardless of our intent so there is a statement by our sages in gemara breakfast 5b they say whether one does much or little the main thing is that the intent be for the sake of heaven however when it comes to charity that sama zedek said to the contrary it doesn't matter what your intent is whether it's proper or not the main thing is you should give and maybe give a lot as well okay so this really fits in well with our idea of you know doing the uh uh campaign early right um there is a lot to say about that in that prophecy in yeshusko might as well read it because what it does it will give a little bit of clarity okay when the decree went forth from hashem to destroy the bait to mikdash he summoned the angel gabriel and instructed him to gather handfuls of burning coals from an angel called kerouf and scattered them upon the jewish people obviously these were no mere physical calls but a representation of the destruction that would be let loose upon the jewish people since gabrielle was unable to enter the domain of the caruth he asked it as a favor to pass him two burning coals in such a way that he would not be burnt by them now the verse states the crew carried over and gave the coals to gabrielle the expression carried over is used to imply that the coals were actually cooled a little bit before being handed over furthermore gabrielle tarried in his mission for six years so this idea of gabrielle we said takes more time than michael he tarried in his mission for six years allowing the calls to even further cool down in his hands thus lessening the severity of the suffering that the jewish people would endure this also gave the jewish people an opportunity to do chuva see it's also the whole reason for the delay after six years when gabriel saw the jewish people still did not regret or repent he finally decided to go ahead and scatter the colds upon them but hashem kept him from doing it hashem stayed his hand he said gabriel gavriel these there are people among them who practice charity with others this was the message of yahushua's prophecy in which a hand was seen from under the wings of the ruvim in verse 8 this represented the jewish people's acts of charity because the hand represents one hand giving to another that's how charity is done with the hand our sages conclude from here that heaven and earth are supported by the hand of charity which goes back to the concept of oil the world is built foundations upon charity okay so that's it shem will do um the next chapter the next time and i don't know when that will be um let's see number seven is after chuva he will have mercy on us okay that's going to be exciting and that is much longer than anything we've done so far okay so that is in in a few weeks i don't know exactly when but in a few weeks right this year well we look forward to it if it's uh as good as today's message i want to thank you you really opened up my eyes on some topics that i've had difficulty with for a lot of years and just start to bring in a perspective on a greater understanding and thank you so much rabbi beautiful beautiful stuff i appreciate everything that you guys do at yibbene uh you're really a stellar example of how people can be uh kinder to their communities and develop and grow and uh it's just a joy to uh get to spend time in and learn torah uh uh with you and uh uh thank you so much rabbi and i want to encourage everybody you know support yibbene uh they've got this upcoming uh fundraiser where they're trying to raise money uh for the the holiday season so they can support people in jerusalem and uh if you have a given heart and you want to do an act of kindness you can go to yibonay.com and uh find the link there and support them and uh 100 of everything donated will be going to uh good uh uh useful uh acts of kindness in the city of jerusalem and it's just a joy to know somebody that does that degree of 100 percent i mean we see too often in this day and age i've heard as many charities that eat up as about as much as 98 of all donated funds in administrative uh costs and whatever and uh sadly that leaves two percent to get to the source i mean and when you're committed at a hundred percent uh it's a joy to know somebody who's actually paying it all forward and uh yeah and we're able to do that because we do receive from funds outside i have to tell you you know since we started this campaign we've received more funds outside of the campaign i'm i don't know what happened i don't know why people are not donating to the campaign we really would like to uh to up the ante no we love that people are donating and we were using it for the salaries of the teachers and whatnot and for other projects but it would be nice if um people know that this particular campaign is going directly so we would like to be able to raise that money in the next i guess it's five six weeks yep excellent well i i encourage everybody yeah feel free to support yibane uh they're doing some wonderful work and i enjoy everything on their youtube channel you've been a uh youtube channel a lot of shares there with rabbi poston and rabbi uh brightowitz that are just you know beautiful and and food for the soul so thank you so much for today's lesson rabbi and i look forward to hearing back from you and we'll keep everybody posted when we're going to be back with uh part seven in this beyond the seven series uh of tomorrow devorah uh so we'll let you know um so please keep an eye out for the posts and uh thank you once again rabbi poston and we wish you well have a wonderful wonderful week everybody bye for now [Music] is