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Shalom Alim everybody Welcome Home to
Torah a warm
warm welcome home to Torah H we deal
with the par of the week usually we
cover one or two verses and we go like
to the left to the right all over the
world to explain those verses according
to the clear we would really encourage
you to learn Hebrew by going into the
description box below and finding the
original sore sheets now my wife had
warned me never to speak politics but I
do want
and I'll probably put it in the title
somehow or another what is happening
with let's say it's Trump's proposal his
wish list for Gaza so a lot of people
that I know and I see social media are
asking questions what does it mean is it
good is it bad is it ugly what's exactly
happening from what I heard at least
what Mr President 47 45 and 47th
president is saying is that it makes
sense from humanitarian reasons let's
assume that he has a big heart and he's
really really thinking from the
humanitarian point of view let's just
assume that but what about us it's our
land what do you mean America is just
going to take it over well listen first
of all they claim they're going to build
and you the only way you're going to
build this place from scratch it has to
be dug up it has to be replaced all of
the infrastructure there is no
infrastructure
to be the Riviera it has to be topnotch
sewage electricity and everything else
probably even a smart city or
cities what to do with the local
population from humanitarian point of
view he's claiming it's the best thing
they can't live there and we care about
them right we care about them okay so
let's move them out and it could be 5 10
even 15 years so who's going to want to
come back who's going to want to come
back after that point in time so let's
take it from a Torah perspective okay
how I look at it is like this I want to
read these verses to you it's in Genesis
chapter 27 this is where asov realizes
and finds out that his Blessing was
taken by yakob by the Jewish people by
Israel just just some background ASA
most likely is what we call the West uh
Christendom if if there's such a word
and 35 nations are on the left let's
just say that's under ASA you have
another 35 Nations under Ismael that
would be Islam so there really is a
cultural War there really is a war
between asav between Christianity and
Islam and has been going on at least for
1400 years that we're aware of but the
truth is there's also another kind of
war and this war between asav and
Israel now it says here in chapter
that that
um you know ASA realizes let's say verse
38 that um now let's go back to 37 Isaac
tells asov he says to him I made a Lord
have I made made him over you that
Israel is considered to be lording over
asov and all his kin I have given him as
servants with grain and wine I support
him and for
you where what can I do my son so asov
says back come on man come on dad
haven't you just got one blessing from
me bless me too father and asov raised
his voice he was very
upset so Isaac says Isaac's father says
back to him and this is the 39 behold
the fatness of the Earth shall be your
dwelling and the D of the heavens from
above fine you will have a physical
Blessing by your sword you shall live
right you're
a animalistic barbaric whatever you know
and unfortunately the Jews have been the
victim of convert or die type of
Philosophy by your your sword you shall
live by War but your brother You Shall
Serve
so asov is actually supposed to help us
in our mission our mission is to serve
the Lord we are the Mohan go kados it
says yet it shall be when you are
grieved you may cast off his yoke from
upon your neck so as long as the Jews
are doing what they are supposed to do
and I think this is my message to my
fellow Jews who are wondering whether
they're religious or not what's going to
be everything's going to be fine
question is what how are we going to get
there are we going to be obedient and
have faith and believe in hem and do the
right thing then you have absolutely
nothing to worry about and if we are
let's say um
Underachievers in the Mitzvah in the
Torah and then what would happen then
Asa has the right to pop his head up and
to and I'm going to use the word I don't
like to say it but basically anti
semitism is a result of not keeping the
mitzah right God says you keep all the
mitzah there'll be peace in the land you
have nothing to worry about nobody's
even going to want to come through your
land so basically what we see is asav
the meaning the West coming and making a
claim whether it's Greenland I don't
care but when it comes to ER Israel I
have a claim hey one second This Is Our
Land but one second they're willing to
do something that we seem to be
incapable of doing up until now which is
and I don't know how to even put it in
politically correct terms I I'll say it
like this to help in a humanitarian way
better the lives of the people who live
in Gaza and that could mean immigration
immigration from the holy land to other
countries where they would be better
taken care of and the real culprit the
real people who are guilty are the ones
who created the war to start with there
are consequences right there are
consequences to a war so we don't really
care how it comes about when we see with
our own eyes the results the
consequences that they will no longer be
there if it's true if it will happen
then it's a result of asov serving his
older his younger brother which is US of
course in the end of times we have a
gamar that
explains that the nations are going to
be asking why aren't they getting such
good credit for all that they've done
for the Jewish people they built Bridges
and too and stadiums right you know the
gamor and God's going to say well what
do you have to say for yourselves this
they're going to say we did all this but
God's going to turn around and he knows
the inner hearts and he says you fools
you did it all for
yourselves so you can collect money
right so you can make money but there is
is this concept of to there really is a
possibility there's a possibility that
as will do TR part of Asa tra and in the
end whether they build the stadiums or
not ultimately if they do we will
benefit it could be there'll be yeshivas
there'll be wedding halls they'll be
used by US to serve Hashem ultimately it
could be a way to get so many American
Jews or Jews all over the world to come
back to a Israel because Gaza is the
holy land so however you get them back
you get them back so I welcome my
brothers from all over the world whether
you're from Australia South Africa uh
North America especially Britain
wherever you're all from right if you
want to come back and live in a I don't
know a what do they call
Riviera in ER Israel bakha and let
America pay for it America build it and
make money it's not of our business as
long as as we know ultimately This Is
Our Land and it belongs to us and the
pieces may fall like know there's a
process and we'll have to watch and
watch the process but if you know that
you are doing everything to MIM to bring
the Jews to a higher level by starting
with yourself then there's really
nothing to worry about and that is my
message to start
with and now we're in partial
B and we always deal with fundamental
issues and in the song of the sea we're
in chapter 15 of Exodus verse 11 it says
in English who is like you among the
powerful oh Lord right the sea has just
split the water has had split and it
didn't just split here anywhere in the
world if you had a cup of water in
Greenland or Iceland or South Africa
your cup divided the water split all
over the world the whole world knew what
was going
on so this is the the Jewish people
singing o mosha who is like you among
the powerful oh Lord and I really want
to read the rest even though we're not
going to be dealing with the entire
verse who is like you powerful in the
Holy place it's like a rhetorical
question too awesome for Praises we're
going to deal with that performing
wonders so in Hebrew
amazing the
word well it means power right God is
all
powerful who is like
you but anyway so
M what is Rashi say he tells us that a
literally means power power and might
you have an example in Ezekiel 17:13 he
brings down and the powerful of the land
he took away aay right so we know that
it means
powerful but what about the other part
you're too awesome for
Praises it's awesome awesome to praise
Hashem usually it has a connotation of
refraining correct
refraining too awesome for
praises and Rashi says you are too
awesome for one to recite your Praises
lest they fall short what aren't we
isn't that what we do we praise hem all
day long of course we should but we have
to find out how and one of the ways is
through
silence silence looks PK in Psalm
652 right silence is praise to you oh
God so what does that mean look at the
Rashi on that verse it's number two two
in the source
sheet silence is praise to you because
there's no end to your praise the more
one praises the more one detracts I just
want to stop here because we're going to
deal with a gamor that
explains maybe we should do it right now
um I'll tell you where it is so the
Mar's quoting gor BR
33b so the to relates a certain reader
went down to lead the prayers in the
presence of ranina and he started by
saying oh God great Mighty terrible
majest Majestic powerful awful meaning
in a good way strong Fearless sure and
honored and what did rabina say he
waited he waited till the person
finished then he turned around to him
and says have you concluded all your
Praises of God why do we say all this
even with the three terms we
ourselves happens to be a verse had not
Moses mentioned them in the Torah the
men the great
assembly
um had they not inserted them into our
silent prayer we would not be able to
mention them and then you this is what
he's saying you go on and start saying
all these things so basically it's like
this imagine God it to be infinite not
just infinite what else can we call him
Indescribable and if we begin to
describe Hashem you cannot stop so how
can you start well we start because we
have the Holy tongue we have right we
have not just the scriptures we have the
last of the prophets right 2 200 years
ago they chose these verses for us to
use to praise Hashem and they made sense
out of all the different verses how holy
is our prayers it's absolutely stunning
and amazing and
uplifting so you have to realize that on
one level Hashem is all powerful but the
word itself the word a is also going to
be interpreted as silent and we're going
to find out why in order to praise
sometimes praise is done
silently and that's what it means who is
like you among the powerful who is like
you among the mute and we also have an
obligation to imitate hem and follow
hasem I gave a long um series
in Tom d'vorah which describes the 13
attributes of mercy and how we're
supposed to imitate
Hashem so this didn't make it to the
list to be silent but we're going to
talk about it tonight okay so let's
start with the
clear says like
this
in it's dared out in page
56b you can find this on Source number
three
now we're going to deal with Titus this
gar is dealing with Titus however the
clear is going to plug it in that we're
really talking about Pharaoh first
pharaoh mocked Hashem and Hashem was
silent on some level when dealing with
Pharaoh took a long time a whole year to
deal with him and what about Titus Titus
also mocked Hashem and Hashem eventually
took it out on him by doing what by
putting a flea or a mosquito into his
brain which ended up eating out his
brain and when he died they opened up
and there was a bird siiz animal in his
skull so what does it say in G 56b
theasian went back to Rome and he sent
Titus in his place the gamor sites of
verse there was expounding a reference
to Titus itself in Deuteronomy 23 I'm
sorry
says and he shall say it's like a
prophetic statement about Titus where is
their God their Rock in whom they
trusted this is what Titus himself said
this is what Titus who insulted and
blashe God on high so remember anybody
who's ready to blast ask Hashem look out
for the
consequences and anybody who raises
their hand to strike a Jew it's as if
they're striking against Hashem because
we are God's Representatives on this
Earth what did Titus do when he
conquered the temple he took a
prostitute with his hand entered the
holy of holies with her he then spread
out a Torah scroll Underneath Him and
committed a sin literally he engaged in
sexual intercourse on it and afterwards
he took a sword and cut into the curtain
that separated between the holies and
the holy of holies and a miracle was
occurred and blood spurted forth from an
inanimate object such as the curtain
upon seeing the blood uh Titus
mistakenly thought he actually killed
God himself in fact this is a euphemism
when it says he thought he killed God he
had thought he killed him sorry he
thought he killed himself that's the
euphemism that he thought he killed God
here the turn Okay so Titus saw blood
issuing forth from the curtain in God's
meeting place the temple and he took it
as a sign that he actually killed God
himself and it's in Psalm
74:4 your enemies Roar in the midst of
your meeting place they have set up
their own signs for
signs King David wrote this uh abaan
says right who is strong like you who is
strong like you what do you mean who is
strong and indurate like you indurate I
think right it means to restrain
yourself so strong and restraining
that's going to be the silence part as
you bear as you bear the abuse and the
blasphemy of that Wicked Man and remain
silent similarly the school of R taught
from our verse who is like you oh Lord
among among the AIM what's a it should
be read as elim which is we're going to
see a second me you should be among the
mute for you conduct yourself like a
mute and remain silent in the face of
your blasphemers meaning Hashem is
patient he'll eventually uh punish the
evil people it says in pavos 4:1 who's
the strong person
right who's the strong person a as yro
the one who overcomes his anger and we
see in Psalm 16:32 better is one who
slow to anger than one with might so
holding yourself back being silent
biting your tongue that is that is the
greatest strength one can
have so really we're at the first line
of the clear I just wanted to give you
the background of this good morning
G now the gor itself uses two mems and
the clear is not at all satisfied not
happy at all that a Jia is used for a
word to Daren it out to a word that
doesn't even exist in the in that
verse so the Russia according to thear
is RA what's RA mean it's far it's
distant it doesn't make sense to
explain as
in order to add a me but you'll see the
cleard is actually quite satisfied maybe
I'll even spoon feed you the answer the
answer will be that it means both but
until we get there the clear is
unsatisfied with the idea that with a
second me what he's going to say is just
alone is enough to understand that it
means
silent so the cleard say says however
according to me I'll tell you what it
seems
to like I said he doesn't like the idea
that they added the men but he says that
wasn't their intention rather the word a
itself is enough because it represents
the concept
called it represents strength strength
alone is enough and we're going to see
how I think in psychology even just
think about it
you want to say something you know that
it would not be beneficial to say it but
we have this inclination I'm going to
say it anyway I can't hold myself back
well guess what guess how strong you
will be and the same thing is we're
going to see in certain items of the
universe that God created that have no
mouth right that cannot speak and yet
they proclaim the glory and praise of
God and we'll see how it all fits
together so the clear says as we just
said it means strength like Rashi
says and this is how it's
explained anyone who
hears some type of insult they're being
insulted someone insults you you hear
the
insult and you restrain yourself
to be like a mute like
a what you're doing is you're
restraining you're holding back you're
overcoming you're overpowering your own
anger then you are considered strong and
mighty as we saw per who's considered a
strong person
who conquers or
overcomes H subdus their
inclination take so too we're supposed
to imitate God when God does this who at
a time when God hears he's aware right
he he's involved in everything every
atom and molecule of the universe and
yet he remains quiet whether we're
talking about what happened with Titus
whether what happened with Pharaoh or
what's happening now not mentioning any
any leaders at the
moment He makes himself like a mute the
word kavak because God doesn't have ears
he doesn't right it's not like he can be
mute He makes himself as if he's mute he
he restrains himself he's
silent this is what is considered God's
strong hand even in Den even in judgment
he can restrain
himself that he's able to control his
anger and be quiet against those who
anger
him just like he did what he was quiet
he took a long time for get for him to
get angry at
parro and what did Pharaoh Pharaoh was
mocking hasem if you look in
chapter of Exodus 5:2 he says mem who's
this God right look at the um number
five on the S Pharaoh said who is the
Lord that I should heed his voice to let
Israel out I do not know the Lord
neither will I let Israel out right
the right this is
Pharaoh what that's blasphemy what
of a world leader to say such a thing
and the clear
continues on the top of the next
page so Not only was it by Pharaoh but
tius also we saw in the gor and
G regarding the blasphemy and the
insults of Titus ALU therefore we can
understand the expounding the
verse who is like you who was
mute with the
double that Moses was saying this back
in reference to the uh the the blasphemy
and the insults that Pharaoh hurled upon
God and God was patient until as we know
the splitting of the
sea and from this there's brought it's
brought this verse this verse is being
brought as proof alus regarding T that's
what we saw in the
gamor therefore we can conclude without
a a single doubt without any doubt that
what that the word which we said it
means powerful it means powerful as we
said now if you want to say that means
it actually means
mute we are able to explain it that
way what was Moses
saying you know what the greatness of
God is right it's Indescribable
undescribable it's so great
right so much so that anyone who
actually is mute right they they have no
ability to
speak nevertheless even those who are
absolutely mute they have no mouth
right I'm sorry so they as if as if even
though they have no mouth to speak as if
the Praises are going up from them as if
they have a full
mouth who is like you Hashem as it says
in Psalms wait till you hear this 19
look at number six on the story she
chapter 19 of Psalms veres 2-4 I
underlined the certain words for a
reason the heavens declare the glory of
God and the sky tells of the work of his
hands you have the word reciting these
are Heavens they have no mouth and yet
they tell day to day utter speech
Y how is the day to day it's just
24-hour period where the Sun or the
Earth is going around on its
axis and night toight tells
knowledge and then it ends neither there
is neither speech nor words their voice
is not heard meaning they're
mute and yet we know look at the Rashi
on that the heavens recite the glory of
God this is King David the salon itself
explains there's neither speech nor
words they do not speak with people
right they do give light to the people
therefore and I underline this the
creatures that's us humans we recite the
glory of God we give thanks and bless
God for The
Luminaries and what does it mean the sky
tells of the work of his
hands the stars and planets which are
the work of the hands of the Holy One
bless Blessed Be he and which are there
it's as it is stated right we see in
Genesis 1:17 God put them the firmance
into the
heavens
right now the L the latter line the last
line thereby the people are uttering
sayings throughout these days and nights
and they teach the people to praise and
give thanks so these inanimate objects
called The Luminaries are absolutely
magnificent I mean I don't know if you
saw not just the Hubble telescope and
now the Kepler right there's amazing
things you could see that are just
absolutely fascinating and they tell the
glory of God and you know science is
upside down they have no clue what's
going on which is a good thing because
that's what science should do is
investigate try to find out why and look
for patterns and everything they claimed
about physics they realiz iing oh my God
we know nothing they are coming to a a
really high level of knowledge by
realizing they know nothing okay it's
amazing to see it right before our eyes
in fact the CLE card says the the goal
the T of acquiring knowledge is to know
that you know nothing what they thought
was dark matter they're not so sure what
they thought was an expanding Universe
now they're not so sure it's like
everything is upside down down and they
are humbled and saying wow this is not
what be expected they put a lot of money
a lot of time and it's coming back with
information that goes against the
physics that they have been putting in
our physical in our in our books for
Generations okay so that's absolutely
fascinating so we're now five lines down
I'll start with the fourth line down
from that paragraph As we said
so we see that all those words of
speaking and telling and declaring is by
these inanimate objects but it's really
not it's they're causing us to speak and
utter the glory of God through the
fascination uh the Miracles of The
Luminaries so if they have no mouth how
are they declaring
it's through the humans who witness and
see the movements of the heavenly
bodies it's the it's the people who are
looking to the sky they're the ones us
humans we're declaring how
magnificent uh the the skies
are and by us declaring
right talking about the cover of God the
honor of God through the Heavenly
movements it's as if it's almost as if
right it's as if the stars and the
planets themselves are
speaking but the truth is they are
mute they have no ability to speak
that's why it says here in our
verse who is like you oh mute
ones really the mute
ones that even in the mouth of the mute
ones is such great praise Mighty praise
right AMU as if where they are saying
who is as if the heavenly bodies are
saying who is like you
Hashem if the in adamant objects it's as
if they're saying so how much more so
the animated objects such as
ourselves so now remember this was all
said right after the sea split so the
clear card goes on it
says that this statement of the mute one
right how great is the mute one is going
on the the water itself it's applicable
to the water the water is mute Al Raba
as it says in
Genesis in braet Raba
um chapter 5 uh M mid one you'll find
this number seven so we all know that
that God said in Genesis 1:9 let the
water under the heavens be gathered to
one place and let the dry land appear so
just think about the word it says
Yu
Yu literally means like a Micha right it
gathered together but what about M
meaning hope so hope means expectation
there's some kind of looking forward to
the Gathering of the
water okay
so we see the water when it was split it
was gathered to one place or one or two
places to the sides so think about that
when the creation was going on there was
already put into place the splitting of
the sea when God said
y okay so the the measure says like this
God said let the water be gathered yavu
that's what's written at your rebuke it
says in Psalms 1047 look at number eight
if you want you at your rebuke they fled
when hasem created the world he spoke
that's called rebuke they fled at the
very beginning of creation at the sound
of your thunder they rushed away so not
only did it happen then when he created
but look at Rashi when you said in verse
in chapter verse verse 1 19 of Genesis
let the waters gather and from that
voice they they went quickly they Hast
hastened away and gathered in that place
you found it for
them okay that's what the verse look at
number nine chapter 1 ver9 you can see
that on number nine on the sore
sheet okay we're still in Source number
seven So based on this rebi Rabbi barus
said in the name of rebi Aba barami
let a set measure be established for the
water and it says in Zakaria that a line
a Cav will be extended over
y this is the interesting part R said in
the name of RAB Le the Holy One Blessed
Be he let the water eagerly await for me
in other words it's not just let them be
gathered like the word Mikvah but yavu
let them
anticipate hope for me for what I'm
going to do with it in the future I'm
going to do something something with it
in the future this is a little bit um
cryptic this is analogous to a King The
King who built a palace and who' he put
in it he put in it mute people and what
did these mute people do when they got
up in the morning early in the morning
they sang literally not literally not
with their hand not with their mouth but
with their hands with their gestures
they could not speak so they hand
signaled their praise for the king
okay and this is analogous to a King who
built a palace and settled mute people
in it they would arise early and inquire
regarding the king's well-being with
gestur gestures and fingers and
handkerchiefs and the King said huh If
Only They would speak would not even
more praise be heaped upon me well this
was a rhetorical question the king then
settled people who were able to speak
and like normal uh not not um
not deaf people they Rose and they
rebelled They seized the palace and they
said the king is not the Kings it's ours
the king said you know what I like it
the way it was let the place be restored
to its previous state so from the very
beginning of creation where before
humans were created all you had was the
waters right let the palace be restored
to its previous state so from the
beginning of the creation of the world
the Praises of the Holy One Blessed Be
he would arise only from the water as it
actually says in Psalms
934 it's from the sound of many Waters
the mighty Breakers of the sea and what
would they say that the Lord is mighty
on high that's what the song The the
praising of the inanimate object called
water that didn't even have a mouth to
speak yet that's what they did according
to King David if these Waters have no
ability to talk and speak this is like
Hashem look looking back and they would
praise me so when I create man oh oh
yeah man's all all the more so is going
to praise me but what do we see but
unfortunately right you had the
generation of the flood that arose and
of course they rebelled against Hashem
you had the generation of En they arose
and rebelled against him what about the
generation of the haa of the dispersion
they Rose the dis meaning the Tower of
Babel and they rebelled against God so
what did God say let this mankind be
expelled right we saw that uh there were
punishments and let those who had dwelt
here before arise and come back which
means let the waters come back The
Waters at least praise me as we know in
Genesis 7:12 at the time of the flood
that the rain was upon the Earth 40 days
and 40 nights so that's what Hashem did
and that's what he
wanted so we're in the middle of the
paragraph thear he
says we see from this medish that the
waters themselves were mute and
yet nevertheless all kinds of Praises
emanated from the waters themselves now
there's two possible
ways either it was through the fact that
they did's will which was little bit
contradictory to their own nature or
or through us who can look back and talk
about the Praises of what happened
through watching and seeing at least
through cus yamu or even the Mau the um
the flood itself I'll just read the
Hebrew right we can see I mean even
today I think all civilizations have a
story about a flood okay
so and we can look at it as if the
waters themselves were telling the glory
of
God even though the waters themselves
are
mute now we understand why Moses in his
song
says who is like you
all powerful no who like you who is mute
because the
water even the water which is mute
speaks out and says who is like
you and this is all said because we see
that the water didn't speak during the
separation of the waters the splitting
of the sea nevertheless it told about
the glory of God and now going back to
that idea
of the way we see aim is not with two Ms
even though K said that's what it means
like alen with two Ms
it's
meaning it doesn't have that second
me in order to actually understand the
word alien and he's going to say it as
both but you have to understand it as
Kaka you have to understand it as kazak
you have to understand that it means
might there no getting out of it you
can't just say it doesn't mean might it
means mute it means might as we said
who's the who's why who's the strong one
who's silent we'll see that
shortly therefore the language of
isim
Might and that's even hinted at in the
latter part of the verse that
says that means the Mighty the mighty
Waters the waters themselves are called
strong it actually means very very
strong Waters
themselves just like the word Al we say
is strong look in chapter 15: 10
remember we're in chapter 151 we're just
talking about one verse before look at
number 11 on the sore sheet
you blew with your wind the sea covered
them they sank like lead in the powerful
Waters the waters are called
May
right
M they fell like lead they sunk like
lead in these strong and Great Mighty
Waters the clear says zish AAR but he's
not finished this is a great explanation
but he goes on he finishes up this
paragraph by saying Mas
remember even though it's talking about
Pharaoh when Moses said it and yet we
Dar out it's also talking about
tius right there was this great storm
and tried to even drown him the waters
themselves wanted to drown
him just like it's mentioned Sham in the
gar now according to this hypothesis or
this thesis the clear wants to end Mas
that no matter how you look at it from
either side that has the same
implications to understand the word as
what it definitely means Mighty
definitely means strong but it also
means at the same time it means
mute now this is the last paragraph he
brings down two different ideas
is is a statement of K anyone who
increases you want to tell over and
describe and expand and increase telling
over the glory and the Praises of God
you're
nikra you're actually called a minimizer
a
detractor
Kashi Al like Rashi said in the very
first Rashi we saw under the words
it's there's a fear factor of praising
God you know the are called the Quakers
right that's the Shakers and the Quakers
right so this idea that I'm afraid to
start praising God because once I start
praising
God I can't stop and I'm going to die of
not going to the bathroom and starvation
and sleep and right you got to so I told
you kazal already put together all the
words for us from the Tanakh itself it's
so
beautiful
soil the word NOA also implies holding
back
restraining that's why it
says who is like you again we're using
the word strength and mute but right
now who's like you strong ones who's
strong the ones who restrain themselves
from speaking speaking too much speaking
from their own heart which is
counterintuitive it's counterintuitive
to go ahead and start praising God they
refrain they're actually afraid that
they're going to diminish the praise of
God because once you start what are you
going to do so it's better not to say
anything at
all that's why they're making themselves
like mutes
like them regarding these groups there
are different groups of
people right to you is silence is praise
to you silence is praise Turn the
Page the actual silence is the praise
the word dum do is to be silent yud yud
to be silent regarding God's name
yud it's this is so
counterintuitive so now we understand
the word alen doesn't only mean Great
and Mighty but it also means to be
mute that by themselves making
themselves
mute what are they doing they're
comparing right they're comparative
through this silence K as if they are
saying just like the water just like the
stars just like right I just want to
stop for one second right there are goam
there are non-jews they're very
religious they claim to be very
religious and all they do is walk around
praising God but where are their actions
where is our Muna is is it
concretized right so too with Jews
as far as I know maybe we're a little
bit too concretized right we're too down
to earth we're too much into the
physical we have to have a really good
balance but the point is I'm making
criticism for those of other religions
that sound so spiritual and holy but
there's no follow through there is no
concrete evidence that they actually do
uh believe that's through
obedience
so the very fact that the verse says
that you're fearful In Praise that
means I'm
sorry um that you you're right that
you're fearful to declare hashem's
praise L God forbid you
diminish therefore they make themselves
like
mutes and with the strength of their
hand what are they doing
they're holding back their mouth they're
biting their
tongues as if to put their hands over
their mouths
gamar this is a great explanation what I
think this is encouraging us to do you
get art scroll in English you get
whatever it is but the Hebrew is much
better learn the prayers right brem we
started a minion here it's a little bit
slower because we should become familiar
we should be praying all day right the
gamorra I think it raban Hali a Jew
should be praying all day you know you
see these beautiful on the on the buses
the women a lot of them men are opening
gamor but the women all over you walk
down the street they stop at a lampost
they dve in or they're just walking and
they're saying to Hill right these are
the words of King David these are like
canonized right this is like someone
says oh why should I read a book I just
want to pray for my heart heart that's
called a cavod there's a place and a
time for that within the prayers there's
a structure an unbelievably deep
structure we had um a great Rabbi speak
about this the name of Hashem the yud V
is going through stages from the
different worlds on a calistic level but
ultimately to be to have a seus to have
a uh to get connected to the source you
want to be connected to the source who
better to connect in from to the source
then the five books of Moses and the the
KN part through the writings and through
the prophets so that's where we that's
where we start that's where we start and
that's where I'm encourage everyone to
be involved more in opening up of prayer
Don't Be Afraid don't think you're going
to oh my God I am going to be like stuck
reading words these are Everlasting
these words are Eternal so you're only
going to gain you're going to learn
Hebrew at the same time it's going to
uplift you and what you have to do is be
you have if it's something you don't
understand you have to go and find out
what it means and with that we should be
silent on our own until we really know
how to pray and um
batem we just increase our own prayer
and we have nothing to worry about as
long as we are doing the right thing
praying doing Mitzvah right learning
Torah then asav has no power over us and
it doesn't matter what Trump does as
long as he gets the job done okay and
with that I wish everyone a shabbat
shalom and a great life we'll see you on
the other side
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