Truth Seekers Guide to the Universe with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] welcome everybody back to the i would say giving up midrash but as you know we're still stuck in my office this roth hashem soon will be in person at least in the bate midrash and tonight we're talking about parashat yitro okay so you're gonna find in chapter 18 verse one israel heard everything that had happened to whom that elohim now we're gonna deal with different names of god tonight okay that the attribute of elohim did something performed something acted in a certain way towards moshe and israel okay so look at verse 18 chapter eighteen verse one the moses the father-in-law israel the chieftain omidian heard all that god had done for moses and for israel his people that the lord had taken israel out of egypt but look at the hebrew the ishmaeli israel yes in moshe he's the father-in-law of moshe at cola also elokim that name elokim is being used as opposed to verse eight okay we're going to get to that shortly but it's the name elokim which is the attribute of justice had done for moses and for israel his people and ki hashem uk now we want to go to page three for a very sorry page for a very very good reason because there i mention that we're really dealing with chapter 18 verse 8 at least in this segment if you want to know more about what i talked about in the beginning i gave that share about two years ago and two years ago i'm gonna put a link down below in this in the description box and you'll be able to hear the sheer that describes the first part of the client car i'm gonna touch on it superficially but what we're gonna mainly deal tonight today this morning wherever you are in the world is the difference between the verse we just read and the verse in number eight where moses then tells his father-in-law all that the lord had done to pharaoh into egypt on account of israel what you have to ask yourself is what's going on here only in the hebrew would you have any idea that there's a problem in the text as it says in hebrew s so now after eight verses moses is now telling um israel assumed assuming everything that he already knew which is crazy it can't be it wouldn't moses wouldn't do that and the text is telling me something quite different you would only see in the hebrew so again moses tells his father-in-law what yudkev k the attribute of hashem using the uk above gay did to whom to pharaoh and to egypt just keep in mind we're going to compare that and we're not just talking about anything it's really the okay we're talking about the uk buff cake doing something to pharah to egypt on account of israel we're going to deal with many other verses but i want to give a little bit of a preference so just try to understand what's going on here if you really read the hebrew well paid attention we're really careful in the particulars of the details you would see clear differences now what i'm going to do is i'm going to sum them up and then we're going to read the clear car who is what we use for the basis of our discussion so the first questions like this what exactly was missing the first time in verse one that that isro did not know or was cognizant about that perhaps changed his mind in why he's even there okay again i mentioned that i discussed the first part of the clio car in the previous year so it's in the description box below but i will give a very short summary of the ideas and that is that pharaoh i'm sorry the israel came not necessarily not necessarily to convert but perhaps out of survival instinct because he heard all that had happened and what was that the measures explains that he heard what what happened with the amalekites there was a war with the malik as you can just turn back a few verses and see about the kriyas yamsu about the splitting of the sea and what was the third thing about matantara okay so without going into it it seems from the clear car that it was for survival purposes not necessarily to convert but comes verse 8 and you'll see verse 9 and 10 11 there's a whole change in jethro's attitude that now he knows and he's also rejoicing in this fact that he knows something different that he didn't know eight or nine verses earlier okay so let's just discuss the differences first here in verse one it mentions both moshe and israel and that the name elohim is used but we're not focusing that yet in verse 1 it was something was performed for motion israel as opposed to verse 8 where something was performed or done for pharaoh and for egypt a subcategory of that question will be the fact that in verse 1 elokim the attribute of justice din and let's say a harshness is used and in verse 8 you have you have um the uk buff k but i think i skipped something here okay another thing that you can notice is that in verse 1 the word elohim is used when both moses and israel are mentioned but in the latter part of that verse only israel is mentioned and the yud kevke is mentioned in relationship to israel without moses's name and you can see the difference in verse nine okay let's go to verse nine a second and see see jethro was happy about all the good that the lord had done for israel again to israel the israel so there is this idea that when moses's name is not mentioned only the uk above case mentioned only when israel is mentioned and moses's name is not mentioned and why isn't moshe's name mentioned that's a good question we have to ask there is a possible response which we will see and i haven't yet figured it out totally but he mentions the possible reason is because of the relationship that he has with motion as his father-in-law son-in-law relationship now he does say in verse um i think it's verse 9 right we just said that was 9 sorry 10. in verse 10 i'm sorry it's verse 11 he says now i know the lord is greater than all the deities for with this thing that they plotted he came upon them so just to reiterate like what exactly did he now know that he didn't know before that's going to be like really the main question also the very concept that the the leaving egypt um is still mentioned in verse one in other words when you go back to verse one so it says over there at the very end right for the lord uk bufke had taken israel out of egypt and in back in verse 9 it does say that he rescued them from the hands of the egyptians again referring to the uk above k okay so now that we have i think just a clearer i think would call road map right that we're going to be working with the differences between verse 1 obviously verse 8 then you have verse 9 11 there's a whole a sub story there's something going on that we want to uncover okay so now i also want to make somewhat of an introduction to an idea of who exactly isro i don't want to go so much into his personality or the fact that he uh whatever he did before he came okay that you can we'll save for another time but did he come to actually convert and did he convert so this is going to be part i'm not going to really discuss so much of it tonight but i want to get it off the table that seemingly right if you look at rashi many other mafurshim they clearly say that he came to mit gayer that he actually did convert conversion usually means an entire conversion to be a gertzedek which means he's a full-fledged jew not everyone agrees with that idea and i'll just sum it up in the different ideas that we do have down some say that and i have to explain why why maybe according to the ibn ezra who's who's actually takes a i'll say a right turn or a left turn somewhere a little bit different than many of the mainstream before she because if you go to exodus chapter 18 27 as well as numbers chapter 10 verse 30 you will see clearly i say clearly right that gistro did leave now if he converted why would he leave so going to again chapter 18 verse 27 it says moses sent off his father-in-law and he went to his land if you go to numbers chapter 10 verse or verses let's start with 30. actually we didn't even start with 29 um you know moses is basically come with us go with us we're going to be well with you hashem spoke after hashem has spoken for good of good for israel he said to him jethro's response is i shall not go only to my land and my family shall i go moses still pleads with him please do not forsake us inasmuch as you know our encampments in the wilderness view have been eyes for us and that shall be with you it shall be that if you come with us then with the goodness with which hashem will benefit us we will do good to you so keeping that in mind that a a convert is basically someone who joins the community he doesn't just accept oh yeah i know it's true i guess it's true therefore i can become a jew no no you're actually making a commitment or most of the laws we learn laws about conversion we use ruth as an example we're not using gisera we're not using jethro as an example at all so maybe he didn't convert meaning that the ibanezer has somewhat of a good argument okay keeping that in mind what are the possibilities then number one that he did convert not according to the ebenezer that he went back to convert his family and that he of course then would come back with his family or that he is like a gertoshav that he because god did or moses right together he decided that there's going to be a place in jericho a place for for israel and his family so as a girth not as a full convert but as a gear the same terminology could be used gert toshav in respect to his being a righteous gentile living amongst the jews in the land of israel so that remains completely an entire possibility at least according to the evanesra as i mentioned so now that we have that let me just get all my papers okay so what we're doing we're starting a page shinyu zion and that's the first page that i gave to the students online the clear car begins by using verse one at cola share also elokim remember in the introduction hello moshe with the israel ammo he heard all that elohim did to moses and to israel his people yeshbin is a kamustico there are several questions now he's going to say them in hebrew i told you what they what they were in english but let's hear the beauty of the hebrew king very close in proximity in verse eight the asap hermosa moses told over to to his father-in-law at cole i share or saw yud kevke that all which the uk 5k this is the same god but a different name therefore different attributes did la para ulumetrine mahutra saperla why would he have any need to tell him anything we heard in verse 1 that he heard all everything hello kavar shamayas wrote didn't israel already hear as it says in verse one at kolasher ocelokeem what the attribute of god elohim did vacuum doesn't that include everything and another question why mention here in verse 1 lamosha uli israel both moses and israel muhammad 8 it says to para and to mitzrayim and then again here in verse 1 it uses the name elokim now in the same verse but later on it uses uk above k or verse eight it also uses again the utkevka similarly in passagrishon in the first verse kisha mask here most of israel when he does mention when the text mentions both moses and israel's name it's moscow when israel is mentioned alone as the end of that verse implied the uk vote is used here as in verse 1 whereas in verse 9 when it says israel rejoiced which we're going to have to deal with that word vegeta because the torah could have said via but it didn't say the common word that's normally used for joy we'll have to try to understand what that means but in the meantime we'll keep to the translation or understanding simply that israel was happy about all the good all the tovah alcohol i share also uk for israel again no mention of moses the god question another question he's just saying what i just mentioned why was moses name not mentioned there now he says perhaps the reason is and i i don't fully understand israel perhaps but we're going to say it also means goosebumps or some kind of emotional reaction maybe not not so comfortable with the idea of what exactly happened to israel so we'll have to discuss that and there is a gamora i'd like to bring down and we'll we can delve into it a little bit in sanhedrin 94 a avaloba vormosha ki khosna but he did not have this reaction on account of moses because he was his father-in-law let's leave that without another question mashnema what does it mean when it says in verse 11 the isabel it's really the latter part where it says in verse 11. now i know hashem right after moses tells him in verse 8 then verse 11 says israel now proclaims now i know what do you mean now i know what did you not know before bimei what did he realize now how come he didn't realize everything whatever it was he needed to realize in the first time in verse one when he supposedly heard everything furthermore um after the fact that it says in verse one that yistro heard at kolasher also elokim lamosha that means vadagamiya treatments ryan biklalasa how do you how was that like this addition that got that that he heard um about the fact that the jews left egypt isn't that included in the first part the why and then why is it singled out and repeat it again later on say hashem that hashem uk took out the jewish people from egypt okay those are the questions we will deal with okay and hopefully we'll get closer to hashem in our relationship with understanding how the world works uh greater amuna greater belief and i'll just give a little preface now when bad things happen to good people when good things happen to bad people this is the question of um from time immemorial people's voice asked moses himself asked but underlying everything how do we deal with the world around us with all the chaos with all the fake news with all the um the pressures against faith we're going to deal with all that tonight mr autism now i don't know where he came up with two questions but you could you couldn't turn he says in order to release to to answer these two questions so i think the basically we would sum up the two questions like this this is how i would do it the first one probably would be um what was missing and then the second thing is all the details okay so that's that's how i would probably sum up to the two questions now he says i'm going to give two introductions there it's like a short line but we're gonna deal with it extensively the first quest the first preface i would introduce this with two concepts called introductions one is a concept called the tsadiki take a deep breath this is a hard concept to grasp but the saddiquin the righteous they're able to overturn they're able to transform they're able to even radicalize whatever it means meet us a din let's say judgment harshness and coming from hashem turn it around towards mercy whereas i'll just say god forbid but anyway the rashayam do the opposite the rashayam are that's just the consequences they do the opposite they take me this good emanating from hashem and they turn it into the opposite that's the first introduction which we will discuss through the evening the hashniyahi the second concept is shibazman at that time so we're talking like three thousand three hundred years ago there were many ignorant that they were making a mistake they were they were mistaken thinking the wrong thoughts and this is a thing called money now i have here i'm not mistaken it must be on page five and it's actually page six so you see like this you can look it up in um on wikipedia i'll spell it out it's m a n i c h a e i s m ism so basically money's teaching dealt with the origin of evil this is zoro asterism that's where that's the root of it by addressing a theoretical part of the problem of evil by denying the omni omnipotence of god and postulating two opposite powers this theology taught a dualistic view of good and evil a key belief of this thought is that the powerful though not omnipotent good power called god was opposed by a semi-eternal evil power called the satan and therefore humanity the world and the soul are seen as a byproduct of the battle between god's proxy primal man and satan and i have to tell you christianity i believe and most of islam also they have within their concepts i know that they both claim to be monotheistic but on a deeper level if you ask a christian i mean i'm not going to go into because that's what the class is about you'll if you're a christian you'll probably be mowed there you'll probably admit to a certain extent that you know there's like 80 000 different sects of christianity so it doesn't apply to all of them but let's say as certain amount a strong vocal uh powerful point within christianity does believe in some kind of fallen angel who's battling with god and that you need to take a side and help god okay let's leave that aside we're going to show you this is the the problem the existential problem that jethro went through in order to come out on the other end and realize there's only one god all powerful who controls everything the good and evil everything that evil happens in this world is under his authority there is no evil that is not under the authority of hashem everything emanates from hashem okay so let's now continue in to clean your car so he mentions this idea of these people making a mistake in this religion or theology called ma'ani they actually believe in two deities that's really what it comes down to that one of them one of these deities has absolute total control over all good things that happen and the other overall negative consequences that happen in this world these are strong words from the car but he says their ideas are foolish or dumb they're both very weak meaning if one deity doesn't have absolute control means that he's weak that deity is not all powerful because if that deity has control over all negative consequences he does have wisdom and scheming abilities um intelligence when it comes to doing negative things or hey teeth but when it comes to doing good things that's not within his realm he's not capable it's so obvious that it certainly would not be worthwhile it's a waste of a life it's a waste of time to enter underneath the wings the spiritual wings of such a a deity to accept that as your god kimi petty yasser because who's so foolish to turn in that direction now we just discussed the if you believe in these two gods if you only believe the godhood is wise when it comes to what about the one who's only doing good the martial voice he has no power to do evil him shall hammer meaning even to those who hate those who believe in him in other words he your good god cannot even really protect you by taking out his vengeance or whatever on those that are trying to do you harm because he doesn't have that ability to harm kane shove therefore the result the result if you're thinking logical person is there's no point it's absolutely worthless to serve this god keep the call because the same results for everybody it doesn't matter if you believed in him or not he's not going to help you whether you serve him or not whether you serve him or you don't serve him it doesn't matter it's certainly not worthwhile taking him on as your god and to serve him what about if you say okay you know what i'll take both of them right i don't want to be left out i don't want to take risks i'll just take both of them as my god maybe they're partners gom came kasha this is really going to be difficult why because they actually contradict each other if these are your gods one of them only knows how to curse and the other one only knows how to bless and you are i should say barking up the wrong tree all came therefore yes the very first thing that isro heard when he heard at call i share all that the attribute of god who is of judgment did to moses in israel okay hold your horses because this is very counterintuitive right you wouldn't imagine that the name elokim is being used here but it is and why first of all just know that it is so far all the israel heard was what happened good for the jewish people kilomotion israel haiti but called me natova all sorts of goodness happened for the jewish people and i'll just add in kriya satora kabal satora so even though he heard about the splitting of the sea and about the war with amalek nevertheless mikhail macomb really what he did here was only the good things that the sea split that the jews walked on dry land but what did he not yet hear only later in the verses about the drowning of the egyptians he didn't know about that he didn't know about the drowning he didn't yet hear about the drowning of pharaoh and his army so too by the milk amma lake what did he hear only the jews were saved not that the amalek was decimated perhaps he says like this israel he heard that these people were coming to do damage to the jewish people the jewish people were saved vinnie salumi menu that's what here are the good things that the jews were saved alkane who tracked the fareshvalomar that's why it's by necessity you have to say this in verse one kihotze hashem right when it says god uk vodka at the end of verse 1 that god took out the jewish people he only heard the good stuff it even proves it by the latter part of the verse that it was the uk above k the god of mercy of course he did good the high new youth ryan that he took us out of egypt of israel so what was israel thinking what was going on in his mind shemelo kaizena mala topos at that time in this discussion in the torah chronologically at this point after hearing we hear verse 1 he only heard knowing what he heard was only the good that happened to the jewish people a dying low marut said like but he wasn't yet ready he wasn't yet convinced he wasn't yet satisfied to accept this god who is seemingly only good as his god maybe there's still yet another god who's greater than him and i'm going to assume because i was a searcher i still am right i want to know everything that there is so every searcher i think hopefully wants to get to the ultimate knowledge and understand the ultimate creator of the universe who's all in charge so until you get there right i think they say in addiction the 12-step programs right to to uh to you have to take a and accept a high uh power higher than yourself so that's pretty easy when you're down and out as a drunk or gambler or over it or whatever it is you're you're down and out you have no power whatsoever so you know that's pretty easy to find something more powerful than you but it's as you understand him and then hopefully through your journey you'll have a greater understanding and this is what a searcher is and this is what isro was searching so he was fascinated by this good god but yet he may not be the all-powerful one and i'm willing to search further and that's the right move continue to grow continue to move forward so he wasn't yet ready to accept this god who only created or performs good acts he thought maybe there's still yet another god who's greater than this hamas but perhaps there's another god out there who does what who's able to control everything the good and the bad at the same time or together or at once and he he only came at least in the beginning as i mentioned in the first few verses is clearly he's coming to bring sipora and that seems to be as you'll have to go to the the link below that gives you the answers to what i said in the earlier part of this clear car but anyway so he only seemingly only came to bring sipora moshe's wife back to him however afterwards after he had this continuous conversation where moses then told over to him all that good kavovke did to egypt and to pharaoh because moses his son-in-law he told to his father-in-law at kolasher also uk wolfgang to parent to egypt hainu called heroism that he told him all of the negative things i don't mean negative is in i mean the the harsh consequences and the the makos the ten plagues which hashem performed in egypt and at the sea beyonce then he saw and through this telling over basically by understanding this elohim it's the name elohim that has a certain attribute he's the one who's marshall that's the elokim the god of israel who is what who is moshe who is controlling all the good all the good that happened and all the bad that happened together and that's why in verse 11 he says he now i know how great is this god me elohim from all the other gods now what do i mean by all the other gods you say well they don't exist no there are powers that exist right that's why you have a strict law saying do not worship idols right you can say okay it's true the idols have no power but there are powers that do exist right gravity gravity exists right the orbits you there are powers that exist let's leave it at that but there's one god that controls everything there's no power in this world that is not under the power of god except for those people who believe in money right these i don't want to call them whatever they are but you know what they are they are spreading fake news that that um that there's such a thing called and there is a thing called the satan but the satan is not a fallen angel who is fighting with god okay the satan is god's agent he's a shliyak he's an he's an angel he's a messenger they don't have free will okay you have to hear other shirim once he understood in verse 8 this is the god of all gods then he was fitting was roy appropriate to receive this god as god and to enter into a relationship by the the sale in the shadow of his wings which means in the refuge the relationship now the shematama perhaps you might say what if you come out this at the end and say you know what there still really are two gods you know mistakenly right you're gonna still come out and think okay maybe there's more than one there's still two gods and hamas hate evely sram maybe it's that good god yeah he's really good to the jewish people but martial arroyos hey raw the parliament's ryan and the bad god so he acted uh negatively towards pharaoh into egypt so regarding this remember in the end of verse 11. so it says like this let's pull it up so not only does it say in the beginning now i know that the lord is greater than all the deities for with the thing that they plotted it came upon them very interesting right we're talking about measure for measure so they the egyptians they wanted to drown us they wanted to harm us in the end it all came to them okay so let's discuss this idea here we are charade on rohim do you know me the connected media what do we actually see we do see that they were judged with the very thing they wanted us to experience and each and every plague israel this is maybe very hard to understand but that the evil cause to them right by hashem that was caused to pharaoh so he acted what we call measure for measure medica negan meda was done what we call rotson hakal which is actually the will of hashem al kennedy on me that's why they were judged measured for measure and this is clear he says mother's hotels this is clear-cut proof that this is elokima share hey le faro israel that this elohim as we usually mean as a um the attribute of judgment he acted negatively right consequentially to pharaoh but it was all for the sake of the good his will is for the sake of the goodness of for israel in ken vada and then israel really understood and knew and the seeing his words right for with the thing that they how did he understand that it's one god who's greater than all the gods because it's the same god that actually gave the media connected me to measure for measure it's one god not two just read the last thing in hebrew in cain vadai then with absolute certainty it's from one god that protruded that came out these two opposite effects who god may call elokim he is greater than all other gods and the proof regarding this as we mentioned i think i just read this twice this idea yeah okay we're just reading it again it's i mean we're reading the same verse again we're not going back in the clear car he mentions because of those very words which i just read to you because of the measure for measure which he wanted he did to them what they wanted to do to us now if the god that he would have accepted he wouldn't accept but if if that's what god was who only controlled negative incan call us if that's the case then all the negative things that he does what it would occur would be also we have to say is god's will the lumo hay the oyster rose can negate heroic also the israel so then why would he bring the bad specifically against the bad what they wanted to do to us what they did to us is he understood both aspects he what by performing the goodness for israel he's simultaneously bringing the egyptians down and that's why it says in verse nine go back to verse nine the yi the yikhan yisro al-kholhatova he rejoiced regarding all the good now we'll have to discuss what the word means meaning after he knew and heard all the good stuff that happened nevertheless lawyers that was not where he was happy he wasn't yet happy whatever happy means contented um felt at peace he wasn't yet in only the good stuff because perhaps this was only coming from the good side right as if god only had power for good remember he's a searcher he's looking for the all-powerful the almighty theme came the son of if that would be the case so then even the people that hated him or hated the jews would also benefit but that's not what happened so um he concluded what advantage would there to believe in only a god who can perform good what would he do to my enemies ah but once he understood that this is the same god that does both simultaneously but when he heard also again the negative consequences that happened to our enemies freya he understood retroactively that all the goodness he knew retroactively that it all comes from the same place i can hire some macbook and therefore he was absolutely contented and happy now before we go on i just want to mention because i think in modern history anybody that has eyes that can see and ears that can hear and sees what happened to the jewish people the last 70 years 75 years even with all the negatives in all the positives we are obviously in the front line of the newspapers now that we have internet it's still you know no matter what site you go to somewhere another somewhere in the world they're talking about israel the jewish people somehow we are the center we're only what is it zero .001 percent of the population of world population which is like what eight billion maybe more okay so in certain countries like america so we're two percent but still there's something crazy going on here i think that the we'll say the internet which obviously has positives and negatives see there's positive negatives right good educational stuff that can come across and horrible addictive and destructive forces that come through it right everything it depends on you and i think the whole world should see can see we'll see and if they could be like israel who will support the jewish people whether you are a full-fledged convert or you're a righteous nochide who wants to be what we call a gertoshav associate themselves in the highest degree with the jewish people whether living amongst them in any community or especially in earth's israel that would be amazing like israel let's continue it mentions by the good us israel we're still stuck elokim usually represents an attribute of god which is judgment and yet that's the name that was specifically used when the good stuff seemed to happen to the jewish people moses is equal to jewish people by the way right when god says i'm going to destroy them because of the sin of the golden calf moses says take me out right he prayed on our behalf if you put him on a scale he was equal to all the 600 000 men right the jews at the time so we look at moses as equal to the entire um to the entire nation but he had a tremendous amount of merit and he was such a tadique he was able to turn around the shame elohim to to um which is din to mercy so whenever his name is mentioned then you have the name elokim when israel is mentioned alone is uk keep this in mind as i read why is the name israel why is the name elokim used when it's moses in israel there's a a combination between the two the merits of moses merits and the jewish people's marriage together with the abilities or the power of that name the attributes of that name also lehem was performed for them for the jewish people called hatobos all the good now he just uses a text proof to explain when you go to exodus chapter 14 verse 19 it says then the angel of god who had been going so in hebrew the ye saw malach elokim that god used this power elohim right it was as a messenger of the name of elohim that went and saved israel avoca but when israel is mentioned alone his cr-shame hashem uk is used as we saw at the very end of verse 1 below now we're talking about just the merit of israel alone without the extra merit of the sea roof of the combination of moshe lawyer must speak mahafag didn't learn there was just not enough power with with with only israel alone to change over um from din from judgment to mercy but you seem it's ryan the actual leaving of egypt twice the israel the truth is that was only israel alone why think about a second was moses ever enslaved in egypt no he grew up in the palace number one he was in the palace number two even when he came back he was not enslaved so keeping that in mind sherry moshe lawyer of the class she would betray him that moses himself was never enslaved so he never needed to be released because it's the uk that saved israel from egypt that means the the attribute of mercy uh yogi this route shrieking the low motion it was only this type of salvation that israel needed not moshe because he was not enslaved and that's why only the name uk love cave is mentioned by israel alone as we already said in the preface this idea that unfortunately the evil people they're able to transform turn around meena sadin i'm sorry milo soraka may mercy towards harsh judgment that's why it says in verse eight that moses told over to his father-in-law of the super motion hosno which is usually the attribute of mercy but that's what uk buff k did performed acted in a way to paro and to egypt to found egypt which obviously we know was very negative for them because we all know that the yud kevke is it reflects god's merciful nature and nevertheless it was us lamb called royce it was that very name that performed all of the we call negative consequences onto the egyptians we see as an example in chapter 14 verse 24. so it came out in the morning watched the lord looked out over the egyptian camp through a pillar of fire cloud and of course all these negative things happened as the verse continues and he threw the egyptian camp into confusion and the yishkov yudkevkay it was the utk bufke the attribute of mercy that caused all this damage to the egyptians and this he ends by saying this is a peru zed dover your car remember his name is the cleo car right a precious vessel so he says this is a very precious explanation now we have one more paragraph to go um i do want to go back into that gomorrah i'm not sure we're going to have time so look it up it's in sanhedrin 94 a he says yadi [Music] he feels that he wants to add more to this concept of the changing of the names now before we go on i want to mention that i was very disturbed when i grew up i i was not brought up in the orthodox faith the the true religion of the jews i unfortunately was a teenage shin ishba and i was brought up with reform and even christian a lot of christian influence there are things called bible critics now we're open to criticism meaning most of our maforshi most of our commentary most of our rabbis think critically okay but there's a theory i don't know when it began but at least 150 200 years ago it became quite popular and i just want to mention it because it's wrong and you can see how wrong it is it's called the jedp theory if you if those who have the english sheets on it's number 26 the last uh on page eight so the j e d uh p theory is assuming that the top is not written by god okay they are like totally like at straws you know to try to to bring down right this is a lot of fake news out there so the idea behind this is and it's so it's so crazy you know you can just laugh at it if you really know the torah well so they claim that there were four at least four different authors but they want to make names to them so the j is based on the utk buff k right because j in german is good is why like jacob as opposed to yacht club right so the j author he wrote all the verses that have to do with uk wolfgang and the e author wrote all the verses that have to do with elokim the d which we do admit there is a little bit of a difference in the authority of who authored deuteronomy that was moses with god's acceptance but they want to say that's a different author altogether and then the p which would be leviticus called the priestly class the laws dealing with the temple or the tabernacle at the time is written by someone else entirely the whole thing is absolutely ridiculous but apparently in colleges right you send your kid to college this is what's going to happen they're going to be taught heresy they're going to be taught all these nonsensical crazy ideas so with that in mind here the clear cars 400 years ago is explaining you know why there's different names i'll tell you don't forget that jedp theory right i'll tell you why like we just pretty much explained so that you understand that there's one god one god who has different attributes it all stems and emanates from one he begins by saying we did see the word elohim used for god to explain a certain attribute is used for all the good it's shame you'd know and when it came to all the negative consequences the bad stuff the utk valve case used la ho chi minh towing reem in order to remove this idea this junk if i can say that word from these people who are making such a big mistake name the very fact these names are different one of those obviously and simply reflect an idea of mercy and the other one reflects judgment obviously the whole torah all of judaism is telling you there's one god why why why would there be an idea that the text is telling you there's more than one god of course it wouldn't akin hiskey that's auto shame elekim and that's why this is exactly why the negative things that happen is being used by the name of akim that he that aspect is having the influence that's all heroics and when it came to the negative consequences shame sharokina the attribute of mercy is abused is used to teach you to instruct you so you should know with every fiber of your being that they all come from one god the hashimuri meets but the change only comes from us whether it's a blessing or a curse it's up to you what you do we described before the difference between wax which is hard and an egg which is soft but you put it up into the sun it's the same sun s-u-n it's the same heat source nevertheless what happens one which is hard becomes soft and much one one which is thought becomes hard we also talked about the person going down to head to wash his clothes to launders clothes by the river so his face becomes darker yet his clothes become whiter right we're not going to go into this whole idea right now but basically the same thing with the blessings and the curse the same thing with allah maba but you make what you cook that's what you're going to eat which you make it's up to the macabre you want a blessing or a curse it's going to be up to you you follow the rules you get in line you follow the program as they say then you will experience the good stuff let's continue so he mentions our own rabbi is mentioning in gemara broncos 11 b shimasu meters young delilah meet us lively beyond now i do have here a source sheet i think it's on page seven or six and with the prayer book so we do mention let me find out where it is number 21 on page seven so this is a lot to to deal with but you can look in isaiah 45 7 for example that would be a good place to start um that hashem he is if you look actually in the torah in the tanakh in isaiah 45 7 right it says his yo right he is the one who forms light and creates darkness who he um oh say shalom or ra and he is the one who makes peace and creates evil that's what that's what isaiah says by the way that's not our point here our point here is later on we actually are talking about the idea that we mention the concept of light at night and we mentioned the concept of uh darkness during the day and that's in the brachos and you can read through them anybody who's familiar with them they know that because both of them both light and darkness emanate from god as it says if you're familiar with the very first chapter of genesis right it says there was evening and there was morning it should have said yo michonne right because every other day is shamish but okay so you have a certain type i know exactly what they're called ordinal cardinal whatever it is but you know what i mean it's not consistent because it says why does it say aha in the first day so he will talk about that right now he says right away that we ourselves in our own prayers we mentioned day at night and night a day so we get across this idea what it says in genesis verse 5 the arab evoker like he explained himself in another savior of his quran a what okay that what it says in zachariah what does it say in zachariah that's zechariah chapter 14 verse 9. now this is a prophecy that has not yet happened and it will be on that day and we're looking forward to that day that that hashem will be won and his name will be one meaning the whole world will be filled with the knowledge of god right just as the sea covers the floor of the ocean the the waters cover the sea of the ocean it will be full the world be full of knowledge of god that hasn't happened yet but the gomorrah asked the great question right how can how can the prophet say it will be one god will be one isn't god one now isn't god one now so this is what comes into really you know real contemporary life right there's so much conflict between truth and falsehoods right we're living in an oil this world is full of lies it's full of illusions as you can turn you just turn on the radio the phonograph is jim biden whatever his name is joked by the president of the united states elect right whatever he is he would say he doesn't even know the torah right he doesn't even know what he's quoting when he quotes things okay anyway so but [Music] the governor itself asks how can zakar you say god will be one isn't he one now so comes rabbi yochanan that this world which is full of sheker it's full of illusion it's full of diametrically opposed forces okay that's this world but that's not the real world this is not the real world this is the world we're in it's not like the world to come balaam is a in this world in this world we don't really understand when good and bad things happen in fact we're told to make broncos certain blessings when we hear good things we say but we say right and when bad things happen broke diana met but we're actually supposed to we actually make two different blessings we're supposed to be able to distinguish at least in this world what we perceive as good and bad because we do perceive good and bad but the truth is in the world to come everything will be clear everything will be known that everything was ultimately for our good now wouldn't it be nice to live in that consciousness right now and that's because i'll tell us actually when we make the bracha on what we hear as bad news we're actually supposed to feel conceptually think and know that ultimately it's for our good it's very difficult it's a great exercise let me just stick to the words here so he says this world's not like the next world in this world we say right on things that we hear good we say atova metis that's the actual language of the bracha that god is good and performs and bestows goodness when we hear thesaurus roro it's when we hear negative like god forbid someone dies we say baroque but what happens in the world to come the world to come meaning no matter what happens meaning even if the most negative tragic things seem to happen that's not how we will perceive it that's not how we will know it to be but we will truly fully understand that everything ultimately because really the ultimate name of god is the uk birthday it's really all mercy but not in this world anyway so we're going back to the text razorback said what does he mean by this because how things appear in this world in the actions that are very opposite of each other whether for good or for bad alchematsu you know those people who make mistakes they find makkom they find a place to make this mistake that they will come to the conclusion they will come to the conclusion there are two gods there are two powers there are two deities they will come to this conclusion but that's their mistake this is due to their limited understanding they conclude that god is not one i mean you hear this all the time at least i think the islamists somewhat get it but unfortunately i think many of the christians don't again i'm not here to pound on them they're going to get pounded anyway by hashem okay avalyama i'm sorry i skipped something so they would come to the conclusion they would even think that if his name is not one as you see through this theory of the je vp the very fact that there's different names used in the bible they use that as a proof but when it comes to the world to come which you're invited to join law you rock towards all you have is good yet there will be no heresy nobody will be mistaken everyone will know the truth the yakiro the yedu they will recognize and they will know that god is one god and his name is one for yates they owed laminos nobody would go out to heresy willow europe they won't see things as uh duplicity in the world they won't see all the the contradictions contradiction anymore they will see it with clarity and know that it was all for the good indian zeb and everything here is clear and proper okay so bizrat hashem with our continual sessions and learning deep in delving deeper into the torah one word at a time one verse at a time one chapter at a time one lesson at a time bizrat hashem will have greater ammuna greater faith greater ability to cling to the truth to sort out fact from fiction and there's a lot of fiction going around you know so to have a discerning attitude right and to really truly be the light to the nations and for those non-jews watching you should only be like isro right whatever that means whether like i said there's a whole gamut of understanding whether it means it gets all the way through or on the other side not on the other side meaning the negative side but um to be just being i don't mean just but to being a righteous gentile who supports the mission of crea of of of cabal satoru they also are part of knowing and acknowledging the revelation just like israel heard right or the the revelation the torah knowing that it's true knowing also this is another thing i get a lot of emails from people who are and people comment on some of these videos they just cannot get over the fact that the jews have a tradition dating all the way back to sinai they think that there's a veil over our eyes they think we missed the mark they think we are i don't know whatever it is but i would implore you those people to listen to rabbis go back listen to rabbi singer i there are links to their websites always in the description box below and get some clarity and because drought hashem you'll also grow in the knowledge of god and bizrat hashem that will help bring the mashiach sooner and closer because throughout the show we should see him soon in our days and i'm signing off right now wishing you not only good shabbos a khodeshtov but a good life and we'll see you all next week call tooth god bless [Music] is [Music]