Tzitzit FOR THE LOVE OF G-D with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom Alim welcome home to Torah a warm welcome we are in the erit B mid I love to always welcome to the Y bit midash but we are in Exile mode to a certain extent but we're here in the uh old catone area and uh this is our bait M we learn here every morning and the reason we're here Thursday night is because we switched places as well we are making tias as we are sitting and learning Torah we have people in this room making tius and for theim and most importantly this week's um lecture series what we're going to talk about is tius it's in this week's par okay so like that's very important to know uh the other important thing to know for those who are newcomers is that we use the clear as the basis for our discussion and we love to learn Hebrew we love that you are learning Hebrew along with us so down below in the description box is a link where you could find you just have to find the right year the right title uh but there's a link to a page where you could find the the paraa um that we're using the paraa sheets that we're using and I encourage you it's very important to not only learn Hebrew but to like let it flow through your veins and we're not talking about Hebrew we're actually talking about lashes it's actually a little bit different in terms of language and style um but we're learning the secrets of the Torah this is like the fundamental secrets of the Torah and I will tell you at the very end the last line he says is that's the last three words or last four words on the second page this is the fundamental secret of the Torah so I encourage you to stay till the end okay uh we're going to talked about tius as I mentioned and in parl is where we're at I just want to mention before we even begin many times you'll find a theme in the para by looking what it says in the beginning and then looking what it says at the end now in the beginning which we're not going to talk about really at all um is that Moses sent these spies uh to seek out to search out the land and the word that was used right let's go to in the beginning the wordu from the word t right in English the word t comes from this word to explore so later on when we're talking about situs it says you should not explore after your eyes Okay the idea of not seeing certain things so this is almost a tun we we'll talk about it hopefully through the uh through the class but there is a relationship in the beginning and at the end and the truth is in most parot you'll find a similar uh pattern okay so now we're going to go into numbers 15: 38 and I also want to see 39 so we might as well look at both verses speak to the children of Israel and you shall say to them what should you say to them so they should make for themselves and I'm emphasizing it says they shall make for themselves fringes Al we're actually going to talk about the word situs there's one shot that it means fringes okay the one idea that means fringes on the corners of their garments forever now on the corner you should make one of those uh threads a color called tet okay now tet is a bluish green unfortunately we don't have today now we have good guesses um but in terms of what we don't do is we don't do reverse engineering in other words it could be we could find out which the realis is most likely it's from a a type of a snail I'll tell you the truth I always thought just in using my own imagination that it was from the the Dy of an octopus and why did I think that because there's eight strings that are hanging down and I know the only thing I know about certain fish uh I don't know if it's called a fish but let's say aquatic animals is a an octopus that does spray at least what I've seen could be dark it could be much darker than blue um but anyway it's not an octopus it is some type of a snail and then it says SE seat so it says these shall be fringes for you now that's the third time the word situs is used in the paraa and it's going to be significant and I'll tell you why but then it says when you see it you'll remember all the Commandments of the Lord in order to perform them and not wander not stray after your heart and your eyes which I mentioned before vuru don't be like a tourist don't explore after your hearts and after your eyes which um you go astray H the reason I mentioned the word situs three times is because Rashi mentions in the Middle look in the middle of Rashi says the numerical value of tius is three 600 now is that true I mean anybody can do math rashi's not lying right Rashi would not mislead us but if you look at the ver at the at the actual word in the Torah T is missing a yud he wrote he writes situs with a second yud and therefore it comes out to 600 so let's just take it a second so 600 is the word situs and then you have how many strings eight strings there really you know four strings are folded over as they're making them in front of our eyes here and then you have five knots so 8 and 5 is 13 so 600 + 8 + 5 is 613 in order remember all the Mitzvah however as I mentioned Rashi me Rashi writes the word situs with two Ys why does he do that when the Torah itself does not so the fact that it's written three times and it's really 590 not 600 but then there's a lamid on the third one it says L it so that lamid 30 you take 10 from each one of the L you know the Lama is 30 so you have 10 from each one to add to this 590 you got 600 but what is Rashi really saying Rashi saying that's how it's pronounced you should know there's a thing called a k and a KTIV the way it is red and it's read as if it has two Ys but it's written with only one yud so the gatria really is 590 when Rashi says It's amazing because rashi's taking it from uh you know earlier sources it's actually from Mish Raba Bida 1821 so this idea that there's a Korean and it's written three times and if you add the lamid it actually comes out Al together 600 but it's the cre and the cive the the way it's read definitely is the gatria of 600 now go back into the first Rashi where he mentions these are fringes it's similar to a verse in Ezekiel 8:3 took me by the locks of my hair and the the locks this the um the braids of the hair are called but what we're actually focus in on is the word being something entirely different okay so even though now Rashi does he mentioned it yes it's the second interpretation in Rashi he says another interpretation it's called situs is because of the command and you shall see it right we already said you're supposed to look at them so the I and by the way when you look at them the the fact that it says you shall see it really has several meanings number one one when you make the BR and you put them on you see it but you don't have to be looking at them all day in fact they can be tucked in or they can be covered over so it's when you put them on and you make the BR you should see it number one and number two the actual word SE SE means to look it actually means to look with your eyes as in Song of Songs chapter 2:9 which we will get to let's begin the clear car that was all preparation for oh I there is one more thing I want to point out see in verse 39 it says and in English they shall make for them TI we call that third person third person is what you do and the person's not in your presence so in Hebrew we call that Nar nistar actually means hidden and we're going to equate that to the to the reward in the world to come because that is hidden it's not for now it's not it's nothing you can see whereas in verse 39 it says it shall be for you so we call that second person okay it should be for you because in your presence that's right no is presence and we call that second person you only say that you only use the word you when you're in the presence of the person you use the word they when you're not in the presence of the person okay let's go into the clear now and he begins by saying right and they shall make for themselves SE and he says the entire content of this paragraph of this par requires explanation and this is the most famous question I would ask andberg explained it us on another level which I will tell you how is it possible by just looking at that one and I'm going to call a green you know what I'll just call T you understand that's a color and it's greenish blue by looking at that particular color of tus by looking at that one thread that hasis that you'll remember all the Mitzvah just it's like magic well first of all so he convinced us that we should learn memorize all the Commandments because if the Torah says to remember that means you have had to have had knowledge of them to remember it's not just magic you look at them and you remember however we will discuss this as let's say bringing to the Forefront of your mind certain major principles so that is true but the question is how does that work just by Magic he is going to describe two different ways first of all we're going to deal with the word um and we're going to deal with the concept of a so there's two different ways to look at it second paragraph the very first way to try to look at it and understand it like it's mentioned in the mid or the numbers in Deuteronomy and it's brought in the medish on a parti that we find much later on if you want to look at number three on the sore sheet Deuteronomy 32:1 listen oh heavens and I will speak and let the Earth hear the words of my mouth just think about this verse being kind of divided into two ideas that God is asking that the heavens should hear okay when he speaks so that there's something about the heavens and the second part of the verse is that the Earth should hear when Hashem speaks so there's something about the heavens and there's something about the Earth and there's a division in this verse describing these two spheres the medish goes like this God said to Moses this is what I want you to say to the Jewish people I want the Jewish people to look at the heavens Shati I God created it all for you for you to use now it's true that he created them but he wants you to know aren't they consistent how often does the orbits change it's very consistent when we look into when we look into space the truth is there are always anomalies in every system like meteorites maybe comets even comets you could um you know they could be um evaluated how many hundreds of years that they'll come back but there are anomalies in space but for the most part everything is going like and I'm going to use the word Clockwork for a reason because everything is going in orbits it's really going in orbits now I will give you I'll spoon feed you guys a little bit when he describes heaven and he'll use verses to explain that this is a state of joy that the sun and the moon and the stars and the planets they all go in circles and what do we know about Judaism in the Jewish culture when we dance for the most part if it's not a line dance it's a circle most of our dancing most of our joyous occasions we dance in circles so there's going to be a relationship between dancing in circles and joy which we'll see shortly but that's what he said look at the heavens that I created for your use they do not change and he gives an example does the sun ever arise or ra rise in the west of course not not only that but it actually is joyous and we're going to see the medish in depth I think it's worthwhile I'm not sure if time will allow the now God was telling the Jewish people I'm sorry he was telling mosha to tell the people to look at the heavens but also then look at the Earth um and the way the sea behaves the Sea is part of the earth in fact if I'm not mistaken somewhere around 75% it's probably even higher of the earth's surface is water so in Jeremiah 5: 2 two you'll find on the source sheet at number six and you can see from the verses before it's talking about the water will you not fear me there's an aspect of fear when it comes to the waters says the Lord or do you not Quake from before me okay now this is the most important part for I made sand a bound for the sea an everlasting ordinance which cannot pass and its waves toss themselves yet they cannot Prevail so in the Hebrew right will you not fear me says the Lord right before me do they not Quake that is the most important part uh which I have placed the sand as the boundary for the sea so again I mentioned there's always anomalies like a tsunami would be an anomaly but for the most part what happens is the Sea The Waves they want to you can tell that they want to come they're they're they're moving forward towards the the shore towards the sand and yet what happens watch my hand they come and then they pull back like out of fear yeah to have quite an imagination but that's the difference between the stars going in circles and joyous and simp and love and the Sea which has this Roar and the quake and the and the the pulling back and the retreating uh seemingly out of fear but this is what the verse in Jeremiah says Rashi on that verse does not the sea which is not concerned about retribution and doesn't look forward to receiving reward in other words this is an in adamant object it has no uh skin in the game right we who have free will we know their consequences to our actions yet this in adamant object whether it's this the heavenly bodies or the sea they do exactly what God wants and they don't change their Mida one bit now just imagine we're talking about Mida maida means character trait they really don't change their measure they are very consistent I will continue let me go back into that Rashi so does not the see which is not concerned about retribution meaning punishment if it doesn't do God's Will and it's not going to get any reward for doing God's will yet they fear me and do not cross the boundary that I set around it um even the word do not Quake is an expression of fear So within the within the verse there's a few expressions of fear and turn themselves about which we said was um Yu it tosses itself about but it's not able it's like it wants to cross over the sand border but it can't so Rashi says it's waves they lift themselves to cross the border but they cannot cross its waves Roar a loud sound of roaring but it does not pass meaning the waves do not pass the border so going back into the clear he's only quoting a little bit of the medish I don't think we're going to have time to go through the whole thing but it's fascinating so he continues does the sea change its character trait not only that it actually is pained in its attempt you can see the Roar it's trying to cross but it's not able to and that's what we read um with the it attempts to reach it toss about and yet it is not able to okay mik the clear is saying here you have proof that the sea itself it's not changing at least from the verses it's not Chang Ching its character out of fear from a certain point of fear not only that it's even pained by that fact and meaning in in its attempt to cross over but it's not permitted to and what what about the heavens it's also not changing from its character trait of Love Now this is in the in the med it uses Asal is a aerator argument it's a logical conclusion if God is telling us that these in adamant objects which have no skin in the game which will not receive reward or punishment if it doesn't follow what doesn't have free will anyway does what God wants how much more so we with free will should choose the right thing well we're going to find out that when we talk about colors we're going to see a famous meus that says that the color of this tus is similar to the color of the sea and that color of the sea is similar to the color of the heavens I see you where we're going with this right we talk about the sea then we talked about the heavens and then finally that color of the heavens is similar to The Throne of Glory which is the ultimate pleasure of deus Hashem of clinging and having a relationship with God which is the ultimate pleasure he ends this paragraph by saying not only do they follow and they don't change meaning this the the U the heavenly bodies it's actually happy to do so the next paragraph the word we said already is a color now I want to just spoon feed you a little bit more what we're going to deal with is color as we described there's gradients if you ever have your house painted you invite the painter to come before he even changes his clothes he's in a ni suit or she's in a ni suit and she's going to show you he's going to show you the different possibilities you say you want pink well they have this um I don't know what it's called an a catalog basically of gradients well which pink will you talking about so here if brto at a greenish blue the sea is similar in color there's a gradient but it's not exactly Talis and then the sky is also a gradient of blue but it's not exactly the same color as the sea and then finally the Throne of Glory is similar so we're going to be use we're going to be using the word color a lot but we're going to switch we're going to switch from the ACT actual concept of color although that is a tool in our tool chest we're going to now think at some point of character of the character of fear or the trait of fear and then we're going to switch to the trait of love and simp and joy okay as gradients in our service to Hashem I want you to have that in mind as we as we move forward so regarding the color so which you can find the number eight in the sore sheet um I'm just going to read it from the clear some of it will Skip it's is and I'm going to use the word color that this color is similar to the color of the sea although he doesn't use he doesn't use the word color so we're open-minded that it may not be color but you'll see he puts it in the Y is and the sea is similar to the sky and the sky is similar even the word Heavens is probably more appropriate the heavens are similar to the k that certainly the explanation the simple explanation would be as follows that these colors are are very similar to each other but the the actual itself meaning the color on the string is not exactly like the sky there's a jump there's a gradient is that the word I'm using properly am I using it properly that's the question shade but what happens is each one leans in its color towards the one similar to it each one is a deeper or more intense color than the one prior so that's why I'm using the word gradient okay but my and this statement that was made in that really is going to sum up the whole idea lar by saying the following what exactly is this concept that if you're looking at this particular string of that you'll remember through it all the Mitzvah of God and you won't change you won't be removed from the Mida you'll be you know what I mean they're not stuck in a bad sense but you'll be within the boundaries of the character trait of keeping all the Mitzvah a even a hair's breath in other words you will be obedient you'll keep all the Mitzvah how's it work that's really the question as we start off by saying that the color is similar to the color of the sea that through looking at that particular string now we're not talking about the color anymore as you'll notice because he says you'll remember the ca that is only similar to it in color so we're talking about something else the character trait of the sea which happens to be similar in colored and then what will be the result the result will be as if the sea or the character traits of the sea will actually be constantly in front of your eyes meaning when you close your eyelids you imagine the sea and we talked about the traits of the sea which was y fear and then what happens as a result then you will contemplate you'll meditate you'll really try to understand the actions of the sea the behavior of the sea the way the sea behaves which is how often do we really think that the the sea is acting out of fear that it's I know that when we were children well some of us some of us were children once and the first time we went to the Sea and I'm not talking about a lake I mean a sea I've seen a lot of Children Cry The First Time whether it's the sound whether it's the vastness whether it's just looking down and not making like it's really weird because I always look down and everything's solid and all of a sudden things are moving in different directions it can be really scary it depends on the age it depends but okay not everyone's the same but it could it could end up being like that so you you close your eyes and you imagine the sea for what it really isida that the sea itself does not except for tsunamis does not really cross um you know does not exit from its traits that God instilled in it which is basically part of Nature and not even a hair hair breath men and what you will see remember in your spiritual consciousness you're thinking about the sea in your mind's eye and then you will perform the same way you will also be obedient and follow Hashem through fear now let me just describe fear is on a lower level than love but to get to love you have to start somewhere and as children like we all know sometimes this is how you have to get a little bit of fear into them whether it's not to cross the street or not to throw the food at the their SI right there C you know if you tell them they're not going to get desert if they act that way they're they're going to act proper the next time so fear is a natural lower level but nevertheless it is a lower level but at that point that's the beginning and then as a result as a result of thinking about how the sea behaves and acting that way the the author of The Med the medish then says okay go ahead I want you to look at the sea what did we say the word hisu means to see what did we say what did we say earlier that the word situs to appearer from between the lates I think we said that was in Song of Songs chapter 2 verse anybody remember to verse 10 I think to verse 8 sorry um here it says s Song of Songs 2:9 it is a very important verse and I know I have it here I'll tell you where I have it on the very bottom of page two number nine my beloved re resembles a gazelle or a fawn of the hindes behold he is standing behind our wall looking from the windows peering from the lates as I said it's a famous verse if we understand that the lover is waiting up for her partner to come back right that there's like when you're you're waiting anxiously anticipation there's a you're peering in in an anticipating way so that's the word peering peering in that sense so that's what his T to look to look at them as the clear says and he explains this from this verse it's the from this verse Song of Songs chapter 2 verse 9 that's what God wants you to do look at that string that has a color of the sea but think about the maida of the sea and that it doesn't change it's obedient and it has fear sh it doesn't change its character trait so to you will not change as or through AAL a aor argument meaning out of a logical conclusion if the inanimate object doesn't change you with free choice and have skin in the game for uh reward and Punishment certainly you're not going to change meaning you're not going to change from the mitz I'm sorry you won't change even on one of the Mitzvah of godem which means you're leaving you're going out from the character which Hashem measured out for you 63 Mitzvah they are parallel to each one of your limbs and your organs and your muscles in your sinus it's unbelievable and your bones it God created you with 613 different parts 365 uh are parallel to the lotas to the don'ts 248 to the positive this is the way Hashem created you measured you out just want to add one more idea and it's very important we're going to see later we didn't see it yet I'm going to I just want to mention it now because it came up that I mentioned we're supposed to do all 613 the measure says about learning that if you learn about a Mitzvah as if you did it and we learned that from the different coros that if you learn about AAS about a sin offering it's as if you offered up a sin offering so there are certain mitzah that are only for theim only for the Le only for the women only for the farmers only for the businessmen only for this okay we discussed this idea before and we're going to discuss it again a little bit later but when it says to do all the Mitzvah they're all interconnected and we're going to see in the second part by just doing one Mitzvah that's all connected to the other Mitzvah you're going to drag all the other Mitzvah with it okay I don't want to jump too far ahead but the last thing he says regarding the measurement that God gave you do not add and do not subtract okay po up until this point you're allowed to go right when it comes out of fear don't cross over the line don't add don't add anym we already have 613 Commandments there's no reason to add nor subtract but we're stuck here because the only thing that we learned so far is from the sea you should serve Hashem out of fear and we said that is on a lower level that was what was said regarding the sea right in Isaiah 5:22 not only that it even is pained from crossing over it doesn't want to do it as we saw in Isaiah 5:22 again so what do we hear from this verse in Isaiah 5:22 which we said several times and I have no problem repeating it because such a beautiful PK um Isaiah 5:22 sorry Jeremiah 5:22 I did I say Isaiah Jeremiah Jeremiah 5:22 will you not fear me says the Lord do not Quake before me for I made sand a boundary for the sea and everlasting ordinance which it cannot pass it wave toss themselves yet they cannot Prevail sh what do we hear from this like we just said that men that from the the sea itself you only learn fear now I think this is a rhetorical question MOS is it such a small thing by Moshe or maybe it is such a small thing by mosha and anybody like him no it's not such a small thing but this is not how someone is able to reach Perfection you cannot reach Perfection by stopping on that level of year that is for children that is for youngsters that's for immature people okay that's just the beginning stage you want to reach Schamus which is perfection elim that anyone who serves Hashem from Love and serves god with joy this is certainly greater than fear now there's some Concepts behind it some of it is just logical but we want to understand the mechanism the mechanism will be that the negatives the the the the Mitzvah are lotas say the ones you refrain from doing there's no action involved okay I'm sure all of you have been in relationships you don't develop a relationship by doing nothing there right there's usually a moving close there's you know giving gifts there's whether it's cooking cleaning laundry or you know driving the car taking a a trip you know doing something to spend quality time in doing something with right so he mentions about the effort involved the very fact there's an effort involved in a positive Mitzvah is going to bring you towards love so just keep in mind the negative Mitzvah are done out of fear meaning not per you don't violate a negative command hopefully as a beginning out of fear and then you move to the the positive Mitzvah and you do them out of love so he says when the pleasure in fact in our BR of saying over the Torah is that we should derive pleasure from the effort we make in learning Torah so from the the pleasure that is derived through the efforts whether it's in the Torah meaning learning Torah or anything else that has to do with Torah tell us and this is in bro's 8A which I do have on the sour sheet somewhere at number 10 I'm not going to refer to it inside I'm going to read it from here say anything you do and you performed from Joy or from the love of joy you actually derive pleasure from the effort itself okay if somebody you know they they say in the gamorra if you plant and then you go to the vegetable store and you buy so if you planted vegetables the things you grow you derive more benefit from even if it's like only 10% right like let's say you don't have such a green thumb you're not such a great farmer and you know what you can grow is mightbe 10% of what you can go to the store and buy for some reason you get more pleasure from that you put in your own effort there's some concept and I wrote here um basically the pleasure comes from the work itself and I think that in terms of of working on your character I think you'll see it right obviously there's no magic wand right just click of a finger and your MOS change we're here to matak in our meos we're here to fix our character traits and the pleasure of actually seeing the progress of working on that is much greater than imagine if someone just took a pill which there are pills for these some of these things okay it's a huge difference I don't think there's any pleasure from knowing that you've changed a Mida from let's say taking a pill but when you work on your character you know there's real pleasure and and in it okay so that's all dealing with love but when it comes to which really means to refrain you're not really deriving any pleasure from the refrain of the action because there is no action that doesn't mean should one should not take pride if they have a certain character trait that they're trying to break could be anger could be other things that one should feel proud but you're not going to get the same amount of pleasure that's why it says that's why we say that the sea is similar to the to the heavens that through remembering constantly the actions not the color right the color brought you to the concept of actions you think about the behavior of the sea neg then it would be in your imagination it would be as if that the sea is constantly in front of your eyes then that brings you to the next level afterwards it's going to be similar as if also you're looking at the heavens constantly because we already said that the sea is similar to the to the heavens and then from from that you will see and then you too will behave with joy and love just as the heavenly bodies are constantly in their orbits and they're not changing their character not only that they're actually happy full of jointed to serve so too you will end up serving Hashem with joy out of love now if the one who serving AEM will say all right we're going to ask the question let's say you didn't know all these secrets I was telling you you might ask what is the advance AG of serving Hashem out of love or doing and Performing these Mitzvah out of love then serving and Performing Hashem out of fear I mentioned to you on a lower level but perhaps you're asking what is the advantage so regarding this you would say so the next level is that the the uh the heavens are similar to The Throne of Glory that through this then you will remember that within the love of doing these positive Mitzvah of serving Hashem with love you're going to come to a hasem here he says I'm going to change a little bit but you're talking about clinging to the one who created you you're talking about clinging to hasem himself he says or the where are where are our NAS from it's from it's a part of Hashem so we're talking about clinging to our creator clinging to Hashem clinging clinging to the almighty having an intimate pleasurable relationship with the almighty because that is where our soul had come from and it's basically clinging to that that point anybody who is in fear or feels threatened what do they normally do you usually distance yourself from that which you are afraid of so that's why there is no Deus you're not really having that intimate clinging relationship cleaving to that which you're afraid of but oh but if you're in love and you you have this loving relationship you're you are constantly trying you're constantly trying to cling or to have this intimacy with that which you love not distance yourself but the opposite of distancing yourself therefore when it comes to you know having a reward so when it comes to the positive reward that one will experience it's coming out of love that you will then have basically positive results I will translate the essence of success which is the positive results that through it this love or the that me of the sea then reminds me of the the um the heavenly bodies then I will then be reminded and I'll Merit that through that I'll Merit through this love to cling to the throne of Glory who would not want to cling to the throne of Glory the remember the word yat means to look the by looking by peering at the heavens then you'll be reminded of the Throne of Glory through the similarity of colors it begins with colors but it obviously goes much deeper into the Mida the character traits of fear and love and not changing from that let's read the next four or five lines and then we're going to get into I mentioned the beginning where it says in 38 they shall make for themselves TI is they and in 39 it says it shall be for you ties how that's so odd that you have a verse following another verse that's going from third person to second person well there's a reason and he says like this from here you have a hint to the idea of AIG the the um revealed reward of we do get sometimes of reward in this world but when it comes to it's coming so when you serve Hashem from Fear Hashem will bless you in this world but when it comes to the the hidden reward which is saved and held over for you in the world to come that is that's coming from serving God out of love when you serve God out of love that's building up your points in the world to come like we said before that is that there's more pleasure there's it's just built up it's more pleasure when you serve Hashem with your efforts and we said the difference between negative commands are just refraining and the positive Commandments involve efforts so we have a verse which we'll talk about shortly but anyway I think let me find it on the short on the source sheet so if you go back to number 10 on the source sheet where it's broos uh page 8A so Rabia barami said the name of a so one who benefits from his hard labor is somehow experiencing greater something greater than just if you were a God-fearing person meaning what's a God-fearing person one who's so enthralled by his fear of God that he sits idly by and does not work there's no effort there as ref as as with regard to a God-fearing person there's only one praise happy is the man it's in Psalms 112 verse1 happy is the man who fears the Lord who greatly desires his Mitzvah soem sorry so right but when it comes to a um someone who's doing um who who worked hard let's say does positive Mitzvah so that says by the labor of your hands in in Hebrew that you actually worked hard there's two Praises so not only which only mentioned in the previous verse but to it's also going to be good for you in the world to come so as it says theor explains the verse to me you're happy in this world and it's going to be good for you in the world to come but when it come to a God-fearing person it doesn't say it does not sorry it is written about him and is good for you but it doesn't say it's not written about him so it's only using one phrase not two and I seea number 11 is the verse right if you eat it's chapter 128 of Psalms verse two if you eat the toil of your hands you are praiseworthy and it is good for you so the the effort you make which is the positive mites you do and so there are two Praises two types of reward look at Rashi the toil of your hands he who benefits from the toil of his hands inherits two worlds the world this world and the world to come so there it's greater that was the bottom line and he uses the verses I mentioned already as proof Al par back in the clear in verse 38 it's third person vasis that's listar meaning third person and afterwards in verse 39 it shall be for you second person that no Noak vla that's in present tense and we'll call second person Zar and this is a very uh dear explanation and he explains what I think I explained earlier this is the reason there are eight strings and five knots Sak 13 like the word AA the word AA is 13 it's also but relating back to the tius where you have the word tius is 600 but you have additional 13 the eight strings and the five knots okay this is the final paragraph and I think this is like it's going to blow you out of the water the second way to explain this as follows this is going to be very um esoteric very mystical and maybe many of us did not think about it this way beged all the Mitzvah are compared or analogous to a garment now we used to call it in I was in the 70s the 80s threads guy walked in with a nice suit you said nice threads why am I mentioning it it says in Ecclesiastes chapter 9 verse 8 it's number 15 on thei at all times let your garments be white so in other words to be clean in your spirit don't sin stay above uh you know stay above the line so to speak let your garments always be white now this is talking about what spiritually physically he says all the Mitzvah are compared to a garment however there is a difference between them now what are we talking about exactly so he's going to talk about a garment for a body and a garment for a soul so a garment for a body I hope is made of lots of threads the Garment for the soul you only need one thread okay I mean those how how do you measure a soul okay you go to the tailor and he's going to cut the the G cut the the uh the linen or cut the the um cloth but when it comes to the soul how do you measure the soul Apparently one thread is enough that the soul is not buried naked and that's what we're going to talk about all the Mitzvah are compared so the Mitzvah is whether it's for the body or for the soul so however there's a a separation or a difference between them beged a a regular bed a physical bot is woven from many threads one thread is not enough to cover certainly my body nor anybody's body when it comes to uh clothing the soul anoc cane it doesn't work the same way l the truth is one thread is enough when we look at that we should think about Mitzvah that's all I need is one Mitzvah to cover my soul so that I'm not naked now it's interesting there is a makus in the gor between ran andish and this gamor is in St hedin one 11a it's number 14 on the sore sheet I want you to focus first in Isaiah 5:14 you'll find that number 15 on the sour sheet therefore the Nether world what is the Nether world it's called in Hebrew sha it's um The Depths we can even call ganam some people call hell but basically therefore that the Nether world opened itself itself up or expanded itself it like widened itself and it even opened its mouth Lively H now Lively H the simple shot is is without measure there's no measure I mean it sounds like it could be open really wide but what happens okay that's one way to translate it I want to maybe I'll spoon feed you guys a little bit Lively the word sounds like a Mitzvah a is a Mitzvah a is a command so hell is going to open up for those that are without a Mitzvah but it's singular nowan that's how he translates it Rish we'll see let's look at um what I say it was in number 14 the we have we have to understand both sides the gor doesn't really Pas so they're both true we have to see Rish says it's referring to one who leaves even one statute unfulfilled meaning that you have to fulfill the whole Torah now we already know we already discussed that the Torah was not for one person it was for all of clly Israel so what it means is those Mitzvah that you could do and you left unfulfilled there has you have to go to geham to be go through the tiun process or be reincarnated but there is a a necessary Tik but rokan is not happy with r lish's explanation and he says really is it not satisfactory to God their master that you spoke negatively about the Jewish people according to you Lish most people most Jewish people would be doomed to geham would end up we don't spend more than 12 months there but whatever so the truth is there is nobody there is nobody who's so righteous that they do not sin so of course if you did like 10 million Mitzvah and you did three sins you have to pay for those three sins it's not going to you can't say well I got you know I'm going to barter or I'm going to trade because I have so many positive things you still have to be cleansed so in a certain sense that's true but going back to RB yokan he reading it entirely different now when I say that he's reading it they're each claiming what they heard from the rebi they're not like looking at the text and saying I'm going to come up with some novel idea this is what they were told by their rebi rather even if one learned only one Statue notice he said learned he doesn't say fulfill as I said before if you learn about a Mitzvah is if you fulfill it if you just learned one MIT I would really say that you learned it and you did it if it was something you could do and and out of all the 613 Mitzvah you really you know each person could say you know what I'm going to perfect this because when I go to heaven I I want to make sure that I really perfected this one Mitzvah and believe me you when I say this that when you perfect yourself in that one Mitzvah and I mean really perfect yourself in that one Mitzvah it's going to drag the rest of the Mitzvah it's going to drag you out of geham it's not even going to allow you to really go to geham to a certain extent listen to how the how rokan says it even if one learned only one Mitzvah he has a share in the world to come as Le meaning without limit means mean without a a Mitzvah means one who has learned no statute at all so he is understanding it that if you learn nothing but if you learned one thing you're already excluded from geham if you just learned one you're excluded from geham that's what it means me that the geham is opening itself up to those without any but if you have one you already made it but the truth is and I brought it down here in perote chapter 42 uh that a Mitzvah brings another Mitzvah and a transgression brings another transgression Mitzvah go Mitzvah the very fact that all 600,000 Jews we're all interconnected in our souls all 600 13 Mitzvah are also interconnected it's an amazing thing so I'm sure you've heard this idea that if you want to do a Mitzvah it's concept and you don't get to do it you did everything you could to set it up and then at the last minute you couldn't do it you get credit it's not so simple it is true that's that's a fact you will get credit if you did everything you could to do it and then it was slipped out from under you you will get credit now why how does that work so there's someone else in the world who's doing the Mitzvah he could be in Hawaii or he could be uh you know in Tel Aviv wherever so you're thinking about doing the Mitzvah and he's doing it Hashem combines the action with the thought that's how interconnected we are we are intimately connected and so are the Mitzvah it drags in other words each Mitzvah has within it I'm not sure what the percentage is uh six 112th you know perc or whatever Point uh in each Mitzvah so it's like a spark plug you do one Mitzvah you're already like sparking the plug igniting the energy within the other 612 Mitzvah okay and maybe that's why kabad wants to get people to do Mitzvah you know you're not you're not religious oh come on just put do one Mitzvah right whether it's to fill in or lighting candles whatever it is the truth is Torah also does it but they they you know the Mitzvah they're choosing is learning Torah oh you never learned Torah come TOA learn Torah that's also a Mitzvah so just do one Mitzvah and you never know where it's going to lead that's like a big secret here so watch out for those religious people try no I'm kidding try trying to get you to do just one Mitzvah but that's this is we wait till you hear this because that's what the the one single the one single thread is going to bring you and so the last thing we said was uh 1 2 3 4 the fifth line down it says in Isaiah Liv we said that in um chapter 5 verse4 someone who doesn't even keep one mitvah he's going to go to the inference is that if you just observed one mitvah remember he says L but we're taking it step further in saying fulfill keep observe that's going to save you from now the the reason for it is as follows at the very moment you're just doing one mitvah in potentiality the word K doesn't just mean power it means potential in potential when you're doing just one Mitzvah you're bringing into potential all the other mitzvas are being performed but in potential even though you were not doing the other 612 in actuality you were touching on its potentiality nevertheless it's so interesting that the word power and potential it's obvious that it's the same word but it's in potential it there's this what do you call like untouched power the power is there and you're like just touching it it's not activated but it's there and you're activating the potential it's as if you did it it's as if you did it he says this is the secret of the string ofus that's called mitem it's reminding you it's bringing to the Forefront of your mind all the Mitzvah of God because through it it's making a complete garment for the soul which we said is enough for just one begged one um one string becomes a whole garment Theo nibar room you will not be buried naked remember Adar Rishon was given eventually seven Mitzvah or six but he was originally given just one before the whole world went into chaos and that was don't eat from the Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil and he slipped and he couldn't even do that by us keeping just one Mitzvah we're Mak we're fixing even the sin of adaran who couldn't even keep one Mitzvah he says it's like before our tail that he was just given one Mitzvah and he slipped it was stripped from him actually is one particular Mitzvah I would say drum roll please but we have no tables here there's one Mitzvah one very important Mitzvah that is kit that includes all the other Mitzvah and it recalls all the other Mitzvah in fact when the convert comes to convert and Hill says we have to don't do right love your neighbors as yourself don't do unto others as you wouldn't done unto yourself go learn the rest is commentary all you need to know is that and the rest of the Torah is commentary reab AKA himself said this a Torah this is not CL though you mean CL it's the most important principle or it's the allinclusive principle it contains everything and so you have one Mitzvah that contains all the other Mitzvah and that is the love your neighbors yourself and if that's the case just one one mitvah is able to bring a person to Perfection to the end game to the go to the what's another word for TAS Tas it's a the purpose purpose and wait till you hear this now drum roll please if we're talking about Tas it's exactly the same letters as so theis is supposed to remember to remind you of the ultimate Tas okay the Tas of what the Tas of Perfection this is the fundamental secret or I I don't know way to translate it it's the sodos it's the The Secret Of Secrets or the fundamentals of fundamentals this is it this is it so of the entire Torah so batem will all learn how makes more sense in our lives but no matter what Mitzvah you decide to choose that's also good because it's what what's going to do it's going to bring with it all the other Mitzvah I do still encourage you to learn all 63 Mitzvah maybe by the rambam right takes take some time learn it through the rambam there's no real point I I shouldn't say there's no real point just memorizing them that this is a m from the Torah you should learn what it is so the rambam is always the best way but there are other there's the um there is um there's the right the same Mitzvah you have the ramban also the the nakes there's many other ways but I would encourage you to if you really have the time to use the rambam and to learn all the Mitzvah at least I think the even wrote a safer that is only MIT today so it's much shorter version and it's like a small very small paragraph on each one so um you're looking a place to write this down the wrote I think it's called the that are um relevant today which unfortunately there are not 613 many of them relate to when we have a Bas mikdash but if you learn about them it's as if you fulfill them soat we all learn and grow and work on our meos and uh take the heart that when we see ties when we put them on CU you don't have to you don't really have to see them for the men they put them on they see them when they make the braa and just a lesson just to learn like this learning now should bring us to a higher level of a and eventually bring us to AAS with the with and with that I will sign off have a good chabas have a great life and we'll see you next week [Music] oh