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Welcome everyone. Today is Yam Sheni of
Shabis Kazone. We are heading into the
month of Av. We're in the midst of that
three-week period known as Bain
Hammedsarim. the I will call them dire
straits. Um and what that means is that
the three-ear period that extends from
the 17th of Tamos till the 9th of A day
of the destruction of the beta mikdash
are called uh narrow straits because it
says in the book of a which is uh
lamentations that all of our enemies
caught us between the straits. It was
interesting just to think of the
connection to the straits of Hormuz
which is the focus of a world really
what's emerging as a world war. So just
at this time straits and straits but um
uh what we say is
when when things are get narrow for us
things should hashem should widen things
out make things a little bit easier and
that's what we're dobbiting for. I'd
like to dedicate this year in memory of
my dear neighbor who suddenly passed
away. His name was Ga Benasher. A very
sadic of a man, a psychiatrist, uh,
uh, a very spiritual man suddenly died.
Um, and you know, also someone who
suddenly died, who we mourn as a great
friend of of the Jewish people and of
Israel was Senator Lindsey Graham of
South Carolina. He literally was the
greatest friend that Israel had in the
entire Senate of the United States. And
that used to be a big deal, but I think
in the entire Senate, Congress, White
House, and vice president included, and
everybody else, um, he probably did more
to speak and protect for Israel than any
single Gentile he should be considered a
righteous among Gentiles. I'm not
surprised that he passed at this time,
which is a time of general mourning for
the Jewish people. I think that speaks a
lot about him.
And we pray for the emergence of more
people, individuals at least, that will
speak and and uh be mishtadel and work
on behalf to protect our people from
harm, which is really uh what this time
of the three weeks really is. We try to
minimize our exposure to danger. You're
not supposed to take, you know, pleasure
trips. No pleasure bathing. There's no
reason to go to the beach during the
nine days.
uh it's not that activity. It's a time
akin to morning. However, on the other
hand, from the greatic masters, they've
said that
means if you seek Hashem, if you really
want to connect to Hashem in a deep and
spiritual way, ducha just start all over
again. This time is actually a greater
time than the three weeks of joy. These
are three weeks of morning our three
weeks of joy which begin with rash and
culminate with of course Torah and as
I've said since Torah became associated
in the last several years with aos that
means that with with a morning that
means that these weeks have to flip over
and start to accommodate some of yumto
and simka and indeed
will they will be the time the tishabove
will be transformed into a major
yontiff. And I I really want to speak
today about a cultural phenomenon, a a
new I don't know how new but profound
thing that is happening right here in
Bamesh in good old B sheh that some
rabbis consider as a major sign that
Msiach is mamish on the doorstep. And
that has to do with a great biblical
personality Samson the Great Shimon
Hagibore who is associated with Bamesh
as he is buried right on top of us here
uh on there's a magnificent magnificent
burial site that the cabalists have
assigned to him and uh if you go up
there you have to drive way way up a
hill and you can see up from the top of
the vista the entire B she sprawling in
front of you and as we know Darth Bamesh
was in the territory of Dan, what we
call the the highway today, which is
that major highway 38 where they found
Tel Bamesh, the ancient ruins of the
great city, the biblical city Bamesh.
And that area was was known uh as Ben
Sorht
there is a kibbut and there's a also an
right along the route 38 which takes you
up to the main highway one to Jerusalem.
So if Beamesh is so south southwest of
Jerusalem. So you got to go northeast.
You got to go north a little bit but
also on an eastern angle. You got to go
up to highway one then hang a right and
you're on your way to Shalimir or
Kodesh. Ironically, that was the path of
the Aron Kesh when it was retrieved from
the Pishim, the mortal enemy, the Pishim
that lived along the the coastline who
were the thorns in our side during the
time of the uh Shimshon as his rule as a
judge as a chauffet Israel. his main
protagonist were the pushim
and as we we're going to see some
incredible incredible connections that
are mind-boggling to Davidid and the
emergence of the Davidic dynasty which
is of course the dynasty of Msiach there
are some incredible deep profound
uh verses in our khazal openly gammoras
but also in Zohar that I'm going to
share with you today and with with
Hashem's help we're going going to weave
a picture of just how significant Shimon
Hagibore whose yard site falls in this
time period. His yard site there are two
two reported yard sites. One tradition
is the 24th of Tamas again well within
the 3-week period well within these
three weeks of morning for the temple.
And then the other one is this coming
Friday, Thursday night, Friday, gimmel
of smack in the middle of the nine days,
literally one week before
tishab and I would tell you that I don't
think that is uh a coincidence but
rather
the the memories of the and the
contributions of of the great Samson
Samson right Shimon Hagibore
squarely fit into the central period of
the three weeks because they are
actually, you know, 3 weeks starts 17th
of Thomas. Add a week, you're at the
24th. So, you're one week in out of the
three. It means you've reached the
midpoint because the middle week it
begins on 24. Well, how long does that
extend? So, you have, you know, you'll
have 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30. That's
one week and then three more. Okay,
that's about 10 days. And that 10day
period is kind of like the crunch in the
middle of the amear, the depths as it
were, the depths, and that's his yard
site. Now, what is the connection
between the yard site of Shimshon, the
day which Shimshon is sold, is most
present in the world. So there's one
rabbi very well-known rabbi his name and
a very has done magnificent magnificent
work bringing thousands of people back
to Torah and mitzvos and from all
categories uh whether they're
mashkinazim whether they come from
religious backgrounds not religious
backgrounds he has enormous appeal and
he's rather young they call him the
inuka his name is Rabenu Schlommo Yehuda
Bailey and he has a bait medish uh I
think in Rishon that Seion
and um people flocked to him. I've been
to him. He's a he's a very very uh
magnetic personality and teaches and
teaches encouraging words and he wrote a
piece that my friend brought to my
attention. So let me just explain where
I'm going with this.
The Inuka said that
it's a great sign that Msiah is on the
doorstep.
If the graveside of the great Shimshan
Shimshan Hagibur becomes a place of
celebration
akin to
Rab Shimai's meron quote unquote Yortite
on Lagba Omare which of course again in
the middle of a period of morning which
is the omare we have this surge and
breakthrough of sima so there's a summon
so that's what the anuka is rabbi
said, "Well, what happened was, and I
have pictures to to show this, that's
exactly what happened on the 24th of
Tamos. Crowds gathered and turned
thousands of people and turned it into a
meron celebrations, music booths." Now,
I'm not going into the ork issues about
doing such a thing in the three weeks.
There's different form for Ashkanazim.
They don't hold, they don't observe the
three weeks exactly the way. and maybe
so you can't make a blanket rule here.
And I'm not saying that they didn't that
they did anything um uh wrong. I'm just
making an observation. My observation is
that there was a massive celebration
just like me. They put they put up
boots, they they they did food, they
carried on. Now whether they did it
because Rabi Berry told them to or
whether something has been catching on,
this has become a place that has become
popular to go and davin and it's right
here in Beamesh in our backyard. And I
believe and I've heard reports that it's
a busy place day and night. So it's
become the cultural phenomenon is that
it's become a centralized place of tila
in a in a very in a recently developed
area. I mean but she uh in its the in
the scope and the size that it is uh you
know has grown from a town of 50,000
maybe 30 years ago and has is now on its
way to becoming one of the largest
cities in Israel 250,000
people and some people want to say
they've asked the rabbis why is BH so
successful I mean there's and there and
it's in a very attractive place for
religious families because there's a lot
of religious families is here and young
people and keeps growing like mushrooms.
Hill after hill after hill gets built
and then new tenders are offered and new
apartments and how come it's blossoming
in such a incredible way. I think it's
the fastest growing area in the country
other than the Jerusalem high-rise
buildings that are going up like also
like mushrooms. But but they're
connected because the Aron Kodesh when
it was extracted from Golotat, the
ultimate pishi, right? the one that King
David killed. It was taken away from
him, uh, reclaimed by King Saul, the
predecessor of David, and retrieved for
the Jewish people, but not the Auron
Codes itself. But the but the Aon kesh
event, the luos came out, but not the
box. So Shaw retrieved the luos that
were given to Mosher Rabbain who brought
them back to the holy place which where
it was unfortunately Shilo which was
destroyed and then they had to create a
new temporary bait Mishkan in the town
of Nov and Givon where it stayed there
and you know that's interesting because
when the Aron kesh caused all sorts of
plagues and problems for the pishim
right down on the coastline in Kir in in
Gat and in Aza
some things have never changed and who
knows Hashem being Msiah it'll change
but it was a was a it was a little bit
good for a while after the six day war
you could go into Aza until you know a
lot a lot of good stuff went on there
unfortunately uh was terminated by our
own selves foolishly uh
but that's another story so The the idea
is that the iron kesh caused havoc among
their temples and gods and people were
getting hurt and plagues and mice and
they just were told how to send back
that iron kesh and it came back through
Bamesh and the people apparently were
criticized at that time because they
didn't stop what they were doing and all
run to give honor to the Torah to the
Torah aron even though the lus weren't
in there but still
uh they kept kept working and because of
that 50,000 people died. So some one
rabbi wanted to suggest he said you know
the aron kesh came this way and we need
a tikun we have to now have a place
which honors the Torah and that's why
bameshesh is getting its opportunity to
rectify the problem that it had all
those years ago in the days of King Saul
uh prek king Saul to say that now it
should become a place where the Torah is
very honored by thousands and thousands
of people let's hope so and um so let me
now reframe the issue. The cultural
phenomenon that I'm referring to is the
fact that there's a breakout. It's a
breakout
um I would say phenomenon that people
are adopting at Kev Shimon around the
year but especially on this in this
period of within the 3 weeks which is
the two alternate yight traditions and I
wanted to explore that a little bit more
and see how that was significant because
it also wraps into the the the safer
that we just finished by midbar which uh
is the you know ending of the Torah
narrative
up until the uh review of Torah Mishna
Torah that Mosher Rabenu gives in the
very last weeks of his life. Okay. So
let's dive deep. What do we know
about Shimshon's connection to what
we've been reading in the Torah? Now
listen carefully.
the
the protagonists of the Jewish people at
the end of their journey in the desert
were the Midionites. The Midionites
through the advice of wicked Bum who
came to curse the Jewish people. So Moav
and Midyan teamed together to hire Bam
from the Mesopotamia area who was the
equivalent had equivalent potential as
Mosher Rabenu but used it for evil and
became the counterpart to Mosher Rabenu
as Mosher Rabenu tried to do good and
bestow good to the Jewish people in the
world. Bam on the other hand was getting
for selfish reasons as unselfish as
Moshe was. He said you're going to
destroy the Jewish people because of
their sins. Don't I don't need to be
here in the world. Mosherenu gave his
very life for the Jewish people. Bam
wanted money to curse the Jewish people.
They are bookends.
He's also contrasted to Aframu in
Peravos. The same concept Aram bringing
the blessing to the to nations you know
of anybody who blesses you should be
blessed. Ironically anybody bum curses
is cursed. Those are bookends and it
gives you a sense of there was potential
of greatness. So you can either be great
and highly successful in good or great
and highly successful in evil. Both are
potentials. So, Bum is the one who after
failing to curse the Jewish people came
up with an idea and he gave the
following piece of advice. He said to
his friend Balak, who he knew from many
years before, remember Balac was a
temporary king of Moab, but his real
place was with the Midionites. And
that's why Midan kind of teamed up with
with uh the people of Moab because a
Midionite had become their temporary
king. So he goes back home according to
Midashim according to the Zohar and Bam
says to them listen if you'll let your
daughters run around with the Jewish men
and very very complex madashim how they
drew them in again through money. They
wanted to have beautiful clothes and
things that the Midionites were selling
and they lured them in using the women
closer closer closer until they they uh
caused them to sin. And that cost the
Jewish people 24,000
people died in the plague because they
were with these Midionite women. No,
notice not Moab women probably too. But
Moaf cannot be destroyed because out of
it will come David Hamel, the Messiah's
great great grandmother uh uh Russ. So
we have this problem. The only ones that
can be attacked and held accountable
were Mid. And that's Mosha's final
mitzvah that he's given by Kushbaru
Nickmas.
He caused the Midionites by taking up
and paying Bum for his advice. Well,
they paid him afterwards. They said he
caused 24,000
members of the tribe of Shimo.
At the head was Schlumiiel Benisha,
excuse me,
Zimry. Zimri and Cosby who was the
princess of um of Midyan. They sinned
publicly as if to say it's perfectly
fine to marry a woman from Midan. And
Mosher Rabenu himself married a woman
from Midan, Yra's daughter. By the way,
you don't see that Israel had any impact
on Moab
during the time of Balok. So, I think
that's a proof that he never left the
Jewish people. Because if he had left
the Jewish people, if he had left, if he
had left the Jewish people and gone back
to Moab, why couldn't he influence
anybody? Only Bullock was around to
influence people uh later on. So in any
case
what do we have? So then at that point
Moshe command Mosha's commanded Soros
and that war is a such a strange war.
It's really a war of purification.
Right now what do they we learn a
plethora of halakot from what happened
postcript the war of midy. First of all
only a thousand men were sent per tribe.
That's 12,000 people against two a large
large country Mijan. You see from the
wealth that was brought home massive
wealth, massive wealth people. It was a
huge kingdom and very very wealthy.
Okay. So Mosher Rabenu gave them strict
instructions
and the instructions were that you know
anything that is metallic you have to
purify through fire to get out all the
not kosher food or whatever it might be
or the uh impurities and also things
that need that can be boiled in water.
bring it into water or or or in a mikvah
of water. And then they did away with
all of the young boys and all of the
women who were potentially
part of the seduction process of the
Jewish people, even if they did not
commit a sin. But the very fact that
they were designated
to cause a stumbling block for the
Jewish people, they forfeited their
lives. And that meant any woman who
could potentially have relations, you
know, that's three years old and up. And
how they even knew whether they were
three years old or not, they said they
checked using the sits. The sits, which
says keshm. So what's this battle for?
The battle is for kadusha. The battle is
that the what what the Midionites did
was taint the holiness of the Jewish
people, the purity. What did Bum says?
That's a end times prophecy. He says the
Jewish people in order to achieve their
tikquin have to remain ma in a holy
matrimony with each other and with
Hashem. That goes together. If the
Jewish people marry out, where's the
connection to Hashem? Our marriage to
each other and our marriage to Hashem is
one thing. That's a great the greatest
challenge of our generation. And and to
that end, the destruction of the family,
what Bum saw with his evil eye,
literally with his evil eye, as opposed
to the good eye, which always wants to
bestow good and look at things
positively, he was missing an eye
because that eye represented evil. He
says, "Let me cast upon them a curse.
Let me destroy their families." Uh-huh.
Today, families are very, very
challenged in Israel, in the Jewish
community, every and in America. People
don't want to get married anymore.
People don't even want to. They just
don't want to get married. They don't
think it's worth it. There's no point to
having a family. They've lost the whole
appreciation of the idea of a of a
household of service. What? You raise a
child. You bestowed. You teach them
values, right? And then you set them up
to continue the world in a good way.
That's called the sanctity of a
marriage. But today people say, "What do
you mean? What am I getting out of it? I
want to go to parties. I want to go
here. I don't want to be bothered. It's
all about you. You're not giving of
anything. It's what you want to receive
out of life. But I'm fine. So, they
don't understand this is the tragedy
that the world is experiencing because
people don't feel it's worth it. There's
no value system placed in creating
another generation and instructing them
in the ways of good. What's called der
erits. It's just not around. You know,
ironically, my brother sent me a video
of a Holocaust survivor's son. His name
is Weriger, and he has the biggest
sporting goods store, a sporting goods
apparel business like in the world. And
uh now there's because there's the World
Cup, which the the um you know, the
soccer matches around that the whole
world's getting together for now. And
then that the Knicks won the World
Championship. Everybody's very excited
about sports. So he as a Holocaust
survivor said, you know, sports is is a
good thing. People get together and
they're happy. I don't know about that.
And he says, but I sold I've sold
millions and millions of shirts and hats
and pro millions. This guy's a
multimillionaire. I must be
multi-millionaire, right? Of every
description in kind. And he says, "My
parents when they raised me, they spoke
well about America. They had an iron
tove on America. They said, look what
happened. They sent army and they
liberated Binwald and they So his
father's life was saved by American
soldiers. And he says, "They always
raised me that I should be thankful for
the opportunity to be I can be a Jew
here. I can be religious and the world
is open to me. If I want to go out and
become a millionaire, go ahead and
become a millionaire. No one's stopping
you." That's not the sentiment today.
And he he that was very very much
pointed out by him. So
the the concept that we're that we're
explaining is that bum attempted to
destroy sanctity. So the war is a war of
holiness. That's why the sits which says
keshashem is the key factor. Now, it
wasn't only the young girls that they
used that the was used to detect if they
were if they were if they were set to
the side of evil, set aside for evil
purposes. But Bum himself, now this is
this is an amazing amazing episode tell
us. Listen to this. It's shocking.
Bum had the
to go first of all to the Midionites and
say, "Cash up. I at least killed 24,000
Jews. That's got to be something. So pay
me for the 24,000 Jews that I gave you
the advice to destroy because they're
your enemy, right?"
Unbelievable. And he got and he did get
paid. But at the same time
as the troops march out to confront
Midan, he approaches the Jewish people.
Can you imagine the he approaches the
Jewish people and say say he said to
them
um I'm going to give you an advice.
Advice? Wow. Bam's Mr. advice, right? He
and he said my advice to you is not to
attack Midan. Why? He says be and he at
this point didn't know that we were not
allowed to attack Moav also and remember
his buddy Bolock was back in Miden. So
that was his main focus to save his
neck. And he says don't don't don't
attack. He says when Moab and Miden
stood against you, right? You didn't you
didn't defeat them. You didn't have a
military campaign against all of a
sudden you want to have a military
campaign as revenge for the 24,000
whatever had that died. He didn't
mention that part, but he said, "So,
it's not you you're not going to win.
You're not going to win. It's not a
winnable war for you. You have to be
conservative. You have to stay back." Of
course, that was horrible advice because
they must they had to have been
destroyed.
And and guess what? The Jewish people
paid him in full. They paid him a nice
consulting fee. Bum Consultants Company.
He comes and sits down with the with the
the the heads of the mats, those 12
leaders, thousand men, and he says,
"Listen guys, you know, it's not the
greatest idea. Just go home. Just go
home. Cash it out. Just they pay him for
his advice." Why in the world would they
pay him for his advice when Mosher Abenu
told them that he should be killed along
with the five sarna uh mijon which by
the way corresponds to the five sarna
pishim that would later be confronted by
shimsh but pay attention the the midun
shim the midun pishim link is profound
okay mid moaf pishim link but I can't go
into everything all right So,
so of course they go into the war. Now,
how did they dis dispose of Bum? Okay,
they defeated the Midyans. They took
their captives. They captured the money.
They cautured everything. Amazing. Holy.
They gave percentages, donations to the
m to the Mishkan. They gave percentages
to the Levim. They gave percentages to
the people who worked. It was a it was a
process that was first and foremost
transparent,
pure and holy.
And not one man even looked or thought
about any of the mid any of the
Midionite women as a potential uh object
of affection. What a what a massive
victory over even their own Yates, their
own evil inclination. They had no
interest in them. It was a it was a
battle of ultimate purity and
self-control. Amazing. Amazing. But what
about Bum? So I just have to share it
with you.
Uh what Kazal say and what the zor says.
This is actually in a medish medish raba
anali
and it says as follows. It's quoting the
taramon. Okay. This is roughly a
translation.
When Bum saw Pinas who was sent by Moshe
with the tits keshm to smoke out the
sorcerer
uh bum and bring him to justice.
He he he escaped. How did he escaped? He
could fly. He knew how to use his his
sorcery and witchcraft to turn himself
into a being that could fly or he had
the capacity to fly
his
right. So one shot is that using the
tits and the name of God was able to
retrieve him. That's one that is in the
medish. However, the Zor Kadosh tells a
different story and this brings us back
to Shimshon and the and the shvet of
Dan, his tribe.
Credible story. It says when he sees
Pinas and he takes off in flight, he had
with him his two evil sons, Yunus and
Yav Yubirus. His two advisor sons were
the ones who created the Agel Hazahav
because they went along with the Jewish
people as spy as evil spies. We're going
to see that Shimshon was the original
Mossad agent. He was the original good
spy. Let me explain.
So just like Bum had a plant and he
planted his spies, his sons into make
trouble with the Jewish people and
create the golden calf using their
witchcraft and so on. So too, Shimshon
entered the realm of the Pishim
as if he were undercover,
presenting himself as a base individual
interested in relations with their women
when the truth could not be anything but
the opposite. And I'll explain, but
here's where Don comes back into the
picture. So Pinas is at a loss according
to the Zohar. He got away. He flew away.
What are we going to do now? So Pinas
gets up and says, "Does anybody know how
to use Shamayim to fly? Does anybody
have that tradition in any of the So
sure enough, there was a member of the
tribe ma
who can fly after him." There was a
there was a gentleman named Talai. Talai
is actually um it means to davin or sail
which means to shadow. He literally
shadowed him. But Sali is like what they
say the Baba Sali the the great rabbi
from the Tivote Sali means the Davening
one his name was so that's another
reason but Sali means davening he said
and he was from the shadon and he gets
up and he takes charge of those
incantations meaning he enters the realm
of bum's evil
and he flies after him
now what so
when Bum sees him chasing after him,
right? He pulls some maneuvers
and they both disappear. So now what?
Okay,
so Pinas did did not did not know what
to do. Pinas calls out the following.
Listen to the words of Pinas.
He says, "You
bum are like the primortal snake, the
male snake who represents the epitome of
evil. I'm asking that you be detained,
that you get caught up in flight."
At that point, Salai, notice he said,
Taninim is a and then Sal Yudhe which is
the name of Hashem. Get it? The good
snake because the snakes are also were
supposed to be a great servant to Adam
Harishon and ended up being corrupted.
Same idea. It can go either way.
He says, "Ah, I got him." And they both
landed in front of Pinas. Now, what's
the connection? The snake shet don
connection. Listen to this. Because it
says bum vi
bum went alone. Sheffy means by himself
could mean other things too. But the
word sheffi is another name
for that snake. A shifon is a snake. As
you may recall from the blessing that
Yakovinu gave Shvetun
al
it's the puk that's used to describe in
the 49th chapter of brait
the blessing of dun dun is the snake
right the coiled snake it's called a
shif phone the nun is feminine it's
plural
So the male evil snake bum is confronted
by the the pair of holy snakes male and
female.
Okay. And one cancels out the other. How
does that happen? Because it says
you see he is that snake against the
snake which bum was called.
There are two statements here in the
blessing of Yakov.
we know saw Shimshon way into the future
and blessed him. He said
that's going to be later in the
generation of Shimshon in the time in
the times of the of the prophets the
judges.
The second one is Salai is the ancestor
the from the from the days of Mosher
Abenu that helped Pinas take down the
male evil snake which is Bum.
So what the Zohor does here in par's
bullock
it somehow intertwines
the notion that shimon
was a part of taking down villum
okay fine salv
it done but what is the what is the zora
teaching us here there's a role that
shimon plays
okay now let's go a step further
Let's go back to the story of Shimshon
itself to understand what the Zora is
trying to tell us. Why is Shimshon so
central to the fall of Bum? Like what
does that have to do with anything?
So you look into the story of Shimshon
in the middle of say for
we know that he was extremely holy from
birth. So there's a parallel there to
Muhammmed Midan. He wasn't supposed to
drink any wine, right? He didn't and and
according to the Zor and this is some of
the the uh sources that Rabbi Bea
brought up about this. He was extremely
holy.
Okay. When he sees
a pushy woman, right?
He says that she is good in my eyes.
So, Rabbi Barry wanted to explain and
say he had such a good eye that what he
was able to do was put a little bit of
good into someone and draw out the good
from all the evil if you follow me. So
that's like um how do you say the same
thing that went on in the conversion of
midyun to take right to take the pl the
plate is good the utensils are good
except they've got tra stuff all over
them so we'll boil them in water we'll
bring them in fire we'll bring out the
good the only way you can do that is by
entering the e you have to you have to
deal with the evil you're not going to
get you're not going to get the evil
evil, the good away from the evil
without engaging it. So that's what
Shimshon did. Shimshon went down to the
pishim and he started up with them. He
said, "I want to marry one of your women
and he and he gets into all these fights
with them and riddles and contests and
he keeps murdering more and more of them
as a subtuge." That's why I say he was
like a Mossad agent because they didn't
know what he was up to. They couldn't
understand what he was up to. All they
knew is that every time he keeps blowing
people up or murdering people. It's kind
of like, you know, taking out all these
people and then it gets more and more
complicated and more and more
complicated and then and then the woman
Delilah gets involved. Delila gets
involved and eventually where does it
all go? They put out his eyes.
They tie him to the to the place of
their worship. Thousands of people were
there. Men and women celebrating and
mocking him. They put out both of his
eyes. Notice two eyes. Bum's eye was put
out also. Follow me. But this is the eye
of good. So Shimchan says something
strange to Hashem. He says, "Let let me
one last time use my superhuman strength
that you gave me to destroy the to
destroy the
and uh he uses it one more time
pulls down the the supporting structures
and everybody is killed." And the Puk
says about him in the Nvi says in that
one act he completely wiped out the
pushim and the land
for 40 years
we dominated them. The 20 years when he
was alive and started up with them for
20 years and the 20 years afterwards
they were just destroyed for an entire
generation. And by the way, however,
they weren't completely done with them.
But this was the beginning of the end.
This was the beginning of the Malut
Israel taking charge of the land that
had been in the hands of the
for they were completely enslaved. They
completely had control of the land of
Israel. This was the turning point was
the battle of Shimsh. Now what happened
when Shimsham was in prison? this is
unbelievable is that he was such a
specimen that they forced breeded him
which is a horrible thing. They would
bring women to him and force him to be
with them to impregnate them so that
they would get these great genetic
specimens. They didn't care if it was
their wife or anybody else. They didn't
care. They're not push notoriously
uh lewd and leerous. So they wanted
these big kids to be their servants and
that's what went on. One of the women
who appeared was none other than Orpa,
the sister of Russ, who had gone back to
Mid. Notice the connection here. But if
you look deep into the sources, you'll
see that the Pishim and the and the
Moabites at the time were buddy buddy.
And when she came back and re-entered
her debauchery, they were there. So
there's two different traditions about
what happened that night. But either
way, Orpa is the mother of Golya,
David's protagonist, the archi, whose
death signaled the beginning of the
kingdom of Israel to really really take
root, starting with the the emergence of
David. But the father of golad is
shimsh.
This is shocking. The father of golad
was shimsh. That explains something very
deep. Med says that the father is the
ultimate father you know
great-grandfather of damel went to
manoak the father of shimshon and said
to him why don't you have children? Why
don't you have any children? And because
he chided him like Pineina chided her
sister Kana, Pineina lost all her
children and Kana ended up having that
son Shimu Hanavi. So too because Boaz
chided Manoak, Boaz loses all of his
children, every one of them. And out
comes Shimshon. But then because of
Shimshon, Golat is born. Goliath is
born. And the one surviving son of Boaz
confronts him. Boaz knew there's got to
be something that's going to come out
from Monoak that's going to set up our
kingdom for good and for holiness. And
so, but if you follow the seed of
Shimshon is what destroys the goodness
of Shimshon is what destroys the team
from within. It's like a foreign agent
that takes root like a beeper that they
have that blows up on them. You follow
me? That's what it was. It was an
explosive what they try to put on
President Trump's plane. The Qatari
plane that is who knows what kind of
what kind of contraptions are in that
plane and what could emerge from that
plane. What an idiot to take that plane.
But he he had to fly back from Turkey on
on a different plane cuz who knows what
kind of gizmos and poisons and whatever
well else was on the other plane. And
who told him who saved his neck? Israel.
He wouldn't have walked out of Turkey
alive. And you know that poor Lindsey
Graham was in Turkey too. And who knows
V will never know maybe that this guy
was in a picture of health and all of a
sudden drops dead like nothing. He just
came back from Ukraine and from Turkey.
H interesting. Russians are notorious
for poisoning people. Notorious.
Who knows what happened to him? Who
knows? Shem. So, it's the it's the good
that undoes the evil because it's so
strong. It's able to enter into that
world of evil and destroy them. Just
like Salai was able to fly into the
realm, the evil realm of Bum and drag
him out of there to get rid of him.
Okay. So, so Shimshon then represents
what happens to Shimshon is that his son
Goliath is slayed by David. The sword of
Shimshon is then brought to where? To
Nov Kohanim, the future Betam Mikdash.
What?
What do you want Goliath's sword over
there? Well, if you understand that this
is Shimshon's doing, the sword according
to the Zoroadosh
was a pipote. It was a two-sided sword.
You can kill with either way. It's not
just like it had one blade. On the other
side, it was double-bladed sword. It's
the source for how we make brisa with a
double-edged knife. In other words, how
the sanctity of the Jewish people is
maintained came back door through the
son of Shimshon, the holy Shimshon who
enters vile world of the pishim but is
able to pull out the good that's lost
there. Much like schol pulled away the
luos from Golat. So too the sword of
golat turning from the death of the
Jewish people turns to the life of the
Jewish people.
So what does this all mean for us? This
intricate path that I have this argument
that I'm presenting to you.
I apologize it was a little hard to
follow but it's like being it's like
following a mystery. It's like a clue
after clue after clue until you come to
the fact that Shimshon is a figure that
helps usher in the mood of David
Aamelik. That sword is later picked up
by David Amelik when he's fleeing Shaul
and ultimately it accompanies him the
rest of his way as he battles all the
enemies the remaining pishim the
amalikites and that sword is the sword
itself that he uses to deliver mal to
the Jewish people the fact that
Shimshon's anniversary of his passing is
in this period of time shows that
there's a seed of holiness the Mossad
agent
the the fellow who was in Syria, what
was his name again? The Ellie Ellie
Cohen, right? Ellie Cohen hiding in
Syria, who would ever know that a great
victory would come to the Jewish people
in the Six Day War because of him? Who
knew that by Shimshan hiding himself and
getting so involved with these crazy
pushim that he would literally destroy
them, destroy the enemies of the Jewish
people with his with his uh how should I
say connection to them, with his
interest in them. Okay. So what that
means is that I think what this can be
said is uh perhaps what Rabbi Beri is is
alluding to here that when the when the
grave of Shimshon becomes a merrymaking
festival that means that the story comes
out and that the tales and the David
Aamels have vanquished a portion of
evil. I did make my own little
observation that Shimshon goes to a
place called Timna. Timnata. Well, Timna
happens to be the name of Amalik's
mother.
Timna was the was the pilleg of Asaf's
son Leifas. And out of that came Amalik.
Timna. The the turning point when evil
can no longer dominate the Jewish
people. We were under their control. We
don't want to be under the control. Kal
Israel has dav and learned and repaired
bamesh and repaired so many things and
by virtue of our suffering and our
suffering these last couple of years.
There's a transformation that's going
on. The shackles need to be loosened.
Some of our enemies took major major
blows in this miraculous year. Okay,
it's not all smooth sailing. But then
again, are we all smooth sailing? How
smooth sailing are we? You know, how
much can we claim that we deserve
Hashem's endless progress towards
vanquishing our enemies without a few
steps back and a few steps forward? I
hope and pray that we've we we're really
marking a time hold on to this that the
kot of rah have their grip has been very
loosened and that means we're going to
emerge a holy nation in the land of
Israel and when that happens that's a re
that's a death and a rebirth that's the
idea that Mashiach is born on tishab
sometimes you got to go in and destroy
something in in order for it to be
reborn. You know they say that the ni or
mao cried
about the loss of the beta mikdash. But
he was comforted that hashem took out
his anger only on stones on a building
but not on the Jewish people. The bond
between hem and the Jewish people is
unbreakable. Whether it's going to be
this building or that building or the
full building or a partial building. We
have mikdash like bum taught us and
there's mikdah and there'll be the bet
mikdash and everything in between as
long as our bond is not severed. We
should be working on that are even in
during these three weeks at the time
from Pim of Hashem turning away and of
destruction and of hatred towards the
Jewish people right should begin a
turning towards then and the and the
turning towards is it's warming up we're
warming up this period of bename as the
kidic masters have been doing for 250
years and saying no no no you're looking
at differently the potential for kadusha
in this time is so powerful don't lose
the opportunity let's Hope we use these
these days in these days in our coming
period. Letova, we should see big Yeshua
and for the Jewish people.
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