Vaera/Shvat: Is Hashem Hardening the Heart of The Ayatollah like Pharoah?

Heat. Heat. [music] [singing] [music] [singing] My birthday. [music and singing] Today is Roesh Shvat. a very very very significant and important day with much much much uh important and often esoteric Torah attached to it. We're going to try to unpack some of that the messages of Roshes and the month of Shvat in general and then also to understand about the para and what is going on in our world right now. very very interesting moment as tensions uh linger and continue regarding what will be with the United States and Iran as a as America seems to get locked and loaded [clears throat] by moving massive amounts of military power into our area just in time for Roshesh and we shall wait to see what will be and I would just make an association just to kick off this is we know that for the first five makos of mitim, the mafarim explained as based on sukim in the Torah that parro was responsible for his own decisions to harden his heart and not listen to Moshe to the word of Hashem to allow bene Israel even to retreat for three days into the midister of Hashem. Whereas a shift took place after the fifth maka. So we have dams fara right the uh the frogs is the second one after the blood the first one kim which is the lice um which is a the first unit the and then you have adash is arov de arov is the wild animals. is the disease among the animals that wiped out the animals that weren't um were exposed outside. And then we have which finally um is where there's a turning point where we say in peress after right where even theim of parro could not stand. It says Now, parro hardened his heart primarily because he felt that what Moshe and Aram were doing was a bit was really just a more a form of magic which he which he said to them, you know, it's kind of like we have the modern phrase bringing coals to Newcastle, you know, which is a real mining town in in uh England. So somebody who wants to import coal to Newcastle, that's a pretty big waste of time because most of the coal is coming from Newcastle in that area. So parro basically challenged motion said, "What are you, you know, you're coming here with your fancy osos and your macos? My katum can do what you do and even if it's not as perfect as you like aon's mate, turn back into a shave." By the way, shave it is lash on follow that. Um and is a turning point where we see the nash being swallowed by a rod. Chevv is the rod. Okayvat. So we'll get back to that is is um he was nonplusted. That's a good English word. Nonplust. He was not impressed with motion. He says okay so they're more powerful than some of mine. Okay. I thought I had the top I signed contracts with the best kartumin in the world. Apparently there are some that are better. Uh okay. So no new but when at the end of leaf Moshe they couldn't even stand up to Moshe at all. In other words, compared to Moshe, they didn't even um show up because the not only could not be reproduced by them, cuz I'll explain because they didn't have power over something of a minute size, which is interesting into itself. Why wouldn't they have power over something of a minute size? Um but be as it may, they uh they failed. So parro did not have a logical excuse anymore to say ah Mosha good good you're bringing coals to new castle you're bringing me bringing e bringing magic to Egypt is like bringing coals to new castle it's the same thing why why are you wasting your time but then at that point Hashem had pre uh warned Moshe that this this would come at some point at some point parro would really be ready to crack but I'm not going to allow him so it raises a massive question the first so the first analogy I want to raise regarding the before we delve into it too deep is is Hashem hardening the heart of the Ayatollah much like he hardened the heart of parro in other words this Ayatollah is crazy uh to slaughter his own people some say 16 to 20,000 in the most vicious way. They say they went into hospitals shooting people on the eye, shooting people. They went for the eyes, which is very very interesting. Um because that would make them, you know, that's that's the most vicious thing you can do to a person, you know, less short of killing them. And they were shooting for their heads as well. And then they would go into these hospitals and they get treatment and they would be followed in by the the henchmen of of Ayatollah and be slaughtered inside the hospitals. And Trump is talking about they stopped executions. They didn't stop executions. The whole thing seems like nonsense because everyone knows and I'm sure he knows as well. So the whole thing doesn't make any sense that that um that their their viciousness has been going on for 47 years and there's really no change between this suppression or revolt than ones that went back to 2009 and a couple years ago. Um although this one might be the worst one yet. I heard a nice analogy that it's like is that we compare we compare Msiach to birth pangs like the birth of a child in which a mother goes into labor and as the interval between convulsions of I call them not not convulsions um retractions uh becomes shorter intervals and more intense then we know we're getting closer and closer to the birth. So that is what we might be seeing here that that you know these are the these contractions which are bringing closer but that moment where everything breaks Hashem is kind of not even allowing it hasn't uh hasn't at learned from the fact that in the 12-day war which they themselves call the 12-day war which means that as far as Hashem concerned it was doubly miraculous as the six day war follow me in terms of what they accomplished is and then that that Israel completely came into their country did whatever they wanted. Is that not like a maka? Is that like one of the 10 makos [clears throat] and more than that? And then they got the macaka of the atom bombs. [laughter] You mean the bombing of the atomic sites? Is that not a maka? And now you want more and now you're like suppressing and saying you want to hold on more to the regime. Let go. Let go. Let my people go. No. So is Hashem perhaps mirroring the events that we're reading about in the para and showing us what's the reason why the manishi alosai as we say in the beginning of this week's para the the the turf has changed. We're now into the sixth maka and we say it's over for him. I'm now just going into a different now I'm hardening their hearts. It's kind of like when you have a boxer that the opponent is slumping from the punches and the boxer holds the guy up so he can punch him harder. This is what it means can't even convince him. They they convince him partially but like for example they say Moshe is destroying us. I mean come bring him back talk to the guy and and it says and then we'll see what what parro answers which is very interesting but the purpose is I'm playing games now with for their now the question is why Hashem, I need the world and you to know that it's my decision what goes on and I will decide when to punish, how to punish, and what will be and when to be merciful. >> Just strikes me as a very very powerful analogy that perhaps what's going on here is that Hashem is like hardening the hearts of the Ayatollah against everything that they see. I mean, they should have packed on the first plane to Moscow. get out of here eventually. Right. Eventually, it did end very badly. It did. It took It cost 20 not that he cares. I mean, 20,000 lives. What's 20,000 lives? It mean anything to him. They sent a million children to die in the Iraq war of the 1980s. and they would willingly sacrifice half or more of their population if they thought they had an attempted if they had a possibility of destroying Israel and not being completely obliterated. So they are in for this as much as they can. So well what's Hashem's agenda? She says, "Hello, Kashir. I'm going to play games with them. This may be game playing at this point. We shall see. They already taken tremendous blows." And now, so let's go back to that question for a second. If Hashem is indeed hardening the hearts of the wicked, we have to ask ourselves a hashkafa question, a philosophical question according to Torah. Why is that acceptable? Because we know that the world is based on free will. Our world without free will is is not a world. And why would why was parro's free will taken away. Even if Hashem wants to make his point, but it doesn't mean that he had to take away the free will of parro because after all is said and done, parro could complain. He didn't give me a chance to do Chuva. And wouldn't Chuva help? Wasn't Chuva theoretically possible? And why would Hashem take that chance away? So the mafium here have many different approaches. We'll just go through a couple of them. the um the main uh the Ramban for example. He says the first five makos parro is being punished for his crimes. Right? And that would have mean like anybody else if a person gets a punishment orim or whatever it is it's to cleanse them from their sins and then they'll do right as it says right with their with their um with their with their magic And similarly in so what the Ramban wants to say is since he made the decision not to listen to the first five mos. That's why Hashem closed the door so that he should receive his punishment. That's the approach of the Ramban. um Mashahma similar to Ramban and Rashi seems to follow the Ramban but he adds one more point. He brings the Rambam that says that a Jew, a Jewish person is generally inclined to serve Hashem. Even if they're not observant, even if they're rebellious, even they seem to have a hard-hearten, as we said last week, they're hair Jews. They're they they're distantly attached to the Jewish people. And Shimshan was able to revive them, right? is the one who's able to revive them uh as the earliest step of Msiah as we said last week. But but essentially speaking a Jew is essentially good. the the Jews will always get a portion in the world to come. Notice the analogy to Israel. That's what they say. If you own a home in Israel, you're guaranteed that you have a portion of the world to come. So, it's a good thing to try and own a an apartment in Arch Israel. But then again, it's not a it's not a bigish because every Jew has a place in Eric Israel, whether they own a house here or not. Um it's a hard thing to lose. It's a very hard thing to lose. In fact, we only mention a couple of the most wicked individuals within all of Judaism. Uh Yavan Benavad who broke away the 10 tribes and immersed them in idolatry. So soon after the building of the Bas Mikdash a mere 26 years after Schlommo opened the Baham Mikdash, he sets up an Agel Haz. I mean crazy stuff. And also Akav who went on to sin more than any other king. The kings of the northern kingdom. Tremendously evil. And yet and yet with all that Hashem had a had some mercy on Akav. He restored him to his kingdom. Minasha who was one of the wicked kings of Yehuda. Unfortunately, he was restored to his kingdom with some between and whether he has a and we seem to say that he does have a because he's from the from the tribe of Yehuda, a descendant of David who was the Baluva who who taught us the methodology of Chuva to him and Chuva. So miss so he's forgiven even the most diabolical characters from within Israel but that's within Israel he says outside of Israel it's not a given we don't say we don't or better yet or to use you know not a given it can be achieved are certainly granted some sort of heavenly reward most say you can even say kesh for a righteous this gentile maybe who saved your life or things like that or for a parent who might have been uh stepparent or something like that who wasn't Jewish or or biological parent these things are not out of the question but the meshma says the reason why parro because he didn't have that general inclination towards chuva now I will mention where do we get this inclination towards chuva from where how come we have it and others out. So this past week and I mentioned it um was the 99th birthday celebration of my uncle Joe Joseph Bistrus was married to my father Kubra's sister Alle Shalam. He lives in Florida and New York but he came to Israel for his 99th birthday. That was his wish and his children brought him. And this is a man they wrote a book about his life. And he is was a survivor of the camps, but not just a survivor. He went on to do very great things. He helped save many other Jews. He became a prominent uh builder and businessman and Kazen and raised in a very very big uh family with many many many benyra. And he surv he's a survivor. 99 years old. He gets up every morning and he learns for 4 hours. I mean, he's strong. And he wrote, they wrote about his testimony about what his childhood was like in Transylvania, which was one day Hungary, one day Romania. They didn't know what they were. The northern part of Transennylvania was was Romania and the southern was Hungary or the other way around, but he said at 6 years old, he was woken up every day at 4:30 in the morning, okay? And would trudge in the snow. His mother gave him a little warm milk. That's it. snow as high as he was to get to which was across a frozen river. And they learned Gamarra at 6:00 in the morning. 6:00 in the morning for hours till like 11 or 10:30 or something. They came back home for breakfast. Went to compulsory Hungarian education which was very very strict and hard and you had to learn. He mastered seven languages, calligraphy, many many skills that they taught him. And then after lunch, he was he had a march back to school. So he's there like a two round trip, three round trips during the day to learn until 8:00 p.m. come home, go to sleep, and start it all again with no snow days because every day was a snow. the toughness and this is a these are Jews who lived in by 1940 1930s 1940s where did they get this power from what power at age six to trudge through the snow every single day you couldn't come late and to learn to for so many hours a day with little food with little money incredible where do we and can you imagine 100 years before and 100 years before and 100 years before we can't even begin to fathom the greatness of the Jews even in this past generation which he is from the preholocaust generation and it's a survivor generation you know not the baby boomers and be who were born after the war so I told an amazing story he said that in the camps uh there was a Jew who he was observing on one of the top bunks where he was at and he's a survivor of the worst camps that apparently had a pair had had a ro a fillin shell ro and he was begging this man to let him wear it and man would not let him because he said you're going to get me in trouble with and I'm going to be discovered and I'll be killed I can't let you come finally nudged him so much he let him climb up on the to the top bunk and he put his fillin on his head and he said at that moment he had an outer body experience where he imagined himself he felt himself being transported to a place of in complete tranquility, happiness and joy. He said it was like a nva. It was like a a vision. Put the tin on and he was transported. And he said that he had the kawak whenever things were becoming impossible to bear which was all the time including marching through the snow through death marches. He could conjure up. He could reconnect with that fill-in vision and be in that place of utter calm and inner peace and he would not feel any pain. not the pain of his frozen feet and not the pain of whatever wounds the power and and what Hashem has granted the potential kak of the Jewish people is unbelievable is unbelievable and he and but that's not a given so says the well that might be the case by a Jew that they can hold their faith and their strength through the most impossible of of human conditions. Harro didn't. And therefore, since he had role, his his his heart was not a good heart. He was not a goodarted person. His heart was ra that that point that Hashem chose that he should have to suffer and through this punishment of the wicked there would come out a kdish hashem. Is this what's happening with that with our good friend the ayatollah? We shall see the Ramban in Hila's chuva echoes this idea that there are some rashim due to their great notoriety that that their um is diminished. So this is this the question that many maforim struggle. Here's what the Maharal had to say. The maharal who's just a fascinating figure. He's a transitional figure in the miso of giving over cis Torah cabala because his books are replete with cababalistic concepts except that they're written for every man. They're written in a very simple language which covers the deep cabalistic ideas which he knew but didn't feel the generation was ready for. Remember until the bashtov which is not that much later within the lifetime of the within which is within the lifetime of the maharal you know the raharal was in uh Moravia was in Prague whereas the bashm was in Ukraine all the way in Ukraine so they didn't really have any direct connection but the change was undergoing but only in the far east it's not in the west not in the western countries so the moral says gamut shar if you have if you're such an individual as parro as wicked as parro is and the wickedness that he did because he said who is God he mocked God he ridiculed God then that employed the device known as mida mida that because You made that choice to exclude Hashem, Hashem excludes you. This is a novel approach of the Maharal that says it's not about reward and punishment at all. What it is is well actually something that the uh introduced a concept which is Hashem is your shadow which means Hashem doesn't force you to do one way or the other. is not pushing you or pulling you in any direction or punishing you. It's all about you. He says the way you are with Hashem is the way Hashem will be with you. You want to push Hashem out of your life, Hashem says, "Fine, I'll push you out of my presence." Okay. You want to come back, come back. Okay, that's the novel approaches of our of our most uh um how should I say important rene but now let's go over to these events of the of parro and the lack thereof coincide with the with the with the with the month of what is the month of shvat what's going on now. How does how does the energy so to speak or the hashka of of we have 12 months in the year we have a different avod than each month like there were different tribes there's different energies there's different avodas there's different ways to dab and there's different ways to celebrate with hashem different of the sha you know what what month what one month contains is not contained in another month is tish is much plainer much David is a difficult month as we as we explored difficult month and now we're clear that and we're into what's going on so the ben saskar in his safer quotes we have a little bit of the how shall I say pineistic background or the sod you know the the I call it the coded information about the inner inner reality that we're going through. So the safety said that there is a Hebrew letter associated with this month and the letter is okay. The word the letter sadic hints to the fact that the Jewish people are essentially tove and earn a spot in the world to come. Why is that something going on in this month more than let's say a different month? This is the month of Sadi. The previous month which was ta which is tough is is is connected the letter which is the I put them together and it spells what? Eights. Eights because this year also points out this this day according to Bami is the rashana of the elanos of the we this is the month of the tree. Why? Because the winter is dissipating as it says in the Gomorrah ro gishus ro gish have already ended the the majority of the precipitation for the year rain snowfall etc is over and by tishvat we already see the next thing not the not the not the watering but the beginning of the sap begins to flow. So B Shami who is always focused on the future he says the rash shana is especially at a time where you can't see anything rovat still pretty cold but the inside inside the trees the sap is really beginning to flow the efforts are starting to take shape there is a rebirth there is a regeneration this is the month of eight goes goes on the bencar to say a powerful thing. He says that this m month is the astrological sign of Claw Israel. Wait a minute. I thought Cla Israel were born was born in Tishray or maybe because the elves were born then or maybe Nissan where where there's another understanding and this is something that my that my uncle Joe also spoke about at great length which was very very interesting. He spoke at his 90th uh 99th birthday and he said this. He said in a very elongated form, when you're 99, you can say it as long as you want. You can just keep talking and nobody's going to interrupt you, okay? I don't matter how long you talk. He said that Hashem refused to give the Torah until there was this terrible debacle of the of the um why he says because when Hashem created the world he created it with midasin the obos only knew the toughness of Hashem mida and mida that's just the way it goes the way you are is the way you are and Hashem told Moshe They had a world known as Kel Shakai. They lived in a world of nature. They knew that I had the power to override nature at my will. But you Moshe and Krael now are going to see things that they never dreamt of. Open miracles in which nature dissolves completely. The name Yud V which will hay above time above all space. the the the letters of the brium itself, the four letters that energize our worlds on the cabalistic level that was never revealed. That was there were other names of Hashem that the obos related to Hashem through. But you Moshe and from going forward why because when Hashem created the world although he wanted it to be he understood it could not survive without midas. The Torah had to be given from a place of midas haram because otherwise the world would not have access to its most powerful gift chuva chuva. So the whole journey of Mosher Rabenu is all about the midas about the capacity to do chuva and the Jewish people not all were z only 20% to return that the life blood energy returned with the dhamma with the dam with the dhamma pesak and it was life and that was a preparation for kabolis hatra And that was his his idea which I think is very has a lot of merit to it. Uh cuz he said everything went so hunky dory up until that point. Maca after maca everything was going we were winning every game. We were winning [laughter] touchdown after touchdown. Laavil everything was going perfectly. Maka after macaka everything we did was a win. And all of a sudden this horrific horrific downfall right after Matan Torah. How could it be? Hashem has to can't even give you the luos until the luos that are given on yam kipper because chuva must be conditioned president to the world because there's no hope not even for the Jewish people without constant chuva. Okay. So therefore so therefore this month represents the month in which Mosherenu at the end of his life began to teach Torah. Meaning he gave over the the book of Dvarim Mishna Torah which prepared that generation to successfully enter and conquer Eritis Isisrael to battle the evil that was extant there and to be able to withstand the temptations and have access to Chuva because that's what it's going to take. Conquering Arit Israel will bring out temptations that you never believe. Right? It's not like sitting in the classroom of Mosher Abainu underneath the Anaode like the of my uncle Joe Bistritz in Romania was six years old and he's sitting there encompassed by Kadusha. No, no, no. There may be may have to go through the camps. You may have to go through a different type of journey. And what's going to keep you in that journey of Hashem connection to Hashem? And Hashem's fillin says one thing. We're unusual and that we have this endless capacity for renew renewal like the tree sap at why why because this is the month in which Moshe began to regive the Torah. I'd like to tell you this. If the first giving of the Torah on Shibuas was still mid, you understand why? Because it was pre-agel. Got it? Now, the Torah that was given on Yamiper finds its follow its final flowering in the final days of Mosher Abenu in which he repeats the entire Torah which is the book of Dorim. All right? Which is why some sadikim say you should lame the book of again and again and again because it's really toim for the generation that's going to withstand tests to the power of cha. Now you understand why invar there's endless warnings about every again and again and again. Mosher Rabenu pounds it into our into our consciousness. Temptations temptations you'll be able to do chuva. you'll be able to withstand. Careful with the temptations. Work on it. Be careful Israel. Hold on tight. It's all about strengthening our ability to to uh choose the right choices. But inherently the Jewish people have that. Our masle is not Nissan and not even not even Tish certainly not Tish but because is is linked to the astrological sign says the Basar of Di pouring a a a picture pouring water that's who the Jewish people are we pour water we are really the ones who share ma Torah to the world and maim is what gives life or gives eternal life right everything else is dead if you can't pour water on the plants if you can't bring the gishm then there is no plants they'll wither and die in the heat we bring the life we bring the hope to the world through transmitting Torah by being actually the waterbearers of Hashem's message of Torah And um and very brilliantly says he says this goes back to the very beginning of Israel because we know that Eleazar the servant of Abraham right tested our first wife of Israel right the wife of Vietk by asking her pour a little water for me right and she had her cod she had her waterbearing delet bucket on her shoulder. This was not this was not an accident cuz that's symbolic of the entire purpose of the shid of and Rifka to produce Yakovu who will bear the Torah. His children will bear the Torah. You follow me? Interestingly enough, even though the Gomorrah says a mazali isel, the Jewish people don't really have any bound are not bound by astrology of astrology is nature. That's how Hashem runs the world through his stars and and the influence of the planets. Everybody agrees to that. Even the Rambam agrees to that. But but what we say is it's not it's not incontrovertible. We have we can turn the masle any which way. any which way because the Torah is this how shall I say source of life and power which is why the month is symbol by the sadic the sadic is the one who has the perspective and the power through his tilos and through his actions to turn things around when things are not going well go to go to davadic that's what k did he went to theos to davin I got to go withstand the trials of the moragum how am I going to do this connect to the zadic the zadic can transform things through the kawaka Torah. The more that we are a vessel just to share Torah, the Torah, the ideas of chuva, the ideas of closeness to Hashem, sima, life watering, mo more that comes out, the more life that comes out of us, lifegiving, lifegiving that comes out of us, the more we're doing our job. Elazar Evra was remarkably tuned in, locked in to the message of Arau. was do shavu. He got it. He made himself completely a servant. He's called a Mosha is called Hashem completely. But this I'm doing the will of my master. I'm pouring the the information and knowledge into the world. I'm giving life to the world through my throughma. Isn't that a metaphor for the Jewish people in general? Wherever they went throughout the generations, wherever we've been, we bring in such an incredible angle of that. It's unbelievable. It's just unbelievable. Every society when Poland was morabond and backwards and the Jews were were forced out of Spain, the the po the Polish leaders said, "Come to us, man. We we need you." Wherever there was a need for energy, ingenuity, commerce, enterprise, it came, it came with the Torah. The Torah was the Jews of the And the world today is so much cursing the Jewish people. They don't understand what their they don't understand what the cost is for them. And I think Mr. Ayatollah is is getting a a sample of that. He curses the Jews non-stop. Non-stop. This is the fault of Israel. This is the fault of Israel. Criminals were this. We're that. Blasphemes Hashem. Look, he's had his five macos. Now we might be on the final five macos. I don't know how many macos it's going to take to knock him out. It took an additional five for for parro. I imagine he's got a few left. We shall see. But what I want to share in in this vein is the Jewish people do have a mazle. We have a purpose. We have a task. And I'll I'll tell you a little within within the there's a rabbi now who who has spent a lot of time saying that astrology is very kosher and I think that's his website and he's pushing it and so on. So I know that the re because I had once written about this many many years ago and investigated the whole topic and what comes out according to the rishim is as follows whereas the Rambam said hashem runs the world through these mazos but we have nothing to do with it and it's it's all about you it's all about your personal choices and you don't you can be sadic like Moshe you could be a Russia like parro it's there's nothing fixed but the Ramban and Other other rishonim learned because the gar and shabas at the end of shabas does speak about uh the idea that it gives you a nature speaks about in more than one place but a person who's born in the sign of of maadim which is bloodshed should be a butcher a moyel a surgeon because it gives you a certain I'll call it that doesn't mean that the events of your life are predetermined even if there might be some things that you are how predisposed to we can flip it around right no one wants to be a murderer so don't be a murderer but I'm a but that's you know what I'm into so be a so be a mo you understand we can flip it around and the classic classic case comes at the moment where hashem takes away the free will of parro what is what does parro Hey, his his say, "Bring Moshe and Aram back because we're all getting whacked here. We need help. Come back." And he says to Moshe, "Me, who exactly is it you want to take out?" And Moshe of course says, "Everybody and Narinu even every every regel, every every animal has to go out because we don't know." And what does parro say? That's not a wise idea. Don't you know that I in my astrology see that there's blood facing the Jews in the desert and you know and I know Moshe that more than likely none of these people are going to make a terish Israel save one or two whereas this is Burm Burm says Moshe said back you're right but that's only the 600,000 men but what about the children but of the ones who are under 20 and the ones that are over over uh 50 or 60 they're going to make it in and all the women. It's unbelievable. That's that's the Balator says that was the conversation. He says you're right. So the warriors won't make it in but what about the rest of K Israel? We will make it in. Okay. So so Parro says I I see it's it's fruitless. You're not going to make it. There's no hope for you. There's no hope for you. So what does what did say? It's true. There was bloodshed in the mint bar. Hashem did want to destroy all of Kali Israel after ael but it got transformed into what dam. The dam became eventually the briso that Yahushua would do to bring them into Israel. You see it can get flipped around. That is if you have if you are a spreader of Torah a mamid mhammed toyra which I have the great privilege to learn with you and whoever cares to listen in. Oh, I found I want to give a shout out to a certain uh website that shares our shiim besides ibonet which we're very grateful to every posting. We are sometimes re re uh shared by a website um that's known as share Torah and they'll give a little blurb about our sh and they'll pass it on and we're very grateful you know to to to learn Torah and even to touch anybody even one person's life and give them is a massive thing. So the bottom line is is that um there is a so the Ramban says you you know we can get out of any bad star there's no such thing Israel but there is ania there is a nature and that is maybe where there's room to study about your masle in other words who am I what what am I natos am I that guy who's supposed to be a surgeon am I that guy Who's going to be a teacher? Oh, what's my tas? Which part of of serving Hashem am I? Which part of the waterbearing am I? That might be okay. I could hear that. There's within the rishon there's substantiation for that. But not that future events are set in stone. Never ever. And not even to explore the future in any in any significant way or to plan your time because these are potential is dissa. They're very these are very serious serious matters and and and one should take it very very carefully be very very careful and Moshe warned warns about this he says taught us through Mosherenu and beim don't just do your job pour your water this is to revitalize to reconnect we're going to have tishvat in two weeks tishvat is already the time where we start dabbing for the esrogue of sukus. So we're inching towards the 25th day of of um shvat which we are already uh getting into the season of pum. It's unbelievable. We're not that far away. There's 70 days from till the seder. Don't want to get anybody scared. You have to start your pes cleaning uh today 70 days to go. But the 70 is that number which represents the of Israel. Now is where our brain power starts to kick in where our which our is to spread the Torah and to to be just good be who we are essence. You want to give life, think of Rifka, little Rifka sharing water with this giant of a man. Some say alias was kabashan. How how can he give water to drink toashan plus 10 thirsty camels? It's ins it's insane. No, but we are like that. We are givers. We we do care. It is our nature. But it's not everybody's nature. So therefore another rema is that Yro who we spoke about last time at length who was the savior of Moshe he was the redeemer of cayenne Cen's soul instead of trying to kill Moshe helps save Mosha's life many times over and gives him his daughter and then converts so he says he said why why did you abandon Mosher Abenu because he was the one who gave water to the daughters of Israel. You follow me? He said, "Don't leave a guy like that. That's a Jew. That's a good guy. That's a sadic. That's a heel." And cayenne in the form of the good Cayenne of of Israel says, "Wait a minute. Wait a minute. That's that guy. He's a Jew. Those are the water pourers. Those are that's the nature. He saved you from the rogue evil. He He's He's helping you with your flock. He's Get him back here. We need him. He's a source of blessing to us and to the entire world. So let's hope that we're seeing the preparations for the sap is rising. The gula is starting to evolve in this period of time. It's a great month for us. And I'll just end with this with this uh from the um from a very very important writer Makubal Palagi. This is what he writes. The month of Shalom. This is Jew month. Be a Jew month. What is a Jew? Shalom. Shalom. Torah like like like uh Aon Hakohain. Right. In this month, strive to be a good Jew. What does that mean to be a Jew in his natural self? He says Leos um ov shalom rode shalom meim shalom make peace between people right 70 days before pes here we are sh we have to be peacemakers right now more than any month of the entire year because this is our birthright month. This is our month of our masle. This is where we have to be true to our calling and our nature positive development. There is a law that's advancing through the hal should survive [laughter] and actually become a real thing. But there's a law that's going to respect the idea that people can learn Torah for in yeshiva and be understood as that's a value of the Medina. Yeah. No, it's not just about the army service. One of the um Knesset who's promoting it, forget his name is he says the Torah brought us to Israel. The arm is keeping us in Israel. You can't have one without the other. It's not possible to have one without the other. So this law is on its way. So to strengthen those who are faltering in their faith and connection to Hashemios don't speak lion horror because that's antithetical to claw Israel's purpose. Don't indulge your tibos in this month of more than now you understand why because this is our mas this is who our essence is the essential good of Israel should be recognized in the world and we should not be despised and maybe we need to align ourselves with our true do mashka honor the Torah honor other people bring peace between them. Act like a Jewer. Act like a Jew. And if we do that, we devote ourselves to be hashem like Elas. Share Torah to the world. Share that inspiration, that shalom, that goodness, our our essential goodsite. The world will come around and maybe we'll just see the punishment of the harden the hardening of the heart of the rishim. So Hashem can show in the world the distinction between his will for the world and the will of those who would be against Hashem. Have a wonderful ro and let those sap start flowing. Have a great week. [music and singing] >> [music] >> You see your body [music and singing]