And Your Fear and Your Dread Shall be Upon Them with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom everybody welcome back to the I m a warm welcome home to Torah KES after such a long break we stopped I think right after rashash I hope everyone had a very meaningful uh holidays especially from rashash and building up tium kipur and then of course sukus and the grand finale which I'm sure was very emotional for most most of us torem we should all have uh you know going from strength to strength higher and higher um I want to dedicate tonight's Shor to someone I knew Abraham ysf Goldberg Rabbi who unfortunately was um was killed in Lebanon uh he was a pillar of the community and uh he doed in the same minion I doed in and he he always had a smile on his face and people asked him questions he was a teacher in a local school here and it's a it's a great loss to all of us what we're going to deal with uh oh before we get started I just want to mention to those who haven't uh who are not who are unfamiliar with how we function here we use the cleak car as the basis for our discussion number one and number two we do encourage you to learn Hebrew down below there's a link where you could pick up a a link to the Hebrew sheets meaning you have to choose the paraa the year the chapter and verse um but we deal with fundamentals right we deal with maybe usually one verse to start with as the basis for the discussion the clear was 400 years ago over 400 years ago one of the greatest uh sages that had had had lived with the greatest Rabbi at the time or rabbis at the time that being the Mahar as well as the sches and uh it's really um an unbelievable push commentary that gives us insight into what I'm going to call and we're going to refer it as Divine information right because we're dealing with pares Noah and Noah knew Torah the Torah wasn't given what are we going to call it Divine information he was tapped in he was tapped in before the great Revelation and uh the paral we're dealing with the the chapter we're dealing with is chapter 9 verse 2 and uh we'll see what we're going to do is again we we we kind of delve into the Hebrew even though the Shure is in English I'm translating everything I can and I want to uh maybe uh make a suggestion or an introduction let's say not not a suggestion but that you should know that I am translating and I am explaining the words okay I'm going to give you some of my own insights but when I do I will tell you I just want to say that somebody recently called me a racist I wonder why person actually never got around to explaining it maybe one day he will but um the Torah is not racist God is not racist and I'm certainly not racist I'm just explaining what this Divine information which we could all use in this this world of ours which is the word actually means hidden it's very dark and hidden so the light the word Torah d means light so with all the different uh I'm going to call it fake news misinformation out there about the world it's the Torah it's the scripture it's the we what we call the Bible right uh the Jewish Hebrew scriptures is is the light is the Divine information and uh in chapter 9 of Genesis verse 2 this is when Noah is now told that he may kill and eat animals prior to this many people are not aware of this uh the first statement they are the second one not so much that prior to Noah man was not allowed to kill animals and eat them now the killing the animals I think you knew about but eating them is tied into the first category meaning that if he found what they call roadkill I know that sounds gross or an animal that died of old age he was allowed to mankind was allowed to eat those those animals which he did not kill okay so many people are not aware of that we're going to be dealing with as I mentioned chapter 9 verse2 and it begins by saying and your fear and your dread shall be upon all the beasts of the earth and upon all the fowl of the heaven upon everything that creeps upon the ground and upon all the fish of the sea for they have been given into your hands now in Hebrew right nitu I think implies your rulership and if you go to Genesis chapter 1: 26 you can see clearly God said let us make man in our image after our likeness and they meaning mankind shall rule over the fish of the sea this is Source number two and over the fowl of the heaven and over the animals and over all the Earth and over all the creeping things that creep upon the Earth so when it says and they shall you know humans shall rule over the fish of the sea it says the year do VOD so this means already in chapter one mankind was given ru ership over the animals so what's being what's different in chapter 9:2 the first two words and your fear and your dread okay those two words fear and trembling uh dread that is what God is now placing on the animals which did not which was not placed prior to is and just to look at Rashi before we get into the clear he mentions right away what does it mean hit it means your fear and we have a proof text for that in job 6 ver 21 however according to the gamor in chabas 151b Sashi brings there another expression could also mean life like is the life force what does that mean so he gives an example I know nobody tried this at home okay let's say you have an infant just a few days old maybe one day old and it's sitting in its crib you should have no fear that an animal or let's say mice are going to come and nibble on this young infant uh because there's there's there's a there's life and I imagine that in most cases most animals actually are afraid of humankind um but he de C the Rashi goes on he says but if o the king of Bashan we're talking about a a giant a h a tremendously big individual if he's dead so obviously you have to guard against mice or any other uh thing that's going to uh eat him um and that's why it says in the way we're interpreting it and your fear and your life the fear of your life should be upon the animals when will your fear be upon the creatures as long as you live so it's a little bit cryptic I admit we'll have to go into this clear and explain Rashi a little bit but let's go into the oh by the way so let's go into the Rashi on Genesis 1 verse 26 where it says they shall rule over the fish of the sea the very bottom the word Vu is an expression contains both the meaning of ruling ruling over and the meaning of sub servient if a person merits he rules over the beasts and over the cattle and if he does not Merit he becomes sub subservient to them and the Beast rules over humankind okay with that background let's begin and see what the clear has to say he begins by quoting those two first words of our verse right the fear and The Dread God is going to put your fear and your dread on the or we're going to say could also mean life force over the animals and he right away right away he says one second even though it's said earlier on in chapter 1 verse the right that you will rule over the fish of the sea and all the other animals nevertheless the clear says nevertheless what is the Torah adding here it's adding something in chapter nine it's adding this fear and this dread that didn't exist earlier on why because only now was man permitted to kill the animals in order to eat them mayem at this point it was permissible for man to kill and to eat the animals now here's some good really nice question it's based on the gamar why is it that a domesticated animal such as an ox a cow would go to slaughter theow Y and it does not protest against its owners now this is what I've heard from people who are in the slaughtering uh business slaughtering animals business the so they've told me that they really do they put their necks out so to speak and inside the animal we're talking about on a um metaphysical level they would rather be slaughtered koshery that's a word and placed Upon A Jews table in order to be and I would say drum roll please if you could please drum roll that they would like to be on a Jews table eating for Shabbat okay this is like an elevation for them for their souls whatever that means as a as an animal so the clear not only asked the question IM Lo it's obviously that Hashem made it this way that he placed the fear of all of these animals on the fear of man onto the animals and man is then free to do with them as he wants to slaughter them and to eat them because at this point it became permissible to kill the animals in order to eat them the clear says and you might have thought it might have come upon your mind actually it's Rashi and the gamar that maybe was also permissible to kill another human being no that's why the Torah itself tells you in look in Source number three chapter 9 verse5 just a few verses later where it says that you're not allowed to kill a man in fact there are consequences to what we call murder it's on page two number three chapter 9:5 but your blood of your souls I will demand an account from the hand of every Beast I will demand it and from the hand of man from the hand of each man his brother I will demand the soul of man edos okay so Rashi there says a few different points the first idea is you're not even allowed to take your own life suicide is forbidden and what about if there's no blood such as strangulation someone hung themselves so to speak strangled themselves even if no blood is issued it's still forbidden that's why it means of your souls without blood and what does it mean the from the hand of every Beast since the generation of the flood the actual generation they were Sinners they had sinned they were then abandoned as prey for the wild beasts which would have power over them and we're going to deal with this verse a little bit later Psalms 49:13 as well as 4921 H we'll deal with it in Hebrew but right now I'm just say he is compared to silenced animals we have to ask what kind of human being are we talking about and what does it mean silenced animals maybe I should just go into it right now a person who's looking for the glory for himself was is very much interested in the uh the Comforts of this world World whether it be uh financial gain or is looking for or um like power and Renown therefore it was necessary and that person becomes like a silenced animal well we'll deal with that shortly therefore it would be necessary to warn the Beast about them not to kill them because they're still human beings and what about God forbid someone who killed intentionally but without Witnesses Hashem will demand he will find a way um as we now read the next the next part of the Rashi that goes through different ideas like if somebody killed somebody unintentionally and we know they supposed to go off to a City of Refuge but he didn't know it or there weren't Witnesses well Hashem will make sure something happens or what if somebody killed somebody intentionally and there were W no Witnesses Hashem might cause a situation to occur where the person who killed unint Ally with no Witnesses is climbing a ladder the one who originally killed intentionally with no Witnesses is walking underneath that ladder and simultaneously at that same time he's he walking underneath the man on top falls accidentally but this time there are witnesses the person who was F upon filed upon is killed and he's getting his just Reser deserts or reward or Consequences and the person who fell off the ladder accidentally previous previously he killed somebody accidentally but there were no Witnesses but this time there were ultimately Justice will be served so just before we get to the next paragraph I just want to reiterate a certain point here and that is that man had rulership over the animals but he didn't have the right to kill them from the beginning of creation comes Noah he's allowed to eat them but he's allowed to kill them as well and therefore as any case where you are the one being pursued at least in human kind we know you have the right if you're being pursued called rodef you can turn around and save your life self-defense and and strike first so you might have thought that the animals instinctively now they have the right to be killed so they would go ahead and instinctively strike first this is where Hashem placed within them this this natural fear and dread of the humans where they will not strike a human being even if the human being is let's say guilty of things the animals will still not um strike first and the clear continues now this is very interesting after the destruction of the temple there was a ribbi injunction let's say or there was a some some well let's not even go that far there's a statement that in am should not eat the word is assur I'm going to actually read the words and then translate them as it says in that even though the Torah permits eating right we just saw it eat killing the animal and eating the animal it's really not um after the destruction of the temple it became known that a Amit which is an ignoramus should not eat meat even though it says assur we're going to describe it as should not as opposed to absolutely forbidden now but there's a point to it and we'll look at the gamorra I think we should do it now if you look in the source sheet on number four it's Pim 49b says the gor continues its discussion with regard to an ignoramus called an it's in Hebrew someone who really is not familiar with Torah law it was taught in AB the Rudi says it is prohibited for an ignoramus to eat meat as it is stated now so in Leviticus 11: 36 46 it actually says zo to this is the law the Torah law of the Beast and the foul and this implies that there are laws there are Divine information regarding how to slaughter and how to make the animal not even even what animals kosher how to slaughter and how to make it kosher from that point on he expounds anyone who engages in Torah study is permitted to eat the meat of animals and fouls and anyone who does not engage in Torah study is prohibited to eat the meat meat of animals and fowls so if we understand this idea or trying to understand this idea why would it be that an is discouraged from eating meat so the MIM the great commentators have all sought and gave a reason for this idea now what we're going to get into is a little bit of some cabalistic idea is I'll try to explain it outside and then we'll read the words inside that there are four worlds four different levels of creation you have what we call do which is mineral life then we have with a sadic that is growth such as herbs and trees and grasp and and Bush things that grow as we know um and then you have what we call okay that's animal life and then we have Adam now that's how everyone knows it our four Worlds the truth is interestingly enough the kuar says that there's a fifth level of creation and that's the Jew that's called prophecy so so we're going to now talk about the fact that Adam is meaning mankind is a mid there what separates him from the animals is what we call speech he's a m they communicate and they make sounds but it's not what we call speech just to give you an idea says when God breathed into man and gave him a spirit right it says in the Bible that he gave him a living Spirit the uncle is translates it as a speaking spirit so that's what separates us from the animals but the Jew and I speak to my friends highly my Jewish friends we are a prophetic people we don't have the levels of Prophecy like we had in the Bible in biblical times but we still have some lower levels of Prophecy whether it's as a sear or as a r Kesh right perhaps even a Basco but we don't have the highest levels of Prophecy but that would separate man and we're going to see a difference between Jew and Gentile Jew and Gentile yudi and Ben Isel versus Ben listen I you know I love Ben I love the people who you know come to the Torah and love the god of Israel and love the Jewish people they're like number one in my book you know and then and many my students and of course then there's converts they become full-fledged Jews there just happens to be two kinds of people in this world there's Jews and there's Gentiles it's like you know that old joke there's always two kinds of everything but that's the way it is and we're going to try to explain it as a non non-racist I believe 100% that every human being is created with the same potential and how do I know absolutely potential that's why we have converts a non-jew who became name a Jew not all non-jews decide to be a Jew but they have that free choice even a m right we have story in the gamar and we we know that the sons certain Sons certain people from this the nation of aik converted and the rambam writes up a whole thing of how it can be okay so let's go back into the cleard into the actual words he begins by saying that each one of these four levels they draw energy and nourishment from the world that's below them for example the do what we call the mineral world this is the lowest of all life forces in fact you take a pulse usually there's no pulse right there's energy there and anything that's energy Mass it's exist it exists okay and it has energy n it's self-sufficient to a certain extent it has its own nourishing uh ecosystem so to speak it somehow nourishes off of itself it's like the low low-lying you know bottom creatures of the sea so to you know it's like the low the lowest form of life but it's self-sufficient it's self- sustaining what about so that thing that grows the the the trees the plants they are nishing themselves from the minerals from the the the ground it's basically suckling it's getting its nourishment from the earth and what about the animals the and we're talking about at least for Jewish people we eat vegetarian animals we eat animals that are basically have a vegetarian diet okay so they're getting the the animals that we're talking about they're nourishing themselves from the plant life and then he ends with this idea of Adam but he says Adam and I want you to know that's what it says Adam that means humankind Min he is the type that speaks as we described the first one of the first rashis in inish speaking about Mankind is a communicator he's a he speaks now if man eats animals that's how he lives how do we have this original idea that man should not be eating animals that's how we started this paragraph that it should be us for permissible to someone who is in involved in Torah I don't know if I skipped this line it says the second line down in the paragraph Noah was allowed to it would became permissible for Noah because he was O that's what it says tah so Ben no someone who believes in the god of Israel in the Torah of Israel is permissible for him or her to be oake to be involved in their to which first of all begins as a bis of the seven no laws and I would even say the seven principles as opposed to specific laws there's almost nothing that they can't learn I say almost nothing in other words there's so much for them to learn if they wanted to be a uh a lawyer in a j right they have to create their own systems of Justice they want to be a lawyer they can learn the sh on Mish all the laws the tort laws and whatnot how Society should run according to the Jews because maybe they want to be strict and if they decide they want to keep kosher for some whatever reason they decide I might talk about this but if they decide they want to keep kosher the rambam says if they want to do any of the Mitzvah they have to do them correctly so they can learn just about anything of course they're going to learnes and you're going to learn Kish with the commentary so there's almost nothing that they can not learn and Noah was he himself the reason it was permissible for him to he was not an Amar he was not an ignoramus he was is and therefore it was permissible to him and now the Clear Car picks up five lines downish we're talking about what is a a person a person when he is not so we describe means he is working towards Perfection he is a perfected being because he's already but it's a process it's it's what life is the clear says this is what an Adam right we're going to discuss that word then he's man now the difference between a Jew and a non-jew in the tanak and in um Rabin literature the word Adam means a Jew andam the man is mankind that that includes even Gentiles or maybe even specifically Gentiles whereas without the hay the ha the the it's called the definitive hey which to me was a counter counterintuitive I would have thought the man is referring to the Jew and man would be mankind but no it's the other way around and we're going to see why I never understood it until now and we're going to see the Ben on that particular item so the clear the clear continues h meaning without the Torah he's n he is compared to that silent animal do you remember we mentioned in Psalms 4913 and 21 if you go to number six on the store sheet we have both these verses okay 4913 it says but man does not Repose in his glory meaning a person should not be seeking either monetary or uh Renown right cover if he does he's compared to the silenced animals because he's not really Adam he's not really a man and the next statement in 21 man in his glory again in his glory mean he's he's trying to build himself up to something greater than what is but he does not understand he's compared to silenced animals so in my little comment on the side that I wrote for myself meaning he's it's all about Glory but not for the glory of God it's about um self agris right for either money or fame or anything like that it's not for the glory of God it's for his own glory and that's what it means here L Ben gilo so if he's compared to an animal he's not a m m speaks but here is silenced that's what the verse says so why would basically if he's on the same level as an animal why would he eat animals this is the idea of discouraging an an ignoramus from eating animals because he's not elevating the animal he's not why should he eat something on the same level as himself what kind of perfection or Advantage what's what's he adding to himself when he's eating on the same level that he is very interesting and this is what I'll just say in English verse you are what you eat right it says every mazone all food actually turns in to the you know it reverses it's there's a transformation into the nature of the one eating it you've heard that expression you are what you eat meaning you eat it and it becomes you I think that's what it means but when a man eats from the lower level than he is which is the animal life what he's doing the person eating the um the animal it's adding Perfection to the animal that's coming from a lower level to the he's being raised to the level of the speaker of the M of the human being but if you take the man who's an ignoramus and he is compared to an animal what's being added what's to the to the one who's eating it absolutely nothing and now we understand why in if you go to Numbers Chapter 14 verse I'm sorry Deuteronomy chap 7:1 16 and it's worth reading believe me all the way through 24 because this is the Dilemma this is the situation we're in now uh number set chapter 7 of Deuteronomy verse 16 and you shall consume all the peoples which the Lord your God gives you right even in Hebrew the word we're going to see the is to consume is to eat but Hashem is saying um and you shall consume all the peoples which the Lord your God gives you you shall not spare them nor shall you worship their gods for that will be a snare to you this is a very this is what we're facing right now and if you just want to read on number nine uh the rest of these few verses because it's certainly worth reading will you say to yourself these nations are more numerous than I we're facing seven maybe more uh Nations who are attacking us and you might say how will I be able to drive them out you shall not fear them you shall surely remember what the Lord your God did to pharaoh and to all of Egypt the great trials that your eyes saw and the signs and wonders the mighty hand the outstretched arm with which the Lord your God brought you out so will the Lord your God do to all the peoples you fear and also to the T the sir which are some kind of bugs the Lord your God will incite them against them until the survivors and those who hide from you perish you shall not be terrified of them for the Lord your God who is in your midst is a great and awesome God it goes on and on unbelievable bem this is what's happening before our very eyes so the clear says as it says in D numbers 149 which is on the last sheet number 10 calls our enemies interesting the word for war is the the word for Fighters is a the word for bread is it's all the same root and it says in numbers 149 last page but you shall not rebel against the Lord and you will not fear the people of that land just like you're not supposed to fear the animals for they are as our bread their protection is removed from them which I gave a sheare previously a few weeks ago a few months ago whatever it is I also advise you to look below and you'll see links to prev sherim and the Lord is with us do not fear them uh interestingly enough um that's how the the clear card Ends by saying they are our bread you the Jewish people are called but not not the Nations by the way righteous right are somewhere in between they're not really amongst the umos and they're not really amongst the Jews and I have a lot of you know r a lot of Mercy on this uh looking for a place to fit in and I want to let you know that you're always invited right if you're a true righteous Ben you come to Jerusalem you come and visit us come to our house for chabas come for a meal even during the week we'll meet up uh you're very precious in our eyes because you have downloaded what we call the Divine information and you're in tune you're in tune with the truth very similar to Noah and we will feed you meat okay so now I want to show you on the just turn the page very interesting why is the word Adam used just turn the page why is Adam used for man andam used for the non-jews so before we begin the on 61a actually 61 a I just want to mention that one of my students asked so what should a a gentile eat so before we get to that point he should become a a wise person a sage so to speak amongst the non-jews and then he can eat meat like Noah Noah was not Jewish he was able to eat meat doesn't have to be Jewish but he has to be wise so that he can Elevate see if he's not wise then he's just like an ignoramus and the ignoramus is like an animal and the animal is going to eat the same level another animal no he's not elevating himself so probably as we said that the ignoramus Gentile should be a vegetarian okay and some are resonating some people resonate to be a a vegetarian because maybe they realize that they really aren't that educated you know we call that um you know subconscious right so the key re the the the the suggestion is become a righteous noide and then like Noah would be permissible to eat meat because you're not an animal if you don't know Torah you're just like an animal and an animal eating another animal doesn't Elevate the animal only if you're on the level of man okay so now what's the difference between man and which we we're going to refer to as the Jew again a non-jew who's a righteous Gentile is very Jewish meaning they're they're really connected to the Jewish people and hopefully they themselves are smart and uh in touch with Divine information so theod says he quotes the verse so you the Jews are called Adam but he says akum now akum literally means doesn't mean a non-jew it means a idol worshipper and by the way when the rambam says that a people misquote they say a non-jew cannot learn Torah that's not what the rambam says he says an akum cannot learn Torah an akum is an idol worshipper a Ben Noah should learn Torah again which parts that's a whole another story but a akum and other worshipper were not allowed to teach them any Torah and why because they are cont they're they're only learning to fight they're they're only learning to get ammunition to fight back and there's no sh they're not learning for the sake of God and the glory of God they're only learning to get ammunition to fight the Jewish people and to fight with God so he says you are called Adam Al but akum are not called Adam Al me but rather and I really should have looked at toit sorry toos toos actually brings down this idea that akum the the ID worshippers they're called with the hay and he tells us to look over there so B I'll take a look you have to know he's going to now explain to us what is the difference between theam without the he and theam with the definitive hey the the man as we said Adam without the hay is the Jew Israelite and the one with the hay that is for all practical purposes the Nel he says nearly it seems to me to be able to explain with the help of God where does the Jewish Soul come come from it comes from a place of absolute Unity it comes it's a part of God himself it's a we're going to see those words shortly part of God himself it's coming from a place of unity therefore it's called we're going to discuss the letters Al have something to do with unity the very beginning of the word is an Al that's the first letter the number one right each letter of the alphabet is equal to a number so the word the letter Al if is one one is similarly the the meam the first letter and the last letter the me of the alet is drum roll please the 13th letter and what do we know about 13 Even the letters is the Gat of 13 13 attributes of Mercy but bottom line is right is eight D is four Al is one the Gat of is 13 okay 13 is are very important we have 13 tries we have 13 months okay it's a whole another 12 12 months 12 12 tries but really there's 13 there really this 13 don't forget don't confuse me with the facts Okay so then he says what are you left with the the is the middle letter and it's that the doid represents the physical world the unity of the physical world the totality of the physical world and the physical body and therefore you have the four elements and that body that physical body is where the soul resides the soul is is MIT it's it's dressed in a body which is not true by the because the very first letter is a he he wait till you hear this it's O he you have the additional letter he which is gor which is not unifying it's it's a lesser quality letter why is it a less quality letter because you no longer have the AL which represents hasem and the Oneness as the first letter so that's the first what do you call it the pitfall that's the one uh downfall for that and what's happening so instead of the you have now the hey not only doesn't have any hint to hakus it's the opposite of akakus it's the anti Aus wait till you hear this how is the letter hey the anti Aus so he says it actually has the opposite effect it has the hint of per per means separation because how is a hay made it's separate it's like two pieces you have well what he says is you have a doid and you have a v meaning a small V and that's what the hay is made out of two parts unbelievable so it's two like it's in other words the olive is all connected right you have we said um Adam the doll is one it's all one part the me is all one part but the the hay is two distinct Parts you have a dollet and you have this like small little V and wait to hear this if you thought that was enough he takes us for granted that the hey is one of those letters when we deal with the the singular letters let's take singular letters as one through 10 meaning in Hebrew so these are numbers 1- 10 so the truth is that they all get matched up right so Al gets matched up with Y bet matched up with t it's a thing called now this different than atbash okay bash is that's like AZ and then bash bash the second letter bet with Shin which is the second to the last letter there's a whole way of doing gatan understanding and doing codes through what they call at bash but here we're talking about the Al Another right it's Al it's one to nine then bet to so forget the you for a second so you have the BET and then you have the so you go through the whole thing the number hey has only itself it's not a zoo a zoo you don't marry your own kind meaning you don't marry like male marries female right you have to have uh AER cono it has to be against you so a Zug is a pair so the pair starts with 1 n 2 28 right 3 7 4 6 and the middle always has no pair and therefore it's the opposite of octus octus is bringing things together here there's nothing to pair it with it's lacking a a a mate by the way so if you look up it's called shiman it's called atak like I said Al bet but it goes on it goes into the the tens and it goes into the hundreds and even beyond that I have a whole graph here just you should know that basically you have the and the and you have the and the the L and the the me and the and then you have the higher numbers um uh like we call the uh the last letters you have the K and the the and the L the shin and the and the T and the me and then you have always the middle letters never have a match okay they never have a match so you have the hey you have the n and you have the so they they parallel these five groupings these different groupings actually there's um all the different groupings here sometimes like 1 through 10 they match either the or they match a mas and a Mel something that is giving and something that is receiving those letters hey n and S have no match to give or to take just doesn't exist and therefore it's a issue of anti the goes on the actual name equals 541 so the name Israel has a 541 and since you have 12 tribes the so the 12 tribes of Israel and you can attach yourself to Israel right as it says in the prophecy right the non-jews are going to say I heard God is with you and they're going to take hold of your tius that's the idea that you're connected to the Jew you're part of the Jewish worldview right when you realize the Jews have the truth and you're going to connect yourself you grab onto their tius and you say I heard God is with you teach me Torah and so it says the 10 men from each language each Nation will hold on to the corners of the garments of the Jew what does that mean 10 men from each language so how many languages are there 70 there's 70 different nations so you talking about 700 and how many corners do we have four cornered garments so you talking about 2,800 non-jews will attach themselves to each Jew and they'll be part of the Jewish family so to speak not that we'll marry your children unless they convert but we'll treat you like um what do you call lmen okay and then so it starts like so let's continue he says so one second if Israel equals um 500 I'm sorry right the name Israel is 541 when it comes to the 12 so he says if you times 12 times the name Adam which we said is 45 so then what do you have you're actually minus one you actually have 54 40 and therefore you're missing one and what does it hint it hints that the Jewish people are that one nation is that one nation says um it's Shah we have a in that is Chronicles chapter 17 verse 21 who is like you oh Israel who is like you your People Israel go so that adds up to the 541 by adding that in something else I would like to share with you and that is in the back the last page this is the on now in the back of the form this is bet 49b the first major paragraph mentions this idea and I I'll just read it as he says that he's quoting from the gamor that an ignoramus it's forbidden for him to eat meat he says it doesn't seem like it's a real it's really forbidden like any other is usually in the Torah requires you to separate yourself like in a strong fashion but what is the Torah teaching us here is that it's just not fit for the ignoramus to eat the meat the similar theim says similar at the end of gorar on the fact that it says it says this a very interesting idea one of the ideas that a Jew should not be in partnership business with a non-jew now it's questionable what that means and I'll try to explain as best I can in this short period of time that we're not allowed to place a stumbling block before the Blind and when you get involved in a business deal with somebody who is an idol worshipper okay it's it's really about an idol worshipper so then you take them to court it's likely to happen you're going to end up in court and you're going to cause them to swear in the name of their Idol so in order to not put a stumbling block before the blind it's the suggestion is don't get involved in business now the truth is tosos explains I would say drum R please at this point he says that in his time like it was Crusaders time most Christians they don't really believe in JC they say they do and they even swear in his name but really they believe in the God the father so to speak for them they actually do believe in God this this what tovos says not going to argue with toos okay so he's just quoting that it's forbidden to get involved in a business part partnership with a non-jew a even from a forbidden a rabbi statue it's really not but what is it it's m it's like going beyond the letter of the law it's trying to be a Pious Jew Pious Jew should not do that and that's why it's called user now Al according to the simple explanation nearly it seems to me according to the the that the real reason that it's it's it's fitting to prevent the ignoramus from eating meat because the laws of eating meat involve many laws many laws of slaughtering and and what's kosher and what's not Kosher and the ignor if he's not eat meat he'll become accustomed to eating meat Isel so therefore when this anaris goes on a boat on a what they call that thing a ship a cruise right and there's no there's no Jewish butcher or he goes to the desert he says could go Bina midbar on a boat or into a desert and once he BEC comes accustomed to eating meat he's really not going to be able to control his desire to eat meat I mean I know a few secular Jews and if they ever leave Israel they they go right over to those non- koser restaurants they don't give a hoot right so because they're customed to eating meat so they'll go ahead and they don't they're not able to control their desire Ro he becomes so habituated to it that that's what he wants to do and he'll just go and eat the the meat might be a kosher animal right the animal was a cow but if it wasn't slaughtered correctly and it wasn't salted correctly and it wasn't you know examined and certain parts taken off correctly it's forbidden but they'll go ahead and eat with the non-jews because he doesn't have any it's the Torah itself that helps one control their desires and therefore it's better for him not to eat meat even in a place where there's plenty of kosher meat in order not to accustom his desires to eat meat because that's what's going to happen he's going to desire it now there is a there is a little bit of a difference according to us in other words if there really was an ability to stop them or not but we don't have that there's no such thing until mhia comes by the way of religious coercion apparently when mesiah comes according to the rambam there actually will be what we call religious coersion okay then he says that's everything I just wrote was according to theot now the Deep iCal level and it's similar to what we said before but he's quoting the Aral he says in in the book called mitos and Par he explains the reason that it's fitting to prevent from eating meat in general because they're not able to interesting when the Torah scholar is eating meat because he is engrossed in Torah he has um embodied Torah okay so he's on the level and as he's eating and chewing and digesting there is a we call digestive system it's separating the good he says here that it's separating and clarifying the Sparks of Holiness from the meat that he's actually eating and he says if you look there goes more into depth about it but to bring it down to another level he says another reason meaning now it's like it's like think about it what we just spoke about on a metaphysical level he's now talking I really think it's on metaphysical level as well but if we take it to a physical level he says because he's not able to check about the pus the waste parts that are in the meat and what are the waste Parts that're in the meat so the the is able to decipher if you think of a physical level there are impurities in the meat but he's now referring to a metaphysical spiritual level he says the the negative Souls that got reincarnated in the meat because the person eating it has Torah he's able to raise those souls to a higher level so that's already on a much further level now he the last thing he ends up saying according to the words of the according to where I can explain it is keep in mind there was never a mention about eating fish meat fish why fish meat because the fish do not get reincarnated with negative Souls so to speak okay there's um where there's not a lot of waste in the fish and therefore capturing them and eating them would be permissible the last thing he brings down bed drush seems to me to explain the real reason another reason why a a ignoramus is forbidden to eat meat is because Yakov and asav they divide two different worlds Yakov has the spiritual world asov has the best of the physical world and as you know he he sold his Birthright but in the meantime there's like two different worlds going on really the seed of Y is not in this world okay m it sounds like since he's not in the physical world the only reason he's allowed to eat meat anyway is for Spiritual reasons to keep himself alive to do Mitzvah then then Yakov the Jew is allowed to eat meat therefore what happens is that the Jew is allowed to eat meat it's permissible he merits through the eating of the meat the power to continue to learn Torah and fulfill whatever he needs to do in this world it's like saving some very small gem or Pearl or a seed of sand from the sea but it's something small but when it comes to ignor Torah who doesn't have Torah he's not really eating meat in in any permissible way he's not using that power to do Mitzvah with n it's like he's eating the portion that was given to ASA it sounds like what the the Beno Y is really saying is that if you don't have Torah you really have no right to that meat it's like you're stealing from asav that's as's it's the only way the Jew has permission to eat the meat is if he's using it to learn Torah you're using it to do Mitzvah okay and then that's why Yakov is not really part of this world but he's in this world and to use the meat in this world to get to the next world but the am is just like fleshing it out as they say and not using it for Holy purposes so with that in mind we learned a lot on that one little idea um that God placed the dread and the fear into the animals so they wouldn't attack man there's quite a lot of depth and we invite you to come back every week we do the same thing we learn just a few words and we speak we speak it out I translate the words um if anybody has any hate mail and wants to call me a racist VHA go ahead um send it to me directly privately and so I can at least answer it and explain My Views before you try to uh whatever it is you want to do to me okay so with that I wish everyone not just a Shabbat Shalom a good week as we start off by saying but of course of course a great life and we'll see you next week [Music] oh