Covid-19 Pandemic: Spread the Holiness, not the Virus with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] welcome everyone to the abandoned Beit Midrash we are coming from you shall I'm when we have a great crowd here in person and as well on the Skype call I just want to remind all those who are listening they can always go to the given a web site and find the original Hebrew documents that we're using the source sheets from the Clea car okay so what we use to have these discussions we use the clear car as the basic outline for our discussion however I do want to give an introduction since the world is facing an interesting using word interesting crisis right now with a plague and it's called the co vid 19 virus and it is a has another has other names as we all are familiar with the corona virus so there's a lot of stuff going on on social media there's people in a panic and anybody that tries to calm them down they even get more panicky and freaked out so what we're going to talk about today is a lot about trust about Emunah and relying on Hashem and at the same time I just want to make it clear okay it has to be crystal clear because I don't want to keep repeating this that you must follow the directives of the health ministries of the country you're from clear as mud you have to write you have to wash your hands you have to sneeze into your elbow you can only give an elbow punch oh uh you know what I mean a right so there's the idea that the most vulnerable and we have to be this is one of the main principles of Judaism is to watch out for the most vulnerable okay to guard them to show me them to to pray for them to care for them like we have for the gare for the elderly for the old mana for the atone right for the orphans and the widows and the strangers it's so important to care for the elderly at the same time the elderly have to do much more for themselves to be more much more guarded right so whatever might apply to the in the Ministry of Health for your country it's okay to be more strict right not be more lenient that's just one make that clear it's okay to be more strict I know when all the sudden it comes to religion people get freaked out oh but you know what all of a sudden it makes sense these people washing their hands all the time right you can't make a broth over 30 hands you can't pray with dirty hands you can't learn toadd with dirty hands and so from the time you wake up to the time you fall asleep the average religious Jew probably washes his hands I'm gonna guess between 15 and 30 times a day and that sounds ridiculous but all the sudden out to the new normal so I think we can appreciate and we should appreciate for yourself not for others right to be strict on yourself why do you have to be strict on everyone else but okay in a society that's undergoing such a rigorous how do I put it you know building the fences so this thing doesn't spread and we're called quarantine but there's different types there's self quarantine or individual quarantine to a whole city or a whole region I mean planes aren't even flying internationally from some countries to others based on this we'll call it a quarantine so we have to take it very seriously and I just want to emphasize that at the same time why panic what could you possibly do by panicking I'll tell you what you can do you can drew in your immune system you can lower your own ability to fight off this virus by having a I'm just using science I'm not even talking metaphysically yet which is what this class is going to be about we deal with metaphysics so we take the physics part seriously and we take the spiritual part seriously so I just want to make a clear on the physical side that hypertension is one of the main what what am I looking for the people who are most vulnerable right people with pre-existing heart conditions respiratory conditions and hypertension people with high blood pressure with that being said on one hand this is we have to take it seriously and and what I'm about to say is not to not take it seriously but to lower the blood pressure the blood pressure needs to be lowered and you have to learn how to laugh there's no coincidence that what do they call these refer the the lates I mean were fleet how do you translate that in English dr. clowns or health clown Healing clowns recovery clowns that simpler that this is our tradition god forbid when there's a plague one cannot be at soothe it's forbidden to be okay when I say forbidden um it's wrong it's metaphysically wrong for the physical side and the spiritual side it allows the the negativity to overtake to strengthen itself against your immune system okay this is clear according to the physics okay they have proven that they call these medical clowns that it works okay not just prayer but just smiling just laughing just being with a higher spirit helps recovery quick first of all it it helps the recovery process people recover there's more quantity of recovery and the recovery is quicker okay so it's a fact it's very important that we understand there's two sides to this so basically the goal I'm going to tell you what your goal should be if you to this show it's to find the balance between trying to do everything you can physically to stay away from harm's way and not panicking and to accept at a love this is God is the ultimate director one of the words we come up with he created everything he rules everything there's nothing that's not under his control right and that everything ultimately is for our good maybe not we don't see it now and that's okay but ultimately it's for a good that's to know it and to believe it and to have the Emunah okay with that being said we are going to deal with a few issues since we're going to talk about our parsha which is ki Tisa and we're gonna skip the first part which deals with the census but just know that we've dealt with this idea before that we're not allowed to count Jewish people we're not allowed to count and Amina what this is really for the Blaine off as well what does it mean anything in Judaism anything in Judaism the principles are for the world the principles the exact details and how to follow them are not necessarily the same but the principles are they are the same why is it that a human being like me cannot count a group of other human beings I can count my cats I don't have any but I can count my mice which I'm gonna have it but whatever I can count my snakes right I can count all these things why is it that I can count them I can count my coins I can count all my real estate on my Monopoly board right I can count everything I want but I can't count a human being so one of the ideas I learned above Mencia right in the core abundance here that the owner is the one that counts right when you come into someone else out you start counting I don't know his collection of something who are you to count my stuff it's my stuff whether you're putting an evil eye whether you're putting some kind of like sheep dung you're putting some kind of control over something else by counting it because that's really what you're doing there's a control that's what that can in society the controller is responsible for all the accounting and make sure nothing's missing or whatever it's a sense of ownership and who is the owner who is our Co net who is our creator and owner there's only one and it's like I used the word like we're putting ourselves in his shoes those tap shoes in his position right and that's wrong it's wrong for us as far he goes and who we are so it's a recognition a constant recognition that we are not our owners we don't own ourselves and we certainly don't own other people right so this may sound very metaphysical but that's going to be there's also the idea of right if you count something also then you don't allow the rocket to exist how that works that's a metaphysical we could talk about that another time so just before we get into the clear car on the parsha of chapter 30 verse 34 in Exodus I want to look at this idea about King David you can find this on page 9 I'm page 5 number 9 and this is also going to relate to the coronavirus because what we do have to do and then as people are panicking and feeling oh my god at the end of the world I won't have what I need you'll have exactly what you need what you need to do is to have gratitude for what you do have and if you have gratitude for what you do have you actually have everything correct so King David I'll use those words he made a mistake and he counted the people now you can find this if you actually read all of second samuel chapter 24 specifically verse 15 but the whole chapter is about accounting and also at 1st chronicles deva yamim chapter 21 you can read through that too there was a accounting 70,000 Jews were wiped out where how in a plague a plague the same word you for the coronavirus okay so one thing we should do is stop counting people I know right now they're all of a sudden okay you can only have a hundred people or 15 or whatever it is in a room well guess what that means you're counting don't count the people count the chairs count the keepo count the clothes count the empty church and how many cheers you started with whatever it is don't count the people okay in the very in when we had the 98 curses what's the last curse anybody know the last curse the last curse is I gave you everything and you were not happy this is going to back to what I said earlier about having joy gratitude and being happy God gave us everything and some say this is the worst of all the punishments we'll get this for this so what I think we are the most prosperous generation I think ever lived the last you know five six thousand years so how much gratitude should we really have I think we should have a tremendous amount of gratitude anyway look at what the King David he's the one now there's an opinion that he didn't really establish it but he reassured it what saying a hundred blessings a day because it was forgotten according to some opinions but either way we call it a rabbinic concept but it's based on a what we know that God wants right anytime the rabbi's have ever instituted anything it's always because they knew they understood from the text or from tradition what God really ultimately wants okay so let's just read this King David establish that a person must recite a hundred blessings a day there are a number of biblical sources that allegorically support this practice one example is interpreting the word ma in if you look in Deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 12 and that's what is God it's like a rhetorical question what does God ask of you the very words ma what does God ask if you don't read it that way read as mayor it's a hundred that God asks of you God wants a hundred blessings every day from you - what is a blessing anyway it's a recognition that he's the source that's what it is it's it's to bring forth the sense of gratitude right I know we just say the words but it's not about just saying the words it's about blessing baroque is you're the source but look at ah you're the source whenever I'm experiencing whatever the pleasure or and I'm gonna use the word Mitsu which is really we say there's no pleasure for mitzvahs in this world but we'll talk about the pleasure that you're going to get in the world to come or right chef ahold ah all this different types oh you're going to make a blessing of praising and and glory to the Lord it's all part of this hundred blessings and so what happens this is what does God ask of you what does God ask he asks you for 100 he wants 100 so Deuteronomy chapter 28 contains 98 curses and every sickness every plague in verse 61 totals there totaling 100 so if you add those two there's really 100 curses so to speak okay and what else I want to show you over there it's brought down in the Gemara it's brought down the show Canara if you're looking Monaco's 43b it was taught in a brighter than mayor and Rebbie mayor would say a person is obligated to recite a hundred blessings every day and it's based on what we just read in Deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 12 and now Israel what does the Lord require of you as if it's a question it's really a statement a hundred is what God requires of you and in the Shelf and ro and 46 three one must greet each day at least with one hundred blessings we have to make three hundred one hundred blessings every single day okay this is midges raba which I believe is over here basically in the this handout that I did not send I did not send in the in the email but this is copied this from a website called bu or a hat - fela it's about preparing and in depth of prayer so let me just read it to you I quoted the gomorrha we just read in Monaco's 43b and then he quotes and well I'm Ron gums Sidor so I'm gonna read it hang in there we're gonna get some really juicy stuff if you can hang in there for this I just want to tell you when I talk about bats okay Pat's okay and the source of coronavirus so hang in there okay I'm ROM son of sheshna head of the Shiva in masa nexia that's a suburb of surah in Babylon responding to review talks son of the teacher rabbi rabbi Shimon who has held dear adorned and honored in our eyes and in the opinion of the entire yeshiva greetings of peace they haven't show compassion to you your children all the scholars their students and our Jewish brethren who lived there send the greetings of peace from us and from Earth SEM ahead of Jewish Court from the officers of scholars Lee Shiva thought thought thought thought thought thought we the teachers the students and Jewish citizens of the area are at peace we are constantly concerned about your welfare and think of you favorably at all times we pray for you and ask the God show compassion to you and the God bestow abundant mercy upon you protect you save you from troubles and difficulties from sickness and affliction from oppressive governments from destructive actions and from all the trouble that can occur in life may God demonstrate compassion and granting you all that you ask for your cells Ravi ACOs son of Yitzhak delivered ten gold coins that were sent for the benefit of Shiva five for the leadership of these Shiva and five these sheep itself we have commanded that you be blessed with bravas and that they come to fruition for you and your descendants the order of prayers and breakfast for the entire year that you requested that has been shown to us by heaven and we deem appropriate to set forth and lay out in the manner which the tradition was passed down to us it's by tradition as compiled by the rabbi's during the period of the Mishnah and of the Gemara and so we learned really near said a person is obligated to write recite a hundred blessings each day and the Jerusalem Talmud we learned it was taught in the name of living there there is no Jew who does not fulfill one hundred mitzvahs each day as it's written in I'm aware it's written now Israel what oh okay so the book we said before it's Deuteronomy 10 verse 12 right in continued now Israel what does God your God ask with you do not read the verse as providing the word for the word ma as what instead read it as the word may I 100 King David established the practice of reciting 100 broca's each day so what we're reading is a letter that was written over a thousand years ago already claiming it was King David when the residents of you shall I am informed him that one hundred Jews were dying every day this is what happened during the times of King David every day there was a plague a hundred Jews were dying every day he established this requirement it appears that the practice was forgotten ah so it's not that he established it he reestablished it so here it says McCabe let's go back he established it according to this opinion and it was forgotten to our sages at the time of the Mishnah and at the time of the gomorrah reestablished it but I still believe that King David himself we established what was already known at the time of the given in the Torah that you can read the word ma what does God ask of you as mayor and they always knew it that they should have made a hundred brothels and they were making a hundred Rajas but it was soon forgotten and the order of the hundred brothers was set forth by rob not Roni son of July head of the Shiva as we mentioned before and this was in Spain and Ravana Charlie provide his thoughts no longer possible to recite each breath at its correct time this is because we wake up with unclean hands so we have to wash your hands first the first thing he mentions right we can't make bra clothes with unclean hands what they used to do is when they were lying in bed and they heard the crow or the chicken whatever they call it the rooster crow they would already make a truck ha and when they put their feet on the ground and when they whatever they did they did certain acts we do it we get to shul or we're about to go to shul we're about to go pray then we go through the whole list right after we already went to the bathroom and washed our hands how they did it I don't know but apparently this was a bit different and he says now we say it at its correct time and because today we awake each day with unclean hands hands that inadvertently came in contact with unclean parts of our bodies during the night even during the day when we scratch ourselves in certain places we have to wash our hands ok and this is like I told you from the beginning some people think that us religious Jews are very neurotic right always washing their hands so so instead when a person makes you should first wash his face hands and feet as is appropriate this is how a Jew fulfills his the directive and the following way prepare Jews for a meeting with the Almighty every person is obligated to do so okay I'm gonna stop there I just wanted to show you this is an old custom we have to try our best to have a sense of gratitude because that's the whole meaning behind the Bravo behind the broad not just just you know spit them out but to really have a lot of Kevon a lot of meaning behind it okay so let's start with the clear car in pawn shop as I mentioned ki Tisa so we're in chapter 30 verse 34 and I'm gonna tell you we're gonna read a rub back Eva Edgar at the end I'm gonna have you strapped Yaakov Israel read it for us and translate it because it's very interesting it's gonna talk about when there's a plague one of the sugu load one of the ways of trying to prevent being affected negatively whether by the person or the community is to read about the what the spice is contained called victorious and here we are so we're going to talk about the spices there's one particular spice it was I don't know what word to describe it it was foul it was gross it was horrid how's that for keeping above the sewer so we said it's in chapter 30 verse 34 okay here we are take for yourself spices God says to Moses take for yourself spices and he lists them one of this called gal bagram that's how they translated into English and we're going to call it what it's really called here ooo gal Bona Bona Bona Bona Shobhana okay so that's the verse we just read and Rashi says over there it is a spice with a vile odor so why is that included why's included if it's so gross and putrid why is that included is an important lesson so just hang in there we're gonna we're gonna find out for those who unaware look what Rashi says the scripture counted it among the ingredients of the incense in order to teach us that we should not look askance at occluding Jewish transgressors with us when we assemble for fasting or prayer so do we religious Jews look at people who are less religious than us or actual transgressors askance yes what's askance mean like you're greater than them that you want to keep your distance from them especially during fasting and prayer fasting and prayer what do we know about yo era of yours and Yom Kippur where we come to synagogue all dressed in white the holiest day of the year what are we asking what are we asking for for sinners to come and join us the holiest day of the year the truth is this is what I think that what we learn on these holidays were supposed to take with us into the year it's not what you think it's just that one day it's just that one moment I think it's much more than that I think it should make an impression on us that if we want forgiveness and we want to have a an internet relationship with God that's the moment that we really want it then we should we should carry that through the rest of the year you hear this now the clear cart begins by saying like this mana hell Bona Bane Simonet Taurus it is this hell Bona is included in the eleven spices made otoño in order to teach us that sare poche Israel the coal-tar need to include now I understand what are you including the transgressors fast they come and pray maybe they do maybe they don't how you supposed to include them by not turning them away if they show up I mean okay or do you have to actually go out I heard some NOAA kites asking are we supposed to go around meaning we the the non-jews go out and try to teach the world about the seven Noahide laws so I have a simple answer it trickles down if we the Jewish people are supposed to make sure the Jewish people are part of the program once caught that so why would it not make sense that a non Jew should do whatever he could to influence and non Jew to be part of the program right let's let's let's not jump ahead of ourselves but I think it's a very important point what does it mean time eat we're talking about a fast so the truth is a fast is what considered a sin is is it right for the anybody God gave you this world to benefit from and you're saying I know better today I'm gonna fast I'm gonna turn away all the goodness that God gave me so what is the example of let's say another another is a person who has taken upon himself astringency of not benefiting from wine grapes other things okay so we have to bring a sin offering at the end of his thirty days if it's a thirty day another ship if it's a different time period he is to bring a sin offering why is it bring a sin offering because it's considered a sin so in the second three so six B I just want you to look is it brings down part of this idea of why is it that the sinners should be included and let's say the less religious right whatever that means and it's combined with this idea that even that foul incense ingredient should be included so the verse quote it is it is he who builds his upper chambers in the heavens that was no matter Shem and he has established his bundle on the earth that's in Amos nine six you know what it says over there in Hebrew it like this jabón abyssion Mayan Molotov she builds in heaven his higher realm the good tell al Eretz so what's in a good right we learned that lesson in on circus right there you have four types of Jews right the Torah scholar the one who does mitzvahs the one who right we're talking about the four different species some have a good smell and a good taste some only have a good smell and so on they have a good taste and some haven't and that neither so to the people there are people that are they do mitzvahs and they learn Torah some do only one mitzvahs some only do Torah some do neither they all have to be included it's all one family it's all one community we cannot survive without them and now why can it be not survive wait till you hear this is we can sir I can understand why they can't survive without me right why can't they so why can't I survive at without them wait so but this is what God wants when all the people united is a bundle including the sinners they are established upon the earth then there's such thing as will called peace or whatever it is and I mentioned before we cut back into this idea about the the Nazir so look at number 6 11 so this is the proof that he is to bring a sin offering by coming into contact with the dead right the cone should prepare one for the sin offering and one for a burnt offering and atone for his behalf by sinning by coming into contact with the dead why well since when is it a sin to come in contact with the dead he took it upon himself look at the last piece in the Rashi rabii Eliezer hakop are says he afflicted himself by a staining from wine therefore he sinned against his own body I tell my wife sometimes she you know whatever I tell my friends at some tables they look at some food and they said I'm never gonna eat that oh I see please just once just once taste it do you know when you go to heaven you're gonna be judged for like were you honest in business where you're waiting for the mashiac did you protect of everything I gave you God's gonna yes he's really that's one of the important questions were you disgusted by God's creations right so you cannot totally say off limits at least try it once and then you can go to heaven and be in good defense say I tried it in the time with Bob Lee in Thainess number 11 a page 11a it goes into some pretty interesting idea of why it is that fasting is considered a sin those who want to read it they can read up at the last lines reveal Erica par the great said what is the meaning when the verse says with regard to it and that's right he will atone for him for that he sin by his soul that's the actual Hebrew but with what soul did this Nazarites in the Nazarite sinned by the distress he caused himself when he abstained from wine with his vow so that puts us over the over the over the over the top when we we only discuss the first line in the clea car so far I'll just review why is hell Bona mentioned as part of the spices in order to teach you that in Taneatua in fast you must include the center that's all we know so far and now he says botamo shelled over the reason is the fish in lo how you crochet a shrub the claret Anees if you don't include them in the tonic again why would they even come too fast they're not religious they don't believe in it but if you don't include a minute you should look who should know you at Thomas mitzvah that the actual fasting itself won't be a mitzvah we're Torah scholars we're yeshiva buckram we're a threw me in we keep as much as we can we're Chilean we love God and we're doing the Misses but what about them if they don't join us we're not doing a good enough job we're not a lot of fast we're only fasting to encourage them to fast because the whole goal is to get them to repent so too fast and they they might not even joining us because they want to repent but if they join us cuz we're inviting them and I am you know you're inviting to a suit I understand they'll come but you're writing to a fast is to be really what's the word convincing that this is a good thing right so it to a meal it's no big deal but to be inviting to someone to come to a faster prayer meeting or whatever it is that's you have to do a lot of convincing so obviously you have to convince them and hopefully when they're there and they see you cry and they see you pound your chest and they see you talking about mistakes you've made perhaps they'll come to do chula wouldn't that be like a fantastic program so that's what he says that if you don't include them you're fast is a sin you're not a lot of fast Ella of era it's actually a sin the lawyer oh you little rotten it's not coming I'm gonna try to translate this it's not accepted by Hashem you are fast is a sin so it's not coming in a good positive way we're told that if they don't join you if you don't get them and convince them to join them we find and this is the new more times we already mentioned shanira knows your height that that the person who's called it Nazir is actually called the sinner why Bob or she his das optimum in Hawaiian because he separated himself from wine meaning God's creation of the image bein a know push a straw but as long as we have let's call to store all sinners right but PO che is wrong means advertent sentence right people who are sitting whether more than just negligently okay rebelling thank you so if you know if you have them amongst you who railco pani a new treat him with his son noise before on we meet the fast for they're safe you're fasting for their sake you're getting them to join you ah this reminds me of a piece of tour I shared with you a while ago what happens when you have a rich person and he doesn't want to give sadaqa but he's still blessed because he gave how is that possible because you know how many jews want to give the document don't have money so because they want to give and they don't have money and this guy is only given because his the neighbor gave or because he wants his lights his name on the on the building guess what it's the combination it's from we're all doing this together my merit of wanting to do the mitzvot but not being able to and they're not so religious Jew who's doing it from maybe other reasons who's actually doing the the act of the mitzvah would let's say the wrong intention or not the right intention or not the full intention by the combination of my intention and his action it's coming together so for that let's say push a Israel the one who's coming too fast with us we don't know what level he's on but don't care he's fasting and I'm also fasting but my intention is I'm in fasting for him to a certain extent okay so we're all fasting together Dicky's because it says he call you straight are a themes about them all of is responsible for each other and if this is not a lesson for the world I don't know what is the Jews are a light to the nation's yes we have 613 and they have seven okay but if we do them properly with meaning and we teach them why we're doing it they are allowed to go beyond the seven a certainly at least in comprehension and understanding right and add meaning to their own lives right and if they want to do the Rambam says if they want to do a mitzvah for reward they may do so provide they do it correctly how they ever gonna learn how they gonna we have to teach them I mean again if they come to us or we put it out there there are plenty of people non-jews probably watching this accidentally on purpose I don't know but you listen there's Torah out there there's meaning on the internet right there's meaning and if you can tap into that gives in to hate all the better okay so now the question is like that he says Uber's em this actually resolves the whole problem in Alan Longmuir should say should say Ruth hock Ivana Moira out Sarah Papa shame the tannest after up until this point is claiming that this actually resolves what from where we're able to learn or to say that there's this combination the combining of this horrid putrid ingredient called the hell vana that teachers are reflects on the concept of the combination are combining those sinners specifically with fasting up until now clear as mud great ok so I discussed this with my ruta Yaakov Israel and he came out with a different angle and I agree that that is a valid angle and it could be even the most proper angle but I'll try my best to say in his words I mentioned the idea that there's some kind of peak to is some kind of our responsibility to draw them forward he wants to say you know what this is what really separates the men from the boys you know when the going gets tough the tough get going if you're going to if you're going to invite people to a sudah a nice meal it's anything by us no problem every we're going to show up well you know what who's gonna show up when you're fasting and you're praying they're the real ones so of course you have to take them that's what it means make sure that when they come you accept them readily ok so now this brings us into another idea he's shared and that would be what we all know at the end of the days after or let's say asthma chef is coming after me chef comes the kind of like the kind that think that at the time of King day that no more conference were accepted so could be that this is going to be the real test when the things are bad that's when you need to come and join the Jewish people now join the Jewish people doesn't mean to fully convert it could mean to remain a bad knock but at least to join now for this time and it could be too late after Messiah comes which kind of I think I might answer Kathy's question at this point so Kathy asks if this corona virus is affecting let's say it's affecting everybody but in terms of the most deaths are by the most vulnerable as we mentioned people with horribly hard well Newton systems or the elderly let's just say the elderly let's cut to the chase so if it's true if it's true that this is the end of days and we look in okay so we're in Chapter 13 of this aria verse 8 and it certainly seems right that we're talking about two-thirds of the population of the world will be cut off and only will remain 1/3 okay so I'll read the words exactly and there will be in all the land a word of a sham two portions of the population will be cut off in parish and the third will be left in it so it sounds like and you go on you're talking about cutting out evil right as if evil must be destroyed are we saying that we're implying here that if it's true if it's true that this is the coming of that great and terrible awesome day that two thirds of the population we cut off that it seems to be from all that's happening it's mostly the elderly first of all I just want to say that this is the very beginning you ain't seen nothing yet I mean you're talking about a pandemic that most people will not die because of the flu or the the ammonia or the actual virus people will die because of lack of medicines people will die lack of food people will die for all kinds of reasons if the hospitals are filled with the elderly on respirators there's no room for the younger people to get help don't assume for a minute that we're talking just because the very beginning stages is what this corona virus is affecting the elderly if it's true that this is a two-thirds of the world that's the some of the doctor or professors or a scientist claimed that it could affect up to 70% which is you know we're talking about really a two-thirds of the world population first of all no negative prophecies have to have ever have to come true this is one of the greatest principles of Judaism God is a loving God he sent his prophets for what purpose to tell the future no not at all to warn us to get on the path that he loves us he wants a relationship with us and any positive prophecy has to happen exactly the way the Prophet says otherwise he's a false prophet but a negative prophecy ic- told me that doomsday prophecy never has to happen at all or it certainly can be changed into something dramatic and positive okay so it doesn't have to happen law in other words if a prophet comes and gives a Doomsday's prophecy and it doesn't come true it does not make him a false prophet ask me killed and the greatest examples plenty of others but the Jonah am i right Jonah in Nineveh he gave over a prophet prophecy of doom and they actually repented so there was no such thing so wherever this we don't know how it's gonna play out we don't know if this is it and we don't know it happens to be but I can tell you now it could be and it could happen exactly the way everyone's imagining it can happen but it can happen in a very different way the way I just described right we're talking about planes can't even get to you to Eretz Israel god forbid there could be riots there could be able to anti-semitism there could be who knows that all kinds of horrible things could happen it doesn't have to happen and again we were her real question was is it about the elderly I don't think so and people obviously you know people die anyway at 120 so eventually the other people will die but I think this when you're talking about the I don't think that 70% of the population is in the elderly maybe in certain countries like Italy but otherwise most of the world's population is the younger part right in other words people 50 years unless makeup I'm just gonna guess I could do my my due diligence but I believe it's the other way around the the younger people are the massaman mass majority and the older people are already the minority so I don't know if that answers your question you cannot okay okay so Sahaba asked me a great question I think I should address it now and since she lives in in Beijing China and she is very concerned not just for the racism but for the blaming right there's a there's even in America you can't call it the Chinese virus I can't because it's racist it's if you say the originated in China that's okay but to actually call the virus the Chinese virus is not right let's just say that's what they're claiming okay so instead of using the blame and talking about whether it's homosexuality or whether it's eating bath which we'll talk about that shortly I told you that instead of talking about all the negative why don't we talk about the positive and I think I think there's a certain point she has look you have to know the route you know you have to cut out the route otherwise it'll still persist so you can't hide under a rug and say we're not going to talk about the source or the route but on the other hand you can emphasize and I do believe in emphasizing the positive which I spoke about last week or the week before I think and we spoke about doing tacit right that the partial sums are about the three pillars of Judaism if we don't involve ourselves more in Torah and more in avodah prayer and more interested helping other people then we lose everything the world only stands on these things so I think there's a great reason to emphasize the positive I argue spoke about Russian Hara rabbi kessen mentioned it but we we already are somewhat strict about not speaking loshon Hara but we should be even more strict we should think about it like what is the punishment for loshon Hara we spoke about it it's not leprosy that's not the punishment that's just a sign that the punishment is quarantine right so that's just one there's other there's other sins or character defects that are included in this surahs' will be collect see whether it's my zeal earn miser leanness there's there's others okay so don't think it's all about character development this is the time to work on ourselves when you are stuck in a room heads are a hidari this is what God wants right we spoke about this before the word Quran na means call out now now's the time God wants you have a relationship corona' now call out to a sham okay he wants that relationship but how do you build that relationship again rid of the ego you have to work on your character you can't be a je RK to other people you have to figure out a way to to be a nice guy a nice person a nice lady right we all have faults that's why we're here to fix them according to the Vilna Gaon it's Taccone Amidala that this is about fixing ourselves that's where the work is so when we're quarantined in Hebrew it's called Hedrick hidari özgür right both dead it's all kind of words but the point is you're by yourself it's a time to do reflection and come out a change person that's the goal right so you can change you can change yourself and can change the universe you can stop this plague okay I'm Kay I know I said you have to wash your hands and you can't gather around people and if you sneeze you have to sneeze into your coat and not into other people that all helps but you know what this is where the people who panic get it all wrong if you don't work on yourself and your trust in Hashem all the washing of the hands and all the panic buying toilet paper buying Corona beers whatever is it's not gonna help none of that's gonna help okay so I want to make that crystal crystal clear okay so let's go on the next paragraph Oh March manam Bane's Manik Taurus doctor why is the hell Bona why is this putrid ingredient included at all the fish are you they had Simoes for two votes now sue has done as the squeals now there's a very important principle in Judaism okay and I say Judaism I mean for everybody not just for Jews not for just razor lights for anybody who's willing to learn the Torah that through our fasts which are fast we burn our own fats we're burning fats right and we're not replenishing them and Chava that's called repentance we're turning we're transforming our sins are intentional sins into actual merits in other words if you had a debt your debt can be wiped out right no in this case your debt to God which is your sins actually turn into misses it comes from a negative to a positive now in other religions I believe basically when you believe or you do something you get clean swipe a slate that's it you went from negative 40 to zero you know what's amazing about Judaism you go from negative 40 to positive 40 in a second it made a great that's why all these Jews are accountants I guess right it says they they know the godly way of making making accounting now I do have to put a caveat if he doesn't mention it but I'll mention it the only way this works is if it's out of love okay if you repent out of fear so you do get a clean slate and that's probably why the Gentiles that's how they understand it right these other religions but we're talking about love right when you repent out of love that's when it becomes a positive and we call them screw up and where do we learn this from look at Isaiah chapter 40 verse 2 this is number six on page three speak to the heart of Jerusalem and call to her for she has become full from her host for her nikki has been appeased so was the word appeased came near Savona it's pleasing to a sham the sin how can the sin be appeasing to a Shem can anybody answer that in other words put it on put it on pause think of that it and then click start again and see if you got the answer we can how can it be that the sin is a is a something willingly accepted by Hashem so let's look at the Rashi a second so the first part of the Rashi is talking about when it says Yonatan renders we're talking about a in ancient translation and she's destined to become full from the people of the exiles and in other words she has become full from her hosts okay the next the next one is really the part i wanted to show has been appeased and the word near tur she has taken what does it mean she has received a cup of consolation from before the Lord as though she has been punished doubly first in by receiving a double punishment there's tremendous anti-semitism for the last two thousand years Plus this is all for what in order to receive reward apparently according to its simple meaning it's possible to explain for riche she received double punishment now after you if you ask how is this how is that the standard of the Holy One blessed be he to pay back a person double his sins I'll tell you we find an explicit verse look in Jeremiah chapter 16 verse 18 but I gave you a whole bunch more but basically God says I will pay first the doubling of their iniquity and their sin let me just give you I know there's anti-semitism right now flaming in America in New York because of rumors or maybe it's true of certain people in the Jewish community started or received the current of iris first I'm gonna tell you some rabbi pair from shift - he gave over and I wasn't there but my wife they explained to me what what was said that two years ago year and a half ago New York the same thing happened with the measles the measles is a very communicative disease but there's a vaccine and the Jews were being accused at least that part of the community of being anti-vaxxers right I don't know if that's the term used but an anti vaccine and therefore they're the cause well guess what research had been done after the fact and they found out that it's not true meaning it's true that they had more measles than anybody else but you know they you know and they will also maybe the spreaders but you know what they were 98 99 percent compliance they were not anti-vaxxers they were doing the same they were on the same level as every other community in the United States what was the difference the difference is that an average person runs into and deals with and interacts with approximately 12 people on a daily basis that's gonna be the difference so how many people on a daily basis did these groups of people run into thirty to sixty some sent over 200 yeah I mean everyone's different right but the average is 30 is 60 people so a a community like this in order to maintain the same level as the rest of the country would have to have 100% compliance not 98 99 like everyone else that of course they were being accused of being 70 percent or less compliant so what do we learn from this number one there's a lot of fake news okay don't ever believe what you read in the paper until you check it out right so number two what's the other thing that the Jews have to keep to a higher standard that's I know you have a different view okay that we are being held by different standards so we have to have a hundred percent compliance we cannot settle for Less there was a hot dog in America I'm not even sure it's kosher Hebrew National but they say what is what was their commercials of a higher we have high standard so the Jew whether he likes it or not is compelled to help to be held by a higher standard you like it or you don't like it that's just the fact okay okay so going back to the car we had just read Isaiah chapter 40 verse two about this somehow this sin is being appease intuition chew gum ha Vanya le rots on the rathne clock that also the sin itself goes up willingly like somehow is accepted as a beautiful fragrance to a Shem now as an example it says in Sanhedrin 37 1 let's find it I think that's the number 8 I believe there's so much good stuff I'm skipping here and but we were pressed for time no Bernhard okay so maybe we'll go back going back to this last thing we mentioned in Jeremiah chapter 16 verse 18 verse 18 so we're talking about doubling of their iniquity because they repeated their iniquity to do the iniquities of their fathers so this is and I will recompense the second ones like the first ones double down your nations will come this is very important for the nations to understand as it says in Jeremiah 16 verse I believe its words the end it's 9th it's 20 or 21 maybe it's 19 you know what's gonna happen listen to what it says that the nations are going to come to the from the ends of the earth and say only lies have our fathers had handed down to us emptiness in which there is nothing of any avail this is very powerful prophecy sera she mentions over there what it means from the ends of the earth and from the end up handed down an expression of inheritance by the word avail the Lord that my name is the Lord the and it's a parent meaning a ruler and and sovereign to fulfill my decree I think there's a good point a good time to point out that when the first time they mentioned the new name for this coronavirus they called it coded 19 and when I think of the word I tried to take away the vowels for a moment and I just look at the the consonants and I'm thinking about this disease filling the whole world right the panic that it's gonna fill the whole world but the word coded sounds to me like the word commode right the glory of God okay so God wants us to reach out to him he wants us to cry out then he wants us to have a Dimi relationship with him he wants us to work on ourselves he wants us to have that introspective you know the real work in the inner work how's it gonna come about so we know we say Baruch dyin and met whenever God forbid we hear bad news we're supposed to say God is a truthful judge he is it he's everything nothing is beyond him and everything is justice and I hear these people complaining these so-called religious Jews I didn't think they're religious but I you know they try to be they really trying but they're in a panic and all the girl is complaining this is not justice this is not justice and I hope they get a chance to listen and meditate and contemplate because they say these words borrow of Dynamat listen to what you're saying that God is a truthful judge that everything we're talking to the Nano meter we're talking about every molecule so this is something that is mom-ish invisible right like Esther we just got finished pouring it's something that's so hidden and guess what it could take even a month maybe to come out and generate germinate whatever the word is right it could take a while and God forbid that could be spreading blindly right so God is the one who's making she do him God is the one that's putting this person in front of that person to say whatever to be involved on a business or social or whatever level so ultimately ultimately if we're really true believers right we have to understand from a metaphysical point of view right that this is also for the best however however that means whatever that means right of course you have to watch your head of course you can everything I mentioned the beginning you have to listen to the authorities okay but ultimately we as believers have to know this in our hearts and our being and in our actions okay so we're about to go to Messiah the Sanhedrin 37a and it mentions here capella hari moon-rocket a which you're finding Song of Songs chapter six verse seven even I'm just summing up even the most how do we say the most seemingly inferior or irreligious Jews are full of mitzvahs now this is crazy because the statement here the Gemara is even the most empty ones amongst you are actually full either they're empty or the full I don't really get that right that's the gamora's question do not really know one seconds I think it's a very important piece here because we're going to talk about rubies there at the end so let's go through it rich lucky says that the source to rely on them not to change transgresses from here your temples with your word for attempt Allah is rocket tech are like pomegranates that are split open so that's the verse we just read which teaches that even the empty people among you are full of mitzvahs meaning full of pomegranate seeds which is like Mitsos so rubies era says from here the verse states concerning the occasion when Isaac blessed Jacob it said he smelled the smell of this garments and he said the smell is of my son is the smell the field the Lord is blessed that's in Genesis 27 27 don't read the words garment as beggared but rather as a traitor someone who's trading against a sham as boga des Beaux Gaddafi really like a bug a bogan which is a traitor meaning that even traitors and sinners among the Jewish people have qualities as the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed the Gomorrah now this is this is where let's say that's all intellectual let's see how it became to out to play listen to this Gomorrah there were certain hooligans Moroni that we're living in the neighborhood of ribbies era now what did he do this is why am I stressed Yaakov Israel that we went out of her way to bring the sinners to come and to what and to fast with us it says rubies air brought them clothes he actually treated them nicely now it means he just walked in the neighborhood and said hi like some people don't so he did I think it means more than that he brought them clothes in order to cause them to repent you see that he did something beyond just being a normal guy a neighbor to repent of their sins but the sages didn't like this he they didn't like him going out of his way maybe you're right maybe he was just walking down those he said hi and the sages didn't like it but I think that he was doing much more than just saying hi so when rebels era died you know what the hooligan said until now they even called him a nickname kind of funny there was the short one with the Simms legs that was Hermes there they and who would pray for compassion for us how did they know that he must have gotten them they're involved in prayers on pointer that's how did they know that he was praying for them then they asked who will pray for compassion for us now just that single question is already a thought about Trula right that means we want a relationship with God we don't know how to do it we had this friend Ruby Zahra he was a religious guy so we felt like we're part of the Jewish people are part of a relationship with God and now that he's gone where's our relationship they said they thought about this in their hearts and repented so ultimately rim users actions were proven correct what do you think okay let's finish up there clear car here so we just read the words and a feel of Raycom Shiva I'm the lame mrs. curry moon even the most empty ones amongst you are full like full of mitzvahs like every month full seeds but the question is in hey malay mrs. curry no and if they're full of mitzvahs like a pomegranate team came long macomb reckon i'm why are they called empty and Levada are you they Truvada bruza because the truth is also one of the 613 mitzvot is okay they were full of Shiva they were full of repentance doesn't make one empty keep colpo I'll rake shivoham meaning meaning the sin all of their empty actions which is sin namenda it's mala mitzvahs they themselves became full of missiles they did truth especially out of love then it became as we said because diagnose her ik her Rico's Nasu Kazu Cleo because all those M the sins became transformed into full-fledged merits and mitzvahs the Ala gamma have on the regna Clark now we can understand why it becomes like this incense that's what rayak because it's not just a pleasant lifting up to a sham but it's like the way that the incense works the actual incense itself it's going up as a sweet savour towards Hashem just like the missus do in other words it somehow pleases God even though it's very hard for us to understand what that means but it's pleasing to God that we open ourselves to repentance or to the relationship by doing mitzvahs and the dogma the classic example is the Kal Bona is the ingredient we've been speaking about all night long that is putrid oily little Arachne cloth when it actually goes up as long as it's included in the other ingredients it actually enhances the smell okay the smell of the incense is nowhere near as great or as good if the homeowner was missing which anyway it's forbidden to leave it out and and what did we learn from here Indians in maram a silent on Isla Chula the whole thing related back to the fasting and to the repentance and this is considered a very important lesson so I I want to have Yaakov Israel sit in my seat and translate part of in his own words anyway the key of Arabic even Jager on this piece okay so here we go I have to give you my microphone as well hi guys all right let's go okay good I'll be fair this is my first time I'm actually being recorded so I need you guys and you guys tell me what's going on the story goes in the 1831 there was a terrible epidemic that was going on in a place called Posen in Europe okay and he brings down by the introduction of what he was writing he was saying that in Poland it seems that the the non-jews were not too happy what was going on and they you know Poland was not known as the nicest place to be around especially open society as we think that they were they had a lot of problems and the king of this area went over to the great rabbi called Rebecca beggar who was living at the time in Posen and he says we got to put a stop to it and he brings on the introduction that he they went over and he says he has an idea how to stop this horrible plague no I don't know so much of my history what type of plague was going on seems it was a massive war that was going on and because of that massive war things got around diseases went around so he says that he says he has an idea and therefore he says like this first of all it was an imposing thing that you should not have major prayer places okay about to synagogue you should have to you know have a small little area confine yourself he says don't do that go to shul or to synagogue have 15 people at a time make a quorum of 10 people we always need so 15 people pray and he was gonna seem soon another's pain to you what he says to pray pray regularly add a couple more things and when you finish that that prayer those 15 people the next people should come we shouldn't have so many people yes we're trying to again to avoid the the infectious diseases that going on over here and therefore we have an idea so first of all the first thing that you have to do is make sure this 15 people at a time now again I'm repeating what he says and again was rabbi posted and said very clearly we listen to our authorities what we have today have to say okay and they what have to say to us is more important as well so if they're gonna say to us with no minion that's not gonna happen because we need our minion okay we do need to be feel feeling free that he says keep it to a minimum 15 now it's not only that we should only have that after that though we also should have every single morning and afternoon prayers there's certain things that we add first of all we should have some Psalms to be read somes is always the King David's way of connecting to God and his life I would say as very much to our own lives that we have to do and our own way of life and because he was as a king of Israel and he knew what was going to happen so it includes us with even the year 2020 so it's important to realize that his prayers that he said is also with us it also says that there's also added prayers to that we have in a fast day there's a couple things that we say after the fast day there's a lot of things that we say that God is all merciful it goes through the the ABC of the the Hebrew alphabet quelle raha hoon a commercial maha the whole the whole thing over there salad 13 attributes is 22 plus and one out of five or six added things that we're saying that God please have mercy on us not only that answer us God and then another 35 things that he's saying also with the Hebrew ABC that I love paid that is dealing with that and then it says to also add Misha enough meaning the one that Akash Burcu just like here God answered Abraham from the or custom the same way is entered Isaac by the the the that kada Jacob way Bible Laban all these wonderful things that we have a whole listing of different different people that God saved them so we're asking then God please save us and we add also another fifteen fifty five or six things over there but exactly that he brings down also but you also also have the prayer that the king should have longevity which is to me a fascinating thing we we are in exile we are amongst of all the nations in the world and all the nations of world are looking what did the Jews doing well he beggar says pray for the marvels pay from and he should live long and he should continue his range of last forever it's an amazing way and furthermore he brings them which is in this this week's Torah reading and we talked about the turret turret which has my post and said there's a spices and just reading it has a certain if I would say potent type of thing sorry for using that word it's not magical hocus-pocus the words themselves mean a lot we do know today not that I had too many spy books but any words that we do say could be tapped in even after we leave that's why they were dealing with the Russians they always had the water faucet going on because it was background music background noise they shouldn't hear what was really going on because after they leave whoever is leaving they just tap in somehow and they turn the thing and the noise is there read the words of the katoa and it has a power to itself by just reading it and not only that is reason of also he says what you should say afterwards this a certain part of the incense that he says that the spices I'm talking about saying the wrong word the spices are used there's also be careful to say it say it the right way don't say it the wrong way there's a lot of different words that could be mixed up and not only that he says there's an Indian there's a very important thing over here of how we should what's called we should we should make sure that we come there and make sure we stay in the entire prayer don't leave in the middle prayer that's one of those hard things that we are trying to catch the train and we're trying to catch the bus and the car is waiting for us I'm gonna be late to work take your time nobody's rushing you take your time to pray very important that there's not you know that is not an any Russian he's knows that you're another thing and now only that he also says it's also that he should he should say how great the the the kingship was over here and over here he brings down something interesting after each time after saying the Psalms always pray for the longevity of the king that was imposing okay I want to add lunges evety to the world because we need them as much as they need us and therefore we should pray for them and then he says also please add the other thing that he says is to please give charity a charity is a very important thing and we know that the what's what the sages said to us mmm sorry Solomon says mama taught some a novice giving money somehow it takes away go give us away charity charity maman is charity saves us from death and then he brings down a whole bunch of things of what the sickness said it was exactly what it was but here we have three things that he's saying first of all so say the prayers slowly to continue saying doctorate which is the spices and also give charity and this is he guarantees it that's gonna go away I don't know what happened then I'm sure that that's why I'm here because I'm not proposing and I 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