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Devorim Part 2 Weekly Torah Portion according to the Kli Yakar Deuteronomy 1 verse 1 (9th of Av)
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so in Deuteronomy 1 vol
1 if you notice it says these are the
words that Moses spoke to it says in
Hebrew Co Isel and then it tells you
where he did this talking it was across
the Jordan in the wilderness in the
Plaine opposite the SE reads between a
place called pan and toel and Lan but
maybe that's like a triangle I mean
where do you have between pan and to in
Hebrew it says
ban it says
banan toel vavan so it sounds like it's
between pan and it's between toel and
lean it's really anyway one of the main
points that the Rashi points out is that
these places don't
exist okay we're going to see that in
second but one of the main things that
we talked about earlier in in a previous
class that the clear tells us that if
you notice now in verse
three it goes through a certain period
of time when when did this take place 11
days from K by the way of Mount toades
okay then number three it was in the
40th year in the 11th month on the first
of the month when Hashem when Moses
spoke to the children of Israel
according to everything that hasem
commanded him to them and then it's
going to go and tell us all of the
details of the sins that we did with the
spies and the golden Cal but I wanted to
point out it says Moses spoke to the
children of Israel in verse one it says
Moses spoke to all of Israel and what we
do in this class we just read the clear
and he he peels away layers and he lets
us know some of the deepest secrets of
what's going on because if Moses is
speaking to
Israel in the first verse and he's
telling them over in a way that is we
called a remes so because of these
places is the the places themselves
represent sins that we did while we were
in the
desert and in fact Rashi tells us those
places don't even
exist I mean pan exists but toel Le and
may not either so how is it that the
Torah describes these places that we
were at when he spoke to us when these
places don't
exist and that's when he spoke to Israel
but when he spoke to Ben
Israel so then he goes into detail about
the sins so as I mentioned this is like
an earlier class I'm kind of recapping
this idea and it's really something to
wrap your head
around that in the first verse Moses is
actually speaking to what we call Israel
the leaders of the Jewish people because
they are mun they have the name like the
shame of Jacob Jacob had another name
Jacob was called Israel right so when he
talks to Israel he's talking to the
people who resemble yob the leaders the
the zealous ones the um the and the ones
with responsibility in the congregation
oh he's speaking only to them as and why
and why is he speaking in a remes
because they're not really guilty of the
sin itself they didn't participate in
these sins but what did they do they
failed to rebuke the people and and he's
teaching them how to give rebuke how do
you give rebuke and it'll be easy to
accept if you hint and you hint in a way
that only the person who's guilty will
understand he you're talking about him
right I use this example in my other
class let's say you know you're camp and
somebody's watch is stol in and like or
what iPad and like you you get it you
put it together and you explain look
we're not going to go through anybody's
bags but something happened um an
article was stolen and we're going to
leave the door open at midnight and uh
we expect whoever did it to just return
it and we won't even you know what I
mean we won't accuse anybody and we'll
just forget about the whole thing and
usually when it's told over like that
right and everyone's looking at each
other like even the guy who did it you
know as if he didn't do it but side in
his own heart he knows he has to do Chua
and he'll return it but uh it's not
accusatory you're not pointing anybody
out you're not hanging anybody out the
dry it's hinted and it's maybe it's even
hinted to the point where oh it might
have been mistakenly taken you know by
accident you know how it's done and
usually the the item is returned so here
he hinted to them in a way that first of
all this is how he was teaching them how
to give to
and he was giving them toak at the same
time because the places represent the
sins that the people did not misle them
whereas Ben Isel that's to the older
people and that he goes into detail with
okay so now we're going to start that
was just like a
background and I was in the middle of
reading a Rashi and I'll just go back to
that Rashi uh you don't have rash on
your page but um I can use my phone no
no it's okay I'll read it it's a short
one so towards the end of verse one
Rashi says
b between this place pan and
and
said we've gone over the entire
scripture toan and we never found the
place by that name whose name is TOA
so what's going
on Moses rebuked
them over The Words which they slandered
the man the Heavenly bread angel food
Shan that food was white that's why the
word lean appears weu remember we said
in numbers 25 verse
one we
said our soul is at its limit with this
insubstantial
food and he rebuked them as well over
what they did in the wilderness of
pan through the spies now I mentioned
that because that's
rashi's the clear disagrees with rashi's
understanding and we're going to begin
in the Hebrew
on
ban
so the Lush B right even in modern
Hebrew if you want to say between you
use this
phrase he says I this is a place where
I'm going to add another approach to
explain what it
means in between the 17th of tamos to
I mean we call it bsar between a tight
space this is a time of of being seized
upon by enemies and horrible things have
happened to the Jewish people during
this period of
time so he says ban said the word panan
means it's it's symbolic even though
it's a place but that's the place where
they sent the
spies which we ended up crying a crying
for
nothing and it was established by Hashem
a crying for all for Generations on the
evening of Tish which is explained in
the Tinus on
29a and the word TOA which is the other
place mentioned we said doesn't appear
as a real place in the name
of the says that's the ago that repr
presents the golden calf which was
made okay but we just read Rashi and
Rashi said toel means the man the
Heavenly bread that came down from
heaven so Kish Rashi according to what
Rashi
saidu Al that the word t l is
represented of the man because they were
disgusted by the man they were very
unsatisfied the fact that it tasted the
same every day it didn't didn't have you
know that texture that you could just
bite into it probably melted in your
mouth like you know cotton
candy and the truth is and this is
something that he doesn't talk about but
the man tasted like anything you wanted
to taste like so if you were a dull
boring person that's what you got but if
you had a great imagination well that's
what you got good stuff so it seems like
they complained about the way it tasted
which is very
unusual so the clear
says he doesn't like what Rashi said
he's going to argue with Rashi and he
has a different idea in the end you're
going to see that he actually agrees
with Rashi but uh till we get there hang
in hang in and buckle your seat bels he
says I don't like this idea that on the
mind because there's no real comparison
in the
Torah he says if rash is going to hold
the idea that this Tel is representing
the sin of being dissatisfied with
Heavenly gift as the Mana was then
wouldn't it have made more sense to use
the verse in job that's job
66 it
says which is which job says can what is
tasteless be eaten without salt so the
word Teel represents something that's
tasteless so if you're telling me
tasteless is or sorry if you're telling
me that the man was what they argued
with they complained about and Teo
represents that then bring me that verse
and I would
understand and he bring he goes and like
slams dunk this idea because he
says anything that doesn't have taste
Tel it's considered to be secondary just
like when we make blessings on food if
you have let's say a piece of Herring
and a cracker right and you really want
the hering and the the it's really salty
you don't have to make a bro on the
cracker if you're only eating the
cracker in order to absorb some of the
salt of the hery or you right so
something that is secondary when I
mentioned about meat and potatoes right
if really it's a stew and you're really
only interested in the meat you only
make the Brook on the on the steak on
the meat okay so there's tough secondary
really it we understand it's tast this
but let's just say it's not your main
desire to
eat and and he
saidash so everything was that would
have been great if Rashi would have said
that but Rashi did it so the CLE card is
going to start with using his Brilliance
to bring out a whole another idea as he
mentioned in the first sentence that
it's talking about the 17th of tamuz
because we're talking about the ago the
um the golden cap and how do we come to
that he
says but according to our way of
thinking it really makes sense to say
what I'm about to
say that really it was the worshiping or
the making and the worshiping of the
golden camp that is hinted at through
that word toel which we already says a
place that doesn't exist
why we actually find the word Teel in
reference clear reference to idol
worship in many places in Jeremiah for
example Jeremiah
23:13 it
says in the prophet of Samaria I saw a
repulsive thing they prophesized in
b
v so you see the word is talking about a
the repulsive thing and is referring to
idol worship so you see that it fits in
perfectly and then did I skip something
no I
did that's the verse I'm
sorry so the word tifla here was
referring to this repulsive idol worship
and then
in is what
Lamentations
24 we see another verses your PE
prophesies to your delusions and follow
so the word over there
was again it's a f it's an illusion but
we're talking about ID worship again and
so to Ines which talked about lots of
rain came down on their roofs and
because they didn't patch their roofs
they eventually fell in also referring
to the same idea of not worshiping God
properly and also also when we
unfortunately when we worshiped theoo we
made the ago we
said
is these are your Gods o Israel inos
that's Exodus
32:4 so what what was that representing
when we turned to God and said to the
Jewish people we said this piece of
metal molten metal was your
God we were BAS
basically we were um showing disgust
towards our God so this was a
negative and when did all those things
take place when did the agle take place
that was on the 17th of
thas that was the day in which the luos
the tablets were
broken just like we said by the by the
crying on night
was going to be established for
Generations so too the breaking of the
tablets on the 17th of tamuz was also
established for as a h as a breaking for
Generations because on the 17th of tamuz
much later on in history the walls of Y
were breached broken and her Stones were
were
breached
and between these two I'll use the word
dates between these two time periods the
7 and the nth
of Israel crouches between
judgment now we're getting a little idea
when we originally said between here and
between there we say it's in between and
Mar that's said here in our verse it's
just like now I got you got to remember
this verse this is incredibly deep in a
a is
Lamentations 1:3 and I want you to
remember this we're going to only talk
about the last part of the verse but all
her pursuers overtook between the narrow
places bsar I mentioned that's the time
period between the 17th tamus and the
9th of that 3we period where we
unfortunately look out and keep away
from dangerous things because a lot of
calamities have happened during this
three 3we period throughout all of our
history it wasn't just these two dates
alone but it's as if there's something
that happens on those dates and in
between as
well
so so between the sin of
the the um the golden catf and the sin
of the sending of the spies we're
crouching in
Ambush we're pushed to such an extent
we're not able to get up now what he's
about to do is it's like just incredible
mindboggling because we don't think of
the Jewish calendar necessarily in this
way but we need to think along these
lines and I'll tell you why because
these are very deep lessons on how we
need to first of all behave between man
and man man and other men and man and
God in a very deep meaningful
way so we just got done saying that
those three weeks are very precarious
you have to be extremely cautious many
bad things have happened now what do you
do in the most natural order of
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things this is like the most important
lesson in all of
life in a natural order of way there's
no way to be
saved it's like salvation there's no way
to be saved against an
oppressor except in one of two ways or
both of them together so take the heart
this is very everyone wants to be saved
from an oppressor right who wouldn't
want to
be the first one is actually through
God's Divine Providence through his
involvement in your life ham called the
baking boow he saves all those who cling
to him who are interested in that
relationship right it's it's it's a
two-way
relationship even if you don't have the
strength of the courage in a natural way
right to stand up and to defend yourself
but hm will be there for
you and however in any case when you're
able to fulfill the dictum the
mitvah and you shall love the Lord your
God what what's happening
here you're causing that intimacy you're
causing that relationship to develop and
prosper it's as we
said You shall love the Lord your God if
you fulfill that Mitzvah of loving God
he'll be there for
you he'll save all those who cling to
him okay that's the first aspect and
we're going to actually relate this to
one of these two um dates we're talking
about the n9th of a and the 17th of
tamus and the aspect of having a
relationship with God is related to one
of them and then the second thing
is maybe even just through natural means
you could be saved from your enemy and
how's
that when you're able to fulfill the
Mitzvah the
dict loving your neighbor as yourself
what's the result
as the result if you're out to help
people you're loving your neighbor
you're you're interested in in what's
going on in other people's lives then
people will be there for you you're
there for them and as a natural
consequence people will be there for
you has even if you're a total atheist
even if you're a denier of God they
right even if you're a sinner and
removed from
you there's still hope even on a natural
level but there's one
caveat
provided you don't oppose the network I
think the word let's use the word Matrix
and that's a as long as you're not like
upsetting the the cart we to explain
what that means shortly
now these two time periods we're talking
about the 17th of T and we're talking
about the nth
of we the Jewish people lost both
aspects
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and if if we lost both then who's going
to attempt to help us who's going to
even try to help
us right we lost God and we lost people
now on the 17th when we made
the what
happened it's that day we craw
backwards right we turned our back on
God we actually turned away from God we
we showed him our the back of our necks
and not our face and ready for this you
know anything about the Zodiac and the
the mazot so tamuz the month is
represented by the crab that's the
sartan call cancer in English it's the
crab how does a crab walk he doesn't
always walk forward he walks very
comfortably sideways or backwards right
he's got all these Claws and they're all
over the place I mean I just imagine
right I've seen some National Geographic
videos so I have an idea what a crab
looks
like um so they're not always walking in
a forward Direction they kind of walk
sideways and
backwards so so to that's what we did we
retreated we we walked away from this
relationship from with God was even
that's we lost that salvation we lost
that possibility of being saved through
the edge of Salvation the edge of
Providence as I like to translate here
okay so that's the seven to what
about okay this is going to be a little
bit deeper on a psychological
level onab was the sending of the spies
when we accepted the report of the
spies meaning on the nth of a born like
became into our Consciousness a level or
a horrible character trait of hatred
towards our fellow brother as it says if
you look in our in our chapter on verse
27 so it says
and you slandered in your tents and said
because of hashem's hatred for us did he
take us out of Egypt can you imagine the
Jewish people were saved from Egypt with
God's glory of 10
Miracles went through the desert were
were given man water from a rock their
clothes didn't wear off they didn't have
to go to the bathroom their shoes didn't
uh wear off and they had the
you understand these words and you
slandered in your tents they were
talking about God they slandered God by
saying Hashem hated us now when you
think that God hates you what do you
think about people hating you and then
if people hate you you hate them back
okay so we're looking at verse 27 later
on in our chapter where it says and you
slandered in your tents and said because
hashem's hatred for us did he take us
out of Egypt this is how they actually
thought cuz they verbalized it they
thought that God hated them that's why
he took them out of Egypt but if you
think of what the Miracles that he did
for us how can that be psychologically
what was going on in the minds of the
Jewish people to think that God hated
them and actually out of their hatred
brought them out of Egypt certainly that
doesn't seem to be a
hatred so he says look at Rashi right
there now he says an amazing thing now
if anybody with psych
101 ready for this deal he only brings
down a few
words I think it means like
this as Rashi says yet he loved you but
you hated him as the popular saying goes
that which is in your heart about your
friend is is what you think is in his
heart about
you I mean that's you know we have a
great
imagination and the person can look at
you what you think is the wrong way but
really it's coming from deep inside you
your reaction because you think that he
hates you and therefore you hate him but
that was never even close to the
truth now they are claiming they hate
God right that was what the verse say
it's hard believe it well I shouldn't
say that they actually believed that God
hated them so he goes on and says so
what were they
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thinking we already know this after the
fact that each one actually hated his
friend so most likely what the case was
that Hashem also hated you know that
started within them that they hated
their friends and as a result they can
actually say God hates us but that
wasn't even the case the case is true
that they hated each
other which is a big problem because we
said that the character of of causus
hatred entered on the ninth of and as a
result we're going talk about a few
verses later they actually think that
God hates them too and why did they come
to this because of this
psychological uh idea if it's com coming
from within you then you automatically
assume the other person has the same
ideas very
deep after the fact they made this
mistake by saying and thinking that God
actually hates them for
nothing then certainly as a result even
and just the natural result that it
obligates not in a positive way but it
obligates that each one will then hate
his
friend and just the conceiving of this
negativity of this
pain that it gave birth to this horrible
trait and as a result caused the
destruction of both temples now you
should be saying to me what do you mean
both temples the second temple we all
know and talk about was because
of and the first temple was not because
of at all we say it's because of the the
breaking of the three cardinal sins the
ones that we are supposed to take very
seriously and even die for if necessary
which is adultery
idolatry
and murder so what do you have here a
real mindboggling idea and what's he
going to say
amazing he
says you know what happened during the
first temple it was a hatred amongst the
leaders the leaders had a hatred and we
all know the story DAV and schomo pretty
much had a unified um Israel for most of
their lives but at the end
that at the end of schlomo's Reign it
already broke up there were now two
kingdoms that's a great tragedy in
itself and we had good Kings and bad
kings and they didn't get along okay
there was a lot of strike between the
North and the South between called
Israel and
Yehuda so he's claiming like this that
what happened was during the first
temple you had this Cena this hatred
amongst the
leadership
Chena
B But as time went on by the time the
second temple came around it spread this
plague of hatred towards other Jews
didn't remain solely in the leadership
but it got filtered down to all the
people and was spread amongst all of the
children of Israel like it's brought
down goror y on page n am now he says
what are we talking about
here what we already talked about t
being the crab and the crab walks
sideways with the side of his neck the
back of his neck here now we're talking
about The KES the month of a what's the
ma what's the the constellation symbol
for a that's the lion r
Leo
everybody right everybody is um similar
like an AR like a
lion ESO Whose desire is to devour his
friend that is
deep and then as a result of acting like
this
lose that salvation that Saving Grace
the natural one which we said was
Between Brothers Between one person and
another because you don't have that love
that could have existed between
people nobody can rely on anybody else
and therefore nobody's going to help
anybody
else yob who can possibly help or lift
up
yob
if you look in
Amos it's the prophet Amos
7:2 it's really only the last part of
the verse but I'll read the whole thing
it was when it finished devouring the
grass of the earth that I said God Lord
please forgive how can yakob survive for
he is small and poor meaning when you're
small important Mitzvah and in love for
each other you don't imagine how yov can
possibly survive so if we got our ey
together and Lov each other love God
then we can Purge ourselves of this
horrible tragedy which it's hasem we
should see the building of Bas of
mikdash this year for sure I'm going to
be eating meat drinking Wild on which
falls out
chabas it comes out that between these
two time periods right we talked about
the the 17as and the
of actually unravel the package our our
Salvation our being able to be saved
from our enemies totally
unraveled
mem because we quickly released
ourselves from from God's grace
the and also each person removed himself
from his fellow
and we find that these two dates are
actually like fences on both sides that
are kind of squeezing Us in and and
liing limiting us
the and there's like nowhere to go
there's nowhere to lean there's nowhere
to breathe it's like suffocating this
place okay you can't go left or
right
Ro
B so in 13 the whole verse says Yehuda
has gone into Exile because of suffering
and great servitude she dwelt among the
Nations if this doesn't describe Exile I
don't know what does but found no rest
all her pursuers overtook her in Dire
Straits now it says all okay all are
pursuers so he wants us to focus
says even the weakest of our enemies are
able to overcome us all implies every
one of them you might have think you
know you know a Hulk type guy you know
what's this guy Goliath you know the
strong Army but even the weakest of our
enemies that's why we have to be
extremely careful during this period of
time K
is this period of time we provoked I
actually like this word natu I think it
means I think that's where like Nazi
comes from even though you know like the
word Hamas it means violence they they
chose these
names okay it's definitely something to
think
about and it was all this period of time
in one shot we provoked the Holy One of
Israel that that's God
himself right we desecrated that
Holiness of Israel and what does that
depend on it depends on the unity of the
nation the Holiness of God the Holiness
of Israel depends upon you and me and
how we treat each
other and in the second time period what
did we do we crawled away we crawled
backwards away from the divine
presence who's going to help us who's
going to run after the help who's going
to be
interested that's why Moses gave this
rebuke he wanted us to see he said see
you guys are standing when he
says what was the words
ban he's telling you're standing right
anytime you come to this three weeks
when you're coming and standing between
these two concepts how you treat Hashem
and how you treat your
fellow you're standing between these in
the three week
period what we call the between the Dire
Straits meaning from the aspect of the
action that took place in pan which we
know was the sending of the
spies and the action that took place
with the golden
C in order to give them strength and
encourage them to
repent that's why he said
this because if they don't
repent then
the as we said as a result the action of
the spies established for us a crying
for for for
Generations because we were disgusted by
this Holy Land can you
imagine see if you look at the land and
you as disgusting right and you're not
interested so what is the result the din
the result the the the Judgment would be
exile
thrown
out which is what happened we were
exiled
on and the action that took place at
which already said does place doesn't
even exist but we explained that that
was talking about the the agel the
golden C so that what what that caus as
a result there was a breach of the walls
of the city and that happened on the
this the City was destroyed on the
1 b b so what happened in
between as a result that 3 week time
period in between is a really scary time
because that's when judgment comes down
heavily and even the weakest of our
enemies have an opportunity to overcome
us according to this explanation we can
actually say now that he doesn't
actually agree disagree with Rashi that
the word Lan because it does say
to so maybe that was what rash was
talking
about that hints to the idea that they
were disappointed they did argue about
the
man right the man that came from heaven
was white and Rashi says also compare is
Rashi D zahav what is the th zahav
repres
present what does zah sound like gold so
enough gold they weren't they weren't
satisfied you had two and a half tribes
but we're talking about God and Ru here
they wanted to be where the grass was
greener right where they could um
pasture their many flock so and they
also wanted to build these flocks before
even um building um homes and places of
shelter for their families so what do we
learn over
there that their money was actually more
important to them than their own bodies
which was a
sin even though they had plenty and then
he brings down a saer that he himself
wrote and he
explains see in our verse that was verse
two I think which we didn't really read
so carefully but it said 11 days from by
way of M
toes that's where they were
located so he's talking about what ises
that what does that have to do with
anything 11 days he
says there are actually 11 days that we
mourn the temple through the year and
what are
they
that's nine days of the month of and
then there's two other days to come out
to 11 that's sh the 17th of T
and now you might say what
about that doesn't have anything to do
with this so you have 11
days since it's such it's far away from
the simple shot he decides that we're
not going to go lengthen it but he does
mention The Words banan which means in
between actually carries this
explanation even in its most simple way
and that is the end of this part any
questions
or