Devorim Part 2 Weekly Torah Portion according to the Kli Yakar Deuteronomy 1 verse 1 (9th of Av)

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 [Music] 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 [Music] 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 [Music] 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