Hashem is our Sword to Defeat our Enemies with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] back to the ibn abate midrash welcome home to torah a warm welcome one of the things we do is we really try to learn hebrew right and i mentioned every time in on our website in yearbooknet.com there's a link below you can find for tonight's share not so easily but you'll at least find the pages and then you have to choose which book and which year for this different sheer and then the source sheets are uploaded so you could uh follow we're in parshas balak now before we start we heard recently there was an unbelievable tragedy in surf side that's just north of miami beach we are praying for those who are unaccounted for and hopefully that they will be found very soon and we don't know in good health or not but that hashem should heal them basically if you want to find the names of who and updated you know what's going on yeshiva world news go into google yeshiva world news and they'll give you the updates okay so um i just happen to besides the fact that it's a city a very small city of six thousand people and there are 2 500 of those people are orthodox jews and i can only imagine that there's many more jews there besides the orthodox jews but it doesn't matter all human beings should be thought of in good health and so they're in our prayers especially and i lived in miami beach for many years and i visited actually baal harbor powell harbor is just two blocks three blocks north of surfside so um spent a lot of time there okay we're in parshas balak we're in chapter 22 of numbers and before we go into the clear car i want you to become familiar with the first four verses because that's what we're going to deal with so at least in english we will have we will be dealing with the hebrew part but i want you to be familiar balak who was the son of sipur he saw keep in mind it means he saw all that israel had done to the amorite that's verse one what in the world did he see so all you have to do is go back one page right to the end of last week's parsha he saw the conquering the war and the victory of the jewish people of israel over sikhon and og the the amorites they took over their cities first of all all we did was want to pass through and they attacked us we just wanted to pass through and they attacked us and guess what we won the war we took over their cities and we killed sikho no okay perhaps perhaps that's what he saw we will see an absolutely fantastic new view of what balak actually saw next verse says moab became angry first of all we will see at the end of um in verse 4 that balak is the king of maw but now we're talking about the people the people actually what became very frightened of the people so why were they frightened right now this moment well because it was numerous not only that now you have a comment it says a mob was disgusted so it's a different emotion or in a different emotional response in the face of the children of israel i'm about to tell you one of the main questions the leocar is going to ask how come israel is mentioned by so many different names you don't have that anywhere in the torah already we call them they were called israel in verse 1. they were called in verse 2 and at the end of verse two to call bene israel and wait to see verse four then moab said to the elders of median why get the midianites involved now the the the scared masses are going to go and tell midian why what are they telling them now the congregation now israel is called the congregation will lick up the entire surroundings as an ox licks up the greenery of the field why is israel or here it's called the congregation similar to an ox that's licking up the field and it ends that balak sipper was the king of mouth at that time okay now that we're familiar believe it or not i want to actually read the hebrew we should be familiar with the hebrew the yar balak benzipur at kolasheros all that israel did to the amorites viagra moab maul was very frightened with neha'am because of the people mowed very frightened kira who because they were many they were so many how many were there how many were there 3 million 600 000 jews between the age of 20 and that's what scared them the akatsuma what's that word leokats and they were disgusted because of venezuela that's how that verse ends again the verdicts disgusting we're going to discuss and again another pronoun used for the children of israel for israel for the jews and then moab goes and talks to the zika midian the omar moab el zikne midian to the elders of media and auto now they're going to illegal that this kahal this congregation is going to lick up at coast volcano all of the surroundings kill hulk ashore like an ox would lick up at dirk hasadeh like the greenery of the field and he was the king at that time okay now the clear card will begin by asking two very important questions this is a little unusual what i usually do is go word for word through the cleo car actually what i want to do is sum it all up i mean i'm going to read it without going through word for word i mean translate i'm going to tell you what i think he's saying i'll read the hebrew and then what i want to do is go deep down the rabbit hole relating to a very particular subject so if you saw this sheer before great but i'm going to to develop new ideas also i will put below in the description box the link to the sheer that discusses in detail word for word what we're talking about tonight although i'm going to run through it like i said and get into some very interesting ideas so what did balak actually see what did he actually see i already kind of proposed that's a very important question as if he just saw something in recent history such as the conquest of the amorites all you have to do is go back to numbers chapter 21 verses 23 through 35 when israel defeated sichu right all we wanted to do was pass through on the way to urchin shroud they came and attacked us and we won now i have to admit when you read the text there does seem to be some miracles but what is the what bothers the cleo car what kind of miracles were they that nothing in comparison to what happened 39 years previously we're talking about we left egypt there were 10 unbelievable plagues that i guess the whole world knew about and transformed like as if there was a recreation right every one of the ten plagues somehow corresponds to the ten sayings that god used to create the world to show his mastery we're talking about all that hashem did to egypt the ten plagues the whole world knew about the splitting of the sea the decimation of the egyptian army the whole world knew about it as the is described during the splitting of the sea that the whole world was quaking and shaking and terrified because of what happened this just turned back a few sentences this is what balak saw that all of a sudden got his goat so to speak it wasn't what happened 39 years earlier why not well we don't know because the turtle doesn't even say what he saw okay it says he saw what israel did to the amorites and we automatically assume it's what just happened the second major question that he will ask is why is um israel the jewish people referred to by four distinct pronouns what are what are pronouns their names or descriptions of who they are which is absolutely unusual and what are those four names we said them already yes okay so israel israel's in verse one verse two was israel and verse three or four was oh yeah right the congregation now i'm going to read for you the clear car we already know what he's saying but we'll hear the words the yar balak ben sipur at kola show so you see hello nissim it's rhyme how you good dolly meilu we're not the miracles that happen in egypt greater than these so llama low hit bone named baoten godolas venno roy is sure why wouldn't he contemplate about what actually happened when we left egypt that's the first question the ish the odyssey there's something else to contemplate there's four names that israel is mentioned by yeshua israel and he goes through the verses and at the end he says hello davarhu this is extremely unusual it never happens so if it never happens why is it happening here okay that's the four that's the two questions now what i want to do is sum up his answers and i'm really going to deal in depth with the first of his four answers but i think it's important for you to hear the four answers okay so the first answer is like this you have to have drum roll right if i don't tell you what this answer will be you're not going to sleep tonight i just know it and then you're going to blame me so i i'm i'm obligated to tell you the answer okay drum roll please ready it's referring to who to israel who's israel jacob yaakov did yaakov do anything to the amorites it says baalok saw what israel did to the amorites does anybody remember what yaakov did to the amorites what his sons his sons his sons shim and a lady what did they do this is the city of shechem nina was raped we wanted a court case we wanted justice they didn't give it to us they wanted to marry our daughters we said yes sure right blink blink sure and but you have to be circumcised first on the third day when it's the most difficult day of circumcision we killed all the males okay nice right so did yaakov take responsibility was he upset with his sons or was he pleased with his son's behaviors you don't remember so look what it says in genesis 34 verse 30. do i have it on the english sheets 34 30. where what number oh number six okay he actually says there upon yaakov said to shem in the levy you have troubled me to discredit me does this make any sense among the inhabitants of the land among the canaanites among the perizzites and i am few in number they will gather against me and i my household will be destroyed right now i want to go through the hebrew a little bit um actually i really want to go deep into this but i wanted to tell you answers two three and four so what i'm going to do right now superficially speak about answer number one just so you understand how difficult it actually is so yaakov says to shem the lady right you muddied me like there's different translations in english one is um you disturbed my composure or over here i'm not sure who's this you troubled me right so the word i in cuff race actually could mean polluted dirtied muddied basically confused you troubled me i'm now disturbed by this action and you're making me odious so the hebrew was which basically means a stench there's this concept of being extremely upset repulsive repugnant or even abhorrent so based on this idea that he is saying i'm in trouble i mean they're going to come there's going to be anti-semitism there's going to be a lot of mistrust and whatnot you put me in a very bad position so i am pointing towards the idea that he was not at all happy and of course he didn't have anything to do with it seemingly allegedly from this verse but i want you to go to genesis 48 22 because we're going to deal with that in the cleocar basically in 4822 where's that on the sheet okay it's number five he's not he's absolutely taking responsibility now this is this is um towards the end of his life he's giving the blessings and he's giving a blessing to joseph now he's giving to joseph a double portion he bought the city of shechem or he bought a burial place for yosef in the city of shechem but ultimately this gamora which we will deal with in if i'm not mistaken 123a we will deal with it shortly is discussing the idea of giving a double portion so he says like this behold i'm going to die and god will be with you and he will return you to the land of your forefathers and i have given you one portion over your brothers meaning a double portion your your yosef will be divided into uh menacing ephraim we're going to discuss this later which but this is the important part which i took from the hand of the amorite with my sword and with my bow i share like what is he saying here i'm the one who took it i i conquered that city i took all the possessions with my sword and my bow do we see a seeming contradiction seeming allegedly okay now what i want to do at this point is just sum up the clear car and then we're going to go on to the other answers and we're going to come back to this so basically the clio car is telling us the way of kings is always if if they're literate great because they grew up in the palace and they had tutors or good teachers the best that money could ever buy and so they were they could read so but they had their disposal divrei hayami chronicles history books especially kings were privy privy to this information the masses were not so having that idea he was able to know what happened 250 years prior to this occurrence that israel would call him yaakov right israel israel remember there are four names israel is called i mean in the our verses israel so there it says he saw what israel did to the amorite he's talking about he saw with his own eyes the books because when you read in korea you're reading with your eyes right he saw himself what previously happened with what yaakov did to the amorites that a single man and his small little family small in number took over a um an entire i mean at least i don't think killed them all but you know i'm talking about like uh they didn't kill them all they killed the men of that town but they took over the city they basically were victorious over uh a people okay so basically that's what that's that's explaining the first verse but we have so much richness to go into so i want to describe the other three answers the other three names what they all mean and i want to go back into this particular idea so the word is always referring to the erev wrath or the yeah the erev rav guys you're listening right here rav how much was the error of i already said we were like between six hundred thousand to three million right guess what according to the megilta which i believe i have here in number 14. i mean you actually have to see it this is in um this is the words of rebbe ishmael okay so it actually says according to ruby ishmael that there were 120 i'm sorry 120 really old one matthias sorry metallian the arbayim no i missed stuff sorry start at the beginning may the estream replay which means it was new one million two hundred thousand meaning double the amount of jews and if we consider that we had three million that means there were six million of the aravrav meaning there were nine billion nine million people in the desert but according to what he saw we're not saying he anymore we're talking about moaf grew very frightened because of it as act looks to look at the verse again it says because they were frightened because of the people because it was numerous so the arm was numerous who were the arm the air of rav they saw six million of them and then they saw three million of us but why were they afraid of uh they were disgusted from us so the word the akats is similar to the word that was used when egyptians were disgusted and they wanted to kill us right so they enslaved us so we wouldn't have children right because we were growing and growing the word of the akats is from the word coats it doesn't literally mean only disgusted although that it can and does mean that but we were like not literally a thorn in their eye right as you might have thought that's what it means but no we were like how do i describe it it's a very interesting psychological term they were projecting their own value in a certain way they knew that we were compared to a grape and we were growing very fruitful in egypt and they themselves felt inferior and therefore they felt they were like weeds a thorn is like a weed and that's what it means here when it says they were disgusted in the face of the children of israel in hebrew the akats they felt just like the egyptians felt inferior like weeds and what do you do when you plant a garden when you plant when you farm you first have to get rid of all the weeds before you plant the good stuff and this is what they were afraid of because they understood the jews were compared to being like grapes very fruitful carom and we were being uprooted there's lots of verses we use here we'll talk about them shortly hopefully quickly but basically this is what they were afraid of we were going to come into the land of israel but before we came in or as we were settling we were going to get rid of them all and this is what frightened them the most and the last is why are they compared to kahal and using the ox as an example yosef himself is compared to an ox many places in the torah right by the and what we have here is that what were the moabites trying to get midi knights involved with think about like this who sold joseph yes it's true the brothers sold joseph into slavery basically to egypt but who did they sell them to the midianites the midianites yeah look at the verses midianites the ishmaelites and the midianites the midianites were ultimately responsible for the sale of yosef to egypt meaning that particular place and therefore they were moab was trying to get an ally trying to say well listen we have lots of fear from them they're not even coming into midian but they're going to take revenge one day on you because of what you did to joseph you might as well come on board with us now in other words it's manipulation uh using the other people's fears in order to make them an ally okay and that's why the um the idea here is that now the kind this is what they said to the elders of midian now the congregation will look up our entire surroundings not just us but you too who are just outside the land of israel as an ox licks up the greenery of the field a symbolic of an ox because joseph is compared to the ox that you were responsible for um for selling to egypt okay with that all done and said what i want to do now is um talk about the um how do i start i just want to go let's do this we'll go to the clear car we'll see the words i expressed are clearly in his words so i translated it correctly i gave it over correctly and then we're going to go deeper into the gemura and baba basra 123a so here we are on the first page halfway down right it's halfway down where the answers in order to explain this the answers are as follows [Music] chronicles history books sharolav katuvim kolha korois miyamim rabin all that had all that happened through history but the masses the only thing they know about is what's happening today how much are strawberries selling in the shook how much is watermelon right that's all they know masha roy may name what they see with their own eyes or masha shamu or what they hear from rumors should be ma'am whatever occurred in their day lefty that's why balak ayamela he was the king he made me yummy that's low right because he knew the history was made known to him what yaakov did who's israel israel saba that's who you that's who that's what happened el hamori what jacob or let's call him israel saba did to the amorites right he was just one guy one single man and his what his little household 10 12 people came and nevertheless this small clan this small family was nitsa uma they were victorious over a complete people and where do we know this from from from genesis 48 22 he says unbelievable he's taking responsibility and he's saying i yeah i'm getting right who are the amorites those people that i i took which i took from the hand of the amuri he's giving over to yosef the double portion i took it with what my sword and my bow now here we're going to go into the gemara and discover some gems and this hopefully will change our life and what we think about the power of prayer because what exactly is my sword and my bow so i will tell you right away there is a problem we have a problem looking for the verse in psalms 44 7 it says for i do not trust in my bow nor does my sword save me now what are we talking about king david does not make up anything new this has to be known to abraham isaac and jacob this is known to our forefathers so what's going on here on one hand he's taking responsibility it was my sword in my bow on the other hand we shouldn't rely on my sword and my bow we have another problem we have to deal with see why i want to put a lot more attention and time into this idea because we are going to refer to now baba basra okay now you guys have a different format than i have but look on your far right on the top so it says like this this by the way gamora was discussing double portions to the bachur the firstborn and many of the ideas behind it and as a additional proof to what it was discussing about the firstborn getting a double portion it refers us to genesis chapter 48 22 which is our verse i'm giving to you is a portion so there's going to be opinions it's talking about the double portion and simultaneously it's talking about the city of shechem okay one portion over and above your brothers in other words what is he giving them he's giving them something that he took from the amorites what did he take from the amorites there's some very mystical ideas here right what did he take from the amorites through his sword through my sword and through my bow now right away the gemara asked is it through his sword and his bow that he took it what was yaakov saying we already know we sold psalms king david says no i don't trust in that the gomorrah tells us ella sorry and hello kavarnamar doesn't already say in psalms 44 verse 6 lo bakashti not in my bow do i trust amy and my sword does not save me ella so what is the more answer rather harvey the very fact the jewish people have a sword yaakov had a sword himself he had his sword what is that feeler prayer kashti what is a bow it's called bakasha but kasha means petitioning it means requests okay now just to go down on uh avov if you see right below that paragraph there's a little verb yeah so too in the target monkey list he explains the verse ani na tati lechashem that i gave to you shechem meaning in aramaic i gave you one more portion in your brothers which is consistent with the gomorrah of the the the firstborn getting a double portion because the word shechem means a portion however rashi on the torah explains the word shem differently he says it's the ira mamash he actually gave him the city of shechem and we have kevin yosef we have the uh the um the section of menasha ephraim okay and here he gave them the city of shechem which he bought kevin yosef shout out to the yosef that which yaakov gave to joseph was one more portion above what his brothers received okay now in the back of the gomorrah they're in matifta there's these amazing comments and i want to focus on them so we'll and then we're going to read the ben yahoo yada the benishkai okay so let's start with the first comment on the right side of the page i gave you where it says what does it mean what does it mean that he took it from the hands of the amorites you see that you see it as the gamora mentioned which i had i gave to you shechem which i'm the one that took away from them yaakov was taking responsibility he was involved he took it we're talking about the firstborn's gifts there is to explain the continuation of the verse however what does it say is that which i took away from the amorite what is he tooking away did he take the firstborn ship i don't know how the status of the firstborn from the amorites wait to hear what the mahasha has to say he says that this is what he took away from asav asap was called an amorite how we have to find out does that make sense and he's an amorite no yet this is how the martial is explaining it so we have to go into it so he took right isn't that true yaakov took the firstborn status from asaf and this is what he's referring to and he's giving it over to joseph jose is going to now receive that which he took away from the amorite the fir the status of the first board we still have to discover how does the martial understand asav is an amary so the haqqavana la otto bakura shalaka the intent of the verse is that firstborn status that yaakov took away from asaf as is mentioned in madrish the measure says the how could that be he was not an ammo right ella what did he do he acted like an ammo right now what does that mean the odd al shame nashos also who's who did he marry right remember yitzhak was did not want yitzhak did not want yonkov to marry the the canaanites he went all you know sent all the way to uh to love hunt's house it's very important even back around did not want yitzhak to marry the amorites the canaanites canaanites who was the most strongest of the canaanites the amorites the amorites okay so we're going to see also the actions so he says like this first of all asaph married amorites the shaheen mishiva to um israel they were amongst the canaanites fayyuma in the kukalim kidarke and their actions were meaning whoever he married from canaan didn't matter they had the actions of the amorites nikra kola umos ashema mori therefore all of them are called basically after their name because the character is what defines them and now therefore it was the icker the prime of who they were however the ramban he explains the intent of the pasuk that they were actually amorites not just this the mayhem but actual amorites kashir khaf shubhan israel's arts when the jewish people when amisha came in and conquered the land haiti who was the first who was the first war with in irish israel and i'm going to say here to shall we talk about menasha on the other side menasha is a son of joseph right and who was the first war as is described in the torah itself in bamidbar that's numbers 32 39. do i have that on the english sheet 3239 just so you know what it says which number 19. it says the children of mahir the son of menasha went to gilad and conquered it driving out the amorites who were there so we're talking about to a certain extent this idea of yaakov saying past tense what i took away from the amorites is like mice about sim in the banim what i did in the past will also occur again in the future right just like i took it away from then then them then so too joseph you will take it away from the amorites in the very beginning of the conquest of aries israel beautiful right yosef and therefore from the very hands of the amorites came into the possession of the children of joseph as we just read okay that's the first interesting explanation the next idea is what is the connection between the firstborn of yosef to the to the firstborn of yaakov meaning like this makeshif yosef yaakov so this is what happened the torah scheien explains that yaakov said to yosef shannon he's giving him the first born status and that's a davar that's something that he took away from the hand of asaf he actually took it from asa mahashma to bahrain that it was the very first born status that i yaakov took away from asap i'm giving to you joseph and the explanation is like this during the actual tenth plague when the firstborn were being wiped out i'm just looking now for the verses because it's exodus chapter 4 verse 22. we have that here somewhere okay number 21 right and you shall say to pharaoh say to the lord my firstborn son is israel okay so say this to pharaoh we're about to get into the tenth plague that this idea of the jewish people becoming the firstborn is because the sale the sale from asap was to jacob and the makabakuros during the actual tenth plague israel the jewish people became and it could be we're talking specifically about the firstborn of the jewish people they became i think it's really all the jews they became into the status of firstborn to serve hashem la avoda avodah ulahakriv knows okay let's assume for now within the jewish people who are the firstborn you had firstborn and the status of firstborn the jew of the jewish people were going to do the service in the temple but you know that was taken away from them and given to lazy so let's see what happens until the jewish people sinned with the golden calf the nitro shavette levy tatem and lady was chosen in their place all you dation is so it was through their chosen status to serve in the temple that they would get what we call madness kahuna now i don't know exactly what it means because not all of manas karuna can be eaten and used by lady but let's say the general idea of no helich in the land and therefore they have to survive on matanot we'll call it tithing right there's certain monstrous and ties that go to the lady and therefore kane because of this lo not like baharits they were going to be supported by what called matanus kahuna they're going to not have a portion in the land nymphs of so when it comes out from this it comes out that the very fact that yaakov took that status of firstborn ship away from asaf nem shah khadav so what extends from this that one of the 12 tribes one tribe is going to be removed from the status of the regular 12 tribes and also they're no longer part of the 12 remember there's 12 portions 12 let's say many states within israel right so the lady is no longer part of that ella but this proves name is the very fact you need 12 tribes that's why yaakov broke into two the two tribes well let's just say the two families of yosef into menachem ephraim as shvatim themselves because you need 12 tribes that they are connected the 12 constellations okay i'm not going to go into we talked about this another place but the idea is that the world is run basically through the jewish people's actions they have an effect on all the masolos and all the different borders of the 70 nations are highly influenced by what the jewish people do so let's leave it at that we'll we'll give another share just on that he continues therefore you needed one of the 12 tribes to be divided because once you removed levy right from the the portion you needed 12 zesha amar yaakov yosef now we understand when yaakov said to yosef our words here who at the bacharach mesa that he was saying i took it away from the amorites that's what i took away from the amorites thus meaning asap meaning the firstborn that's what i'm giving to you okay his tribe into two fine now we're going to get into the really juicy stuff because this is what the highlight of the class is about the kesher between and keshet in other words what are we talking about the connection the relationship between what we call a sword and a bow two what we call tephila and a bakasha to feel is prayer and a bakusha is a request or a petition now i do have here in english somewhere the actual gemara and look in number eight [Applause] it says like this the gomorrah sites did we do this already actually we did it we actually read it so we should be already familiar with it okay so it's like this the maharsha begins by answering the question he says the passage is actually making a connection between what we call sword and prayer why because the tephila is in the hand of yaakov the prayer is in yaakov's hand parallel and it goes against who the hereth the sword that's in aesop's hand okay you're with me you're all with me it's clear as mud [Music] she hit barrett look in genesis chapter verse 4 which i think you'll find um 27 verse 40. sorry you'll see it number 24 in the english sheet you shall live by your sword this is the bracha that yitzhak gave asaf who lives by the sword our enemy asav right and the only thing right that will let's say go up against his sword is prayer how do we know that look at the next verse i mean look at number 25 on the sheet in genesis 27 22 yaakov drew near to isaac his father when he got his prayer his blessing and he felt him and he said this is the voice of yaakov but the hands are the hands of asaf so what does that mean kako ko yaakov this is the you have to hear the beauty of the hebrew it's on page 7 number 25 at the top it says you're all familiar with this verse right this is the voice of yaakov although the hands are the hands of asav he was confused so what is it about the ko ko yaakov the hakoko yaakov is tufila his prayer i lost my place i have to go back so we just mentioned about the blessing that asaph got that was in chapter 27 verse 40. by your sword you will live but it also also says in chapter 27 verse 22 the voice is the this is the voice of yaakov but it's the hands of ace um what is it telling us that it's through the prayer of yaakov right it's for the voice through the voice of yaakov in his prayer mithgar bear you will be victorious over asav so too okay now that was prayer what about the kesha kashit interestingly we said it's bikasha there's also a relationship in letters of the words the kamokain the kashato now that could mean in his prayers or his bow so let's use it as his prayers his petition is though it's going to actually help him connected yes it's actually going to go against the power of ishmael what's the power of ishmael i want you to look in genesis chapter 21 verse 20 which is number 26 on page seven and hashem was speaking right god was with the lad this is the narration and he grew this talk about yeshua and dwelt in the desert and he became a what an archer an archer look what rashi says now in the words the hero the keshet what's a casual one who shoots arrows with a bow clears mud so far unbelievable right in this little piece here we have so much to uncover and we're just getting started okay hang in there the maharal i have to look for my page here it is what does the mahara have to say about this the marau explains that tephila of at sadiq the prayer of a righteous person is nimshila laheref his prayers are compared to a sword why because he's able to rip up and tear evil decrees whether above or below el yonim o tahina what about the kashot right the the idea of keshit bakashot that's nimsho lakeshit that's going to be comparable to a bow why mimeshu mit kashem pizzfilato because it gives more strength it hardens the prayer why it's a poet yotai it has more action to it is an arrow an arrow goes so quick like a sword i don't know how far how fast you can you know it's heavy and you're aiming and whatever you're doing with it i'm sure there's way you know take a picture a pitcher throws a a ball right and that's really fast he's not swinging a sword but he it's going fast now if you take pressure on the bow and you let go that's like i'm not saying it's like a bullet i mean the the way that a pitcher can certainly throw much faster than hit with a sword the arrow is even faster than the ball right whatever it is so this is what he's saying that there is a um that the arrow the the sword is like prayer and that can destroy up evil decrees at the same time the kashit is more pinpointed and goes much quicker and that's true now the yaithits he explains something like this he says that the sheriff this sword we explained it into phila because of what it says in psalms 149 6. look invert look at number 27 it says in psalms 149 6 lofty praises of god in their throats meaning what is prayer it's coming from here look at me it's coming from here right and the double edged sword in their hands in the same verse you have to hear the hebrew though because it says romo's el er big ronam it's being raised up in their throats terepitheo what is the word pithiot that's very nice but pp pepe it's through the the what's coming out of the mouth that's the prayer that's the sword that's the jew's word i just want to point out maybe i i don't know when we'll do it but i just want to point out um if you go on page 3 number 10 and 11 it mentions the sword of god at least twice in tanakh here's to two sources so judges 7 chapter 7 verse 20 and the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pictures and they held the torches in their left hands and in their right hands the trumpets to blow and they cried in hebrew of la hashem uligidon so what does it mean hashem a sword to the utke vavkay keep this in mind it's god's sword and also in jeremiah 47 6 the sword of the lord how long will you not be silent okay we'll have to talk about these verses as well so hopefully we will um i'm sorry so we were in the middle of the yavitz and i stopped short so i got excited okay he mentioned this verse in psalms 149 6 gerald pitheos and there's a hint in this that the prayer is through the path right because of the pithiot and the kashit the bow we darshan doubt that the that's relating to requests remember what it says it says vikkashti remember in the he and he says i conquered the amorites with my bow but it doesn't see look at the word it doesn't say which it should have said i i conquered it with my sword and bow and my bow it doesn't say that it says look in the hebrew with a bet and with my bow and with my bow but in hebrew it's bakashti it actually means petition the actual word means to make a request it's in the word itself and it doesn't have to be written with that bet in fact it shouldn't have been written with that that but it was written with that bet and that's what the eye of it wants to explain that tibetans dress khan bakashti in the actual word with my bow meaning and with my request i mean and my requests okay now we're on dalit and that is the temuri sade now i just want you to know after we do this one we're going to go into the ben the benice kai the unbelievable kabbalist from iraq baghdad the real baghdadi right here we go so let's go before we get that to there we're in the terume he explains what we mentioned in the gemara according to what's explained in the gomorrah a different gemara in gemara broncos ahmed aleth on a verse this is in first kings chapter 8 verse 28 and i'm looking over here did i bring it down it says like this but may you hashem turn to the prayer of your servant us and to his supplication hashem my god to hear the cry and the prayer this describes both the bakashot and the fila that your servant prays before you today so just hear the hebrew real quick we said this was verse 28 turn towards the prayer of decha the el tahinato and also to where his beckoning his requests hashem okay to listen el harina now this is confusing because reena is reena and then you have elite fila towards the tefila so here you have turn to hear the cry and the prayer that's how they translated in an art school world so now we know that there's the tephila and the tahina and then we have the arena and the tefila again so he explains it like this in a very let's say counter-intuitive anti-logical counter-logical counter-intuitive he says like this when it says lishma to hear to the arena which is the cry and to the tevilla that we're actually darshaning out the word reena as prayer and the word to feel as bokasha they definitely have to have different meanings no question about it anyway that's a true masada but rashi explains something else parish rashi that the arena is the feeler but it's a kind we call shevach that's called praising hashem that's what that's what reena is it's a type of to feel that whereas the bakasha the word for request is asking for your needs you see we have different types of prayers some fit in the category as personal requests and some fit in the category of schwa praises so when you make a prayer that mentions praise when you're praising hashem you're drawing down from hashem okay it's just general mashem towards the person like the torah itself is called reena the tour itself is called rina i have a comment here and we'll skip that for now the umar says in the gemarak anyone who's involved in torah learning at night like us cola so if you learn torah at night hashem will draw forth his hasset for you during the day he will be kind to you you hear that i won't mention any names but you hear me all you guys okay i want to make sure you're listening and i don't embarrass anybody okay hooray listen to this it's like a sheriff will make sure i didn't skip anything what is a sword it can only kill or injure those who are close to you right it's in your hand below but not necessarily damaged person far away came the question which is the opposite not really the opposite it's just not true it's not true by an arrow because we said the bakashitsara khab let's say because showed not in the arrow sense but in terms of requests they help entirely meaning near and far it's actually compared the cachet which we call now a arrow the bow hollow so apparently the arrow the bow and arrow can kill both close and far whereas the sword can only kill that which is close now basically the idea is that it's more effective or it's stronger whatever it helps with your needs and now we're going to go into the ben yohoyada and you'll find this on your english sheets i think it's on page three it is okay and this is like the the cream on the sundae this is the the cherry on top of the whipped cream on your sunday ice cream okay so basically it's like this he begins also with this he wants to understand what's the difference between prayer and petition between tefillah and bakashot and why does prayer compare to a sword and why this petition compared to a bow with me yes lamar there is to say hefrish yesh ma yesh lamar maharish bane tafila labakasha what exactly is the difference between the two and not only that lama tafila mechanic why is prayer similar to a or compared to and used the name of the kherev for prayer and a bow in relationship to requests so here's his answer and he always begins nearly the siata de shmaya it seems to me with the help of hashem that to feel is going on words that we pray or things that we pray about an adam litzar gava things that have to do with transcendental ideas when i say transfiled ideas i mean spirituality higher needs you know what he wants to tell us towards fixing the world it's not about us our personal needs it's something higher than us that is what prayer is where okay and it's tikkun olamos now this is going to be very kabbalistic but these are actually very familiar terms to most people and i'm going to put in the description box below rabbi joshua golding gave a share i remember several years ago at the yibban at bait midrash on a book that he wrote called the name and how to incorporate the yudkevke properly in your prayers and he describes chakras being broken up into and it's based on the zohar that the bronchos and the kerbonos are what we call i'm going to say the lower hay meaning the last of the four letters of the god's name and it's referred to as the um shall we say um there are four levels right we talked about athelus bria yitzira and asea so asea is the lowest level so the last tay is related to the first part of davening the carbonus and that's related to the world of the sea the next part we'll call zuke the zimmer is going to be related to the right okay so this lower above as we'll call it the second to the last letter and that's going to be related to yatsera and that's going to be related to bazooka zimmer and then the next part of davening is of course shema in the broken skrishma and that's going to be related to berea and the the second hay the that's called the first hey meaning it's the second letter but the first thing god's name and then you have the highest level which would be the yud and um that's related to atlus which is the highest level of the four worlds which is closest to hashem's we call it emanation with that background now we're going to go into this idea bear with me because this is like just beautiful stuff uh sounds like this this is the prayer all to feel it called to feel is the tsarik tikkun olamoyes it's there to fix the world sorry siddharim connected us as we just said it needs to be organized meaning prayer in the fashion we just described that silos brig at syringasea which what who did this the anchei knesset of godola they were made up of prophets and some of the greatest sages that ever lived they are the ones who developed our prayers chakras shatiknu those four parts connected or lamos compared to or parallel to the four levels of these worlds in which we're trying to fix which are what they are parallel to the four letters of god's name ready for this that god's jude cave love kay is hinted at in the sword itself the sword itself i'll just describe it the yud is the tip of the sword the hay well let's say the two haze let's just say the above is the sword the body of the sword and two haze are the two blades on each side the double-edged sword okay he says that uh shaheem kanegadaaliosi or shame hawaiian it's actually written in the zohar the you know this is aramaic but it's easy to read good wrestling the kharbah the yud is the tip of the sword oswald the letter of is the body of the sword train panim khan and the two haves are the two faces of the sword this side and that sign and it's also written we spoke about those other verses in judges 7 10 and jeremiah 47 6. this is a well-known idea when it says hashem it's god's sword with jude it's actually his name is the sword that's our that's our weapon therefore this all fits together right all these different opinions they're all saying the same thing from different angles therefore to fill a shaheed therefore tufila is for the needs of fixing the world so then we discuss the four worlds as the seal is really it's here in the sea uh and they're parallel the four letters of god's name uk vauke that's symbolized by the sheriff and therefore we understand why tephila has the nickname of herod however what about the bakasha what about the other idea of the bow being related to requesting your needs your personal needs he says when we make these petitions we re personal requests it's about what we need in this world now without any i want you to go i don't want to hurt anybody god forbid we have to understand this on a kabbalistic level on the page that you're looking at so in isaiah chapter 26 verse 4 it says trust in the lord forever for in yud hey the lord is rock of eternity we're not going to read it in english this way at all we're going to read it like this hashem trust in the yud kevke trust in the essence of hashem is the name of him forever you know why because it was through the yud and the hay of god's name who was sura lame who created the world he created the world the rock the very rock that's over here called the foundation stone that's where the world came from the rock right but the word sur means formation right it's god created the world through the hay he created it male and female okay the unit is the male the hay is the female i gave shears on this in the past i don't want to go too much into it but hey has a value that's half of you right it's like i said i don't want to right insult anybody it's nothing to be insulted about okay because god created a world male and female with union hay but hey is half the value of it what am i trying to say we'll see right now he says like this so wait the you'd have a good job the yud by the way was created created that's the world to come and the hey created this world that's the feminine so the haze created this world that you'd create the world to come keep that in mind when we just read this verse um i'm just going back dima oh you saw there's this comparison of the keshet to a half what what you you bend the bow back it looks like a half circle that's what a hay looks like a hay looks like a half circle so the bow so because this world was created with the letter hey which is meaning in value it's a half the value of your it shinibra allah my bob was created with the with and just keep in mind a man needs to get married in order to really be a man i'm sorry to tell you guys but for those men who are not married you're not even half a man i mean this is i you know get married unless you were recently divorced you need some time i get it but you cannot fulfill your potential in this world unless you're married because she will help you okay let's go on as he says on this verse we just read isaiah 26 4 be hey with the hashem created the world you need you need both and this is you know what i'm going to actually end there should i end there i'm going to end there i think this was uh you can read it on your own i think this was very enlightening okay i hope we end on a good note right that we can all use um if we have some insight into the real power of power of prayer it's not in my power that i that i win right it's my trust in in the lord right it's my prayer and my tephila right this is what god wants us to use and this is what yaakov actually used even though he was not perhaps even privy to even know that shim and levy were going to do this because i think he would have stopped them but let's assume for a second that he didn't know but his prayer for the welfare of the jewish people for the future of the jewish people has real power even now when you don't know what's going on in detail that's why you don't have to watch the news either to know what's going on oh i have to watch the news to know what i have to pray for no pray always for the goodness of others pray for the goodness of the future and that will have an effect right now in your life so gazunta hate stay strong and we'll see you next week and have a good life and a great chavez call tooth [Music]