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Shalom everybody. Welcome to the Yab
Midash. Welcome home to Torah. A warm a
very warm welcome home to
Torah. Parasidbar always comes before
shu. There's many reasons why and the
clear is going to give us his
explanation. What we do here is we try
to read through the Hebrew text itself.
I will translate it and I will explain
it. And uh we always deal with
fundamental issues in Judaism. Something
that every Jew needs to know number one.
And uh for those who are going to try to
follow the Hebrew text, there's a link
down below in the description box that
will give you a a link to the Hebrew
sheets. The other thing I'd like to
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Okay. So, we're in the very first verse
of Bidbar. And if you notice, it
says a date. A date. The Lord spoke to
Moses in the Sai
Desert El Mosha
midbari. In the tent of meeting oed, by
the way, just you should know that in
the God spoke to Moses. May oel moed.
Moses was not able to enter because of
the cloud of glory was so thick and he
was not allowed to enter. It says that
in the end of pic paras
picud later on in chapter n it reverts
back in terms of time to the first day
of the first month of the second year
after we left. So the Torah is not in
order or clearly not in order in in this
respect. We're going to deal with some
of these issues and then there is a
census that was taken. The first part of
the clear card which we are not dealing
with is explaining why there needs to be
a special number of
600,000 Jews in order for the to rest.
That was a necessity. It was it was
needed to count to make sure that that
was uh we'll call a
uh a specific number, a minimum number.
What the clear card now is going to
describe why do you need a date. So he
says it was necessary for God to have
written the date here. There's a maj
which you will find in the English
source sheets if I'm not
mistaken. It's number seven on the
source
sheet.
Okay. It relates to this idea. Why was
the census taken now? Meaning not just
that but also the
date. So the med says
underlined this situation is comparable
to a king who took his first wife and
did not write a marriage contract. He
divorced her and he did not give her a
get a bill of divorce obviously because
there was no cuba.
He did the same for a second and perhaps
even a third wife. But in due time, now
when we use a mashik, we're talking
about or in the comparison, it's like
Hashem and the Jewish people. So the
king found a certain poor orphan, a
woman of noble ancestry. He wanted to
marry her. Just imagine that's God
wanting to marry us, the Jewish people.
But in the meantime, we're talking about
a king. He found a poor orphan, but she
was a woman of noble ancestry and he
wanted to marry her. He said to his best
man, we're going to see that's Moshe. He
said to his best man, "I want to marry
this one. I shall not behave with her as
I did the previous one. This woman is of
noble ancestry. She's modest in her
actions and worthy." So what did he do?
He wrote a marriage contract. the date
specifically like the day, the month,
the year and where where it was and the
u the medish goes on and uses an example
from Esther. And then down below where
it's underlined
again, however, when Israel arose, the
holy one, blessed be he, said to Moses,
I will not behave with these as I did
with the previous
ones. Now, who are the previous ones? I
I kind of skipped over it. He's talking
about, you know, the the the generation
of the flood, the generation of the of
the dispersion, the sa sodomites, the
Egyptians, and whatnot. But the Jewish
people come from Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob. This is illustrious ancestry.
Therefore, it's written in the Torah
this specific day, month, and year in
which I have raised, as God's talking, I
raised up their horn and gave them a
head held high. The question really begs
to be asked. What kind of what kind of
marriage is happening in the second in
the second in the first day of the R,
which is the second month. How is that a
marriage? We're in other words, we're
dealing with paras Midbar. It's the
first day of the second month of the
second year. How is that related to
marriage? When did we marry Hashem?
Well, we'll see. It wasn't exactly.
There's actually two stages to marriage.
There's a betrodal, right? What do we
call it? Anybody know? It's kaducin or
irusen and then you have the second part
of the marriage which is nuin the actual
marriage itself.
So what is taking place here? This rashi
is somewhat cryptic and thear will try
to let's say unravel it for us. He will
unravel it for us. So I'll just read the
Hebrew is basically quoting the
midrasha. It's compared to a king who
married a
woman and he didn't write a kuba for her
as we saw. What is the idea of writing
kuba? First of all, it's a commitment
and taking responsibility for the woman.
But also,
um there are certain things that if he
later sold his house and let's say he
wasn't so straight, he could have said
he sold the house before the kubu was
written because basically what he owns,
she's going to get a share of. She has
first dibs to his wealth when there's a
divorce. But if he owes someone else
from before, the person he owes earlier
in time is actually uh what's the word?
has a right to take it. You follow? Like
in any deal, right? When you take a a
loan on a home or or on a car, there's a
lean. You can't just sell that car where
there's a lean on it because the
original bank or whoever lent the money
has we'll call first dibs. Is that what
the word is? It basically has a right to
the money. So, we'll get into that and
why that has to do with the present
situation that we're dealing with in the
world with other people no name, the
people we don't have any name for
because they're not really a nation is
claiming this land belongs to them.
We're going to see how that plays out.
the rest of the medish on the second
line. And later the king found a uh a
very nice orphan
girl. He did marry her and he wrote for
her this marriage
contract and he wrote for her the time
in the in the contract in the kuba. And
if you look carefully at the mus of the
version of the
midash, the clear says mid. He's
claiming he understands what's behind
the author's writing of this
particular
medish that the sec the the first part
the first part we said there's two parts
of a marriage. There's the betroal that
was matra that was sh where we became
engaged to
hashem
isra that the Torah itself was like the
contract to a certain extent or let's
say even better it was the way on
kaducian could be made giving the gift
of the Torah it replaced the Torah was
basically like a a ring or a bracelet it
says in our Torah in Deuteronomy
33:4 where do we see this on the sori
number
8 famous
verse notice it doesn't
say you would have thought that the
Torah which was commanded by Moses
serves as a legacy for or an inheritance
for the congreg congregation of Jacob
the way you read without the lammed is
that it was an engagement. Well, one
second we'll see what the even the word
masha means. It can mean a legacy, can
mean an inheritance, but it also because
there's no vowels in the Torah and we
have a Korean exceive in a way we
understand it sometimes through drasha.
We don't have to read it as all the
time. You can understand it through a
drussa that this was the that's what it
means to erase toasa is an
engagement. By the way, I just want to
digress for one second. when we talk
about the seven noahide laws. So the
punishment
for for violating a no the seven laws is
what misa without warning because they
already got the warning in the Torah.
God already destroyed the the generation
of the flood. He already and even before
that he would never do anything to take
a punishment on anybody if it hadn't
already been warned. That's how gracious
God is. So keep in mind that when we
have the Rambam that says that it's
forbidden for a non-Jew to learn Torah,
what he is referring to is a non-Jew who
steals the Torah, who says it's not
yours. It's not God's. It doesn't mean
there were witnesses. I don't believe
that you guys know what you're talking
about. He's learning on his own. He's
stealing the Torah. And stealing is one
of the seven laws of Noah that carries
it with it the death penalty. The other
idea is adultery. It's an adulterous
relationship. The Jewish people have an
intimate relationship with the Torah.
The Torah was given to us as the
betrodal gift. It's ours. So, it's
either adultery or it's stealing. Either
way, that's why a non-Jew who learns
Torah thinking that he can learn it on
his own and interpret on his own, he's
the one who will have a punishment from
heaven as opposed to a righteous non-Jew
who understands the Torah was given hari
that the six laws, seven laws were
already given prior and were reiterated
once again in hari. But in the meantime,
what we're dealing with is the word
moash
as and you should
know it says it doesn't say it does not
say as if it's given to them but
it's marasha either way you want to read
it. It's the betro of the Jewish people.
You get it? It's the legacy of the
Jewish people.
Mashma, what does it mean? What does it
infer? That the Jewish people actually
are betrothed to
Hashem. That God is engaged, is involved
intimately with the Jewish people
because he gave the Torah to them in
place of a ring just like it actually
says. And for those who don't believe
me, look at it in Isaiah 54
verse5. How do you
say who's the Bal? Your master, your
husband. It's the same word. That's why
they use the word mister. Master,
mister, your owner. The one who made you
is your husband. That's literally how to
read it. The one who made you is your
husband. That's
Hashem. We find
This is where we're going to get into
the dates that there's a comparison
analogy of the coupling of the un the
unification of between the Jewish people
between Israel and God just like it's
compared to a regular groom and
bridegroom uh right sorry a bride and a
bridegroom uh the kala and the katan.
Two times there's two dates that they
are involved with. One is the betro and
the other is
the mat tora. The first time itself was
a mat tora which we see in 31 of of
Exodus 18. It says over there, when God
finished speaking with him, when he
finished speaking with
him, he gave him the two tablets of of
testimony. Okay? And in Hebrew,
it's El
Mosha. Even though it's pronounced as if
there's a VVE, but the VVE is missing.
And look at Rashi on that. Rashi
explains the very fact that there is no
VVE. You'll see this
I think on page
four says when he had finished top line
of page four the word should be spelled
with above. However, since it's spelled
defectively what do you think God
doesn't know he invented the language
the Hebrew language he knows exactly how
to spell koto to finish um and he spells
it without a v. It's to be read as if,
meaning like his bride, like a
kala. The Torah was given or delivered
to Moses as a gift. As a gift is given
over to a bridegroom is given to a
bridegroom. The meaning the bride is the
gift to the groom because otherwise he
could not have learned it all in such a
short time. Moshe was there for 40 days
and 40 nights and he learned the entire
Torah. It had to be a
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gift. Another explanation which we're
going to see is just as a bride is
adorned with 24
ornaments as like look in Isaiah 3 18-
22. You have this long list of what God
is telling us. He's taking away the
glory of Israel. Just as the the the
bride gets 24 gifts, when there's this
separation at that time that Isaiah is
uh threatening them with, then 24 gifts
would be taken away. And that's going to
be significant because how many books of
the Torah are there? And I'm not talking
about the five books. I'm talking about
the Tanakh. There are 24 books in the
Tanakh. I'm sure we have a lot more to
say, but let's just stick keep to the
script. As it says, the first time was
when the Torah was given and we just
read the verse in Exodus
31:18. It's missing the
V. Therefore,
what?
Um, it's written without and we already
read the
Rashi. This idea of being given like a
gift. The Torah was given just like a
kala, a a a bride is adorned with 24
different gifts. So to the Jewish
people, we're adorned. We are embodiment
of the Torah. That's the first date, the
giving of the Torah, which is just in a
few days from now. Hasheni who? What's
the second date that there's an intimacy
between the the the bride and the groom?
And in terms of Israel, it was Mishkan.
The very day the Mishkan was erected.
Meaning the last time it was erected, it
was Moses erected it and put it he put
it together and took it apart. Seven
straight days all by himself
miraculously. And uh on the eighth day,
he left it standing. And it says
inbar in numbers
7:1 again you have the same word. It was
on the the um the day that Moses
finished erecting the tabernacle. Rashi
says
there as perish Rashi explains the Rashi
explains that on the day the Mishkan was
erected Israel was given over to Hashem
just like a kala just like the bride is
given over to the groom. So what do we
hear from this? We understand from
this man
that the time of the giving of the Torah
was the time of the
betrod whereas the time of the first of
Nissan remember our parha is dealing
with the first of which is 30 days later
but we'll deal with that it has to be
dealt with he's telling us that on the
first of Nissan which is like vayikra 1
one that day where the Mishkan was
erected, that was the Nissan because
you're talking about a house where
Hashem
could dwell and we see the words in
Isaiah
44:13 that the beauty of a man is to sit
in a house. So my my my single friends
here that are online with us and the
ones that are here that the beauty of
God was to dwell in a house. The beauty
of a man is to dwell in a
house. The word bias is not just a
house, but the kazal say their name for
their wives. The nickname for their
wives was their house. Right? You ask
what do you what do you you know can you
do me a favor? This that or the other
thing. He says I have to check with the
house. I have to check with the house.
Who runs the house? Who is the house?
That is the wife. But what we see here
is the beauty of a man so to
speak is bias is to have this union with
the Jewish people in or through the
Bikdash. Just before we go on, I just
want to make sure that we have Rashi
clear on Isaiah 44:13. The beauty of a
woman is to sit in that. The beauty of a
man is to sit in the
house says that is a woman who is the
beauty of her husband, the beauty of her
husband. Right? We already heard people
say right behind every great man stands
a greater woman or however they say it.
Right? Okay. So let's move
forward and the clear is trying to
explain even the word
nimsu in the
kazal shows this idea that it's given
over literally given over the kala to
the the bride to the groom the
lab in order that they should dwell
together there they have to dwell
together
Now that would
be the idea of the first part and then
we talked about the second part. So
going back to the first part meaning in
the meanwhile so between these two time
periods between the the between the the
irusen to the nuin there's 10 months. So
let's take let's take a break here and
go through the time.
So, Shivus is
in and the first of Nissan is 10 months
later. The problem is our verse is
talking about
er what's the month after
tamuz. So and the month after Nissan
is er is er. So if you take the dates
that we start with with
shu and then you take Nissan 10 months
he's going to explain why there's this
10 month uh separation of time or you
take the following month which is the 10
which is tamuz and you take er which
we're dealing with. So now he's going to
explain about this 10-month difference
of time between the two parts of the
marriage. Hu what does he say?
Sorry that the time difference between
part one and part two is about 10
months. and he brings a verse from
Genesis chapter
24:55 when Eleazar goes
uh to find Rifka and he's negotiating
with her brother and her mother and the
verse says and her brother and her
mother said you know it's a good shock
we'll let it happen but not right now
we're not going to send her right away
let the maiden stay with us a year or 10
months now you wouldn't see that in the
Hebrew the Hebrew says
It
says
osur. We do know the word yamim appear
in the Torah several places and it means
years. So we're going to say
years or 10. Does that mean like years
generally or 10 years or yummy means
years or months? That makes more sense
and that's exactly what it means. 10
months even though the word months does
not appear that's which that's what
they're negotiating that that's the time
period I want to take you on a small
little journey a number 25 I copied from
a website now I don't remember how long
ago I copied it but based on the address
I'm assuming that it is kabad it's
abc770.org
or um uh it I was looking for where is
this custom of 10 months
or even 30 days he's going to bring up
there's a 30-day wedding period there's
a 10-month wedding period and I remember
reading the it says something about a
year so this is from the website
abc770.org
or it's worth mentioning that during the
Mishna during the time period we're
talking about you know 1500 1800 years
ago it was customary to wait only 30
days from the time of the engagement to
the time of the marriage. And why would
you need that amount of time? So the
bride could prepare jewelry for herself
in preparation for the wedding. Now
we're talking about an 18 or 19 year old
girl. If she was younger, she would need
more time because an 18 or 19 year old
girl has been waiting two or three years
to get married. Or, you know, I'm
littlegesting here. Could have been a 25
year old. She's already got all her
jewelry ready to go. So, she only needs
days. But if she's
um if she was that's okay, let me just
go back.
So it was customary to wait 30 days from
the time of the engagement to the time
until the time of the marriage so the
bride could prepare Julie for herself in
preparation for the wedding. And it was
only if she was consecrated a young age
like before the age of 12 and a half
they would allow her a longer period of
time like a full year a period of 12
months. And the reason is because at an
older age she would certainly have
already prepared jewelry even before her
engagement because she knows that she is
of marriageable age. Okay. So where do
we get the 12 the the 10 months? So we
saw in Genesis at least that's was a
custom of the time to wait 10 months.
They gave maybe a year but average of 10
months to a to a virgin uh this amount
of
time in in Isaiah uh that for a virgin
but we'll see that it was an older one
an older woman perhaps in her 20s early
20s or late teens that the average time
was about uh 10 months in order for her
to prepare and to be adorned with 24
gifts. And if you look in
Isaiah 3 verse 18 through
24, you'll find that on number 17 on the
source sheet and I'll read through it
real quick. I'm not going to read the
Hebrew because it's a little bit hard
language, but it's you wouldn't
understand it from it's let's just read
it English. On that day, the Lord will
remove the glory of the shoes. You could
count them. There's going to be 24
things. But God through Isaiah is
threatening the Jews. You got to do
Chuva. You have to do Chuva. And when
I'm going to remove these things, but
when you come back in Chuva, I'm going
to give them back to you. Look at right.
On that day the Lord shall remove the
glory of the shoes and the embroidered
headdresses and the hairetss, the
necklaces and the bracelets and the
veils, the tiaras and the foot chains
and the hair ribbons and the clasps and
the earrings, the finger rings, the nose
rings, the tunics, the bedspreads, the
tablecloths and the purses, the mirrors
and the sheets, the turbons and the
clasps. And it shall come to pass that
in the place of perfume will be decay in
the place of griddle girdle laceration
and the place of a deed of the deed a
wound that causes baldness in the place
of organ of levity a sackcloth girdle
for this is instead of beauty that the
beauty is going to threaten to be taken
away because we're not living up to what
we're supposed to. Rashi says as it says
on that day on the day there's a future
when the holy one blessed be he will
come to restore Israel to him there will
be a reunification of Jews of Israel
with
Hashem okay and the Lord shall remove
from them the glory of the shoes that
they will not depend on their glory on
the beauty of women's jewelry and
objects of vanity every even negative
prophecy if it has to come true if it
has to come true it's always and I don't
mean twisted in a negative ative sense,
it has to come true in a positive sense.
So in other words, when a prophet comes
and warns the Jewish people, this will
happen or may happen. It doesn't have to
happen, okay? But it has to happen on a
certain level and it can happen in a a a
positive way, which you can see right
here. Okay, let's go back to the clear
car. And we end it by saying
uh by by quoting
Isaiah the cult zeu we talked also in
the previous paragraph how the
encampments is like the theot is like
the legions in heaven. There's a kingdom
of heaven and there's a kingdom on earth
and they mirror each other. So too here
the way that God marries us is very much
similar to way a groom and a real real
bride and a real groom deal with each
other.
for 10 months. So too, Hashem made sure
we also held out for 10 months. And
again, I mentioned there's two ways to
look at it. He says
mines. So you have 10 months
from which we're right. This
was
shabu. We're talking
about we say we're talking about the
month of Nissan which we're in and is
around the corner. That's when the
betroal through the Torah happened which
which was commanded to by Moses
right Nissan until the first of Nissan
exactly 10
months Mishkan that's when the Mishkan
was
erected that's when the unification the
the the zeu the the how we're going toh
translate The union between Israel and
Hashem was to taking taking place
uh was
completed. It was entirely complete once
the tabernacle was
erected. That was the time it took for
us to be what's the word I'm going to
use? adorned with the 24 books of
the and then at that point 10 months
after you have the period of dereing of
the Mishkan which was very fitting for
us to be living with God in the moade
together.
Okay. Now
I remember I quoted the website. There
is this idea that it should only take 30
days to get married between the betroal
and the
marriage. And he's going to put a period
there because that's going to be a
complete thought. Therefore, in our
parha, he's trying to explain why you
have bidbar beginning with the first day
of the second month of the second year.
Yeah. Okay. It's in verse it's in it's
in chapter 31:18 of Exodus source sheet
number 12. I just want to keep in mind
there's some background stuff. So
basically this puss says when he had
finished speaking with him. Okay. Now
what are we referring to? That's when he
gave him the two tablets. Now what's
happening here? If you go this is verse
this is chapter 31. If you see chapter
25 chapter 25 is already Truma, right?
And chapter 30 is in Kitisa. Okay.
That's where the gold that's where um
that's where more ideas of the
tabernacle come place come come come
into view. We're dealing with chapter
31. So God is giving him the 10
commandments on tablets. Chapter 32 is
the golden calf. Remember the Torah is
not in order. The golden calf according
to Rashi comes
after
sorry comes before the commandment to
build the Mishkan. Yeah. Okay. So the
whole thing needs clarification because
you have Ramban who holds what? That the
Torah is basically not chronological.
No, the other way around. The Ramban
holds the Torah is in order. It is.
Rashi holds it's not in chronological
order. So we have there's there's
something worthy of going deeper and not
to you know confuse anybody we're
dealing with chapter 31 which is God's
giving him the 10 the two tablets. Which
tablets are they? Are they the first or
are they the second? That's worthy of
exploring. But it becomes clear in
chapter 34 where God gives him the
command the tablets. They are certainly
talking about the second set. So we can
understand Rashi when he says the tour
is not in order and chapter 32 is
dealing with and it says in chapter 32
if you look verses 15- 20 it's dealing
with the broken tablets. So rashi makes
a lot of sense if you ask me and what
we're dealing with here is a whole
another set of 10 months starting from
tamuz right as it
says so the kalato the um engagement so
to speak is happening in tamuz and
what's 10 months after
that is the month
of so let's just read the word
Right. This Tamu's date is 40 days after
he comes down with
the and you see right away that if this
whole idea of starting off with the
month of the if you count 10 months that
comes out to the second month of the
year which is and that's when
the only then would be the completion.
Either way you look at it, you can look
at it
from Tissan and add 30 days Davidid add
the 30 days or you take one month later
and ends one month later which is what
we've been saying. Okay. is either way
you look at that's why he
saysimnotes if you want to count instead
from the second month till the second
month
fine and not only that remember we said
the mash that the king wants to have a
different kind of relationship with
royalty and he says I'm going to write
her a kuba I'm going to put in a date
and why did we say that date is so
important wait till you hear this I
mentioned already that if the person
sold a house or a car and And then he
then he got married, right? There's a
whole idea that where does the lean
come? Is it going to be on the buyers
that bought it before or the buyers that
bought it after? Who has the right to
the money? Especially the cuba. He made
his cuba before he owed the money or
after he owed the money. And so for the
or the commitment therefore a date is
very important. And he says because of
lauba, hashem wrote the kuba to the
Jewish people. the Torah and it has the
date that is our marriage contract to
God. What are we celebrating on?
Unbelievable. So if there is ever a
claim that people who purchased or
claimed to have purchased or occupying
your car or house, right? Who really
owns it? You or them?
Clearly, right? Well, who's got the
claim? Our date comes first before they
can even make a claim on the land of
Israel. It says right here in the year
2,448 from the time of creation, right?
3,300 plus years ago that it was already
written in a contract that God promised
us the land of Israel. And that includes
Gaza and part of Turkey. Sorry, Edwan.
And certainly part of Jordan. What can I
tell you? It just is what it is. Huh?
And part of Syria and part of
Iraq. And keep in mind, if God forbid
the Jews sinned, and we know that that's
what happened, and we were exiled from
the land,
We're actually able to return to the
land, holding our holding our marriage
contract, and we're able to seize from
them the land. And we're going to say to
them, this document that we have is
dated way before your claim. Therefore,
it's ours.
Now we understand why it says in our
para mo inside Moses was able to enter
into the tent just like a husband holds
his talis over the over the the kala
just like under the inside
the
that's bas that would be the time for
the final part of the uh of the of the
marriage of the ceremony. They're really
married and they're dwelling together in
the house. And so too tells me tiness
mak's tinus. It says there are two times
there two time periods for the the
marriage to take place. Like it says in
Song of Songs chapter 3. Where is it on
the source
sheet? Song of Songs chapter 3.
And numbers 27.
Go out, O daughters of Zion, and gaze
upon King Solomon, upon the crown which
his mother crowned him on the day of his
nuptials and on the day of the joy of
his heart in
Hebrew libo. What are those two phrases
referring to? According to the the clear
the cards you're probably taking it from
the sexiness which I mentioned zumatra
the idea of the day is nuptuals that's
referring
to and then when it says that the latter
three words of the
versebo on the day of the joy of his
heart mikdash remember Solomon Schlommo
built the base of mikdash but so too
similarly by the hook
Moshe erected the
Mishkan. It's these two time periods
that complete the the union with
Hashem. Here, remember it
says you want to say the car is hitting
home the point
that we're talking
about until Nissan first of Nissan or
the first of the month of until for the
time for the for the reasons we already
mentioned above.
Nowaday the the unification is similar
just between Israel and God is very
similar to the unification between a
husband and wife. Um God says in the
parha right it's in our it's in our
verse
es that he wants to do what? Raise up.
This is literally we're going to
translate as do a census to count. But
su means to raise up the children of
Israel like it says in the midash. Now I
do have the midash
here. Where do we have it? Here. Look at
number 28. Very important. The midrash
disc discusses our vers's use of the
phrase esro to raise up the head. We're
going to translate it as count them,
right? To take a
census. So the med says that when Hashem
spoke to Moses in the wilderness of in
Sai, he says
literally take a census. So what does it
mean?
It
means telling
Israel, I have not loved any creation
more than you. You are the ones I love
the
most. Therefore, I gave you what we call
elevated status above all the other
nations and thus made you like me. We
were created in the image of
God. Just as I gave you, I have an
elevated No, sorry. God's talking about
himself. Just as I, God, has have an
elevated status over the entire
universe. Everything that ever was
created. And we have this famous PK in 1
Chronicles 29:11, which we say every
morning, right?
right all the way to the
end which literally means I have given
um yours is the kingdom and the
sovereignty dot dot dot over every
leader. Hashem is the power of all
powers. So too God says I arranged for
you the Jewish people an elevated status
over all the other nations of the world.
That's why it says in this para when it
says to count the Jewish people that it
means I'm going to elevate you to
fulfill that which it said in Psalms
148:14 which says that um he Hashem will
exalt the pride of his nation that's the
Jewish people and also Deuteronomy 281
which is an amazing verse
Hashem says he will make you the Jewish
people supreme over all the other
nations of the earth. So that's how the
clear is really ending
it. What exactly is this idea doing
here?
Why would Hashem make a zeug with us?
Because we come from royalty. Because
we're obedient. Because we had great
people like Abra and Jacob. We are the
children of these great unbelievable
people that we can't even imagine,
right? We are royalty. There's another
idea. Why were we slaves to every
Egyptian? We weren't. We were actually
royal slaves in Egypt. We belong to
Pharaoh. We didn't belong to the the
individual we were working for. This was
a preparation for us to be royal slaves
to God because we serve Hashem. But to
be his wife. I want you to know
everywhere in Tanakh whenever the Jewish
people are in relation to God. When God
speaks to Jewish people in the
relationship, he is male, we are female.
Whenever it's a relationship between the
Jews and the non-Jews, the Jews are the
male and the non-Jews are the female.
Who is the mashia? Who is the giver? So,
Hashem is the groom. The Jewish people
are the bride. And I will just say that
the non-Jews seem to be a little bit
further away. However, it doesn't have
to be that way. You could be a righteous
no. You can be mamish tight with God,
right? All you have to do is believe in
the revelation at Mount Si. Know that
the 10 the seven commandments were given
also with the ten commandments. Right?
There are 600. How many letters there
are in the ten commandments? 620
letters. 613 plus 7. Keter the the crown
of Torah. Okay. The crown of Torah.
Keter. That's the sum of 620 between 613
and seven. Let's together together with
the righteous Noahites do the right
thing. Stop killing Jews. Come to our
rescue. I mean, Hashem's our rescuer.
Hashem's our savior, savior. But you
guys, you guys h have a role to play and
uh you know, obviously we have to do our
part, you have to do your part and
together we will be victorious. And so I
just wish everyone amish hak we should
all open our hearts to a kabal satra
true kabal satra it's not just for Jews
right this is this holiday in my opinion
also for the non-Jews because this is
day of kabal satra where your nation
said no I'm not interested but there
were individuals who said yes those
individuals end up becoming full-fledged
converts to Judaism meaning 3,300 years
ago their soul wanted
But others who have woken up can be a
righteous no and feel a part of the
family. Come live in Israel to when
majority of the Jews live in Israel.
Such a concept exists. Look it up.
Gertoshave. One day there will be very
soon majority of Jews living in the land
of Israel and a gertoshave concept will
exist. And we look forward to seeing you
here at the center. So have a
hak good chabas and a great life. We'll
see you next week.
Heat. Heat.
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