Home2Torah How to defeat Amalek Rabbi Poston Beshalach 5778

[Music] so we have some really exciting piece on I will I won't take it personally but if you can stay one without the camera it's probably better but whatever you decide this is the same thing okay so at the end of this week's parsha there is a description of the war we have with Emma Lake are you familiar with it it's chapter 17 it really begins on verse 8 although I gave you all of the beginning of 17 verses 1 through 16 but I have a little error for those who are here it says the male came and battled Israel in rafidhi so what's going on here and then the reason I put the first few verses is because it's very important to get the whole picture the entire Assembly of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of sin to their journeys according to the word of a Shem they encamped in a place called rift feeding we're going to be discussing that name I think a great length and there was no water for the people to drink very odd the people contended with Moses and they said give us water that we may drink Moses responded and said to them what are you fighting with me for and testing a shadow why do you contend with me why do you test a shout the people thirst to therefore water the complained against Moses and it said meaning the people why is this you brought us up from Egypt to kill me and my children and my last livestock through thirst Moses cried out to a Shem saying what should I do for this people a bit more they will stone me Moses Shem said to Moses passed before the people take with you some of the elders of Israel and in your hand you should take your staff with you which you struck the river meaning back in Egypt you created the the plague right you hit the water and it turned red and go behold I shall staz's Hashem talking I shall stand before you by the rock in Karev you shall strike the rock and water will come forth from it and the people will drink Moses did so in the sight of the elders now this is important he called the place Massa Wilmer Eva because in Hebrew carriage gonna check your Hebrew the word RIF have you heard of the word R if R is rid of means to fight so okay so he called the place masa which is based on the word to test with no salt right to try to test he so he Moses calls the place Marcel meriva because of the contention of the children of Israel and because of the test of Hashem know what were they saying what were did you say they said is a show among us or not I mean if that's not a lack of faith and a testing of Hashem what is can you imagine is God with us or not okay so leading up to this point what do you think so far but all of a sudden what the Bundys verse 8 tell us Molly comes Molly comes they came embattled with Israel in a place called redeem like we saw adverse one that's where they were Moses said to Joshua choose people for us and go do battle with I'm awake tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand remember this is Moses talking Joshua then did as Moses said to him to do battle with on my lake so he chose the people and what did Moses our on and there's a third person we'll talk about a second and Moses Aaron and for now whose work or who's sitting here waiting come from ascended to the top of the hill it happened that when Moses raised his hands is Row was stronger is very odd raised his hands and out the battle his rose conquering and then when his hands get lowered because they're so heavy he's tired that all of a sudden the enemy overtakes in the battle against Israel very strange was going on here I was really gonna happen when Moses raised his hand is there a stronger and when he lowered his hand I'm awake was stronger Moses his hands grew heavy so what do you think happen they went down so they took a stone and put it under him so now Moses can sit and it would be easier for the two people on either side to hold his hands he sat on it now Aaron and horse supported his hands is a concept supporting his hands one on this side and one on that side and he remained meaning Moses remained with his hands in faithful prayer until sunset what does that mean faithful prayer until sunset Joshua weakened I'm awake and it's people with the swords blade but there's gonna be the last few verses it's interesting it up poor and is coming up in a month and the Shabbat before Purim is partial supper and we're going to read into Deuteronomy if you know two three paragraphs down Durrani 25:17 and we'll talk about that it's the other time I'm Molly came twice while we were in the desert and we're supposed to remember to wipe out Amalek don't forget so I'll read a in Exodus 1714 first Moses the Shem said to Moses write this as a remembrance in the book and recited news of Joshua that I shall surely erase the memory of Amalek from under the heavens Moses built an altar and called its name Hashem is my miracle and he said for the hand is on the throne of God a Shem maintains a war against on my lake for all time to lashya from generation to generation until mushiya from a chef has not come yet and unfortunately we have still every generation faced am awake last generation was Hitler and amok shallow and Germany and in this generation I will so truly say the Palestinians but anyway if you look down at Deuteronomy 25 17 remember what ammo did to you on the way when you were leaving Egypt that he happened upon you on the way we're gonna deal with that verse it says I share cargo by Derrick and he struck those of you who were weak but interesting it's used who were hind the most that's also gonna be used in my discussion today all the weaklings act your rear also gonna discuss that when you were faint and exhausted but he did not fear God meaning on my leg it shall be that when Hashem your God gives you rest from all your enemies all around in the land that Hashem your God gives you as an inheritance to possess it you shall wipe out the memory of on my lake from under the heaven you shall not forget so that's right the shell that should happen in our generation will be able to wipe out a mouth entire roof so I tell you really the title of this whole class is the secret of how to defeat I'm awake we saw that when Moses raised his hands we were able to overcome and when his hands were down they had the upper hand so it begins by telling us right now we're using this sheet here we've been using it okay good viago of my Lake Wheelock Haney mr. Alper is feeding right Molly came and battled with Israel and a place called rafidhi so I want to just mention this to different Madrasi one meddra says that a mullet is like a zoo the zoo is a fly and the fly is very small it's totally destructible right easy to overcome but it's quite annoying you know you brush it away and what happens he's back and maybe he's not backed by the tip of your mouth but maybe he's on your nose or maybe by your eye maybe by your ear she's looking for something he's looking for blood anyway there's another metric that tells us that a male is like a spoof I'm a lake is like a fly the truth of the matter is and the crux of the entire class tonight is that the we don't know who am i like is but if we did we'd have an obligation to wipe them out physically but the truth is that each and every single one of us has a little bit of a mullet inside of us meaning to say that really I'm a link and the gates on her ah are one in the same on a certain level and just like we have a tiara we have on the lake and we're gonna try to find out how we can overcome both I'm a lake which is representative of our Yeats on the rock the most evil thing that can exist so there's another analogy brought down in the measures that talks about a king who has a terrible a Charon is a veered a place where you grow grapes in order to make wine and the king fences it in it's very important the description of a fence and inside the fence there are some dogs and he has an army with him this King does and he tells his army is entourage whatever you do don't break the fence if you break the fence and you put your hand in you're going to get bit by the dogs so now we're going to tie everything together okay so we're gonna start the three lines down we discussed this verse and partial spreadsheet the pet toccatas rotates so if you look on your shade it's the number is the second paragraph down when Cain and Abel offered up their sacrifices and Cain's was not readily accepted but Abel's was came became depressed and became annoyed and the Shem said to Cain why are you so annoyed and why has your countenance fallen right surely if you improve yourself you will be forgiven if you do not improve yourself it says sin rests at the door there's this crouching in order to ambush and pounce upon you at an opening this is what that fly does to fly the eighths of her ah it's waiting to get in now we're going to discuss this a little bit more about what the fly is doing but that's thinking about the answer are doing this he says I hate Sairam you see Lou huzzah Elizabeth that the the rabbi's of great memory compared the fly the the a giraffe to the fly and what is it about the fly should fall coluche that the power of its mouth is extremely weak la SOPA McCobb the bus AHA shall a it really cannot penetrate healthy flesh so what's it looking for its looking for a place where there's either a boil some pus and open wounds any kind of opening after muffin shot smooth might say Zamora O'Shane but if he's able to find this fly is able to find some kind of pus or boil you know raw skin I share Xiong laughter to our Kasatka bobasa where he is able then to make an opening to open an opening a little bit in the flesh Shami or BOTS that's where you will crouch and look to Elm ambush the yard Eve appeared set and then widen and open up such an opening so - that's how the eat Sahara works cafayate Zahra Anglican is davay it slits a dickish a lane before Mossad that the HR ah doesn't really have the ability it doesn't have the power to cling and to cleave and to join up to a righteous person a truly righteous person because all he's doing is mitzvahs he's constantly involved in positive constructive actions especially if the Torah commanded so he's making tikkun olam he's fixing the world and raising the sparks we've got no time for the eggs around and the in surah has no time for him look but that low cloud pet Dhokla hot Isola neither and there's no way for the Apes are out to make any kind of an opening at all any type of opening towards the person to trip up and sing or to become distanced or pushed aside ah a bolita made the Aesop summer but what will the eights are not due to a normal person like us first that comes to make us a little bit impure and once we become a little bit of pure through sin then there's like this grand opening you know it's like it'll just get bigger and bigger and bigger Shum gearbox lithography the pizza he'll wait on that point and try to keep making a bigger bigger and almost come out together the ADA now pen until the person becomes when you're like an addiction you know become so decrepit and violently criminally decrepit you know when there's no return and there's no hope god forbid so cuz i'll tell us you know I gave this other sheet it's a lot it's and Leviticus 18:22 30 now there's a long list from the beginning of Leviticus 18 about all the ancestral relationships that are forbidden right now with your system of your mother and all the different lists and towards the end of the list it talks about homosexuality and bestiality okay and then in 24 it says do not become contaminated through any of these so we see what sin does sin contaminates so what would the unexpressed here is that what a man does to himself of the Mitanni otsuma might when a man makes himself impure even a little bit matam emos are big the tomb of the impurity itself it's like a contagion it's it multiplies and it becomes even greater he says and he doesn't want to discuss this right now at great length but he wants to go back to the point he says this is how a my link works cos I'm awake Cole's mantra is rush slay me me Michelle the whole time that Israel is a great perfect relationship with God no problem I'm Molly can't touch them go away a gun Shalom bayit and when the Jewish people have peace amongst each other Asma your column cloud a Moloch and our case leaves her out we'll talk about am I like in this case has no ability they can't enter and / penetrate into the Jewish people with a cashier Ross of the masonry but but guess what where did where I'm asking you because you heard where did a Moloch hear about Israel being what place it's called graffiti because what Moses calls it masam the Revo where you can send it with me when the do people fought with me meaning if they fought with each other and you tested a sham and they tested a shadow our wreaths ben-israel upon the rib that's Massimo Riva rev up where you had this contention showed me revived a name there was a great arguments going on kikaha do Jakarta monokuma humid 'but aromas of amok locusts all the different encampments look in the Hebrew it says I do and what does it say - it uses the plural they encamped they encamped over and over and over again the Jewish people in camp but it means they plural whereas when they encamped right at the bottom of mountain Torah of Mount Sinai in order to receive the Torah it says via Han they not they he he encamped Israel was then considered one unit and Rashi says over there it's I think it's in Euro 18 and yes ROM Exodus 18 I have right here well I don't have a front of India exact but I'll tell you what Roger does say Rashi says kaisha the lever cut as one do look it up as one man with one heart that's why it's singular not they encamped but he camp all the other encampments throughout the desert 40 years it's they plural you family so here is it's a chapter 19 in the beginning it's Rashi on verse 2 yeah it says all the rain that it places we follow the economy the economy handle all the times they in the economy but here it says be a con job when Yi Shan Shan Meis ro- heart and Israel encamped Israel camp singularly opposite the mountain and Rashi says kaisha thought believer thought as one man with one heart of all shark all honey oat 'but aromas move my mouth locust the same language used right here in the cart but all the other encampments were with complaints and argumentation commotion fares Rashi partially sure there you go nineteen - I'll do so Tom as Hashem and it says anything they why was the name of the place massive river not just because of the inter inter fighting amongst each other but because they tested a shed sugar even God you a chef they were fighting also with God as matzah low I'm awake paddock but - ah then I'm awake was able to find that opening in which to open up I always lose my place when I get excited I'm a corn if takla hot Casilla need up and that would be the source in order to open up even wider because of sin and distancing themselves and what does it happen immediately the of our male Kamali comes the hoist if to MA sunlight they missed comes a floor ready as we mentioned interestingly enough how they translated in English when we said in in Deuteronomy 25 right that they it says a kharkova Derek Acorah covered earthenware Loretha really means remember every word has many meanings Karka it could mean just happened happenstance they just happened upon you on the way that's one way to read it in fact that's how it's translated here it's 25 verse 18 that he happened upon you all the way but the word Karka is from the root of Carrie Carrie means a spilling of scene and the mission of male seed that goes nowhere right it's not for the sake of reproduction so he says over here as we also saw move it occurs 1822 about the the tomb the impurity comes as a result of illness and sexual relations not only with incest or relations but homosexuality specifically apparently what happens if you read carefully now it says and he struck those who were in the hindmost and weaklings in the rear very very weird statement here but basically we're saying that the the Jews that were the weaklings the ones are on the outskirts of town and were involved either being raped and sodomized by a mullick or actively involved in the homosexual relations okay clear as mud any questions let's go right there ah so I said this close house and all this happened in order for what what was the goal remember what's the goal of the gates are ah what's the goal of the tsaatan what we call the Satan what is the goal condition are soon I shall male lamb the god rain or it's removed Hashem from the Jews entirely quien kaduche Otto is rocky but my coaches gather Arab we say this over and over again only where there is a guarding against sexual immodest relations or a modesty that's the place you're going to find holiness even the word Kadosh means separate or distinct separate from so by separating yourself you become holy by separating yourself from and I'll say modestly from the opposite sex except of course you know your spouse there you will find holiness and obviously even in Judaism we are separate from our spouses for anywhere from a week to 12 14 days sometimes a month okay so that's all part of what is sanctification and sanctity all about Chris you and I will have to have a little discussion at that other time okay okay onwards Bob pours a y'all called heel I came to him because if they were not and guarded not account of this a male could could come and fight with us and now we're going to get into the word Rafi team it was a place called Rafi Dean chaos for a full year day and me call the co once they were able to get in because why our hands were weak ravu means soft or weak yeah dying are you dying in our hands because we came we handed k a LeMat sulla outside an ace now when we became we handed we will discuss whether that was in great detail but we're talking about having hashem be removed from us if we have hashem removed from us so then there's no way to rely which would allow anywhere miracles but we can't even rely in a good way in a in a respectable way for a shem to come and to defend us when we have removed to shem from us and not only that we can't rely on what we call a natural I'll just have the word human salvation because if we're arguing with everybody and we don't have a good character so how can we ever expect anybody to come to our defense if we're acting like I don't know blankety blank blank blank you know whatever that means so then who's gonna come and help so I'll just read in Hebrew he ain't lamb let's Ella outside an ace so you have no salvation from the aspect of any miracle because Hashem had been removed from us we got a lamb Hut sell it to these and also you don't have any kind of natural salvation either she has Ray uh sure because normally a person would help another person but here share a how I leave bombs enemies in everybody's heart was going in a different direction we weren't like we just mentioned by it later ah she said at the bottom of the mount before receiving the Torah when we were to ishikawa leave without like one man was one heart no we were all divided indifference means dispersed in different ways which we will see a gang at the time of Hamad and again part of the the idea of rafidhi because Rafi team on one level means rough ouya diet we're gonna see it also means peer reading Caribe means separate okay so we'll see that shortly points of okay since I got so excited after find my place here we go and now my own this time white will understand why it said the liquor shop shame hamako right Moses calls the name of the place what my soul areva are real than Israel on the fighting that took place amongst the Jews I'm this so tom s Hashem and upon the testing of God by saying what did they say hi yesh Hashem became a no II my it is God really with us or not and what happens immediately right after the yago of my alaikum you are aiming you're a bit iffy Dean Molly comes and fights battle with them in a place called earthy Dean now we're gonna see that word riff fede it's the same letters as a reading you can race hey dolly refeeding is the same letters as per reading Peretti means separate and it's the same letters as rough yet I am soft handedness now he says this is the most amazing thing ah-ha-ah-ha Italia each one is really dependent on the other and really did the same thing how was that how was being separate being the same as we can't in this he says out cannulation a medium preview Mela the through these two types is going to discuss now these two types of separateness miss Shippen if resumes a sham that we separated ourselves from God will pay rude the love of a man and we separate our hearts from each other but only they were founded I am this brought us we came to a point of weak handedness we x la la' miami female things is exactly for this reason very reason we didn't have any water in a place called her feed him why why not water the fisher raw food you damned because our hands became weakened from torah we didn't have torah now I don't mean the realtor that we received the fifty days after we left Egypt I'm talking about the total that we were already given we were given missus back to this was a given to Abraham Isaac and Jacob a handful and onward through through time right before we left we had the bismillah we had and then right before at Naruto we had Shabbos and a few other mitzvahs we only had a handful of mitzvahs but we became admissible became became weekend mitzvahs we became week in the Torah and what's the Torah compared to as compared to Mayan as I mentioned earlier about the water that we get rain we're so happy to join because the rain comes from the heavens and the rain actually is called Geshem Geshem means gosh mute gosh meu geisha means physicality so where's the real world the real world is the spiritual world been involved in scripture were robbed in Torah when we're doing mitzvahs then we're blessed with rain so we're blessed with Torah the Torah is only the humble can accept the Torah that's why it comes from way above and goes what are the attributed what it is that it goes to the lowest possible level right it doesn't linger it goes down down down down down I'll Kate Foster stopped my and because we were lacking in Turin we were lacking in more physical water now I mentioned in other classes that the rabbi's should say the rabbi's Moses instituted at this point a public scripture reading session Monday's I'm sorry Mondays Thursdays and Shabbat it's called right public Torah reading days on Mondays so is she never have three days without Torah they should never be three days where the the public is not hearing Torah that was Moses it was answering the time of Ezra he divided up which partial to read when that's what I meant by the rabbi's its rabbinical but it's not from Hashem Moses instituted and so to the unshaken Esther dollar the men of the great assembly established the Eternity days the Living Lab my MKIV Beach Earth or if and when was the actual water when Moses struck the rock over there by the mountain itself Malcolm composite are the exact place where we would receive the Torah that's where we end up receiving the water me times am sure as a molecular zoo and it's for this very reason that a Moloch is compared to this fly kilo enough on these trepkos launch of Apollo pet off that they had no ability to overcome Israel the whole time that there was no place to open up any kind of a opening and this is what it means when we talked about the king who tells his his army don't break any any part of the fence you break the fence and get bit by the dogs Marshall the melech should he Keith carry it's the analogy was for the king that put a fence around his vineyard Kamisha give roads together you know what he told that the arm anybody who breaks through the fence breaks through the gate you she coming like a load to tell if the dog will bite him meeting to say or Telemark shy there potap get there that through opening this fence voice of oppressor and you make in it any opening array open a pep-talk ella ella calif she offered the kana Shama then you're opening the opening towards the dog that he's able to to bite you there so two on my lake he's bald and his dog name is Ralph he comes and he clings and he he like a suction cup he you really Cleaves to a ship to Israel are you they should ask my ports of the dairy because Israel opened the gates mind probably talked about what the gates are on when the Yeats are you except the aides are a little bit and then the little gate is open and then it gets bigger bigger because the fly is waiting there to make it bigger and bigger and that's what a mole egg does and we find by common and in the book of Esther if you look extra 3/8 the home had said the king of hosh bears there is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed he's talking to you across Paris to try to get the rights to kill the Jews so his time is claim is that they are what eh Nawab there's a certain people eh-eh knew our method who's myth Fu's are the thews are means scattered through the thoron also a sense of being separate here would it Headley translate people scattered and dispersed okay and what else does it say you know the name of God does not appear sometimes when it says the king right the king is used many times in the book of Esther sometimes it's talked that a hash of a Russian some time to stop him out of cottage bar of who the public must be him why is this good for you know who you humming was how men was from the seat of ammo lake and he says there's a certain people that are what dispersed and scattered and he read on their laws are different than ours they do not observe the Kings laws therefore it's not benefiting from the King to tolerate them it's you see what's going on when the Jews follow the laws were protected when we don't it's like clear as mud and the Turner all over the place right I'm not saying like this is like I was beds right this is clear as day so this is what he basically he was saying with fools are Eastern ray you that the Jews are scattered from each other will move full rodmilla Sheena and we have distance ourselves from the subpoena now this is the really interesting part it's all been interesting about that maybe I'll say it outside of little bit just to get a grip line who are the three people that went up to should help Moses okay two additional people that was around and for now if you ever looked on the Yamuna website which I invite you all to do it says in the beginning that the world stands on three things remember what they are the world stands on so rough road on and demands for some being so Moses he represents Torah we call it's the Torah of Moses correct the Bible itself calls it the Torah of Moses okay so Moses represents the Torah he's up there I wrote an Ocoee what does he represent he represents of the Daath meaning the sacrifices in the temple the truth be told the sacrifices early and assistance to our prayers it's really the God wants their hearts he doesn't want our sacrifices it's the prayer that he wants and what is the main I like this word in theatrics when you're choreographing so one of the main functions of of the prayer service is the what we call the beer cot Kohanim the blessing of the colony and the Missy escape I'm the raising of the hands where they go yeah they go like this like the spot what he called the Vulcan greeting anyway I'm not dating myself but I think they made made some new movies about it and so what about for whose court for as Miriam's son and he represents Miriam on that stage that hill and he represents camellias Kassadin because what is that that's kind acts she saved all the Jews into Jewish babies she fed them she supported them and they were taken away from their mothers to survive and she saved them from being brutally murdered and she fed them and she supported them why am I telling you all this because we said that Ruth fede means weakness of hands each one of these three things I just mentioned are actually done with your hands now I'm teaching Todd I'm using my hands but that's not what it means and what it really means is that we hand over we're using our hands meaning from hand to hand the Torah it's a transmission from Moses till today it was handed off the to transmission so we use our hand so to speak obviously using our mouth and writing it but it's called handing it down so we need to strengthen ourselves in Torah this is the secret of how we're going to overcome up my lake and the second thing this through prayer right as we mentioned about the hands of the coniine that's what it is it's the hands of the contine through it through prayers we strengthen ourselves in prayer we can overcome a lake and the third of all is Camille's cassabi yeah [Music] right although cassadee about it the world was founded upon passing upon kindness without kindness we don't stand a chance so how is kindness thought you reach into your pocket for money and you hand it over right it charity is done by handing it over okay with that little ajikko maybe give you some more introduction that we talked about the water itself comes from the rock that's on account of Miriam we all know that Miriam is compare Miriam the rock of Miriam and the de Sheena the fact that prayer involves the sheen invokes the stream and keeps the scheme around through the carbonyl and what not so that when Aaron died you know what happened beyond that dad come on and you know what happened also a bully comes in that chapter interesting ly enough do it here in chapter 21 of numbers the last sorry truly the end of twenty first twenty seven hundred to see that Ireland dying Ireland I've the undernea cup will leave and Emily comes and attacks so that's that's the other time that Along Came an attacks so we have demand the mob came and the merit of Moses only people who are Torah that we're able to eat the mud so you have Moses which is a pillar right you're talking about holding Moses hands he's one of the pillars and the two pillars on the side are doing what it says they're supporting and strengthening his hands right when they're up we're able to live when they're steady strong they're able to win when they're weak and them down we we we're going to lose it's like so clear I got it right here man this is the whole the system's right here Karen you hear how simple it is you want to join up with us we need you to be strong in Torah prayer and kindness simple as that that's the that's all Judaism wrapped up in a nutshell you could be dismissed now kidding so what do you think so far now we're gonna read it okay any questions so far so this is like the last paragraph on the page will like remise better three on your day at your dying perhaps this is hinted in the fact of the weakening of the hand sure rough when you're damned in the Torah that they became their hands became weakened from tourists and didn't to me Yahya tits given from one hand to the neck meaning the transmission and from - fela shy beam oscilloscope I am to feel it is done through the raising of the hands of the Connie well men had men me that convinced for Sodom and they became weakens from the act of acts of kindness dumber honey taught me oddly and something that's done by giving from one hand to another okay that was like I don't know a few lines I think I summed up earlier riot was there and a proof for this you have to understand who we're talking about Alan before topically will yoga he was outed for who supported his hands kadai Lahav six low Sean moody Melo in order to strengthen these three pillars a sure basis SRAM not linoleum which the house of Israel is founded upon who badmouth Ezekiel OSHA lying and through them in them we strengthen the three shepherds and over the three shepherds Moses Aaron and Miriam a Sheva Scouten nuttin am ashamed man who bear runnin acabo and in their merit Isham gave us the man the water through the rock and the clouds of glory the protecting us the Mars that's the mana was in the merit of Moshe kilo midnight Iraqi Eve Lois Lane home on the right did the tour was only given to those who ate them up the bear what about the the rock the water shall I assume miss a packet land Colts are calm that the water supplied all of our needs are you aware of the fact we did not have to change our clothes meeting sweat we didn't have to shower we didn't have to go to the bathroom there was no nothing to excrete and all the water that we drank through this well took care of our knees we'd have to change our shoes we'd have to take our socks off we don't do our laundry nothing and the kids they grew up in their clothes and the clothes grew with them and that was all school Miriam why because I just miss a Becket mausoleum because she gave food they she gave it and her mother-in-law mother you'll heaven they gave food to the children that we're going to be destroyed as you can see I believe I have it right here let me let him write it down notes again the bottom Exodus 1:17 but the midwives feared God they did not do as the king of Egypt unto them he wanted to kill all the Jewish babies have a good Shabbos you know and they kept the boys alive so see Rashi the verse could have said they didn't put the influent place to death since it go so far as to say they kept them alive implies they took acting steps to sustain them meaning they fed they drank they took care of the babies hi Jana s hi yellow team and what about the cloud of glory that was in the merit of of our own Shia sook by avoiders acaba knows he was involved with the service of the offerings shall you Gor mean she t-shirt in Israel by Dubai involving the Kerberos that keeps the Divine Presence amongst the Jews Renata Shem Allah Michigan and the cloud of glory the cloud of ash M resting on the tabernacle the kashish mama Lake missus around we saw already that was I mentioned in numbers chapter 20 at the end in 21 in the beginning that when a mother explored the cloud departed as just by my place - mama wake me Cesaro when they heard that Island died she does Takalua not a cupboard and the anomeric abode is dissipated and disappeared Osvaldo me man they came and fought with them just like it's mentioned in partials who casts we shall ride from there we bring a proof scooter shall I wrote I literally saw a replay of a lake that it was in the merit of era that stood to save the Jewish people from having to fight with AMA Lake Havasu sham artists okay so this is an interesting idea what is the role of I'm awake I'm awake is there as a whip a whip whenever we get out of line I don't you want to join us when we go out of line we get whipped and God sends different nations at different times but a mo lake from generations generations they have not disappeared one day we get in shape we get in line a Malik will have no more no function and will be decimated it's called ritsuo Shamar juice we surely allow that every generation we will have a reminder too get in shape alkane the new Havasu Russ emotion your Dada Munna and its think about this during this war what did Moses want to do he wanted that his hand should be in faith what did we see unbelievable we looked at them in the beginning right Exodus 17 if we go to I think it's verse 12 where it starts Moses hands grew heavy and they took a stone put it under him and he sat on an iron and horse support his hands more on this side on that side and he remained with his hands in faithful prayer but in Hebrew it's not faithful prayer it's we're talking about his hands happen your hands being faithful prayer so I imagined they were like this but we're not it means that they were strengthened they were steady they were strong in these three things meaning you had the two people were supporting him in a steady consistent fashion they were held up they were strengthened Torah service appalled service we called prayer and lesson which is kindness so what's my place here we go I wish you school them what Moses wanted to remind them by holding his hand steady that it's in the merit of these three pillars himself and the two on the side we already mentioned what they are on the feet high emotion I made the answer that's why Moses stood the middle school Skirball Citterio go with the merit of receiving the turn his hands our and for they were supporting his hands from each side and it was he I reduce I've rode the beyond oh right Aaron had the merit of the service in his hands and for varnish on Miriam this the son of Miriam scoot convinced for succor be although he had in his own hands the merit of kindness okay so I want to open this up for discussion I know we talked a lot about many different subjects but I want you to ask me anything you want so we can get some clarity if I don't have the answers on this right - shell look into it next week I'm gonna upload this video and I'll send you the link okay any other questions Chris so let's say let's say everyone has free choice right in the beginning anyway right let's say a person he's sending out his life very vulnerable 20 year old and there's peer pressure but he has a choice at some point he may lose that choice but let's talk about it you know he's brought up in a good home and he knows this is off limits and we're talking with hard drugs I'm gonna tell him to eat beer right but it could be maybe even a beer I don't know but it really has a lot to do with company and motivation so when you first do drugs I'm not saying use you know the person who does drug he has free choice and he's going down the wrong ask when he says yes right the commercial says just say no right I mean it's not easy so someone who has a healthy let's say healthy free world some people are predestined because the parents might be alcoholics they could be in a home where there's a lot of the dysfunction where there's a lot of wounded emotions so hopefully that point that person will not go continue down that rabbit hole right at some point they might strengthen themselves with love out of love from the home to make up for some of the damage or just you know a healthy sense where he doesn't or she doesn't go down the wrong path but if they continue to go down that path the the Touma that impurity is so contagious and if it's not let's say there's nobody around him to love him and because that's really what mo k but you have to love the person and help bring him out because he can't do it himself he needs God and he meets physical help from us there's a thing called intervention sometimes it's successful maybe not the first time at some point maybe it will be but there may be a time where he becomes physically addicted not just emotionally and it becomes extremely hard but that's not what happens the first time he decides to use the drug the first time he decides to use a drug he's not addicted you understand he's his free will he may lose his free will and this is not just for drugs this could be with gambling can be lying could be with anger it could be with any kind of denial many sorts okay I don't know if I'm really answering your question but it really starts off with the free will the beginning to the point of let's say no return now there's always going to be if the person has any bit of self-respect left even if it's just the smallest amount there's a chance of hope okay to bring him back but he has to understand that you love him and that God loves him he probably I say hey we're talking about he or she doesn't matter you know then they understand that there's hope but they have to sometimes hit when called rock bottom and that's a blessing in fact the word Mitzrayim means a very narrow place constricted and this I believe is the the method for anyone who's but anything anything to recovery this didn't we had Rabbi Abraham dr. Abraham Erskine you can find him on my website he wrote a book called recovery through true v''e that he claims and I happen to know it's true that the 12-step group but Alcoholics Anonymous Narcotics of all the different anonymous 12-step groups they use the Bible in order to create the recovery program that they have that is quite successful to anybody who uses the 12 steps and it's a God it's a spiritual program it's a God guided program it can restore it really can restore even though he claims that there are people that may you know beyond and then are helpless it's true there probably aren't you know in this world a bunch of them but most people that are still around functioning and they're there probably is some hope left okay it's only when there's no hope left that we have you know just be car straight the person in and give up but most people I didn't really know most whatever most at most people or whoever hooked have an opportunity to remove themselves just like the Jews removed that we didn't get removed ourselves we had God's help to remove us from Egypt so too they could be removed from their own Egypt the the thing about I don't who's Benjamin Franklin somebody somebody mentioned about prevention is worth more you know I mean like when you can get somebody who's not yet rock-bottom help that they need you know usually a great Mitzvah a great service to them into God into the world you know sometimes we just don't care enough so we we need to reach out and help everyone in our environment you know someone gets caught stealing let's say from our to our work place so many people were just disassociate with them and not help them and I want to be involved with them it's true that you wouldn't leave your wallet around them and you wouldn't bring them into your store you know your jewelry store unattended but to at least direct them to where they can get help and tell them make sure they know that you're there for them but you you're not capable of helping them in in in a professional way and direct them but as a human being on this planet I don't know the number which say 99% are capable being helped so [Music] you know what I mean that's our job I really don't know if I'm answering your question see free will it's all about the use of the talents and the power that God gave us to make our choices and you know were brought up learning Scripture or at some point we discover it I mean that alone right you you need their own choice why does you have a Rabi you have a teacher you have a community you have a family it's all that's there aren't people who are alone there are people who are lonely and are alone and we have to reach out to them as well they have their the most vulnerable society in many ways that just a friend of mine called me up the other day and told me his diabetes I'm also diabetic and I told you gotta get married you gotta get married now he's 30-some years old very talented very good-looking guy and married people live longer married people are happier you have someone to remind you to take your insulin to do your checkup to remind you to leave you your your prescriptions that's not the reason to get married but you're missing out on your whole cough keen on your whole purpose of life you don't have somebody wake you up in the morning or a dog before you go to sleep you know you're really nasty to that guy I think you should apologize because you're not gonna tell yourself that you know that's what the CEO that's what your other half is gonna you know whether it's whether that blunt honest or maybe in a hint hint phone type of way like my wife says well I'd like to build him up you know as opposed to tear him down so there's different you know different strokes for different folks there's different ways to accomplish the end up in the same way which is more complete as a person and you're only it says you're not you're not half a person you're a non-person I mean can you believe that I would have thought that if I'm not so I'm just a half a person that's not what cause I'll tell us they say you're a non-person you're not if you're not even a human being I'm sorry guys there's hope okay tubers five we have that coming up oh I'll tell you something else oh my god it was so beautiful I heard and you're gonna be you're gonna be blown away by this ready for this we talked about four fifths of the Jews dying in Egypt and the ninth plague the plague of darkness put that to the side a second when we said that a machine Khumbu Shimazu they went up 1/5 it means they went up more armed says it literally says they went up armed right give up that talk is is our ammunition he'll come Uche there you go to a mall in Israel the guard looks at choices are you hawlucha you know you say no are you armed do you have like a knife you got a gun you got a sward you got a no Tomic Bob I don't there are you are you armed and you like course not you know whatever so how moosh so the question is how could we have been armed we were slaves when we learned how to use these weapons of war now we went up armed with the Torah according to the Kalia crisis and we accepted the Torah once we walked one step towards leaving Egypt because we knew we were going we're going to our scene I to receive the Torah the revelation but I heard this rabbi speak the other night up beautiful rabbi Gladstein and he said there's a an understanding that it says each family went up with five children so who would families all the families that are aged between 20 and 60 those are the ones that are counted they are all one up with five children now after that be someone who's a newlywed they're only married a year to happen they're five children and the people were 60 they came up five two other children they got grandchildren wonder what do you mean they went up to five children so he says that well worth this die it's only the adults that died all the children remember I don't remember this but the in this world you only become liable and when you're thirteen to keep all the laws and you're only punished by man when it comes to God's judgement you have till the age of twenty so you might be guilty of something but if you weren't caught or it only has to do between you and God you're it's not hit you're not held is accountable to the age twenty so all these kids who didn't want to leave they didn't want to leave Egypt well let's say the 4th this died we crises is because they didn't leave EJ but the the kids were not held accountable so all the other families that left they took orphans they took Marfan's so since they went up armed they went up arms with Hesed and what was beautiful they went up with acid that's it this is oh this is your bunny a little passenger bunny I feel like crying you understand that God forbid it could happen to know what's gonna happen in the war of Gog and Magog how many Jews might survive or not survive and how we're gonna have the ink gather the exiles and we're gonna have to support so many widows and widowers and who knows how many children might come might come without their parents we're praying always that all the Jews do Trula and there are all returns but we don't know what would be I'm not saying God forbid we should plan for the worst but in our hearts we have to we can prevent so much by opening up hearts already and this is what my rabbi always told us the ultimate goal of God is to make us one just like he's one and it's going to come through either a disaster or through our own free will of coming together in fellowship and bonding and we should really work hard harder on the fellowship and bonding parts so that the negative prophecies don't have to come true as we know negative prophecies do not meet to come true and I'll just explain why again because the prophets came and it to warn and if you warn somebody that means there's a free choice that you could fulfill the warning and change and then the the negative properties don't have to happen so let's write this show we hope and pray for the return the safe return of all our Jewish brethren and sisters and we know that many Gentiles are going to do that till then they will join up whether through absolute absolute conversion or through being true no Heights who believe in the revelation and understand God's will in this earth and that is the support the mission of the of these are lights and there's all kinds of ways of fulfilling that and should all be blessed and continue on your journey your blessed journey of who knows where it's gonna end up might end up right here under hope you al right we're gonna be dancing the courtyard one day watching the base of Mick - be rebuilt and the gathering near the exiles and you're all part of it you know one way or another you know missing Chavez okay so you can I see bye guys see that's where Shannon fake shut your fish okay you can see you didn't see me for who knows how long we'll sit hello see me I'm not on the floor okay hi guys it's nice to see you I hear you guys so that now I see you guys seeing is believing so about some of you guys keep warm hey guys keep warm it's cold outside enjoy a skiing trip not yeah yeah we don't have snow yet he might snow on Friday right as they say today it's Thursday night so I don't know I don't believe I got pictures last year six to eight inches where oh your ear okay well good luck with that okay let me just tell you a little bit about snow shell egg is it's such a pest what wait till you hear this not just because it's white not just because it's white right white represents Cassidy do you know what it does to the ground it warms the ground it keeps the ground from freezing you know that this it's white brings intensity if you're at the house for Shabbos you would know we put a little bit of water like water supposedly into the red wine before we make kiddush cuz red represents judgment we put a little drop of water to represent the pheasant to balance it out so to speak so this is the the snow if if you know it's obviously very cold but it's no so if it did not snow and it was that cold that the ground would freeze and many things would not many things that are in the ground you know the mulch whatever it is the when they call us things the worms they would freeze over I mean the ones are so beneficial for the fertilization process and the mulching under that so that it's a verb the process of if it was a little bit warmer right it was frozen nothing would happen but there's so much fertilizer whoever the idea is that it there's a lot going on when the snow covers the ground it's like a blanket keeping the ground underneath a little bit warmer than freezing and it's able to such it brings out better crops the next year wits and I heard farmers love the snow it'll bring the next year will be even better crops of course then you know the the runoff it to just rain it would all run off but the snow actually brings more water because then it's a slow defrost I guess this one's called a slow drip a slow defrost whatever and it's so beautiful but we were telling it's white and therefore this the river represents the white represents this idea of mercy okay any other questions did we did we lose Karen okay we just lost your picture okay okay we can't see you miss okay no worries so I just want to hear any questions about the party about anything else in life you can write me don't you don't have to you can write me you're my email address okay I think Kathy wanting to say something is that Kathy am I the only one not hearing what she's saying no we do I didn't hear a word for the last minute oh yeah I was worried the Pony with her flip because he asked me he asked me to raise the podium so I raised it and it wasn't sturdy and then when he started counting I was really worried we'll talk about that there are places in the river that are more applicable to use as a mikvah okay if there's a areas that the stream is not running through that it's basically still okay wood and deep enough okay so we'll talk more about the details okay so it's very good that you want to do that it's very good you want to do that yeah Thank You summers of lessons that can't is no yeah thank you even we live in Washington State the West Coast West the Upper West Coast United States miss it very much work for the last six months before that I must be aunt Olivia spent they think bacon but you already over the last three years in this row Leslie GUI [Applause] which holiday the one coming up to b'shvat we're having a really super party we have a rabbi named rabbi Daniel cats you could look him up look them up online it's D oh and I eat L doneall cats k8ttie Z and he's gonna do Daniel cats with an O do n IE he'll daniel cats k ATZ rabbi Daniel cats and it's going to be meditative and he has a band look up this name of the band nori L and you are ie L and we have three of the bands coming and they're going to do live music actually part of the meditation and while the rabbi speaking they'll be playing in the background we have already a hundred people signed up and paid for the room can hold probably 200 people I don't think we're turn anyone away but we started advertising a week ago and every day we keep getting more and more people and I think I started a great what's the word anyone with coin that's you got a trend thank you very much I started the idea of doing in this neighborhood and ever since it's like I think four or five years now I think there's a seven seven other to push watt savers and they're all getting you know 30 40 50 people they're off its copycat copycat I don't care it's great well I don't know how many figs I can eat you know probably the cause a little damage to my stomach but I will eat I'll eat a few I'll eat a few of you in mind no I think it's like a diuretic oops I'm sorry I'm not sure okay I died definitely plenty to start with we'll probably videotape most of it it'll be two and a half hours longer if you contain in there but it won't be live but we'll videotape it then I'll put it up online we actually have rabbi Sutton we did one there was only audio tapes two years ago we audio taped it so I think that is one line it actually is on my web page have to go to the archives and you want to do something like what he did I don't think I did the whole thing but you know I didn't tape it for two and a half hours I think I taped it only when you spoke you checked that out [Music] huh what yeah you know if in the mission of the mission is part of the oral torah and there's an argument about when is let's talk about a little bit let's talk about to issue a little bit when is the the birthday the new year's for the trees so whether it's on the first of schrott or the fifteenth Lestrade is the argument base he'll obey shall I argue beige a by says from the first base Hill Oh scissors on the fifteenth that's what's called to bespeak test love but we don't use the word good and hey then I mean to the letters U at is ten and hands five so again you know that we don't go around using God's name in vain so it's the Tet is nine and above is six so instead of ten and five we use nine and six and that makes sense to you it's to bespeak since the fifteenth of some spot and it's I mean there's so much depth it's ok so I'm not gonna do any justice but I will tell you that according to our tradition that's when the the SAP that's inside the tree begins to let's say like in other words there's a such a thing as hibernation of a tree all the leaves fall off of them in the fall and then towards the spring obviously the leaves are growing but there's a transitions there's like a from the time that the the coldest is over and the SAP is now beginning like the very beginning of coming back to rejuvenate the tree that's where the my focus the argument is on the first of the fifteenth so it's the new years from the tree and we're going to celebrate it with four cups of wine the first cup is going to give be completely white and the last cup can be completely red and the four stages we transition from white to the next cup is like rose a and then the third cup is like I guess also Rose a bit of darker and then the fourth cup is completely red symbolizing that awakening of the SAP on one level celebrating the fruits all the different fruits making prayers and blessings any and we go in a certain order and I don't remember the exact order but from different fruits that have hard shells on the outside to then soft shells then eventually to completely edible fruits where everything is edible like if there's other stages just like when we left Egypt there were stages so doing the Sailor of stages of recognizing both creation and the beauty of creation that Shem gave us and each fruit represents different things but one of the ideas is really talking about potential the potential of man a man is like a tree says in the Torah Manas like a tree in the field and we also have a solar than the shunga and it's really the connection to the lands to the fruits to the soul to the body and understanding our real true potential so much so that if you think about it I don't we talked about this idea 40 days before your spouse is born a voice comes out of heaven whatever that means and pronounces this person is going to marry that person so we could be that's hopefully you'll meet up with that person in your lifetime and fulfill your mission and so 40 days before there's already in potential something coming in other words it's still potential but it's like the beginning of the potential so when God created the world what's 40 days before the creation just think about in a second what was a little creative so there's an argument Jews loved arguments it either happened in Nissan which is Passover or it happened in Russia shovin when I say like either the first of Mesa which that's not false in that month what happened on the first edition ray which is exactly six months later so no matter how you look at it forty days before now four days before what man was created on the first day okay heaven is when we celebrate Rosh Hashanah on Tishrei we're celebrating the sixth day of creation the day that man was created so the world was really created five days before you follow he was creating a six day so five days before is the 25th it's either the 25th of the month that came before Tishrei which would be hello or 2050 2050 the 25th of the dark forty days prior you come out to to persuade so we're talking about the most we talk about potential and imagine that exactly forty days before the creation of the world not creation of the world you can think of is it this conception and then there is birth so that's that's a whole nother Kabbalistic discussion but 40 days before conception or 40 days before birth I'd like to think it was conception similar to the one we discussed about 40 days before conception of a human being a voice comes out and says this person's gonna marry that person meaning the potential is already laid out and it's our job to use our free will to get there so I mean this really sums up a lot and I hope you got confusing you but if you have any more questions I'm waiting for questions I'll send you some some links some of these okay so I just have to say guess we'll talk next week and if you have any questions in the meantime don't hesitate to write and I look forward to working with Karen a little bit more and Michelle and Chris I want to send you guys the private email to talk about it the email and Mary Kathy have a fun time in the snow do you guys still owe those sleds they have sleds do you ever go sledding tobogganing I don't think I [Music] didn't hear that what bear you watch from the side make sure they have enough hot chocolate whether you call it hot chocolate right and Marcia knows some marshmallows on top have a good Shabbos everybody you up [Music]