Home2Torah Josef's Success Vayigash with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] okay good evening everybody good morning good afternoon all those dead here okay hi man hi Kathy hi Sharon Michelle is that your husband what's your husband's named Chris okay I think we did meet one time you passed by the camera and okay we know all the people that are there okay now so we're going to start on chapter 45 verse 3 so we're not beginning with we're not starting at the beginning of the valley gosh but I thought this was a compact lesson that we can fit in the next two hours or whatever I don't know how well you guys can hang out so this is a famous statement when when Joseph revealed himself to his brothers he says I am Yosef is my father yet still alive and the famous in Hebrew ode avi hi is my father yet still alive so written he moved the Amarillo safe LF father Joseph said to his brothers amigo sake I am Joseph how old of the thigh is my father yet still alive the logoff new F of la no toto and the brothers were not able to answer him why were they not able to answer him key sniff hallo myth honor the father because they were in shocked they were in bewildered state and they were they were in shock okay so that would make a lot of sense the problem is this is not the first time that he asked if yucca was still alive so if he already asked I don't know how long ago I'm going to show you the verse it wasn't that long ago in conversation that his father he thought that his father was still alive so why would he need to ask the second time that's the first question another question is in this verse he says I am Yosef is my the still alive but if you look in verse four it says that Joseph said to his brothers come close to him if you please and they came close he said I'm Yosef your brother why did he not say I'm Yosef your brother from the get-go from the very beginning of his revelation to his brothers I'm sure these did not necessarily bother you but now they do so now we have to figure out what's going on you with me is any any question so far is it clear crystal clear okay so Mayer okay okay we'll see that you know there's an idea called in Hebrew me doc can negative me done measure for measure this comes from a shed but like what I thought Sharon where you were leading to is the idea that with so many sins or somebody does a wrong hat Hashem wants them to do chuhwa Hashem wants them to return so he sends signs he says let's say we call punishments if you want but the punishment fits the crime exactly so that the person shall wake up to the idea of what he did in return and do chuhwa and return that's how much God loves us right he's not gonna take it also at the end and not let us know along the way that we have options to repent and to fix our our actions he wants us that's his goal right for sending these so-called punishments right so-called punishments like there's a whole argument amongst in the penitentiary in the law enforcement world what's the point of a jail is a jail for punishment and punishment alone or is it for rehabilitation is is the point of the penitentiary to really ability Nia so to when the Shem sends our McClelland punishments when he could home science sends us these punishments is because of love and he's sending us exactly measure for measure so we get the point of exactly what we did if it was not clear then how can we repent I mean most let's say most people do know what they did wrong but they might not know the they might not really know that it's wrong they might have a lot of justifications in their minds right when we make make mistakes we we have what's a cognitive dissonance we believe we're doing the right thing and nobody could tell us any different so when Hashem sends us these signs they're there to wake us up and to tell us or let us know through using our brains and our spirit what exactly it was that we did wrong so to what the brothers why would they be any different fact the greater you are the even the slightest sin you're held accountable for so yes that would definitely be the case share the measure for measure so let's start I have these Hebrew sheets and I know that mayor got that so I mean I'm sure he's gonna be the only one that's gonna follow maybe you guys want to help you know follow as well but what I'll do is I'll go as slow as I can so if you want to read it and pick up some Hebrew on the way it starts off by saying the verse in 45 verse three out of the five is my father yet still alive I hope you give our new law shook I now even though they already said to him that he's alive if you look in let me tell you where it is in 44 in 44 I think it's verse 20 no sorry maybe 34 it's yeah it's on it's on that it's on the source sheet if you look on the sore sheet where the the first the first verse on the source sheet one go ahead mayor what are we gonna say no snow mayor it's on the source sheet it's the first one on the source she 43 verse 27 and really it's 28 the verse it says he he inquired of their welfare that means Yosef was asking how how things were going and he said to them says yo you who to responding back I'm sorry so this is a this is Joseph saying is your elderly father whom you mentioned well is he still alive okay hello Daniel hi we shall the hem the Shalom the Omer Michelle Obama vehemence uh can I share a Martin ho detto thigh and they responded right they said yes your servant our Father is well he is still alive and then they bow to prostrating themselves so now how many verses later is this this it's like that was 28 we're in the same we're in the same room in the same conversation that they already told him he asked is my front not even saying my father because he wasn't revealing himself yet that he was Yosa but here he knew they had a father and he asked about their father's welfare and he said is he still alive and they said yes now in our verse three he asked again so why do you think that is okay so I wouldn't have figured it out either okay go through okay sure but this is just a few minutes later they just said he's still alive it's the same room the same physical you know conversation that was happening they're in the same room with the same people nothing shifted nothing happened not a whole lot of time has passed he's having conversation with him before he reveals himself he says is your father still alive they say yes now he says I am Yosef is my father still alive so we're gonna get into the OSIS head we're gonna get into his head so back to the e-book a move on me called dear I knew that we understood from all the words you know that this conversation took place that Yosef asked so what was your thinking well I armor came today Chicago Rock'em of al-azhar came to LA he grabbed La Mesa connacher Manasa remember Ben Yemen was being held prisoner okay so basically we know that Yoko's and soul was wrapped up with eben young if any harm would come to Benjamin their father would extreme pain at this point it might even died so what Yosef thought was when he asked earlier before he revealed himself that they were just lying that they were trying to elicit some mercy from Yosef that oh the old man could die if you end up taking the youngins and separating him forever selling him into slavery forever so what yosef was thinking was they only said that in order to make me more merciful and let the young man go but now that they know who I am maybe now they'll tell me the truth that he is really dead or alive you follow this was that request or inquiry whether his father was still alive in the beginning verse 28 was before they knew that he was Yeltsin so he thought maybe they were using some kind of strategy now he that's why he asked in the second time is my father still alive now so now we got the T Yosef head and we got an idea why he repeated the question but what about them what were they thinking well the vom lo que me Adame in their own hearts they could not even imagine and they thought Akash whoosh alone is coming the show L they couldn't even imagine that the intent of Yosef was to ask him whether he was really dead or alive but rather now this is really this is human psychology Ellis should both lajas care of ona but the reason he was asking the second time was once he revealed himself as Joseph as my father still alive was to remind them of their sin in other words this is something in psychology we say in Judaism that when you see something in somebody else like a blemish and in character something that Berkshire doesn't really sit well with you it bothers you this guy talks to magic that's something that just irks you the way he talks it's because it doesn't mean it's all the time it's not a hundred percent rule but you can always fall back on it is most likely what is happening is that person the blemish that he has it's really something you have in yourself it's the blemish that you have in yourself that bothers you you see it in him or them so most of what we think about other people think their thinking is usually a projection of our own thoughts on what we think they're thinking because it's going around in our own heads so they had this guilt they sold their brother into slavery and he's saying you know I'm yes is my father still alive so what they thought was by asking that a second time was that he was really you know pushing their buttons you know reminding them of their sin so that's right because wait till you hear this because when he says is my father still alive he doesn't say is our father or your father he says is my father because he was tried to tell them you did not treat he did not treat Yaakov with the respect that a father should give because you caused him 22 years of pain not knowing where his son was and we just read in Hebrews lo Mars if he was saying Chhavi my father he Jacko's my father the law of accompanies not your father kilo cus come out sorry you didn't have any mercy on the pain that he was experiencing as if kilo ain't no a v10 as if he wasn't your father how could you treat another human being was such you know that they're going through pain why would you allow the person to continue to experience pain right I mean we have an obligation you see somebody carrying packages to go over in this well I mean if you have time in every hand can I help you you see somebody going through pain they're looking around for something lost a lost object you say can I help you maybe I don't have time to walk in all the directions but maybe I tell me what you're looking for maybe I saw it from in my travels or maybe where I'm going I'll see it no you should go out of your way but that's all you know it's a matter of uncoachable a dot you have to have to weigh out your own priorities but the Torah requires this of us to help people who are in pain that's why they were in shock and they weren't able to answer him because in their head they thought he was reminding of the reminding them of their own sin by saying about my father and clearly he didn't say our Father is our Father still alive is this is my father still alive okay that's just we're just kidding we're just getting started here any questions so far clear as mud hmm yes it's but it's not just by me yourself he says I need a Seth I am yours is my father still alive you know we caught tough today deeper within the amount of time it takes to say a few words if there's no real break still one lines like once they gather so the Fiat car begins by saying there's another reason for the shock for this overwhelming emotional confusion because he said I am Yosef and he did not say your brother right he didn't say remember later on you'll see it in number 4 verse 4 where he says I am Yosef your brother we're only in verse 3 where he says I'm Yosef and he did not say on your brother until the next verse so he's explaining why this shock came specifically because he did not identify himself as their brother that doesn't mean he wasn't their brother he was physically their brother but remember they sold him into slavery and is a real brotherly love when that happens of course not so they they were you follow Nick puzzled they were they they were startled they were shocked chambre de Icaza Tom fear actually seized them why because they thought that this kid not a kid anymore was going to take root vengeance did you also take any vengeance or revenge we're gonna see the quite the opposite Kenya Marcus Lee up oh yay Oh midnight came they were afraid that because he left out the word I'm your brother that they were going that he was that yo she was going to take you know when you do someone harm and the person's like hello it's me you know oh my god this is a guy I really hurt badly you're a little bit afraid he's gonna come against you now again we spoke about what goes on on your head you project on other people the next piece says but he seemed as oz moment acaba Kashi Russell hame below he sealed s odds mom in Aqaba what does that mean if you look at Lama designs that's 3717 the you know the source sheets are pretty well organized so look at number two when they were when Yosef was not looking for his brothers near staff member Jakob said to Yosef go find out how your brothers are doing and how the sheep were doing so he went which them and he found the man in the in the field and the man said when he asked with have you seen you know my brothers he said they have traveled away from here so they were there they traveled away and I overheard them saying let's go to though Tom so Joseph went ahead after his brothers he found them there but the Hebrew says Natsume said they went away from here so what does it mean they went away from here Rashi says they remove themselves huh they remove themselves from brotherhood they're the ones they're the ones that separated themselves from this camaraderie this Brotherhood you know the word survives like it's a love it's a relationship a love relationship that the brother have they removed themselves that's what it means what it says and who was this man they ran into it was the angel of God reality by the way why don't we say was Gargery up because it says they ran into the speech each in Hebrews the same word as Guevara gathered the man of God Godfrey L means the man of Gaza so it says they ran into this man each is equivalent together God yeah and it was an angel who was able to tell them but this pussing this verse tells us what was going on in the minds of the brothers they're the ones that separated themselves now we go back to this idea that what happened that they thought that he was their enemy and that he separated himself remember he didn't say I'm your brother so they thought what when they originally actually did now Sharon left but she has everything is like measure for measure this is just like the beginning of another dog now you're still there Sharon okay so if you just saw we just saw him Rashi on the verse natsume said they traveled away from there that's why he actually said to them the second time he had to emphasize it that but in verse 4 I am Joseph your brother which you sold down to Egypt now that's like is that like putting the nail in the coffin you know I'm your brother Joseph who you you sold and they took me to Egypt but you didn't actually sell me to the Egyptians because sold me for that the Midianites the Ishmaelites and there's a whole chain of events circle sales over until he ends up in Egypt but they knew where these people were going when they sold them so basically they did sell to Egypt but not literally not directly I should say so what happens now when he actually says I'm Joseph your brother which supposedly would help cure you know cure the problem you know resolve that relationship I hear some background noise wants to put their earphones on I don't know if that's Nair are we getting some feedback from your computer Mayor Kathy do you guys have the earphones it's too much background noise I can hear you great but what did you have to you have to put yourselves on mute and when you want to ask a question then unmute yourself okay great now what's the problem with Egypt Egypt I don't know if you read the newspapers like you know what happened a few years ago they had like these protests in Egypt and the public square where people who are protesting I mean not only were they throwing bottles and rocks and firebombs but any woman who ended up in that Square pretty much was either raped or abused or harassed this is not me making it up this was Michelle you know I'm talking about if you don't you know anyway so I mean I think a CNN lady claimed she was harassed any would like it even the most leftist journalists they knew better and said women they sent them anyway and and you know it's going on in Europe with the I mean they're not Egyptians necessarily but let's say a Gyptian mentality and and the women are being quite abused even in public not just in private not only their wives but people they don't even know yet so what we know about Egypt is that it's like the armpit of the world it's so steeped in my sensuousness it's so steeped in promiscuity and sexual immorality so yosef is really telling them on one hand you could have sold me anywhere you can sell me to the French Riviera I can apps I mean but you sold me to the armpit of the world you saw me to the worst possible place anybody could sell me but I'm going to tell you I'm going to just give you a little inkling where we're going to go with this this class one of the main themes is that the very fact that you sold me to the worst like dungeon you know the worst of morality that's actually to my benefit because I overcame my evil inclination and that's how I became vice really that's how I became the solution to all your problems or the world's problems such as the family there was a famine going on you're you're aware of that this is part of the reason it was part of the dreams and part of the reason that Yaakov and the sons eventually come down and why the ten brothers actually are looking for Yosef at the same time they were there for provisions to bring back with them so he says in Hebrew I Felicia laughs I thought hi-low hem limb protein their ages ago out there even though you could have sold me to any other nation right there's 70 nations gonna throw me to 69 other nations any one of them that are sure a man should to Phase II mokou coq10 or not so like sánchez and and downright disgusting when it comes to to promiscuity Macomb Macomb I'll keep her money but nevertheless you know what you're still my brother Veronique hard but a Nathan came the heart MOT Hanuma trying keep the mithya shell Connie shall are funny lol lol Dean which is really the next verse and now don't be distressed but don't get so upset with yourselves right for having sold me here which is Egypt because ultimately it was to be a provider that God sent me ahead of you so Yakko doesn't have this this resent attitude that the brothers thought he was going to have in fact he's saying it was leaving you guys who said Lee was guy who sent me I mean can you imagine this attitude of a muna faith and belief that everything that happens to you even those things that are so seemingly bad it's like so horrible ultimately you understand and believe that it's ultimately for the good you can't see it you don't know about it but you just know deep in your kisses and your gut and your heart and your soul that ultimately it was for the good so you got to remember this is also after the set you know we're talking about seven years of plenty they put everything away for the whole nation and this is already now into the famine so he had the foresight of course through the dreams and the people of Kanaan you know they were relying on some of these people to come to bring them back food so he was he was he was considered the provider here so because look you bro anyone I saw she knit Gaga had dumber than all the things that happens you know you have a watch how did you watch work there's so many different gears one gear turns that gear one knotch that one turns the other one two notches then however the time ends up being correct because we call these gears are all in motion so two he recognized all the actions that took place from you know from the beginning before they even throw them in the pits the the animosity and the dreams and being thrown into the pit being sold from one group of travelers to another group of travelers all the way down to Egypt to being what's the word being seduced by this woman the boss woman the boss's wife ending up in jail with the with the with the two other prisoners and an interpreting nurturer and everything that interpreting sirens dream everything was by the hand of God and nothing don't take why you why you feelin so bad cuz you did a sin but from right but ultimately Hashem was taking care of me and you the whole time and this is pretty heavy stuff right so he says SHINee Gaga that dub are that the like it was like a roll again what do you call that thing a snowball effect there's just going and going and moving in the proper trajectory Shibata beta through vizima that I ended up here in this most decrepit place the Coralie Micra the asia spotty fire and the actual circumstances that happened where Potiphar's wife seduced me but guess what i did in the end she kibosh tea at the it's read I conquered my own inclination I conquered my own eh Zara he could have fallen he could have felt for her she was probably a very very beautiful woman there was nobody else at home remember we talked about this the other day Rashi says it was the day of fact that's probably tonight the 25th of December if you remember we talked about that said they on the 21st of December which is tonight it's the winter solstice and it's the shortest night of the year so when adamant when adamant the first man was with eight from the tree of knowledge a good meal he was told you were going to die or the day you eat from the tree and he didn't die that day but that's not that I'll tell you first of all a day in God's eyes is a thousand years he was supposed to live 2,000 years from the time that God told him he's gonna die and he actually lived 930 years and he gave seventy years to King David King David there seventy years he saw through his own vision that there was a great person mushiya cause when it comes to King David if King David and live and everything he gave seventy years of his own life to King David and this is the idea of a dove the word for Adam is Aleph violet men you know Etienne I was not meant stands for Adam arisha dove in hemella and mushiya the whole point of creation these are the three main players you agree with me Adam dove it mushiya hallelujah okay so and he conquered his evil inclination oh that day so what happened on that day in our own prayers on how they could we say Chi Yong has said and that's the verse also uses Chi Yama's ed which implies it was in an ordinary day and that day was the day that nobody was home Rashi tells us they all went to their pagan temples so the earlier earliest holiday that we are aware of it's written in the Talmud is the 25th of December it was way back way before the Common Era before Christianity even developed there was a party that Adam the first man started to celebrate on the 25th of December thanking God for the Sun s UN not s open the Sun was now what you called reviving itself after three days right from the 21st first not counting 21st back down to twenty-fifth the three days in between that the the that how do I say it that it stopped getting darker earlier you know how the calendar works every day it's like a minutes or a half a minute differences in the time of sunset so to stop getting dark earlier for about three days was almost the same and then on the 25th it started getting longer whoever could be so sensitive you know if I guess if you're in those you know purely agricultural and no cities no lights you're more into how to wrap Adam the first man certainly and unfortunately as generations went on as we talked about this about the Gentiles and hope I don't represent any money but in nature that's why the fingers have that we talk about the Four Nations are examples of all the other nations they have an intermediate knuckle where is the Jewish nation which is represented by the thumb is only has there's no intermediate we go directly to God but by nature that's like my nature God created this he created it and then I think Michelle you ask me the question I think right that mankind I know we really talk about just men mankind is born with a foreskin over his member and this is one of our Commandments to remove that force because that serves as an intermediate so mankind in general is born with this obstacle or interference and that's the way mankind is but the Jew is supposed to move obviously when they're eight days old they're not doing they're removing it's done for them but that's the Covenant that's the sign of the Covenant you guys follow me so far okay it's pretty heavy stuff but that's the way I create the world so you know I my rabbi gave had a shear I think I sent it to you guys rabbi Berkowitz is about a fifteen minute class and the title of the that I Taylor labeled it was Judaism is not a religion it's reality for the Soul it has nothing did this Judaism's not a religion it's just it because religion means it's man name and Judaism is not man-made okay we're we act so this whole idea of the 25th of December evolved into a pagan holiday and I hope I don't offend anybody and but the religion adopted it main I don't think do they even know what day Jesus was born on but I don't think that if you look at the Scriptures properly and learn it properly I don't think anybody claims that he was actually born on December 25th but probably sometime around Passover time in the spring yeah but I know that a lot of Christians are running away from Christmas and a pagan sense but anyway there wasn't a big mix-up with understood was the rep the reviving of the Sun s UN I'm sorry red Sun in the sky on the 25th of December not necessarily the reviving a revival of the Sun s om you don't say okay Chris you hanging in there okay so let me go on I huh Cathy what are you days there's a PT Leo through Israel and through his conquering his evil inclination he's saying that unmerited become the leader of the Jewish people through this test of being in such a promiscuous society and I overcame it this is the merit that I deserved not me personally you know but not even the other he's saying that he did the right thing the right actions and that because of that he became will become rowing is rallying the the pastor ro ed means a Shepherd shepherd he became the Shepherd of Israel I just used the word pastor because I think that's where they got it from the whole idea the leader and it's very interesting the word Edvin yes Ralph he became and is crazy he became the Anthony strallan Evan is is it two words it's off and then the father and the son together unbelievable Yosef became the leader of the Jewish people in an interesting way okay we'll talk about that later on Ben anyway he's design design means provider sustainer and the front on the far days also the leader and the sustainer like it says now in the I think is number four so one number four in the source is its Genesis 49 24 this is when Yaakov blesses the children and this is the blessing to Yosef but his bow was strongly established his bow his bow mean he had strengthened his bow and his arms would gilt it from the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob this means that he did not okay that we got a little x-rated sometimes okay he did not he did masturbate to did not spill seed and he did not cohabitate with any women who were not his wife okay he did not commit adultery and he didn't go far as spilling any seed you could probably even nocturnally you know because he wasn't looking at things during the day that might arouse him at night he was strong he kept himself you know God not blinded but he guarded his eyes and he guarded his body and he was extremely modest okay so that's the blessing this I don't think so it could be it could be iLook imprisonment it's not a good it's not a good scene and you don't know if there were women there or not today today I think they tried to separate the populations but I don't know what happened back then okay so I'm not going to assume that but you'll see that before he was in there he got thrown into prison because he already overcame is he in other words he already passed the test before his boss's wife Potiphar's wife did everything she could to seduce him and she accused him falsely of attempted rape and harassment there's another reason we can't believe every story that comes up I mean we have to take precautions but it doesn't mean the person should be you know hung and tarred and feathered when a woman says what she says I mean you have to take her character into consideration as well you know she was an absolute 1% righteous person and he was not you know I guess there's more evidence or some of the evidence but reason to believe otherwise but this blessing is coming from Yaakov acknowledging his ability to overcome and that overcoming was before he was put in jail so he already overcame it Sharon before he was put in jail so I'm not so sure what happened afterwards in jail whether there were more women to seduce him or not or opportunities let's say I don't know okay yes I imagine they had good sleep they probably had opportunities in prison as well the same to know that you're thinking you're thinking that's what it's all about okay we're grateful for your thoughts okay so back into the text I always least move my place when I get excited but he was called Evan Israel he's called the Mighty One of Israel and it's this is the rabbi's actually agreed now this is where we're going to get a little bit I don't know what you call it a little x-rated so we'll try to keep it as clean as possible the Gomorrah tells us in Gomorrah so to daf dollar that page for be coal haha anxious ish any man that comes upon a married woman the south neva kishke collection his end will be looking for a loaf of bread meaning extreme poverty he will experience extreme poverty the ain't emotes and he won't even find sustenance okay I don't think we should stop here though there is a Gomorrah that I gave over to Mayor maybe we will stop here just for a second Mary you can find it on there I don't know I think I sent it to you we're in the Gomorrah oh yeah I think we should stop here just for a second because the Gomorrah basically takes this verse it takes the statement that anybody that is any man that goes and is with a married woman obviously not his own wife so then this verse applies this is it Proverbs I want you to look it up because I don't I didn't dumb I know it's on this sheet in it's on this sheet on the right side and whatever you see it proverbs 626 because for the sake of a licentiousness one may beg for a loaf of bread an adulterous woman can a snare and snare a precious soul so this verse the the question of the doors why is it in this order shouldn't it have said one may beg for a loaf of bread because of a life sentence one I mean wouldn't that have made more sense so the rabbi's of the game are saying no this is the reason it was written in this way is because the end if if somebody is if a man is with a married woman not his own wife his end that's why it's the end of the verse meaning not the beginning it's really in the middle but it's the end of that part he made beg for a loaf of bread is we'll bring him to extreme poverty okay okay so in Judaism the way the Bible works is a adultery is not between two not married people okay and a man can have more than one wife okay the rabbi's did away with that a thousand years ago okay the rabbi's said it's forbidden to have more than one wife there are there will be exceptions there have been exceptions but they made it make it extremely difficult let's say for example a woman is in a coma how can the man who can't hit the the rabbis also said a man cannot divorce his wife against her will so if she God forbid she's in a coma he can't divorce her because you can't divorce her against her will so remember the rabbi's are looking out for us they don't make up these things very easily they said for a man in that situation to remarry meaning you have a second wife he has to get signatures from a hundred rabbis you know how hard that is yet to get the signature from a hundred rabbis if you wanted to take on their second wife I mean they all have to know the situation and it's dire and then the let him because you cannot divorce a woman against your will and in that situation it'll be impossible for him to continue the way if you know it's same thing it whatever so okay so where we at so so but a woman is only allowed to have one husband so a woman who's already married if she's with another man so that's adultery a Jewish man who's with a married woman that's a butchery if she's not married then it's not adultery I mean at least in the biblical sense but in the rabbinic sensitives okay there are different consequences that's one may require the death penalty and the other one would probably get last okay so that would be that would be the okay differences okay so now we're back here so anybody that come up here so we describe this this situation so what does he say if I was not placed in this Egypt this such a lovely place full of promiscuity perhaps God would have chosen someone else to fix the problem of the famine remember he was able to fix it because God gave him the gift that he's claiming the gift came because I did not act with this married woman not just her but anybody else I was pure modest clean right and because of that I learned it to be that person to do what to do the opposite of what happens when you're with a man when you're with a married woman not your wife then you end up extreme poverty but when you are able to conquer that you're blessed was wealth okay so he's claiming remember I'm your brother right I'm Joseph your brother who you sent out to Egypt and what's the rest of the verse with it again now it's all coming together look it for then Joseph said to his brothers come close to me if you please and take a close and he said I know so if your brother it is me who sold it to Egypt fine and now be not distressed or get upset with yourself or having something here for it was to be a provider that God sent me ahead of you it all fits in nicely now we understand what the messages that he was trying to get across from them to them it wasn't you was God and thank God nothing thank God whatever that you sent me here don't blame yourselves I mean you could have sent me anywhere but the fact you sent me here is why I the Viceroy the provider for the solution of the famine okay we're learning lessons of life here not just text but okay okay but he says a vow they are fishin is dot mealy after the fact that it just occurred to me doesn't mean like happy to say happenstance means literally it happened to me that you guys sold me to this yeah I'm frozen and my still frozen but you could hear me okay I think that's the most important thing but after the fact that it occurred to me that you you know that happened to me that you sold me to such a low nation lows awful assume F I'm a hamlet Aki and Hana off-key money the only person that was married it to fix the situation was me and if that's the case I'm Akira hey my limits Ryan gar Mele then it was ultimately the fact that you guys sold me to Egypt that I became the solution to the problem I became the provider that God sent me ahead of you okay next paragraph any questions at this point look okay so has I'll tell us that this shock that this confusion that took place amongst the brothers we learn from it we should take you cough Lee mood a yama did we should take to heart we should really take this learning regarding what the great and terrible day judgment day of the Lord there will be a day that we will all be judged you guys believe in the Judgment Day it's a great title great title for a movie anyway so what we're learning about their reaction is what we should understand that's going to happen on Judgment Day remember they said I don't know what they thought from under the next 22 years maybe they were looking for we know they were only looking for them and they went to Egypt perhaps they were looking for him the whole time but we don't know anything about that so Romeo Eliezer says in the in the Madras void Lana me oh and then woe is to us you know woe is to us it's like calamity whoa whoa stars for the day of judgment vital anima yom tov a ha what was tossed from the day of rebuke what day are we going to be reviewed when we pass on after 120 years on this planet this is gonna be a very great analogy this is what it says in the Talmud and now we know that it's true like in our very eyes the Talmud tells us that your whole life will be shown to you and basically there's nothing going to be hidden all of your actions every minute and any sin that you did will be revealed to you through you'll be able to see it like today we have video of DVDs flash drive everything I don't know Big Brother this closed-circuit television everywhere right see now we can imagine now we have a little bit more of an imagination that really helps us really what's the word you know place it on our heart to understand that it's really possible that when we go to the Judgment Day or her life will be shown to us it's not that hard to imagine it right Cathy a hundred years ago is probably almost impossible to imagine right but now it's easy to imagine sure I get it so that's what's gonna happen so my yo safe when Joseph said to his brothers aniyo safe and we know they were not able to answer them that's what it says they were in such shock they couldn't answer so when God brings us and stands us in judgment how much more so we are not going to be able to unresponded so we go to Isaiah 10 verse 3 which is it's number 6 it's number 6 on machines what will you do for the day of visitation in Hebrew mata su Lee Jung Baku da the day of visitation that is the day of judgment and for the destruction that will come from afar to whom will you flee for aid and where will you leave your riches in other words you really have no response what can you possibly say on this day excuses you're gonna have excuses what are you gonna say I live in yeah yeah I did it I did it I mean this is God it's not like you know ya photoshop today you know you could play around this is God you know this is like you go you did this right this is your life remember we have an expression all deeds matter well they all matter and this is what it really it really comes down to the low to the wire so we see that in Isaiah so what were the brothers thinking so when Yosef reminded them of their sin remember that's what they're thinking Yosef is out to get them he's reminding them of their sin as we already explained my assail ultimately of the CUDA what does a man supposed to do during the stay of this moment of judgment keep arcade moshav all whom I saw bhumata no this is one three words but I would just say sum it up as deeds you know what's going to visit it all with his sittings all of his movements and all every all his business everything that he did is going to come and visit him as it says making Joan thirty seven seven see that's also the sheets the now at number eight job 37 seven by the hand of every man he seals so that every man should know his deep now it doesn't say I don't know what the Catholic or Christian Bible say but this is not a capital H by the hand of every man he seals beyod Cola down yah stone every person seals his own faith through his own actions so that every man should know his deed guys you got goose bumps or what this is like okay this is it man this is reality I told you Judaism is not a religion it's a reality for the soul okay so we're getting like a heavy dose of reality here what absolutely absolutely absolutely look as as as a as a non Jew keeping the seven Noahide laws so there is there is Trueba there's repentance and there's a relationship with God we talked about this do you don't have to be a Jew to have relationship with God that's why we say it's a reality for the souls not a religion but you can choose let's say you're Jewish already so then you have you know you do but let's say you want to convert so once the person converts that's where the concept of born-again comes from we said it says the tableau that the person's like a brand new baby starting from fresh but there's lots of stages in life whether you Jewish are not once you get married you're considered getting a brand new start when you get elevated to a new position at work you know now you're the director or the boss it's like starting over there's many times in life where we end up as the fresh start in fact every day we thank God for returning our soul and giving us a fresh start so but if you mean it and we actually what we call cash boat a nephesh we we take an accounting of our soul to find out before you go to sleep at night did I get it are you with that person or could I have done better in that situation that's what our obligation is to do before we go to sleep to make peace with our soul and forgive forgive people that we might have hurt and ask the next morning baby before you go to sleep if you have an opportunity to ask for forgiveness remember on Yom Kippur and this is like this is not a big secret but maybe a lot of people don't know this and I think that it's probably hidden away by the Christians for some reason because you know I was a Christian at one time the idea that on Yom Kippur the Day of Atonement you will not be atone for by God even for sins you did against him unless you rectify the sins that you have against human beings other human beings first this is heavy duty in other words let's say you stole from somebody so you might think okay so I just returned what I stole and and and you know feel bad do repentance fine so then that actually effectuates all of your sins even what do you have against God as opposed to let's say the plenty of sins against God is like we all do and then the the stealing part you never rectified so nothing nothing that you did against Chad will be forgiven until you rectify what you did against human being first you follow helping to make that to copy changes you depends how grave amusing this is it I know I'm using this is a grave what's the really good a grave example and I start part of the pun but sometimes it depends what it is sometimes you have to go to the grave and ask forgiveness if they if its monetary you know that they have children that acquire inherit their property you may owe the the children the money okay there whatever can be done should be done and through your life you will remember to trust me it'll come up if you really want to do truly you really want to correct your ways and when you're praying or meditating or something will happen with oh my god I stole that candy bar from that store or I read it on that person's honor whatever it is is any way I can make that up it's it's a necessary thing because you're gonna face that later on it's not just between you and God all these matter and and there is a way to listen there are times where you it might be forbidden to remind the person what you did okay it might make things worse so you have to consult your your mentor your spiritual guide your rabbi and say look I spoke Russian hard against this person and now I did truly where should I go and tell them I spoke this Russian heart against them so what's gonna happen this person never knew maybe never affected that maybe he did but you have to find out how to do the repentance just like everything else in life we have to find out kind of Kashar a pan or check to slaughter an animal we have to ask spiritual guidance if we leave it to ourselves and probably choose the wrong thing don't don't don't don't get overwhelmed don't think that it's like such a huge burden first of all there's a difference between doing repentance out of love and do repentance out of fear doing the repentance out of fear you get a clean slate isn't that great what what more do you need than that I'll tell you if you do repent seven love all the negative actions turn into mrs. meaning turn into credits I mean that's like unbelievable just thinking about saying you have like unbelievable matter sins and all of a sudden you repent I love your like skyrocket is way above the zero mark it's not just wiped clean they actually transform into positive merits and that amazing oh okay now we're going to go to Jeremiah Jeremiah to verse 23 this is just to hammer home the idea that all deeds matter and how do you say I have not defiled I have not gone after billow and see you're weighing the value if that's really going to be know what you have done okay see you're weighing the valley know what you have done in the Hebrew did the clea card brings down a few of the words he says you eat dark cake my eye sees see your way what you have done see your way will you then we have to take the heart we can't just you know if we don't correct what we did wrong in the past in the best way we can we're bound to continue makes a mistake we're making very little of it not thinking that it's a very important thing to try to correct we were rectified okay again you need spiritual guidance sometimes confronting a person with the harm that you did could clutch more heart okay could be you leave an envelope of money under their doorstep I don't know you know any like this you may not have to confront the person say you trusted me all these years and I stole you mean you may not have to you have to you have to you need everyone needs spiritual guidance okay so we just did Jeremiah so that according to reveal the answer this is the reason why it's written in the Torah that the brothers experienced this new color which would we translate it as a shock or this confusion is confounding moment in order that the mass kill who the Maskelyne the enlightened ones that's us everyone on this wavelength right now on skype plus millions of other people but so that people who are so we were just saying that that's why quarterly Ezzor that's why the Torah writes that the brothers were in the state of shock and confusion in order that anybody was spiritually sensitive and has their wits about them who will place upon their heart with meaning they'll pay attention and they will be fair dr. Yom had in paradox is from the word of her ad I don't know if you ever heard that that is the term used for the ultra-orthodox Jews they call them for a theme which means to shake and that's probably where the the in America they got the word Quakers you know I grew up in Pennsylvania so Philadelphia so I know there was Benjamin Franklin and many other I don't know early Christians and in America that were part of the Quaker movement so the Quaker you wonder where they come from the name it's not just from the sir you know but from the concept of being raised like fearful and shaking and quaking for the young added just being cognizant of the idea that we will be judged on our actions so we have to be much more careful and precise how we treat people and how we finally admits was the command solution so the last thing he sends and says is that we learn as a a priori of arguments meaning a logical conclusion that how much more so should we be in a state of shaking if they shook how much work should we shake when we really contemplate about our own actions now something I wanted to tell share earlier and I think there's a good place that when we we see the big pile of our sins we shouldn't be we shouldn't feel overwhelmed the actual act of repentance should be done with joy and simcha this is something that God created the opportunity because logic dictates that if you you know you use soil a cloth you're right if you don't the washing machine it's gonna remain dirty and our souls we we make an impression on our souls in our body through our sins and our actions and there is in a way of cleansing them God gave that opportunity it's a gift it's a it's a gift from God that we're able to repent in other words logic dictates that it shouldn't exist but God created it he created repentance before he even created the world as another concept is that God creates the solution before the problems ever exist you should know that when every year faced with anything in life a problem comes up you say to yourself right away I know there's a solution to this because the solution was always created before the prom came to be so okay now we're going to go to the next verse well it's not really the next verse is now we're score so far we only really dealt with I am Yosef is my father still alive I know we dealt with some other aspects but now we're going to deal with four when it says come close to me if you please and they can close okay I just want to tell you whatever we're learning it's not the end though we're just scratching the surface I hope you're aware of that there's you read the meddra says you read whatever there's levels of those the torah is infinite it's it's one and one with God right God is infinite the Torah is his is his mind so to speak and we're just I don't know how many you know he's obviously not physical but it if he would be physical you know you're talking about like one grain of nothing of all the sand you know we're talking infinite how do you describe infinity so we're just not even scratching the surface okay so it says go shoot not a lie Regas you write come close to me and they came close okay I told you I'm getting a little bit x-rated here he showed them that he was circumcised I know I froze I'm back okay what does the language come close to me and they came close he showed them that he was circumcised it's a pretty vulnerable position to being what he wanted to do was to show them that he was still righteous okay now we don't was going through his head that even though he was in a place full of sexual promiscuity he did not fall he wanted to show them I got the covenant I got the sign of the Covenant and it is pure okay there's no question yeah I don't I don't know if that's true and if it even if it was straight out I've read there's a lot of fake news out there you know they want to say that the Jews got this whole idea from other civilizations God told Abraham Abraham ended up in Egypt it could be that certain Egyptians you know based on the fact that Abraham was there four hundred years earlier may be adopted but it wasn't widespread throughout the world and it probably wasn't widespread throughout Egypt it may have been in Egypt but what did you want to ask [Music] okay so I don't know it may be a Madras it may not I mean he may have heard it from somewhere else but I spoke about this in previous classes the anti-semites in America come up with a lot of conspiracy theories and some of them are pretty good and creative anyway one that I found that was extremely creative not so good was that they claimed that the doctors in America the Jewish doctors in America were spreading lies about how healthy circumcision is and that's why many many Americans at least in the big cities non-jews are circumcised in the hospitals because it says in the Bible says the Jewish Bible that slaves of Jews need to be circumcised so they say this is like it's Spira see by the Jewish doctors and the establishment to enslave all the Americans and it got really creative ideas you know first of all they found that with a circumcised of large populations in Africa aids goes down right the the amount of transmission of HIV goes like a Tyrell for like 70 80 percent downwards there is some health benefits but we don't do it for health benefits like we kosher but we don't eat kosher for health benefits we do because God said so and happens to be beneficial God doesn't tell us anything to do this is not going to be beneficial but anyway I don't know what the Egyptians thought of it did and I think what Joseph did I think like what you'd be alluding to is a little bit of it I'm gonna say the conspiracy theory but it worked apparently he was in a position to extort not him from his own personal sake he basically told anybody who wants to buy food they have basically have to remortgage their homes they basically have to hand over their their real estate property to the Egyptian government they made so much money because nobody had food for probably a thousand miles in every direction this famine was not just in Egypt as Israel people Israel experienced it and that's why they had to come down there but this was the center of the null world and he basically instituted like the opposite of Trump you know well maybe it's whatever like the idea that America's first seems to be working right so here was he Egypt first so they even he had this genius idea I got the food me personally but on the other charge and if you want the food you're basically going to be and you're gonna be super bleeding zone on your houses you know you want food you have no money how do we have how is it a society supposed to function there's no food so they had to basically give up a lot of their property so I don't know about they gave up their foreskin okay but he basically means Jewish genius to enriching the country wasn't it wasn't his personal it wasn't that he personally gained but each of the games anyway ready to God yeah and that's what I think is what you're referring to key huh boa Aramis Musca are Lisa so basically like this there's two ideas one is like the Olympics the Olympics in Greece Greek society they they're well they're the ones who invented the Olympics and the original Olympics were all done in the nude naked they ran naked they did pole jumping naked obviously swimming can be done naked but everything was done naked all the athletic activities were done in the nude because they believe that they're from your faith the effect is one of the three sons of of North which means beauty so Greece thought that the body was created perfect beautiful and actually making a circumcision is considered a blemish that's why they outlawed circumcision and you'll find other anti-semitic societies outlawed circumcision but anyway so that was what Greece was all about the body perfect and if a Jewish man was going to go with the non-jewish woman he would pull his skin over his member to make it look like he was not circumcised otherwise what non-jewish woman would want to be with a Jewish man they were considered lowlifes another idea also is that in the future in the day of judgment that that says Abraham we'll pull everyone out of gadem right if they're Jewish there they kept whatever that I keep I think they they kept their covenants on the remember pure they were not with any non-jewish women but those who with non-jewish women would not be pulled out of called Jahannam hell but I think it's really referring to the first idea so anyway we find that ready this is this is like the the we're gonna finish the lesson with this idea but it's gonna go for a lot that the Jewish people were redeemed from Egypt on account of four things okay and nagulu she's round to God he was trying to scoot arbitrary that the Jewish people were redeemed from Egypt they merited to be redeemed on account of four things one they did not change their names you wanna write this down I think I gave it to a number thirteen they did not change their names they didn't change their language they didn't speak loshon Hara they didn't speak gossip and they guarded themselves against sexual promiscuity now why are we telling you now this because we're gonna see that Joseph kept these four things and actually taught the Jewish people who then you know then the other tribes who are coming down they're gonna be in Egypt for another two hundred and ten years what they need to do for survival in order to be redeemed this is what you need to do so I don't want me to see where I left off okay so just like here Joseph sent after his father and his brothers and he wanted to inform them of what they will need to know in order to be redeemed in the future so he hinted to them about these four things so Joseph was perfect in all these things ahoy Joseph Charlene Bakula he didn't change his name that's why he said I am Joseph remember look what he's called look at number 11 and number 11 Pharaoh himself gave Joseph a different name it says a pharaoh named Yosef it's a fan a fan out and Hebrews to go back to the south not Pennell south not Pannell okay but Joseph says I'm Yosef okay he doesn't refer to him as the Egyptian name trying to teach the the tribes were coming down to Egypt to make sure to always keep your Hebrew names and and then it says they don't change the language if you lurk good look at verse 12 which I don't have on the sheet but look on your own verse 12 in verse 12 it says it says my mouth that is speaking to you behold your eyes see and the eyes of my brother Benjamin that it is my mouth that is speaking to you this was he was teaching them that I was he was telling I'm speaking in Hebrew you have to keep your Jewish name and you gotta keep the Jewish language because the reason main reason is that if you keep the names but you have a different language then they don't mean what they're supposed to mean and have kept your language but not your names the same thing you know basically the twelve tribes all their every language like the the the root of each word is a language of redemption okay that the Jewish people will be redeemed and there should be always hope for redemption and that's embedded in the name so keep your names and keep your language otherwise that won't work it works hand in hand the we said also that he was guard against sexual immorality so when he said to them Yeshua lie come close to me he showed them that he was circumcised and also the same words Joshua I come close to me was also proof not to speak loshon Hara why how is that proof does Benjamin was in the room Benjamin was not privy to the whole story of the Sailor he wasn't there he didn't know and also Yaakov he was not in the room at this moment but he also didn't know so even till the day of his death he didn't know about the the brothers so Joseph it was like one of the best well-kept secrets you know who killed John F Kennedy but maybe you know whenever ELISA say this is the best kept secret even Yaakov did not know that the brothers sold so when he said come close to me they were discussing you know the sale and what happened as you see the narrative because he didn't want Ben young and Benjamin to hear about what happened so through these actions Yosef it was my mouth that speaking to you come close to me so you can see that I'm circumcised and come close to me so the Benjamin doesn't over here this was but I am it's a below coat than the hoot moto again is another idea if you look in Genesis 50 verse 17 I think is on the sheet yeah it's number 14 it's last source this is this is Yaakov let me just see one second 15 verse 17 I'm misery for 15 and justice brothers saw that their father was dead and they said his father's only dead you Yakov never knew perhaps Joseph will nurse hatred against us and then he will surely repay us for all the evil we did him so the brothers are thinking oh my god yo suit now that dad's dead now Yost is going to take all the revenge against us so they commanded to Joseph then they wanted Yosef to know your father said before his death saying this is what you gonna say to Yosef you should forgive them for the despiteful these your brothers did for they have done you evil so now at this point you should forgive them but Yaakov never said that while he was alive in fact we can see that the brothers even schemed the whole thing up so there's another proof that yonkos did not know that that what had happened but well rumbas lam Yosef so Yosef wanted to hint to them but keep ahold of us here is Shawn you start off ok so another idea no just get to the last sentence here I'll top out to each other take outs whew no reason don't be so depressed DAF cotta don't be depressed right now of Allah I see but in the future you will be depressed I'll cater a Muslim godhood gula so we'll talk about what he meant when he said in the future we'll be depressed but he also wouldn't give them hope that they will be redeemed and these things are everything that happened all what's the word is part of the redemption process when he says right now said what happens is this on Yom Kippur we read the story about the 10 martyrs they retain great Jewish rabbis sometimes like in the years what 200 of the Common Era who were killed by the Romans right rabba Kega rabbi ishmael all these explore these great rabbis experienced horrible horrible horrible death they were burnt at the stake they were there their skin was combed off then they were beheaded they played football soccer with their heads I mean these were like horrible horrible things and these 10 rabbis the the ideas that they were reincarnation of the ten brothers that were involved in the sale of Joseph and they they end up paying the and the pain for the sin this idea that somebody could die for someone else's sin truth is it's a Jewish concept but they they they they got together and they they didn't live at the same period of time but they discussed this in the Gomorrah how this was in decree from Hashem that these deaths had to happen as part of the atonement process for the brothers so this last statement of now don't be so upset in the future you your souls will have to be reincarnated and experienced this hard with death at the hands of the Romans for the sale of Yosef so report with hero says we the Jewish people this is like the this is I don't know you could call this like that the reason for all of our problems right how we treat each other and there's still an impression we always spoke about the sale of Yosef and to remind us of how to rectify and treat each other on a higher level this is assets in our DNA it's in our blood you have the split of the kingdom even when they came together to conspire against Yosef their own brother and Shannon that's where the Northern Kingdom got together made a decision to break off it was a place destined for calamity of separation of brotherhood but God wants like any parent would want the children to get along and that that's the lessons oh yeah that's extra school buses yeah yeah I'm going to we break here and any question on any topic can be as good that's a great question and it requires hours of explanation when they try in two minutes but I don't think I'm going to do any justice the gum RS there's a contradiction in the Bible itself there's a verse that says children do not die for the sins of their fathers and there's another verse that says children aren't held accountable for the sins of their fathers clear contradiction okay so the Gilmore explains I'm getting Tony on one foot and I to two feet okay let's start with the one foot the Gomorrah says real simply if children follow in the footsteps of their fathers sins then they'll be held even more accountable for the father's sins when they do Trueba and they repent and they don't follow their father sins then they're not held accountable that's real simply too simple but you have a clear contradiction and one verse is when the children follow in the evil ways of their parents they will actually be held even more accountable in other words let's say you're just an end person or you're a thief so a normal angry person or a thief would be helpless a on this level but if your father was angry and a thief and you're angry at you're gonna even be held more responsible than a normal person who's just angry at thee okay whereas if you did chuhwa so then you're not I'm responsible at all for your father's sins he's solely responsible and you're responsible for your honor there's another idea about reincarnation there's another idea about ring [Music] no no there's other ideas let me just continue this thought and I'll get back to your question because you're talking about specifically rabbi akiva but there's also ideas about reincarnation so when we say the Father the Son we're talking about the father meaning my soul my past life and the son is my soul in this life and there are things that I needed to rectify in my past life that I didn't and if I didn't and I continue in them then I'm going to be held more responsible with and if I do rectify them that I'm not meaning if they're taken care of so there's many levels to that whole idea of fathers and sons being held responsible or not responsible now we talk about great leaders the great leader could die for a whole generation can die for the whole world meaning the sins our belief is not oh I'm only going to be forgiven if I believe that particular person will die for my sins that's not Jewish the fact that a person could absolve a whole generation that's between him and God he's suffering he did some kind of some kind of suffering that he went through that God in His mercy will then forgive the people because this person experienced the pain that's one way to look at it another way to look at it it's because we understand that he experienced that pain then we do Dhruva in other words his death caused us to repent from our sins so most likely it's the second but the first one also is a Jewish idea in Kabbalah in thought that a person could actually absolve a another person we talked about it on parsha sky asara and we talked about the four names for have run SQL Man Ray Pierre dogma and Hedren that s goal means bereavement and when you believe for somebody that means that someone else is still alive that that there's four types of death four types of we talked about the kiss of death being the greatest and okay let's truck number one was dying for your own sins the other was dying for other people's sins the other one was disintegrating into the ground just as the four elements disintegrated to the ground and the highest level was have rubber keyboard make the kiss of death like how easy it is for your soul to be removed from your body like a piece of hair coming out of a cup of milk right it's like God breathed into us the life through a breath and he removed it like through a breath and how does that happen when his lips whatever that means touch our lips and this soul just is pulled out of our body like a breath like a hair out of a cup of milk that means that it went very painlessly obviously there's you know death can be very painful experience okay so there's different levels so there is this concept that someone could die but our belief we don't it's not one of our pillars of our faith that oh I'm only gonna you know experience heaven if I believe that somebody else died for my sins that's not the Jewish concept happens to be a reality that someone may die for someone else's sin right that's not part of our religious doctrine that might be a bonus and so I don't know on a certain level that's what Christians believe it's better than they actually believed that it was a Jew you know they actually boom I mean if he asked many Christians they might even know that Jesus was Jewish but maybe he was like an Orthodox Jew who maybe he was righteous I mean I really don't even know if he existed but in their mind he was righteous a righteous Jew died for their sin you know that forever a person who needs an intermediary or feels they they require it it's probably the best option if you asked me but there's too much anti-semitism in the in the New Testament for me to promote such a thing if someone believes already let them continue to believe I mean they want to move on their relationship and have a direct relationship with the father and they can feel they can bypass I mean I don't want to try to if they're Jewish I would tell them they have to give up the Jesus concept because then that's idol worship for them but for a non-jewish Dada it may not be idol worship depends you know if they're only looking at it as an intermediate only discussing the intermediate aspect if it's just the intermediate aspect it may not be idol worship correct okay you can talk you can talk to the grave you can you can ask this salt to assist you in this young identity this great day of judgment you know before I get there give me some assistance pray for me you know yo weights you know give me advice yeah why not listen you know absolutely absolutely I go I go I usually go everyday to the to the Cave of the patriarchs listen it says that righteous people when they're dead they're still alive evil people even when they're alive they're dead when might we learn Torah in somebody's name like in this rap I to the clea car that we're reading his words says his lips are moving in the grave they're alive these righteous people who die are considered alive evil people even when they're alive they're considered dead right the real world is the spiritual world there their spirit is ongoing there there that's the reality so now are you praying to them or you're talking to them and asking them to give you assistance I'm telling you the difference is you they're not praying to them then it's forbidden you don't pray to the dead but you know whatever I don't know what Christians doing with Saints we were they they're asking for assistance or they're actually praying to them so that's the big difference if you're if you pray to the saint that that's I'd worship if you're asking this saw of this righteous person who's still in existence there that's the real existence that's you get that's the real existence we're not really in the purest form in existence so they're closed they're closed to a Shem you're asking them to assist you if you let's say you want to get this message to God so it sounds like maybe using them as an intermediary but you know that it's not necessary it's just right but people think that they can't reach done so they think the only way to reach God is through this intermediary like we discussed the whole philosophy of the philosophers and the Greeks and problem we were often the Christians that God is so great I cannot have a relationship with him he's way up there I don't know if you listen to my Chanukah class Michelle did you get a listen to the Chanukah class so god is so great and I'm so down here there's a disconnect I just don't I don't I can't connect but if you know that you could connect and that's what you do so then right but the Greek said no no we cannot so we they need the intermediary we say no I can connect and I feel comfortable connecting but why not ask this guy for help he's there he's got he's closer to God than I am I'm letting you know Russia shun I'll go and ask the Rebbe who's passed away - whispering God's here he's hanging out with God Almighty in the purest form - to back me up - give me the assistance that I need well I'm thinking of the words I'm thinking of the words maybe you want to talk to God you want it really you know your prayers are to God there's no reason why you can't talk to Abraham we have a tradition every foot bug every time we have a wedding all the ancestors come and they're there and and shook us the Feast of Tabernacles their guests the souls of these and we welcome them we talked to them you know you want to ask Hashem directly but what can it hurt to ask them to pass it along to God you know it's not that they're your help they're just they might assisting then the message getting pushed on closer yeah there are there are various opinions some people say that's bordering on idol worship and some say it's not at all so I'm just giving you the gamut okay some people would they they go to these tools and they they do everything they can to you know and then there's some people that don't at all but let's say on the yard sign on the anniversary of the one's death people go it's it's well known that if you hurt somebody and they're dead you're supposed to go and ask them for forgiveness so obviously you're only talking to them you're not asking them you're not looking them is God you're not looking at them as all-powerful you only understand the difference look I don't know that much about the power the power is going to go bad you know that must be very powerful because the rep the Rebbe Nachman says so but just imagine praying we called group consciousness praying with 10,000 20,000 50,000 other people there must be an immense power so yeah and when we go to the graves of these holy people and get any place you pray you build a certain spiritual power there in other words in a synagogue you always should play pray in the same place you should go to the same synagogue and you should spray the same place because number one they say for practical reasons is less distracted if you're always in the same place you're always moving around so it's very distracting but you build the spiritual energy you know even the Eastern religions they big but the idea they talked about it you have these temples it's rugs in special places but I can feel when I pray in the same place and actually the same time everything it's like my own little someone's trying to call me no no I would the shear their class that I prepared is over it's any questions any any questions you want whether it's about tonight whatever right yeah yeah yes so you were actually born circumcised yeah it's great to know you you must have a very special song this is a criminal look yeah there are reports of people first of all Adam the first man was worth circumcised no awful is born circumcised and today we know there are people there or in circumcised but it's something very very special you did not need that fixing your fixed as we say so let's say like this there are Christians that come they want to be Jewish and they go through the conversion and they're already circumcised I'm gonna tell you it's not a secret circumcision you can only be done once you know having like me like visiting the sick quite often you know helping the poor right all these things can be done but this Mitzvah it's a one-time shot deal that's it can't we do it so this Christian who decides he wants to convert he was already Christian he was already circumcised by some Jewish doctor you know to spear see try to make it up kidding so they just there has to be that drop of blood so they take a very sterile needle and just prick it and there's a drama blood it's if you want to say it's more like ceremonial necessary I don't know enough but I know that it's done I've been on Court when I baked it where we have a conversion out of a plumber a conversion dude kids that are brought up in Jewish homes were adopted the word really anyway they're circumcised when they're done but they they never it was not done on the eighth day was done before it was done by a non-jewish doctor so it's already God what are we supposed to do so we take a pig and we just prick it like it doesn't even hurt you wouldn't even know it it's just a drop of blood is drawn and that's the difference I'm dealing right now that with it in person who wanted Susan he's going to be converting me in about three weeks this is a long process and he wanted to be circumcised he did not want to experience Russia shun uncircumcised and he went he hired a doctor and he had it done and the doctor Jewish doctor and Jewish Boyle said I'm not doing this for the sake of conversion you're not ready this is just for medical purpose my purposes only and so many as we know many Americans may be getting done for medical reasons either not by a doctor or not by a mo l like that means the traditional circumcised or a rabbi or it wasn't on the eighth day talking about it as an infant and it has to be redone but there's no such thing as we're doing it it just doesn't you know so this is drop of blood and that's like me I was lucky enough I had I could have made a Orthodox rabbi that took care of me on the eighth day so I did not have to have it but I've been the witness and you know on the board on the on the court to have it done for other people so that's what that's why they did it to you they didn't need to do it in your eighth day you were already circumcised and they did later on I don't know maybe during maybe if you were in an orthodox family maybe only eight day they would have they would have done I don't know but so you had it done you had in this manner through the pinprick did I clarify anything I made you confused so you were you you did not have a you did not have this blockage between you and a shed the sign of the Covenant was already inscribed in your skin when you were born which means you're very not just unique very special any other questions [Music] yeah I don't know all of your questions but I imagine that a solid amount will be answered and whatever is still on your mind feel free to ask but you should definitely watch them to get a foundation for the concepts of Michelle did you get did you get those clips Michelle did Michelle did you get the what's the word the links to the three videos on is on my website yeah yeah Kathy a shame [Music] I'm not sure your question it has reincarnation or has to do with why do bad things happen [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I'm really not following I'm not really following but let me just sit like this whatever we need to fix in our lives and we didn't we fail to fix we're lucky if we get reincarnated to fix it that that's the bottom line I don't know all the details of this particular situation but I just recently heard a rabbi discuss the idea of this you know there was a tragedy in Brooklyn with three children and a mother dying because of the Chanukah candles broke and fell over and burnt the house down so Rabbi Yossi miss Roth he was discussing different ideas if you're heard of who you ever ever Yossi Mizrachi see see he spoke about it and he mentioned look we don't only God knows anybody the claims they know but we discussed this idea of God's sending us messages so I tell people they want to know what was on my last life how do I fix what I need to fix what do I need to know I said to me ask you something was there anything as you're growing up and you're very young days were you said to yourself in your head you remember the statement when you saw your parents act a certain way did you ever say to yourself when I grow up I'm not going to do that if you ever said that it's probably key it's probably close to the answer what you need to work on that does my okay you do but many people many people have I am I'm asking you I'm asking everybody that many people have that's just one way of trying to figure out maybe what it is that you need to work on it doesn't mean it's the sole thing it doesn't mean it's the only thing okay now he spoke about the whole gamut of what could possibly be but he prefaced it with out of only God knows only God these could have been pure perfect souls that just needed come into them and experience a few months a few days a few years sinless they didn't die for their sins they didn't sit because only when you're 13 you're held accountable and not even in heaven that's only on earth you know only held accountable when your age up to age 20 once you're 20 then you're held accountable in heaven so why do people die young but this is a very complicated question because you're dealing with the main concept wide a bit exactly good people and you're throwing in there reincarnation and then gets thrown in there children who are abused I don't think that I mean I have to here with Rabbi and not know how to say but you might hey I don't know what he's referring to I mean if would you say you're someone who abuse someone in their previous life has to be reincarnated in order to feel and experience what it's like to be abused is that when you suggest these okay it may kind of make sense that that could be a possibility but again only God knows so let's just take this basically we're saying that someone who failed the test may have to be reincarnated to re-experience as an opportunity to pass the test so God is this ultimate wisdom would know exactly what he's doing we wouldn't even begin to imagine how to plain that out because you know we're not God and that's very important for us to know that's people get wrapped up oh you know again when we project our ideas how other people might be thinking how could we even imagine what God would think cuz we're projecting ourselves again that's called a man-made God we have to accept with Gazala the rabbi's teach us was revealed at the revelation and those principles we can try to plug in but to come up with ideas outside of that maybe that's called strange worship that's close idol worship I don't know but let's not project our ideas on what God must be thinking cuz we couldn't even imagine he's infinite he's ultimate but you're right to say well he's not that cool or masochistic or whatever to do such a thing so then why is he doing it well if that is true what rep by another said then what is the reason he's doing it to make like we said what what is the penitentiary purposes it for rehabilitation or is it for punishment so let's push aside punished it's not for punishment it must be for rehabilitation there must be some benefit that's going to come out of this person if that's a remnant of a sin to experience or re-experience or be put in the position of but if it's punishment you can forget it that's not what it's about God is not a punishing God he's there to help us help ourselves he's hid there to give us the signs that we need for ratification [Music] listen yeah the faith okay we'll see you guys next week all right have a great sharpness everyone [Music]