I Will Bless Those Who Bless You and the 25th Gift for the Cohanim with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] midrash a warm welcome to everybody we are in parashat nasso we are going to be dealing with bearcat konim the priestly blessings and we're in chapter 6 verses 23 through 23 just keep in mind if you read chapter 6 from the beginning you would notice that the entire beginning of this chapter is all speaking about the nazir all the laws of the nazir we're not going to go into it but it does relate in a big way to bearcat cohen in the first thing the cleokar says by the way for those who are interested in following in the hebrew not the pretty sheets that i have but black simple black and white you go down below in the links and you can find though on the web page a link to the webpage then you have to find of course which year which parsha and which which title so the first thing he said and i encourage you to do so so you can learn hebrew and follow along so the first thing he says these three words there is a juxtaposition the word samakh right there is a relationship because of the proximity of these blessings the quranic blessings the priestly blessings to the concept of what a nazir nazir is well we're not going to talk about it tonight so very briefly he is someone who basically made a vow and that vow includes not drinking wine or eating grapes or anything to do with great products and not going into a cemetery and to be made spiritually impure by the dead nor getting a haircut nevertheless there is a relationship how do we see it first the clear car says what does wine do wine affects the person hopefully to make it more joyous if he's depressed or she he or she is down it could raise your spirits and therefore it relates really only to the person themselves and it's somehow affecting you would think you would think it's only affecting yourself and not others the cleo car says the adaraba the adaraba means quite the opposite right you know what wine affects the world it actually affects the world he says the heavy yeah it brings moaning and curses to the world now let me just clarify what i think he means is in general too much of anything is not good and since wine or intoxicating beverage can potentially bring horrible horrible consequences nevertheless we do know the very beginning of all creation there is a tree in the middle of the garden of eden and there's a four-way mock locus what exactly was that tree so i actually put this on the number two at the bottom and ribbie mayer held that it was the grapes rabbi yehuda held that it was held that it was a thing and there's a source in the medrash that says it was the s rogue nobody says it's the apple by the way so the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of the the tree of knowledge good and evil according to ruby mayor was the eighth hadas so as it says lamanda omir sanhedrin 78 8 and if that's true that certainly makes sense that it brought and can bring curse to the world as he says it also similarly it caused a curse to come upon adam and eve or lazarus as we know noah the first thing he did when the ark rested was that he planted a vineyard he got drunk and brought uh you know calamity um and then to loat lot also was he was a drunk he got drunk and negative things did happen so that's the first paragraph just keep in mind that there's this there's a proximity to naziris to the bronchos of the of the the priests and therefore there's a relationship keep in mind that what the priests are doing either blessing israel that would be the opposite of a curse and curses could come from wine now the next statement he's refining our definition of the word ko ko means what thusly or so he's telling us it's koye araparsha shalamala it's referring back to what was just said about nazi root something to do with the concept of nazi root telling you what it's actually telling you by saying ko whatever was said before therefore there are consequences that the cohen israel that the cohen who blesses the jewish people should not have drunk wine should not drink wine when he stands up to bless the jewish people now just keep in mind the rambam and hill tefila he mentions this specifically and there's a reason given why kitsarek loma brachos because the cohen needs to say the blessings like it says the actual verse says okay so go back to chapter we're in chapter six verse 23 the whole verse says speak to our and unto his son saying this is how you should bless the children of israel saying to them those last two words saying well in hebrew and say to them so the whole verse is the el banav laymore right speak to aaron and to his son saying there's our word code to vacuum thusly or so you shall bless or this is how you should bless espana israel the jewish people and more lehem actually say the words you have to speak so the clear card brings down a gamora in a reuven aravin uh 64a that says nikra shikor khoshainu that what is called a drunk anyone who is not able to speak before the king and therefore the clear car ends off al-qaeda therefore what i think he's saying not that they have to take the vow but basically they must abstain and be sober at least minimally while they are in the process of giving the brachot but this is for us too we should not drink before prayer okay and um i do have a gamora here that's interesting to note let's see like this the gemara is in erudin it's on page two it's number four regarding the topic of drinking rabina bharavana said one who has drunk wine must not pray but if he nevertheless did pray his prayer is still a prayer it still works and he's fulfilled his obligation however if you are drunk in other words one who has drunk wine is what we said not being drunk i don't like the english because it's it's uh confusing right so if we who had in uh ingested some wine so you can pray no problem on the other hand one who is intoxicated with wine must not pray and if he did pray pray then his prayer is an abomination you understand being drunk is a problem what are the circumstances where a person is considered one who has just drank the wine and what are the circumstances in which a person is considered to be too drunk intoxicated with wine so the gomura says one who has drunk wine refers to anyone who has drunk the wine whose mind remains clear enough and therefore he's still able to talk in the presence of a king however one who is intoxicated that is referring now we're defining intoxic intoxication as one who is so disoriented by the wine which he has ingested that he's not able to talk in the presence of the king now the next paragraph similarly begins he's taking this word ko and he wants to like dear to um he wants to somehow define it or put into a framework and he says right away all the blessings that we see through the torah seemingly have this marking the word ko is marked by blessings here you have ko tovar thusly you shall bless well guess what what happened by avraham [Music] that this is an example of a blessing by abraham when he was blessed god blessed him and he said ko yehez in genesis chapter 15 verse 5. you'll find this on the source sheet in number five okay so you see the word ko over there now alkane rozzo bilum when it comes to bilim who wanted to do what he wanted to curse the jewish people i want to give a little bit of background balak the king of moab hired billam to curse the jewish people and he was a big anti-semite this guy balak he really had nothing to fear because the jewish people israel already had directed from god not to attack moab nor to agitate them in any way yet he wanted to bring the jewish people down so he hires this wizard billam and bilaam in order to curse the jews he was failing greatly they came up with different strategies one of their strategies after realizing that every time he tries to curse us he blesses us let's get the jews to sin if we can get the jews to sin then they will lose i'm going to use the word grace they'll lose the grace of god and therefore the relationship is somehow broken and he thought at that point he could then curse the jews so the word co appears in his let's have the discussion alken israel somehow another bilaam wanted to negate to nullify from israel the special blessing of ko now if you look in numbers chapter 23 verse 15. it's number six so bilaam and balak are having a conversation bilaam says back to balak stand here next to your burnt offering and i will be chanced on here i don't like that translation but basically the whole idea of bilum being by chance right that's the whole idea we'll talk about another time but in other words as if as if there is no god that is all-powerful and therefore because if god was all powerful and he says you can't curse the jews he wouldn't stand the chance he was always looking for the opportunity to outwit god so stand here next year burn offerings hit yat safe ko the hebrew hate yat save ko i would have used the word poe po means here or khan but he says so stand here next to your burnt offerings and i will happen just here so again the word co appears twice now he's teaming up he has a partner named um balak right and balak has a partner named billam so the measure says basically what he was saying to the king you through your corbin you will negate that blessing that god gave to abraham co as we saw in genesis thusly will be your seed right all the blessings will be through abraham and anybody who will see it surely anybody who blesses avraham anybody who blesses the jewish people will be blessed okay so the word ko was referring to those blessings and what he wanted to do was negate them and so as a result he's telling balak you stand here with your corbanos you'll do your part vania vatel bracha cote vargu now we don't have the whole madras here but basically he was saying and i'll do my part also because the word co appears twice and that's the context of co now the cleo car continues and he says in this or through these ideas i i can see to be able to resolve what is brought down in the rabati and the measures rabbi 20 um chapter 27 i have here it's number nine but before we get there i just want to use the verse we're in a chapter uh it's in x it's in numbers 22 6. you'll find this in number seven it says so now please come and curse this people for me obviously this is balak speaking for they are too powerful for me perhaps i will be able to wage war against them remember the jewish people have already been commanded not to wage war against baal against moab and balak was the king of moab and he continues and says and drive them out of the land meaning the israelites for i know that whomever you bless is blessed and whomever you curse is cursed this is balak speaking to bilaam now it says in the hebrew ulli the word i believe we naka that is the word we're focusing on perhaps maybe i will smite them in in this english says i will be out of wage war against them but it means to smite that's the root naka nakabo that i can smite them but keep in mind that the word naka does not only mean smite as i bring down a few different sources in number eight for example in gabor baba mitsia it means like the word minake means to subtract or reduce okay in context it also means smite you can go through the gamora on page 105b and it's referring to a contract of let's say a a sharecropper that he has with the balabayet with the the master of the field and if a natural disaster comes how he can get some of his money back or it doesn't have to pay the full amount that he leased it for because of natural disasters or unnatural disasters i don't want to go into it but it means subtract from in fact in modern hebrew a menach is a grant meaning it's a discount it's a grant and so keep in mind that it means to subtract from okay so let's go back when he says perhaps i'll be able to wage war against them he's referring to this idea of minimizing the jews the jews are blessed especially if they have a relationship with god based on the amount of people they have in other words last week we spoke about a goose a sum total of six hundred thousand jews if you have a some trouble some total six hundred thousand jews then god's presence is resting on them so how many jews did we have by the way there were six hundred and three thousand and there was another twenty two thousand lady meaning six hundred and five 000. the word co is a cuff and a hay and it is the gemachi of 25. he wanted to wipe out from the jews 25 000 of us to bring us below that that special level of having six hundred thousand because that's what the word means to subtract he wanted to reduce to subtract so that we would have less protection from hashem keeping that in mind even though the clear card does not say that that the radat everyone knows who the radop is posting okay that'll be me okay you have to have a sense of humor so now let's go into we're really in the medrash he brought the pasek the banjos brought the verse in uh 22 6 and right away it says what is it that they do they deduct they reduce from the portion this is a measurement a 24th 1 24th and this is so this is a halakha concept like there's always a special number uh it could be 50 50 like a majority that's 51 percent whatever 51 versus 49 that's called a majority or you can have what we call one in 60 it could be one in 30 it could be 100 and right there's different measurements where these have hilachi lawful manifestations and consequences so for example in kilayim or inhala there are such a number as 24. okay 1 24th so he wanted to deduct 1 24th now think about the numbers 1 24th of 600 000 is 25 000. so that's what he wanted to deduct and that's what the measure says the high new cuff hey elif meaning he wanted to deduct from the six hundred thousand shishim rebo he wanted to deduct twent cuff hey elif now based on that we have two questions the clear car poses if that's true what benefit is there in all of the efforts that that amolek that bilum does that the 25 000 is going to help what does it help him what benefit is there to him because what for all of his efforts kishiyanake cafe elif in order to remove 25 000 min shishim rebel from the from the six hundred thousand and furthermore this is a good question lam and naflu cuff daladeleth why is it that we see how many died after this after what after what so as i mentioned earlier that balak is so interested in bringing this curse upon the jews that he actually sent his own daughter to prostitute amongst the many women what they did was they set up their tents and their wares and the jews came through and they enticed the men they sent out these beautiful women in front of the tents and said oh you want to buy my wares come on in come on in and they were going to the tent and of course then it was all downhill from there what happened they enticed them by saying look i know you want to have sex well guess what you have to do first you have to worship my god and when you worship my god by defecating on him or it whatever it is then then we'll uh we'll do it you know and so therefore the jews like hello went downhill so look in numbers chapter 25 refers to bilum's plot and it says in verse 3 that israel became attached to this god the balboa and the wrath of hashem flared up against israel and we know that there were 24 000 that were killed okay now let's go back into where we left off so after he asked those two questions what benefit would be would there be to bilaam to remove 25 000 from the six hundred thousand and why did only twenty four thousand die el avaday shalom the vatican with absolute certainty the idea was that he sought he really desired to negate to nullify from the jewish people that blessing of ko of 25. the khashoggi nafilas kathy elif no gay but and he thought that if he could cause twenty five thousand jews to to stumble and to fall that would affect nullify effectively nullify the blessing of co and uh and as a result of the nullification of the blessing then he would find place where he could then curse the jewish people i think we're already getting to an idea why only 24 000 fell and not twenty five of a lower loss would be yodo but he was not successful he did not he was not able to cause twenty five thousand jews to stumble the only thing that he caused was for the 24 000 to stumble and of course then they were killed odd miss barco velo abiklao it was just below the threshold of 25 he was not able to reach twenty five thousand ki abdullahim because what stood up for the jewish people the blessing the quranic blessing the blessing from hashem to abraham that 25 you will be blessed as long as that bracha was in effect he wasn't able to curse them any further and the clear car ends off with that peru shakar this is a very dear a cherished explanation and i do hope that you enjoyed that so far because we're only a quarter of the way through the last paragraph on that page will lie miss park co the cleo car is now saying perhaps when god says go to it's like saying with 25 you will be blessed with 25 you're somehow blessing but it's coming through what we're going to call the merit of the 24 gifts that are a cohen gets now i want to show you on the english tour sheet we see in uh number 11 baba kama mentions there are 24 priestly gifts that were given to aaron and to his sons in other words the khalim received 24 gifts these are like the tithing and the animal parts and whatnot and then just keep in mind in perky a vote number 12 that the priesthood i'll start from the beginning the crown of torah is actually greater than the priesthood or for the kingship that kingship is acquired through thirty values and priesthood with twenty-four kahuna the estrin v'arba so there must be a relationship between what i just read to you in babakama knowing there are 24 priestly gifts and the priesthood is is acquired through 24. so just keeping that in mind 24 is a very special number in and of itself and it's through the merit of co that which is 25 they merited these 24 things what is he talking about but wait it doesn't even end there he says gohan so in other words you get the 24 that's the 24 gifts that we know about but he's saying there's actually a 25th gift meaning because of the number 25 there's a merit to 24 plus the blessing of the kanim is actually a 25th gift and that's what he says hurray cafe matanos there are actually 25 how can he say there's 25 everyone knows there's 24. what in the world is the clear car talking about as the actual birkat kohanim being a gift wait till you hear this and this should change your life and how you give blessings because the the konimer commanded to do this they are conan because they have acquired 24 gifts meaning like in percyavo says there that you become a cohen to 24 attributes and you get 24 gifts and in the merit of that their their merit then applies and falls onto the jewish people the blessing actually falls on the jewish people now if you may ask a zoo what possible benefit does this help me as a cohen i'm not a coin but if i was how would that help me to give you a blessing it's just giving right giving is not receiving you think of a blessing as receiving a blessing but if you're going to give a blessing how does that benefit the cohen so i would say drum roll please and put on your seat belts claude thomas meaning this part of the question how is that included in the gifts of the kahuna just by giving wait to hear this so the torah tells us and it says where it says in bro genesis chapter 12 verse 3. it says over there i will bless those who bless you the arvarcha mivarekho keep in mind god is blessing whoever blesses the jewish people the kohanim are what they're blessing the jewish people so they're going to be blessed now keep this in mind how it works metaphysically eem kane if this is true they brought a zoo it's through the blessing that the konim are bestowing yakab lugam they are receiving the blessing by them participating and giving and blessing the jewish people they're on the receiving end not just because they're blessing themselves they're blessing the jewish people but because anybody who blesses the jews shall be blessed so they're also receiving this direct blessing from god and furthermore the actual nusabrachos it says and just keep in mind when we're in chapter 6 as i mentioned and i just want to read the blessings okay it says like this may shem bless you and safeguard you that's the first of the brachas may hashem illuminate his countenance for you and be gracious to you and the last the third blessing is may hashem lift his countenance shalom and to you and to establish peace for you these are the three sentences i just want to keep this i want to just lay some groundwork here and each one of these three sentences begins with a yud it's going to play a very important part we're going to talk about later but the first one is and i'll show you if we have it here okay so the first lesson could be found on the english source sheet number 14 number 624 hashem the ishmael may the lord bless you and watch over you so rashi tells us right away this is a blessing on physical wealth that your possessed possessions shall be blessed now just think about it if your possessions the jewish people will be blessed and you're obligated to give x percentage whether it's one percent or 10 percent whatever percentage you're end up giving in the end to the koa name the more you have the more you give you're not giving more than ten percent but your ten percent could be a hundred percent what it was compared to what you had because you're it's over an abundance for hashem that's the blessing so when nikonim are blessing us and that we should have an abundance of nicarasim which means physical possessions then instead of growing let's say maybe five tons of produce it could be a hundred tons of produce so the ten percent will the ratio will it's always the same but it's going to be tons more so the clear car says ubrachazzo so even though they're blessing you with an abundance it's going to come back to them is for at a time when the jewish people have an over an abundance a nice plenty of property lithium year boom a ton of kahuna then accordingly they will increase what they give to the coin true mu miceras the different types of tithing and he says he ends this paragraph by saying it has to be what i just said the implo kane because if it's not me where else is the koni i'm going to get their abundance obviously obviously it's coming from the granary and or from the vineyard which belongs to jewish people not the konim do not own land okay the people who are the landowners are the 12 tribes not including lazy or cohen and that is so that they can sit and learn learn torah and teach torah and so therefore we give them our true muse and mysterious and they would only increase and it does increase as a result of their brah we had a question that was posed to us does this apply this idea of what was told to avraham then anybody who blesses you i will bless them right i will bless those who bless you does that apply only to the khaneen so i clearly want to get this across that what we're dealing with in our portion also is a one of the 613 commandments the kawanim are obligated to bless the jews okay in genesis it was a general statement that god said to any human being he especially you know righteous no and no height is righteous because he believes in the torah he believes in the god of israel he believes in the god of abraham isaac and jacob he believes the torah was given you know shabbos is right around the corner that the torah was given by god at mount sinai and that the seven laws come from god not from human beings that human beings did not develop them and we'll call it a doctrine of man no the righteous nurchide who sees eternal bliss with the jewish people in heaven he's connected to the jewish people in a big way is because he knows that god commanded him and he would probably fit in this category of anyone who blesses the jewish people god would bless but i want to focus now on the fact that it says it actually says i god will bless before the word appears before it says those who bless you which means god knows who's going to bless the jewish people they will already be blessed based on their heart and their mind even before they bless the jewish people i hope that's clear i know that's but we're going to get into it he's going to talk about this um when we talk about the curses it says in that same verse and those who curse you i will curse and so in hebrew and it doesn't say i will curse those who curse you similar to it says i will bless those who bless you but it's the opposite way so the blessing god says i'm going to bless before the word those who bless you up here but when it comes to cursing it says those who actually do the cursing i will curse okay this is a whole story we're going to get into it because hashem when we get there let's begin the next paragraph ahem a mural means say to them so from here the rabbis teach us that the khazan is the one who leads the prayers he's likoni mila bamila nusakha brachus anybody who hears these words that the khazen calls out proclaims the konim each and every word of the version the text of the blessings now before we read the next three words what would be what would be the reason i always thought well in order not to confuse them you have maybe 10 maybe 20 maybe 100 who knows there could be a lot of colonies standing up there and they should all in unison together say say the same words that's true so it makes sense to make order out of such a crowd it's a very orderly thing that we do so he says each word and they say each word but you know every father every jewish father they bless their children right remember i bless my children so i bless jewish people even if i i do obviously bless jewish people outside of my own children but this is the phrasal phraseology what the birkhaus colony and the blessing of the koenig we do to our children every friday night we bless them with the same blessing okay so he says there's a reason why not for what i said as well it's just to make order out of things or in case they forgot tommo sheldovar pound this away the reason that the khazan at the shliyakshi were that the one leading the prayers is going to call out each word is because the sarso because the the the leader of the prayers is acting as a middle man something like a broker or a negotiator now what he's really doing is this he is blessing he's not just saying the words if he's just saying the words he's missing the whole point he's actually blessing the konim he's blessing them because he's saying the words they're going to use it's true but they're blessings so he blesses them first he's he's drawing down the prosperity whatever shepherd represents all the providence of god down through what we call the pipes from the source of the bracha first he's drawing it down he's the first one blessing the konim and what it says is he's myrik he's like throwing out he's he's like emptying out so to speak he's throwing out onto the heads of the konim the the bracha that it should apply to them because he actually says the words in order to what to create to make for the konin first to become like a full overflowing cup a we call kosha bracha the cup that we make the blessing on should be filled to the top and even a little bit more and overflowing so that's what he's creating within them he's giving them the blessing first they're receiving it and becoming like a full overflowed cup with the blessing of god the akaka kesha israel and afterwards when the jewish people in the konim are blessing the jewish people hashem they are married league male clericon they are spilling out so to speak emptying out from a full vessel which they had become as a result of receiving the blessing on to the jewish people who are like a half a cup not a full overflowing cup now we understand when i told you that verse in genesis i think it was 12 verse 3 i will bless those who bless you in that order god's going to bless already before they bless you when it comes to the curses and those who curse you yeah the person actually has to curse you then they will be cursed he right away points this out he says hi lolomar shouldn't it have said i will curse those who curse you like it says in the beginning of the verse i will bless those who bless you allah mar you know what hashem wants to teach us that the kawai nirvana is israel that the cohen who blesses the jewish people ani hashem i'm already blessing them first kade lassos as a cohen clean malay the gaduce he set it up that the shliyak seaboard is going to cause cause them to be blessed first just like hashem wants in order to make the cohen and a full overflowing vessel the the yarique mina click male beer israel in order that they should spill out from the full overflowing vessel uh the blessing of god onto the jewish people but when it comes to the curses of al-biklala and shaykh lawmaken we can't say this because it only works that god will curse the person after they curse them in other words below code them and not before it doesn't work that's why it says in if i'm not mistaken it's verse 27 the samue right i want you to place my name look on the surah sheets number 15 they shall bestow my name al-bin israel upon the jewish people and then i will bless them that's what god says tehillah i'm going to bless them first by the the boy by the person running the prayer service saying it first blessing the conan first so that's what it means and i want you to see when you look at that verse chapter 6 verse 27 now they shall bestow my name upon the children of israel so that i will bless them you might have thought it's talking about the jewish people right so i can bless the jewish people you're acting as my conduit no that's not no it's yes but also in addition to that look at rashi it says so that i will bless them the israelites i will bless the israelites and endorse the blessing of the konim to sanctify or let's say not sanctify uh certify the blessing of the khonim however rashi says yes an alternative interpretation that i god will bless them who is them the kanim they're both true now we're actually starting verse 24 in the clear car hashem the ishmael may the lord bless you and watch you watch over you regard you so i'll just read the i'll just translate quickly the first two sentences that the explanation of the of the text of the blessing themselves there are many opinions many um many opinions each person according to his intellect they explain them and even in the yokut in the medrush you find many different opinions and he has sought and they seek out to understand the source of the of what they're saying and he doesn't want to ex go at length into them however he begins on the third line ah oymer derek cloud i will begin to explain i want to say it's on my mind in a very general way he says like this after the fact that each one of these three blessings begin with the letter yud remember god looked into the torah and he created the world every letter is a building block of creation the letter yud as a letter it's the smallest letter by the way that's why we're called yiddin jews are called yiddin you because we are the small nation number 10 is very interesting we're not going to get into that much but the word good now there's a letter yield which is ten it's a hook by the way between this these single digits you know what i mean single digits the in english in the arabic number system 10 is one zero it's two digits but the yield is one digit but it's like a hook so it's connecting between the single digits one through nine and then like say eleven in hebrew it's ural if you bet so but your is a single digit but really it's a hook it's a very important number and i don't want to diminish that but we're talking about from a whole another dimension so you have the letter yud which is ten and then you have the word yud meaning it's spelled out you'd valid now try to use your imagination close your eyes for a second if you have the letter you'd love dalit in the word yud so the yud is revealed and the love dalit is called hidden because you don't hear the dollar per se you hear the word you'd it's a letter you'd but if you spell it out it's viewed valid now love and dollar vote is six and dollar is for so believe it or not in the word yud it's actually gamachi of 20 which is double ten so the number is doubled in the gamachi itself in the full malay name so he begins like saying like this since each blessing begins with the letter you don't you only see number 10 when when you when you're looking at the yud as a unit and only a uid it doesn't add up to 20. so there's 10 missing meaning they're hidden they're not revealed like the yield is revealed and he explains canelo menud you're above dollar because what's missing or should say missing i should say hidden what is hidden from the yud is the valid so what do we hear from this mamina that what all the blessings are doubled shakol habrajas kufulos all the blessings are doubled so there are 10 of remember there's 20 blessings actually so there are 10 of them a portion of them are to the physical and mayhem whereas a portion of them are towards the spiritual aspect of who you are which is hidden meaning the soul which is not visible which is hidden kishnayam bob and miss barasara now we have a tradition in the gemara and gomornida 31a that each one the physical body comes with ten you'll hear what i mean and the soul comes along with ten so it says like this in gemara need um i'm going to read it number 16. i'll refer you so there are three partners in man uh just quickly the word man adam is 45 aleph one dollar for mem 40 45 the word of that's father aleph bet is three the word for aim is all of mem 41 41 and 3 is 44. but then you have the letter alef right so so you have 45 in man and so the more tells us that the male gives forth the white and we're going to see a description of what the male donates gives towards the human body and the then there's five things okay there's gonna be five things listed and when it comes to the woman who gives the red there's five things listed and when god comes and gives his breath into man he gives the soul we're gonna see ten things lift listed so now you have 20 things and they're broken down very nicely so it says like this the aviv is masri at loithin if you want to keep in the english it's number 16. need a 31a so the father is contributing the white seed and what comes from it and that's five that would be the the sinews the bones these are all white the moac really means marrow but our brain is called moich because it's the marrows that it's that jelly stuff that's inside the skull so the mohawk the brain that's inside the skull as well as the c parnaim your your fingernails the whites of your eyes that's five things now the woman the mother gives the adam shaboy and what do you get you get the skin that's the ur the basar which is the flesh the dam which is the blood the sarot which is the hair the i think it doesn't mean the the pupil i think it means the uh corona the the the color the dark color of your eyes and that's five what does it do he gives estradivarium so the mother and father are giving physical things but god is giving a spiritual thing and that is ruach neshama kalaystar panim riya saynayim so far it's the spirit the breath so to speak it's your soul it's your appearance cluster and i'm your eyesight ureas in the ability to hear deborah pad the ability to speak highlight reglaium the ability to walk on your feet das been of the hospital so that would be knowledge understanding and wisdom or intelligence so those are the ten things the whole i'm sorry now all together is 20. so then so god gave 10 the mother and father gave each five called estrin out of these 10 sorry stream 20 portions [Music] they're being transmitted through shayisa coin esther it's both so the 20 things are coming through the cohen raising his 10 fingers the the the blessing is protruding so to speak coming out through the edge of his fingers by the way when when the conan do this they cover their not just their faces but they cover their hands and we're not supposed to look back in the day and bazrat hashem will happen soon in the temple the kohanim would use the shame hamma foresh they would actually use god's holy name and for sure at that point you couldn't look we just continue the same process so basically he says like this today why does he hold up his fingers in order to um have the blessing emanate from his fingers kadesha in order that from the fingers themselves will apply will spill out the blessing on the physical part that is revealed as well as on the soul part on the on the spiritual part which is hidden okay let's continue the next paragraph is as i mentioned there are since there are three goods each one of these three sentences begin with yud so what is it we said yoda is actually the gamachi of 20 when it's spelled out so what's 20 what's 20 times 360. so it says hainu shishim the three goods come out 60. kennegad shishimo seo shibakola brachos count the letters how many letters are there in the conan blessing the quranic blessing there are actually 60 letters 60 letters in the bracha allahem darshu so there's a medrush and it's based on a verse in song of songs three you'll find this looking for it it's three verse six do we have it here [Applause] um it's number 17 it's 3 verse 7 actually it says behold the litter of solomon that means his children from his bed from the jewish people 60 mighty men surrounded me israel amongst the the mighty of of israel now look at rashi when it says the litter of solomon rashi says it's referring to the tenth of meeting in the ark which they carried in the desert sixty men all around it it doesn't mean 60 men it means 60 10 000 that's the 600 000 jews of the mighty men of israel okay and that's who uh when only when you're 20 you are conscripted into the army not before in addition to those who are um under 20 and over 60. so in other words we have 600 000 men that's who's counted but everyone else out of the money men of israel meaning everyone else okay so what is this referring to in according to the cleo car it's referring to the 60 letters of birkhaus kohanim that's what the verse is referring to as well and he continues and says shalom keep in mind that that was on a good male level it's it's 20 but each year is really 10. so 10 times 3 is is 30. what do we know about a nausea it says in gamora nazir in page 5a that if if a nazir says i am going to be a nazir but doesn't say how long it's automatically 30 whatever it is you can learn from the nazir that he wants to be holy that he refrains for a short period of time from certain things that will make him more holy and will just use the concept of abstinence or sobriety when it comes to drinking wine that one would merit these blessings now that's how the clear card ends off that now there's one more paragraph and i want to get through this paragraph i don't think we're going to get much further than this now from an aspect of a hint yay fare shlosh brochus elu al derek shaparashti lamalava parsha's isro the way the clicker already explained it earlier in parsles yitro and he brought down a medrush the medrus explains when god has a relationship with the jewish people there's a progression of this relationship originally god called israel his daughter we are called shimitri then later as the progression continued then he called us his sister she began with his daughter now we're his sister and akaka aim as a progression continues the jewish people are called the mother his mother even perhaps let's see he calls him this all reflects or teaches about authority the authority when you have a daughter she listens to her mother okay the sister and brother are basically equal and then the mother you have to look up to the mother okay so he describes it like this originally we were called god's daughter she must because what usually happens is the father rules and maybe rule is not the best but has authority over the daughter where the authority the figure is over and the one being submissive so to speak is underneath that's why it says specifically focusing on the word guarding god will bless you and guard you so this is like considering that the the the extension of the blessing of the bracha is from above because the one above is the guard they call shomer lamala mina nishmar the the one who like think about even the president united states i think he can just go out and say i want to take a walk around the block the guard's going to say sorry buddy you ain't going nowhere he's in charge right the guard is in charge and there's a verse he brings from michele chapter 6 verse 22 and it's based on the idea it says the god of israel said concerning me spoke the rock of israel a ruler over men shall be the righteous man he that rules in the fear of god okay so the one who's righteous he's the shomer he's the one who's guarding the robbing there are many verses like this then afterwards he calls us sister which is domilo meaning a sister is similar to the person they're on the same level the ad madre godzilla it's on the same level and that's why it says hashem hashem will shine his countenance to you be um when you're standing parallel to him face to face just like kedara kabbalah's just like the receiving the moon receives light from the sun beyond the length when it's standing across from the sun and then afterwards we were called mother the mother's maisha al-abad she has authority over the daughter now it says in second samuel chapter 23 verse 3. it says over there oh you know what i i read the wrong one i read proverbs 6 22 when you walk it shall lead you when you lie down it shall guard you just to clarify because i didn't realize i skipped that verse and i read this verse now when you're lying down the guard is over you okay so that's what we said before over here in second samuel we're talking about the righteous man he's the one who rules okay sadiq who's it sadek the one who fears god he rules commotion just as the daughter's eyes look up towards the mother of elecha is that god will lift up his countenance towards you god will shine his countenance towards you in la rich but by me he says you know what we don't to go any further avano basically they should certainly be able to be understood with anybody who has the ability to drive draw out with their own understanding so the kali car continues but we're not going to continue we're just going to stop here and say really we hope that everybody can adopt the idea that the torah is from heaven that chavuz is a day of judgment on every human being do i accept as a jew or nanjo that the torah is from heaven and therefore i want a part in it and i believe it and i'll follow it and i will be blessed because of that that's like the prerequisite for a non for a non-jew a righteous gentile of course for a jew as well and this is an opportunity to receive the torah to make a commitment to receive the torah from its true source number one number two i always want everyone to feel good about themselves right we're creating the image of god every human being and we're approaching shavuous we're approaching shabbos so biz hashem through the 48 ways of acquiring torah we become more of a mensch that's what yiddish kite that's what that's what the instruction manual is about becoming a fulfilled human being refining our character traits to be more godlike because we're created in the image of god if we don't make those attempts what's the point what's the point of life so let's make a commitment to learn torah to make it real and bazrat hashem will see the coming of meshiach and the temple rebuilt the in gathering the exiles and i'm wishing everyone a great life a blessed life everybody should be blessed hashem [Music] is [Music]