I will establish A NEW COVENANT ברית חדשה with you! with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] ibn abate midrash welcome home to torah a very warm welcome we are in parashat kotai that would be we're actually in chapter 26 of leviticus and we're going to be dealing with verses 9 and 10 but before we get to the verses 9 and 10 which you can use your english source sheets for just to sum up an amazing idea so i want to like just fill you in you can watch the video that i gave years ago there should be a link in the in the description box describing the first verse which would be verse three that's according to the clear car according to rosh according to understanding there are these three statements if you follow my decrees that statement one observe my commandments statement two and perform them statement three they match up with the three times that god says i'm going to give you keep just keep in mind our partial is dealing in the beginning with what the blessings if the jews do what they're supposed to do unbelievable things will happen the first time god says i'm going to give you reigns in their times and the clear car explains that matches up with the hope follow yavor something that's called a hulk which means something a decree a statute you establish for yourself to learn torah to learn scripture the reigns are already there for various other reasons but you're going to get them in their time that's going to be the first natati the first thing hashem is going to give you god says i'm going to provide peace in the land then the enemies won't go through and that's going to be um parallel to the second statement you observe my commandments observe my commandments is refraining meaning doing or performing what we call the lota says the refraining from violating god's word if you've refrained from violating god's word god will then pay us back by refraining from allowing the enemy to go through the land and the last natati that hashem is going to give us has to do with that he's going to put his sanctuary in verse 11. i will place my sanctuary among you my spirit will not reject you we're actually going to deal with that verse but that verse according to the clear car is parallel to the positive mitzvahs as it says and to perform them just as hashem so to speak with his own hands built the mishkan he placed his own presence in our in our midst so too when we do positive misses this is the result because positive missiles are things that you do it's called kumbha assay something you stand up meaning you physically or you actually do okay these are positive mixes and therefore hashem will have a positive relationship by giving us his presence which is parallel to what we'll call the bait hamikdash now let's begin with that little introduction we're actually on verse 9 and 10. and the hebrew is like this i will turn towards you god says and then he says i will cause you to be fruitful and you will increase he will increase you if reity at him it's two statements i will cause you to be fruitful we hear baiti and i'll cause you to be increased and then this is the unbelievable part the hakimoisi es brisem i will set up my covenant with you wait i'm going to set up my covenant with you and not only that the the verse ends about by saying yoshon you are going to end up eating very old produce remember this is the blessings how is eating very old produce a blessing i'll tell you how because you have such an abundance right maya sharim a hundred fold right that's what maya sharim were there last night sharing means a hundredfold and that was the promise to yitzhak and to the jewish people if you do what i tell you you're going to have such an increase and you will eat from that which is very old and then it says the yoshon mibnehadash totes you that you're gonna let me just explain what it means well let's translate and you'll clear out the old from before the new it means that you will have so much so much in the storehouses of the old stuff you're going to have to clear out those storehouses and allow the new to go into the storehouses but the old stuff is actually the best and you will bring it into your house and that is what you will eat and he's also talking god's also referring to if you keep my shemitah we're still in the year of shemitah if you do what is proper i will provide in the sixth year plenty like another example not only every year but even even in the sixth year there will be so much that your storehouses will still be full of the old stuff when the new stuff comes in remember you read the parsha you see these first verses or all the blessings and this is how the blessings go now the clear car has what we call shot and then remembers shot means the simple explanation and then rem has all kinds of hints to some delicious torah and when i tell you i'm gonna just give you like advanced warning oh by the way if you want to follow us in the hebrew again there's a link below that you could go and find the original text again not the beautiful colored version a fancy version but just plain black and white and i suggest you do that so you can follow us in the hebrew remez what kind of hints are there are you ready for this some kind of new covenant where the old covenant will still be sufficient will still be plentiful and not only that the old is even better but there is the concept of a new testament let's say that's how you new covenant i should say new covenant and let's hear about it so he begins by saying these words on our verse breit there is obviously a need it's necessary for a covenant okay for the produce [Music] me by yovel shallow take crave that the fruit and the produce does not rot it's unbelievable we have to understand what does it mean a new covenant i want to get this clear because we're going to see that throughout the night that a new covenant means the same torah with a deeper relationship with some kind of sim money that the relationship is still there and is bonded even stronger than before a new level of relationship that's what a new brit a breed kadasha is same torah but a deeper uh bond makes sense let's see i want to take you on a little journey to genesis chapter 6 verse 18 you should find this um number six on the sour sheet when god says to noah i will set up my covenant with you and you shall come into the ark you and your sons and your wife and your sons wives with you he had a hundred and twenty years to build this ark okay he did not gather all the food in the last minute it's one man okay he had three sons three daughter-in-laws his wife but still nevertheless they're going to be on the ark for around a year okay and they have a lot of animals to feed so he was told over the years to gather the food and god promised him this covenant is that what the food won't rot it was a sign for the people of that generation not to kill him because if something special is happening yes he's building the ark he's nailing away and doing all the lumber work for 120 years but towards the end we'll just say last few years he's already gathering food they're already pissed they're pretty upset with this man no rashi says a covenant was necessary for the fruits as so that they should not rot and become putrid which is true and so that the wicked of the generation should not kill him in other words they're already on the verge of you know a riot with him and when they see that the food isn't rotting it's a sign this man is a prophet he's talking truth from the word of god he has a visible sign by these foods not rotting so we see the covenant by noah at that point because that's not even after he gets off where he's told meaning after he leaves the ark i'm having a covenant with you and and that with this part of the seven oak high laws and that you can now eat meat but you cannot eat a limb from a live animal okay so the word covenant is used many times and not only is the word covenant used many times it's an everlasting covenant god is not a man to change his mind he doesn't go against his own words he doesn't profane his own covenant if anybody breaks the covenant it's us okay so keep this in mind we're expanding our consciousness the covenant is actually used many times and in this case we see in let's call it shot this covenant regarding what our verse is referring to it says and i will establish my covenant with you and you will eat the very old stuff and rashi's telling us that's shot it has to do with the food will not rot and that's how he explains you will eat very old stuff meaning for more than one year at least on shemitah two or perhaps even three years worth of produce will be left over and considered old now ad sat haremez omar as i mentioned about a new covenant he says like this this is not me speaking this is the clear car bisman even though it shall occur from time to time that hashem will establish with his his creation many covenants okay adam he had a covenant with adam he got six commandments he made a covenant with noah he gave him an additional commandment we see with the fruit then and now meaning in our parsha um i have a whole list but throughout we see over in a hokulem that the the word is forever that there's a statue forever that you are my chosen people forever for eternity because he loves us an everlasting love okay so even though we see many times that there is such a thing as god cutting meaning making a deal cutting a covenant a new covenant mikko mccomb ready for this drum roll please nevertheless also that old covenant is not abrogated is not nullified ella but what does happen to it yet ha fell it becomes we're going to call secondary not as important what's going to be more important is the bound the bonding of the relationship as it continues to grow and therefore bahabrita car the main covenant the new covenant is going to be prime is going to be the most important thing and the yoshon bibne hadash totes you as the verse actually says think about it i'm going to set up my covenant with you you'll eat the very old produce that will say is the whatever the old covenant was you will clear out from the be from the you clear out the old from before the new now what's actually happening is your storehouses are now full of the new but you take from the storehouses you have to clear out the old and bring it into the house to eat so i want you to look at rashi for a second you'll find this on page one there's a there's a lot of interesting rashes in other words there's a lot of segments i want to focus on the middle but i don't want to skip what it says above so let's um let's start with the middle when it says i will set up my covenant with you a new covenant not like the first covenant which you broke but a new covenant remember god never breaks his commitment but we had broken it and it says in jeremiah chapter 31 verses 30 through 31 i will form a new covenant with the house of israel and with the house of yehudah not like the covenant that i formed with their foreign fathers which they broke now going we're going to discuss this in detail what it says in jeremiah and then it says like this you will eat from the very old produce so the big question is what blessing is there is there really a blessing from eating from old food the torah means however the produce will remain well preserved growing mellow with age it actually gets better with age so that the very old produce from three years ago will be better to eat than that even of last year you understand and you will clear out the old from before the new so the threshing floors is where you're dealing with the new stuff it will be full of new produce but would it would be it would decay if you had nowhere to put it you need to store it away therefore it must be stored the storehouse storehouses however they're filled with abundant old produce therefore you're going to have to remove what is in the storehouses and take it elsewhere where you're taking it you're taking it into the house in order to put new produce in there and the old is going to be removed mainly from the storehouses in order that you can actually eat it and consume it okay that's what it means now wait till you hear this in jeremiah chapter 23 verses 7 through 8. you can find this on the english sheet on number two this says be therefore behold the days are coming says the lord when they shall no longer say in other words there's going to be a future this is messianic when the jews will say right meaning they will no longer say as the lord lives you know who what god we relate to the one who brought up the children of the israelite land of egypt we're not going to be relating to god anymore in let's i shouldn't say anymore in a prime fashion that way but rather but as the lord lives who brought up and who brought the seed of the house of israel from the north land and from all the lands why have driven them and they shall shall dwell on their land in other words we're talking about the in gathering of the exiles when that happens that's all we're going to talk about can you imagine oh yeah we were in egypt and we were slaves and this is the god who took us out of egypt we were slaves it's almost gone almost going to be forgotten we're going to be talking about do you realize okay i'm going to just phrase this a little bit differently do you realize god 3 300 years ago took all of us out of one place do you know what he did today he took us all out of 130 country 180 countries that's unbelievable you understand that's a huge difference okay and i want you to see there's one more together what do you mean the the america what do you mean one more many more unfortunately yes okay that's one that's the majority of jews are there i want to show you so just to back this idea up in gamora broncos 12 b there is this fundamental principle which i kind of want to skip because it has to do with beer cut or let's just say the third paragraph of the shema itself what does it mean by all the days of your life in the meantime it refers to whether both this world and the next world it was taught in a bryce that benzoma said to the sages knew as is the exodus from egypt mentioned in the days of the messiah was it not already prophesied by jeremiah that in the days of the messiah we'll say behold days are coming says the lord that they will no longer say right that's the guys god lives the one who brought up the children of israel the land of egypt but no rather as the lord lives that brought up and led the seat of the house of israel out of the north country and from all the countries which i had driven them in so the sages had rejected this claim we're talking about the reason for saying the third paragraph they said to him that these verses do not mean that in the future the exodus from egypt would be uprooted from its place and will not be mentioned anymore no remember the mezuzah is in order to remember sitting in ahsoka is what i remember pesach is in order to remember how many misses to fill in so many mitzvahs are there in order to remember but it won't be the prime reason of course we're going to keep doing the torah and that you'll see shortly in malachi but in the meantime he says rather the redemption from the subjugation of the kingdoms will be primary and the exodus from egypt will be secondary by the way somebody mentioned to me and i actually praised this person someone walking the path says you know i'm not going to call sunday anymore sunday i'm going to call it yon richaun i said great perfect that's excellent that's what we do that's what we do but i just want you to know that these names of the months since we're on the subject we also should not be calling them right we call by january for every no that's not really true the torah says this is the first month to you so we call nissan month one when we use the english um number system right called january 01 that's a problem that's a problem because what you're doing is you're going against the torah it's better to call january because as soon as you call 0-1 you're going against the torah the torah says the first month to you is nisan now why is it okay to say january so it's different opinions major opinion is par this this right here that in order to remember have on our lips that we were taken out miraculously from the babylonian exile that we brought these names up with us yes according to some they were the names of these babylonian gods and at the same time we shouldn't have names of gods foreign gods on our lips well we don't believe it and they didn't believe it and it's not really a god it's just the name of a month that's how we have intent however obviously in israel we could use the hebrew months see when you're out in the exile and you have to relate to the the people around you how could you they don't know your language so you use them it's not a problem using them even according to the barbecue rebbe says i would say drumroll please but he said that these names actually were jewish and hebrew names and they adopted them for their idols and therefore it's not a problem at all to mention these names of these months that we brought up with us from each uh from babylon but keep in mind it's in order to remember the unbelief i should say unbelievable the amazing redemption that we experienced okay it was an unbelievable thing and therefore that is primary whereas the exodus from egypt becomes secondary but in the future it's going to be really amazing now just keep in mind if we're saying in the future when the messiah comes that there's no more torah how could that be look at malachi malachi is the last prophet and he's it's the last chapter in other words out of our entire bible for the prophets the prophet's part is the last few let's let uh verses it says in chapter 3 verses 22 at 2 24 keep in remembrance the teaching of moses god is telling through the prophet don't forget my torah right moses who's moses my my servant keep remember the teaching of moses the laws and the ordinances what is god telling us the torah i gave you is never going to be abrogated you're obligated always and the next verse says i will send you elijah the prophet right in other words when elijah comes the torah will not be forgotten now we're going to get into jeremiah chapter 31. just i know we didn't reach it yet oh i want to actually mention something about this verse in the hebrew where it says who brought you up and brought back so in other words in jeremiah 23 verse 8 it says allah which brought you up thou share heavy and brought you back it's a double expression as opposed to a single statement of the previous verse which would indicate the final redemption will be more significant because it will gather jews from throughout the world during the exodus from egypt we were all in one place you have to admit that gathering jews from all four corners of the earth i mean forgot it's nothing but it's a bigger uh event that's happened we're not there yet in the clear car but i just want to go over jeremiah 31 verses 30-33 it says behold the days are coming says the lord i will form a covenant with the house of israel and with the house of yehuda a new covenant the brit had asha right karate right i will form a new covenant not like the covenant that i formed with their forefathers not like what happened in egypt but this is going to be different okay remember who broke the covenant we did god says my covenants forever from his side it will never be abrogated okay for this is the covenant that i will form with the house of israel what covenant will he form with us in the future where he will place his law in our midst and he will inscribe it on our hearts and what will happen no longer will one teach his neighbor everybody will know about god are we there yet has it happened no i can guarantee her i wouldn't be sitting here talking right one person teaching another wouldn't be happening now i should i want to preface this one jew teaching another wouldn't be happening the jewish the the role of the jewish peoples teach the world i have an amazing insight i heard from rabbi gladstein when moses he really wanted to come into the land very much you know that but why did he want his father-in-law jethro to come in jethro did not convert yet maybe he didn't convert at all and he said twice begging his father-in-law to come in most people are not interested in their mother-in-law and father-in-law coming and living with them but moses was why think about it we have a tradition that moses would have come into the land of israel the the the house that he would have built for god could never have been destroyed we have a similar tradition with king david that's why king david couldn't build it that's why moses couldn't come in the land because if they would have built it we're going to see why it's better they didn't come in the land or it's better they didn't build it and we're going to see why in the meantime what's what did moses want he wanted his father-in-law to come in because he did not want to what's the word not fulfill the mitzvah of tamba torah learning torah teaching torah is a huge mitzvah and if we would have come into the land he wouldn't have been able to fulfill the teaching of turkus every jew would have known as it says in jeremiah but we would have been teaching the non-jews he wanted his father-in-law to come in in order to teach non-jew the torah it's an amazing insight that's in the name of rabbi daniel blattstein okay so this is a very interesting let's go back now into the cleo car itself and we'll get some better insight the last thing we quoted was jeremiah 23 the yomru owed the people who no longer say as god lives i share hello merits with shrimp which brought us up from egypt remember it's only one one word of going up hashem but rather you know you know who the god the living god is asha allah who brought us up and havey and as well as vasher havey as well as brings us mikola aratos from all the country you see the double language um it says in gamora brachos we read this already but i'll read it in hebrew yet mitzrayim lagamre the whole idea of leaving egypt will not be entirely uprooted right the remembrance of it elia tafel but it will be secondary what will be the most important thing kibbutz gullios ecar the whole concept of being gathered from all four corners of the world that's going to be unbelievable as he says kinisey mitsuraima utafel el nisi magdoyalima shi kashi yikrot khadashrao that the miracles that happened in egypt were secondary compared to the unbelievably great miracles that god will do for us when in the future when he cuts this new covenant with the jewish people again it's the same torah as we saw malachi over and over again god said my breasts is forever my my statutes are forever hoy goylam i i don't have to go through how many times it says it now right away he comes up with a problem um now if this is coming to actually resolve something that's inferred in the verse it seems from the words in in the in the prophet itself that there is some kind of i'm sorry in the in the in the text our text in other words indeed in the uk 26 verse 8 9 what's what's the problem with the text one verse says you will be eating very old produce but the next verse says the yoshimunesh totsuyu you're going to have to remove the old stuff to make room for the new stuff so it says qivyayoshan that very concept of what we say and the old and the old it's not gone no chantitsu that it infers that even before it became old you have to meet old meaning in this case perhaps even rotten don't worry it's still going to be very good hashem is keeping it around and you have to make room for it by bringing it into your house and to eat it it's actually better the old stuff is better okay let's continue while we're on the subject he says on account of the fact we already mentioned this hint regarding the redemption and the value of this redemption khasremez the torah itself goes back and it mentions again a hint shalom israel the jewish people will not be destroyed they will not be finished off they will not be consumed in our long and dark exile as it says right it says god says i'm going to place my presence what does it mean mishkani we call the shrina god's presence we call the mishkan the tabernacle think about it that's where god's presence is in the tabernacle he says i'm going to place my presence amongst you let's think of it as his presence velotiga nafshi esken this is a very interesting concept god says i will not reject you my soul will not reject you remember this is part of the blessings god says my soul will not reject you now what is that all about as we said if moses would have come into the land that temple could never have been destroyed why ki mishkan hainu mishkan what is the mishkan mishkan means the tabernacle of testimony shinicra it's called such a thing thusly because the mishkan is serving as collateral for the for the sins of the jewish people what is a mortgage a mortgage in hebrew today is called mushkanta because it's claterized it's a loan it's the best loan you can get it's long term let's say 30 years it's very low interest you need collateral if i'm going to give a loan short term a small amount no big deal i know where you live but if i'm going to give a very large amount for a very long period of time with very low interest i better have collateral and as a mishkan to what does the bank have your house you don't own your house until the last payment if you default at any given time many penalties you might even lose your entire house and the value that you put that you paid out to that point it's interesting mishkantha mishkon means collateral so that's exactly what he says he says that it's called the mishkan it's called a tabernacle because it serves as collateral for the sins of the jewish people and how does it work in the world uber no hag shabbat if you want to know how it works in the world shakomi lite anyone who's giving a loan okay anyone who gave over let's say the other case i'm the one taking the loan if i take a loan i gave my collateral as long as he has my collateral he's not going to kill me he's not going to take my life because he's got my rolex right this is the very reason that god gave us the mishkan he gave us the tabernacle kiday la mashikano imyakhatu in order to do what to serve as collateral if we would sin that he would destroy he'd consume through his anger the wood and the stone we thank god right we thank god that we have such a thing that if we deserve without collectively to be destroyed he wouldn't destroy us but he would take his anger and his fury out and destroy a inanimate object of wooden stone and through that there is place or space for him to collect our debt through the real estate through this um inanimate object and whenever it says lotigal now she asked him in the blessings i will not purge my soul of you meaning like this and this is based on proverbs 22 23. we're not going to go into it because a little bit more poetic but basically it comes out like this lo it's tarek livoa kovav nephesh basically it's not necessary for hashem to take the person's soul once we have given over once we've given over the mishkan then our collective debt has been paid now the problem is like this what happens if we continue to sin after the corbin after after there's no longer a temple what would collect what could he collect from so wait to hear this it says by the close by the curses for example in verse 30 you'll find this number 11. it says over there i will demolish your edifices and i will cut down your sun idols i will make your corpses fall upon the corpses of your idols and my spirit will reject you so this is verse 30. we're going to have to go back and read some verses leading up to that point so we see right away in verse 30 the goal of now that i will purge you from my soul meaning that even after there's no more a temple lo tikuhom musa and you jewish people do not take my messages you don't accept the moosar i'm right that's what the prophets are there to do to warn you to change and you're not listening to the prophets so that's what it means when god says i will purge you from my my soul that's after the fact that this the temple is no longer around and you're not getting it but go back now to verse 19 verse 19 says the shavarti on uzim that i will destroy i will break the pride of your strength what is that talking about that's already the curses god's going to destroy the pride of our strength rashi says just take a look at number 11 in rashi my spirit will reject you i'm thinking sorry and number 12. when it says shivariti i will break the pride of your strength this is the temple god says behold i'm profaning my sanctuary the pride of your strength he will destroy his own temple that is the pride of our strength god will destroy and then afterwards so that was verse 19. look in 27 verse 27 which is still before 30 27 said and if despite this that you know how many times it says that a few times so god is constantly giving us warnings and i'll give you enough rope to hang yourself but don't do it and after you're not listening i had more warnings because i'm not finished with you i'm never really going to be finished with you listen to what he says in verse 27 and if despite this you still do not listen to me treating you as circumstance happenstance the imbeciles lotis mouli so let's go back in into um in the clear car alzheimer what is that referring to in verse 27 obviously verse 27 is after 19. this is already after there's no longer a temple god is still reaching out to us he's giving us more chances and yet he has no more place to take to take his uh you know what we owe him in the fashos the only thing he could possibly do is take our souls and that's why it does say you know in this verse 30 that i will purge my soul from you but wait go all the way to 44 all the way to 44. and it says but in spite of this you still didn't listen right but despite all this and again it's in number 14. it's 26 44 and 45. while you are in the land of their your enemies i will not despise you nor i reject you to annihilate you okay it's talking about the jewish people thereby breaking my covenant that is within them for i am the lord their god i will remember for them the covenant made with their ancestors going back to the original covenant that was never abrogated it's always there clear as day okay so what is he saying i will not i want you to focus on what i underline i will not despise them nor will i reject them to annihilate them it's unbelievable even though he says i will purge you from my soul the kind of purging is not it's short of annihilation it's short of annihilation look in the hebrew logan the kalo tom not a a purging for destruction laha fear breti right that has anything to do with the breaking of the covenant okay so let's go back into the clear car we just have a few more words so when it says in 44 loma os team it's not a a a purging or a disgust that's heading towards annihilation it's not hainu kill young it's specifically a type of purging that is not of destruction okay it's a usha kilion avastando una fasciae only if after the destruction of the temple after the destruction temple if you don't get my message and from what i know of jewish history unfortunately when disaster hits we get ourselves together now the message really is we should be getting rosh ravnich weinberg always said when the missiles start falling from iraq 1990 it's a message from god what i want you unified the greatest power is when the jews are unified now since you can't get your act together and unify i'm going to unify you as soon as they started throwing the missiles there was unbelievable unity amongst the people when there are terrorist attacks unbelievable unity when there's anti-semitism there's unity the message needs to be gather your act together why wait we can actually head off any disasters get our act together get with the program as we say if you get with the program you don't have to rely on all these levels of curses and they're not even curses they're they're tragedies that are coming as signs and warnings after warnings after warnings i don't want to destroy you but what choice do i have right to bring these more these harsher warnings about because you're not getting it so what i see is we do get it in general we need to get it together very specifically so with that i wish everyone visrat hashem shabbat shalom a great life let's learn torah let's make it real let's live it and love it we'll see you next week [Music] is [Music]