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shalom awaken everybody welcome back to
the ebony bait midrash welcome home to
torah i hope everyone had an uplifting
inspirational hug
for those that didn't
next year what can i tell you
learn as much as you can because that
will enhance your experience if you
missed out now there is actually one
thing i want to mention about the
experience we had right we all know i
mean this is not the topic for tonight
so hopefully in like five six minutes
we'll get into
the parashat brexit we're dealing with
chapter 2 verse 18 but in the meantime i
just want to tell you something i came
across
and i think it enhanced my own prayers
okay so the idea is like this
we change the new sock we change the the
verbiage we change the the text that we
say in our prayers
during the winter months and we're
already beginning to pray
in
praising hashem for bringing the wind
maeshiva rook he brings the wind and he
brings down the rain
yet we don't really ask for rain for
another two weeks at least here in
israel i know in kutzler it's in another
60 days and uh i don't know what they do
in the in the southern hemisphere
there's a whole different opinions of
what to do
but one of the questions gomorrah anit
tinus asks like why is it so important
that it's in prayer it's within the
prayers themselves
meaning the the news the the three times
we pray every day also uh
musaf and
uh
especially musaf one
on
um
on sempras torah this is when we begin
right before musaf
on
shemini at serious
simcastora is when we
begin the change and it's so important
the prayers so there's a statement in
the gomorrah
we all know that the service of the
heart
right a vote that should be late the
service of the heart is te feeler that's
where you let's we understand it
and it's a very interesting uh way to
bring it out
um it's like this and i just want to
read some of these things this is from
the ben yahoo yada
the benishai
he says that it seems to him this idea
remember
prayers themselves what are they right
in the temple in the in the temple
itself
in the mikdash we brought two daily
offerings and we burnt at night the
avarim the the limbs and whatever was
left over so there was one in the
morning a constant or a daily offering
and in the afternoon there was another
daily offering
and according to one opinion in the
gemara right this is what fila
represents we're somehow replacing
they're replacing or they're in addition
to
the daily offerings there's another idea
that abraham
abraham isaac and jacob they're the ones
who instituted it there's no real
contradiction
but we're not going to go into that so
basically because the filos were
established
connected the tummy offering okay the
tummy is the hebrew word for the daily
offering
now it says believe it's
believe just keep in mind a voter should
believe that's what feel is the word
shin bet la med bet shin bet means that
which is in
the late keep this in mind that the word
itself unbelievable when you take the
letters lamidbet and make them full
limit so to speak in other words you
take the word the letter lamin and it
becomes
are you guys following me
lamin is not just a letter but it's a
word
and the word bet is bet you tough
bet there's six letters
and in their that's their million now if
you take the word laive out of those
that fullness which i just said lamid
mem dalid bet you're tough take the
lamin and bet out what are you left with
anybody paying attention would know the
le what you're left with is the word
tamid
unbelievable that a voter should believe
that's what is the mem i'm sorry what
does the bet represent
avodah
it's within the heart
that's the tummy when we pray we should
be thinking that we're offering up these
daily offerings to hashem
that's the first thing he mentions the
next thing
that also the mizbayach right that's
where the alt that's the altar that's
where the tummy offering was offered on
the altar
how what was the measurements of
the altar
32 ammos la mid bet is the number 32
llamas 30 bet is two so it's 32 by 32
so again
another hint to the idea of the tamid
which is offered on the altar the the
dimensions of the altar
are lamid bet
also and he mentions again just to bring
it home
that the the bet is batok right it
doesn't only mean batok but a letter
which is a prefix can have several
different types of meanings so when it's
bit lathe it's mamash beto late so
this is again
the um
it's not the ben yahoo yada meaning it's
it's the bani shai and another safer of
his
called binahu and he brings down this
important idea
that it has to be with our full heart
cavanaugh's halle when we pray we should
really dig deep into our own hearts
and he says like this lo sagi bitsiftsu
it's not enough to chirp like a bird and
just mention the words with your mouth
yanchihi the malcolm corbin tummy
remember it's the very place which is
the heart which is where the daily
offering is coming from
and the corbin cavanaugh saleem shalom
that if you bring a corbin without the
proper intent it's called it's pogum
it's blemished and it's not accepted
therefore if you didn't have the proper
kavana or you had wrong cavanagh
here's a pigle the knit so the corbin it
has a certain category piggle piggles
when the coin doesn't have the proper
intentions for when it's going to be
eaten or where it's going to be
slaughtered and therefore it's
i'm going to say it's a waste right it's
not acceptable
so too when it comes to our felis
when we dive and remember we're talking
we're not just showing up for sure for
social reasons for the kid-ish right
we're actually coming to pray
below yoda
don't talk about other things and don't
think about other things when you come
to shul and pray okay so now let's begin
i just wanted to you know i came across
this during the hog of shimini terrace
and i'm telling you it did affect me
positively
now what we're going to talk about today
is a very interesting idea
because in chapter 1 verse sorry chapter
2 verse 18
it says god said it is not good that man
be alone
i will make him a helper corresponding
to him
now in english you don't really fully
understand the depth of this but let's
hear what it says in hebrew
and i said it's verse 18. here it is the
omar hashem elukim
lo tov
hayoto adam livando it's not good that
man should be alone
now
why the clia car is now going to by the
way i just want to mention we're using
the clear car for the basis of this
discussion and you can find the hebrew
sheets on our website there'll be a link
below i encourage everyone to make the
effort
to try to learn some hebrew it will
expand your mind
and here we go now before we even go
into this idea what does it mean man
should not be alone the the pushup shot
the simple explanation would simply be
that man must get married he needs i'm
not sure about man as in male but a
female also even though it's not a huge
it's not an obligation for a woman
but obviously for the purpose of
procreating which again is not a few
that's not an obligation or a woman but
this is a it's a good thing for the
world but a man does have this
obligation
but something i mentioned before this
year the vilna gone says what's the
whole purpose of life
tikkun hamidos we're here to fix our
character
from whatever happened in a previous
lifetime or in the in the world of souls
we don't really know all that much but
we do know the purpose of life is to
work on whatever god gave us and make it
better to improve on that
so if you go to proverbs chapter 18
verse 22
it says he who has found well i should
say like this says like this matzo
is whoever has found a wife has found
goodness
the affect ratzon hashem
and has obtained favor from the lord i
just want to tell you arashi says what
does it mean who you found the torah
i'm sorry it means he who has found the
torah in other words your wife
is your torah we spoke about jonathan
benouziel people can look that up he was
a very interesting
i'll say character in the talmud tamuda
times and he never got married but
people do go to his cover to his grave
site specifically to pray for a wife
because he said he would help others
rash he also mentions what does it mean
you have attained so a man who found a
wife found good has obtained favor
meaning he obtains favor from hashem so
we can already see this is going to be a
very good thing to get married now what
does it mean low tove now just keep in
mind
when god created the world in the six
days meaning in chapter one
we see clearly that god mentions over
and over again
ketov this is good this is good this is
good
which day did he not say this is good
monday we'll call day two in other words
the second day
god does not use the words ki tov
we're going to talk about this so what
is good and what is not good in other
words it's not good for man to be alone
god already said this is good on day one
day three
four five and when day six comes he
actually also i should say like this in
day three
he also mentions kitov twice
so on day three he mentions it's good
and on day six he also mentions it was
good twice
actually the second time he says it says
toba ode
very good
we're not going to deal with all that
but just keep in mind that in day two
as larry mentioned called day two's
monday
that
was
that it was good was not mentioned keep
this in mind
let's look at the clear car
he says
locus
any place
or everywhere however you want to
translate that
every place or anywhere where there is a
shinoy shinoi means differentiations
or maklocus which means divisive
divisions and division
to be divisive
right
this is not good
ain hatovah mitsuya sham
good will not be found there
i could not have made this up this is
we're seeing this it doesn't pay
to be divisive
our job in this world is somehow to
unify what that's that is a whole
right there's even a big discussion
between truth and shalom which is more
important if you had a choice
okay we're not going to go too much into
that but i think you'll come to certain
conclusions at the end
it says like this
charade me tom zelone
and it's for this very reason
that the words it was good
was not mentioned by monday by day two
of creation
what happened on day two larry you're on
a streak already
that's when the waters were divided
right
let's go
do i have it here
um if you look in number two on the
english english source sheets
genesis one
verse six through eight and it's obvious
only one of them but the idea of
separation
and the fact that god did not say it was
good is clearly mentioned meaning it's
clear that he doesn't say it
it says god said let there be an expanse
in the midst of the water and let it be
a separation between water and water
and god made the expanse and he
separated between the water that was
below the expanse
and the water that was above the expanse
the yav
he doesn't say and it was good
why it's not good to cause separation
okay
now
the clear car we're only on line two
leficia bonivra mark locust now that not
only was mach locus
which means separation actually it's
it's more than that it's argumentation
it's fighting
okay it's real divisiveness
and we're going to find out also that
gehennam whatever that means
people translate as purgatory
but gehenna is a place
for the refinement of the soul
right after one dies if it's necessary
if they need it and it can be anywhere
from one second up until 12 months
certainly not more
of course there's always exceptions to
every rule okay
any time you have the number two
right if you have one it's there's total
unity but once you have the number two
it implies
a haluka or payroot some kind of
division separation
that is symbolized by the number two
now if that's the case
now you could read this as if each
individual human being was created
individually we were all created from
adam and eve but more than that
adam and eve were also created from the
same home there the same material
and eve
was only then separated it depends how
you look at it according to one opinion
they were going to use that opinion that
they were created like siamese twins
back to back so in other words he
created them together
put man to sleep and create you know
through a surgical process separated
them
so i think it means man as an adam
if adam would have been created each of
them
from the same
um
from the same choi mere by themselves
meaning if me female and male would have
been created separately
in cain you schneider then you would
have had two
then you would have had two
you would have what goofing
separate bodies
and then you would never have had the
possibility of good
clinging to them in other words the
possibility of good could never have
somehow
involved itself in their lives
why
then if they would have been
created separately
and you wouldn't have had good
uh cleaving within them then there would
have been a lack of love and unity it
was never part of their essence it was
never part of their macor their source
but once it's part of their source and
their essence then it can always be
recaptured but if it wasn't there to
begin with
then the chances of it ever coming would
have been second to nothing
so go along with this thought because
they would have been
lacking any kind of love and unity the
ukri theme love only the peru mariva
then their tendency would be towards
separation and strife
the litan
been advaicing and there would have been
a distance
between that which should have been
connected but right
the other medina
and now listen this is a very
fundamental principle
man really loves relationships that's
what we need
we are not to be alone we need
relationships listen to the words here
the
medina
the way it works but in in the natural
order of human beings
tsarik yotter
we require much more love and intimacy
and and closeness and unity than any
other
animal that was ever created now i don't
know about the microscopic level i don't
know how it works right
but
i do see
animals
and i don't think they're as loyal there
are going to always be exceptions right
there are certain birds i've heard about
who are we called monogamous is that the
word that are
let's say extremely loyal to their mate
and again even if they're monogamous i
don't know if they're 100 monogamous but
let's just say there are a few
exceptions that are but for the most
part animals are not
most animals are not and even if they
are let's say you know because there are
even certain um
i don't know insects or certain things
that only have uh
procreate once and then they die i mean
there are certain things like that that
exist in the world obviously they're
monogamous right they never had a chance
to
what's the word procreate with anybody
else
but yeah you can't say that
right but you know when you think about
just i i love to watch human beings you
know i sit in the park on the bench
and you know you see couples
whether they're arm and arm or hand in
hand or you know they're going home
together right
and sometimes they're even in a bad
relationship but doing it for the kids
whatever there's a lot of reasons why
people stay together
okay
but most of the time it's out of love
it's out of a positive positive feeling
so you do have to say i mean i'm not
telling you what to say but it seems
like we are very unique animals right
species on this planet
okay let's
now we understand why it says
shalot it doesn't mention that it's good
right we're talking about what chalotov
let's leave it the way it says
it's not good it wouldn't have been good
if man would have been created from one
type of material
or a particular type a particular
material and a woman would have been
created from
other material
right even the same material but
separately
therefore
therefore our verse says acello eze
remember god said i will make him
azer means a helper a help mate
but we didn't read the whole verse but
we're going to leave it for now god says
i will make him
a helper
you mean
when they would be and that's the way we
were create we were created from one or
let's say the same matter
then each one would be there meaning not
just the man to help the woman or just
the woman to help the man but each one
would be there
azer to help
la ho
el ashani to assist and to help and to
bring up
right to raise up to um benefit the
other one
the user connected
now the word connected can also mean
many different things
connected can mean in opposition to
and we're going to hear that but not
today
so much or connect it could mean in the
presence of
okay
but anyway that's the word god used what
does it mean connected we're going to
use it more in the sense of in the
presence of but even facing
ponem penne himself
because remember when he created them
they were like siamese twins back to
back
once they're separated they can turn
around towards each other you cannot i
mean again maybe there are exceptions to
rule but it seems impossible to turn
face to face when you're literally
connected
back to back
the kizem
this whole idea of the disconnect
and then the reconnection face to face
is actually an expression of love
now i know there are
maybe children watching okay
but there is a thing called a missionary
position
right in terms of sexual relations
this is what i heard i don't know okay
i'm not a biologist or uh you know i
don't study animals but i heard
that
there might be exceptions but most
animals do not
make love face to face most or whatever
i don't know
it's from back to front to back whatever
it is i'm not going to go into it right
but you get the idea here that there is
something unique about the human
um species
that that would face i'm sure there's
exceptions yeah
now like it says now we know this
yeah the gamora mentions it great okay
so it says in psalms chapter
verse 8 i think you can find this
number four on page two
right it mentions this is king david
king david oh
what what a beautiful singer of song
what a high level man of
kodesh the soul of the meshiach himself
and he said sweet hashem
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with us in the ibn abate midrash this is
in one of the in within the first
halacha of the
this is how we wake up every morning and
we should be thinking
right i place hashem
yudkevke
before me always which the mishna brewer
describes that on the eyelids your own
eyelids when you close your eyes you
imagine looking at the letters yud and
hey and vav hey and imagine your your
intimate relationship with hashem
okay so basically the word negdy here
obviously does not mean in opposition
but in the presence of right i place
hashem before me in my presence always
okay again interesting the word tamir
but
in my heart perhaps like i said before
but anyway it means constantly
remember
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ain't rousho
hit nagdut shel meriva
i mentioned the word hind can mean two
things in the same sense
the first time it's mentioned it means
in opposition to
so the the explanation of negdy and king
david psalm
is not in opposition to strife
and sorry right
now
but rather it's ella hitna
but rather in the presence of
love
and we have a verse in proverbs chapter
27 verse 19.
you can find that
in number five on the uh sourshi
where it says kamayam hapanim lapanim
when you look down into the water
right what do you see you see your own
reflection
well guess what this is how we when we
relate to other people
right you can see their heart i mean
when people talk to you right when you
talk to people
when you're
confident when you're happy when you're
insecure whatever it is
people can read you don't think for a
second right the heart
knows right because when basically just
like water the face is to another face
so hopefully this is what love is all
about we can have true expressions of
love it has to start within you have to
love yourself right when we come back to
the original idea of the hafta reach
love your neighbor
as yourself
how can you possibly love your neighbor
if you don't love yourself
right and people can see through the
facade that people put up anyway la
fuque bizman chamorila mitsuye
this excludes this is would take out the
time
where mariva is mariva's strife and
divisiveness
is commonly found
when their strife
people are not communicating they're not
looking at each other there's no love
but rather it's like one is turning
their back to the other
and this is in my mind catastrophic what
the jewish people
need what god actually wants from us is
to be unified we always have to find
that which is actually in common with
other jews and overlook that which
is
bringing the divisiveness
okay
but rather each person
right as we said when you're divisive
you turn your back to the other person
and that's why now we understand when
god's going to create
let's say it's not good for man to be
alone therefore i'm going to create this
azer connecto it's a s
i'm going to make for him
the azer which is a help person
a helper
kin negdo
in his presence to love
i do have to say look on the other side
i've told you guys before before i got
married
i had this interesting rabbi and he said
to me
aron david
with a very harsh
what do you call it not a a heavy uh
yiddish accent
right now
you're the life of the party everybody
loves you and yeshiva
you're like
you know mr
popular
everybody loves you you're going to get
married
and that's all going to go away
right she's going to find anything and
everything to criticize you it's just
the way it is
okay see but this is for your benefit
and that's we're going to talk about now
a little bit
in other words even though everything we
spoke about was in terms of love and
unity
there is also a benefit to the connecto
being an opposition
right you don't want to marry
a clone
you'll never grow there won't be any
friction
you need friction to grow and i'm not
just talking about in terms of a sexual
sense i'm talking about in every sense
right you need some kind of friction in
order to grow
so let's go to the next paragraph yay
show me remember it said lo tov does not
get mentioned
in day two right
some say the very fact it does not say
low to not good
that shayna adam nikkor
that a human being cannot be called
a doer of good right that is hopefully
what we are we accomplish things we
make the planet a better place right we
make the world a better place
right a doer of good
a person cannot be considered or is not
called the doer of good
in the midst of the shemius barak
kishore vado
when he is alone now think of it as the
terms of the community just to start
with right it's unbelievable i also
spoke about this also in sukkot
i'm not going to talk about it right now
but the whole idea is that
in terms of doing truva on your own
it seems like it's easily acceptable
during the 10 days of juva but
throughout the year we need a community
the acceptance of the community's truth
is acceptable all year round and sukkot
when we bring all the arbor and medium
together
is kind of like a what's the word
it's it's a seed it's planting
the echo it's putting into action the
unity that we create on circus
that hopefully will continue through the
whole year where we can really truly
feel true
unity
i know it's very difficult in these days
and times
but it's something we have to try to get
over and figure out a way to see the
good in others right and focus on that
we talked about the azamra from
right there's a whole philosophy in the
breslau
and that's a good thing to to to work on
so
the idea that
you have to take the ar but the mean and
beyond rishon
why not just say the 15th because the
measure says that sukis is the khala of
the
nose it's like a new slate we're
starting all over again after we already
finished the year rosh hashanah yom
kippur
we start a whole new year starting on
sukkah it's yomma rishon it's the first
day
and the first day you make an impression
of achtus by bringing the four meaning
together which represents different
people on amish realm okay let's move on
to the idea that he wants to bring he
says a person is not considered or
called
doing good or
i'm not a good doer you know but a
person who does good in the midst of
hashem when he's alone
the enlo mit naged mate
ra without some kind of negative
influence and boy does the world have a
lot of negative influence today which
means the potential for good is
unbelievable do you understand that the
more evil that seems to come into the
world
and i'll just mention this because
there's certain words i cannot use on
facebook but mandates i think that's
acceptable right
when there's a coercion of society
that can really be have more negative
ramifications
than positive we have to be very careful
there must be a lot of evil in the world
and it must be that the potential for
good is just around the corner
so without some
adversary in this sense
and yes some kind of adversary that's
inclining you
towards evil right of course we can call
that the satan but in judaism the way we
understand the satan is nothing at all
the way the christians or zoroasterism
or any of these other religions these
man-made religions
came up with
um
an opposite of god
because he's not opposite of god
he is a
or it is a obedient angel doing exactly
what god wants him to do and if you're
not clear about that go ahead and read
the book of job which is a great book
for the whole world to read right
especially non-jews because he was a
non-jew but anyway that's not for now
the point here is
of course thank you larry you must use
jewish
commentary correct
okay so here we go
lefika this is the very reason slo azer
connecto that god would create now this
is the opposition would create a
helpmate opposite him
kibameshita
is before i translate this i don't think
he's talking about the woman being the
embodiment of evil huss for shalom i
just want to make sure that's clear what
it has to do in my mind is the way that
she is so beautiful and she's enticing
and can
make your make your mind drift away from
god consciousness our goal is to keep
god consciousness in our relationship
okay so i'll now translate this in that
that the woman is going to
be against him
and entice him to do not such good
things
the whole ishmael
then he wouldn't listen to her i'm not
even saying she's speaking okay i'm
saying she's just being and she's so
beautiful and enticing
the in-natural but yet he resists her
meaning he resists his passions and uses
it for holiness
as
only then can he be called
a doer of good only when there is
friction or opposition
now keep in mind there is an interesting
verse
in
let's see if i can find ecclesiastes 7
20 where it says for there is no
righteous man on earth who does good and
sins not
that's one way to read it that's way to
understand it that you're not going to
be
so so holy and good there's no point in
even trying no that's not what it means
okay there's no righteous man on earth
who does good and does not sin
but rather like this try to understand
it like this that without that friction
there's no way you could do good
the good is only in relation to the
friction
inside
there's no such thing as being so
righteous in this world kishiyase tov
because you're doing good
meets
because your nature
is only to do good
you won't be righteous
i mean we do think of you know people
completely righteous who overcame their
evil inclination that's fine again these
are like very rare exceptions
um
meaning that they didn't even have
perhaps they didn't even have an evil
inclination right they were just brought
up so pure and so holy
so these are like the exceptions the way
to become holy is to fight to
to
uh work against
the uh this compulsion so basically it's
like this let's go back when a man
a man cannot be considered
righteous in the land when he does good
from compulsion
and he doesn't have any even ability to
sin he's just so righteous seemingly
we're not going to call him a do-gooder
we're
it's only when he has the ability to sin
it's only when the
enticement is there which is going to
come through the
act of being married
bazrat hashem
everyone should get married
i want to
go off a little bit
to
actually it's in the english source
sheet number three
there's a whole idea of zoo goat
for those who are not familiar it's
going to sound very strange
okay the gemura discusses the idea
that relates back to day two day two in
in brexit in genesis talked about
twos bring strife and negativity
correct we were clear about that
now apparently when you yourself use
items
food items of twos
it's strongly discouraged in the gemara
okay
the gamora discusses it right here
um after mentioning it it brings up the
idea what about on pesach don't we use
four cups
and four is
ultimately the multiplication of two
and it says when it's done for god when
it's done for good it's not going to
have a negative effect
okay so it's really rare that we're
going to have this but keep in mind that
even the shocking art doesn't bring it
down as a halacha
but it's something to philosophize about
to
i'll tell you what it really comes down
to being god conscious or not being god
conscious right god is one
and anything that is two is
is division strife and can bring or
distract you from
god consciousness so if you look at
gamora brachos 51b
look in page one
right this idea you're not supposed to
speak over a cup of the blessing from
the moment you take it in your hand
until you drink it
one may not recite a blessing over such
a cup because a cup of punishment what
exactly is this
so review socks if nachman bar yes said
it's called a second cup the opinion was
also taught in a bryce one who drinks in
pairs should not recite a blessing
okay we're not going to go too much into
it but we're going to go this is really
the key the key is in gemarp
as i mentioned there was a whole
discussion about the four cups on pesach
keep in mind that the the night of
pesach is lyleshmarim it's a night that
god guards you and no
damaging
uh forces no i'm going to call them
demons but demons don't don't get
don't get distracted with the word let's
just call them
uh maziki in hebrew means
negative forces okay
so these negative forces can affect a
person
so he says on pesach it's not to it's
not going to affect them but the
gomorrah says how can the estab how
could the sages establish a matter
through which one will come to danger
meaning the four cups wasn't it taught
in a bryce a person should not eat in
pears
even a number of food items he shouldn't
drink in pairs like cups he shouldn't
wipe himself with pears and he shouldn't
attend to his sexual needs in pairs well
guess what when it came to the gamora
gomorrah says you know what in eretz
israel we're not really concerned
this is something you have to worry
about in hutzlarz
right
in florida for example but he says in
babylon
okay
so
there's a few other examples i'm not
going to go into it right now
what i do want to read for you
is something very interesting i have
here two articles which i
i gave you on that list there's two
um websites
one is in
one is from
ursa mach
so you don't have this
but on the orsonic website someone asks
why are even numbers said to come from
unholy spheres
so the
this is the question dear rabbi on
behalf of myself and my fellows to my
fellow students
at two atomic classes in jerusalem i
submit the following
the talmud states that a second cup of
wine is dangerous raj explains the
second cup that constitutes zoo goat
pears
which cause damage by demons please
clarify the concept of zugot and explain
why if pairs are considered a bad omen
why did we use two challahs
on shabbat
so the rabbi answers from orsamaya
there is a concept that zoo goat or
pairs can cause spiritual damage
the basic idea behind this is that even
numbers
are based on the number two while odd
numbers are based on the number one
the number one represents the
omnipotence of god remember i told you
it's all about just being god conscious
well number two represents heresy
the disbelief in the omnipotence of god
impure forces have no power against the
person
meditating on the omnipotence of god
that's why
in today's society
even those who are taking
the medicine that's prescribed by the
governments
as long as they believe in god and it's
not the medicine
then maybe the medicine will protect
them or they'll be protected from the
medicine but
but
the main thing is not to believe in the
medicine but to believe in god
so
again impure forces have no power
against the person meditating on the
omnipotence of god
so while someone does an activity based
on the number one
the so-called demons can't do anything
to him and his soul or what they call
subconscious if you will is aware of
god's omnipotence therefore the danger
of zoo goat does not apply when doing a
mitzvah such as eating halal on friday
night or when a person performs a
mitzvah he does so because of his belief
in god and is thus protected from
these negative influences
therefore the talmud implies that zugot
only harms someone who's concerned with
them the
that's the code of jewish law does not
even bring
down the idea of zugot being a
prohibition
therefore when i go shopping and i'm
constantly buying things in twos i'm
always thinking i believe in one god but
this is a good price it says
two for the price of one
so what can i do
look
i drive i would drive the um the what do
you call it the cashier crazy you know
and i had to find someone in line who
would buy the other one so anyway that's
the way it works
um rabbi steinzoltz
the other it's very interesting but i
want to go now too in the gemara sahim
in the commentaries here
i want us to
the far right side at the bottom
she looks like this guys
the far right and bottom where it says
meduzarika
why should we or why is it necessary to
be concerned or careful about these
pairs
i want to help us understand remember
zoo goat or loto isn't that what we said
for some reason it divisiveness is not
good and if we think in terms of two
gods
right that's already not good right
so here it says the gemara
odom tray velo yishta tray a person
should need two pairs and he shouldn't
drink two pairs digmor explains that the
isser to eat or to drink in zugos is
because of these strange negative forces
will have some influence on you
and the rebate revena bakaya now i don't
i don't i actually have here
interestingly enough
the whole remain of a high in english
um but i think what we'll do is i'll do
my best to explain
through the hebrew here
he said he quotes rebecca bechaya
that the shoresh
that the the root of the matter is like
this
that during the second day of creation
right during creation of the world
during the second day
that's when my locus again maklocus
means
argumentation
divisiveness
separation
remember it doesn't say the words it was
good it left it out god left it out
the thief
because that's what caused all the
problems that came afterwards day two
was like the domino effect you got day
three four five and six not such good
things happened on those days let's hear
what he says
meaning from the second day onward
they changed they deviated from the will
of god behold on the third day
when god said that the fruit tree should
bear fruit like the the the branches
like the the trunk itself
meaning the eight's ottoman yet pre
meaning that the the trunk itself would
taste like a fruit hayloh asta kane
remember it didn't do it
so the ground did not listen to god it
went against hashem's ratzon already on
day three and what about the fourth day
katrina
the moon
apparently the moon and the sun were the
same size
you guys listening the sun and the moon
were
were past tense the same size
and while they were the same size
there was an argument between the two
the omr and the moon had a complaint ef
how can we build both be
in the glory of god the same it's how
can we both be wearing a crown
um we can't both wear the crown neither
one of us can be
the two of us cannot be king at the same
time
and what did god do he diminished
the
the light and the size of the moon
what happened on yom kamishi
this is a little bit on the spooky side
apparently there are these two great
i'm not sure if they're fish or mammals
but they definitely live in the water
called the leviathan there was a pair of
them a male and a female by the way
and the rabbis explained that what did
god do
he
what's the word he unfertilized it's
called the castrated thank you saressa
zachar he castrated the male
the horror gets in the caver he killed
the female
um
tsundikim lost his lovo and he made her
pickled pickled her assaulted her
for what for us to feast on
the righteous people to feast on in the
future
what happened on the sixth day
okay thank you larry
uh beyonce what happened on the sixth
day we all know adam and java sinned and
they were
basically going to be expelled from the
garden of eden now if that's all true in
kane
because
what do we find that all the days that
followed day two
uh indian kits rogue the shinoi kevana
supirun that we see that there's this
argumentation or prosecution right this
negativity and the changing of a
deviation of command and separation
the sibat coulomb who hayom shaini they
all stretch back
to the cause the original cause was yom
shami the second day
they're all coming out of the power that
was created which we said was gehenna by
the way right which is
separation
i think it means
the zugos were
turned around
i'm not sure
uh basically
according to their
according to their uh changes
from like semele means like the the
similarities
of separation and the lack remember this
is the whole point it was lack of actus
it's anything that is separate and str
and causes strife is the opposite of
octus and it causes the lack of octus of
unity alkane music
this is what damages people
that people who are argumentative
meaning there is an art
to
an argument right
you do it with
mido to vote there's a way
okay but when you're um
when all you are is embodiment of
of argumentation
then the music can get a hold of you
and the shulkin shall arbor which is a
safer he adds to what rebecca has just
said and he says
the reason we're encouraged or warned
about staying our distance away from
these zugoti's pairs
is kade ligvoa belaith in order to
instill within the heart
at malasa
or
this is something we really i'm talking
for myself here to establish and set
within my own heart and in the the
advantages the positivities
the outcome of having actus and to
separate yourself interesting and really
distance yourself from separation
separate yourself from separateness no
distance yourself from set from
strife and separateness separateness
the sim and the devarim
how would i translate that
and then it's more proper that it's
fitting
and these ideas in in in in
natural things that are natural
basically the reason he brings this down
is because
uh i have another page which you guys
don't have
the benue
in both the uh ben yodan and the ben
yahoo
explain a little bit more that when it's
created by god natural foods like you
asked me for examples cucumbers peppers
things that are
natural foods and become ripe and ready
for consumption by god those are the
things that you're supposed to stay away
from whereas man-made things whether
it's hollowed man-made them or
things you manufacture right or prepare
that human beings have a hand in that
you don't have to worry about
and but either way there's a lot of
reasons why you don't have to worry
about this at all
there's a lot of reasons why
you can be superstitious or you can say
look it's all about god consciousness
whatever yom shami brought into the
world the second day
i don't really want a part of i want to
bring octus therefore
no matter when i'm going to the store
i'm i'm buying something for shabbos
i'm buying something so i can do more
mixes because if i don't have the energy
right why do i eat
i eat in order to serve hashem
so if whatever you're doing is for the
greater good
which is the good of doing mitzvahs
remember the word mitzvah is
to connect to hashem
so as long as you're living a life of
torah and mitzvahs it's really not going
to have a negative effect on you
keep that in mind and i think that's
also why in eric israel it didn't have
such an effect being in eritrea is such
a big and unusual word mitzvah meaning
it's an opportunity to lacha bear to
really connect with hashem
the word mitzvah in athbash keep in mind
the vav and the hay is the last two
letters of god's name
the memsadek of mitzvah
is really in atmash is a udenhay
and when we do
mitzvot which anyway the root is sevit
sevit it's all that not to command but
to unite
that we are uniting with god
that is the most beautiful thing about
life and i'm going to end here keep in
mind that when you get in a relationship
hopefully it's for the sake of not just
procreation but
have also true love
right and that that person whether it's
the male or the female that you're
involved with obviously talking about
uh
you know to the males the female the
the female the male
that is in order
to work on your character that this
person will not only be there for you
and support you or love you but will
also be
critical
to the point hopefully that it's only a
motivation a motivator towards
working on your character for the good
in other words she or he will encourage
you to be a better person and not god
forbid
the other way around okay so that was
today's lesson i just want to wish
everybody you know a a good winter
against the people south of the equator
uh
a good summer but either way we should
have biz rather shem as we used to as i
used to give brothers all the time and i
have to get back into it
right
one should be blessed with all the gosh
and the rookiness and the ruknis and the
goshamias all the spiritual power and
all of the physical blessings in order
to constantly elevate you and misrate
hashem we will see you
next week with the shams have a great
life
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