Jews, Druze and the Passions of Chodesh Av by Rabbi Jay Yaacov Schwartz

Heat. Heat. [Music] Shalom everyone. I'd like to dedicate this year to the nishama of Ilana Murrell Basu who was whose shiva is being observed. Um she was a woman who was described as constantly being immersed in a bodhism in Kira inus and especially in the Indian of saying a braha each day. And I think that this year really typifies as the shaman and we'll explain how. I'd like to cover a lot of ground with you today. put together a rather large picture of the events that properly precede the onset of the nine days which begins this Friday as well as the going out of bidbar simultaneously which uh carries the stories of pinas Moshe's final days um the selection of Yahushua and the war of midyan and its accountability. So these things do not seem on the on the on the surface to be rather connected. But when you look a little bit at what the madrashim are teaching us and from kadoshim an incredible incredible theme emerges. Okay. So let's let's point out a few questions. Number one said in the medishbar ra he said zoo ely this key figure of the last three part essentially of midbar he is the identical soul as elyah alabi we is the harbinger of what's the connection? What does that mean that how does that demonstrate itself in the par that we're reading? Number one. Number two, the war of mid is unlike any other war the Jewish people fight. So, let me explain. There is something called mitzvah and mheus. an obligatory war and a non-obligatory war, but one that's being fought for either uh military threat and or financial defense or gain. So, for example, Governor Amel conquered Syria. Havaii, hello today. And therefore, Syria has a special status. It's not the biblical err up until yes. And what's ironic today is that Israel is being called upon by its friends, the Drews, of Jews and Drews. And I'll show you how that's also incredibly relevant today to to the city of Damesc that Damascus is the biblical boundary of of Erat Israel. And here we are. The Jews are calling upon Israel, which has already taken a chunk of territory on the base of Harmon to protect the Jews. And now the Jews are under complete assault by Islamic neighbors because the Jews are not Muslims. I'll explain what they're all about in a moment. And uh they have nowhere to turn for protection except to the Jewish people, which is ironic. And we'll see Hashem hopefully they will survive and thrive, but it's not a given. And uh so when David conquered Syria, it got a status of the land of Israel uh beyond the biblical status. In other words, beyond Damesec, which is up until the biblical border of Arch Israel is the the the entrance to to uh Damascus. Beyond that conquered and has a hala of Israel um regarding things such as whether you're allowed to allow Goyam to purchase homes to rent fields or purchase fields. So Syria has certain restrictions because it's called kibush y it was the individual conquest that David initiated for whatever reasons as explained and uh that war is a called in the wars of mitzvah even a kala and a from their are called to join the battle notice no distinction between and kala but the point is that obviously they're not um carrying equal battle roles But they are all to join in the war effort in every whatever capacity is appropriate for them. And then although we know today that there are many women who are combat fighters in Israel though recently I did see a report that um it's not an ideal situation not for the army and not for the women because of the propensity to injuries and the rigorous amount of of strength training etc. that um is demanded is is maybe not appropriate for every woman. Maybe some, yes, but not but not the majority. Whereas the majority of men are expected to be able to carry these um these maneuvers out uh physical physical um and otherwise. So, everybody agrees that there's a slightly different role and no one's to say that they uh they are any less valuable. But the idea being that there are rules for kibbush yahid kush raim and then there's the war of midun which is neither none of the above. So let me so again in the wars of of of mitzvah include the battle against tamalik and the battle against the seven nations of kanan who are occupying our land and to rid ourselves of them. Okay. Then you have and that everybody's involved with and then you have in which a select group of soldiers are drafted um and but even though the everybody basically is showing up for service there are dispensations and the mash the coh and those who are assisting him calls out and says a person who built a home but didn't live in it yet planted a vineyard but didn't but did not u partake of it yet the fruits of the vineyard or or engaged a woman with hahic marriage but has not consummated that marriage yet they they can return of course it's a guise under which people who are afraid of the battle because they they fear that they're not holding on a incredible spiritual connection with Hashem and maybe they have sins and they're not feeling They're just not feeling that they can hold the incredible level of amuna that's required to go into battle and feel protection. So they're allowed to go home. All right. Here in Mija, it's neither a select group of mal shagim marines, Israeli marines, whatever you want to call them. Jewish select fighters, 1,000 per tribe, were assigned to this uh mission that Hashem gave Mosher Rabenu. By the way, it was the final act of Mosher Abenu of war and of any consequence to the conquest of Arjel or the or the distribution of Arjel. All that was taken care of already or would be taken care of later by by his by Yeshua and by and uh by Lazar and to a certain extent as we shall see but the the Mosher's final act is the war against Midian. Ironically, it was the episode with with Zimri Ben Solu who tried to who in public married a Midionite woman Kazbatsur which triggered the response of Pinas who was known as Eli Yahu according to Ishlakish Quentur most basic rabbitic sources the Talmudic sources not later Talmudic sources and that's goes back emerges is as the kanoi as as kazal tells us the story unfolds that Moshaenu declared death upon 156,000 people who would serve the idol of poor now let's understand what poor is poor according to fazal it's a mission in in Sanhedrin uh in abodar excuse me the says poor is the way you serve it is by defecating in front of it what does that It just seems to be such a disgusting act. But why and there but the on the same time Israel were called they had a they were so attached to it they couldn't detach. What was there to be attached about? I mean just want to run out of there as quickly as possible. What's the big attachment? And secondarily, um the the uh the ridding of this this this incident was triggered by the of Bum who ironically had gone to Midan to collect his share for the bitter advice and very effective advice that he gave to Balak to release the the women of Midan primarily and Moab as well. Although the the Moabitete women don't get killed because they know Roose is Roose is gonna emanate actually would emanate from Bulock himself. But the the uh Midionite women were Mafia themselves and this created this pl this plague of 24,000 that Pinhas's intervention by killing Kusby and Zimry who were who were consummating this act in public um stopped that plague. There was makus in the show and Arashi on what happened to the 156,000 that were certainly guilty. Arashi brings the message. So Mosha said each each chauffet remember surfim there were captains of thousands captains of um of uh five of h of hundreds captains of tens right? So if you add up even just the captains of tens, that's already 6,000 right there. The total number was 7800 7,800 judges. Each one was supposed to kill two. And that would have yielded 156,000 defendants that would have been judged, tried, and killed for being nitma, for being so passionately attached to Balpaw. But comes along, Zimrian says, "Wait a minute, Moshe. You married a woman from Mid." Mijon of course is referring to the daughter of Yro who's a player here by the way um a big player because the Drews who are currently in the news who have asked the Jews to rescue them see themselves as as descendants of Yro and they actually consider his supposed burial place in northern Israel to be their makers. They are not Muslims. They do not follow the teachings of of uh of the uh Oso Arabi of of the father of Islam. But they are descendants of Yra. So Mosha Moshe said, "You married Israel's daughter. What's wrong with what's wrong with Midionites? They're awesome." And so therefore, I want to marry a Midionite woman. And no one could say anything except simp steps forward and he says you taught us when you came down from a not a thing that's rooted in any rational principle. It's a law that roots out of passion against Hashem and the and the um pride of the Jewish people much like Shimon and Ley's destruction of the city of Shm was an act of all the brothers actually participated in that and uh because he said how Kazona Yas could could it be that Dina Basyakov should be treated uh so immorally. So here again steps forward in the in the person in the persona of a zealot, which is of course what Elonavi later is declared. He declares himself to be a zealot because he's the last um remaining prophet who could speak up against the wicked king Akab and his wife who destroyed the Nvidia Israel. And of course that led to the contest on Har Carmel where Aliwa Navi uh mocks the um the Navim Aba and produces a miracle that a fire comes from Shamayim and licks up his carbon which was completely soaked in water and the pit around it. Whereas in Bal called out to their god all day long and no fire emerged from heaven and uh and Elia was called himself a canoi. But Hashem does does with Eli Yahu. We'll get there in a moment. Uh Kos is a is a difficult subject. Mosher Rabenu could not endorse Israel to carry out the act against. But he did say the following if you the one who read the letter. In other words, the one who reminded us about the that I taught you that pok if you if you actually had relations with an which is a woman from that general region arim where where came from where was and so on uh and where a was before he came to Israel. You may you can kill that person. However, Moshe was reticent because the isb that it's not like he's a convicted criminal. If that koi, if that zealot comes for his life while he's proceeding to this act in public with warning, um according to the Rama, then he can defend himself and if he kills his attacker, he's he's he'll be free in self-defense. This is not like Misas Bezdon where we capture a guy and execute him. No, it's not quite. It's something in the middle. It's it's a non it's a it's a extrajudicial killing but it has roots in. So what is it? Okay. So that's really a question in itself. So the war of mid would be led by this zealot pin again meaning giving a unique character to this war versus the regular mafus and the regular mis mitzvah. So again it was 10,000 select uh soldiers. Okay. Uh, marines, whatever you want to call them. And they did something very unusual. All right. They captured all of the booty and were as as outlined in in great detail mas. They gave a full and intricate and detailed accounting of every single item that they that they um that they took from the Midionites, animals, minerals, people, okay? And divided it accordingly between the tribes and a portion to the colon. That's not exactly how it goes in a mitzvah. everything is you know it like al mole things are put into right and if that's the case you eradicate everybody in the wars of the seven of the seven nations you eradicate everybody but here those women who did not have the ability to participate in the sinning because they were just not they were too young that they hadn't developed they weren't at a stage in which they could even have relations were spared. Okay. And um that's unusual. That's unusual. And why was it pred? It was measured by their ability to have relations. That's a strange thing. Doesn't exist in any other circumstance. So we must understand the context of this war, the role of of pinfas because after all, no one can go home because they only selected 12 1,000 per tribe. So there's no need for a mishakama for a priest. We heard that bas got brisk olam bi shalom. So he was now transformed to a cohen. There is a role of a coin in war in in a war which is a mus which you can send home those who are scared and so on. But these guys were the marines and it was only a thousand people. No one's going home. They were select soldiers. So what was binas doing? And in fact, Binhuz is the key to the war because part of what happens is that luckily Bum finds himself trying to collect money from Bijan for the disaster of the 24,000 that were killed uh instead of or in addition to according to uh uh perhaps Rashi versus Ramb um because of the the close passionate connection to Balor he succeeds in using it that sits which carries the name of keshm which is usually attributed to the cog which pinnas would later become a cog right to cause um Bam's magic to recede and he would fall from the sky where he was had transformed himself into a flying creature along with all of the um his cohorts in mid that he wanted to get paid from. So he kept him alive I guess as soon as he wanted his paycheck. Okay, we made the previously what does that whole episode have to do and why is these why are these paras always always demanded to be at the portal of the nine days because Dvar must be read on Shabbat the Shabas preceding as it will uh next week okay so we have a lot of things to think about so let's recap a lot of curiosities Number one, um the uh the problem that we're encountering is trying to understand the inion of this war of mids. It's weird accountability standards just to the nth degree which we don't see elsewhere. You certainly don't hear about it in great detail and yet it's detailed here so dramatically. Why the detail? What's the big deal? Why only a thousand soldiers? Why not conform to the laws of mitzvah or it seems to be a unique generous type of war? It's it's a hashem. It's a it's a different type of war. Why is this war the punctuation of the end of end of a midbar which is the last act of Mosher Abenu's leadership prior of course to his passing and of course safety is his final um exhortations to Kal Israel the entire of it and his blessings to Cla Israel but this was his final act as king what what what's the kesh why does bum suddenly resurface here why is it pinhas who is a cohane and leading what seems to be a war allowed to use the we know in that when it comes to someone who was killed is not allowed to it's a question if you can or not it's it's a big question someone who killed even accidentally they are they capable of giving the bris shalom the shalom means the opposite of mil is about death and killing Shalom is shalom. How and how could it be that got a bris shalom for an act of of essentially warfare? These these things are all facts that we we have seen our entire lives. But how does it piece together and what's the message? So, I'd like I'd like to suggest an incredible incredible um concept which already really stated that explains why this is Mosha's final act, why it's such a unique work, why there's accounting, why Pin is involved, why Pinas is elyah, and also the the remote connection uh to Israel. go through the fact that this is a war in Midion and uh what's the purpose there? So let me explain when you're the Mosha Mi of Koi Pogbo exists in a couple of circumstances. Okay, for example, a cohane who comes to the bas mikdash tame and he enters the ground to the bas mdash. Okay, and he does the service whatever that might be bringing bringing the uh pieces to the sacrifice etc. Whatever he does one of the it says this is a They don't bring him to they do an extrajudicial killing the blossoming kohan they take him out of the zar where death and tuma are are not counterindicated what they puncture his head with bats with gazer him with huge pieces of wood. They beat his head in with a bat. What? Since when does this mutilation consistent with Jewish law of executions which we always say borlo mis we try to minimize the neval question of how you do how you do her with a sword that the body shouldn't collapse because they used to execute people standing up or they use the guillotine or whatever it was and this that guy they just beat him and beat him they bashed his head in with baseball bats there is such a Jewish character in recent mahabul cinema lore there was a there was important, fantastically important movie about the Holocaust in my opinion. The name is a little problematic, but it's a inglorious so andso where it depicts a fictional story of Jewish Jewish soldiers taking revenge against Nazis. And one of the soldiers who terrified the Nazis was known as the Bear Jew. Well, the bear Jew, what he did was he used a baseball bat and he broke the heads of Nazis who weren't cooperative in uh giving them information or whatever else they wanted from them for it to kill them. It's a bear Jew. So the Kanim the Panim acted like bear Jews. Why? How could such a thing be sanctioned? And why call them Pahuna, the blossoming? similar seems to be like the zealousy of Pinas who got the opportunity to call the Cohen. And how do you resolve the problem of of of shalom that that um Cohen killing is is is not is not associated with the mitzvah of virus kohanim at all of being sh. Okay. So here we go. What was miss? What was the final element that would boost the Jewish people to break the boundaries of Archisra to overcome Tishab of 40 years before that sealed the fate of a generation in order to not make that mistake once more in order to be able to set the tone of going in and conquering and transforming the nine days from days of Aos to days of Simhan. on the B mikdash. How there was one ingredient that needed to come maybe a little bit from out out of bounds of the extrajudicial world but included and that would be passion and purpose. A unique passion and purpose to battle the scourge of Hashem of taking the sacred and turning it into unholy. Taking the holy and turning into unholy triggers kah. Jewish people needed the personality of pinas who is elyah to make it through the challenges that they would face in Israel. Only Eli Yahu was able to stand up to the melab and call them out. But he becomes something more than a dangerous zealot. So here too the message is let's put it together bal po represents these this polar opposite to this experience of pinas what is bal pour the Jews word simu what does it mean the ex the excrement so some unfortunate explain that it doesn't mean that you go there when you need to uh you know you take a laxative and you go there that's not what it means it's more akin to what I will tell you how you I don't know if I say la once I experienced when I had I had some time to visit to visit the Jewish community in Berkeley and give some shirum there. I have a unusual connection there. My daughter was born there. Um and I went through the campus of University of Berkeley which of course a really problematic but back then it wasn't it was bad but it wasn't what it is today for that matter. Most universities were a lot better than Berkeley, but today I don't know, it might be worse. Uh Berkeley is notoriously leftist, notoriously anti-Israel. Uh especially the Jews are big supporters of Palestine and anti-Israel and so on, professors and so on. But um they were they were trying to take down the trees on the campus of UC Berkeley. Ironically, the Berkeley Bears, just like the Bear Jews. So the bear Jews or whoever they were were tree huggers. They climbed up the tree and were holding tightly to the tree so that nobody would dare chop it down. Because after all, what's more important? Building another building for a university. We're worldrenowned university or or cutting down an old oak tree or whatever it might be in a cedar tree. They have beautiful trees up there in Northern California. Beautiful. >> So an ancient these people were called tree sitters and it was well known that they were given hours maybe maybe they were given 24-hour jobs to literally be up a tree. What happens when you need to go to the bathroom? Well, the obvious happened. They didn't come down because if they come down they lose their strong connection to the tree. They did what they had to do and paid the consequences. That's the example of Balor. Balor means such a passionate connection that you just can't leave. There's no way to separate them. There's no way to divide them. the their aduk they're completely stuck in this passion. So it's the a bodhazora of passionate embrace. That's total total passionate embrace. Incredible. And that's a hard thing. That's a hard thing to tame. It took a lot of canos for pinas to put out that fire. the fire that was represented by the timidus, the connection, the intimate connection between a Jewish prince and a midnight princess. They were bound together and they refused to separate and Pinas actually had to kill them while they were bound together in an embrace because that's the only way that he could demonstrate that his canos was appropriate. So kos is an appropriate response in a very limited narrow window of cases when they see the Jewish people when the Jewish people seem to so violate their connection with Hashem that it becomes a great Hashem that's when the of of pogbo comes into play like a coh who desecrates the ba mikdash willfully And like Abola Ramis, a person who intermarries willfully trying to say that there can be an intimate connection between the Jewish world and the non-Jewish world. And it's perfectly fine. It's perfectly fine. It's not. You can't bind together things that are not alike. One of the reasons that the symbolism of of Bum who finds his death here with a donkey is if to show saying and he's and Medish is is quite uh clear that this was a beastial relationship and a beastiality was as a model. Hashem was saying no a human being and a kamore cannot be a unit. It's not a unit. Of course it will never produce anything. In fact, we learned recently in the Gumar and Bodhisara that say human animal relations causes the animals themselves not to be able to reproduce. So you're destroying life. Certainly not making life. But his Bum's thought was that he could be he could be connected to Hashem on a level that Israel is and it's not it's just not possible. We are our passion is directed towards the kaduca. Our passion is a kosher passion. There's kosher passion and uncoser passion. You can be very passionate about a lot of things about a lot of aos about a lot of typos. Very very passionate, very very connected to it. Very addicted to it. That's the key word addiction. It's like an addiction. There's no way out. No, no escape unless there's a massive intervention. Pikas represents a massive intervention. But also he presents a kosher passion. Now you can understand this was a missing ingredient that cla Israel desperately needed before they would face the challenges of encountering other foreign nations temptations and gods going to arch Israel. They need an azus to kadusha. They needed uh a pin spirit to be able to penetrate the the uh the world that they were encountering and be able to remain holy. Now you understand why the war with Mijan was a select group of a thousand men and why we learn they were the para of vows was given to the was given to the rosh mats to the heads of these uh um of these warriors tribes because a vow connects you to hashem in a extrajudicial way. I'm gonna vow, Hashem, not to partake of this and this so that I'll be a nuzier and I'm not gonna indulge in wine because I want to improve. I want to turn my passions towards Hashem and not away from Hashem. And there there is such a nuzir that can be commended. On the other hand, just depriving yourself from wine is an ara. Every every um nuzier is a crime of passion because ultimately Hashem didn't design the world for abstension and extremes. But he designed the world that you should indul indulge and enjoy, but only channel it through kaduca. Channel it through kaduca, not through a f not through a passion for something foreign to who we in essence are. Cl are bound to erel with a passion. Where is the passion for the land of Israel? Is it so easily dispensable? It is one of the greatest greatest greatest violations of the will of many sadikim and particularly the Berebi that so much of Israel has been forfeited and we only continuously suffer. And if over this nine days kamas comes out victorious, all right, maybe we'll get some hostages back. but essentially that they're rehabilitated, vindicated, and remain in their place. What a tragic, tragic, tragic outcome that would be. That's the old kind of nine days. We don't want those kind of nine days anymore. We believe we're ready for a better form of nine days. The only victory over Gaza is Jewish control, which ironically is pretty much what's going on. It has to remain that. not only has to remain that way but the passion for that for settling that portion of Israel which is clearly Israel according to the biblical boundaries there's nothing to talk about all the way to is the biblical boundaries of Israel but where's the passion where's the passion to retake uden recently a couple of who were koim made their way to ca yose which is in the city of maybe even ca yoshua I think so too, which is also not not ironically in that area. Okay. And because of their excursions, there were battles with the Palestinian uh you know, armed army, whatever they call themselves, police. And um Israel was forced to retake the area and secure it by who? By people who were passionate about that place. Oh, people are going to come here. Fine. Fine. And then we'll have to dig in and protect. Nobody's coming here. Forgot about it. Who needs it? Who are we protecting it for? So we have to demonstrate our passion. I think Davin, at least Davin, our passion for the whole of Erit Israel, the same way our enemies mirror that to us. It's incredible what they mirror back to us. Every single inch of Erit Israel, the entire world wants every inch of Eric Israel to be evacuated by Jews. This is one of the international greatest obsessions in world history. Get the Jews off the land of Israel. They cannot control the land of Israel. Not one inch. And begrudgingly, they'll say, "Okay, maybe a little bit, but only because we're in the ear of Msiah." And they're so guilt guilted by what they have done to us. But not that guilty. Not that guilty. Also the the the the reason why we learn the laws of Kashus, the laws of purging, the laws of cleansing, all the pots and pans that they collected from Midan, throw them out, burn them, put them in a what do you need them for? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm going to show you that certain pots, it's actually ironically dyomi also. You can uh if it's used for cold, you can cauter it by three pills and spills in 24 hours. today's or you can uh if it was used in hot in its metal you can put it through the you can put it through hagala boiling water everything according to its need aud which is which is raw which is placed um on raw meat and burnt directly over the fire that needs libon that means you got to the way you do it the way it was used is the way it's kashured here from this week's para and shalom that anybody and and the warriors the 12,000 warriors when they came back. They offered carbonos that they weren't even kay to bring, but they offered carbonos that voluntarily if they had a thought of touching a midnight woman. Precisely the polar opposite of Zimry and Kusby who tried to connect like Balpa beyond belief. They're saying we are and not only that, but we know how to take things that are needed for life, pots and pans and all kinds of things and casure it to use it for Yeshua Israel. Wow. And you know, we all share the wealth. This was the lesson of the war of midn. A profound lesson that without passion and without ability of clarity and separation there is there is not adequate preparation for Israel. Had Cla proceeded into Israel with Zimri and Cosby and to their fate would have been quite different. Now ironically at the very end of these episodes tell one moment we'll close it at that time. What happens to Yeshua? Why did Yeshua get the job even? Well, in last week's paras, Mosha asks for the job for his sons. He says, "After all, everybody's getting don't have us. Can I at least offer Yusha to my sons that don't take over for me? Um, they're great guys, right? Geisham and Eleazar, great guys. Uh, let them get the job." Hashem says no. He is Hashem who knows the psychology and the emotional needs of people. Pick somebody who can lead them. Hashem, I got the great guy, the greatest guy, your Yeshua. What was Yeshua famous for? He was do Moshe. Holy passion, holy connection. He couldn't leave Moshe. He was always in his tent. He was always fixing the chairs for every meeting, washing up, scrubbing, washing the dishes. He couldn't move from Moshe. So enamored was he of the kaduca of Mosher. He says, "I can't let go of kaduca." So that's the game and that's the point. People are like that ru people get passionate about things. We got to get passionate otherwise we're dead. Got to get passionate about something. And we have the ability to focus and fixate. That's the way of of of a of of a husband and wife. They're supposed to be literally the bus there. And that's our challenges in marriage is all when there's a lack of passion and purpose of of the unity of the marriage. This is a a long long subject way beyond today. How do you forge unity of of passion and purpose in marriage? Great question. How do you form union of passion and purpose in Torah mitzvos the passion for Torah? You know we say that when you come into of what do you do? What does that mean practically? No weddings, no wine which connects people, gets them to loosen up and and be happy and friendly. No new clothes which makes you feel great about yourself. You want to go out and be show off to other people and be with other people. It's exactly the point. We mitigate passion. There are even some who suggest very big. We don't hold that way of you should separate husband and wife. So too some people refrain the entire nine gates that is not but there is a there is and certainly not but uh the night of going through the but there is such a thing it's called pester pa means the absence of passion turning away when you turn away from something it's the opposite of what balpour represented complete connection like the tree huggers the tree huggers be a hugger but you can do a virtual hug You can do a passion hug. Was the embrace of Rivaka and his wife when he was absent for 24 years any less of an embrace of love than anybody else who worked together for 24 years? Go ask yourself that question. That was a marriage of passion and purpose even though they saw each other quite irregularly. But in the end, he said, "I know everything is from you. This is whatever I've accomplished is only because I had that relationship with you. Had I not had the relationship with you, I couldn't have the relationship with Torah and my Tiden. It's a massive lesson. But what happens to Yeshua and Pinas later? They go later as they enter Israel, not that long after this episode of the 40th year, Yoshua sends sends um Pinhas and also sends um a colleague to spy the land of Ula. And they find there a woman, a woman who's described as a woman of passion. her profession was she had a she had a bravo. Okay. Shocking. And they tell her for saving our lives and for telling us that the natives in Eureka and have lost their passion for the land. They're too scared to be passionate. They're frightened. They're very frightened of Ben Israel who seem to have this connection with Hashem that's going to lift Arch Israel from under our fingers. But they say to her, "We'll we'll save you. You can cling to us and you will live. You and your family for saving us, keeping us in your in your quarters." What a place to go to be saved. They put them up in the roof under the under the vegetables. But why there? Why there? That's where passion resided, but now is going to be turned into a passion of kaduca. She puts down the red string out of her window, right? Scarlet, the scarlet uh woolen uh signal that this is where her family lived. That's a sign. Red is a sign of passion daming. And guess what? Yoshua and Raov become marriage partners. Shocking. Why would he take Rahov of all the women that he could married in Kal Israel? Who wouldn't want to marry Yahosua, the king, the prince, the Epherite, uh, leader, uh, the conqueror of land of Israel. What a shock. Talmet of Mosher Abenu. He has the hood of Mosher Abenu. Who would ever dare suggest such a shid for Yahosua? No. Yeshua knew better. Yeshua said she represents the key ingredient that we need to be able to fulfill Hashem's mission with passion and purpose and she is my wife and I will turn it all for the good. So the pathway through the end of Bibba as it plows its way through the nine days and that's why it's counter uh they counterindicate each other is since we entered clearly the era of Msiah uh in our days in the pinnacle of uh the year 1740 which represents 5,000 500 and the dawn of the day of gula the last 500 years of history which we only have a couple hundred about 214 to go and that's and a lot's going to happen before then best term in our lifetime will appear the kanoi and um and that is uh that is what the bigger picture of of these pariosak parazak ms passion with accountability, passion with holiness, but passion, not absent of passion, not cold, not without those are the things we get passionate about. marriage, celebration, um, wine, song, even Torah, we are prohibited to learn because Torah is that that holy passion is what needs to be ignited to sail through this period of time. Just as a final note, I want to make make a a we'll read a about and this is a key point about too. Ultimately, the uh the goal of Kos is not only to reignite or redirect uh false passion, but it's to bring shalom, to bring peace. Some suggest that Pinas really didn't deserve the role of Cohen until he fostered peace because he did save lives. He saved a lot of lives. But there was an episode at the beginning of uh of our entry years into Israel where at the very beginning of of the of the um sections of St. for Yeshua and so etc. that the tribes of Ruv and God had made a giant altar and and the rest of felt that they were breaking away and going into rather quickly. Pinas goes investigates and comes back with the information that no they are not trying to secede from Israel. That misb is an act of passionate love for Hashem and for you the rest of the Jewish people. It's a demonstration of love carbon kov that they should be close to us connected to us. So in other words, they took the message and said, "We need to be passionate about even if we're on the other side of the Jordan, even if we're all the way if they're living in Syria over there, that's going to be eventually a portion of our least and certainly Mashiach and Israel exact who comes who the Jews on just on the other side of the Golan uh see as their for as their forefather passionately stuck to Mosher Rabenu. It's the opposite of Cusby and Zimry. It's the Midionite who gave his daughter in holiness to Mosher Rabenu. That's what Israel is. The Jews in some way are associated with us much as Israel or is associated with us and the Canaanim his descendants have a special place. They're not our enemies and they're not. But hopefully they will survive and thrive in this very very difficult environment. But finally uh Yahushua by by seeing Ruvenites and gods in their holy passion and not bal type of passion, he blessed them and he at that point became fulfilled of the blessing he got of Shalom. He kept the Jewish people whole. He kept the Jewish people from breaking off, not only in his act of violence, but also more importantly in his act of negotiation of peace. Maybe he had to violently exile the foreign nations trying to cling and overpower us much like Shimon did and and Ley did with the city of Shem that wanted to cling to us and we had to separate them out. But uh brie shalom maybe that's why el ya noi comes to every bris and comes to every seder those are the two points in which the Jewish people really really separate from the nations of the world you know other holidays everybody comes to holidays you know but a brisma that's the point in which the gentile world says uh adan you know the kaduca that this represents and the mamaim and the carbon you know and the restraint passion and so on that it all represents not not really viable and then also the seder with these deep restrictions often [Music] speaks about non-Jews who boasted that they had snuck in to eat from the carbon pesak but ultimately they were exposed it's not a place for them Elia Elawa comes to affirm the great passion of between Hashem and the Jewish people forever. Those moments are peak moments. El Yahu is our witness. Ela comes and Hashem. That's why he's the forebearer of Msiah. Why? Because he introduces the kosher kos that we need in order to make Erat Israel become really joined with the Jewish people. We're physically here in many ways. But do we have that passion for every inch of the earth is that Kazal did that our enemies do that the world does? Let's hope we can can touch that in this. So we are looking forward to transforming these nine days in the spirit of we reduce our pain and suffering about the loss and control of the nations of the world over the Jewish people and our exile and our internal exile and our internal lack of and and mus and and sinam which of course destroyed the bas mikdash and we say you know what with sim we can we you know, uh, accomplish it with sima and connection to Hashem. And this woman that we're dedicated to Shir to was an example of being connected to Hashem all day long. Always a, always a moment, always a moment, always a moment. That's it. That's that's what the the the outcome of the passion that of of is that he's preceded by Ela who will bring him. Last thing is the Mishna says at the very end of of Eddios about curious Mishna about Pinelahu he says Yeshua Eddios Mishnazanak the rabbi of the rabbi who saw the rabbi who saw the base of just destroyed again just like a what's the purpose of [Music] here you would think it would be logical Yahoo's job is to separate out the non-Jews and the Jews those who are kosher to be married to those are not kosher to be married to you would think and the Mishna then in says okay yeah but he's only going to bring back those who were pushed away says he'll sort it out and they give an example and another mishbah that was the benion who was the ruler at the time they weren't they weren't kosher to be married to Jews they were mamm or whatever they were they were non-Jews and they they brought one that family in and then this this kosher family called Batesa was pushed away. So maybe Alia is going to come for that to sort out who's Jewish and who's not Jewish which would be a very big thing to do today. Very big job. People will come forward as Jews or who knows who's Jewish anymore. Um but disagrees and he says can only bring not separation. We're past the point of cano. We're up to the point of shalom. I will bring people back. Anduda says even more shalom. We say in any gor query but we don't understand the what the answer beside despite all our logical investigation into the we can't come up with an answer. We say represent the end of even within the realm of and say no it's not that even that but something much more profound it's going to make peace between Jewish people and the entire world as it says what does that mean what does it have to do with the Fathers should embrace sons, son should embrace fathers. That's Jewish. What does that have to do with the world? The answer is if we have that kind of passion, acceptance, and unconditional love, the rest of the world will follow. The rest of the world will want us. I don't know if I mentioned this, but there was this very, very famous black rapper who was a big anti-semite, and people questioned him about it. I think he sold t-shirts with swastikas. And then I he was interviewed and said, "Why are you such an anti-semite?" He says, "I'm not an anti I'm not anti-Jewish. I want to be a Jew. I don't want them to be Jews. I want to be the Jew." Why? Jews are successful in business because they get along. They don't fight with each other, he thinks. And they stay with their wives. What is he saying? The Jewish people have shalom. They have shown them with each other to pursue financial gain. They have push them with each other to keep families intact. He says that's what I want to be. I don't hate the Jews. I'm jealous of the Jews. He said that's what this message is. The world should be jealous of the Jews, not antagonistic towards the Jews. We have a long way to go. But we're on the right path and we're very very close. Mm. It should be that these nine days that are coming up beginning next Friday transformed. We take away the pain of the exile by introducing but which mitzvah that we can do tora that we can do. And ironically, isn't it interesting that the whole war is about Torah, which is precisely the demonstration of passion and love for Torah. That was the day in which we were attacked coming up soon on two years. Okay, there's a message there. Hashem should give us kak to kadusha going out of the book, going out of amidar, going out of the desert and entering into the dvarim the words that usher us into uh big issu big issu. Let's hope that these 10 days, nine days will produce shalom inside the Jewish people. Who knows what will happen when we will dab in that we will have joy out reasons to be joy this year even more than any other. 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