Kosher Astrology (Part 2) Rabbi Robert Rhodes

[Music] kind of I didn't make this too complicated and too difficult for you the last time there's you have to understand how this particular book was put together that we're studying the text that were looking at is called mayushii laura the waters of the Siloam pool which is a name given to rabbi mordechai Yosef Lehner basically the giving him a name like this is saying that your mind is still waters that run very deep that you are this amazing fountain of wisdom and he put this name onto onto the book he didn't actually write the book himself he died in 1854 and like a lot of the great preceding rabbis did not write his own his own things down so what happened with this particular book is over three consecutive revisions it gets written in three separate volumes is actually in print two volumes but so if you want to look up Book of Genesis chapter one or a look at what parshat very sheet first Torah reading of the of the whole year you go to volume one and then you go to volume 2 which is written several years later and then you go to volume 3 which is the collected comments and teachings that were found in other people's books where many of the students quote him directly so what you have is very very terse text and when we get to read it you'll see how how erson have tense it is and I think it is a valuable exercise to look at the material the texts that are behind what we're more dehoyos it is sake so there's depth there are nuances there are things to be learned from putting our putting our minds to work putting on our thinking caps and looking in this case at a page of Talmud and the massacres of rosh hashanah which deals with what horn can be used for the chauffeur and then going off into into this list I think the more time I spend with this particular piece of kumara and the more time I spend with the footnotes to the text that we're learning the more I realize this is very very deeply nuanced text other side of the coin what he does in the book is say here is a list of the months of the year and here is a list of things to focus on in each of these months right so instead of doing all of these things together the eight habits of highly spiritual people or the eight effective strategies for getting through the stormy waters of life into the previous ones that we did here is something to think about here is an attitude of mind focus for each of the months of the year so when we do that we are into the realm of what for better or worse we've called astrology there is no out no other word for it but this is what it is and it's I think important to just keep a couple of things in mind that if you are interested in this stuff is of interesting and we will progress and look at some of the deeper stuff that comes along with all of the issues of what is the month the biggest one and the biggest revelation is the one that I think I would like to do next and that is what is the verse in the Bible that goes along with this month so not not your normal run-of-the-mill type of information or type of things that people study but it is incredibly important that I've got a worksheet for it I don't think it's transliterated but I'll get to do that you have to realize that there are constellations up in the sky and that the constellations each refer to a month of the year and they refer specifically and exclusively to the Hebrew month we are here in the month of of right now and unlike if you look up your horoscope and you look up your forecast on the internet or in the newspaper or magazine the constellation that rules that deal to this particular month is Leo the Lion the re yeah and that goes from the beginning of the month to the end you're one of those my daughter is - I was born in town was I'm a cancer I am a I am a little crab so I am very very crabby in nature so that's a fundamental it's always the Hebrew month and for a lot of people that's a big shift the constellation in and of itself means absolutely nothing we said this last time but I think it's important to repeat the constellation as we see it is simply the way the stars line up from our point of view at our particular point in Italy from where we are standing here on planet earth and we join the dots that are the stars in the sky and we make a picture something that sort of looks like a lion because we have in our mythology in their history lions right astrology is not prescriptive you cannot really and truly look at the Jewish writers on astrology and not all of them were where the Hasidic masters you cannot look at the safer yet Sirah for example the book of creation you cannot look at a couple of the other early medieval writers it's a saver called c'est de la guerra provisions for the whack exactly who wrote it it's a doll Adara I printed it it's all my thing 11 centuries what at the time of Rashi and he's very big on what the signs will represent because people were talking about this and he wanted to give Jewish people who were in the courts of royalty of his time something kosher to talk about regarding these subjects you cannot use astrology to say should I date this person and perhaps consider them as a realistic marriage partner it's certainly useful to say well I'm born in this month and this person I'm thinking about potentially marrying and spending my life with well they're born in that month and let's see what there is about it let's see what there is to be said about all of that there's about me this is about this other person and then let's see where that takes us in terms of learning mm-hmm right there's no clear-cut pronouncements a cancer should not marry a Leo there's no such thing we don't we don't have that kind of discussion not in the text that we live in that and as we're gonna see there is a great deal of I don't want to say uncertainty but there is a great deal of things that are not precisely written in stone especially when you start looking at the things that connect with the number 12 we're looking at twelve tribes twelve months and when it comes to the tribes their alternates there are two tribes that represent each month they do double duty then you get to again we're in the master law and this is very very interesting stuff where you starts talkin about the leaders of the tribes in the time of the Bible because we've got a couple of lists of names of tribes and if you look at Hebrew name's they're often very significant right you look at English names or names in any in any language there is a there is a root meaning but we don't always access it very easily Hebrew names are very easy to decipher and the names of the leaders of the tribes turned out to be very significant and the names of characters in the Bible turn out to be very significant and then there's the really nice and pleasant one which is the stones on the breastplate of the high priests each one of those represents a tribe which represents and connects with a month so that's been a popular thing that what is my birthstone and what does that refer to so that's an exercise in just looking up on the internet and what in antiquity do particular stones represent and what does the Massie Lara tell us based on his knowledge absolutely everything was ever written up to and including his own his own time okay so I've done another chart and I am a little bit on the obsessive side by Nature so I really believe that things can be made more intelligible and more understandable when you have a chart and if you have colored things on the sonic that done everything is color coded in mine in my life and this simply helps me these three columns on the right give us the Seyfried serie which we talked about a little bit which doesn't entirely line up with the focus that we get from our rabbi and our particular text that is an issue why doesn't it and how can we can how can we realign them do we want to even the Talmud words are took me a long long time to figure this out because in the text that we're going to start looking at in a minute he doesn't have it exact and he's got a couple of them reverse in the Talmud in the Talmud Rosh Hashanah 26 a and B number 9 comes before number 7 the not coming in order comes before the purslane seeds right which is clear proof that we're talking about all sorts of weird stuff here but this is this is serious wonder of Mordechai Oh Civ is done he's taken the page in the Talmud where there are 12 words that are being explained in Hebrew 12 words that the rabbi's of the time couldn't figure out for themselves and through their travels where they heard these words spoken and through talking to people who spoke other languages then he figured out what these words mean so the order in the Talmud is number 9 before number 8 so that would rearrange if there is indeed an intentional change here maybe it's a mistake in how they're presented in our book which is not impossible maybe his volume of the Talmud read slightly differently or maybe he intentionally switched it to around because he wants to say that in the month of ER you should focus on issues regarding your seed which is a nice sort of euphemism that men and women as well I mean the terminology and of course is from a time when women didn't normally come to study all this stuff not on the numbers that we see today and the issues are presented in terms of men don't do this but it's equally valid and that is practice restraint in your sexual relationships don't throw your seed all over the place is the terminology that we're getting to and whether whether we like it or not determine the terminology is always adult Zohar and this sort of stuff is always going to be graphic adult material and if you're not comfortable with it afraid there isn't an awful lot of euphemism to put in but maybe there is something to be said about the the reversal of the order here maybe there isn't my purpose here today in this particular class is to make this simple that you have a list of 10 things and you open your calendar and on the first day of the month of Tishri you write the set of the words remember that the door is already on the second on the first day of the second month you say remember to keep your lust under control and kiss slave the month of Kislev third month of the year remember to control your desires and your lusts for money there's something to focus on and each and every month of the year and it makes an awful lot of sense that a monthly focus that's the simple beginning and end of it the two left columns are of significance the rest is more than icing on the cake it's you know if you want to continue the baking imagery it's adding a couple of layers to the cake right as opposed to just be icing but it's it is disposable and you can ignore it if you desire right because I think one of the foundational issues with their guard to the faceting movement is very very straightforward this is not a movement of the intellectual elite one of the basic principles of castle ism is to make torah to make Jewish mysticism to make the real meaning of Torah available to absolutely everybody and we see that we've seen it it's it's magically worked like this and in our time in the last ten years twenty years or so we've seen how Hassid ism has branched out even to the non-jewish world how non-jews have embraced Zohar and mysticism and whatever you think of non-jewish people learning this or not religious people learning this the fact is this is the ultimate wisdom this is the ultimate understanding of what life is about what Torah and Judaism is teaching us and it should be accessible to absolutely everyone okay so having studied our pages of Gomorrah and if you want my translation of these two pages I do have it I can send it to you if you're watching us on youtube and you want any of these handouts give us a call send us an email connect with us right there by the website we'll be very happy to send you all of these things as a PDF okay so I'm gonna read from the original Hebrew text and we'll take a look at the translation but ultimately really what we're getting at is what to do each month of the year and obviously if you start counting up it's a lot to do with controlling your libido it's a lot to do with controlling your appetite and it's a lot to do with focusing on Torah two out of the twelve our Torah one two three four five out of the ten deal with various types of lusts anger is another one mocking people is a favorite of a lot of folks and then you have the the year is bracketed by Tishri the first the the first month in lol the last month that God's always got your back and God is always looking out for you so here here's how this gets expressed in the text and I'm gonna read some of the here I'm gonna do the best to translate it and what you have on page one of the original handout from last time is the translation which I have done I take full responsibility for it it is filled with errors as always I intentionally do this to give you an you know keep you on your toes no I just I just make mistakes and things and that's that so he starts out this is volume one of the mashallah / mortified Yosef laner of a schvitz eighteen and one 1854 founder of the dynasty of issues Radzin and so far in these classes and short series we've been staying with this one book he has a bunch of lists and we've said before that lists are good things right obsessive people like lists and today we have Remember The Milk and all of these wonderful apps that help us remember things so lists are good this though does take us into the whole astrology thing that we will be pursuing this a bit more unless you say you don't like it and you're not interested and then we won't okay so he starts off by quoting the what the Talmud says that the rabbi's had a problem figuring out what it is exactly when we have we use when we have to blow the shofar in Rosh Hashanah and the term that they came up with is Dora RAM ram's horn Dakar is literally male the male of the sheep and yo've Allah is the trumpet of the jubilee year so this is going to be a pretty clear and very straightforward reading so he says here we have 12 things that represent the 12 months of the year Dora Avila the combination in this particular page of town wa nan in this discussion of a ram its horn being blown in the jubilee year what does the jubilee represent the jubilee is freedom in the Jew year slaves go free land returns to its original owner right so freedom this refer refers to the month of Tishri the first month of the Jewish year right ask any Jewish person walk outside of here stop ten Jews on the street what is the mood of the first month of the Jewish year what is the mood of the month of Tishri we'll get into the the meanings of the actual words the mood of the month of Tishri I would hazard a guess that most people would say is very very serious it is a time of I'll hate I have sinned I am a bad person I need to repent I have to beg God for forgiveness maybe God will bless me with a good year if I'm really good from the fair at least the first week or two of the year right how many people flock to synagogues in Rosh Hashanah and then on the new year right here in Israel you don't see this phenomenon quite so much but the last congregation where I worked in in Toronto we put out I think fifteen or sixteen hundred seats for Russia shaman Yom Kippur and you know the good Bar Mitzvah or good wedding we could seek maybe 400 450 triple probably about 10 times the average attendance and people are scared people who don't even have a very Jewish religious orientation have this notion of fear God is judging us and that's the picture we get throughout the whole liturgy right Rosh Hashanah is only about six weeks away from now so we were dusting off the prayer books we're beginning to start to see some classes and sad things on the subject Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur through the end of Sukkot these are happy and wonderful holidays and we get together with family and friends and all that sort of self but they're very serious times and the themes are God sitting as a king in judgment of each and every one of us and of the world as a whole the exact opposite is found in a fair number of the great Hasini rabbis right why do we have the the horn and the horn of Jubilee referring to Tishrei because in this month a person must understand that God is able to take Israel from oktake Israel to eternal freedom and show them that they were never enslaved at all and no one ruled over them other than God alone so we're talking about the freedom of the individual human being and your enslavement or your imprisonment by you want to say by sin I can't stop eating cheeseburgers for lunch every day whatever bad thing it is or the nation of Israel as a whole where to some degree at least we used to be under the thumb of the nations of the world today thank the good Lord Israel is a very powerful country and we're up there with the big with the biggest and most powerful nations but the essence of this is this time of year God is indeed sitting in judgment of it all but God has the ability and gives you the ability to walk out of that prison cell that you've made itself the classic that he brings this is again masculine this is a more divisive issue it's talking about Joseph and his brothers right you're all familiar with that story right nod your head yes of course you are what happens Joseph gets sold into slavery he becomes the Prime Minister the Viceroy of Egypt and the brothers come down in great need during a time of famine and he plays around though and he makes them believe that he thinks and he's accusing them of being spies and they're about to be thrown into prison what is it Shimon are you who just says at the very very end we give up right very last lines of that whole story the brothers say give up we are your slaves throw us into prison do what you want with us this all happened because we sold Joseph into slavery we were wrong we deserve this punishment and this wicked Egyptian well you are a wicked Egyptian and you're falsely accusing us of being spiders we're not but we deserve it anyway we're gonna take our punishment and then Joseph reveals himself he says three words he says I am Joseph your brother that's four words in English is three words in Hebrew and the whole world changes the oppressor was actually their brother and he's putting it here the same thought into a bigger context and he says it there and he says it in each of the volumes of the book that the individual Jew Israel is a nation we are freed from our difficulties we are freed from our prisons we are freed from our slavery's we are freed from our addictions our problems whatever they may be and then you realize that oh this was just gone doing this to us and it's all part of the plan and we were never in any real trouble or danger at and that's that's like a fundamental change that's a total sea change in the attitude that we normally have to this particular month of the year we're told people tremble on these sort of days people cry and moan and the reality is you've got you have to go into this with confidence it's like it's like ever so much Kabbalah says you know yeah the king is judging us but the kings my father right that's that changes everything that makes that makes that a happy time of the year you know we know what's going to be all right in the end right so have this attitude in this time of the year and of course use it for self-reflection and for meditation and for writing out little cards and making affirmations right you meet people who make affirmations all the time and share them with you I always found that to be a little bit irritating why do I need to hear your affirmation but they help it helps to say things write it in your calendar write it on the back of your hand write it on a card put it in your prayer book that you open up every day here's what I'm going to be thinking when I'm gonna be focusing on how I'm gonna be approaching my life for the next 30 days or 29 days whatever the month has right the difficulties and issues are of course when we look at the original source and the Seyfried serie that we don't have a clear parallel the different versions and they're four or five of them don't parallel here as they say in the vernacular Nishiki fella right it's not the end of the world right number two he's going to take this number two the second the second vocabulary word here Rabi Akiva said when I went to Gaul Charlotte ela Golia I went to France are you : leaning lynnie de Gaulle new dad they spoke of a woman at that particular time as a cow Moo de there is there is actually a opening up for how this works she's as separated from her husband as all physical contact is not allowed I'm glad I wrote this translation down right this refers to the second month of the year kiss leg because in this month a person must purify and clarify himself in his desires I am missing something hang on right then something wrong again yeah I just skipped down sorry - one - well you're not following folks how my kiss slave is the third month - one of the second month okay this is why I need to do this out loud and with people so you will notice right so the first month is Tish right the second month is in fact - and that is the month the person has to purify himself from tava from lust regarding sexual activity right is there any logic behind that in the in the world as a whole we're going into the winter months we're staying home more I have no clue but there are other issues and if you stick with us we'll get to the to the Bible verses and the gods name permutation thing which may be of some help and understanding to us but motive is if is just saying to us straight out the month of Heshbon is for controlling and keeping your libido where it's supposed to be right so month number three I even have the numbers here I still get them mixed up are you coding the mashita again words that he got from having gone to France in a long time ago 2nd century CE something like that but he lived in that the hundreds is something where so he's the year 100 or so away he made a trip to France and didn't take a plane I'm guess it was it good deal more difficult back then but he brought back these nuggets of wisdom and words that he was able to understand because he had heard them spoken in French or whatever old language they spoke there and this refers to kiss life the third month of the year because in this month a person must purify himself with regard to his desire and his lust for money cheetah is the word that is there is standard of value what is the practical application of this and that's the one two three four the fifth column right sorry to do this to you but the fifth column is the verse Genesis 33 speaking about he bought a parcel of ground from the sons of ham or for a hundred kids seat time was a kiss sheet on one of the anecca seat on one of the other to Nasir and SH he bought it for a hundred of this and it's a hundred units of currency right so this is the month of keeping track of your money doing your accounts alright not a pro God do your accounts and you got a get taxes ready but obviously we're talking about much more than that what is it you're spending your money on right instead of just making an accounting of what you have to deal with in terms of the tax authorities here or wherever you come from you've got to deal with what are you prioritizing by spending the most money on how much money is spending and going to the movies in my case nothing right how much money are you spending on eating out how much money are you spending on buying books of Torah how much do you put into sadaqa right only sort of good and useful things because maybe this is a very good idea to gauge what your real priorities are and if you sit down in the month of Kislev and you write down how much you spend on everything maybe you'll be surprised and hopefully you'll be surprised in a good way that you give tons and tons of mines in sadaqa and you waste very very little number for a month of TV right you have to have in the back of your mind that also these months have specific holidays in them and we're into also fasts right we just got through some of the really sad fast days of the year that there are fast and there are festivals in these months and these also come along with the character of the month right so month number four is the month of debate and just to try and bring the example in here our operative it what the one of the fast connected with the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple and all that begins there so they called a Kyra a mentally right when I went to the see towns as reviewed on a sea I heard them referring to Mickey Rock which is a sail as he rock somehow or other this came up in conversation he heard this local term and then he said Oh Eureka now I understand Barry she's 50 Genesis chapter 15 where Jacob is a burial plot and he says bury me in the grave which I purchased such a car et Lee purchased for myself where the standard translation is garage to dig a Buddha and I see says no it doesn't mean dig you go a hole in the ground that's Kara but here it says cavity specifically which I bought so there is a practical understanding of it and this does make sense the thing we have to deal with in this particular month which is word number four in the vocabulary list and month number four anger so hard Amla very that's only me dr. chaos you have to be particularly Lovera that smo right that rich rash is a good hebrew word it means to purify to sift right when you talk about the the laws and them a lot of shabbat sifting sifting the stuff you don't want out of the flour but also purify to clear and purify yourself with regard to the issue anger why does this come come here the z/e car sure ish boy totally politically incorrect sort of stuff here sorry folks the nations of the world represent certain things each nation has its own characteristic the persians to this the english are that the irish stand for BDS these days right historically but in terms of what we're looking at there are specific things that each nation represents and he is saying here what every nation together other than Israel represents is anger why because in the great world out there the other nations are makuu bar are buried under this particular character stick but Pleasant sort of assessment of the nations of the world but you know we we would like to say we were part of the United Nations all people on earth are good but let's do a little bit of political stuff take ground by Kasim's territories just slightly look at the anger that there is against the nation of Israel today as plain as the nose on your face you go somewhere and you are identifiable as a Jew that is considered sufficient of provocation to do use of harm to consider you a criminal how does this happen and in their day they were they were not they were not enjoying the great freedoms that we supposedly enjoy today or that we did enjoy for a while at least right this is the first half of the 19th century in the 1800s and Eastern Europe does not have self-determination and we're not doing terribly well but here we're looking at an issue of what is it that Jews are about as opposed to non-jews right obviously not every non-jewish person and every nation of the world is filled with hate but on a cosmic scale we are loved they're the opposite and you get to see what love is and what good is by seeing and experiencing the exact opposite right this is a very profound kernel that comes from Sadiq Khan who was one of the major students and explainers of the mocchi law this particular book is real short and real tense interests but Reposado writes volumes tons and tons of stuff one of his basic thoughts is that good things come into the world encapsulated in there act opposite for you to experience love you first have to experience hate you're going to be able to love you first have to even have a taste to be have hating yourself this is I'm never going to explain like that guy the the classic the classic formulation is light only exists in Contra distinction to darkness darkness is first then light and that is really a very fundamental thought that explains all of this sort of issue it's thinking but the hate is there and the love is here and this is what these things represent yeah not every not every non-jews a is a hater right plenty non-jewish people out there who love us the knee of entire nations who actually love us but the representation that we're looking at is the a versus the name the one the good verses are not so good so this is a particular month we're looking at the fourth item in this vocabulary sheet and the fourth month of the year it's all about anger it's all about controlling your anger I'm not letting you bury yourself in it right so far we haven't touched on constellations and stuff like this at all and what the what the what that sort of stuff has in terms of meaning that's that's the next stage cynic stage okay month number five month number five this is a slightly odd one but it does work and the Talmud tells us rabbi shimon laka sh said he went to a certain place where a bride is called ninfea i believe the connection that Jastrow makes in the dictionary's nymph right you would not call a woman a nymph in our time it would be an enormous insult I think but the term seems to be similar beautiful like a bride the text and the thing that they are actually connecting with is where the word nymph II is used that a woman no here it is good morning beside its attractive dealing with Passover a bride turns her face aside when she eats so a bride on the day of her wedding doesn't want to be seen crudely stuffing food into her face like I'm the first date right no no no no it depends it depends what you what you're interested in right we're only interested in things spiritual but a bride represents the I guess the absolute height of feminine etiquette how a woman or how a man should behave either want to be seen eating so this is the month that again we're discarding this whole background and this whole ton of stuff that there is behind it and there are numerous sources here that we're dealing with and just largely pushing aside because we want to get to the basic point the month of Shabbat has to do with eating in what we would call a polite and ladylike manner don't be a glutton don't make a pic of yourself leave some food on the table the verse is taptic okay loss of enough show a righteous person eats to the satisfaction of his soul and his spirit not the stomach right you don't have to get one you eat for pleasure food does have a good taste to it and many of us really enjoy eating but don't make this the focus of your life maybe in the month of Shiva to keep none of what you eat and realize how many County participated from that month how many times I go to the bakery and bread cake and eat it on the way home so my wife wouldn't know yeah this is so no one will see me in it um what are we really doing is they're eating for pleasure or as they're eating for spiritual goal and that's a baby that really is a biggie because eating is like so fundamental to us and sharing food is so much of our culture going out to eat with people inviting them into your home Shabbat here I gave them all the holidays here it's all about having people over and feeding them and enjoying them and showing off all wonderful stuff I made all right and then your guests bring food and it's not about the food it's about the connection with the people and it's about what the food really does and that is fuel your body and your mind and your spirit right number six month number six we're halfway through the year again this is Robbie Schumann man largish he went to this particular location and he saw a rooster being called a selfie right and if you're familiar with the the morning service and obtain Lacetti v naught which is frequently translated as thank you God for giving the rooster the ability to distinguish between day and night and wake us up the roosters in this neighborhood and Jerusalem crow morning noon and night right Indian alarm clock so the verse that this helps us understand is a diverse in job 38 right not everybody's favorite book to look up but the verse says was God you have given understanding to the set V to the knowledge to the wisdom to the heart or to the inner parts yeah you have within yourself wisdom you have the sense not to not to laugh at everything right he says here I'm just going to translate it and that translated here it's on the second page of the original handout in this particular month of Adar a person must purify himself me lates a note from mocking and kallu troche and for light light headedness clowning around him frivolity the Zelan obtain lhasa Raveena and that is the real meaning of the blessing that we say at the the beginning of the day that God gives either the mind understanding or the rooster understanding the roosters are pretty funny looking animal and be serious be serious watch comedy shows have a good laugh don't laugh at other people don't take advantage of someone else's stupidity to make a joke right that's a big temptation especially you know with us where the intellectual elite here and there are a lot of people who are we're not so smart and not so learn it and [Music] think about who you're laughing at spend the month of Adar thinking about the exact opposite of what the month of Adar is normally thinking about right what happens in the month of Adar for him right for him is a day of great frivolity laughter all right all of these things fit really well with the holidays that occur in each month and if we continue with this whole series we will get into the sort of stuff that porn is the is the time of frivolity and laughter masquerades putting on masks making it portable a poor Emma play in which everything is turned upside down the serious is made the funny has made serious right classic is perimeter right where people do serious Torah lectures on essentially stupidity right the the Jewish law of baseball very very famous one right where it's set out like a page of the Talmud right there's there's one on the received wisdom of Homer Simpson these are absolute classics that get they get recycled laughs good stuff laughs for the Simpsons laughs at baseball but don't laugh at other people don't make light of everything don't make fun of yourself because everything and everyone was made by God and put here for a purpose spend the month of Adar thinking about look at all these people clowning around am i part of that all year round is that really me what am i how serious do I have to be as a time for laughter now's the time to sit down you know make fun of people make fun of each other but that's that's when you know the person can take it and when you understand that it's a joke but not everybody takes a joke an awful lot of people don't get humor all right a lot of people don't get certain types of humor and if you come from England there's a certain type of humor that is not appreciated and understood in America right and what's funny in Ireland is not funny in Israel right and Canadians have a sense of humor as well okay number seven month of number seven this really I got mixed up with but it's actually quite simple the the town would hear in Rosh Hashanah there are more words in in foreign countries a certain rabbi met a man who said this individual did a cab back out to me and he didn't know what it meant until he discovered that they have a verse in Malachi chapter 3 can't a person Rob God ie Kiba a dumb kind of person Rob God well there's a certain a certain amount of discussion about this but theft word number seven parallels month number seven which is the month of Nisan sorry card omelet buyer you have to meet Maria you have to purify yourself the Qingyuan she ain't no shallow Qingyuan is a purchase or taking possession of something that is not yours so what have you walked off with the month of Nisan is a month of paisa right it's a month of spring cleaning all right two weeks before pace up which is a 15th middle of the month what do you do you clean every nook and cranny of your house while you're doing that while you're in the mood for that maybe that's the thought behind this look not it not look at not just where the Komets is where the leaven is where the non pace of food is but look at all your stuff as well did you borrow an item of clothing Oz men don't do this very much right I don't know when's the last time I ever borrowed anything all right certainly in terms of clothing books I know I have many of my posts those books at home and he knows they're safe with me right but this is the month where I should look for other people's books that I've borrowed and not returned and maybe missing them or don't even know that they're missing them right other things too cooking utensils you know tools power tools power tools are unique for going and staying with other people so use like the previous month with that Darby said going against the tide of the frivolity but here using the tide of the month on the current of the month which is tidiness cleaning up cleaning house here we have the interesting one which where they reversed we're here in the mass you know he's reversed the order in the Talmud eight and nine whereas here we have nine coming before eight and we gotta figure this out what it means if if there is any meaning in it at all negative Hodesh ER which is the eighth month of the year a person has to be careful and the term is McCrea lila nighttime accidents which means specifically nighttime emissions of seed you need to be careful to keep your libido your sexual desires in the proper place and time what are you thinking about when you're lying in bed at night right not about what you shouldn't be thinking about right and the term comes from this really odd word word a lot ha like look what is a hell like look I looked it up the translations do tell you but Josh Chow says it is a kind of line block and is a purslane plant I have never heard of a purslane plant outside of this but apparently goes in many countries of the world and is a food plant and the piece of Talman that we're looking at here refers to somewhere in Eric's easter aisle here that the sages did not know the meaning of how I blog which does occur in the Mishnah and in the gumar a couple of times that the expression was used when one when are you going to stop scattering your slang plants and scents all over the place keep them to yourself it is a food plant if you go to Wikipedia and the internet you will find recipes and supposedly tastes good and makes an excellent salad you don't need a salad so I don't care but right one seed is one seed and the plant is what you do with it you plant it don't don't I mean the the Hasidic runways are very very heavy into this and they speak a lot to men about controlling their lower regions and and the issues are really very straightforward that this the the basic point is number one that your thought goes into your seed it doesn't come from chemicals and various things in various parts of your body but the seed comes from up here from your mind and there's a lot of implications of all of that and in addition the seed if it is not placed where it's supposed to go then it has the effect of souls being produced sparks of holiness going out into the world and not having a body which goes back to the whole creation story an atom which is a complicated Zohar cabbalistic picture but it's something we can we can learn and talk about if you feel the urge very very big a very very big issue don't let it out other than where it's supposed to go okay so that's month number eight and you know looking at the Seyfried serie the sy their line which is the third line they're thought what are you thinking about where are your thoughts really going are your thoughts going into lustful thoughts about someone who you're not married to or are you using your your abilities and your mental energies really right what holidays are there in the month of ER no right hey er yo Matt smoked right nine nine month number nine Savannah again though it's again it's this whole word origin thing that we're starting with so word origin number eight actually but it goes a month number nine here in our in our text refers to the month of Sivan and the term is C lugan not in order so the basic haha that then you think Mara is talking about there is reading the Megillah reading the scroll and poor him that if you do not read the chapters in the correct order you are not obligated you have not fulfilled your obligation the thing that you have to do is not do things out of order diligence order in study of Torah this is the month when you get the Torah right God gives a tour to the people in the sixth of ceylon right in the holiday envelope this is an incredibly important time for the entire world take the book start at the beginning follow an order and a sequence of studies don't just open up anything everywhere which is sort of the contemporary way of doing things we have so many books available and so many things that you just download and read make yourself a course of study achieve something read and study one book beginning to end okay following on the month of Tammuz right month number ten salsa again a specific text and words that were trying to understand to turn things over to twirl or to turn negative Hodesh Tablas that you have to have Barrat smo connect yourself to torrent search after them the implication seems to be understanding the verse here that turn the torah over in all directions this is gestures translation again going back to the straight to dictionary the verse there that they are referring to is turn wisdom about and it will exalt you a verse in Proverbs chapter 4 proverbs 4:8 turn it around and it will raise you up turn Torah around look at it from all angles apply it to all things and then it's going to lift you up and raise you up to the highest levels right a month number nine we were working on an order of study in month number 10 we're working on getting Torah to everything in everywhere seeing all the sides of it right first number 11 sorry month number 11 the verse is in Isaiah Isaiah 14 they the sages did not know what was meant by the word mat contact which we know today is a is a month but the verse translates as sweep away with the broom of destruction so what is that about and how are we going to fix this this is this is the month of art the broom of destruction was applied to the temple here in Jerusalem in the month of of the Jewish people were swept away from our we were swept away from our homeland let's turn that upside down you have to purify yourself from all types of desires all types of desires everything and again back to the nation right we were talking about the totality of Nations as a whole representing anger here each single nation represents and uh me you had it an individual desire or lust he's gonna say this numerous times in many different ways that every nation of the world and we're talking large about the classical nations from the biblical listing point of view rather than France Italy Switzerland but you can do it with that as well each nation has something that it stands for it has a quality here he's talking up in terms of hem des a desire or a lust the French love food the Italians love wine and talking very loudly right whenever this particular thing is and he does get into it and the students and the next generations get into it as well all of these nations exist and they represent various types of desires and lusts and what we have to do is sweep them out of our lives sweep them out of the world is she you've got to loo when all of these nations will become battle and they will be annulled and abolished then all the bad desires will be gone the issue is what is the whole thing about the nations of the world losing their power they have certain forces they have certain things that keep them going they have certain powers that can be used for good and bad and this is the whole fundamental thing with the astrology stuff the month has a our that either you can let it overtake you and pull you in the wrong direction or you can say no this is something this is an energy that I can use for good and it'll take me higher to make me a better person that our job is to take the characteristics the desires the major themes of the nations of the world purify them of the negative stuff that they have when the power is over there and bring it into our particular world into kedusha let's just take a very simple straightforward example we'll pick on the French there's none of us are from France all right France is eating cooking right and cooking and eating can lead to all sorts of gluttony and high cholesterol and everything bad what we have to do with the power of France is take cooking and eating to use it for bringing people together for breaking down the barriers between different types of people if I bring you some really good cake right now you'll be happy you'll like me a bit more we'll get along a bit better right if I invite you to my home and I cook one of my specialities you'll be more receptive to learning some torah from me we can open this book and because sort of learned it in the original because you're no longer afraid of me you no longer see me as I don't know the stern rabbi it was a character I was able to pull out with my mitzvah students once in a while scare them into learning their stuff that they had to learn it was very hard to do but it's it's like that right so you know we're not picking on them on the French or on France but that's just a just a classic example take the things that are represented by the nations take the lusts take the desires take the negativity that you can count up for so many countries and so many places and say no I want the good side of that and then sweep away all the bad stuff and then you get to a perfect world where there is only one nation and he's obviously pushing us towards that point where there is only one nation there is Israel and everybody else and everything is good and everyone acknowledges that the good resides here last one number 12 yeah ha ha ha it is a verse in Psalm number 55 cast upon the Lord Jehovah Jehovah and God will sustain you the sages did not know the meaning of what you have affirmed means and Robert Barbra Hana the very last lines one day I was traveling with a certain Arab and he was carrying a load and he said to me take you know he saw that I the rabbi was carrying a load and he said to me take your you have and put it on my camel from which I understood that you have means a load or a burden that you're carrying around what's this got to do with the month of El all right when the month of El will begins we start blowing the shofar and the chauffeur is you know usually a virtuoso performance and we look at it as such the chauffeur is supposed to scare the Wits out of you and wake you up to repent and remember all your bad deeds again turning the whole thing around you come to the end of the year it's month number 12 you've done 11 months of introspection you've worked on your lust for money you've worked on your anger you've worked on your eating you've worked on all those things that you borrowed and never and you've worked on your tourist study practices and comes to month 12 and you know uh I really haven't done very well at all month number 12 what this means is if you say how is it possible to purify myself in all of these eleven things for this verse it is said cast upon God your burden he's gonna carry you in sustain you Tim saw at acts maha give yourself over to God for who you very autre and he will purify you right and that's the end of it we look at the rest of the text talks about a parallel passage here in the mayor Sheila where he says all of this again but switches it around a little bit rather than a Rosh Hashanah focus perdón focus it's it's a given and it's given in the footnote that that you have I think it's page three of the tax that all of these things are organized according to that which is written in the safe eh CR which it isn't right or it's certainly not obviously so and our PC roof a she mocked share sad ha resolve the whole kodesh I think we're going to be a lot better off looking at the really complicated thing that is not really that complicated the permutation of God's name that rules over each month so each month has a constellation each month has a thing of the body hearing sight movement thought etc each month has a body part each month has a letter each month has a name I am going to get get to that if you could people are willing to sit and listen to it what I want to bring in the next time is a list of the permutations of God's name and this is from the our resolve we've talked a little bit about who the army was lived up in sight and largely when you read the writings of the ariza except what he says a lot if not all of what he says comes without proof text without support it's stuff straight from heaven that he got and his students are behind big towel and others just wrote it down that's it here it is [Music] yeah oh yeah this when I did this last time we didn't share kadosh and it's this particular hand that yeah I haven't transliterated the words what I'll do is I'll make a sheet and transliterate the verses but fortunately or unfortunately if you Hebrews not-so-great I'm gonna make sure this is very very clear God's name has four letters and for this purpose the hay and the hay are taken to be the same and it has twelve permutations and each one goes with each month and that fits onto a verse mostly the first letter or the last letter mostly first letters but also last letters it comes as an acronym of four words within particular verse in any particular risk in that order so it's nothing like you think it is nothing like you think it is you want one example okay this is the month of off right Leo Leo the Lion it is the month of Shem on the tribe of Shem oh it is the month of hearing she are listening the verse is from Deuteronomy to varium captor 27 Moses and the Levitical priest spoke to all Israel saying pay attention and listen of Israel this day you have become a people to the Lord your God the permutation comes in the words house Kate Sushma Israel hayom it is right in the middle pay attention and listen Israel today right so that fits which Shimon the tribe shaman listening it is the month of a man as you know the names ship owners from show not from listen to hear and also you should go back to the birth of the tribes how did they all get their names right their mommies gave them names right and each of the matriarchs gave the child and name relative to something that was happening at that particular time in their lives right so that there's a connection right whose mother it was a mother of shamone you have to be laughs right Leia has roofing first and shimma shimma Hashem at only God heard my affliction and my pain that I do not have children right and those days having children was life right so it's to do with not just hearing but hearing the embarrassment and the emotional pain of a person right not just hearing things and listen and paying attention to what's been said in classes and to the signs that you're being given around you but hearing the pain of other people hearing I'm noticing their difficulties does that fit what we have in our charts hearing yeah but sweep away all desires how are you gonna reconcile that one okay I have the book so I can be really smart and just look it up month of a Leo right hey valve you'd hey which fits in that verse according to the most commonly used list of the tribes to line them up it is Shimon right which fits with hearing but with the birth order of the tribes it's ISA har it's a historic right and is understanding the times right the verse about a sakaar is in a nice-ass are your date be not laugh Tim they know how to read the stars what's the safe of Bnei geese a sacar about astrology it's about all of this stuff this is one of the major sources that we read how does that fit in what the mash Allah is telling you to do on this particular month get all your desires under control use torah if it's shimmer I don't know listen to where your thoughts are leading you I don't know the one the source that you have to look for for these sort of reconciliations between the lists of the tribes where it's one on the other is the Shan Shan well the only options are shimmering the log or are ya you who duck right Judah is a lion the lion is a symbol of majesty and power you who de comes up for the month of Tammuz or or Nissan right there is there's more there's the names there's the names of the princes of the tribes that's another national text there's the stones on the breastplate that's another one that's really nice that's it that's a very pleasant and happy one to read and if you want to get into all of these difficulties that need reconciling Shang Ishmael who is one of the very easiest of little seeding masters to read honey percent hundred percent the problem is identifying which stones which I believe the time Institute website says there are 30 different possibilities for twelve stones so and the names of the stones have meaning right we're doing with Hebrew words the names of all stones and then there's also what the stones were referred to and were supposedly good for in antiquity all right because that's what that's where that's where they are they're tapping into the tapping into the wisdom that is from ancient times what is an amethyst good for what is an opal for right and what it was it's supposed power I have a citrine I've seen you know my my desk that supposedly clears the air of negative feelings so very negative person by nature right it's a nice pleasant orange little stone okay so we will continue this next week Tuesday and Thursday the same sort of time we are going to force you to do a little bit of Hebrew reading and you will like it [Music]