Lessons from the Parshah on Trump's UN Gaza Plan with Rabbi Jay Yaacov Schwartz

Heat. Heat. [music] [singing] [music] >> [singing] [music] [music and singing] [singing] >> Welcome everyone. Today is Yam Sheni of Parasos. And as the legacy of Aram leaves the screen so to speak, our attention is turned towards the lessons that we can draw from the lives of Yeitzk and Yakov, particularly centering around the issues of beginning the development of AmIrael, who will be the one to develop AmIrael, how it will be developed, and of course the ownership over Eric Israel. Of course, nothing could be more relevant today in our era as today on this very day. Yam sheni there will be a vote by the by the meeting place of the world at the United Nations in New York to decide the fate of Erits Pishim and Erits Guerrar otherwise known as Gaza. And we will find that Yitsukavu had great interaction with these places and something that we need to understand um how it's connected to Israel, what its relationship is with Erat Israel. Is it Erat Israel? Is it somewhere else? Because the world would like to declare officially today, which I believe is a huge huge mistake. But nevertheless, this is the reality that we're dealing with that the administration of Gaza will be put into the hands of not Israel. everybody but it'll be a it'll be a com uh complex group and the um unfortunate and the unfortunate price as there always is a terrible price regarding Eric Israel that needs to be contended with whether it's the money that Aram had to pay the the problems that Ye had with Abime Mel whether it was Yakov's difficulties with Asov is always the front and center is always money. There's a there's an incredible connection between wealth, the relationship to wealth, uh which is Gashio and the connection between the Jewish people to Israel. We're going to explore today exactly the nuances of that unique keshare and how the AOS actually received their wealth and how that their wealth was connected to the establishment of the Jewish dominion over Eric Israel which we hope and pray will be completed by Msiah. But as we are in a wonderful process of redemption that we see the miracles of Hashem, we acknowledge them and we thank Hashem for them day by day. We are a bit perplexed, a bit concerned that today seems to be a giant step backwards. Although is it is it? We shall see. But what's technically happening is that today there'll be a vote to say that 20 nations or something including all the Arab nations will come into Gaza and minister it with the purpose of establishing a Palestinian state. This is very very troubling. It's a concession that that um President Trump made to the Arab nations to get their support and of course their financial support and therefore we must raise this question at what price peace and whether peace and shalom. It's interesting to note that the word shalom has a v. The word to pay is shal the shalam without a v. What's the vavv? Shalom is not possible in Erit Israel as it is in other countries without Hashem's involvement because we say oh shalom shalom and throughout the ages and especially in our era since the since the return of the what we can say now is the majority or close to majority of the Jewish people to our to our beloved Eric Israel. the um the issue of peace has been front and center because as the issue began to develop almost immediately although at the very beginnings the Arabs were okay because our numbers were insignificant and if anything we enhanced the the economics of it and the Arabs benefit which of course they always do till today but in terms of sovereignty as long as the British were in charge at be very beginning they said but as they saw the of the Jewish people in Israel and that's the key to today's sh there is a unique connection between Eric Israel and rapid development of wealth people understand that or should understand that when the Jewish people reconnect with Arat Israel money becomes um something quite miraculous as we shall see as we shall see and that partially [clears throat] explains the unusual phenomenon of the great strength of the Israeli shekel today against all logic. I mean this is a our country has been pummeled by war not only since for now but forever and yet the American dollar is dropping to the lowest levels against the Israeli shekele. Israeli shekele is stronger than any time it has been in our history. What is the key to this strength? Why is it that billions and billions of US dollars flood Israel and therefore deflate the value of the dollar against the shekele? Wh where is this economic juggernaut heading? And why? And despite that and despite that, look at the challenge we're facing today. Literally the basic sovereignty of AmIrael over Erit Israel once again. And sadly, as it is in the in the last 10 years or so, beginning with the Obi administration, now Trump puts his signature and his vote to the idea of a Palestinian state. This is a tragic development, but we shall see what Hashem has in store. Okay, so let's begin. Shalom. Hashem can make shom with the Hashem, but Shalm or to pay with a financial piece. Uh why did why did uh Trump make this concession? Because he wants the Arabs to pay their fair share as is his as is his doctrine. I don't want to pay. I don't want Americans to pay. Let private citizens pay. Let those countries pay for the rehabilitation of their own Arab brothers. Which makes sense. But at what cost? Not at the cost of the sovereignty of the land of Israel, which Hashem can only create the peace. Anybody who's tried to make peace from Jimmy Carter to um all the leaders of Israel uh have all found what the Kazal tell us to be that Erit Israel will be that you line will be a thorn in their eye. It is impossible to take the city of peace and particularly Ar Israel which is uniquely under Hashem's supervision and claim that you have the resources and the plans and the logic to establish peace. This is not without precondition that you will um affirm God's will regarding Arch Israel that it is the possession of amuse. If you start with that uh supposition as Koresh, the great king coesh did back in his day, that will meet with great success. Hashem will do it regardless. Hashem will make the peace, but the mistake that's being made here is really classic but also deeply deeply troubling. We shall see a little perspective on it from the from the from the facts and from the midshium that we're going to analyze. Okay. So with that introduction, let me launch into it. Ara and Yakob all had episodes regarding the accumulation of wealth and their related uh ability to have dominion or sovereignty over Erit Israel. Let's begin with Ara for example. We know that Abraina's position was that he was directly promised by Hashem that he was not going to be a g initel a sojourer without any place other than what the the wilderness or which wherever he would be be uh receive the hospitality of those to pitch his tent. You know he was the outright owner of Israel. Hashem gave him many nuvos to that effect from the very beginning of and yet Aram understood that it was that Hashem had decided to allow the Cananani nations usurping out of Africa led originally by Nimrod and then going on to conquer vast portions of the god inheritance to the nations of Shem, the Semites, which include Jews and other Mesopotamian nations. But not African nations. African nations have Africa. They are the yorim of the world. Noah divided the world according to God's will into these three sectors. The lands of shame. The lambs of kamblam is a yap. Yaf was given Europe which is Mishman it's tremendous tremendous wealth and and uh the cream the cream of uh of gashmas on earth which uh kazal tell us is centered in yeah it's uh Rome Rome Germany Greece this center western Europe and as we get into the Indian western Europe that's his primary concern all the way moves all the way to Persia. Persians are Europeans. They're Iranians as I explained all the way through Spain. That is and until up until Moscow, Russia, that area that is the Yushouchia of the Ben Yees including islands of the Mediterranean, the but Africa and beginning with Egypt in the entire continent and perhaps some of the islands very close to in the Mediterranean belongs to um the nations of Kam. And those nations which included all the seven nations of Cananan who were descendant from Israam uh including the um the the great reel rebel against the Hashem Nimrod and the four kings that came to attack the five kings in the days of Abrainu. They were all Africans and they they wanted to dominate the holy lands, the lands of the the spiritual leaders of the world. Not the physical leaders of the world, but the Semites meaning Shem. Shem Ben Noah. That is the the spiritual spiritual inheritors of the seven mitzvah beginning with Shem. Semites they are the how shall I say the holy men of the world. They're supposed to teach the connection between this world and connection to and will moderate or be mediated by y who will attach to those principles and serve those principles and support those principles both physically and and um and financially and the will be lifted along by the other two brothers who have these and the will eventually rectify and learn from their the other two brothers and that was the idea but the reverse first happened is that Nimrod came and said no I will become the spiritual mentor of the world I'll take over the smitic lands that's Mesopotamia including Israel Syria etc and Europe and so on will serve us and my shah that's the generation of the dora the generation of the tower of which a stood is the lone singular protest to this one and such is the role role of the Jewish people today to stand against all those who are rebelling against the will of Hashem. That's our job. That's our job. We cannot be part of a United Nations that doesn't allow us to lead it. We cannot be part of confederations and and associations of soldiers to bring peace to the world that are not led by the principles of Hashem. This is corruption. This is evil. This is a distortion and can only lead to shalm and not shalom. It's going to cost. It will not create peace. And Aram understood this. He understood that Nimrod's system of the of the human will and power. This is the Nazis philosophy. This is the the philosophy of both fascism and communism that we see proliferating and Islam to a certain extent. and Christianity when it was when it was not separated from the state which thank God it's been mostly then we have uh systems that oppose so Aram stood alone against Nimrod now what was Aram's particular relationship to Eritus Israel and to so he understood and he said as much gevani you can you canananites you nimrodites you those who are rebelling against God including all the people of Saddam including all theim which is specific specifically enumerated the spiritual heirs of today's quote unquote Palestinians. They are the pishim of old. They claim the territory of what we call today Gaza and that and entree into Egypt. Nothing has changed. Nothing has changed. Ironically, don't think that this this is a coincidence of any kind. This is a spiritual continuity of the same clash between uh Khalipa of the pushim who have no right to be there and no right to be in charge. They fought tooth and nail against shame who tried to reestablish the monarchy and then go on and establish amdash. She didn't they defeated Shaul terribly. It was only Damela who succeeded in quelling them and stifling them and many others in order to open the pathway to shelim and the establishment of mdeshim are a massive massive obstacle a massive kipa we're experiencing it today once again in the form of Gaza and to to another extent the ane sadd which is the leadership of Yehuda shamron which has been usurped much like melisome uh controlled uh was was a key figure in the battle and all the kings around him. The kings of Saddam were the ones who battled against the four kings. They are usurpers. Aram however related to them related to them with great respect and kindness. He pleaded for the welfare of the of the cities of Saddam. He also he also made uh concessions to the Benet as we saw with the purchase of Mars. He said to them, say, he says, 'You have a choice. If you're going to treat me like things are right now, but with with with integrity, you will sell me my portion of Eric Israel that I want right now to bury Sarah. That demand that Sarah's burial demands. If not, I can take it by force. So, Aram understood there was a delay. There was a siba. There was a a lack of maturity and ripeness. There was no development in Claw Israel. Aram would go on to have a and other and other t and other children of coutur. So would yah go on to have an asa. But the maturity of Israel is not fully articulated until the sons of Jacob come and take possession of it which does not happen till yushua. It just doesn't happen. It just doesn't happen. But the seeds have been planted. Now let's look at a relationship to wealth and so he said I'm I'm a g. G is not somebody that is prominent, not somebody who's in a leadership role, not somebody who's in the wealth. Uh Vakaz tell us that when the g waxes wealthy, he'll buy the Jew Jews as slaves. This is the greatest tragedy. So we see that a G is not someone we associate with great wealth. and Aram didn't have when he let when he leaves Padan when he leaves the land where his father Terak settled and part of the Semitic spiritual Ben Noah culture okay which unfortunately was populated by Nimra the rebel the rebel he had there great influence is identified by is the 2000-year period of Torah that commenced with the year 2000 after creation initiated by Aramsar. Aramsar were the first teachers of Torah to the world. Shemov was not. She kept a tradition but it was privately managed. It wasn't dispersed to the world. It is only through Avam that the tradition of shame became widespread and we can't go into the details right now but there's many proofs to that. So when Aram came from Mesopotamia, came from Kuran, he was a very successful wealthy man. Kazal tell us that he was a great astronomer, a great astrologer, he was a great doctor, he was a great advisor that all his doorstep. He was literally he was the biggest celebrity in the entire world. He was at his doorstep. And I mentioned this last week that people came for advice and came for um rafuote. And so it should be. And he had to leave it all to go into Erish where he was a popper. He had absolutely nothing. He lived in a tent. He didn't have big flocks. He didn't have money. And Hashem says, "Don't worry. I'll tell you there. You don't worry. You're worried about reputation. Don't worry about it. You worried about money? Don't worry about it. You worried about health. You worried about everything. No, don't worry about it. Hashem, Hashem sent him there penalous. That was one of the great tribulations of of Aram that he went there without any wealth, without any stature, without anything. And what happens is what happens to Abram is an interesting thing. From the moment he engages with parro all of a sudden he is bestowed wealth in whose merit in the merit of sorrow. His first pathway to any wealth in Eritus Israel was only through his wife Sorrow. So we see Sara is really the key to opening Yishrael. In fact, so much so the medish tells us that when when um parro pays her off, he gives her two things. He gives her Hagar, his daughter, you understand why Hagar, which would eventually be the mother of Ishmael and the wife of Armainu, he wants in on the party. He says, "Listen, if Sara is the mother who brings the Kenyan air to Israel and great wealth, I want my daughter to have the same blessings as Sara." I've heard a lot of stories about unfortunately people who want to conver convert to Judaism, but for the wrong reasons. And some of their rationale is that they say, "Well, every Jew that I see is very successful and put together, and you know, I I want to I want to be Jewish and I'm going to have money. the minute I become a Jew, I'm gonna become wealthy. I'm not saying that that's not the case, but that's not the reason to convert. That's not necessarily the logic. Jews have an affinity to wealth. And I'm going to explain why. It's a remarkable thing. Why is it how is it that what the what the nonjuds have noticed throughout the years that Jews have a power of yose fatic a power of a power of as we'll see a power of yakosi or yose fatic to command vast wealth is be is is something that is not logical and not usual and has a reason behind it and the main reason behind it is because of the incredible connection between kal Israel Torah Hashem and Israel. That's where the money comes from. It comes from our inherent soul genetics from the fact that we're benevas where the idea is when you damage somebody else you're liable to pay damages. There are five areas of damages. There is what the physical loss to the body is. There's the pain that's caused physical pain. And then there is um uh things caused by you caused an illness. You struck and you caused illness or possibly you you had unemployment. Chevet and Bett is you caused them emotional pain, torture. All these things are liable. You're liable. A Jew is liable. Even to a slave, a Jew is liable according to according to most. And and it says there's an interesting thing. One of the Mishna's teaches, one of the Mars teaches that if you humiliate, okay, someone which is the concept of Bett, right? They said, you know what, it's a there's a sliding scale of Bsh when you um embarrass the prime minister or the president of the United States. It's not the same as if you embarrass uh you know a a cleaning worker in in in a in an administrative building. It's not the same. Their cover is not the same cover. That's what the Mishna says. No, it's not true. When it when it comes to Jews, all right, what does that mean? A prince is somebody who owned land back in the day of aa if you were a land owner you even middle middle ages that was distinguished between you and a regular shnook let's put it that way so you look at them as princes as uh baronss that have lost their possessions that's what a needy Jew is a poor Jew is never viewed as a nebah low position a Jew inherently is a Benhurin And therefore says Rabbi Aaka. Okay. No matter what you do to whomever the level of the level of that you have to pay to a Jew is constant. Whether they are landlords or whether they are simple people cleaning the streets, it makes no difference. And a classic case given in the Mishna, the Mishna says, you know, if you do certain things like you you blow in somebody's ear, you you pull a woman's shaitan off and your shar up, that's very embarrassing, right? Right. Pull their shait off. You pull a guy's clothes off in the middle of the street. These things are all cause embarrassment. Terrible embarrassment. So, so there's a set fine which is consistent for every Jew, Jewish woman. So Roshaisha if a person pulls a woman's hair covering off from the street and she's married and and she's deeply embarrassed by this. The fine is 400 Z 400 Z is a lot of money. Daily wages were like two Z like the Gaia you know the little the little goat we tra you know so 400 times that you know wow that's like you know uh that's like a 200 day salary that's a lot of money. So the clever person who did it to her had a had a wicked plan. Brilliant but wicked. He said, "Okay, Rebby Tenley's mom, give me a chance. I got to gather such it's a lot of money. Give me a chance to gather the money and see if I really whatever. I want to buy time because I don't have the money right now for whatever reason." So Rebi Rebi says to him, "Okay, you have till such and such a time to bring the money." Meanwhile, he knew that this woman was a rather lowly person who conducted herself in a rather lowly manner. So he found her by where she lived the which she lived. And he broke in front of her a cod of she. She is a is a is a how shall I say is something special uh as an endorment. Those days when they oil was used as as we might use soap soap and shampoo. it both was used for cleaning and for beautifying. They knew how to they knew how to use it in that in that sense. So maybe they made it into a a shampoo of sorts, whatever it was. So she but it's also valuable in its own right. Think of Alicia and the woman who was impoverished and he told her to fill up her pots with oil that kept pouring miraculously and he says go and pay off your creditors with this oil was money. So he broke a cot of oil in front of her. The oil is spilling onto the ground and what does she do? She removes her own wig. She starts scooping up the oil and rubbing it into her hair. Quickly the man sets up and says, "Look at this conduct. Look what she how easily she removed her hair covering in order to put on this oil." comes to comes back to and says for this woman who conducts herself in such a you know vulgar manner you're you're giving me a fine as if I insulted the queen says to him lo amar clum you have no claim you have no claim whatsoever because whatever she does to herself is her business but what you do to her we view her as he said earlier Interesting. Now another of the same light also from from our from the from the annals of the there is a which says you you hire workers you have to feed them. That's the that's depends what the rule is in the city. He says whatever it is you have to feed them. Okay. So, so there was a misa that went out that one of the time sons said, "Okay, I'm going to go out and hire workers." He comes back to his father and he says, "I hired workers." He goes, "Wait, wait, wait. You just did a mistake. Go back and tell them that the meal that they're going to receive is a very simple meal of potential. They're going to get no bread and that's all." As a why? Because if not, you are you must feed your simple workers that are have nothing. They work from day-to-day laborers. You don't have to serve them duck and champagne and I don't know if it's kosher and and you know and you know and herring and shant and and not shant herring and uh pate defa if that's kosher. No, I don't know if that's kosher. I think it is. Okay. So yeah, ducks and goose. What are you talking about? And beef. Why meatboards? Why? Why? Prince means to be a princess. It equals royalty. The same royalty as Laavd Millos being the British monarch or the US president or anybody else. Monarch. You deserve a palace. You deserve to be fed uh you know uh on the highest level of culinary excellence. But one second. They're simple workers. They're just trying to put a piece of crust of dark bread on their table. What do you why do they why do I why unless I make a a tenai with them that I'm not going to and they're mo they they allow me not to but inherently this is what they deserve because they're so let's understand that it's not just because it didn't say they're because this is the reality that we that lived and put spiritually spiritually genetics into each and every Jew due to our connection to theos due to our connection to Torah due to our connection there to Israel and due to our direct connection to Hashem. We therefore are elevated in the world to be kings and princes. something that the world really really struggles with really struggles with and instead of understanding it that where they're that they benefit from it which is the truth and they will benefit greatly from it that the beness if they'll only accept Kali Israel as the true owners of Erit Israel and and the B mig is a source of immense wealth health showering blessings on the They're so stupid. I'll tell us if the goim only knew how much money and health and wealth they're losing by not allowing us to build a ba mikdash, they would run and build it for us. This is the truth. This is the truth that must blare throughout the world. It's the It's the idiocy of the notions that by giving quote unquote land to Palestine, this is going to be a good thing for the world. It is exactly against Hashem's will and it cuts off. Now look, I don't have to tell you these nations that I recognize Palestine. Palestine, um, which is a complete shame. The first thing that happened, they got a bill for 515 billion dollars from the Palestinian Authority. [laughter] All they got was a massive bill. Oh yeah, you're going to have to rebuild the entire Gaza. That's billions of dollars. And you're going to have to continue to pay us our salaries. Of course, we need bridges and hospitals and and everything and cars and blah blah blah blah blah. You'll also pay for our military and that's besides the point so we can attack Israel. But in the meantime, you owe all they'll do by recognizing a Palestinian authority over anything is bankruptcy and billions and billions of dollars of lost money. And they don't care. They still don't care. They refuse to accept the fact that Israel will bestow blessing on them but that Israel should be sovereign sticks in their craw and it's the one thing the world can never see themselves conceding not harab it's not yud and not even gaz which is called which according to israel but has a lower status in fact that's why went to grar it was he he couldn't didn't stay in the heartland of Erit Israel. He couldn't stay invited because Eratz is the transitional land between Israel and Mitim and Egypt. That area is Erit Israel. It does belong to us, but it is not on the same level of Rashi Springs. Not the same level of kadusha that the rest of Israel is. There are darkness just like in Israel. There are 10 mil of kadusha. B you know is not as holy as is not as holy as usual and and haray is not as holy as the rest of us and the bish is holier than the rest of harabayas. And he go on all the way to the kesh kadash. That's the way it is kaducos. There are 10 levels of kadusha. Gar is on the lowest rung of kadusha. Mishna even speaks about syri which was kushablik. he conquered it as an individual that also has a status. Conquered lands have a status if it was done. Uh and we can't get into that right now but there there will be and will and can expand if there's a centralized government because I'll tell us that could expand the world. How if we run the world [laughter] that all then all the world will be Israel but only if we run it according to Yakov's covenant with okay so that remains to be seen's relationship to wealth begins with Sarah Sarah receives Hagar Sarah receives land of Gan which later will become the area in which Claus Israel would find respit during their bitter 400 years of gulos so they never really left Eritus Erit Goshan is erit Israel on an even lower level than Eritz Grar because really it's part of Egypt. Elama it was given to Sara supposed to be conquered by Sara so to speak by beating up parro with her with her malim that she sent which is a priage of all the of all the makos that would later come to cla Israel. H Egypt had to cough up a lot of wealth and had to cough up a piece of his own territory go which is really part of Erit Israel and I mentioned how that area happened to fall back into Israel's hands temporarily in the 73 war through Ariel Shiron and uh eventually it will come back to us it'll be all part of Erit Israel but it's Sarah's Yushia Israel so it's Sarah who is the key figure in Aram laying down roots in Israel because he would yet produce and his son would produce people who were not going going to receive from sir however was clear and straight she understood it was only yet she kepts under her stewardship and as we said last week she gave her very life kilu at the to ensure that ysuk would continue to live and therefore rifka becomes her replacement and goes into the oelsara rifka then has the identical job of sara to be the yoreset of Israel because couldn't do it yet because had had still not built the 12 tribes but Rifka uh understood and picked Yakov who would build the tribes. You understand? So the the key in the in the original years were the women the women of theos. So what happens when Sar dies this is a remarkable thing. Aram is forced to buy a piece of arisra initially. What did Aram want to buy? Aram wanted to buy. We had para he wanted to buy a cave. Just the cave of Maspa. That's it. Just the cave. I'll I'll deal with the cave. Cave cost 20 grand. That's it. Whatever it is comes along Ephron Hakiti the Canananite and he says, "Oh, Aram, I'm going to give you the field and the cave." Who's talking about a field? No one's discussing a field. All of a sudden, Ephron introduces the idea of I'm going to sell you a field. Aram didn't ask for a field. He asked for a cave that was on the edge of the Sed. Much cheaper purchase. Aram didn't want any more purchase or couldn't understand or maybe it wasn't spiritually connected to any other part of Israel than the burial cave of theos because the obos would be the root of kibusher Israel but Aram said I'm I'm a g I'm a right now I'm not I'm not even a tosh so what do I need is for not yet a burial cave however to establish the president for the future okay fine but I don't need a it's not practical right now we're not practically living in Israel wrong says the kashka brought this who comes after him and says as Hashem's backwards shal you're burying s that means that you have to get a sad a living space in Israel and not only that but it's going to become within trees you're going to set down roots in Israel roots fruit trees take time to bear the fruit no you're going to be here you're going to live here and be benefit from the fruit and produce of er Israel and of [clears throat] course What a m an incredible thing happens becomes the ish that that is the persona of sod because I'll tell us that when a conquered the world with his day with his with his spiritual resistance he says himself hashem was elashayimashem was a theoretical idea but it had no practical application but with and yakov it becomes concrete in terms of Israel and yakov in terms of kal israel incredible three stages So what's happening here is that Aram is forced to buy a field and forced to buy. Why? Because is ready to receive his from his mommy. You follow me? She can she can force reality even at this time and say, "No, no, no. We're not going to be gay. We're going to be more than gum. We're going to be tosh. We're going to be legitimately living in a living er Israel." Not a burial cave. cave is just that's just that's just [laughter] from that's soul work that's soul connections we need more we need body connections and what does which does innovate what is where did he go to and what does think as is supposed to be he wasn't oh great that's mess says of Of course I need as you know Yakov is more like you know you know kind of like a where and I'll give him the ofu but that's all for the very big you know long-term future he never had an issue with giving Yakov the braas of of Arau of the eventual ownership of Israel sometime in the future but tless if I want now I need as he's an ish he knows what to do on the practical level ish he can hunt he can poor big mistake because understood Griffa that is will not and cannot have any part of this because of his own failures and that's sad he will have a role but in the future it says that as compared to asy from the language of return to return erit Israel to the Jewish people Muslims will never give an inch of Israel to the Jewish people even today Trump said, "All right, okay. Okay. I if you agree to police Gaza, I'll I'll make sure there's a policy and say I'll give you part of Israel because the Arabs can never be mit Israel. Trump could care less. He doesn't care if Jews run Israel. He just doesn't want to pay for it or whatever his considerations are, his own glory, his own politics, whatever mistakes in his judgment he has uh are not necessarily because he doesn't wish the Jewish people to have Erit Israel. that's fine with him. There are practical considerations that he's concerned of, but the Arabs not an inch. So the point being that the purpose of Edom in the future, which we saw already in in our in in in the development of Erit Israel 100 years ago, was that the British would be the ones to take Erit Israel away from the Arabs and return it so to speak, Kelu, return it, transition it more likely against their will really to the Jewish people. That's what happens. So there's a role for them, but not not in a settlement sense although they wanted it. The British wanted to take over Israel and keep it. They had every intention of keeping it. But such was not their spiritual destiny. Now what happens to Aram after this? After this we see previously that Aram refused to take any money from Erit Israel because he was offered by the king of Saddam all this wealth from the war of the four or five kings and he he said I'm not even going to take a sroan. I'm going to take a shoelace from you. You can't say an is Abraham. You're not be you're not going to be able allowed to say it. So Aram in Israel zip zero nothing through Sara. However, there is a practical Kenyan in Erit Israel. So that's as far as Aram goes. But Aram himself saw himself as a gervatto. Now Aram was an extremely wealthy man but he hadn't yet matured to be an extremely wealthy man in Arch Israel except through his great spiritual status which people adored him and through his wife Sar but wealthy wealth he was a billionaire but only in okay that's uh what what made out from a billionaire that he gave away gifts and he continued to do so when he when he marries coutura who was really hagazal tell us he had a bunch of other children he sent them to the far east a lot of theories about how the far eastern religions and and uh philosophies developed perhaps through the teachings of gave them gifts was a giftgiver so one prerequisite one pre-erequisite for wealth especially in aristel is you have to be a giftgiver even sar's wealth was acquired as a gift. Follow me. And even Mars Ma was basically a gift to Ephraim. He gave Ephraim money 10 times more than he ever deserved. He had to buy a field and trees and 10 times the price and coins that would be acceptable anywhere in any world. It was Aram was willing to give gifts. So you have here now take out a personal concept. People struggle with wealth and some people are very successful with wealth and that's Hashem's you know will to a certain extent but there is a yusha that we have that can help us claim abundance so there are three sodos one a gave us one yes gave us and one gave us so if you if you feel a block towards your parnasa or a block towards achie you know you have wor a lot of worries about money. If money is an issue for you, you have to reclaim as said the mindset that you are a Ben Aramyako and therefore you have an inherent talent for wealth. You have to change your fundamental assumptions. If you view yourself as a prince, as a king, as somebody who's worthy of being fed the highest meals, even if you're for the moment a day laborer, that is a huge shift. And it's a shift that we can learn about today. So first understand one thing. No one is doomed to be to be poor because because a maz is any that's in their masle we can overcome our masle and we can claim our yusha. But what was a gift or a how should I say methodology of attaining wealth. He gave away lots of lots of things. He gave away knowledge. He gave away immuna. He gave away food. He saw himself as a benefactor. So one key I would say for those who want to get a different perspective on earning money and maybe liberate themselves from some of the what we call today limiting beliefs around money. Change your belief system. Be like the OOS this year. Listen to what does that mean? How do you deserve wealth? Well, emulate theos. What was all about? Benefiting others. He's the ish. The the greatest benefit that Abram could do for other people is to share with them the knowledge of Hashem, the source of all good. And to believe that Hashem is good and he is the source of all good is a great great step forward in your amuna and in your attitude towards life because you will no longer be as Jackie Mason used to say, you know, upset, eating your heart out. He has a routine where he says every Jew has a building that they didn't buy. Oh, I could have bought that. I could have had that for for for nothing and I would have been a billionaire if I would have bought that building. I could have bought that building. I could have bought this building. Every Jew has regrets about what they didn't do to become a multi multi-millionaire that they could have done. It's not like that. Arain's attitude was an attitude of being a benefactor. If you want wealth to be a benefactor of others and you're willing and you have the generosity of heart and spirit that you're not accumulating wealth for your own grandeur but for kavayim which is what a did where did he use his money fed people and gave people stuff because and he had this these well riches and wealth why do mashia on people to love hashem he's the source of the mitzvah hashem because he caused hashem's name to be sanctified in the world as you see he was able to influence Ephra and he was able to influence Asov and he was able to influence everybody till today the Abraham accords what are the Abraham accords everybody understands that the Abra Abraham means peace generosity of spirit uh goodness no one's it's not a war Abra Abraham is the opposite of war because he represents laress sharing commonality everybody wins that's a mindset of that's anuid that is consistent with building wealth. Follow me. So align yourself with second alignment issuk. Here we have it in this week's para in grand detail. Yitzk is the people of Gar who were the canananim who have the bad attitude towards wealth. Really bad attitude towards wealth. They're afraid. They're their their whole relationship towards money is fearful. What did they do? They took the the wells which benefits everybody, right? the wells benefit everybody and they stopped them up. Why? They said well the gaim as Med says people are going to conquer our land from us because of our abundant water sources that Aram revealed because Ara was ready to give water and health and goodness and wellness to everybody. But we can't do that. We can't be like Aram because we're afraid we're going to lose our land. So we don't even want the wells. We'll keep a smaller quantity of wells, just enough water for us, right, to survive for fear that if we have a lot of resources of water, we're going to lose it to some foreign army. That means you're afraid. That means you're afraid of losing money. And and you could see that they run to Yitzk. First of all, they kick Yuck out. And they claim to be such sadikim. Avi Melv almost almost took Rifka but he didn't take Rifka because wow he's such a sadic and you know and now we know that's not true. What he lack what they lacked was the ability to overcome their fear. They thought money is for them. They thought money is a personal thing. It's like the Gammor says that Yeshua uh in front of the wicked empire Hadrien but probably before he turned wicked Yeshua said to him let me let me show you that Jewish wisdom even after our temple was destroyed we still are the people who carry the wisdom of the world and I'm going to outsmart the your your great rebies who are the the um the college of Athens who contains the wisest people in the world in your opinion and he went there gives these are the stories of Sabatuna the elders of Athens and he goes and mocks them ridicules them and makes mincemeat out of them and eventually they're destroyed because of Yeshua's wisdom right but their thing the in those stories describes them as being very proprietary they would kill anybody who tried to enter the academy you entered the academy they would kill you why because their knowledge was proprietary they that we don't want anybody to know what we want. I got the secret formula, you know, of wisdom. I'm not sharing with anybody. That's so not Abrahamic. That's so not universal, you know. Share the wisdom. Torah is just the opposite. The more Torah you have, the more Torah you want to spread, the better it is. You don't say, "I have this. You can't see my safer." Because maybe you're going to come up with the same. Ridiculous. We want to share the wealth. But the the sages [clears throat] of Athens like proprietary thing. I have the I have the best formula for weapons. I know how to produce oil. I produce uh laser beams. I know how to produce spaceships. And I'm not telling you how. And it's trade secrets and all that. It's a it's a wrong attitude. Yo comes and says I'm like I'm from I'm going to undo the wells and we're all going to have prosperity here and you don't have to be afraid of anything. There's enough for everybody to go around. one of the per is means your fellow shepherd you know means that there's enough for him there's enough for you don't worry there's plenty there's plenty to go around wealth is abundance there's no there's no lack just because I just because I I have doesn't mean the other guy doesn't have but that was the fatal flaw of kanan they didn't believe that they believe that if we have the water they don't have the water and they're all based on irrational fears which are based on lack of belief in Hashem as the source of all good which has no terminus. The the the the the sheff of Hashem has no end because Hashem has no end. But their lack of amuna in this led them to do very cruel and stupid things such as stopping off the wells and kicking out and kicking out kicking out yet from their midst who went on to go to Nal and nowhere's land and get mayim and plant a hundfold hundfold. that it's way beyond their dreams and they come running to you and say we made a mistake. We see that you have a relationship to wealth and money that we can't even fathom because of your connection to hashem. Now what did Yitsuk innovate? According to Rambam, he invented messer. We learned it from the word mayashar. Measharim, it's not just a neighborhood. Is the amount of produce that Yeetszuk thought he would have to give me mser. And he said, "Well, I got I figure I'm going to I'm going to get 10 bushels of wheat out of these seeds." And he didn't get 10 bushels of wheat. He got a hundred times 10 bushels of wheat. So he said, "I have to give one bushel." It turns out in the end I'm going to have to give away right 100 bushels to tadaka. We learn the agricultural laws of trumos and micrus and all the giving which is including others in your wealth which is supporting spirituality and Torah because that's who gets it. the levim and the kohanim and then there's an all that comes from the great belief of that um my wealth comes from hashem my wealth comes from hashem and hashem is a partner in my making money and that's why I give micer and I can even give comes later that's yakim but we learn all the laws of mser from because the fatal flaw and the fatal how should I say limiting belief of the was that there's not enough money to go around. Money is scarce. If I don't keep it for myself, someone else is going to get it and I'm going to be poor. What a stupidity and a mistake. And if you can make that adjustment in your mind saying, "What do I care if this guy is making a lot of money in the same business as me? What does that have to do with me? There's plenty of money to go around. It alleviates so much pain, suffering, and hardship." That's number two. The lesson of Arainu is you want to be wealthy because you want to bring kabayam and you want to help others. Number one. Number two teaches us my wealth doesn't come from me comes from Hashem and my obligation is to be a steward a faithful holy steward of the wealth and aortion it to those who need it and then I enjoy the benefits 100fold that's lesson number two Jacob we'll get to more because we're just getting introduced to Yakov but his lesson was primarily what it's more relevant for Kaneka what does Jacob do he goes back and he sits in the house of love for 20 years killing himself and he says I didn't take any deductions I didn't take any deductions. I gave you if there was a lost sheep, I paid for it from my my own pocket. If there was a sheep that was thought, I paid for my own pocket. And integrity and honesty that Yakov was the most honest person when it came to money in the entire world. He was the most responsible. Yakov teaches us fiscal responsibility that you have to be clean and clear with your money. Not murky and sticky and foggy and sneaky and tricky. Unfortunately, one person was just put in jail for a long time because he did something really really crooked and he was abusing people financially and telling all sorts of lies and stealing their property and it's just, you know, it's just not the Jewish way. It's just not the Jewish way. The Jewish way is to have, you know, why one of the reasons why Jews throughout the centuries prospered is we could be trusted. The non-Jews gave us the taverns to run because they knew we wouldn't drink them dry. We knew we wouldn't be irresponsible and addictive. They knew that we would be generous with people. You know, think about the his whole thing about his store. If you know the story about the store that he started to support himself because he want to be supported by money from yeshiva and then people used to line up from all over to to buy a piece of herring from the and he would always give like extra herring and he was like the role model of doing business honestly which was a big problem in his generation. He was the to anybody who was cheating and cutting quarters in business he says learn from me. [snorts] So eventually so he's putting everybody out of business because people only want to buy from him. So he closed his store and then the other story that he got this big check from Rothschild because Rothschild heard that he cut him a check personal check and and sent it back to him said I never got money back from anybody [laughter] but explained I don't I don't take personal money if you want to give a donation to the yeshiva I'll take the yeshiva but you can't write the check you can't write the check to me and Rothschild wrote a much bigger check for the yeshiva than he gave to the fine because he said I never in my life experienced such scrupulous honesty that people got money and are willing to give it back. Anyway, so these are the three principles and they're all connected to Erit Israel. Erit Israel, our Kenyan Erit Israel comes by virtue of our that's our mara is the impermeator of that. That's the key. And then I'll just want to end by reading by reading something to you that really kind of moved me. But um especially as we think about today about all the issues with the army and the katuim and the issue with the shiv and the army and the issues of of the army in Gaza. Listen to this. This is something I located I found. It's a nave that it's given to soldiers. Okay? And this is the way it's supposed to be. So writes the chief rabbi of the army at the time. His name was um uh God Navon. I don't know if he was Ysak Navon's son. Yak Navon was a wellrespected traditional personic leader was president of Israel in times of Bean. Anyway, this is what he writes. I'm going to give you a very loose translation. We'll stop. He says, "I'm giving you the safer which is the treasure of the Jewish people and the source of our life. This book, the Tanakh, which is our miknah, this is our purchased agreement and our sign of ownership." There you go. The Torah itself is the purchase agreement for Israel. This is what he writes to every soldier. This This book proves that we are able to renew our sovereignty, our as days of old is from the days of Aram. He writes, father of our nation spoke against all everybody else as an individual against idolatry also even though he was singular in his faith. the Jewish people on one side which is therefore shows the stupidity of trying to be part of the United Nations part of the we are not and we never were we never will be it's just not it's stupidity to go with the of other nations um of a lower he's talking to soldiers now and he says was also a proof that we went to receive the Torah and and through Mosherenu and he says this book that I'm giving you that I'm giving you in your hands this is the source of all human culture morality is this safer okay and and without it the world is trash and the eternity of the Jewish people forever. It's the benefit for the entire world. So he says Israel who carried the the the flag of freedom and and security for our nation keep the safer Torah learned it fulfill its mitzvah is called that's what a Jewish soldier here in Israel init supposed to be you're learning the Torah the founding fathers of Israel for all the secularism learned Tanakh And they saw it as their basis of legitimacy. Then says in that's the key to our victory over our enemies is this simple knowledge the claim territory is. We have to stry it loud and not all the nonsense that we're doing and we talking about sharing here and sharing there and because of the Holocaust and because of security and because we have to share and because of morality and shibon and nonsense. It's all nonsense. It's not who we are. It's not who we're destined to be. Hashem should give us the strength to be like au learn lessons of the abos a generosity endless generosity. Yets's endless faith and Yakov's endless integrity. That's Rura and Emis. And that will be the key to our Israel now and forever. And let's hope that God plan fails. [music] [singing] [music] >> [singing] >> My birthday [music] [singing] is my [music] sh