Noach: How to (not) get drunk properly according to the Torah with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] good evening everyone welcome to the given a date Madras welcome home to Tora I want to mention we're gonna dedicate tonight's learning to the reversal Aimie of hi I'm speak times V Ben rifka avi arad pensara bailar bought blima and alone Yehuda Yosef Ben Hana Miriam we should hope have them in mind when we're learning to elevate their souls and their bodies they should have a complete recovery in their nefesh and in their goofy all their 248 different limbs and the 365 different bones and organs as rata Shem ok so welcome aboard we're dealing with parshat Noah if anybody out there is an alcoholic I have to tell you you tuned in to the right show ok so we're gonna deal with chapter 9 in Genesis verse 20 and the first thing that Noah did when he departed from the ark was he planted a vineyard is that what I heard you say ok so what does the verse say like aldnoah now the word vehicle couldn't mean he began in fact and here the translation I gave you he was the first to plant a vineyard that's a little bit I think there's a little bit too much play out with the words let's go through it again it says the Noah each adamah each other mom means he's a man of the ground a man of the earth here they say he's a tiller of the soil but that's not really what the word means it really means he's a man of the ground it would be significant and what did he do the he talked Aaron he planted a vineyard so the hell Rashi tells us right away they are tell me what it means profane like you have coolin coolin is me do not eat the bait the mikdash kadosh kadosh she cuts him is what we in the bait them with - the colours of Holi how is either the OP it's the opposite of Holi it doesn't have to always mean profane but in this case it means profane like we have on whole hanoi that's the intermediate they call hammer it's not profane days they're just normal yom call weekdays it's just normal it's the opposite of Kadosh it doesn't always have to mean profane but here he'd the based himself by planting this vineyard and the next verse says he got drunk tells you a lot already so we use the clear car to examine the parsha and the first thing he says is the word via hell is lush and Hulan profane cool in hatha kedusha that this kind of cool and it's not just maintain mundane but it's the opposite of holiness the comical yatta-mole say get there ever any time any place that you find a sense some type of it get there is a fence towards are against sexual immorality or in modesty sham Tim Sokka Ducie that's why the Jewish people are considered very holy what do we do we separate from our wives during a menstrual cycle okay there is women a dress modestly obviously men are all supposed to dress modestly okay but we don't go around the streets and these bikinis and what not it's called a Busha with her paw it's there's this thing called a BAS Melek a Jewish woman is the daughter of the king she's a princess and house the princesses dress okay don't answer today might be a little bit different but this is how we think of of our people well hiyaa in Margiela irva right so this means that I could make even not just a custom but could cause you want to slip into regularity of immodest behavior okay and how do we know it says in Ho Shia I think they pronounce it Hosea 411 what does it say it says new to the eye invit eros that means harlotry and wine and new wine ye lave take away or remove the heart and we're very empathetic sensitive people and when one gets drunk or they're involved in harlotry there and but the fact is they're both in the same verse next these words are next to each other that's what he means by har Gail there's a an association on a regular basis between let's say harlotry and perhaps today drugs or over abuse of alcohol Nicole her osot bhiku Kula now a SOTA is a suspect suspected wife a wife who had a suspicion place in her by her husband that perhaps she was alone secluded with another man that wasn't crying and the husband had warned her so based on that suspicion we are not like the Arabs I just want to say that clearly okay the women have rights to defend themselves and cost-efficient of god forbid that a man should ever take the law in his own hands via the Gilani the woman has utmost respect and therefore is taken to a court taken to debate that Mick Dodge and a certain procedure is taking place as opposed to unfortunately I don't think it's just the Arab world you know it's probably a throughout Africa's other other cultures have this idea of what they call honor killings there's no they're not even a kangaroo court there's no court they just take it upon themselves for whatever reason some it's just beyond us okay we can't even imagine why they would do such a thing but I'm sure they have their reasons but for us it's beyond the pale so if one saw the process just the ritual on the Temple Mount with the woman having her hair undone because the woman suppose cover hair married woman covers her hair and she's drinking this water that will expose the truth it's very prophetic it's very prophetic someone who witnesses this the Gomorrah tells us is likely to make a noisier of themself meaning he'll take on the obligation or prohibition against from eating grapes or grape derivatives such as wine and even grape juice so I can actually just go through the Kumar very shortly to explain it and the Gomorrah questions the placement of this tractate Gomorrah SOTA just think about it in even not just our page numbers I tied this claim I explained this this week our page numbers are our letters and if the pages spell a a negative word the letters are switched you'll never find in a Jewish book race I on page 270 written Rach I am because that spells evil so it'll be switched by ayan rash which means to awaken you go on and on right shin Dollaz right you wouldn't find you see Dollard shin any any word that has a negative connotation the letters are switched so the the fact huh the fact that all of the gamora's are in certain order most of the opening pages if the Gomorrah itself doesn't ask toast those might ask why is this book following that book what's the connection so that's the question that Gomorrah actually asked so it says now the town arose from nausea which is the tractate proceeding SOTA so you imagine that you have nausea right before SOTA the truth is we've just got done saying that when when witnessed the SOTA they might become another so really the question begs itself shouldn't it be the opposite shouldn't so to come first and then nausea so you already have track takes decay before and there were reasons why and that's what the goomar here starts to explain yeah the story of the soda immediately by the wasn't enough correct so the question is why is another before the SOTA in the in the tractates of the Gemara that's exactly the question so the Gomorrah answers this was done in the court to review that Nazi Revere who died on now see is the one who organized the Mishnah yoke and therefore the gamora's are based on that so this is already talking about the actual right as Larry mentioned in the parsha itself so and that's going to tell you that anyone sees a SOTA in her disgrace I mean it's it's such a tragedy a tragedy it's such a horrible thing that this husband even suspected his wife and then it went all the way to court all right but it ended up in court and she was disgraced I want you to also know that her stomach will blow up if she's innocent or if she's guilty how's that so how's that so if she's guilty her stomach will blow up if she's innocent she'll get pregnant very nice kind of okay so what happens she undergoes the right of this because of so two waters the bitter waters that this person who ever sees it would renounce wine as wine is one of the causes of sexual transgression this is the connection already okay so now we'll go on and think more the the the clear cart brings where we he brings this idea out came his care belushin vehicle this is exactly why we're talking about Noah debased himself the language of the hell is debasing shy you they Matias ooh that through his actual planting he could have planted anything he could have planted anything but this is what he planted he planted a vineyard so NASA Hulan he made himself debase via the goblet of hello and if you notice the next few verses where they want to talk about the fact that he was naked in this tent of his and there's a big question whether he was sodomized or castrated okay by again who who did it whether it was Kanaan or whether it was calm volcania by Oerlikon vedanta Champa sook we had this idea of the hell showing you that it was really at the basing situation if you look in numbers 25 1 this is when the people began to commit harlotry within daughters of moth the Yaak el-haram was known yes the hair also means to start to begin but it's like a double or what's called the this is a word for double add and ten say it how do you pronounce it attendre yeah so the word has several meanings as will see throughout our lessons okay so that is the first paragraph now he also mentions the word each Adama as we saw on my book translates it as a tiller of soil or a man of the field right now anything to agriculture but it means he's a man of the earth what does it matter when I tell you someone's a man of the earth what does it tell you our spiritual beings are we earthly beings well we're both there we go Kai's always on the ball like Nineveh earth is less - no listen it says he's in each Sadiq he's definitely a righteous person when we first were introduced nevertheless we're talking about these words each Adama pure when he's built when he's been he's planting this vineyard so that's a base idea it's a very earthly or let's say lower so Heinz right we are made we are made up of a spirit and a body and we talked about this in the past the only thing that's going to really combine the only way these two things can be combined in a healthy way is through the Torah right you have other religions they're just all spiritual and they have no sense of reality and you have other people that are just very physical and no sense of spirituality it's through the Torah is God's key it's the key it's the key to life it's the instructions for living right it's the only way the man can really Mitaka and to fix himself and the world around them is using God's fingerprint and mind so to speak okay his instruction manual so the clear card says he's called an ishshah' Dhamma why keep ULA's ooh hiya Sammy Tata commercial me nada mom matzo because he was acting from the material component from the ground in which he came just an idea Adam is from the Adama Adam himself we know he is a he's from the soil but God breathed into him a soul okay well haseo Shaba adam when it comes to I think I've mentioned the word Seco several times in Mohali in terms it means spirit in Rambam or Maimonides it means intellect so how do we translate it we like to do with both it's called a spiritual intellect that's how I like to translate it since man has this spiritual aspect kale Okello Kai me ma ow it's a portion of Hashem himself a no mosque in benattia zu the safe hell doesn't really it's not really interested in the winery or in the planting of the vineyard why the fish' I admit Bob Bell Sickler Shah done because the wine ruins the ability for the man to be a thinking person or let's say even a spiritual person right it depends we'll use both it will confuse his intellectual spirit it will take him down the wrong path and we're going to talk about this davara hair kuru ishshah' dhamma and alternate explanation why is not called an issue Dhamma sha sha Allah but dark hey Adam hurry Sean he preceded he walked he followed the way that the first man what is it about the first man he sinned with Geffen now there's only corn to be mayor I quoted the Gomorrah here there's a few other opinions about what the tree the fruit of the knowledge the tree of knowledge of good and evil I believe it is number five the tree from which Adam the first man a treble mayor says it was a vine okay so we have rabbinic Sammy who holds it was a fig tree and we have Rebbe you Buddha says it was wheat I believe there's another opinion that it is or was a citron a nest rug okay so what was at what was not doing he was going in the wrong direction because you did exactly the same thing that Adam did but how can we down the Haas School maybe there's a reason why any guesses and he he was trying to McCain Adamson this is what all of history is about right you have this the well we have the flood here but later on I'm gonna have the Tower of Babel on we're gonna even the people of Saddam like eventually you have always when there's a downfall at the end of the story someone comes out victorious you know Abraham Isaac Jacob the Jewish people right throughout history so basically and since we do have a lot of betting off who watch our video and Gentiles in general so we should just let me clarify an idea that does the soul of Adam calm the real live the first human this is the soul of the Jewish people which eventually was divided to 600,000 pieces so out of out of Egypt came 600,000 Jews they all had their roots all in the original Adam as time went on every human being had an opportunity to also be meta Cain but we see that only only through till Noah and then from North to Abraham and then Abraham Isaac Jacob all the way down to Yaakov Israel and we were talking about lady I'm wrong Moshe but you're talking about the twelve tribes that came out of yakou and everyone else that this carries on the original soul of Adam whereas the non Jew is basically the other portions of humanity meaning Seth Seth right Seth was actually Seth let's say set was part of the original line but you have offshoots but the ten people that was carrying on the soul of Adam every human being in history had an opportunity to meet a cane so as the flood went whoever was not metagame was was basically destroyed Oh guess we believed in reincarnation the souls come back at Mount Sinai every soul of all humanity was there it just happened to be one nation said yes the rest of the nations as Nations said no we're not interested in your Torah but there were individual souls of the Gentile nations that said yes at Mount Sinai I'm gonna call that a Jewish soul stuck in a non-jewish body and that body will or that soul we being reincarnated and throughout history they have joined in with the Jewish people capiche interesting okay so when it says here that he followed the way of Adam Rishon he most likely was trying to Mitaka but at the same time he didn't succeed and he fell it was only rectified by the revelation of Mount Sinai okay so let's go on to the next paragraph dover up here now this is very interesting there's any I did I mention if there's any alcoholics you tuned in to the right show dark hair the Yanko revolutio she hates a ruko yeshua admah so codons mono wine causes one spirit to the part back to his earth before its time early okay many people have died of alcoholism whether directly or indirectly commotion mr listen to this verse in Miculek initially it says 14 12 there is a path eh death there's a path that is what yash are listening ish so this person thinks that he's walking a straight path there's a path before a man and he and his mind thinks that it's straight the hurry toe dark amethyst but its end is really death look what are we talking about here I want to show you something the word accurate oh it's end his end or its end the same word if you take you know there's different types of wait but really call counting words or counting letters in Camacho there's a thing called racy tables acronyms and then there's a thing called so fake tables the last letter of words I don't know what that's called if anybody knows what it's called put in the comments we'd like to hear what it's called in English we call they're called safety tables so if you take the word eh Derrick here char look at the shin from yesh the Huff from Derrick and Yash are the race it spells the word shake us a car shake our what shake our strong drink strong wine so what is it it's the strong wine clauses the person or maybe the person already has some psychological issue and everything he does he thinks he's doing right but I'm sure the alcohol adds to that okay so in his end is Derrick mouth ace let's look at the words Kiko chic or italic Lamesa every drunkard drunkard believes he going in the right path Nicole ha ryos Domo slowly be sure and anyone who's involved in life sensuous behavior also seems that it's proper for him in the proper behavior this is how hazael in nuuma that's gomorrah yuma 75a i did bring it down in english sheets you want to see here's number seven and so I propose a dispute between Romeo Revati the more continues with another dispute they had regarding the correct interpretation of a verse this is in proverbs 23 21 do not look upon the wine when it is red when it gives its color in the cup when it glides down smoothly then make sure I mean like straight it I don't know if you you ever take a shot because you know goes right straight down okay revani and Revathi disagree one said whoever cast his eye on his cup meaning he's habitually drunk so all those prohibitions of those with whom relations are forbidden seemed to him like a level playing field like me sure I cut plain everything's everything's easy and and equal he's unaware of the pitfalls of sin and continues walking along a twisted and dangerous path and the other one said whoever cast his eye on his cup the whole world seems to him like a level playing field so it's it's not just drinking not only is such a person unconcerned by forbidden sexual relations but any sin I'm gonna tell you another story another idea and that is when someone is physically sick have you ever been physically sick and your mom brings you toast and you know what you can't even look at the food you normally eat you just either disgusted by it or your tastebuds are just way off so we say what is bitter is sweet and what's sweet is bitter and that's how it works when you're physically sick guess what when you're spiritually sick it's the same thing what is sweet is bitter or what is forbidden is permissible but it's permissible is forbidden so this is a spiritual illness alcoholism or drug addiction or most addictions will say if not all are rooted in some spiritual issue that has to be dealt with you heard it from me my opinion okay so he says lob dr. arias it's not only god bless you four billion relations helico hottest the koulev on a cold your sharp enough it's no longer only forbidden relations but everything you know when you drunk everything seems to be permissible the Lada keeping not sure who he doesn't know this is gonna cost him his life yeah yeah I am me nefesh I'd buzzer your collar it will consume him wine will finish him off from his soul to his body it's gonna finish him off look Hockney more that's why it says Ashley wrote oh right it says at the end boopie his death right is the way of death that's what the verse said in proverbs 14:12 the end that's what he means look at the words the Rashid the sofa tables it's number eight eh Derek you're sure you have the word shake huh okay that means strong drink and we're talking about wine the whole time that's what the word used so key hash a car a my shot care who Derrick Malthus the drink will intoxicate him in the way it's basically killing him and this is hinted by the name of Noah let's just let's not go to the name yet it's hinted by what no off did Noah planted the vineyard and it says he drank the wine so what about the word wine it's nude you know there's another way of doing demacia and that's take the whole letter every letter is actually a word Aleph is olive lammott pay which has a hamachi of 111 or bet this bet you're tough so it's for 12 just an example but if you take the the letter as it's male it's fully written so take the word join for example it's you're done you're duvall valid valid non vult none take the sofa tables again occur ito its end take what's the end of wine is his 50-plus 8:58 and that's exactly no ox named noon said no in fact is 58 Noah's name is the Xactimate ria of the selfie tables of the word Ryan and this hints that he was Rishon she had Asik Matias ooh that he was the first guy to really be involved in winemaking and that was his downfall so we want to praise the Benigno right we're all humanity is from north but trust me this is a pitfall okay you have to learn as the Rambam says if you have a problem you have to go to the other extreme this is in any character trait right except anger anger you should never middles not the best place the middle when it comes to anger it's better never to be angry but let's say all other character traits if you feel you're at extreme at one side go all the way to the other extreme and stay there as long as you possibly can and make your way to the middle that's the goal okay the golden mean that's what the golden path so return our Hebrew pages because I'll tell us that look at the right you look at the verse 921 the youth Galba talk ah ha ha so he drank of the wine and became drunk and he uncovered himself within his tent this is going to be a hint to all of history especially Jewish history that what shegaon the van of galoot Bravo that this caused his children that's us to be exiled on account of the sin of what drinking look at almost almost was a prophet from the southern he was from yahuda but he went to the ten tribes of the north and he gave them talk AHA what is the job of a prophet to give them rebuke the job is not about a job of prophecy about foretelling the future it's not at all his job description his job the goal is to rebuke the people and how you gonna trust him because he'll he could tell you things are gonna happen in the future so if he tells you let me ask you guys if a prophet tells you something's gonna happen and it doesn't happen is he a false prophet everyone is always says yes but you guys already know better exactly so if he tells you a positive outcome and it doesn't happen yes he's a false prophet and he's put to death but if he tells you a negative don't nobody call prophet of doom something very bad is gonna happen and it doesn't happen he's not a false prophet because it was always associated with rebuke you better change or else right neither there you guys are gonna be like fire brimstone destroyed and then they weren't destroyed because God heard their prayer God saw their actions okay so you never know how much tilted what could have been one person could have been one great deed by one person that changed everything you say I don't see I don't see the negative prophecy come true and I don't really see great amount of change in their behavior first of who are you a prophet that foretells a negative prophecy and it doesn't happen it means they'll be squat nothing but if he came and told you that the Nationals are gonna win the World Series or something like that and they did it then he's put to death right exactly okay so what did I will say and you can read the verses it's in chapter 6 verse 6 but you can read the whole chapter 6 you see he's talking about the upcoming you know impending doom of sans-serif' cycling the DRA kei in that they were drinking from the big bowls basins of wine okay you want to talk about a cup that's one thing but these people were drinking large quantities of wine so this was just a textural support for this idea that this hints to the idea of causing the Exile now this is a little bit spooky Sheena's Dave a glowin Nolan or tanka should not tell Karen he already took little plantings with him on the ark this is the first thing he did when he got off this plant them so as soon as he planted them the tsaatan which is a negative force let's say a the satan she missed a vague he joined forces with north he kind of got a he might not possess'd okay but we're talking my joint forces he he combined himself with knock when not planted the carom let me give you an idea what the Sutton is because we aren't idea of the safe that is very different than than other religions there is no such thing as a fallen angel God created this angel to prosecute or persecute to not defend you when you go into Judgment Day but to accuse you okay and to accuse you here that's seen it and not only has seen it he's the first guy on the line making all the trials and tribulations happen but I want you to know what he's thinking he is actually saying I'm only here because God sent me I want you to overcome you know like obstacle course so as you're running he's throwing more and more obstacles in your way and you could give up where you could fall but he's saying I am not giving you anything that I know you can't handle you could do it but that's his job he's just doing his job so the the tsaatan joined up with north when he planted the care of the vineyard and this is actually I should have mentioned this is from a metric so the measure says that Noah offered three offerings at the time and he's checked it a first thing he checked it was a lamb Claire the second thing was a lion Inari and the third thing was a Huzur a pig what is all this this goes back to the idea that this is a hint to the exiles there's different ways to count the Exile some don't count eggsy gypped at all and then we four exiles some count those four X's to some kind of an eight but physically exiled we definitely can count three and that's counting Egypt is the first and the god of Egypt was the Thalia we checked that so anyway the two levers nt's the Egyptian exile Noah was bringing an offering for that and for the the re-say and Nebuchadnezzar we'll see we'll see the verses this represents Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar the re the the lion and the Gullah the Exile we're in right now we call it the Christian exile called Asaph the v8 the the Roman exile that's what we're in right now for the last two thousand years and the pig the pig is a South okay so here it goes eh burnished arrows ramus with logic uh Leo's are you doing this is a hint as a mystical ideas here against or parallel to the three that hint to the three different major exiles that are well-known for example Egypt so we worshipped they worshipped the the Sheep okay so I believe that I have here on the sheets I always think when I think of proving that the Egyptians worshiped the sheep I just think in my own mind when Joseph was asked by the brothers you know and what are we doing here what are we gonna do and he says I want you to tell Pharaoh when he asked you what your occupation is tell him your Shepherds because it's abomination in the eyes of the Egyptians now this idea of a shepherd why should it being a shepherd be an abomination and why should Joseph anyway tell the brothers to tell Tyrel this so the reason is because the deity of Egypt was they had many but one of their main was the the land and is exactly why God told us to slaughter the lamb because that's what a Jews job is the Jews job in this world is to slaughter take news the slaughter illusions and falsities okay that's what our job is this was their God and weak nolle we had a barbecue wasn't like you could cook it like your cellar in that in a pot that had a lid on it okay you had a wet waft the the smoke throughout Egypt and say nanny nanny poopoo we just killed your God and yes we have been accused of that but that's what we are doing we are here to tell the world that it's all lies there's only one God right the creator of the universe the the Zionist one that God did is a Zionist and he loves Israel the people of Israel the Torah of Israel and the Land of Israel right that's what we're here to tell the world okay here we go so that first sacrifice was the slap that even though that's the proof I would have brought the clea car brings another proof which is fantastic in Exodus chapter 8 verse 21 through 22 Pharaoh wanted Moses and Aaron to come and he says go ahead man go go sacrifice to your God here in India Egypt well we were told that we were bringing lambs right so Moses says how can we do that it would be improper to that if we're going to sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to God our Lord so we're gonna sacrifice the deity of the Egyptians before their eyes you don't think they're gonna kill us and what stone us this is our story yeah I got that I want the whole world to know this is what the Jews stand for the truth and the world's not ready to hear it and we suffer yes we are the suffering servant of Isaiah 53 okay this is the proof positive right here every time we stand up and say this is the truth the world's not ready to hear it we get it okay but that's what we are we are most or nefesh for the truth okay so when we mentioned about the fuzzier the outside the re the re is so who Jeremiah Jeremiah prophesized at the end of the temple the first Temple period so almost we talked about was like a hundred and some years before when the ten northern tribes were exiled now Jeremiah is witnessing the that about the destruction from Nebuchadnezzar and it says a line has come up from its thicket if you read the whole chapter you realize we're talking about the onslaught is coming and it's coming from Babylon Nebuchadnezzar and he is called a lion okay and okay now we're going to go to Psalms 84 teen chapter 80 14 that refers over there to to the hazir to AB or a boar is some type of a pig okay so this is this deserves a lot more attention and we're going to give it we're going to end this paragraph by mentioning that the word naveen on now theme is grapes and that's where wine comes from in case you didn't know you think you just go to the store buy a bottle people stood on those grapes I'm not kidding today they have well they do have machinery that takes care of all that but going back to the idea that uh naveen which is grapes is a shoot-off is a a partner with something called the summit mem some if mem a la flama is a name for the Arch Angel of Asaph it's also we call the at time okay so yeah we're getting on on a table in the christians case a lot here but to a certain extent they deserve it okay now we don't call we don't say the name but I'll say it for learning purposes so we know retama it's called some ale in fact we've talked about this before that his job the seitan is to blind you the word suma is to be blind he's to blind you from spirituality which is hail God so that's what he well that's his goal meaning that's his goal cos God told him to do it right he wants to test you to put you in a position where you make a choice but the words no sorry the letters of some ik mem Aleph lawmen and the letters of of grapes I'll I knew in bet men they're all next to each other meaning the letter that comes immediately after Osama has an iron immediately after a mem is Alam it I'm sorry Newton immediately after all if is a bet and immediately after Alam it is a mem so you have I made it here just so you can see you have the name some ale and you have uh Naveen the the letters are called alpha beta Schnee ot ot oats let me just read the words he says here uh Naveen shoot official some ale for oth neopor alpha beta Ram is knock harshness dava closet on this shows you that the satin which the sonic mam joins up with the UH Naveen it joins up with the grapes joins up with the wine and it's it's a mixture a mixture is a stumbling block it's as simple as that are you Dana theist uh Naveen and this all happened when Noah the first thing he does when he gets off the ark is plant a vineyard just to talk about the word not for a second because I know you guys are interested that Noah means rest right knock invented a lot of this the Iron Age we're talking about agricultural tools this is a gift God brings down into our minds like this that's why we're creative not because of us but because we make the effort and then God makes these brilliant ideas happen so at the right time no I invented a lot of agricultural tools that allowed man to rest otherwise they were Wanderers they're called nomads hunters but now they could rest right that's one idea so that's like a real blessing to mankind another idea is that it means also to make Pleasant that have been not someone who keeps the seven Noahide laws and non-jew but he doesn't have to be Jewish just keeping the seven Noahide laws maybe a few extra extra laws that he wants voluntarily it's pleasing to a Shem Noah I know that I have some friends who converted to Judaism and they make fun and they say ah yeah just rest you sure you know yeah you guys are just resting we're like taking on all these myths us but that's what you call flaming bout Ruvo you know maybe they're right I don't know but that's their opinion so now you heard it for me and we're going to continue onwards okay we're gonna continue with verse 23 where it says the shamed the office SS similar okay so we go to verse 23 first of all let's read let's read some of these verses in 21 he drank of the wine became drunk and he uncovered himself within his tent come the father of canaan saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside and here it happens shame and the office take but if in Hebrew if I told you two people took how would I say two people took when I say via no very good so let's read the Hebrew this Vigi shame the office has a Simla Vyasa move they placed a lavish Nahum right so it was placed both of them the Elco a crow a hoe run eat so they walked backwards The Economist Airbus a VM they covered the on the nakedness of their father but look it's his biggie only one of them took what does that mean they both talk but it's telling us it was one of theirs idea one of them took the initiative okay it's singular it's not plural of course they both took it you can see from the verse they both took it but so why did one whatever this one did was the right thing and he gets a lot of credit for it okay don't think for a second that it's all about faith and faith alone we say deeds matter okay everything you do makes a difference and what he did what shame did this is why we were at CSIS today if he took these this garment this holy garment wasn't holy at all it was mundane but he used it for such a positive thing to cover his father's nakedness so we're gonna see a mattress that says because of this we get the midst of the titters shame we're Semites so look what Pat Rashi says parish rushing me shams oh allah tala schultz it says i want you to see is to be very careful read the Hebrew it says it's the towers cell cities the tallest at the garment and the reason I'm pointing this out is because right away he brings down a question there's a rain that mentions in hazael in SOTA your design that's the Talmud Bavli 17a that says by at by Abraham when Abraham had the work to save load there were four four kings of conveyance the five kings and the four kings wanted to reward him what did he say I'm not going to take one string or a shoelace from you frankly said nicer than that right how do you say the shoestring budget maybe you maybe so look in number 16 rather further taught as a reward for what our patriarch a patriarch Abraham said to the king of Saddam that I will not take a thread or a screw strap nor anything that is yours distance himself from anything not rightfully his his children married it to minces we're willing to talk about the first one but it's good to know both the thread of blue of sky blue wool on the one that teaches and the strap that we we're on the phylacteries on there on the Dylan okay include the odd rope not ow I'm not gonna take anything so the the question is if you have to Madras him with two statements the Gemara one says because a shame that we get the talus now you notice the difference already one Abraham he what he did he murdered the beat threat just I want you to feel the difference right when you really let's say superficially you you would have a question oh I heard that it's because of what Abraham did by not taking these these volutes the the booty that he merited the Citiz on the other hand it's that what shame did by covering not that we murdered ditches but I'm already giving you a feel for the the language when you look in the language once basu says the talus of the Citiz and the other one says the thread of the citizens with that in mind let's read the words so based on our homs deeds Allah who gave us so near a shallow kasha me day according to the klique heart right away he says you don't really have a big question I don't know why the rain brought it up as a question it shouldn't be a question why keep the school Kee soy similar zhu zi suckle the Simla it's in the merit of shame bringing that garment that we merited the garment the school's hood there's a cooler hood and what then they merited the string he plays by talking about the string he we merited the string Cana Adam Yakima commits with cities are cheatin LaRouche bar who tequila Simba do you know how can you I want to do titties I know there's a bunch of messianic crazies out there they they just take this and attach them to their belt and they think that they're there it it has to be attached to a garment so where did only you know if someone's living on the streets they have no garments so it's a gift first you have to have the garment and that of gratitude right yeah if that's the gift that God gave through shame we get the garment and only then can you put the scissors on right you have to have the garment first and say I want to do Mizzou's I want to do mezuzah well I need a house right so God gives me a house I can do it's that great I want to do I want to do so I have to have the the ingredients I have to have the wherewithal to be able to do the mitzvot so it's a blessing so one of the blessings is the garment and after the garment then you can do the scissors and it's really not anything less because without the garment you can't do them incident right so that's how he puts it Hans is really key ain't no other Michalek I'm it's it's a person cannot do the Mitzvah tutors until a Shem first grants him through the garment as it's brought down in the Madras at the end of safer job now this was hard for me to really understand it says who came me the money Vaishali who came I think means who came first something has to come first through what then then a chef says I will pay something comes first maybe to greet me but that's what the verse says it's referring to something coming first and then there's a reward that's going to come so the first is I think that's part of the reward but then there's even a greater reward coming second and that's how he ends meiosis it is actual earnest and the talus who can do sit-ins with our towers okay so let's go on to the next verse the next paragraph outside of RAM is near lafarge from an aspect of a hint it seems like you can explain the fishy Jewish mysticism assuming as other men honest this is gonna be fascinating on one hand we all were talking about the mitzvah of citizens can prevent you can keep you from immodest behavior I mean I know plenty of religious Jews they tell me I can't go to this place I can't go that place because I look like a religious Jew right so just looking like a religious Jew already saves them right because it writes it says hey it took to sin but we can you know it's but we're gonna hear a story that we'll just have you heard the story before about the god the guy that paid 400 zoos and traveled far and wide for prostitute okay we're gonna hear it here so first of all it's well known that the midst of cities can save a person from immodest behavior as brought in Gomorrah Monaco's so let's go to that Gomorrah guys you have to hear this story Michelle I saw you just leave but you got to hear this story it's tighter brighter this is number 19 it's torna bryce that revealeth on says there's no Mitzvah however minor that's written the Torah for which there is no reward given in this world and the world to come in other words for every Mitzvah you're going to get both the reward in this world and the world to come and you don't know how much we word is actually given let's go and learn from this incident listen in the end everything worked out we say happy they live happily ever after right well we'll start at the beginning once upon a time there was an incident involving a certain man we don't know his name who was diligent about the Mitzvah of seat seats he was very strict okay he hid the Mamas Mahajan minima hydron maybe they hung below his knee I have no idea but he heard there was a prostitute in one of the cities way far away in some island somewhere and she had a very high rate 400 golden coins that's how much he wanted so he went ahead he arranged through Western Union or I'm not sure how it worked back in those days but he sent it ahead he trusted that would get there and then he went all right he sent it ahead and he made an appointment and he showed up at the appointed time the maidservant of the prostitute came and got the door enters wait here she went and told her I don't know what you call her the the madam and she said okay let him come and she had seven beds now these seven beds six worth silver and I guess they had a ladder on each one like a what do you call like a bunk bed I don't know exactly how it was it wasn't the princess of the pea there was a ladder between each mattress all the way to the top there was a golden one and she went up and she apparently was prepared for him and he went up and prepared himself too but while he was preparing himself his own sittest laughed him in the face I mean how could that happen it happened he dropped down to the bottom he sat down and she came and what do you think she said what's wrong with me what and put my makeup on right I have a mole I mean with the women are sensitive we're all sensitive but apparently this woman was extremely sensitive she a high rate and this guy doesn't want her maybe it's me she says okay so she's wondering what's wrong with her and and they basically make oaths to each other they're telling the truth but at this point she says she's going to take an oath why I guess I got a god of Rome that she is not gonna let him go until he reveals what defect and what defect he saw in her and he says to her I swear by oh my god in the temple that I never saw anybody as beautiful as you there's nothing wrong with you but there is so what so what exactly happened he explains about the myths of cities he's telling her right he says there's one particularly Mitzvah that my Lord our God commanded us regarding these and mentions I'm bored your God and I'm the one it says it twice so I'm the Lord your God I'm the Lord your God who will punish you I'm the same Lord your God who will give you reward right so you have this double idea it's the same God so that's another thing about other religions I mean especially I can't keep talking about Christianity I'm sure there's some other guilty religions out there too right and not just them but they have a real problem where evil comes from right in fact they're so they're so bent on it that they believe that it's almost a different God of the Old Testament and from the New Testament of course they somehow have justified all that but for the most part they think that the devil or the s'time is a fallen angel at war with God literally at war a power separate from God and that it just doesn't work for us there is no power other than God right what other powers our sub ordinance right and God controls everything there's nothing outside of the power of God anyway so he's now saying that basically I have four witnesses now I'm not sure if the four witnesses of the four gun corners or the four witnesses meaning just like it says I'm would your God and then it has twice it says that and also says that he's the one who will punish and the one who were rewards he's got two punishments and two rewards either way you look at it he did the wrong thing in the beginning but he did he was able to rescue himself through the Citiz anyway before she lets him go she says I want all your information no I don't know how he went ahead give it to her gave it to her but he told her everything what his name is not only his name what cities from she wanted to know who his rabbi was who's your teacher what based measures dealer net and he told her everything he didn't like fudge it and tell her you know like someone asked me number you give one number off he told her everything and she showed up there she's knocking on the door in the base measure listen she de trouver she's probably dressed very Senora and she asked can I convert this guy makes such an impression on her with the whole story of the sickness of whatever he smoked her about what an impression that she was the highest paying model and and she's ready to do true she's knocking on the door maybe that's why she wanted the the phone number and their address of the yeshiva but she's there and he the Rosh Yeshiva says as I think it's a kind of appropriate and a woman comes to convert could be a man - it doesn't matter something comes convert do you already have a relationship with the Jew because it's not it's not the real reason you should be converting because you fell in love ok we'll deal with it but in the meantime is that what's going on and so let's see what she says so she arose and divided all her property she gave 1/3 to the government 1/3 to the poor she took 1/3 with her in addition she even took her beds and she went to the study hall area and said to my teacher and struck your student concerning me and have them make me a convert in other words have your students convert me and replica said sir my daughter perhaps you set your sights on one of our students is that why you want to convert she took the note with the guy's handwriting and showed her he did she didn't say this guy she showed the handwriting ok I don't know I guess the the rapper understood who it was and I remember his name was on there not just the handwriting and you know what he said go take your possessions of take possession of your purchase she converted her they got married and lived heavily and what he called happily ever after and those beds that she arranged in a prohibited fashion she used in a positive in a permissible fashion right they lived happily ever after don't get rid of your entire past right if you're about Trueba or a convert you have value you have a life experience what brought you to this point ok some of them may betray and that you can get rid of it not all of it right if you played the piano you could play Jewish music with the piano I'm just giving an example I mean I could probably come out some other examples but I went to chef school so maybe I learned how to cook non kosher food but guess what you can learn how to cook kosher food right it's not not that difficult once you know how to work a recipe what works look we had dinner tonight it was ok right any satisfying so the end statement is this is the reward given in this world and in the world to come and we have no idea how much the reward would be so it's amazing how someone can turn the entire life around and I'm sure she did truth out of Ahava and he also did Shiva and look at their reward of living happily ever after in a kosher way okay so that's a fantastic story and why did we tell that story because of the idea of just being able to save you from a modest behavior but guess what else that can save you from because we regionally started talking about shame and shame took the blanket or the Simla and he covered his father so that was immodest but what about Abraham Abraham was able to say I don't even wanna hoot I don't even want a shoestring I don't want anything from you and what was he given riches and wealth i ron was one rich dude okay he was the first Jew as we say right and so he had he had money and hid blessing a lot of it okay so what can the this reward also be in other words we said the reward of shame was one thing had to it's it's us so to the reward of Abraham also had something to it's it's us and that is going to be a guard against poverty okay thats it this is a guard against poverty so let's see what he says Vineet so Minna's noose needs a gammon and mute so not only does it seat seize save one from a modesty but also from poverty look at mich late twenty nine three a man who loves wisdom makes his father happy but this is the part but one who keeps company with harlots waste his wealth there's another idea I'm not sure if we're laying it down but the idea that if somebody is chasing harlots they're going to become impoverished they won't even find bread meaning they won't even have money for bread so there is a there is a connection between immodesty and chasing prostitutes to poverty and there's a connection and we already mentioned on the sickness on two levels it's going to save you from the modesty and it's also going to save you from poverty so that's really that's really the summary of everything we want to go through at this point but just let's skip down to the last paragraph then and the last paragraph talks about the idea that the titleist that blue thread is similar to see and then it brings you to think about the color of the sky and then it's going to bring you to think about the color of the throne of glory and somehow another all about Hashem right but it starts with one color and it's a graduation gradation to another color and the truth is we spoke about this before that when one looks at the heavens they see the Stars and the moon all the circuits and orbits going things are like very happy and that's think about serving a Shem out of love because simcha and joy represents love on the other hand when you see the sea and the ocean is roaring and it's coming and pulling back it's like serving God out of fear but either way they all have their limits and they all have their their lines they don't cross right everything seems to work like clockwork so to this idea of a hoot a thread it's a thread if that's all it is so what we're doing is we're thinking when we look at these things we look at the sea or we look at the sky whether we're serving God out of fear or on the higher level out of love then we should not deviate from the lines that are drawn okay that's that's another idea that the haleyss that the thread should remind us of and so for this Ratish m in the school of both shame and Abraham we were merited to the garment and the seat seats and there's rata Shem we should wear our garments in in the kingly right these are lots of tears are like basically the priestly garments for the Jewish people to a certain extent I'm going to tell you there's a prohibition against wearing wool and linen together okay it's one of the 613 commandments called shaatnez there are only two garments that one is actually allowed to and maybe even it's a mitzvah - for sure the Kohen Gadol the high priest has a garment called the belt and it's made of shyness and it's it's forbidden not to have shot nests in it and when we have when we have the blue thread we don't have the blue thread yet we have the best guess at the moment at this moment we have the best guess but when we have the blue thread one is allowed to wear shot nests and probably should wear shyness in there so this is it so on one hand the Jewish people are the priests right that's what the Torah calls us we are the light to the nation's we are a kingdom of priests the holy nation and we have it's not like we have subjects you're not a subject we're actually your servants okay so those non-jews watching this we're supposed to be your teachers we're your servants we're just privileged to be and we're very happy about it and we're here to serve you so we want you to welcome your home to Torah which English Abacha loam and a great winter if you're in the southern hemisphere a great summer and we again refer shillelagh to these people if you really think about them and meditate on their names hi MC Ben rifka Avianca advance ara Beyla bada blima and of course our beloved teacher alone on a vow alone Yehuda Yosef Ben Hana Miriam or fouché name it to all of them and see you next week [Music]