(Part 3) The 8 Habits of Spiritual People Rabbi Robert Rhodes

[Music] good afternoon five after four we are here in the third part of section 1 of a course or a series of classes that is going on for as long as there are people to come listen to it right we're looking at the writings of one of the greatest scenic masters Robin or different Yosef laner of ICH it's right lane there's very good name for a line of course reader really really 1801 to 1854 so died 160 something years ago something like that relatively recent when we look at all the books around here that were real he is known by the name of his single book that he wrote may she blow the waters of the silo so if you've been to the old city cylon cool is in the old cities mentioned Bible Hezekiah is tunnel one what sort of stuff is there and he is described as that because I was contemporaries and given the name because I'm saying English still waters run deep the depth of his thought and the depth of the things that he shares with us are filled with incredible depth incredible amounts of a meaning we've been looking here at a text connected to the book of Exodus chapter 38 and there are two handouts and if you fine if you don't give me to you and if you happen to be listening to us or watching us on YouTube that is definitely available you have won and agree to the chapter is Exodus 38 and it is no sorry 28 over X is 28 it is that entire chapter and you should have two handouts like this if you're watching this online games cool as they used to say be in touch with us via the website and you can have a copy of these sets you free gratis and for nothing essentially want the mashie law what the Rebbe of issues is doing is taking lists of things in the Hebrew Bible and a little bit later on if you stick around and we get to it couple of lists from the Talmud about various things and giving us a set of suggestions and recommendations here I have called is the eight habits of spiritual people and if you read the student company's book The Age Habits of Highly Effective People is a loop I don't know if there's a parallel but I certainly put that out in the second handout which of the nine through sides it is a little bit complicated to wrap by to wrap my head around I can't speak for you and I can't simply because these are not things that we're used to talking about and nothing that we're used to seeing or or learning about right we didn't grow up with pictures of the temple in mind nonetheless I think it is an incredibly valuable exercise to look at what the Bible says what the Talmud says what is implied in one of the from the prayer-book that we looked at and what the revenue of each ish bits is telling us each of these garments represents so basically and at its most direct he's saying you are the high priest of your own life when you get up in the morning and you get dressed you put on not just your pants your skirt whatever it is you happen to wear but you put on metaphorical garments that represent habits that you need to have in your life right so you can do this as a meditation first thing in the morning you can do this as a meditation for a lasting at night you can do this once a week when you sit back and think about it or you can never think about this at all because there are three main I think there's four other sets of lists the next two classes that we'll do we'll take the same texts the same eight garments of the high priests and give them a different set of meanings they're not entirely like ours but are not entirely different either a recipe for confusion no it's a recipe for one of the most fundamental things that this branch of caseta some teachers and there are as many types of cussing do it there are many many many types of this approach to Jewish texts into Jewish life here we are saying take responsibility for yourself there is a Rebbe there is a great rabbi in the generation there's a Tzadik there is the perfect righteous person but that is not the entire focus of all of existence right there are other branches of Judaism and certainly other branches of casitas we'd say that it's all about the rabbi it's all about the topic it's all about the most righteous amount of the generation right it's only into our time that we've had a couple of I've taken that sort of role without the formalities attached to it here with ish myths were very very firmly saying you can be exotic you have the right to rise to the highest possible levels you can and you must be the best of a spiritual person you can possibly be and here is a mechanism he has alternatives as alternatives his alternative sets and your individuals what works for me doesn't work for you what works for me and doesn't work for you works partly for someone else and then it's time of life right we've all been on this earth a couple of years and our sets of priorities and our needs change over time there's no such thing as one-size-fits-all right and that's a huge huge thing right because we look at certain segments of the Jewish world and we say everybody thinks the same in those groups this is not the way it's supposed to be or this is certainly not the way that we are learning here right we looked at the Bible at the book of Exodus chapter 28 and if you want to make a very quick review of that it is on page 3 in the handout with lots of pages there's one it's five page five page on that and that lists what they eat what the items of clothing are we took a look at the the prayer before the Shema part of the liturgy which lists eight things that we asked God to do and then we took a look at the very first page on the handout which is from the Babylonian Talmud Bavli and that lists what each of the individual garments of the high priest atoned for right it's the second braja second book lesson all the teacher turns up those are the eight these each one of these descriptions descriptions in parallel in the increments okay right so we're taking we're taking the time to go through all of this background because what we have in the math Sheila in this one volume is actually absolutely distilled drying down compounded essence of what he said the text that we're looking at we can read through in a couple of minutes with no difficulty I'm gonna guess when he gave over this Torah he gave over this teaching it took him more than a couple of minutes right now maybe they sang a song in between and Anakin and dragged behind but whatever it was it didn't come out in a couple months we have the distilled essence so we're gonna have we have a very very tightly packed text that needs to have this sort of background and the route that we travel to get to the ultimate conclusion on what the eight habits are right that's the town the parrot passage that we had on page number one in the in the five page handout that will just go through this very very quickly again I think it's um it's worth looking at its page one right here and it is by I might Benson says the priestly garments atone for the sins of the Jewish people in specific ways the Katonah the tunica tones from bloodshed murder the pants the meekness I am that the priests put on procures atonement for incest right it covers up those particular parts the myths Neff at the headpiece the miter some of the translations would call it a turban right if you look at the pictures on the website of the temple Institute you'll see it's more towards a turban than a mitre that you see on the head of a bishop or a priest of the the Anglican Church our that's it goes on the top of your head you look down I'm higher than everyone else the Avnet here he calls it a girdle or belt it was wrapped round and round and round and round and round around source it was 15 or 16 16 meters long it's a really long belt it covered the heart thoughts controlling your thoughts this was in the Talmud presents it the belt procures atonement whereas as the Rebbe this fits is going to say you've got to take this and make this part of your life before you do these things the ocean again we're up to two words york ocean and they thought our words that we don't really have a great word in english for breast plate procured atonement for arrows errors and legal decisions it is called in the text itself hear the ocean Amish pop the breastplate of judgment don't make mistakes about other people don't misjudge everyone is equal before the world that's what we're gonna be going with that a thought is a word that we don't have a translation for at all I certainly don't have an English word for it actually do on my second hand at its goal either than a print or a cape it looks like the sort of apron you wear in the kitchen when you're cooking but put on backwards right again temple Institute website or if you have an art scroll by box will punish there they do have drawings of that there right they warn me ill wore a robe that's an easy one the Rope yeah you see it I think it backwards an ink print put on backwards right I'm still a little bit confused about this and which one went on first I think it would help us to go see these things but these are three different things that were that were on the Menil was a row who looked like a long woman's dress that is that one they're the different sets of pictures of what they look like but on the road certainly was a long sleeveless dress would be the way it looked and it had bells on it right and the atonement is here for slander yeah the Rope makes a sound that little belt that belt on and for some reason the priest the high priest certain needed to be heard when he was moving about and doing his job and then on top of the mitre or the turban yet it sits a golden plate which atoned for impudent deeds doing things with a haughty head well see how this how this will have this all works out because we're in the the text if you have to wonder where's the Hebrew text and you can follow that that's wonderful if not we're gonna start reading on page number three reasonably clear so far deep breath this is not impossible right this is this is doable all of this is doable and once you get into your mind a reasonably good picture of what these clothes are you can put them on and you should be able to put them on all at the same time or rather one after the other then you are fully dressed in your spiritual armor right this is this is the sort of technology and the sort of terminology rather that we need to use with these things because the great Hasidic masters were not out to tell you it's written in the Torah this and that means that and they're not primarily concerned with well maybe you should be keeping the laws of cassius more meticulously they're concerned about it of course but what their real focus is let's say you live up to your full God potential and that you even go beyond that okay so I'm going to look at the Hebrew and I'm going to look at the English at the same time and in the Hebrew it's about five or six lines down where the heavy lines start and on page number three this is where and we have been heading for at the last three sessions all right the translation is my own oh so you are perfectly entitled to disagree with it there is by the way a translation of this whole book the mayushii low off it is translated into English by someone we know I'm not like the tile Edwards remember am I'm gonna see them I'm not quite quite a while maybe knew that town but okay fascinating character a great musician nice guy and he did a complete translation and get the book on Amazon so here we go right parallel to the eight garments it's like the second paragraph on page number three here that's the second paragraph on page number two in the Hebrew as well so parallel to the eight garments good everything parallel to the eight garments the I'm shape Knesset I got Olaf place eight things and the blessings before the Shabbat who in the end shaken acetabular loudly talked about this last time these were the successors to the prophets and started off with Ezra with the hammy of that particular type of type of period and they were the ones who instituted and fixed the Canon of the Bible and how the prayer book is set up they put in to the blessing before the Shema which are my post and just showed you a list of eight things which are parallel to the eight garments this is what I think the mashallah is doing he's taking lists that you should know off by heart and if you don't you can very easily learn them you can memorize eight words right and my day is in the graduate school in the seminary we use mnemonics write very very old fashioned means of getting through examinations it works right you memorize these things either in English or in Hebrew we make a word either a nonsense word or a real word or sentence and you remember the middle and if you're one of those people who pray every day which we hope you are these words are entirely in your mind already right so the list is to understand to be wise it's right here in the middle of page number three great what's the difference between all of these things to understand to be wise to listen to learn to teach to keep to do in to a boat right and each one of those parallels one of the garments of the high priest and based on all of this stuff he is going to now tell us what this particular garment refers to and what we should be thinking about when we metaphorically or in a meditation put it on okay well have been number one to understand that parallels the of Nate the belt which the priest high priest wore around his middle who's a very large belt and there was a lot of it it atones for fantasies of that part right you can see exactly what he's doing here he's taking the belt which the Talmud tells us procures atonement for sins and thoughts of the heart and what you have to do with it is then stop fantasizing learn to keep your heart under as much control as you possibly can don't be a walter mitty don't imagine you are at a certain level when you're not right we're talking here about spiritual development I mean in relationships we see this quite a lot as well right all of this stuff is incredibly Universal don't imagine your partner or a prospective or future partner is would they're clearly not right and their shared fantasies and shared delusion the length was 32 as humans and therefore it's the same word the same rarity word is heart I mean it's from the good morning quarter for the more right that's that's that's already considered as and connected the kumara that we looked up which is number one the girdle procures a turn for support only for sinful thoughts of the heart for these tones where it is worn like the pants control your lower regions yeah so some of them are really simple and straightforward like that we're going to see some of the work that more complex and will take us into another world literally right emotions are wonderful and imagining and thinking how things could be and should be is great but you can't live there you can't live in a fantasy world all right accept the reality that is around you and that's number one last skill to be wise corresponds to the ocean to the breastplate what does this mean I've had a little bit of complex thinking about how to translate this right the rebbe of a ship it's probably did not speak to his followers and listeners in contemporary Hebrew I'm gonna say he spoke in polish or in Girish right there's a reasonable guess and what the text that we have is a Hebrew translation jihad ants are really hittable named Latasha ami bera how do you put that into English you need to think deeply to keep the hippo name is certainly to contemplate don't understand right ena is understanding but the hippo name is to understand yourself the dart to the mind or to the wisdom of God now without doing English census that makes certain medicines what I'm being told to do is think myself into the mind of God align myself with God's thoughts if that's humanly possible or certainly to the extent that we know what God thinks about there's God sold as a lot of what he thinks right that's what this whole Bible is that's with everything it's all of these books right he's gonna be very very specific here the ocean as we've said is the ocean Hamlisch pot right the breastplate of judgment right and that when the high priests were procured atonement for errors in legal decisions the text itself says in chapter 28 of SHM out of Exodus make for yourself a breastplate of judgment there are two possible ways of understanding how it gets to this this particular breastplate thing contained a mechanism for getting answers from God right hold separate class we can spend a week talking about this there was within it or in and of itself this rest plate was able to get you an answer from God to certain types of questions from certain levels of people within the within the Jewish nation or else it's just the hoshikawa Shabbat it's we're told it's the thing of judgment and justice is blind justice is applied equally to all people certainly in theory anyway right he says he gets lonely in Sasuke's enough shock Israel with God there is no such thing as anger against the souls of Israel the verse in Psalm says is wrought last for a moment life results from this favor treat people equally if you have done something wrong God still loves you and ultimately in the world view in the cosmic view of ish bits you haven't done anything wrong your relationship with God is always pure always perfect always good even if you have done wrong now go back to his with his lifetime and what are a little bit later when these books were first printed people burned them in the streets because of this sort of stuff right because it's really really difficult to say in a religious community of any sort that number one major characters in the Hebrew Bible who did some pretty terrible sins we're actually doing some very good things at that same time when you do a major sin major crime minor said you have done nothing wrong that's your absolute essence you're still pure you're still perfect and you cannot damage yourself in any meaningful way it's okay to make mistakes it's okay to have a past background right so here we're saying judge everybody very very favorably remove anger hate and discrimination the quality that's what it means to be why that's what the ocean that's what the breast plate is talking about it also can refer to what we see in verse 15 there is all the tribes are equally represented on if you look again at the again it's worthwhile doing a little bit of homework and reading this chapter 28 in the book of exes because you see that on the breastplate with 12 stones each one represented one of the tribes and there are mixture of precious and semi-precious stones and the value in antiquity was not the value that we have today but they're equally represented by the same piece same piece of a shiny nice-looking stone and the names of the tribes are written hard everyone is right everyone is equal no matter what you've done no matter what your background about how notoriously are your so part of the community you're sitting part of the people of Israel you're still good okay so far so good lish MOA feel free to interrupt and tell me this doesn't make any sense at all right the Shema number three to here represented by the mill right we're just we're going down in the list and the the way that they are listed in order is I have done numbers according to the keywords in the prayer before the shemagh because that's the list that I have in my head you're perfectly entitled to do it in the order of how you put the clothes on when you get up in the morning and that's what I think I've done in this in this list here obviously put your pants on before you shirt really then you put the shirt on before the interesting this would not be initial tomorrow the way the Kohen Gadol got dressed is knowledge of not at all but right yeah a normal person who gets dressed it with the pants on first it's just weird you notice it better than most elevator that's that's why we have you here you are the source of wisdom no actually no this stuff and you remember it where I I don't people not the environment we're not we're not talking about environment it's completely the opposite of what teachers we do talk about transcending and all that sort of good things but the reality is God made this physical world and from the point of view of the books that we are learning from the great Hasidic masters from the Zohar the whole purpose is bring God's heaven here take the ordinary mundane stuff and see the holiness and the power that is within it already know heaven is here heaven is not the point heaven is definitely one hundred percent not the point you can have that point of view and you can probably find chapter and verse for it certainly in Christianity and certainly also in some in some branches of Judaism but the way we are looking at it is heaven is supposed to be made here there's why else would caught bother with making all of us and all of this he's gone light we're looking at the reality of this world in yeah you have to see the good and the purity of the sparks of coldness and everything yeah doesn't matter where as long as you invent as long as we're on the right track right um right the the number one way that I have of looking at all of these different opinions is there's more than one way to get from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem right you can take the train you can take the bus if you take a car and the bicycle ride a horse but you're all going basically in the same direction and the basic direction that the Hasidic masters are talking about is take what you have in front of you and see and extract the holiness in it right and that's like a core thought and then this all the branches out from that okay so what do you have to listen for we're wrong to the mid rim ill-wish Marathi URI he's going to tell you you have to listen to yourself the schmuck will naked helmet ill the rope had bells on it town this means that a person should incline and listen to your foundation and route we're into a couple of key words here where do you ultimately come from all right this is gonna go back into what you're saying because despite the fact that we're not saying this we're going back into what you are say where do you ultimately come from right you don't come from your parents you don't come from the grandparents you come from your you sword and your Shore ash your your sword is your foundation your root your sure ash is literally your root right and the basic picture is that your soul has its ultimate origins in or under as part of the throne of God all right let's go let's go take a little bit of a step back at the very beginning of creation God made one single being again totally separate subject but you need to have this sort of background God made one single creature one single being of pure light and energy and that was the ultimate original soul all of us were parts of that soul and descendants of parts of that soul process through incarnation reincarnation also the imagery is our souls and our origins are from the throne of God itself however we understand that there is a god up there and God is on a throne in some way you know this is the classic one that says all the time we're talking about things from which there are no words right I can't do his accent there's no there's no words for this there's totally no words an English word at all in any language but what we are at our essence is a bit of God what we are at our real essence is a bit of Adam the first creature that God made at the very very beginning of creation and you have to try and listen an incline an ear to hear the sounds that you are making that will give you an indication where it is in heaven and in the first being you originally came from I right there is a section here in the Midrash which is which I did not reproduce in English it goes back to I must be does bring it up here job right I don't think it's the book of Job is a course we're gonna do here I don't know how popular it's up to you I there's no opposition but people coming to learn and I'm not so sure job has these terrible things happen one customer good be careful what you nod your head for job has all these terrible things happen to him I mean God is testing him and he argues with God right and there's a couple of verses in here that that come up and that are that I quoted and Joe is saying why do these bad things happen to me and God says you know we can have this conversation if you are able to tell me what your ultimate to source laws were was your sole job when I made the first being when I made Adam and I made that first being of pure light and pure energy where it was your soul there because you need to have that level of knowledge to be able to have that conversation with me this is God and this is an interesting Schmoe job I access or about right and that's the next little bit that he's talking about where were you when I founded the earth tell me if you know understanding how was it in the first man what he's pushing you towards here is not something that's impossible and a lot of what the rep you ich bitte talks about it over the course of the three volumes and three very small minds book is trying to figure out what your real purpose is here on earth how do you know what it is you're supposed to be doing why am I here why are we here what's my purpose today and then next week what's my purpose today and the week later what's my purpose today there's a changes and these are big overarching questions that have to be answered by any thinking man any intelligence to a big why are we here what did God put me here on earth to do right so that's that's where he's really pushing right that that's why this sort of stuff is so appealing this is why this is so dramatic and that's why this has to be learned because it reaches out and it grabs you and if it's only one of this list of eight we're doing very well and if it's none of it and you get into the next when we do which will be a list of five and it's only one of those I think that's a huge progress huge progress because I know I make lists of things that I'm supposed to be doing and what's the percentage success rate and the completion rate right thank you compliments get you everywhere sir the reality is I make lists and things get left for tomorrow and we'll do that another day and right and of course there's no continues well as I get a little old term for getting a few things as well so well chocolate sum up to just you know the brain cells are gone it is only he says this here very this is one of the ones that he says these two are the biggies they saw the big easier Aled Asia Daniel Varley Sun is soda through a person coming into contact with his root source Messiah vim a shitty cane Kivar behula he will understand that which has already committed corrected in this world matzah will outlet a cane and that which he has left to correct this is what the Zohar tells us the robe alludes to it is something to do with reincarnation you've got to listen to yourself because you are continually being given messages and we did a very nice series of classes - based on the Sabich the son the student of the Massey law of how to listen for messages in your dreams right so put in a request for that one it's not a dream work lucid dynamic controlling and remembering and learning from the Trinity but everything that happens is giving you a message and a lesson nothing nothing happens for not without a reason right and also the big issue is reincarnation right this is not our first time around this is not our second or a third time around and you come into this world into this particular body into this particular set of circumstances with a soul that has attached to us a to-do list right but it's encoded how do you find it I don't know how to open my phone to read my in my list I know I have to get milk on the way home but what else am I supposed to do the rest of the day what's that list and we're given messages that are subtle and we're given messages that are very much in your face some things are so obvious some things are a wake-up call right the first heart attack tells you to go work out and you do right not to make light of heart attacks but there are messages everywhere there are messages everywhere and we have to learn how to listen to them and this is what the smell is and this is what the McGill the tunic the long term that reached out to the ankles of the priests and it had bells on it Anna made a sound we make it sound we make noise as we walk through this world and the noise is not just what we're saying and what we're doing it can just appear to be incidental like the tinkling of those little belt and on the road at least but it's playing it to nouns telling us okay next one right we've we've glossed over a little bit of stuff in here I just don't want to make this too complex and too heavy this is after all a positive set of rules you are not being condemned for not listening to yourself you are not being condemned for not thinking everyone is equal you are being told aspire to these traits take on these habits and you're gonna have a great life all right little mod which is to learn is number four- its net that is parallel to the mitre I've said here which is not necessarily word that we're all familiar with but the turbine or the Hat the ceremonial haft of the priests war we know from the Gemara that we started out with that the mitre atones for arrogant thoughts crude thoughts thinking someone is just not so smart they're not as good as me there's nothing in that person over there or that group of people right what this means is the Cobell ahmet misha Umrah you must accept truth you must listen because everybody has something to teach you absolutely everybody and here in Israel everybody wants to teach you something right this we know very well you will get a lesson in child rearing even if you have no children with you you could get a lesson in how to bake or what's the best bakery in town no matter what it is people are trying to teach you something but in terms of people there are people who come into your life for a minute or two you sit next to them on the bus or on the airplane you get in the conversation what is that crude ignorant stupid ugly guy have to tell me you know you never know what the whole purpose of your existence in his existence is to exchange his piece of wisdom of put it to use the next one is a very very big one dalamud to teach which is number five many Pat's it's the what do we call it says it's it was a golden plate right I will eventually standardize all of these things and say the same thing and the same name for everything the golden plate which went on top of the turbine and that went on top of the head of the priest is to teach about the golden plate it is said and this is the text in the Bible itself in chapter 28 of Exodus the hyomin's jota middly wrought song and it shall always be honest the turbine went down over the forehead and then the Sitz went on top of that so it was over over here but it was covered already and it says larette's on and we would read the text in the Bible is saying well God is saying put this on so we will be in favor with God that samba the shack that's a bit the very basic obvious meaning but Laurette song the Rebbe of ich pits is saying is to make people favourable in the sight of God you have this thing on your head that says holy to God on it and everyone who sees you that's all they see they're going to see all these precious stones and valuable material that their clothes are made of but there's this little band of pure gold that says holy to God every one is acceptable every one is holy every one is favorable in the eyes of God which means and he is gonna extract from this she yeah yeah damn I in Tova you should have a good eye then I made a car they wrote to teach other people you have to look I haven't translated it correctly I'm sorry you have to teach and inspire other people not just look upon them favorably yeah it's a second paragraph from the bottom of page number three I did not translate this correctly it is to teach and to inspire and if you go to these seven Habits of Stephen Covey that is habit number eight find your voice and inspire others share wisdom one of the biggest biggest curses of this world one of the number one things that is preventing the Messiah from arriving here is your you know nine days month of of destruction of the temple lesson thrown in here what's keeping them signed back what's preventing the ultimate reign of peace love and harmony in this world the fact that we begrudge other people wisdom wealth happiness something we don't share we share we're very charitable but you know however it isn't whatever our prospect whatever our perspective is whatever it is we're not just jealous of them we love them and we don't want them to have it and we're I'm happy that someone else has success that's been beaten out of you that is in terms of the musci law in terms of his student from the Sabich this is the ultimate end of days back right that there is wisdom and is to be shared for everyone what's the biggest thing that we see today in the world around it's entirely an aside BDS boycott divest don't let anyone else have an opinion that is the most evil way of looking at the world and other people you can have an opinion that is 100% opposite to mine you can say the State of Israel doesn't deserve to exist saved but don't say I am not entitled to have my opinion that the State of Israel is sacred and a blessing to the world right this is this is the war and we're in the beginning of the Messianic era and the beginning of this particular fight I'll scrap my castle about this he look he's 100 percent let's plug absolutely totally totally fascinating speaker all right ask him about the ultimate battle what's the ultimate number one battle is gonna fought before the Messiah arrives the battle against Mizer leanness and begrudging other people and opinion the thought or anything of value that they have right we gotta get to the end of this today or else we won't get into anything else right look favorably upon other people share your wisdom with them don't be afraid and don't think that you don't have something to share you may be educated you may have zero degrees and never finished elementary school you may be smart and articulate you may not be right some people are afraid to talk so people are afraid to talk in public some people are afraid to say what's on their mind share your wisdom and even if you're not very wise are not very smart you have experienced all of us have been through things none of us have had a perfect happy wonderful life up to this moment right okay I haven't so no it wasn't before we came on Halloween our life was filled with stupidity and nonsense and mortgage payments right well that sort of rubbish right leash more to keep bottom paragraph on three Jews have never sought to convert to Christians I mean it's a historical argument to have we tried to convert people or not I'm not a historian but the basic Jewish attitude is if you're a Christian be a good Christian if you're a Zara last tree and be a good Tsar Austria right just don't hurt us don't hurt other people right live in that live right we don't real simple it's the sort of thing your grandmother always told you you know live them not live right well my grandmother never told me anything so I never really knew them so um lish more to keep negative tonette parallels of tunic the tunic Jones for bloodshed Joseph's coat is called a Cottone net right you remember the story of Joseph he gets his coat of many colors as a gift from his father they say send him off into slavery and then they dip the the coat in blood and pretend that Joseph is being killed what he says here it atones for a murder who she is more ha down at that smoke hopefully none of us ever come to come to murder I have never had the desire at times I've never done anything out it particularly my children are concerned oh right she is more Haddam it that's Moshe Laveau Mohammed Oshun has it with a bear oh he makes it into a much broader statement that you should keep yourself from harming anyone in any way not to kill somebody but you can't harm people in many different ways and in addition he's gonna add an extra layer do not put yourself into a position where someone suspects you of doing something that you haven't done be blameless be completely ethical and if your friend suspects you of having done something wrong he too is punished for causing his friend to suspect him okay that's a complicated mix of English sentence if I do something that causes you to suspect that I have for example robbed a bank right you are punished for suspecting me of bank robbery even though I haven't done it but even more I'm punished for causing you to suspect me of robbing the bank because I just mentioned I haven't done a million dollars in cash you've got you've gotta act in a way which doesn't get your friends people who see you into a mindset of thinking that well you're the Swiss bank robber you're this whatever it is we're not gonna we're not gonna go beyond you know the one single example right la thought to do parallels the a fraud the sort of backwards a pretty thing this is not an easy one but it does make a certain amount of sense the a fraud refers to relying or leaning on it's a little bit hazy in how this connects all the others connect either verbally the words themselves the reference in the five is reference in the Talmud here it's a little bit a little bit a little bit hazy but it still works the point to the point the main way of having depending who can you really depend on you can depend on God right and you depend on God by doing mitts vote and then you can stand before God in prayer and lean on them and lean on them yeah that's a really done you have to know that there is no thing in this world that does not leave something and transfer something to the next world everything good that you do scores your coins over there and when you're praying when you're talking to God you have to have something that you can say just a moment I spent the day learning Torah I did all of these mitzvahs I helped these people then you've got something to talk to God about that's the topics of conversation that's the thing that you can lean on and rely on because even if you have done some bad things you still have the list you never actually lose the good points that you scored okay the ephod refers to having something to lean on to lie on to depend on and the cayenne the last one is really quite obvious I'm not certain where you're quoting from to describe telling me first there's a person says righteousness I'm gonna I'm going to assign you some homework find the verse please I'm not entirely sure it's in our Bible but it may be here the basic point is and the basic Jewish point of view from the point of view of the Rebbe fish bits and what he's telling you is everything good that you ever do every Mitzvah that you do no matter how badly you do it no matter what you do before or after that is a point in your favor and that is always there in the bank for you okay last one we got to finish up the Calle know- making a sign to a pole parallels the trousers as they cover the genital regions in the Bible irva refers to two different things in Genesis 42 Bridget met Joseph as the Viceroy of Egypt accuses the Brothers of coming to see Arafat aretz meaning the nakedness of the land the Achilles heel of the land the means of getting the upper hand of destroying the weaknesses that through it the land can be conquered so you have a very very powerful Torah that is here initiatives and again a new product that we've brought up a couple of times that opposites come into the world together right through your sexual activity through your immorality through your whatever we're totally not going to go into the whole area of what you do or don't do you can either lose absolutely everything that you have it's the Achilles heel certainly for us ma'am right women are in the higher spiritual all right but this is the activity and the area that you can literally destroy everything and lose everything or if used with restraint and with intellect you can then have been an addict add a reputation and generations that follow on from you forever and ever right so that's the eight garments what I've done on page number four here is give you a list of what you should do according to each of those eight paragraphs and discussions and garments that we have we've already gone through the formation and formulation in English is mine number one stop imagining remove anger and discrimination know yourself at the deepest soul level accept advice and wisdom from anyone share sharing knowledge don't hurt people and be above suspicion do meet spoke do a cop tells you to do have a relationship with God what do you want to talk to God about it right what do you talk to your closest friends about now by posting and I meet on the street what do we talk about the parsha Torah right that's that's what you have that's what you have that's what's really life is all about an achieve per pet perpetuity and an eternity through restraint in your intimate relations okay that brings to an end part one of this exploration of the lists of the rabbi of assurance next time I think we'll go back at paragraph and take a look at the same list visible use the same sort of habits and we will then look at a list of five things that come out of this eight garden list right how does he do that I'm not so sure but we'll figure it out I will write up the translation for you and that will be to that okay Callisto this is a good month a happy month the specific rabbi's tell us that this is a month of happiness is a month of joy this is the month when Messiah is born this is when God is giving us all of the greatest good that there can ever be it just comes out to us expressed in something that's a little more difficult than plasma right we have to see beyond that [Music]