Praying For the Peace of Jerusalem and The Ger Toshav with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] we are under uh fire under siege we don't really feel it that much in usher lion but the jewish people feel as one we're compared to a sheep why sheep because a sheep is a very fragile tiny animal we discussed this before right a sheep among 70 wolves the 70 nations and the sheep it looks fat it looks big because it's under all that wool i guess in australia maybe it's new zealand i don't know but there's a lot of sheep over there they look fat so basically i brought to your attention earlier you know through the email that um we're gonna focus on on psalm 122. okay now i want to make a disclaimer okay because some of the things we're going to talk about the laws of the ger toshav aguirre to show i know many of my listeners many of the students that are not jewish around the world that have been you know tuning in to not just my program all the other rabbis have taken a public proclamation of sorts uh that they uh will um keep the seminal height laws which is a tremendous myla however i just wanted to mention before i get to the disclaimer that this idea of taking such a a vow or a public proclamation actually allows one if it's done correctly and i'll explain later on as we go on that this would allow you allow one to live in the land of israel as a non-jew so we're going to be discussing certain ideas and i want to make a disclaimer okay this is called an academic discussion many of these laws are not applicable in today's world society right but a lot could change and then it becomes from academic to to practical to actual and bazrat hashem we do pray for the return of the jews the land of israel and that's going to be one of the prerequisites for a gertoshav to have its full status recognized and i think that this topic is applicable to talk about tonight because of what's going on i just want to mention this disclaimer so anybody that's watching this video who is a hater of the jewish people just turn it off now i mean there's no point in in in suffering you know the torture of some of the things that let's just say academically discussed you're not in appreciation of i get it but if you're open-minded then please continue to listen i want to begin with psalms 122. so i did ask the i sent this out the just the idea in the email and it's an amazing sheer mouse and i have some a lot of commentary to discuss and well i'm going to talk about another idea before so i'm glad i gave the disclaimer this war the word that we are now in which did not begin yesterday or the day before yesterday this is going on for time immemorial this is not a political war it's a religious war and you may kill me you may shoot me you may hang me up but i will uh hopefully discuss some of the ideas here why is it a political word we have a statement in a talmud that says you got to be sitting down for this that anyone who raises their hand to hit a jew is called a russia a russia's an evil person now why would that be shouldn't it be anybody who raised their hand to anybody it could be could be but that's not what tom says because the jewish people are the god's representatives on this planet now i get it not all jews are you know good representatives i get it i get it you don't have to convince me of that but nevertheless if you're raising your hand because they are a jew and you are so misunderstood of what a jew really means what you stand for i beg you to learn more about it okay so i know there's a lot of a lot of anti-semitism and i i don't want to make a prediction but i know when these things happen that people start taking extreme sides and um things can get quite quite nasty so those who understand what i'm talking about stand guard stand guard be ready um okay so basically king david chavuz is coming up we will discuss some really intense ideas about shibuya's and the and god's chosen people but the reason i think this is also appropriate to talk about azakir toshav as a non-jew who wants to be righteous whether they want to live in the land of israel but they want to associate with jesus irrelevant just to be a righteous gentile right one of the prerequisites i'm going to say besides saying to yourself to hashem i'm going to keep these seven laws and a very interesting concept is accepting that the torah is from heaven in other words forget osha for sure right and for the righteous amongst the gentiles amongst the gentiles for sure there are such thing as people who are just human beings they're really nice people they keep the seven dog laws out of logic or out of uh maybe even this inside internal moral conviction of what they think is right that's not a guarantee that you're going to go to heaven that's not a guarantee that you are considered amongst the righteous gentiles but if you believe and trust me you can study to find out if that's true that the torah really was not written by a human being it really is from god and that there is a special mission for the jews and that you yourself as a non-jew basically um how should i say it support this mission i have here a quote from uh rabbi eliazar malamid and i'm just going to read the quote and then we'll get back into psalms 122. he says that the torah's vision is that the land of israel besides the jewish nation only those who shared israel's mission of being a light to the nations may live here the controversy surrounding the issue of non-jews residing in the land visual today when the status of gert toshov does not apply meaning it does not apply for reasons maybe i should talk about them now i mentioned already with a majority of the jewish people maybe i didn't mention that but we pray for the jews to return when a majority of the jewish nation has is now residing in the land of israel then gertosov is no longer academic or theoretical meaning right now there's let's say a leniency to look at those righteous gentiles who want to live amongst us with a lot of care and concern but once the laws of gyaratosha actually do apply they will have on a social level a social status in israel like a jew i say social for those who understand what i mean the jerus actually meet this condition drew's d-r-u-z e d-r-u-z-e they are they believe let's just say that israel's right to exist and they will even die for excuse me defending the jewish people's right so they have to get they they would meet the condition of kiertoshav as opposed to remember these are not my words i'm reading these from a paper as opposed to those arabs who support terrorists so we all know not all arabs are terrorists and not all arabs support terrorism what's the percentage i have no idea not only that and they don't recognize israel israeli sovereignty now we live in a country and there is israeli sovereignty you may not agree with the government you have the right to vote right and if you choose not to vote that's also your right you hear what i'm saying it's uh it's we're living you know when society makes certain rules otherwise there would be anarchy if you went against those rules let's say theoretically for example they said you have to wear a mask in a certain room so if you don't watch this you don't have to go in the room if you want to go in you wear the mask but you don't go in the room not wearing the mask when the majority of the people decided this remember if it go it doesn't go against the torah right i'm using that as an example right you live in a society you go with the flow otherwise separate yourself and presently fulfilling the mitzvah to expel the hostile minority is impractical according to him i'm just reading his words this is an ongoing discussion from before the state was enacted i want you to know king david king david's birthday was chavuz he died on chevouz so we're talking about a lot about king david today it took hundreds of years to get rid of the canaanites right and king david was very instrumental in doing that in spite of this the concept of guerto shop should be studied in depth now i happen to have here there is a fantastic set of books called the tamunic encyclopedia and hebrew i think it's called encyclopedia and uh it's an amazing you know work anyway one of the first editors was joseph zeven some of the people on the editorial board even well not today but in the last generation rabbi zalman henry goldberg robbie eliot waldenberg rafael shmuel levitz from the mir yeshiva anyway there are three topics that i highly suggest besides i mean it's it's an encyclopedia i don't think it's finished because they do it in volumes through olive through you know wherever they are and um every year you know one maybe maybe every couple years another volume comes out anyway so bet and gimmel are pretty easy to come by this is in the beginning so you have gear which means converts gear toshov which is the subject i'm going to talk about right now and ben so there's pages and pages and pages of just rich information all the dating all the way back from the talmud and the medrash and the roshonium and the acaroni and what they say about it and i just want to quote right here right now on this like idea of the gyartoshav that sarik chicago well maybe i should you never know where to start if you go back and back i have a piece of low even if he didn't get circumcised right this is a non-jew below taval and he didn't go to the mikveh but we accept him again remember this is not applicable today we accept him when we do accept them and they are considered amongst the righteous of the nations and they have to go in front of three judges i want to skip that the of you here it is of ella you know what egypt is only one who's macabre a lot of chevamises who's accepted upon themselves the seven misses the oyster when why do they do them they do them because they should see them because god said so in the torah now you say where does it say in the torah i've already discussed this before i'll discuss it again just briefly very briefly any time you see a punishment in the torah for and we're talking about before this great revelation that took place at mount sinai you have to say to yourself this is what we know our god is a kind and loving god and he will never just punish anybody or take his vengeance out on anybody if they hadn't been warned first it doesn't make any sense right so there are there that's the that's like a home it's like a logical conclusion right of course they were warned right kai and murder somebody right there just going on right any time that there's a punishment why why was there a flood why was there a flood what because god didn't tell anybody hey there's gonna be a flood no nobody has to do truth but nobody has to repent and i'll just bring it on anyway come on you have to know what it is you did wrong and obviously you hadn't been warned first this is so logical right there is no such thing so one of the ideas is throughout the term you just read the narrative you understand right from wrong and that's why it's permissible obviously for the world the world has what we call the bible right it's written in so many languages right read it but again i will stress this that it was given to the jewish people as the disseminators and any questions you have you want to understand it you have to go to us for the understanding it's written in a language you probably don't understand and any any translation is a lie basically meaning if it's not based on our oral tradition okay i don't want to repeat so many things that we've talked about in so many other classes my students know what i'm talking about here we go that that person who's accepted upon themselves the seven knock-out laws he does that because hashem commanded them in the torah the hadith and it was informed we were informed through moses our teacher that the children of noah were already commanded in them but it was repeated again and the enemy sorry skip something if he does them only because of because of his wise determining mind that this is a proper way aim zager to shove not considered the gear torso um he is not considered amongst the righteous of the gentiles only amongst the people who are wise and that's all fine so not only do you not go to heaven which may or may not may or may not be relevant at this point in the discussion it is relevant in terms of living in the land of israel with the jewish people and unfortunately we are faced with people i don't know what religion they are it doesn't matter to me now the truth is many of the muslim faith many i'm not sure of all of them believe that the jewish people actually corrupted the text right whereas i think many of the christians believe that the jews are carrying the original text so we have a big problem because they whoever they are we don't know who they are right they have no trust there's there's no trust and we've been living with these people in the land for the last you know since we've come back last several hundred years they've been around and if they are hostile they believe that we are the sons of the devil that we are the worst corrupt you know i don't want to say you know even in the christian world the word pharisees has a very negative connotation well the quran i should say their their teachings are on the same level or worse you know when they think of the corruption of the jewish people so we're faced with you know in the last seven years i've lived here over 30 years we some of us get along with some of these these people and there was a lot of trust built i want to tell you just from a practical point of view i'm not a political scientist what i'm telling you now is over the last few days any trust that was built up is gone totally gone totally i mean i i can't even so why do i bring this up i said this is going to be an academic discussion but what i believe is this is now going to become a real discussion like like we have to talk about it at this point right what to do with this i'm not going to call them indigenous because they're not indigenous they might be native but they're not indigenous to this area what are we going to do with them so there was a knesset member who was actually a religious person a rabbi who was ousted from the knesset they called him racist now i i don't think he was racist at all but that's in fact i think his favorite line was i don't hate the arabs he says i just love the jews so in other words you may perceive him as an arab hater but he really says i just love i have tremendous love for the jewish people when he was supposed to be sworn in which i think the swearing-in ceremony at the knesset he was a member of knesset um you basically pledge allegiance to the state of israel he didn't feel comfortable doing that he said i will only pledge allegiance to the torah and of course that was that that was not uh that didn't go over so well he was assassinated by the way and if anybody wants to guess they could put it into the comments below of who it is that i'm talking about he was for one of the proposals he put into the knesset i don't think it got anywhere was that every non-jew that's living in the land of israel must come before it based in a jewish court and make a public proclamation that they will keep the seven noah laws as i described already in you know what i mean like knowing saying i know that the torah is from god and the jews have a special mission and i support their mission can you imagine imagine if that would have happened it didn't happen and maybe maybe something similar to that will come about we don't know we don't know we're in a very tight situation but let's now proceed with the most amazing at least for now all of king david's psalms are amazing i'm going to read it you know there's just so much to say it's really verse 6 that we're going to focus on but let's read from the beginning a song of ascents by david i rejoice when they said to me let us go to the house of hashem now he didn't build the house of hashem but he knew it was going to be built by his son so this would have made him so happy our feet stood within your gates oh jerusalem when anybody this is you know when anybody would come to you shall lie on the holidays especially it was so overcrowded and packed there really was no room people were shoulders to shoulder yet there was never a problem lodging everyone always had space and when they prostrated themselves when we prostrate ourselves on the temple mount not only did we have enough room to spread out everyone's hands nobody there was nobody touching anybody it was a miracle and i just also had while we're watching the news or listening to the news or reading the news whatever it is we're hearing the gratitude from so many of these victims you know these victims of pogroms of rocket attacks um there's no such thing as a secular jew although you know when you answer you're religious or not i am i'm not religious there's no such thing most of these jews who appear and seem to be irreligious are just out of their mouths is praising hashem the words that i'm so commonly hearing is when their house is totally destroyed or their cars are destroyed it's only money it's only reheat it's only property thank god you know we're still alive or even for those that are beaten that are they're not dead i mean of course we do have and we should be praying right we should be feeling the pain of anybody who is experiencing first-hand pain um the built-ups jerusalem is like a city that is united together i mean the hebrew is so much more beautiful but jerusalem is i mean we talked about we've talked about the idea that you shalim is a plural there's an upper city meeting in heaven that's muhuban that's directly in line with this the lower city of yusuf lion there's a whole idea in fact in numbers that's how there's a relationship even to the parsha that there is this relationship when we have the the the 12 tribes laid out you know sorted out three on each side and you have the khanim in the middle the beam in the middle basically this is mimicking it's it's a sample of what's really going on in heaven as well we are god's represented on this earth there's a kingdom of god on this earth yes it's true we are not fully living up to our side but it will happen where everything will line up and the jewish people are growing so if you know any jewish people who aren't they yet in line encourage them to keep kosher to love god to love the fellow jews to keep shabbat anyway let's go on and for the tribes ascended the tribes of god the testimony for israel to give thanks to the name of hashem the part that i'm going to get into about uh shavuous is that god comes down and he sends the torah and the jewish moshe goes up moses is our representative this idea that the tribes ascended meaning that whatever and there's like this um special relationship with hashem coming down and us going up i want to talk about that a bit a little bit later when we get into the shibuya's part but this idea is very interesting for their set thrones of judgment thrones for the house of david now this is the one verse really the whole thing is important pray for the peace of jerusalem jerusalem represents israel jerusalem is the heart of the jewish people and when there is peace here there's peace everywhere i mean real peace i don't mean the peace we've had for the last 70 years that's not peace those who love you will be serene real chava and that's for non-jews as well right you pray for the peace of you shall lie those who love you that means the jewish people that means jerusalem that means god they will find true serenity may their peace be within your war now this least what i'm about to say in english we sing every shabbat may there be peace within your wall serenity within your palaces for the sake of my brethren and my companions i shall speak of peace in your midst for the sake of the house of hashem our god i will request good for you amazing amazing commentary i have in front of me i don't think that um i don't know how much time i want i want to put into the commentary right now i want to talk about the general idea so if anybody who's watching wants to add anything right now i will read this last piece about pray for the peace of jerusalem the holy blessing he said to israel it was you the jewish people you caused my temple to be destroyed we we that's when there's a lot of jewish guilt see we know right we don't we're not going to blame right now even even these going who are coming out after us it's our fault because of our sins this idea whatever hashem's doing it's to bring unity it's to bring us to a higher level okay and also my children to be driven into the exile it's our fault we say it all the time we don't blame the romans we're not blaming the the babylonians we say because of our sins we've been exiled this is part of our prayers all i ask is you pray for the peace of jerusalem and i will forgive you imagine that we're sinners we're exiled but we're in our hearts right the jews have always faced in the west towards the east further east toward the west from moscow to the south south africa to the north we're always and we're always reminding ourselves and praying for the peace of jerusalem should be rebuilt whether it's in the prayers that we say thrice valley in the in the benching right in the blessings after the meals and how moreover he who loves peace fosters peace and greets his fellow men with the blessing peace unto you shalom will surely be granted a good portion in this world and a share in the world to come remember this those who bless the jewish people will be blessed don't forget that so all those naysayers out there the anti-semites you got what's coming to you i mean you heard i i don't have to warn you you've been warned before okay i'm sure you've heard it those who love you will be serene the exiled jews who mourn over the destruction of jerusalem and pine to see her glory are called those who love her right the jews want and desire you shall lie in this the state the the land of israel to be flourishing there should be peace here okay there's so much to talk about um i want to now go over to the olessa frying because that part is dealing with sugars okay now i did forget to uh print out my own uh copies of the um the english source sheet so i'm gonna have to take some time and open up the hamish which is not a big deal but um then it begins by telling us about a medrush first of all the vote the verse is a verse in um exodus chapter 19 verse 3. it says moses went up to god moses went up to god okay chapter 19 in exodus verse 3. so he brings down a measure that speaks about all of the desires of hashem it's actually a verse also in psalms 1 15 verse 3. all the the desires of hashem the heavens and the earth do all that god wants the heavens and the earth perform now what does that mean so he brings down an analogy it's similar to what a king who makes a decree on his own people now if the king is of rome he told his roman people don't go down to syria and he told the people of syria don't go up to rome don't go down don't go up well there were days that came and the king wanted to marry a woman from syria so what happens so he stood up and he um he voided he he abolished his own decree and he said from here on he from here on onwards and the people of rome can go down to syria and the people of syria come up to rome and i'm going to be the first one to do it remember he wants to marry someone from the other group this is exactly what a kurdish borough who did when he created the world he said he first said right there's a verse in psalms 1 it's actually 115 verse 15. the heavens the heavens are the heavens of god and the earth but the earth was given to man so the heavens belonged to hashem but the earth was given to man um israel hashem himself wanted to give the torah to the jewish people how can he it's a different world it's a different uh he said from here on onwards now right we're dealing with the verse that moses goes up so he allowed the people from below to come up the the urdu el yoni mata now we have to discuss what does it mean who's the el yoni is it the angels is it himself or is it his torah we'll see but he says i'm going to go down first and that's why there's another verse in exodus chapter 19 verse 24 where it says god went down to mount sinai the yard hashem al-arsinai and afterwards it says moses goes up fine so i would say now that's the language and that that tries to explain what does it mean that all that god desires was done in both the heavens and on the earth so basically he says like this the way the world works the way that the world works is according to what is really close or what is really far amongst the different people different creations of the world there's a certain ahava right everyone has a certain sense of love or everyone has different sets of attributes now we're talking about the difference between a a slave and a son-in-law which according to many would might be the same thing okay i don't hear anybody laughing but okay so the evid the slave loves his master more than anything else remember he's getting prizes however the truth is about a son-in-law who takes the daughter so he's even more loved than the slave why because he chose he chose the reddest we're going to discuss this idea of what is in the heavens above what's the earth below meaning man is down below and yet he goes up we're going to discuss this because israel is the hassan israel is married to the torah right god daughter is the torah and we marry the the torah so this idea is um very clear to anybody who will understand according to the rabbis they explain that there's a concept now you may not agree with it but this is what is true and it it may sound um sac religious in other religions but we don't believe in other religions and the statement is like this you can find this in sanhedrin that righteous people yoter means they're truly righteous people and i'm gonna add right because it doesn't say jews even righteous gentiles are certainly greater than the heavenly angels than the administering angels and there are verses that testify and proclaim to this let's read the words again the that prove the many many verses that prove and show the greatness of the righteous person over the angels which is which goes against the opinion of either the scientist here i think it means philosophers those people who are studying and investigating why things happen and the reason for the matter is it's not hidden and it's not so far from any intelligent person to understand so a malach an angel has no free will they don't have any free will but that siddiqim do things berats on top but they make free will choices and decisions and choose good it's already known basharim in in the gates the itaranoise of beratzon how great it is to do things from your own free will free will than doing something that you were forced to do great and this is betsy mchefdel and this is going to be the real difference between what we call the evid which is the slave and the hassan which is the son because what it is about the slave he does it all in order in order to receive a prize and that's why we look at his actions as if they're forced but the hassan the son-in-law he's only doing it out of love so too the angels now the angels are somewhere in between because what they are they're they're called they're called servants and they are doing it willingly but all of their actions the copula to him even though they're not doing it they're not doing it to receive a prize but they are doing it forcefully meaning that they don't have free will they have no yates in hara they have no evil inclination that is found amongst them they don't even know what evil is okay so now we're going to get into this idea that the jewish people are called the hassanim they're called the sun laws the in-law the the son-in-laws to and they marry the daughter of hashem now this is very interesting because in particular it speaks about when a person sells his daughter now this is a very interesting idea it's for the sake of marriage and anyway she's young but she's not really married until she turns of age and she can refuse so basically it's a really nice loan to the father it may become a dowry in the end it may uh she may stay married to the to the to the master or the master son but it's up to her she can refuse okay so basically if a father sells the daughter fine but when she goes out she doesn't go out like other slaves and that's going to be very important because that's called a bizayong so here we go i had one daughter this is according to god's word and that was the torah that i gave over to you and you should not treat it with the bisayon minhad bisayong in a disgraceful manner and he quotes the verse here locate say could say to avadin she shouldn't go out when when she goes free she goes with a nice amount of money and uh there's a refusal okay mira the fire is busy on there shinzer so it seems like this bizarron is mentioned in the midrash is don't act with it don't don't act with it like a kurdum [Music] the main idea is don't use the torah for your own crown for your own to become great okay you want to learn the torah learn the torah the shema but when you when you there are people i don't know anybody like this but who learn only in order to raise money or they only learn torah in order to glorify themselves to make themselves really great this is called a bizayan and what he's going to explain is that it's like the object like you use an axe that's basically cardumos to or a chisel that you're going to make a beautiful object out of wood with well guess what if you could use a different uh instrument that's better you would just throw that away that's that's not how the torah works the torah you love the torah and you're married to the torah you're not going to throw it away for something better so he'd listen to his words but as soon as you reach that level of superiority over other people you just go ahead and not learn the term anymore right if you're using the turret to get to a certain point a status in society or whatever it is as soon as you reach that then you would just abandon the tar same idea once you created your thing or you um or you found a different object that worked better you would just get rid of it right if you found a different object you could just use that and get rid of the the axe or the chisel it's not nice however since it's actually impossible without it but since you can't use anything else you can only use it and that's the only reason you're doing it so then you would continue using you basically marry your your work uh the shame cover the mama this is what people who learn torah just for the sake of of their own honor or to to raise money or to get money that the higher effort right if they were able to accomplish the same money or stature in society without learning tur they certainly would have done so let's see how he's comparing it this is certainly considered a disgrace therefore it says lotte say when you get rid of your your young handmaiden slave don't get rid of her like the other slaves and then this other idea don't act like the evid who works to serve his master in order to receive a reward but rather it should be like a hassan act like the bridegroom that serves his father-in-law out of love for his daughter who he had married now there is another piece here that i want to share this idea there are three things on what when the world stands on three things right torah avodah and so basically vote i just mentioned this idea perkia vote one and then right after ruby shown at sadiq um you have antigone and he says that you should not serve your master in order to receive a reward so what the uh the old safrian wants to do is connect them these three ideas right torah a vote is going to be prayer and is as we know charity and kind acts because the world was created because it not only was it created in kindness but was also created for free okay now based on that there's a verse right the world was created it stands as built upon we understand it's built it stands on these three pillars and all of them all three should always be nominally allowed should always be free i'm reading this to you i'm discussing this with you because it's arif suckers basically and the term is given to us for free and it's our obligation to share this right just like a candle right if i had to give you a candle i could charge you for the candle but if i had a candle and you needed a light from me so you come with your candle and say can i get a light so i'm going to hold it up for you to grab a light now how can i charge you it's low husserly i'm not lacking anything you're not taking anything away from me what am i giving you i'm helping you out stay warm to eat cook eat hot food delicious food okay so let's go on in that a person is not going to ask he shouldn't ask for any kind of prize or reward or something like this he's going to he actually benefits himself if you're benefiting how can you charge somebody and not only that if you're not hussain if it's not lacking for you how much more for something where you will benefit your strength okay it's something helps culture came where you're going to benefit your friend and it's not even enough that you're not going to be lacking anything but what's going to happen is in even you're going to benefit so much that you're not going to ask the person for anything in return right isn't that the most beautiful situation where you can help somebody with you without asking them for anything that would be great so these three things torah of odin fit in perfectly how does it like this he says these three things all of them are always free torah it says in deuteronomy chapter 4 verse 5 see i gave to you today right i've given you this wisdom right so basically we learn from there ma just like i hashem taught you and gave you the torah for free so too when you teach torah you should not charge let's just i want to just open it up deuteronomy chapter four verse five so read the whole verse see i've taught you decrees and ordinances as hashem my god has commanded me to do this is moses talking to them moses taught us for free to do in the midst of the land to which you come to possess it so too god gave to moses moses gave to us nobody charged us anything it's it's just inappropriate right there are teachers that will charge based on their time i.e the time of preparation transportation perhaps pay them not to work but that's a whole nother issue the idea is not to use it to make money kimosha loved him moses taught us the torah out of so much love as it was said and therefore it's most logical that he would give it to us for free he loved it even abraham i remember roshiva not weinberg when you really love somebody right you love god you want to bring other people to god because listen if it's a human being and you love that human being but if you share him with other people him or her that means less time for you but it doesn't work like that with hashem right hashem is infinite there's no limit so if i say to you look man there's a god out there and have a relationship with him right i'm not going to be lacking by sharing this unbelievable possible relationship the next idea is that also what do we say who do you learn the most from my students well so i'm going to gain so much the more students i have and it's even if it's one that's i should i'm going to charge my student to learn with me i'm getting more from him than he's getting from me right around and all those other people out there right stephen okay so too okay um tommy die you'll tell me cool you can love me why would i try to get more money from somewhere else when i'm already getting so much from my student so too a servant now here we said service a voter should belay this prayer okay what does it mean when you pray right i pray very nice but when you pray for another human being you the same needs as he has but you pray for him first guess who gets answers first you do so now think about that right you're getting so much more in return when you pray got that and the last point is that i mean i'll just read the hebrew because it's beautiful right beautiful um the royal vacation obviously makes sense not to even request from your friend any any type of reward what about him so there's a verse in mishlai proverbs 11 24 yesh mafaze when you scatter it's talking about giving that money when you scatter the money you get so much more in return let's just look at it we said it's proverbs 11 24. 11 24 says like this there is one who scatters and gathers more and one who refrains from what is proper only for a loss so the more you give out the more you get in return so why would you charge for that it's a beautiful piece of you're getting so much in return okay so i know this was probably a little bit of a shorter class we didn't use the text as much as we usually do i know i dealt with text i'm asking all of my listeners right pray for the peace yerushalayim get into king david's own words he himself suffered tremendously he is the soul he's the heart of the jewish people and we are suffering tremendously right now so when we pray for yerushalayim keep in mind we're actually praying for ourselves this really fits in well because everything emanates from jerusalem pray for us pray for this area pray for the heart of the jewish people right yerushalayim and david are like synonymous with each other he's the heart of the jewish people you wish alignment is the heart of the jewish people when you pray for the peace of your shallam i think you're really connecting to the whole mission right you're praying for the temple you're praying for the jewish people return you're praying for peace and since everything emanates from here you shall lie emanates right the shepherd the bracha ultimately comes from the higher you shaline down below that then it it goes out to the rest of the world and so it sounds maybe a little bit selfish but everything we've discussed here it's booking it's not selfish it's being selfless and by being selfless you're actually getting so much in return don't be like a serpent who serves as master in order to receive a reward you're you're already getting plenty right you're getting so much and bizarre to shem with that in mind this was a little bit of an introduction to matin torah martin tara is a gift god gave it to us listen to rabbi bridowitz it's no longer in heaven so to speak it's now here what are we going to do with it use it right it's an instruction manual and it will bring if we can bring peace to ourselves right we just read in psalms 122 bring peace to ourselves bring peace to our city bring peace to the country bring peace to the world it starts with having kevana right having the right intention so now i'm going to open up the questions or comments and i want to hear from different people i know a lot of people's minds i don't think it's going to answer everything but um i think this is going to be a new fad a new turn of events where people were afraid politically uh everyone had to be pc everyone had to be politically correct and couldn't talk about the things we talked about tonight in terms of what a real gyartoshav is in terms of um you know asking unwanted guests to leave and i don't see any other solution that doesn't i'm not a politician so i'm not running on any ticket but i don't believe this is a political issue this is a religious issue i think it's a religious issue now there was another piece i did want to actually um focus in on and that was at the end of this article by um i rabbi malamad he says like this we hope for peace but we still may not but we still may have to go through wars and crisis if however we keep in mind the goal of fulfilling the of settling the land we can work to ensure that the outcome of the wars and crisis will be the expulsion of hostile foreigners from our country and the encouragement of immigration of those who do not support the state of israel's jewish identity as a vision for the many nations in other words all over the world if people understand what this means they understand what aguero toshov really means so gareth is required to accept upon himself two principles the first is to recognize the national and religious identity of the native citizens and to bear the burden of national challenges these of the enemy were competing cultures the second is the acceptance of the seven of high commandments which includes proper moral behavior so any any any questions or comments i didn't follow the the song in the sun he says anyone i i would be glad that anyone tell me let's go to hashem's temple but at that time during david's time there's no temple how do you understand that right okay yes yes well this is what he says over here this is a very good very good question very good um when it says you shall lie you shall i shall be built up the built up you shall lie david foresaw that his son solomon would build up the spiritual nature of jerusalem by cons by construction by constructing its most imposing edifice the temple that's where the shrine would dwell but uh he says to me oh i rejoice hashem i rejoice when they said to me let us go up and down david right this is what he says rashi close to thomas okay which states that dubbed had a conversation with god and this is what david said to god sovereign of the universe i overheard people saying remember i told you david suffered greatly see the future no listen to what he heard people say when is that old man david going to die so that we could build the temple everyone knew because it was the creed dublin would not build the temple yeah so let's say you wanted to build the temple would you assassinate david wouldn't that bring the temple closer to being built so david saw the the the listen house holy and selfless davids i overheard people saying when would the old man david die so that his son solomon may build a temple and enable us to make the festival pilgrimage to the house of hashem when i heard this i rejoice king david himself rejoiced ins he rejoiced the people knew the temple could not be built by dover was king instead of being dismayed dove had rejoiced because it demonstrated how intensely the people yearn to serve god instead thank you okay it's a pretty wild state but god was not pleased by the people's longing for solomon's reign and he answered you can see this in psalms 84 11. far better a day in your current than a thousand in other words while dave was still alive it was better to have him doing whatever he was doing than solomon bringing a thousand corbanos a day because david's dedication to learning torah dubbing a single day of your devoted torah study in my presence surpasses a thousand burnt offerings that solomon will sacrifice uh before me on the temple mount did that does that answer your question another question you said three pillars right torah [Music] it's very complicated go nail is to um bestow giving kasich if it didn't say go always given if you say faster how can you say ah i i have a headset in my heart i don't do anything so i think that the expression sounds really if you feel for someone if you're feeling for someone but if you're feeling for someone i said it just means not always given i could feel for you do you know what it is that could mean something in your heart and that was action right now actually that's good my husband is that you've given to others also it's this is the double thing it's that you're giving and sometimes let me just say goodbye to stephen stephen be well have a shivers uh i'm just going to ask you to mute himself thanks julia i know for example it's like something like mercy right it could be in your heart but it's not not with my hands it's a lot of times here i i i feel confident i feel terrible for them i feel horrible what's going on but for me it's more like uh i feel like that's my biggest pray for custody it's the biggest hustle i can do i'm not doing anything i'm not picking up anything i'm just praying well what's bothering you the fact that the word gomez uses words what does it add two words it's very hard for me to to remember that the classic go go should do two different words right go mail is to bestow the truth is let me just tell you you know every time you look a word up in the dictionary you'll find eight right eight possible definitions it's related to the word retiring someone who's gimmel government gimbal someone who's a drug addict and withdraws it's go now what does that have to do with bestowing so you have to ask yourself what does the word mean that that is necessary to add to the word yeah i think it's more related to the meaning of hesse itself could be something only in your heart or it could be both action okay because the word gomer seems superfluous just use the word cassette so what is gumball at it's also based on the word cow a camel is an animal that stores its own liquid i guess i don't know water in its hump it can go a long time right two stomachs right huh i don't know how many stomachs there's a hump in the back i don't know anything about i don't really know the biology of the candle i've heard i've been told that it can drink a lot of water and then travel to the desert without drinking because it's somehow already being stored in the hub whatever that means i have no idea we have to concentrate and ask like you said i don't get it what's the gomel doing i know what it is so it's somehow you have to meditate and figure out what the common denominator is between all these usages of the words and how that adds to the question how that is one of the things that i personally thought about recently is about when someone retires let's just say when someone gets old we we are diving into hashem don't forget us in our old age right there's a there's a lot of it that we're requesting when we're going now when you're gone now the question is are you still giving or are you only receiving and when someone retires i think okay usually that means they're only receiving it they gave their whole life now they're retired not your judaism now you're full of wisdom now people should come to you be alive don't think of yourself as old it's not good give think of yourself as a giver right you're in retirement meaning from a certain aspect of your life but now you're you're save up now you're full of wisdom you hear what i'm saying you it's a chance to give back anyway i think it's a good question what does go mail add to the hesse and i'm just letting you know look up in the dictionary for yourself take some time meditate on what the actual word go means and why it's necessary to instruct you to be to bestow it and i think yakuza also mentions like it requires in most cases action in many cases kindness loving companies for me it's always a gesture of kindness by action through action otherwise how what can you show that it has to be given to extend right look we're not focusing on the whole show and hesse and maybe we'll introduce what does it mean to really do hesit but you know those words go together just you should know it's not just in this the second mission the third mission of perky huh and also it's a plural plural form very good of kindness yeah as opposed to just an accident well torah i know it sounds singular but we knew we do know there's two taurus there's an orator written torah and every single i just want to mention every single shoeless basically every single person has a letter in the torah you are in the torah you are represented by a letter in the 600 000 letters and 600 000 jews let's say rude souls somehow another you your story your life everything about you is already in the torah torah is singular no i don't think so to feel it's like a vulgar curbanos prayer every word every thought every action is so you test it maybe you think you just do one question it's enough maybe it has to be plural i don't know i'm just throwing this out i don't know yeah for me to to make uh to make the whole expression sounds nice better the the same length of the word not one word in one word and two words and then and the other was when it comes when it comes to the written torah hashem dictated letter from letter word for word this expression from uh yeah i'm talking about the the written i'm saying the written torah god dictated letter for letter word for word and he had reasons why right when it comes to oral torah the rabbi who taught it wanted to make sure that his thought got across and he would choose which words to use in order to get that across and the earlier you know the most ancient text we will discuss why did he use that word instead of this word and we'll come up with ideas you know what i mean because it's important but it's not as i'm not saying it's not necessarily the written term in terms of every letter okay but it's worth it's worthwhile this is called a voda you join the jewish people this is what we do we sit and we are philosophized we dig deep into the meaning of what the mission is trying to teach us right more books have been written on purchase vote than any other i think i got it maybe i could be wrong i think perkawa is still up there between the haggadah and perkial there's more books written on these two things so you have plenty of material to go through okay i am sure in the last three you know let's say since the mission was written down anyway in the last 1800 years there's plenty of people who've written on on on your question and so you'll get a deeper insight and then you come up with your own your own insight to why it says go well hassan and i'm sure there's gematrias and this that the other thing you know what i mean there's no end to the amount of research you could do it's deep i'm sure it also goes well with the concept with a gamak you wouldn't come out with that word you heard of gamak it's a good question that's an abbreviation point it's abbreviation for gomer wow if someone needs a loan listen there's a book there's a book used to be this thick that it used to be real printed book looks like a phone book called the um madrid now it's all online it's also printed stuff anyway there's a section like this stick double that please that's how it wouldn't come it's like you need chairs there's like every city has a gamaka chairs you need baby bottles and shamans pacifiers you need tools you need this you need that yes everything you name it there's a cab driver i know so i don't know it's such a popular concept to call a gomer so for us we don't it's i'm saying it's a good question we don't even think about it what's the gomel add to the hesse and i think that it's i think it's a good question but i think that it also teaches you that it's to to bestow because that's what the word means to you know yeah don't take it for granted i love you i love you we know a lot of people [Music] is [Music]