Prepare for Redemption and Salvation on Purim: Why and Who is Amalek? with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

anybody [Music] Shalom alaikum everybody welcome back to the internet Bank midrash welcome home to Torah and uh we are on the eve of Purim right Emporium is just around the corner and instead of doing Parsha tatsave we are going to do something absolutely amazing and fundamental this Parsha obviously it's tatsave but we all call it Parsha zachar because Zohar has read that we read let in Deuteronomy chapter 25 verses 17-19 that's we're going to actually read but that is the second time a mullet comes and attacks us and then God tells us to remember what a mug did to you on the way when you left Egypt referring back to not only the second time but also the first time that he came to attack Us in the middle of the desert soon after we left Egypt I just want to mention right what we deal with here is the fundamentals we want everyone to learn Hebrew so we have Hebrew sheets that you could actually find Down Below in the in the YouTube description box and we hope that you will um follow along in the Hebrew and if you don't well you can always ask me send me an email and we'll send you the English it's not translation but it's a supplement to some of the sources that the clear car is going to mention now the clear car I'm not going to go into who the clear car is you have to listen to some of the previous shooting we've got the whole detail of his life story an amazing person uh lived 400 years ago I died for introducer I should say and the basis of a discussion is based on his writings and he was the talmud he was the star student of the maharral the Maharaja Prague and here we go so we're in chapter 17 of shmos this is parshus bashalach and it says viavo amalek villain in Israel that a Molly can't and Ward Ward fought with Israel battled Israel in a place called rafeding we all know it's rafed him and that's believe it or not if you go back to chapter 17 verse 1 it says the encampton repeat him so we already know we already know anybody that reads the Bible knows they they were interfeeding it's just seven verses prior so why does the daughter have to tell us that they came and battled us in a place called graffiti why does it have to repeat it there must be a message and for those who went through Rabbi bragging always this year you can listen to it on the uh you you've been a YouTube channel everybody talks about it but let's begin with the clear car so the clear car says believe it or not there's drushim that explain it or brought down two things it is brought that a Malik is compared to or analogous to a fly let me just give you a brief description a fly is extremely persistent it's extremely bothersome and where does it end up Landing right at the edge of your nose right or right at the edge of your eye or on your earlobe or right by your mouth I'll tell you the truth it's looking for an opening and it's we're going to talk about it this is a mullic they're it's searching ready to pounce at the slightest little opening then there's a second part of the medrish mashallah Malik I'll explain that a king sets up a very nice Vineyard and a huge fence and he puts a watchdog inside and inside well if you don't go inside you're okay so he tells his soldiers don't breach the fence if you breach the fence you're going to get bit the king's very own son breaches the fence and gets bit without going into further any further details you can imagine the King's son or the Jewish people the dog is a malach if you've reach the fence you cause an opening a breaching offense is a very fancy term right of like uh God gave us these rules these laws it's offense and when we break through the rules uh there are negative consequences let's read on now the clear card and the second line down says bior hamasho this shivrahu the explanation of this analogy and the way it's broken down or the application is bringing us all the way back to the beginning of time in history there's a verse in Genesis chapter 4 verse 7. when Cain and Abel cayenne and Heather they bring corbanos one of those corbanos was accepted one of the offerings was accepted and the others was the other was not Cain kinds often was not accepted and he was despondent you just have to read The Narrative nevertheless Hashem says to him I want you to look on number two on the English Source sheet although the truth is I want to go back to that Rashi on the first verse let's do that let's just go back to Rashi on the first verse I'm sorry for going out of order but I asked earlier on when we read um when we read on Shabbos chapter 25 Deuteronomy it's it's a little bit different okay so here it's saying that a mullet came in a place called rafidi because this was the first time the question the major question that's going to be asked is why did God put this juxtaposition right the the location of our verse which is verse 8 in chapter 17. right next to or right before verse 7. see you have to look at the actual Narrative of verses 1 through 7. so I think I already mentioned in verse one it mentions their interfeeding okay and then they complain they encamped it or feed him and then there was no water for the people to drink okay there was no Mayan and they asked give us water so we can drink so Moses is saying why are you like contending with me the Hebrew is why are you fighting with me so they're fighting with Moshe and not only that he has two questions so why are you fighting with me and why are you testing Hashem so there's two things that Moses is letting us know is happening there's there's quarrels amongst the people with him and there is some kind of maybe a disconnect a distrust uh with Hashem why are you testing Hashem you know the people thirsted there for water the people complained against Moshe and it is said why is it that you brought us up out of Egypt to kill me and my children my lost my livestock through thirst so the people were complaining now this is an important okay one sec we're not there yet Moses cried out to Hashem what should I do for this people a bit more and they're going to Stone me verse 5. God tells them what to do pass before the people take with you some of the Elders of Israel and in your hand take your staff which you struck the river back then in Egypt that very staff that you use to strike the river which made the water on what's the word on undrinkable right and because it became blood and go behold I shall stand before you by the rock of you're going to strike the Rock and water drinkable water is going to come forth and from it the people drink Moses did so in the sight of everybody now Moses calls this place Masa um which is a I'm not it's not a play on the word but we said that they were contending with Moshe which is miriva and they were testing Hashem which is Masa so Moses names the very place about what was happening there in the narrative and it says because of the contention of the children of Israel that we said there were two things happening one there was we'll have to talk about the word Riv al-rhythm Israel it's not just they were fighting with Moshe but they were fighting amongst each other that's what the word implies and because of the test of Hashem which the next part of the verse is going to explain a little bit better as Hashem now what did they say what do they say Hashem Ayan a question is God amongst us or not now the question cannot be does God exist or not because they just experience it's the same generation it's only a few weeks later they just experienced a whole year of 10 of 10 plagues they experienced the crossing of the sea right they come on what's going on here Miracle after Miracle after miracle so they can't be asking is there a God they're wanting to they're wanting to know something deeper what about the actual relationship can we rely on Hashem we know he exists it's really it's really very uh it's a it's a pellet question it's really a wondrous question because they certainly experienced all these ex um all these miracles okay so I gave you some background a little bit to that oh we didn't go into the Rashi I'm sorry let's go back so Rashi on verse 17 verse 8 says that God himself right he made a juxtaposition between is god with us or not to the coming of a Malik I want you to understand this is very deep as soon as we start to wonder about our relationship with God we have doubts in fact the very word doubt and the word amalek is the same Gematria as soon as we begin to have doubts in our relationship with God how strong the bond is a Malik comes and attacks let's go back to Russia again he juxtaposed this section to the verse is the Lord in our midst or not implying I'm always among you and I'm always prepared for all your Necessities that's what God is saying and means but you say you the Jewish people is the Lord in our midst or not and then God Says by your life the dog will come and bite you who's the dog we saw the analogy earlier it's a Malik and then you're going to cry out to me and then you're going to know where I am so is it such a bad thing to have the dog bite us so that we're remembering and we have a relationship with God listen if we could be cognizant of our relationship with Hashem all the time we don't need the dog to bite us it's only when we forget or become lacks or in doubt in any way then the dog will come and bite us and Raja continues and he brings down another analogy this can be compared to a man who mounted his son on his shoulder and he said out on the road imagine the young child is sitting on the shoulder of his father and they're walking down the road and whenever the son saw anything you can imagine children are quite amazing they said can I have this pick you know can I have that and the father would bend down pick it up give it to the child you're following and so he says father take that thing for me and the father would give it to him now as they're walking they meet a man can you imagine what this child says to this man he says do you know where my father is hello the kid is sitting on his father's shoulders he but he forgot you know the children forget quite easily but this is this is incredible he says have you seen my father now the father right away he brings the child down from his his um his shoulders you don't know where I am he threw his son down off of him and then a dog came and bit the Sun and then what happens the son realizes this the father's protecting him the whole time okay the message continues there's another measures the king representing by God placed in a Vineyard a dog that bites the king said to anyone breaches the fence will beat and be bitten by a dog happens to be the son of the king comes and breaches the fence and he's bitten by the dog and therefore you have this idea is God Among Us okay let's go back now to the where the clear card is leading us he mentioned all this is mentioned earlier on in braceheat meaning he discusses it under the verse in chapter 4 verse 7 where God says to Cayenne that sin is resting at the door go to number two it's chapter four verse 7 number two on the source Sheen is it not so that if you improve it will be forgiving you this for many of my students who have left Christianity I show them this they're like I can't believe I never saw this hello imtative if you improve you will be forgiven do you understand what does god require of you chuva he wants you to improve fix your character work on yourself the imlotative if you don't improve if you don't work on your character then what's going to happen then at the opening sin is crouching at the opening at the entrance sin is ready to pounce but guess what yes he desires you he wants you he's he's longing for you but you can control him you have the ability to control the Yates Sahara look at Russia on that if you do not right it is it not so if you improve that means to work on your character improve your Deeds okay at the entrance sin is lying actually I want to go to the next one and to you it is longing that's the evil inclination which constantly Longs and lusts to cause you to stumble but you can overrule it you can rule over it if you wish you can overrule it you can overpower it okay it's beautiful introduction everything we're doing is right now up until now as an introduction now the clear card the last two words on that page says that the rabbis make an analogy they actually do in Gamora brajo 61a it says that the the the um a Malik is like a zoof it's like a fly what is it about a fly I already discussed this idea how persistent it is and how it goes for the opening but the way hazal describe it is absolutely beautiful that when it comes to when it comes to the fly the power of its mouth is halush very weak it's not that strong it cannot penetrate it cannot make a hole in healthy flesh it's going to look for an opening or a wound of some sort of scab let's see what he says however a place such as that the fly would find such as a morsa an ABS abscess or a screen some kind of boil some kind of open wound that's right there there's already a small opening in the flesh sham your Bots that's where the fly is going to sit and pounce or begin to have his meal and at that point where there's a small little opening because remember his mouth is very weak at that point that's where he will extend or enlarge in the opening Sahara this is exactly how the Y8 Sahara acts of and in this case we're also talking about amalekir because it's compared to the zoo does not have the abilities it doesn't have the power to join up combine himself by a righteous person a sadhi someone who is let's just say perfected themselves they're working on perfecting themselves okay and therefore there's not going to be an opening for him to be able to break through in order that you would end up requiring sonido which implies purification of any sort and sprinkling of any sort I want to take you to and where is it on the sushi and one second number three zecharia Chapter 13 Verse 1. on that day a spring shall be open for the house of dovid and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem for purification and for sprinkling interesting it will be open but not in this in this sense but anyway the base David usually you would think this is a very negative thing it's interesting many of the words in Hebrew are double meanings positive and negative sohatas would usually we refer to as a sin or a sin offering here's talking about the purification process and Nida which is when a woman is in menstrual menstrual cycle She's Come kind of like you know outside the realm of normalcy you know pushed off so to speak here's talking about the actual sprinkling so when we're referring to this we're saying the need for the need for any kind of purification or sprinkling that the Satan has no uh what's the word he doesn't even have an opening to cause the this process to be necessary that's how we're going to understand this idea now let's continue in the clear card so he says ah however even though this Satan or in this case the zvuv or amalek right in the Satan has no abilities to cause one to become impure that they need any kind of purification but if someone themselves makes themselves tummy makes themselves impure right by opening that fence so to speak so someone who comes to miss tummy themselves to make themselves impure so that's the opening and Sham yerbatsa that's where the Satan that's where this move that's where Malik will come and make the breach in the fence even bigger now the next six words are very tricky marpa I would translate this until reaches up a level of Hamas even though there's parentheses there which implies it's either gamacha but there is something unique about the word but basically until goes up a certain amount of criminal activity okay that means the person will no longer be able to be healed now we believe in chuva we believe that no matter how far you go as long as that spark is always lit right that your soul is pure there's a chance of recovery of healing however there could be a point where there really isn't any return at least in addictions right you could hopefully recover at any point but unfortunately there are a few people that just can never recover because they're just so far gone so there's an interesting comment here regarding that statement I just want to find it here give me a second okay so it's based on endive 3616. where are we going to find this I think it's towards the end it actually might be the last Source on the last page right it's it's Source number 26. it's in second chronicles 36 16. this is regarding rebuke about the Jewish people but they mock The Messengers of God we had um we weren't listening to the prophets we were much doing much worse than that we despised his words and scoffed His prophets until the Lord's wrath ascended among his people Beyond remedy that's a great translation so the truth the truth is this verse does not use the word Hamas it actually says Hamas with us with the tough which is not pronounced like a summer Hashem in other words what the clear card is doing he's making a play for himself on the words that the Lord's wrath ascended upon people Beyond remedy Beyond repair okay so going back to our phrase the reason that those quotation marks are there is to show you that that's not exactly the word used in the verse but it's a understanding now truth be told we're talking about the verses talking about the anger of the Lord remember God is so merciful his anger is really you know overridden by his Mercy in many ways and that's really a plug for the 13 attributes of Mercy that I'm giving on um you'll find it on the atomic divorce Series in the link below um but so the actual verse in chronicle says Hashem the wrath of God over here the clear car is talking about the wrath of man if you look again how he phrases it might not the wrath of man sorry the criminal activity of man the criminal activity of man if you get so habituated and you don't do truva there could be a point where there is no return and I'm using the word habituated because it's not a one-off thing it's somebody who's really um not honest with themselves and has given up all hopes of of mankind right of himself page 39a it's a very interesting Gamora I think I have it here we'll have to find it okay it's on it's number six on the store sheep it's really going to be based on another verse that verse you'll find in um let me just see where the part where it is it's in it's in viigra 1824. okay so what does it say over there in the gamar you know what let's go to um let's go to first 18 24. it's uh it says Ayla the gomor brings down the verse and it's number four in the sourishing now this 1824 follows in chapter 18 of the yikra of Leviticus all these illicit sexual relations one should not have many of them are incest towards the end you'll see there's homosexuality and bestiality these things if you do any of these things it's like you're defiling yourself you shall not defile yourselves by any of these things okay do not make yourself impure now go to number six where it actually discusses this verse in the school of Rabbi Ishmael was taught that sin I'm going to just say it like it is makes someone stupid okay sin stupefies the heart of a person who commits it now the truth is I don't always think of being stupid what I think of mitante matalave is that it causes someone to be insensitive meaning not sensitive to spiritual things and to me that's a stupid person but okay maybe I'm getting ahead of myself so sin causes someone his heart to become stupefied now listen to the he listen to the verse we just read it do not impurify yourselves with them we didn't read the whole thing oh this is actually in Leviticus 11 43. it's a different place but do not impurify yourselves with them so you should not become thereby impurified now that last word the knit May 10 we're going to read a little different so so in other words do not make yourselves impure so that you don't become impure it's interesting because that's what's happening you're opening a little bit and it's bringing you we say God leads you and leads you in the way you want to be in the way you want to right and Mitzvah gorer Mitzvah the the reward of a Mitzvah is a Mitzvah and Mitzvahs bring you they drag you towards more Mitzvahs when you do a sin it the the reward for the sin is another sin meaning it's God's leading you the way you want to go and the reward of the sin is a sin I mean amidst go I'm sorry averagorer of era it drags you in that direction listen to the words don't read the word as it's written but rather right that would imply that your hearts become stupid stupefied but rather oh by the way when someone is born with two genitals the male female we call them in it's called androgynous when someone is born with skin covering both we don't even know what it is male or female we call them 10. and that's the same word people call stupid people timtim right the same idea so in other words you have like a crust like there's a border there's something that is coarse about your heart you're not sensitive to hard things to to spiritual things so listen to what the Gomorrah says don't read it as your hearts become stupid rather the sage is taught the following with regard to it the other the the same verse do not impurify yourselves with them so that you shall not thereby be impurified meaning that a person and purifies himself a bit and then they impurify him greatly who's they it means the Angelic forces the the army of the Satan okay but really you're the one that took the initiative they're not doing it to you you're doing it to yourself so this is what happens the person and purifies himself a bit and then they these Angelic forces and purify them greatly if a person and purifies himself on his own volition below meaning in this world they impurify him even more so above in heaven and that implies also in the world to come if a person and purifies himself in this world they impurify him in the world to come conversely you have to know that it works the other way as well which is a beautiful thing right because there's a verse in Leviticus chapter 11 verse 44 sanctify yourselves and you will be Sanctified right sanctify yourselves and you will be Sanctified which means that a person who sanctifies himself a bit they the other Angelic forces will help you and assist you greatly if a person sanctifies himself Below in this world they sanctify him above if a person sanctifies himself in this world they sanctify him in the world to come okay so let's go back into the clear card where we left off and we just read this verse in vayikra Leviticus 18 24 and the clear card says that if a person impurfies himself even a small amount then there is this increase they're going to make your impurity even greater now he ends off this paragraph by saying Vishal to the very beginning chapter four I speak about this at length because that's really the place to talk about it not here but he made reference for a very good reason we're on the next paragraph so too the very same thing is true by amalek calls man Hashem the whole time the Jewish people are really complete at peace you know I had one with God Shalom and also there's peace amongst the Jewish people as well as cannot attack us they cannot make any inroads if we are unified with God and unified with each other just like when a Malik saw the Jewish people remember we said the juxtaposition where we asked is there God or not and immediately they come so just like the juxtaposition over there where it says we where we we were mariva those two words Masa means testing God mariva means quarreling with Moshe and each other that was regarding the the quarreling amongst the Jews there was the quarreling amongst them this is amazing if you don't know this ah hear it out that every encampment every encampment every time we rested and set up our tents every one of the encampments before Martin Torah it says it says meaning they encamped and that implies there was taromas um I mean you don't even have to you need that word you know that there was complaints and dissension amongst the Jewish people up until the time they arrived at harsinai by the very word who is constantly using I'm going to show you proof in a second like Rashi says impartials ISRO Chapter 19 Verse 2 of Exodus we have it on the sheets number eight they journeyed from rafeding they arrived in the desert of Sinai they encamped in the desert and then it says and Israel camp they're opposite the mountain as I mentioned that all the encampments it says viajanu and you see it here as well in the beginning of the verse but as they actually encamped opposite the mountain they actually encamped at Mount Sinai it says Israel that's singular Israel became solidified as one unit okay now look at Rashi there so let's just look at Rashi real quick on Exodus 19 2. it says they journeyed from rafidim and now this is 1902. now the question Rush yes why did the scripture have to repeat where they had journeyed didn't it already say we saw in 17 1 they were camped in rafeding it is known that they they journeyed from there but so listen to this but it's repeated in order to compare their Journey from rafini to their arrival at Sinai desert just as their arrive on the Sinai was with repentance so was their Journey from repeating with repentance they repented when a mullet came and attacked him the whole scenery everything that took place a mother coming to them and this is really interesting introspective and in in interesting what it has to do with Purim you realize that when a Haman received that ring when the hashvarosh took that ring off and gave it to Haman and says go ahead do what you want kill them I mean whatever hummin had already said he was going to do to the Jews that's called reality wake up call right oh my gosh that's when people do truva right well guess what you don't have to wait to that point but most humankind does unfortunately it is what it is so too it says they already the true event were feeding and we're gonna have to find out what we're feeding means and why Malik came there okay let's continue to the right the rashi rashi mentions and Israel and Camp there literally the Khan singular form denoting that they encamped there as one man with one heart as one person all of Israel is considered one but all the other encampments throughout the Torah right throughout the desert we're divided with complaints and strife by the word um okay now let's go back into the Clear Car we just mentioned that we said it been regarding parshus ISRO in Chapter 19 Verse 2 on the sotom is Hashem regarding their testing God so they were arguing that was that what does it mean to test God to contend with God to fight with God to argue with God Zilla Malik that's where a Malik found Matsu amolek they found that opening umakur and that would be the source for the need for purification and what happens right away who's going to purify us a Malik actually is that dog that's going to bite us that we're going to remember our relation with Hashem is our father our loving father who's protecting us now this you have to be sitting down when you hear this if you didn't understand what a Malik did but they added Tuma on top of Tuma remember we discussed the idea they have a little bit of tumor a little bit of impurity it increases the impurity and they did it through mishkav zakhar those words are found in the Torah when you talk about a man lying with another man in the way that a man should lie with a woman in this case we'll just translate it as sodomy but it's based on Deuteronomy chapter 25 verse 18 which we read this Shabbos it says remember remember what a Malik did to you that he happened upon you on the way okay Rashi mentions here three different opinions actually there's a there is a fourth but let's look at Russian number nine that how he happens to you on the way what's the word mikra mikra that's what Purim is Purim is all about happenstance circumstances things that happen like by random naturally nothing to do with Supernatural things and I'm using the air quotes that the story of Purim all seems natural that there's no wonderful Miracles like ten plagues and splitting of the sea everything could be like justified in a natural way well so if you we have this concept that if you think of Hashem as bemikra like when things happen to you and you don't say there must be meaning behind it okay I can't figure it out but hashem's trying to teach me something maybe one day I'll figure it out as long as you know that it's from Hashem Hashem will treat you special when you say oh it's all been mikra it's all just circumstance circumstance natural happenings God will allow you he won't have that same relationship with you he'll distance himself from you because you basically am just insult yourself from him by saying he's not really involved in my life he'll give you what you want he'll give you exactly what you want but when you recognize and open your eyes take the veil off your eyes and see the god Hashem the hand of Hashem and everything hashem's hand will be there for you okay that's that's what's number one of the word from the word mikra alternatively an expression denoting a seminal emission so we call it carry about Kerry needs to go to the Mikvah well I shouldn't say that um let's say in under takanus Ezra which has been nullified but there's still toval of abraha if one does I'm not going to go into what that means but basically this is referring to the idea here today we're referring to a seminal Mission meaning if a man is with a woman in the normal fashion so then the seed is going into a let's just say a proctor receptacle if it's not with a woman then or even on like they call it masturbation this is called a non-proper receptacle and therefore so we understand says which happened to you on the way but don't read this happen to you on the way but read as perhaps being raped in other words they raped the the stragglers let's just read Rashi for a second actually that's off okay we're gonna catch up in a few sentences with the restoration another explanation is from the word core car uh that means cold so the idea is that we the Jewish people we were hot we were on our way out of Egypt man we saw these Miracles we were ready to come into land of Israel and we were on fire so to speak right and a Malik wanted to cool us down that's what the Satan that's what the yetzahara wants to do oh you want to do Mitzvahs let's cool you off you know take your time don't rush what's the big deal you don't have to do it that way do it do it with less energy you know so here so an expression denoting denoting heat and cold that's the word core he called you off meaning a Malik holds you cooled you off and made you a pure tepid after you were boiling heart for the nations were afraid to fight with you so in other words they were like suicide bombers they were like you have this big hot tub of hot water and one little drop of water what is that going to do is that going to cool us off no but it's going to disintegrate into nothing but you know what over time enough drops of cold water will make the tub cold so they're saying you know what I'm willing to commit suicide so that everybody who is anybody any anti-semite they'll realize oh wow we might stand the chance if we just keep doing it meaning they're not getting anywhere but it does cool us off a bit and we do lose some Jews you know in in campuses if you're let's say a Jew sitting on the fence you're not really sure you know is it real is it is totally true is Israel the place I belong the land of Israel the people of Israel the god of Israel the Torah of Israel and when you have anti-Semitism and you're not really strong in your Yiddish guy it you know peer pressure has it's a real thing and you feel ostracized you feel like hey I want to belong right I want to go to the country clubs like everybody else in this world and they say no Jews allowed in the country clubs that's how it worked in America 70 years ago you had to work and they said on Saturday you don't show up look for a new job on Monday it was very hard so there's a lot of Jews that that that left Judaism because of how hard it was okay let's read on just as people are afraid to touch something boiling hot but this one meaning a Molly came forward and started and showed the way to others this can be compared to a bathtub of boiling water into which no living creature could descend but they did Right Along Came an irresponsible man and jumped headlong into it although he scalded himself he seceded to make others think that it was cooler than it really was now this is another one right because there's another part of the verse that says right in Deuteronomy 25 18. how he Happened on the Way unto you and cut off all the stragglers in your rear now in the Hebrew it's this is derived from the word zenov like a tail means a tale this verse remains that a mole cut off the tail this refers to the fact a mullet cut off the members meaning the where the brismila was where they had been circumcised and cast them up towards heaven like as if throwing like shooting an arrow to God so to speak and saying to God you see what good has your commandment of circumcision done for them I mean they're coming to attack us you know like I don't know if he's even true let's just assume it is true that the American Indians is the whole thing of scalping whether they would scalp the white whether the whites would Scout them I have no idea I just heard the phrase scalping so this was their they collected the circumcised uh members and uh tried to show you know hey look how many Jews we can kill or I guess I don't know if they killed them when they cut them off but I assume they did anyway so this is uh it reminds me of that and what about these people who straggled at the rear remember I mentioned to you the word safaic is the same Gematria so think means doubt is the same much as a Malik who were in the rear those who lack strength on account of their transgressions once they transgress there's more impurity more impurity until they become eventually probably non-believers and these Jews had sinned and because the Jews had sinned the clad of Glory expelled them right in other words they were on the outside of the camp they were the stragglers it's kind of like they went in that direction and it continued to push them in that direction until they're outside the camp leaving them vulnerable to Malik's further attack and then it says and they were faint and weary right so what does it mean faint and weary faint from thirst so this gets us into the idea that the people thirsted there for water in chapter 17 verse 3. and immediately afterwards remember that was the whole complaint there was no water and a Molly came and fought with Israel so we're putting the whole thing together here for you now let's continue in the clear car and the last thing we said was uh that verse fine now cause also all of this what we just described that's what a Malik did why did they do this why did they come to hurt us right they wanted to remove they wanted God to be removed from us they wanted us to sin they want us to get involved in impurities right in order to yasur to remove Hashem from us entirely is a very interesting concept I'm about to tell you that there is no holiness of God the right God is in the midst of the Jewish people except where you have a fence against sexual immorality let's say like for example in the synagogues where we pray we have a separation between the male and the female right so you don't start wandering and thinking about certain things so aim could do shatoya God's holiness will rest where where you have a separation or some kind of fence against sexual immorality now on account of this because their motivation was to cause us to stumble on the count of this if we would stumble that's where their opening is to fight with us this is the plan Words which we're going to discuss now refugim look at the words is and then we would be weak we would have weak hands that's what refu is weak him soft handedness or weak hands in its entirety what does that mean in other words we're going to be weak when it comes to our Reliance on God and it's going to be really weak when it comes to Reliance and our our Unity with other Jews listen to what he says once God has removed himself from the scene or we removed ourselves from him then there's no Miracles that we can rely on that's what it says there's no salvation by Miracles because the God had been removed from us but guess what from a natural point of view also from an Earthly natural point of view there also won't be any hot salad meaning there won't be other people helping you in other words if you're working on your character and you try to give people respect doesn't mean you have to be the most popular person okay but it means that people will help you because you're a respectful person they'll be there for you because you're there for them so to speak You're reliable trustworthy person but when you are a j-e-r-k right when you're a real nasty guy person and you need help who's going to come to your help people are like good riddance that actually hearts are divided right if you're not with your brother like acting like a brother so then it means that your hearts are against each other that's why it says remember the verse in chapter 17 verse 7 right before a mother comes Moses called that place Masa they tested well mariva and they contended our review Israel regarding the contention of the Jewish people and the testing the al-nisotam as Hashem saying this is what the Jewish people said Hashem is God even with us or not umiyad what happens immediately a Malik comes right in verse 8. in this place called rafeding now what is it about this word we're feeding that we're going to examine race it's the same letters in the word per reading what's peridimi separate disjointed okay when someone is leaving town meaning they've been living in the town for a long time we've had them around they're part of the family and they're leaving we have a Surat preda meaning a going away party okay Preta means to separate and to lead the ocos it's the same letters as rafiadians weakness of hand and the clear car says each one of these ideas is actually dependent on each other meaning the separateness of the Jewish people spread out and the weak hands in Torah they're actually one in the same one is dependent on the other ready for this through both types of Separation whether it's separation of our hearts from each other or separation of between us and God Hashem that we have to come separated they became separated from Hashem and the separation of their hearts amongst each other the holy day refugeon you die it comes as a result of the weakness of their hands now we're going to get into this whole idea how does that Sim how is that symbolic of anything what does the weakness of hands mean it's very deep and it says like this remember they didn't have any water now what do you think they didn't have any water and then they started to doubt God or do you think the lack of water was because they doubted God in other words what came first the chicken or the egg they had no water they asked Where's God like hello do we automatically read it that way that there was no water therefore they doubted God or is this why it's answering why there wasn't any water listen to what the clear Christ is saying we know that lafisha ruffle your day and minotaura Gamora Sanhedrin explains that we were weak in Torah where do we find this on the shade this is Sanhedrin 106a you'll find this on number 13. regarding a homolytic interpretation of the names of places the gomores what is the connection what is what is exactly rafedi mean so Rabbi elizar says it's the name of a place very nice it's true but rabieshua says they Nate they in enfeebled meaning they became weak themselves with regard to matters of Torah repu rifu and as a as a proof text in Jeremiah chapter 47 verse 3 Lo Hypno avos it says the fathers did not look back at to their children because of from the feebleness refion of hands meaning there too the connotation of the name is dereliction in the study of Torah this is the weakness of hands that's what refugiodaya means let's continue in the clear car where we just said that oh and also what is Torah Torres nimsho nimshulamayam the Torah itself is compared to water and that in number 14 in Tinus 7A said why are matters of Torah alaikum to water it's written in Isaiah 55 1. it says who everyone who is thirsty come and drink come to the water the what is why so why is Torah compared to mine I mean it's beautiful in the end of the Torah Deuteronomy in the songs right about the drips of Heaven and the Dew and the waters coming down right even the fact that wisdom will right when the meshiach comes knowledge of God will fill the whole earth like the water in the waterbed of the oceans of course it's compared to wood in many ways but listen to what he says here the Gomorrah says the verse comes to tell you just as water leaves a high place and it flows to a low place what does it mean a low place break your hearts right you have to become a mensch and I gave I also here's a plug for the What's the title the 40 ways to wisdom most of the food we spoke about this last week most of the 48 ways are based on uh a Nava humility we discussed the idea of the um the dimensions of the Aaron of the Ark where the Torah is is for safe keeping so just as water leads a high place and flows to a low place because that's the nature of water we have to make ourselves right uh nishbar leave broken hearted and down and and humble so too Torah matters are retained only right you wanted the 48 ways to acquire wisdom the retained only by one whose spirit is lowly meaning a humble person very important let's not forget any of these important lessons we learned tonight so now back into the Clear Car in that land what does it mean that it's nimshulam it's compared to water alkane that's why we were lacking physical water because we were weak in Torah so the cause of the lack of water was because we were weak in Torah not the other way around it's not that the test came and then we wondered where God was it's the lack of faith that caused the lack of winter if remember the water was actually even though we were still under feeding God says to Moses you know tap into that rock by horev that happens to be where's Mount Sinai makum cabal satara and I saw an interesting measures to explain that it's really true The Rock was over there where we're going to receive the Torah that Moses was able to bring the water not bring it cause the water to flow all the way we were days journey from khoreev but the water was that's the source of the water the source of the water is Mount Sinai we were in repeating it says right there he brought it from the rocket harev and yet we weren't even in kharif meaning that it flowed not only to our encampment it actually flowed into each person's home all the way from [Applause] and it's for this very reason that a Malik is compared to this fly is because the amalek with the fly right has no ability to attack the Jewish people the whole time there's no opening and we read that Marshall early on compared analogous to the story of a king who has a Vineyard and he put a fence all around it and he said call Misha yifrots together anybody who breaks through this fence the dog's gonna bite you he already gave us the warning meaning to say rasulama it's through the opening making this opening of the fence and making the break a petarchana then he's making this opening towards the dog that's able to then to enter there this is exactly what a Malik does it's Israel it comes and attaches itself to the Jewish people because we or individuals open up the fence once you break the fence a Malik will come to you so too Haman he's the main one of the main characters in the story of Purim in McGillis Esther come and comes from the seat of amalek do you know what he says to King why I humming can come and attack them look at look at McGill zester chapter 3 verse 8. it's number 15. on the sourcing Harman said to King there is a certain people scattered and separate among the peoples right okay throughout all the provinces of your kingdom their laws differ from every other people well guess what every one of the 127 promise provinces were different than everyone else but there's something unique about the Jews that his claim is and they do not keep the king's laws excuse me who are the king the word God does not even appear in any of the Magilla yet the word King does appear with kashmir's name which is definitely and many times without a questionnaire's name so in this case we'll see and they do not keep the king's laws it is therefore of no use for the king to let them be to let them live animal is same I'm sorry that that's a Melody you know I said they're not following the King's laws and um the melon ain't shoveling he knocks him there's no reason to let them be okay so let's read the clear car he says this verse yeations the last line on page China darling see the word I mean scattered that each human each Jew is scattered from his friend meaning they're they're no longer one unit um and separate from God now if that was all so far and I'm telling you very interesting wait till you hear this one of the main things we know about the Jewish people is we brought sanity and um ethics to the world we brought monotheism to the world and we have a statement in um we have the statement in perkiavo that the world stands on three things look at number 16. well anyway this was he was part of Mordecai's group he was the one of the last survivor of the anshekness he said these things the world stands there's pillars there's three pillars the world cannot exist without Torah without avoda which is the service of God now the service of God is really what corbanos we today we don't have Coronas it's prayer okay so krabanas really represents prayer in a big way and gamelus oh maybe I'll make my plague uh plug now by the way I should have mentioned this the beginning that we are doing a fundraising drive to give out funds to people who are in need on Purim there's a link down below okay so uh you could contribute and it's tax deductible in most countries I don't want to go too far off of this but yeah but uh the world stands on on huh that's it that's it so that's uh the world stands on hasid and it's a very important thing So based on this wait till you hear this wait to this remember when we fall with the Malik what was happening God says to Moses go up on the top of that mountain and hold your hands we're talking about refugiodayem weakness of hands and then what's supposed to happen we're going to look at Moses whenever his hands are up we're winning when the hands are down we're losing something is going on here and you are going to be absolutely fascinated with what the cleanest car's Insight is perhaps he begins this last paragraph we're now on page uh 3 15. and maybe there's this is a great hint when we talk about the whole idea of a weakening weakening of hands based on this idea that the world stands on these three pillars one of them is Torah that the weakness of hands from Torah now it was implies like a student receives it from the hand of his rev is of his rebbe the father gives it to his son right this is hand it's being transmissed transmitted hand to hand that's Torah what about tefila what's so unique about the Fila if you ever go to a shakrit minion at least near to shroud you know they don't do uh kohanim outside of the land actually in Jerusalem many places outside of Jerusalem they don't even do it on a daily basis right and the Galileo for example anyway if you're in Jerusalem you'll see one of the highlights of the tefila is birkat kohanim see my hand so basically the idea is that it's it's the hands okay the the prayer I don't know if you know what beautiful name is but it's where these people these priests are representing God and it's cut the flow of hashem's blessings coming through their hands and the truth is that they're also representing the Jewish people to God and it and it's the same idea the blessing of God is coming through their hands so that's to feel it but we're gonna same thing as kurbanos we'll see in a second um sorry what is it's done with hands isn't it it's something you're rather giving bread whether you're giving a blanket whether you're giving clothing whether you're giving money it's done to your hands now it's interesting he's going to give a proof for everything he just said and that's from the verse that says okay so you're going to find this verse and let's find it it's in number 17 it's Exodus chapter 17. it's really verse 12 but I wanted to get a running start with 11. it came to pass when Moses would raise his hand Israel would Prevail and when he would lay down his hands a Malik would prevail now Moses hands were very heavy so they took a stone and placed it under him so he sat on the stone but because his hands were so heavy iron and our own is Right her on his left supported his hands one from this side one from the other so he was with his hands in faith until sunset look at the Hebrew sir were supporting his hands okay now look at Rashi what did Moses's hands make them victorious in battle does that really make sense it's weird right oh I put my hands up we winning put my hands down we're losing had nothing to do with whether his hands up or down it has to do with what we saw Moses was reminding them if you're right not weak handed but if you're strong-handed in these three things Torah a Voda and Camille you're going to win okay look at Rashi again did Moses's hands make them victorious in battle rather this is to tell you that when the Israelites looked up it's through looking up because you're raising hands you're looking up they subjugated their hearts to their father in heaven then they would Prevail they connected with God and if not they would fall okay as found in Rosh Hashanah Moses hands were heavy since he himself had been lacks he could have maybe should have we don't know fought the Battle instead Joshua went out he he asked Joshua to fight so maybe that was being lacks in the performance of war against amalek and he pointed someone else instead therefore his hands became heavy it says later on and he was with his hands in faith Moses was with his hands in faith spread out toward Heaven and the faithful and proper prayer okay let's I just want to mention one more thing it says until sunset are you aware of the fact that Moses caused the sun to stand still it doesn't say it anywhere in the Bible however this is a hint to it if Joshua which we do know Joshua did cause the sun to stand still what do we say about Arabian a student the student's not any greater than the the rebbe if the rebbe if the student did it then for sure the Remy did it how else would the student know how to do it okay so Joshua for sure made the sun stand still that's recorded did Moses make the sun stand still it's not recorded but he did it twice here's one of them from Malik calculated the hours what do you mean until Sunset and with their astrology to turn determine in what hour they would be victorious Moses caused the sun to stand still and confuse the hours until sunset that's not the only place that it's mentioned but this is the the one of the references okay now I want to go over some ideas Moses represents the Torah he received the Torah and gave it to us Aron he's the co-aim he represents the qurbanos and the prayer and Miriam because of her we have the well of water let me go back sorry I want to go let me just do it like this Moses represents the Torah and the Torah is represented by the man meaning Moses in the scoot of Moses we were able to eat this Angelic food called Mana Aaron was responsible for the prayers in the qurbanos it was in his Merit that we had the clouds of Glory and Miriam whose Prime me the character trait was kindness and crescent and that's why we we married it to have the water from the well okay so before we go into more of explanation I want to see what the clear card let's go where he's the last thing he said was Aaron held Moses hand does anybody know who was was Miriam's son Miriam's son meaning the nephew of our animosia so the three of them are up on the mountain the people are watching they're looking really honestly it should have been Moses sitting in the middle stay in the middle iron on one side and Miriam on the other but how appropriate would that be to have all these army guys looking up at Miriam so her son was her representative okay listen to this today why were they holding his arms in order to strengthen these pillars these three pillars I share basis which the Jewish people are founded on and in them this is the strength of the Jewish people the three particular Shepherds who are the three Shepherds Moshe Arun and Miriam Hashem because of these three great leaders and Shepherds we were able to have man which is the Angelic food the air the wood are coming from The Rock and then they covered now you may believe me when I say Obviously Moses gave us the Torah but who says why should the water come because of Miriam and why should the clouds come because of Aaron so we're going to go into this a little bit Moshe kilo in other words we the only the generation that ain't man was the generation that received the Torah there's a connection between eating man which is Angelic food and the actual level the spiritual level of receiving the term what about the air this rock that gave forth water The Rock itself The Rock provided all of their needs right for well they didn't really need to shower or bathe but uh I don't know if they even needed to drink but let's just say they used it for water for drinking and for Mikvah okay they use it for the microwave an exclusive Miriam why is Miriam related to Camille's kasadeem because she provided food to the children who were being born if you recall Pharaoh says kill all the babies right he was afraid that Michelle was going to be born from Jewish people and so he wanted all the babies killed okay so um she if you look in Exodus chapter 1 verse 17. which is number 20 on page six The Midwives however feared God so they did not do as the king of Egypt had spoken to them but they enabled the boys to live look at the Hebrew what does it mean to cause the babies these boys to live Rashi says two things he says a lot but I want to point out two things they provided water and food for them okay so that's a big deal that's hesit down below I have in the highlight and he answers is a part of a question or hayam that the Torah means that despite Pharaoh's decree The Midwives continued their previous practice that is they were supplying needy children with nourishment now that is the ultimate infested in kindness to provide the needs okay I just want to take you back to Titus 9A okay but before we do that um is there anything here we just read that right okay let's just read a little bit further in the Clear Car anonyme these clouds of Glory came in the Merit of Aaron why why is that carbonos that are on the konim were involved in the offerings in the temple in the Tabernacle gouramim of Israel by doing the daily offerings this is what caused the relationship we have with God With The Cloud of Glory over the over the Tabernacle okay now when when a Malik heard that Aaron died it says so I want to take you there but I want to do this time is First with you and then we'll go to Rosh Hashanah just to swing home the point here in Tinus 9A number 19. there were three good sustainers wrote up Rose up for the Jewish people during the exes from Egypt they are Moses aaronimerium and three good gifts were given from Heaven through their agency that being the will of water the pillar of cloud and the Mana the well was given to the wood in the Merit of Miriam the pillar of cloud was given in the murder of our own and the Mana was given in the mirror in the Merit of Moses when Miriam died the well disappeared look in numbers 20 verse 1 it says Miriam Miriam died there that's 20 verse 1. two verses later right away it says and there was no water for the congregation lawyer Mayim laid this is towards the end of our you know right before she died I'm sorry when she died with him at the end you know the 40th year when she died there was no water but the well returned be in the murder of both Moses and our now when Aaron died the Clouds Of Glory disappeared how do we know that so in numbers 33 40 it mentions that the king of Canaan by the way this is a Malik the Ishmael we know that because the amalekites lived in the South and that's where Rod is anyway what report did he hear he heard that Aaron had died and that the Clouds Of Glory disappeared so he must have thought oh this is an opening if the Clouds Of Glory have been protecting the Jewish people meaning I couldn't really enter and do anything once you have The Disappearance of those I have an opening but he heard that I had died because he knew that the the clouds were there only because of uh Aaron let's continue reading so what did he think he thought the Jewish people were no longer protected by heaven and therefore he had been given permission to go against go to war against the Jewish people as this disappearance of the clouds is the meaning of what's written and this pair of this verse is in numbers 20 verse 29 it says that all the congregations saw that Aram was dead what does that mean that everyone saw but we all saw him die or we saw the clouds disappear so Arabic says don't read the verse as but rather they were seen in other words once the clouds were gone then we were seen by a Malik right because the clouds were protecting us taught the word key key by the way he has four distinct meanings so whenever you come across the word coffee you don't know what it means until you read the rest of the verse and go back to it right we do that all the time when we're learning right okay let's see what does it mean let's read on and then we come back it can mean if it can mean perhaps it can mean but it can mean because or even that according to this interpretation the verse would be rendered the following oh the congregation was seen because iron was dead The Bryson continues both the well and the clouds returned in the Merit of Moses do you know this okay so he said that when Miriam died so it disappeared but guess what they still needed water when the clouds when when Aaron died the clouds dissipated but guess what it all came back due to Moses so this but what happened did it all happen in one month there's a verse in Zachariah chapter 11 verse 8. so both the well and the clouds returned in the murder of Moses however when Moses died all three disappeared it says in Zechariah 11 8 which means I cut off all three Shepherds in one month now did that did that really happen no because Miriam died much earlier then she died in Nissan Aaron died in AV and Moses died a half a year later in Adar so rather this teaches us that with the death of Moses the three good gifts that were given through the agency role knowed at the same time in the same month in Adar when Moses died on the seventh of other um there is um I wonder did I have that here one second no okay maybe I'll come across it later let's continue in the clear car because we're almost finished so we have this idea of the Clouds Of Glory being removed that's when um came and fought with them so I'm in here um right and from here you have a proof impartials right from Parsons you'll find this in Numbers chapter 20 verse 29. that in the Merit of Aaron that it was standing up for the Jewish people the possibility of Salvation because or against a Malik because the Clouds Of Glory were there but when the clouds of when Marin died the clowns of Glory disappeared Shia ritsuish the Israel for one second he's saying like this from here you have proof that it was in the Merit of our own that the Jew that stood up for the Jewish people some salvation against the Malik now who is a Malik it's a rutsua mardus you know what a ritsua is called a strip of leather let's call it a whip okay it's a whip against Rebellion a Malik serves as a whip when we Rebel in order to remind us that Hashem is with us because that was right all of a sudden we're asking is God With Us a Molly comes and it says we did chuva before we left so we did Shiva a Malik helped us do chuva when Hamin received the ring when the consequence takes off the ring this is what caused the Jews to do chuva and the saying says that the taking off the ring helped us to do Cuba more than all the prophets can you imagine A Thousand Years of prophets rebuking the Jewish people and one moment of taking the ring off now Al came to Muhammad zoo that it was through this war that Moses wanted Moses wanted his hands to be steadfast um right that's what amuna here means loyal and steadfast ayode she is through reminding he wanted the Jews to remember these three pillars this is all of existence this is what you're standing on Moshe I made the emsa this is why Moses stood in the middle because the whole idea of the receiving of the Torah was in his hands it was through him they were the museum they were holding and supporting his hands from each side that the Merit of Aaron through the Avada and we'll just take it one step further prayer and the birkat kohanim that was in his hands ready Miriam was the the son of Miriam as we know that his mother was responsible for keeping his children alive by feeding them dressing them giving them shelter however there's different midrashing what happened but she was involved in providing and so with that I think this is a very um I think it's a good place to stop even though it continues on um I wish everyone a friend of the Purim and really you know an opportunity to do truva we can pray and we should pray for whatever whatever we really want in this world that there's an expression in Judaism that Purim is greater than Yom Kippur itself because when you say a Yom que Purim a day like Purim are you with me brothers and sisters a day like Purim when you say a day is like something you're saying the other thing is greater but this day is not as great as but it's like so you get to ask for whatever you want and when people come and ask you foreign you're supposed to give to them without even investigating now we at you by now we have a whole list of people we investigate all year round 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