Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: BEYOND THE 7 - Episode one/Introduction

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey good day everybody welcome to this exciting new series live from Jerusalem with Rabbi Aaron David Poston now I've been following this gentleman for a while he's got a unique story he's got a a wonderful organization called u Bonet and you can find him on his website given a dot-com you can find him on Facebook you'll find him on YouTube but he's sharing such a wonderful message what they do is they focus on community and they focus on s attacks of hesed and loving-kindness now rabbi Poston originally hails out of the Philadelphia region but has lived in Jerusalem for north of 30 years and so he's made Trulia and it's his home now and so it's always exciting to get somebody to share truth share Torah out of Israel and no better person than him but you Bonet focuses on Hesed and loving-kindness and community and I think that this is something that Benigno Aquino fit from learning from this man in the sense of how they can show loving-kindness in their regions and impact their communities and what he's found is that it in turn it in turn sparks the growth of communities as well and so I'm not gonna believe any points anymore he can say it on his own it's a such a joy to have him with us so without any further ado let's jump right in rabbi posten how are you today so glad to have you all the way from from Jerusalem welcome your live on the air and it's your show so I'm gonna sit back quietly unless you want to interact with me if not teach your lessons share your lesson you may see a hand for me with a question from the audience but we're glad to have you and I look forward to hearing what you have to share thank you Dan thank you so much for inviting me and reaching out to me I've been following you I've been following some of the different rabbis that you have had quite impressed you're very professional I'm sure you don't appreciate all the the kudos and you're just doing a great job and I think you are well appreciated amongst the whole Torah community not just the Benigno but just across the board I mean you're doing a great job and I wish you ha ha ha much success to continue go from strength to strength how do you have a great voice very I know that you were in in sales of different sorts but also top radio so I think binding your which you what you enjoy which is I think key in life right a lot of people go into certain businesses where they just are not happy they're not satisfied and I think the key of happiness in life which we should be happy is to find the niche find something you enjoy and get paid for doing it I mean I don't know if you're getting paid but you're getting paid in the world to come so that's thank you very much rabbi I just enjoyed Torah I enjoyed the truth of Torah I enjoy the love of Hashem I enjoy the reality that your people have preserved you know and and and the call for the 70 nations this is just so profound and if I can begin to share any of it or just conduit it I don't know what you guys know when I listen to some of these rabbis they come up with things that that wow I've never entered her mind and I spent years in Christianity and all I could say is iíve heard rabbis say things that that no no minister or teacher or a pastor has ever shared and these are treasures that have been given to the nation of Israel and I just I just I'm overjoyed to hear it shared and so I know just just talking with you you had come up with the notion of beyond the seven and I think that this is a beautiful beautiful talk because a lot of been a Noack and even rabbis teach you can't go past this point this is for you that's not for you and you see your focus with loving-kindness with with true Hesed is to teach people about the things that are really universal even if they are beyond the seven but not that we should do them as a Jew but more that we should understand the moral imperative behind it and you know what enough talking for me rabbi you've got the state thank you I just want to I think just start off in this idea why did we choose beyond the seven let me just give you a small story it was recently a posting on one of the seven on one of the North High websites somebody asked I think was a very innocent question a very good question really solid the person wanted to know has a been a North has a been nor as a non non-jews trying to do trying to be righteous are they obligated and the word obligated was used are they obligated to give interest-free loans and I thought this was my opportunity to finally share what I've been holding in for over thirty years when I heard a rabbi speak his name was rebuked his name is rabbi Yochanan Zweig the Rosh Yeshiva and lamby Beach and he posed the question when I first became religious I wasn't brought up religious he said why is it that the Jewish people are obligated to give interest-free loans to other Jews which has depth means that you're gonna feel as if each person is your brother you would never give a loan to a brother with interest just doesn't make sense he's your brother if you have to care for him you can't turn your eye away from his needs in his time in need so you give him a loan to get on his feet so he doesn't go down down down it's god forbid where he can't get up so you can help save his his lifestyle the way that he's living by helping him out by give him a loan so he can save himself okay great but why is it that we're not allowed to give a non Jew a free loan you have to charge them interest now we're not talking about that is between a garret or shop or whatever okay we're just gonna in general okay so a non Jew comes for a loan that you can give him a small for very small percentage doesn't matter but he has to can't give him a free gift he has to charge interest and he said that should bother all of us why is it why what's going on here why are we doing this so he said something I think absolutely profound in terms of being a light to the nation's now I don't know I know it's true but I just wonder if it really resonates with everyone else when I'm about to say I hope it does that if the Jew gave everyone an interest-free loan would we be doing our job as light to the nation's meaning if the non Jew went to another non Jew and he says can I get a loan I know the Jews give the interest-free loan why don't you give me an interest-free one he says well if the Jews give you interest-free loans and want you to go to them so he'll pass the buck literally pass the buck that's the opportunity to the hasit he won't learn the important lessons so what is the Jewish people really doing we're setting up through God's dictates a I'm gonna use the word utopians or let's say the best-case scenario of how to treat your brother now if we do that in a society and it's somewhat closed okay I'm not gonna deny that someone close but don't look into our society and say well look how they treat each other this is how we're supposed to treat each other but if we gave interest-free loans to everybody so then they would easily I'm just maybe I'm not judging them favorably I think it's just human nature why should I can just go around the corner to over there or Moshe and get you interest-free loan right so it makes sense in the scheme of everything now does it mean that the non Jew is obligated now but the opportunity to guess it if someone needs a loan you have to determine what's the story if the person's a millionaire and he just needs some liquidity to make another million so you don't have to give them the interest-free loan in fact you can also become a partner with him in whatever way and make money as well but if someone is just laid off like even right now there's a lot of people out of work but in general if someone has god forbid on the cusp of sinking in debt and he needs a fishing rod right he needs to learn how to fish right so you'll you'll you'll help him buy a fishing rod and teach him how to fish you'll do the hesed whatever it is that's necessary free and I say free meaning without interest if if your heart moves you to do such a thing so I know that could be a controversial topic and I think I brought it down to 11 I hope that people will understand I'm not looking to other comments I know there's a lot of comments if there's anybody the degrees I'd love to hear if anybody has any questions about that particular point if I if I fail to get it across it's my fault okay so it hit me as now it makes sense it makes a lot of sense don't pass the buck and this is really a thing what you've done is all about it was the same rabbi rabbi Yochanan swag who I went to with seeking advice I needed to help somebody who was in need but they didn't realize they were in need and I asked him for advice how do I approach this person how I don't you know I know I don't think he's gonna even want to answer the door for me but I know that I could open okay it was a life-or-death situation and I had certain experience in this field and I knew that in fact I had family members his family members came to me and asked me to try to get involved so I asked the rabbi who's like how do I approach this person and he said the most wonderful thing he said ask him for help right every and this is true by Jews and I I assume and this is what we're going to talk about tonight that if you're a righteous Gentile it will be true by you as well or you want it to be truthfully okay and that is that there are three character traits that every Jew has this is from the Talmud that they're by shamim they have a certain amount of modesty or Tanoa an honesty and their rock Manute they have a certain amount of mercy and their go mill Hesed they want to help right this is our job in this world to be teachers and that's also we're going to talk about Ezra hashem tonight or through this series i really want to see i want to let you guys know we're gonna go off on tangents and I I don't have a GED although my wife accuses me of having a VD we go off on tangents and sometimes I'm gonna ask you to help me come back okay so I'm gonna go for the small tangent we all know everyone knows oh wow it's such a big Mitzvah for Jews to learn Torah right so where is it saying the Torah you have to learn Torah where so most people I ask they give me a quote from Joshua right to meditate in it day and night but that doesn't fit the criteria if I ask you what is the source for one of the 613 mitzvahs it doesn't come from the prophets and it won't come from the writings it's got to come from the five books of Moses somewhere so every Jew says three times twice a day all right mission anthem live on a clock and you shall teach your sons that is the verse in the Shema and you shall teach your sons that's the source for learning Torah so the question is come on that doesn't say to learn Torah it says to teach third I asked you again where's the source in the Commish in the five books the Jews obligated to learn as much Torah spend as much of his day learning Torah as he possibly can so we already went through Joshua that doesn't fit the criteria because it's in Joshua it's very nice meditate it meditate in it day and night it's true after the five books so the Rambam and everyone will go to be Shannon come live on fi and you should teach your son Sourav North Weinberger was in a shelter for many years Baruch Hashem and he taught us a very valuable lesson you shall teach your son is a imperative it's one of the 613 commandments but it's not listed as teaching its listeners learning why because in order to teach you have to learn it's a prerequisite in other words where North Weinberg then said when you learn you have to learn in order to teach if you don't learn in order to teach you're not learning the way the Torah describes it doesn't mean you actually have to go out not as what is capable of going out and teaching but they have to be willing and ready and the heart has to be there and I think that also enables someone to actually learn better right if you know that you have to be able to have clarity to teach it over to give it over to someone else right wouldn't it says in in the holy writings right in the Talmud in many other places they asked the rabbi's who did you learn more from your teachers your comrades or your students and they all answered I learned more from my students the questions how's that possible how do you learn more from your students okay so okay it could be that they asked a good question so they force you to look deeper right that's one way in other ways because when you're preparing perhaps you're gonna prepare youth to get the clarity you force yourself I think it's a combination I think it's many things okay yeah with all that said and done I want to go back to my original topic which I don't say I forgot what it was but I want to mention that the word corona is being used a lot these days and we all know a corona is a crown and I mentioned in one of my very last teachings that what we want to do this is throughout Jewish thought is we want to return the crown to its rightful place okay whatever that means we're talk about the crown of Torah we're talking about the crown when the Shia we're talking about the crown on the Jewish people whatever the crown represents and in this case it means that I want to say it means the Torah that the corona is out of hand it's it's just not in the right place it needs to be returned to its rightful place and the word in Hebrew for crown is kept tear the cat tail cuff tough race so the equals to 620 okay and yeah 620 so what is 620 there are 620 letters in the SSID brought in the 10 what we call the Ten Commandments they're not really Commandments but they're the 10 statements that God gave over to the world that included all 613 plus 7 at Mount Sinai there was a declaration kept there tora given over six hundred and thirteen plus the seven Noahide laws were reiterated at mount sinai so the torah when I say the Torah I don't mean just as 613 I mean the 613 the cat tear the crown which includes the seven should be put back in its rightful place so I'm just amazed by the I'll call them righteous Gentiles not Gentiles a righteous righteous right coming back and trying to make the best life they can for themselves and for the world and the Torah that I want to share hopefully we get to before the end is one of the most amazing pieces I don't know how I missed it but it prepared for this class that came across it that there are thirty non-jews who are righteous in this world that are holding up the entire world and right and the idea of bringing back the catch of Torah that are actually helping the Jewish people return from exile okay it's in Gomorrah Hulan 92 hey if anybody has access to it so to prepare as we're we're going through this ninety two a towards the bottom half and the most amazing piece and the Ben Yehuda which is the Benesch high there's a 150 years ago in Iraq he he learned he's a smarty but he learned from the greatest of the Kabbalists including Ashkenazi and he puts it all together and it's the most amazing piece okay so before we go off on that tangent with this Gomorrah about the thirty righteous Gentiles who are keeping the crown and I want to talk about the Cain and Abel story because just in terms of what we call the eight suhara every human being has an evil inclination and the Vilna Gaon you've all heard of rabbi lel right the Vilna Gaon he claims this is his I'm sure he's not the only one but everyone knows who he is that the purpose of creation the purpose of life is he poun amiibo is to work on your character to fix your character so in other words it sits here right it sits in your your heart and with how you behave how the heart plays out in the world these little hard heart is it a circumcised heart is it uncircumcised what do I need to to work on my relationship with other people so the Cain and Abel story is a perfect example ok now my students who are listening have heard this before but before the murder takes place after the offerings are made so there was there was offerings and we know that Cain's offering was not accepted and he was not happy about it so Shama approaches him and says this is in Genesis chapter 4 verse 6 why are you annoyed and why is your countenance fallen is it not true that if you do good you will be forgiven okay these words are in the beginning and anybody who read the Bible must have come across this so if you do good you will be forgiven but if you do not do good so then at the entrance sin crouches it's long missed towards you yet you will rule over it meaning you have the capability the capacity to overcome now it's very interesting because this idea of doing good in Hebrew it says hello take teeth if you improve if you work on your character so then you're really distancing sin that's another topic I'm going to talk about not tonight that much but the whole thing of fear you're at your mind having true all right there's lower levels at different levels there's fear that means fear of punishment and then there's love love towards the reward and then there's something way above that which is still called fear but it shouldn't be it's really off and it's room with its momma shits it's seen the exaltation of God and not wanting to like when you're in such love with God not that he could be affected not that we really affect him by doing sin really affecting ourselves but you wouldn't want to affect him right like in a relationship with your wife right there's certain times okay you fear what you would do if you did something and then there's the next level you love her and then there's this other kind of fear like imagine if you were she was sleeping and you forgot something in the bedroom we need to get it you're not afraid that you're gonna throw a shoe at you right you're not afraid of the punishment you're afraid that this is someone you love and you don't want to disturb their sleep you don't want to affect them so that's the - yeah I'm gonna push that aside and said I can I want to go back to what we're talking about because that is just one of the topics that we will definitely cover in this series so this is very important and the next important thing is that then after the murder so then God asked him you know like where's your brother and what's the response am I my brother's keeper yes I mean that was like you know that now they're hitting the nail right on the head in terms of Cassatt in terms of responsibility we actually are so is more it's of course it was a rhetorical question and the answer is you have to me now the hope it's crime wrote a book called a Havas lesson the love of kindness has it means kindness and it's really about giving loans about helping people but if in that beginning he talks about Hanson in general so we'll spend some time using that book as well but I just want to go over some other ideas of Cassidy and why it's so important and even the word yet bunny so in terms of you Burnett why we called it if you can if you look in Psalms 89 3 God said for I said forever will be your kindness be built forever will your kindness be built in Hebrew is Kia Marty are you Lum assessing your bonnet for the world is built upon kindness ok and we have in querque Ivo the world stands on three things you can find this you know Pirkei Avot the ethics of our Father and chapter 2 missional one that the world stands on three things Torah avodah and camellias Kassadin on Torah the vote is the service of God and loving kindness now what is it about tour if you guys whoever's listening once Torah if I ask you to sum up Torah yes it means instructions instructions for what if you were looking into a book and I'll obviously people read it said pick up a book you want to know what it's about read the first chapter read the last chapter and you can sum up the whole book right so what's the target it's awesome huh it's all about that's it it starts off with with God clothing the naked Hashem clothe the naked that is an act of guessing and it happens at end God Barry's motion nobody else God Himself Barry Moshe right that's how this story ends this story book it's not a story book this this amazing piece of work art okay so you can guess everything in between is about Tessa it's really about it's an instruction manual how now there's another very important thing because we're obligated to follow Hashem to to act like he acts this when you get the verses here clear so in Deuteronomy chapter 11 22 and if you have it here you can open it up or you want to read the verse I'll read the verse 11 verse 22 yes please Deuteronomy 1122 for if you shall diligently keep all this commandment which I command you to do it to love the Lord your God to walk in all his ways and to cleave to him so to Walken what does it mean to walk in his ways to follow his character traits just as he is merciful we should be merciful this no you think but Judaism is not a religion okay it's it's it's not just a nation it's a way of life so for those non Israelites okay for those who people are not born Jewish and they're making a choice I want to cling to the Jewish people on the cling to their way of life I want to cling to the Torah and we're gonna go into this because it's called beyond the seven I'm sure I'm not teaching you anything new it's not seven laws it's seven principles or seven categories and there are many I don't have to call them whole adult subcategories branches or so us so many of them are interpersonal relationships right to follow Hashem so to walk in his way as we mentioned the whole Torah is about what clothing the naked burying the dead and everything in between mohnish everything in between and just if people want to know if they go to the Rambam in the mission in the Mishnah Torah and gifts to the poor chapter ten laws 7 through 14 there's a list eight different levels of giving charity and I suggest you do your own homework and check it out over there and just in terms of the importance of doing acid in gomorrah to both 68a it says anyone who shuts his eyes against charity he's likened to something I'll say in a second right everyone knows one of the seven nullified principles laws is not to do idol worship so the Gomorrah says anyone who shuts his eyes against charity is like one who worships idols how can how can it not how can a righteous non Jew how can a righteous Gentile not rush to do Hesed Hosea Oh Shia six chapter six verse six for I desire kindness not sacrifice and knowledge of God more than burnt offerings so remind me to talk about this idea of non-jews I'll use the word permissibility or sanctioning to learn Torah right there's almost almost nothing that they can't learn I've had this discussion with so many rabbis and they all agree with me at least we're talking about right the Tanakh okay we're not talking about the Kabbalistic writings or even the Gemara okay but we're talking about the Tanakh itself can you read I asked them can you read a verse and know what it means without looking at Rashi or any other commentators it's only what you heard right the oral torah so the answer is always of course you need the oral torah and if you look at Rashi Rashi is almost always quoting a metric is almost always quoting the oral torah was cool quoting the governor so my I'm gonna call it's not a finish my my my take on what it says in the Rambam if we want to just skip to it now for a second because I think it's an important point why I think it's so important to learn Torah again not all Torah everyone has to learn what's applicable to them fighting off your Yeats of Hara as we mentioned by Cain and Abel is obligatory right everyone has one and the Torah is the antidote it says clearly right the somme tongue the word and you shall place them there's a play on the word some Tom it's a perfect drug it's the executor of life so the tour itself is the antidote against the get Sahara it's in the Rambam and I'm sure people familiar with this and it could be controversial getting in trouble but where it says the Gentile this is in the chapter 10 of the laws of the kings the Gentiles studies tour is liable to the death of course that's he says we don't kill anybody it means it's it's not appropriate and then really they should be dealing with their own their own seven missus alone but as I began to explain it's not just seven it's beyond the seven there are so many wait till you hear that a quick you can be a judge non-jew can be a judge on a non-jewish court and they can even judge and rule according to Jewish law if they want which opens up they can they can what they can learn almost all of hosh in mishpokhe they can learn such a tremendous amount of Jewish law that alone yeah yeah yeah the Rambam says here that as long as they can do any of the other mitzvahs as long as they do it properly if a non Jew wants to keep kosher how's he gonna know he so this is really going to be the point in in that same law that mentions about the non Jew not studying Torah it's most people I think they don't finish reading it they stop there and get very frustrated and upset and I beg them just to go on to the next point in the same Halawa that says the general principle governing these matters is the following so this applies to Shabbos as well they are not allowed to originate a new religion or create winces themselves based on their own decisions which means again anybody that wants to learn Torah basically has to learn and what sounds so arrogant because not me they have to come to the source we stood at Mount Sinai we were there right we heard God three million three million Jews were there and was passed on from generation to generation generation father to son father to son right and Rebbe to student disciple there's no way that anybody I don't believe could read the Bible I'm calling it the Bible the scripture the Tanakh and understand what it means without going to whom to the Jews and I think that's what the Rambam is saying that if you're ready to be righteous and you want to keep the seven as a minimum and you want to do them correctly you have to go to the Jews and learn what you to learn you'll never know that an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is not an eye for an eye nor a tooth for a tooth I mean anyone reading this would certainly say well that's obviously what it means it says what it says and it means what it means so how come in all Jewish history that never was never is and never will be an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth but we don't take it out of the total context it means money and it means different types of compensation five different types of common Coppins compensation for the damage that was done but that you only learned in the oral torah okay now also including in these what we call the seven principles is another general principle and that is that anything that is logical and makes sense is also included so there's a tremendous amount that you can learn from the Jews you know you have to basically go to them or now today we have the Internet if you don't live in a Jewish community it's very difficult to to find the truth in in in most people's spheres social spheres but because books are readily available you know good publishing companies and the internet people like you there and the organization you're with right the northside world center and so on there's so many out there that are getting the word out okay so this is very important the general principle chloro showed over a man eating most homeless oddish that were not a last it's a sin to create Christianity and it's a sin to create Islam but now that they created even the rod mom says there's some good there's some good and a lot of that good will be seen through the fact when Messiah does come he will be readily accepted right everyone's looking forward to a caliphate the musci are some kind of figure right but also the spreading of morals right and and the seven or high laws believe it or not most Christians I don't know the most let's just say a nice amount of Christianity it's probably not idol worship right let's just get that out on the table we don't know there's there's different there's too many different sects two different to many different albums what do you think I heard 80,000 but okay so some of them border and I think most Christians would agree with that statement that most some of them bordered on or cross the line on idol worship and some of them I don't know if it's a minority I don't know the numbers don't yet cross that line and okay let's leave that for another time we don't need to make any more enemies okay there is another verse that I wanted to share I don't know where I put it at all I really love the Psalms 89 rabbi that was beautiful here it is initially that's proverbs 16:6 thank you okay so if this is a very very interest can you read it oh you know you read in English and I read in Hebrew sixteen six sixteen six says by mercy and truth iniquity is expiated and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil okay that's why we're wheels we will discuss this whole idea of how to reach that Ramona lutes that highest level of or right not the lower level of fear of punishment but a much higher level but the first part of the verse was what intrigues me in Hebrew it says best acid which means in kindness or through kind acts the Emmit which means Torah study Yahoo part of own sin will be forgiven overlooked expediate it this I know a lot of people are looking for salvation and and forgiveness so this is put it this way let's go back to the Cain and Abel story God says you could be forgiven right you have to work on your character this is where this is where it's all is where it's all that that's where the work that's where the work is I really have a lot or to speak about I see that we've reached an hour but I so I want to do spend hopefully maybe 20 minutes as speaking about this good more than I promised really right we're only at the thirty seven minute mark live so okay great yeah lots of time take as much as you need sir okay I will thank you for that permission to second immediate and okay how are the town of the comments any interesting comments or a good group we've got people from all over I've got my friend Angelica in the Vancouver area Lower Mainland and we've got people still in Germany and like I said mentioned we got people down in San Antonio and Paul has jumped in and joined us we've got plenty of people so yeah people are enjoying it rabbi please yeah I love the way you've brought it was that Psalms 89 this person in in Proverbs 16 along with Deuteronomy it's just profound material with where you're heading with this by mercy and truth iniquity is expiated I just love that okay great because this is going to flip a lot of people out and this isn't a Gomorrah in Hulan and 92 a somewhere towards the bottom and I don't even know where to begin I never I tell you those who know me I look at a piece of Gomorrah and I say I have to go back you know I have to go back I want to get in context and I see something most fascinating I have to go back even further and I never get around to what I want to get around to so I'm gonna go right to the point now so the Gomorrah expounds regarding a certain verse and it's talking about a verse you can find tell you where it is okay so this is in Zechariah chapter 11 verses 1 over and team would you like me to read it sure oh it's excellent twelve and thirteen and I said unto them if you think good give me my higher and if not forbear so they weighed for my higher thirty pieces of silver okay and I'm Lord okay stop there the owner la hem M Tobin ahem so he said unto them it's good in your eyes what does he want have lose hurry give me my feet themed low-cut the stock though but this other piece be shocked Lou s okay you know what there is one more verse okay now I know why I sorry okay what I want everyone to do is go to I started to two floors down go to Hosea oh shiet chapter three verse 2 we will get to that verse that you quoted so that was not in vain at all Hosea 3 verse 2 says so I bought her to me for 15 pieces of silver in an omer of barley and a half omer of barley okay let me give you some background with this talking about so reveal Kenan said in name rabbi shimon ben yehuda doctor the word Kyra in other words says the x-ray that literally means to acquire like mahira is a sale and an acquisition so that's mascara with a mem hear the verse it starts and says the s Li sell to me write or purchase from me I purchased this is what God's saying I purchased for myself with 54 15 pieces of silver this a certain amount of barley and a certain amount of they go there to different amounts one is a Culinaire and one is a lesson so we'll talk about that in a second so the word Kyra the Gomorrah tells us means musk Iran acquisition I mean selling as in more gives an example when Yaakov actually when Yosef was was dealing with power oh and telling him I have to go bury my father in the Martha mock pail in the Cave of the patriarchs it's because my father told me in the grave that I acquired for myself because he purchased it from a South in other words there was a sale of the birthright ok so that same word is used over there so we know it means to purchase and in he modern Hebrew my serie matira is a sale and and the ben-yehuda is going to flip us out on this word so I want everyone to really hang in there I know this could be a little complicated I'm gonna try to make it as simple as possible but so far we read the verse in hosea chapter 3 verse 2 about God saying I acquired for myself these 15 pieces of silver and the word acquire means acquire through acquisition and we gave the proof text to that and then the gomorrah says like this this basically what God is saying I acquired it the Jewish nation for myself and what happened the number 15 it says bit Kamisha ah sir if you want to say I acquired with 15 pieces of silver you don't use the BET ba Kamisha ba Kamisha is on the 15th so it's referring to the 15th of Nisan which is Pesach God acquired us as a people when he redeemed us from Egypt okay also the word sir for silver is referring to righteous people let me just continue with the the Gemara the pieces of silver are an illusion to righteous people and he gives up the gum or gives up Ruth texts in in proverbs 720 it says surah kat SS logic viado he has taken the bundle of silver coins in his hands so this verse refers to God's removal of the righteous before the destruction of the first temple and we're not going to go into the whole prophecy over there but mori-san Hedren it discusses about never for netzer and the people who were telling him and coaxing him on to go and attack the Jews because Hashem already removed himself he first removed the righteous people and then he removed himself from the temple so basically you have a free-for-all - for destruction but the Gomorrah then discusses the word Homare which was the amount of barley and also the word lesyk so Comair refers to number 13 that's the 30 saw AB 30 measurements and the lesyk refers to 15 measurements well 30 and 15 equals 45 so this is an allusion to the 45 righteous in whose merit the world exists now we're gonna soon see we're not talking about Jewish people right there's a famous expression spoken about the 36 righteous Jews who the world exists for that without them the world would cease to exist here there's 45 righteous and and in the word in just used the Hebrew or boying the Phoenician Saudi King Shah hola miss kinda hem that would exist because of them and then the Gomorrah says aina you're daya in Flushing conv come Kamisha of America strap so the Gomorrah goes through a little bit we're not sure if there's ever this 45 if 30 are in Israel and 15 are in outside of the land or vice versa that 30 are outside the land and 15 are in the land and it and it resolves it by bringing in a verse from Zechariah so that you can find 56 in Zechariah chapter 11 13 right you hadn't read that one you read 12 okay so only 13 yeah and the Lord said to me cast it into the treasury the goodly price that I was prized at of them and I took the thirty pieces of silver and cast them into the treasury in the house of the Lord so this is a proof text at the thirty pieces where the thirty tsadikim we're thrown into MacColl Eretz Israel in other words this resolves that where is the temple the temples here right in Usha lion and so these 30 righteous Gentiles are connected there they're embedded in with the Jewish people and then so that resolved that part I want to go now to the interesting just to move this a little bit further along so we have that verse 59 in verse okay so you read the verse already I believe verse 12 right where it said and a Shem said to them - who - the nations of the world listen to the Hebrew the Omer L am in kobane essa have loosed a hurry omocha lugash crew it's a true solution casteth as it said now here number 16 Rashi points out that this passage is dealing with the nation's let's just go back to verse 10 I want you to look at verse 10 and you'll see that we're talking about the nations of the world yes zechariah 11 but it's verse 10 yes verse 10 reads and i took my staff graciousness and cut it asunder that I might break my covenant which I made with all the peoples right there with right so this is clearly talking about the Covenant that he has with the peoples so that was in verse 10 so now when he's talking about these thirty pieces of silver it is proper in your eyes give me my fee and if not refrain and they weighed my fee thirty pieces of silver so now we have an argument between two rabbis rabbi yehuda and Ola raffia hood oh sorry Rob you'd and Allah these are a Moriah so review hooda says a loose low shumsa DK almost olam I'm sure the word boom assalam you guys know what that mean these are the 30 righteous of the nations boom asylum sky me Malaya in whose merit the nations of the world exist so whether we go with the idea they are embedded in Israel meaning that they've either the gear Tasha or they're living in amongst Jewish people they're living righteous lives that they are keeping just like the 36 Jews are keeping the world the Jews alive and the world going so - there's something significant about these thirty righteous Gentiles keeping the the merit of the nations now that's the first opinion okay so what we have here is thirty very righteous Gentiles and there's a lot riding on their sick goose on their righteousness and one is Allah say and this is gonna sum up why we're talking about beyond seven okay so Allah says Ailish Loesch emits though Shikibu will they have been a knock should I translate these thirty pieces of silver that Hashem took from the nations are his feet as an allusion to the thirty commandments that the nor hide that upon themselves when they accepted upon themselves you mean over beyond the seven or again are they subcategories of the seven that for other classes now it does mention however they only kept three of them what does that mean no they took 130 and they're only keeping three of them so I want to talk about these three real quick and then I want to go to the Ben Yehuda so what are the three they do not write marriage contracts for males in other words they're aware of the fact that almost sexuality exists but they don't flaunt it they don't publicize it they won't go so far as to write and call it marriage okay so that is something which they kept which we're going to soon see what these thirty mitzvahs are very shortly so that's one and I'm gonna compare these to the big three in Judaism we have three cardinal sins and Judaism which are not doing idol worship not committing adultery or let's say sexual sins and murder so we're gonna compare these three they kept these three means we'll see how we can compare them to the three big cardinal sins of Judaism I would say already this is keeping illicit relationship as much as they meaning keeping regarding illicit relations meaning they know what's going on but they know flaunting another one is that they don't weigh and sell meat of the human corpse in the meat markets meaning we know they eat them we but they don't you know go to your your you don't go to your I guess in the Wuhan to the meat market you don't go to your butcher and say give me a pound of flesh of a you know the human that I'd just died okay so they don't do it openly in the markets so this is related to murder they don't flaunt do murder and the third one is and they honor the Torah so what does that mean they honor to honor the Torah means to honor the God of Israel to honor the Jewish people to honor the sages right that means to believe in God right that's against idol worship so that's that is this Gomorrah which I thought was absolutely stabbed like what's the word an eye-opener for me however when we look in the begging of death it brings us to a whole nother level I mean unbelievable here let's start like this I don't know how much time we're gonna end up but we don't have a time limit okay so he mentions that the like the Gomorrah quoted the word Kyra can only mean miss tear up a sale I acquired okay it means that God says I acquired now we said become Nisha author with for 15 with 15 which we said is the 15th of Nisan how many years were we chips right this is a anybody wants to put down alright on the comments we were there for 210 years so watch what he says he says with God's help I can explain that God acquired the Jewish people which eat with each and every one of the plagues he brought us out of Egypt what account of the plagues right where these these um these who Marcos God only brought he only brought him it was one year it was only in the 210th year that we were there now if you look at the word myth sirrah mem cuff your dredge hey you have a racially good racially your this 210 and if you take those two letters out your left the word my you're left with the word plague so you have in the 210th year you had the plagues in which god acquired the Jewish people you're if you're not that's his first comment okay the next comment is about the 45 I just saw someone coming no we're talking about 30 really righteous people that the whole world's depending on just like we have 36 very righteous Jews that the whole world doesn't mean you can't be righteous it's you're just not on the same level as them and we're gonna see at the end hopefully what this kind of personality is right the personality of these 36 Jews or the personality of the thirty thirty righteous Gentiles okay so in the meat and that was in Eretz Israel as opposed to the 15 outside so now we're talking at the 45 Siddiqui okay we mentioned the word 45 50 came in there was 30 in there Israel and 15 outside so the word kesef the word cacif it said kesef is the word for money the coins that's a code word for Siddiqui for righteous people money Tessa now think about this the word kesav is a cough it's 20 which is sixty and a Fae which is eighty so he claims that these numbers all go up twenty sixty eighty so notice you're increasing in numbers which is significant okay that's the first comment he makes and the reason he says because who are tsadikim and I think everyone listening to this anybody that won't increase in wisdom the older they get right the wiser they gets right there are some people unfortunately who have given up one wisdom there they go and they play pool all day or play dice in the corners or sit and watch I don't know whatever they want to watch and they waste our life away but people who are delving into and I mentioned before we're going to talk about fear of God fear and knowledge of God is the only way to survive and against th O'Hara and to increase your relationship your intimate relationship with God and other like-minded people okay so so through increasing age and wisdom that's how someone becomes Sonic and interestingly enough that we compared it to do two different measures of barley barley is animal food okay it's animal so if you look huh I said unlike wheat right wheat is human food okay so look in psalms chapter 36 verse 7 it's really the latter part of the verse it's chapter 36 verse 7 your righteousness is like the mighty mountains your judgments are like the vast deep waters you save both man and beast we say this we say this in our prayers Rashi says right there what does it mean you save man a beast because people who are astute isn't Adam that's really like man you might be have a good but they make themselves as humble as beasts they're the one you're gonna say so this gets into this whole idea of character trait basically it's all that humility right the the meek shall inherit the earth that is from the Tanakh not from some other plagiaristic source but that's that's our sirs yeah we're just beginning now the reason for forty-five the word in Hebrew mem hey is MOT okay 45 so think about the numbers now we're gonna deal with the number nine so how do you come up with the number 45 if you add numbers 1 through 9 1 plus 2 Plus 3 plus 4 plus 5 plus 6 plus 7 plus 8 plus 9 equals 45 so again you're going up in a ascending order but it's all 9 numbers equal 45 when you add them all together and number 9 is num is the word it represents goodness that doesn't diminish in fact the first Tet Tet is for the number 9 that's the gallaccio 9 the first time it appears in the in the in Genesis is for the word Toth good its goodness that increases it doesn't diminish now this is a little bit of a mathematical equation I'm not very good at math but burkas sham it's all right now for me to read that when that you add 9 meaning 9 to 9 you get the number 18 now there's a thing called demotic attack a small number so let's say you have 1 & 8 right 18 is 10 and 8 but you don't count to 10 you count just the one so 10 is 120 is 230 is 3 clear so you have 18 which equals 9 in other words the 10 is 1 and the 8 so here you have 9 plus 9 equals in its Miss pocket on 9 and you can go further at 18 - 18 you get 36 so 3 + 6 is 9 and at 36 okay do it again so if you take 36 plus 36 get 72 7 & 2 right and you could do it on to 72 plus 72 is 144 144 is worth 4 & 1 it is 9 and you can add 144 to 144 you get 288 right 288 comes back again to 18 right - 8 + 8 16 + 2 and 18 is obviously the small number is again number 9 okay so therefore what do we see that every time that you have number 9 it's always toes toes the first text which is number 9 that appears in the Torah is the word toe and it's it's always comes out good and it never diminishes it in other words it's not less than 9 so that's a deacon but hold up the world and they don't diminish what is ma what is considered mem hey okay which again is all derivative from the number 9 I want to skip a little bit okay God created the world the oh man God spoke in the world came into being the words the Omer appears how many times he asked anybody gonna say well if there's 10 times well close but no cigar it actually appears 9 times and the come or even asked if you're gonna tell me that God spoke 10 statements and Oh came into being how come the word of the Omer only appears in nine times so it says because Bray sheets is one of those the Oh Maris and those God spoke you didn't have to speak you just a gray sheep okay but there's nine times the word the Omer is used and the word of the Omer is five letters so 9 times 5 is 45 so every one of these letters of the Omer God spoke in the world came into being represents one of these righteous people that are upholding the world Shh just I want to skip down a little bit to so much good stuff but basically in Malathi chapter 1 verse 2 it says I loved you says a shell but you say how have you loved us 1/2 theists 10 I have loved you since a sham they are Martin but you say dimma in Hebrew been love with men hey with 45 you have loved us that's not it it's the answer to the question how would you loved us this way with the 45 that's how I have loved you unbelievable and then in in Psalms 144 verse 15 which we say every day a few times praiseworthy is the people for whom there is this is so praiseworthy as the people whom God is Hashem right with God is their Lord so in Hebrew it's a shy young shikaka low happy is the nation shikaka low happy is the people that shikaka low so the word Kaka cough cough hey is 45 that it refers against at least 45 and also in atha lamentations where there is mourning over the Corbin Batum Nick - over the destruction of the temple so it says in chapter 5 verse 1 Zara Hashem Mihiel ah no remember Shem what has befallen us ma the 45 that and I'll just use his words the 45 Sadiq and my oil and Calle Malay and the 45 righteous people that the worldís is existing because of them love us from attano Gambas man Isaiah they were not removed even at that time even though the temple was destroyed the world still exists because of them and because of their their humility because they're married they are going to save us they're gonna save the Jewish people from Gois from their exile and this is where the crown going back to the very beginning it's not the end there's one more paragraph it's because of the return of the car the Jewish people should accept upon themselves in wholeheartedness the 613 mrs. meaning as a groom right not as an individual because not every commandments for each June here also is rata Shem I mean there's so many prophecies we'll talk about this another time what's going to be like when the Messiah comes or just before the Messiah comes what are the nations are going to say we've been handed lies we heard that God is with you we recognize that God is with you we're not going to go into them now I just want to finish this last paragraph which is quite long so I'm not gonna do it it's going to take too long they will say we're all not just past the hour mark broadcasting if you if you if you need a half an hour more or 20 minutes I mean if you've got it prepared but it's over discretion I'll be happy to so we had that discussion about the thirty on the fifteen are they in Israel or are they outside the land's right and we ended up by talking about the thirty were thrown into the Treasury and we discovered that it must be in the Land of Israel keep that in mind this is all numbers again the the benya das says in a mission in numa numa dealing with the Yom Kippur sacrifice there is this goat on Yom Kippur that there's these threads are going to be tie right it's gonna go out to the DES build Ernest and it's going to turn from red to white so basically there's a thread put on each one a piece of wool and it's this is the words use tool but say you take this and go and you take this and go that's the language just imagine that the depth of the what the Gomorrah has to tell us about Jewish wisdom how much we can learn so the word tool is test love which is 15 and then lawmen I'm sorry um well we do calculus 15 right 9 and 6 Tesla is 15 and then lammott is 30 so we're saying go with this tool what does it mean that regarding the 15 righteous people in hoots Lords and the thirty righteous people in Eretz Israel in their merits tool you will take their sins and go because of these righteous people being the 36 righteous Jews or the 30 righteous Gentiles whether they're in Hoops loritts the 15 the commercial 30 year embedded in the Jewish people that's part of this process on Yom Kippur where the sin is forgiven and here who Lucas share - Suresh Bosh flourishing so there's a division so in Eretz Israel in the Land of Israel is gonna be 30 and outside the land there's 15 so what it said I will sell I will acquire for me the 15 pieces of silver we already spoke about the fifteenth of the month of Nisan which is the day we were redeemed from Egypt and it's 15 as we call it right tests love here but tests love is the same Camacho's you would hang we just don't use the good hay when we discuss Camacho's we say test world nine and six instead of ten and five but it's the same thing so we're talking at the name of God so in Eretz Israel where you have such a greater level of holiness actually he mentions it's taking the light of the year in the hay in its fullness so what is you didn't hate in its fullness when we talk about good mantri we're going you'd love darling so that's 20 I'm sorry you have 10 for your love is six and dialed is four so the good when it's spelled out your love dialed equals 20 and then hey hey so you had hey the hay hay is 10 so if the unit and the hay and its fullness comes out to the number 30 and they're in Eretz Israel where the light is so pronounced so you get the the you attain its fullness which comes out to 30 and that's when it count through the merit of the 30 righteous people but outside the land with the power is it's not so strong shitty car for admission you'd hate them below al-a'raf meiosis upper Shubin you're not taking the fullness were you taking the simple the simple your day so that's 15 and that's going to be the light of symptom it's going to be very constricted light it's not it's not the light in its highest level it's a simple light alone but necessary else not like that it's you got the fullness so now we understand an amazing verse in Psalms 118 verse 5 from the straits that I call upon God so men how mates are from the mates are from the straights the mates are is related to its Ryan but it means our our constricted place as I call to God but it says you'd hang so that's talking about a narrative shred that's talking about an outside the land outside the land the light isn't so strong so it's just a simple good hang it's a very constricted place but the rest of the verses are not need the net hug yeah but God answered me with the expansiveness of the you a that's the you tenants expansiveness that means in the full the full 30 the legs we mentioned you'd love darlin and hey hey is the fullness just amazing this all relates back to the Keter trust me this is this is all relating back to the fullness of the unit in the hey the fullness of our ability to take on will be called beyond the seven and you know what I don't want to leave you without reading this letter but this is going to be key this is going to be key in understanding this was found in the good Cairo Genizah that means it's not a trash heap but where the Jews in Egypt placed all their scraps of Torah scrolls or mezuzahs or holy writings and it dates back over a thousand years ago and it's based on the Gomorrah that I mentioned that I mention it yeah about the was really going back full circle where we said there with these thirty commandments that the Jews ik that the non-jews de banane off accepted remember we spoke it's in the Gomorrah that did not the Bonet not accepted these thirty commandments so here's a list of them now he begins with a little bit of a introduction by saying that let me just reread says this is by the father-in-law of the high gan his name was Shmuel been Hosni he was the head of the Academy in Sora in Babylonian but this ended up in the the archives we'll call it of Egypt dating back 2,000 years so this demonstrates this idea that in Genesis 34 12 so demand of me such a bride price in marriage gifts I shall give whatever you ask of me but let me have the girl Dina for my wife so when the when the non-jews were approaching the Jewish people to have Dina so they were willing to give dowry right they were willing to give these a bride price and marriage gifts so he's saying that there are laws amongst the non-jews even then so he says like this this demonstrates that even prior to the giving of the Torah they made use of bride price and marriage gifts these constituting one of the impaired is incumbent upon all the peoples quite apart from father Abraham's progeny thus our rabbi state the children of Noah were commanded thirty commandments so this rabbi shmuel then hophni goes on and list the thirty-two command the thirty commandments they were not explicit in the gomorrah and not a Hulan 92 and but this is his list so when you go through the list and we're gonna talk about a lot of these things from des right to Shannon are in our series it's number one there all negative Commandments except where they are listed as positive commits so let me I'm gonna use this what do you this this one st here we go so number one so they're negative idolatry one should not be an idolatry number two not passing a child through the fire as part of the Molech ritual number three do not use the use of divination x' number four do not use illusions or alternatively predicting the prime time for embarking on a venture number five mark making decisions based on omens unrelated to the undertaking six sorcery do not do sorcery number seven conjuring groups of animals or insects through his chart to charms don't do that don't consult an off movie oath and don't consult a you don't these are all it will talk about these another yeah don't involve yourself in necromancy and eleven do not engage in forbidden unions okay here's a positive one the positive commandment to be fruitful thirteen the positive commandment to multiply 14 do not engage in male-male Union even merely to enter marriage contract number fifteen mating diverse species of animals together meaning don't and don't perform castration seventeen grafting one species onto a tree of a different species number eighteen murder number nineteen striking the mouth of an Israelite number twenty blasphemy number 21 there's a positive commandment to honor the Torah okay what does it mean to under the Torah will have the movie to discuss all this not tonight but 22 the pie commandment to engage in the study of those parts of the Torah that are relevant to the Knights which is a lot number 23 is theft which in my opinion will understand that is why there are certain parts of the Torah that are forbidden because that would be concept-- but we're not going to get into that tonight either number 24 studying those parts of the Torah do not study those parts to deter that are exclusive to the Jewish people again that would be that 25 the positive commandment to maintain civil law and number 26 observing the Sabbath meaning don't observe the Sabbath and I'll tell you my shot right now so you understand that when the Rambam says observe them kill aha you can do anything you want as long as you observe them properly since a non Jew is not obligated to serve to observe Shabbat he may but he has to do it in a way that shows he's only doing it optionally so that means to break what did you would normally do make sure something I'm good to broadcast yeah listen the way and non Jew would observe let's say I out towards celebrate as opposed to observing to celebrate Shabbat is to learn Torah to get together to pray to not to say take off work spend with time with the family but to not do mala ha in the same way the Jews refrained from will come Aloha Aloha means a very specific creative acts they're not obligated they can refrain but they can't invent their own religion therefore to make sure that they're not inventing a religion and doing something not supposed to do they should make sure to do something that shows that only doing it voluntarily right okay we'll talk about that more as we learn more and number 227 eating a limb torn from a live animal 28 drinking blood extracted from a live animal these are all things you don't want to do eating the vaillar which is interesting and number 30 is cannibalism so I don't know if Mary said murder so I guess after the person's dead don't eat him okay so that's the shirt I haven't had any lately but back back up to the novela question that was a prohibition it sounds like it from this list here but not the Rashi doesn't agree he brings something else we'll have to talk about that will hopefully get into all these different ideas and expound on them but I want to mention I want to give a plug for a book called rich alone and yes Rabbi hearing Turkey basically he he talks about all the different I call them the same thing I spoke about tonight as seven broad strokes of categories and there's so many you'll see that so many mitzvoth so many opportunities that's what the word mitzvah means an opportunity to come close to Hashem because it means look how they're to connect there's so many opportunities for non-jews some of them they're even obligated at subcategories of the seven mitzvot seven categories and he has I remember this book I don't know if it's out yet so I don't wanna give too much away but I want to promote it because he talks about behavior of guidelines which is so fantastic because that's what it's all about if you ever read the kuzuri I would I would strongly encourage people to read the kuzuri this King was talking about over a thousand years ago whether it happened it didn't happen doesn't really matter but this King I'll just give you a like a real brief that will end because we want to bring the crown the corona of Torah back to its rightful place he was a non-jewish king who was in a quandary like most of us most people in the room I want to live a moral life he says and I don't know which religion to choose right so I'm gonna have the leaders of each of the religions come and try to convince me persuade me why this is the path I should choose he basically believed in God but didn't know the best moral path so the the story begins in the first few you know few pages discussing with a Greek philosopher talking to a Christian and talking to a Muslim but if the rest of the book is really about his conversation with this rabbi and in the end he decides this is the most this is what makes the most sense you know this is the moral pet because I go to sleep every night and I don't know if I'm I guess people are thinking of Oh am I gonna be saved or not right am i living when I go to heaven what what's gonna be my judgment so in Judaism we say the first thing there you gonna be asked were you honest in business right Nina do you keep Shabbos did you even worship idols you're not right were you honest in business it's your the behavior of guidelines okay so obviously we're behavior of guidance in terms of idol worship and in time in terms of all the other missiles but real talk less real meat potatoes something that is you wake up and you know you're on the right path you know so you activate your brains eat your Wheaties you have a cup of coffee you sit down with a good book written by the rabbis and learn let's bring the crown back to where it belongs so I'm glad I chose the title beyond the seventh as you can see it's not so simple these seven are as I believe seven categories and there are many codes there's many details and instructions on how to behave and hopefully over this this time that we stand we'll go deeper and deeper and I hope this was quite fascinating because for me I enjoyed it and I give you I thank you for the opportunity to be a part of this Oh rabbi you did a wonderful work you actually went further deeper than then I had hoped and I love the way you brought up the scriptural passages and I was able to pull them out but the sheer fact that you were sharing them and and literally getting involved you know we've had a good turnout today people from all around the globe it's exciting as far as the kuzuri Rabbi Goldberg of the Noahide world center he and I did one and I know I've got some backgrounds already set up for him to do possibly might do another kuzuri series for with another group but also not just an interrupt I so for those who don't know basically the king converted to Judaism and his whole people the whole kingdom converted as well not that we're out trying to convert anybody okay just keep in mind that it was so convincing of this rabbis argument that yeah so just keep that in mind it's a it's like a I think they call it apologetics basically it's from a Jewish point of view why Judaism it makes sense yeah an instruction mannered year-old work that stands stands to this day and the logic in the the rationale the apologetics like you said they make perfect clear sense it's I just want to mention also that my type of teaching is very text oriented I tried my best to use verses to use commentary on verses to use text and it's not for everybody so I really try and I'm not sure if I am able to to bring the text down to a level that is you know somewhat consume it and eat it and benefit from it so if anybody has any tips or they're having suggestions I'm open to them as well well there you go folks you know you can always catch him on you Bonet calm you can catch rabbi pasta on Facebook in his YouTube site feel free to look at--look them out check him out ask some questions don't be afraid to even drop some answers here are questions here we'll try and get them get them to them so rabbi since the day went well are we all good for next week same time or do you think you can slip it into your schedule sure looking forward to it and great week alright till next week [Music]