Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: Nature of The Satan and its Antidote

[Music] welcome everybody welcome home to toro welcome to the evening bait midrash coming out of the baca neighborhood and you shall lying before we get started i want to give like a uh not even a summary just some three highlights three points that we're going to talk about tonight so that if you decide that these are interesting to you you'll stick around right so the first thing we're going to talk about is the true nature of the satan who is this satan and what is he trying to accomplish what is his mission number two the antidote we can't leave that out of the discussion the antidote to the defense against the satan number three we're going to talk about the blessing in which yaakov received an additional name changed his name to israel very important fundamental for us to know who we are and what our mission is and i and one more idea just it's really a continuation of the number three is that uh ultimately why did he name the place pineal the the face of god okay so without any further ado here we go i know you guys are excited here we go so let's become familiar with these verses in chapter 32 it's verses 24 through 32. now i need to read them in the beginning because i want you to become familiar with them if you're watching this on video you can always pause it and meditate and go deeper into them because i'm going to read them only in english now and they're going to read in hebrew as we always do um from the client car and we'll read some of these verses some of the highlights of these verses in hebrew now after yaakov has passed his family across the stream he went back he went back for some interesting language because a park is a container right today if you buy a coke or a soda or a beer in a tin can it's called a park right or even a trash can something metal a container a container it's called a pacha anyway he went back for a small park and that's going to be related also to chanukah but we're not going to talk about that tonight that aspect we'll talk about that monday night how our parshiots relate to hanukkah but right now and he took them and brought them across the stream and he took across what was his and then this is the one this is one of the verses we're going to deal with and yaakov was left alone and a man wrestled with him until the break of dawn i'm just going to read in hebrew that one verse remained alone and a man wrestled with him until the sun began to rise which we call dawn and then the english continues when he saw that he could not prevail against him who's him the angel could not prevail against diako he touched the socket of his hip and the socket of jacob's hip became dislocated as he wrestled with him and he the angel said let me go down let me let me get out of here for dawn is breaking but hiyako said i will not let you go unless you bless me unless you blessed me he said to him what is your name and he said yaakov and yaakov reset back to him would it i'm sorry the angel continued and said your name shall no longer be called yaakov but israel because you have commanding power with an angel and with men and you have prevailed and yaakov then turned around asked the angel now tell me your name and he said why is it that you asked my name maybe that's his name could that be his name if you say what is your name in his songs why do you ask me my name maybe that's my name and he blessed him there and yaakov named the place peniel for he said i saw an angel face to face and my soul was saved and the son s-u-n rose for him when he passed puniel and he was limping on his thigh okay now what is this exact concept of let me just get my pages in order uh in the word wrestling right that's one of the first concept we're going to deal with look at rashi i highlighted underneath well let's start with the beginning so we saw that yaakov was left he was left alone you know what he went back it means that he went back for small bottles and returned for them is that a smart move to be all by yourself for something seemingly insignificant then it says in the man wrestled rashi says and the man became covered with dust why dust because the word we're dealing with the yeah bake the root is avak is dust why do we translate as wrestled because as we wrestle right if you ever saw two men going at it right i'm not talking about on asphalt okay you know most of the world for uh the history of the world has not been asphalted right you didn't have cement everywhere even in your homes you had dirt floors right so imagine you're wrestling you like that word wrestling wrestling and what comes up is dust but we're going to see a deeper understanding not only that so the man became covered with with dust be right derived from avac for they were raising dust with their feet through their movements i believe rashi says however that it is a term meaning that he attached himself and we'll talk about that also because we're going to see some interesting ideas of um what's the word to exchange letters okay we'll see how it can be turned into the word how the aleph and the set are interchangeable and therefore you can see them being connected as you notice when people are wrestling that's what they're doing they have their arms wrapped around each other and that's what he says for so is the habit of two people who make strong efforts to throw each other down right if you're wrestling and you need to win you need to get the other guy off of you or on the bottom two people make strong efforts to throw each other down that one embraces the other and attaches himself to him with his arms now this last line is going to be very important because we spoke about the idea of the satan right we spoke about the idea we're going to talk about the nature the true nature of the and i know the christians will not appreciate this one bit our rabbis explained that this was the prince the guardian angel of asaf going to find out we don't know yet that it's the sata right i think i gave too much away already okay but if this we're talking about he's going to eventually meet up and encounter with asov and it makes sense that the encounter that he has first is with the guardian angel of asaf right as we learned in the war in the um song of devorah in sis right by sisera that all battles are fought first in heaven and then fought on this ground okay we just show up it's already been determined who won in heaven so this battle whether it's uh whether it was 100 in the physical world or some of it partially in the metaphysical world is not relevant we're gonna read it as if this is exactly what happened in its entirety so let's go into the clear car who we use for those who are not familiar the clear car is an amazing parish right he was taught by who the greatest of the generation the morale and five hundred four hundred years ago so we are on kufnan hey where it says remained alone that's the word for wrestling regarding this wrestling match of the angel with yaakov there are so many the clear card is telling us that the paper is not big enough there's not enough paper around maybe back in his day now you have a computer it can all be digitalized but we understand what he's trying to say there are so many opinions that the curtain he says is too short there's not enough space to uh to write all the different opinions therefore a marty therefore i say a little kim petronim is it not that hashem has all of the answers hashem provides all of the interpretations therefore i am also going to tell you my side of the story after the fact that almost every one of the commentators have already agreed i'm not going to pronounce the word but i will help you it sounds like som and that's the first syllable and then eo okay you familiar with that word that we basically are referring to as the satan he is the arch angel the administering angel over asap why is he it this angelic force called sam if we can understand the name we can understand the nature of the satan because his entire desire and purpose is to blind the eyes of a person the word sam means blind sama in aramaic and in hebrew it's sama with the same name and to hit him to the point to smack him to smite him to become blind the la soto summa na sicli and to cause him to create within a blindness from his spiritual eye where's the spiritual eye it's emanating from your intellect right your spiritual intellect your spiritual intellectual eye i just want to i know a lot of my students and people who've listened already heard this idea the word seychelles culture right is right is intellect is intellect but in the maharalian terms it means spirituality therefore as you know i like to put together and call it the spiritual intellect that's how i like to move i like to bring things together and it makes sense that's what the sutton is trying to do to blind the person you know from his spiritual intellect until he's no longer able to see the truth he's not able to have a truthful vision right can you imagine being bombarded by fake news all day long right and you believe it you're a believer right god forbid but this is what happens is what the sun does it wants to do dull right uh negate your spiritual growth and your spiritual eye and your spiritual intellect penelope because your spiritual eyes what brings you to a true understanding of hashem and he wants to blind you to that from coming to see hashem below and to come to the fundamental understanding and knowledge and secrets about hashem to those who are god fearing this israel torah um they fear and they understand the secrets of the torah and who is this he is the satan who else is he he wears three hats yeah for those who believe in the trinity here you go the son has three hats he is the satan he is the malacha maves he is the angel of death and he is the yates of the evil inclination i want to quote now from gamora baba batra 16a ray schlakosh says satan the evil inclination and the angel of death are one that is there are three aspects of the same essence there you go the holy trinity and you know that other group he is the satan he seduces people and then accuses them as it is written you can find this in job chapter 2 verse 7. so the satan went forth from the presence of the lord and smote job with vile source uh the second he's also the evil inclination as you find in genesis chapter six verse 5 the impulse of the thoughts are of his heart was only evil continuously all day long as we know and it's also written in job 1 verse 12 only upon himself do not put forth your hand now the verbal analogy this means a gazera shava between the various uses of the words only teaches that the evil inclination is to be identified with the satan he's also the angel of death as we find in job chapter 2 verse 6 only spare his life so we see that he has the satan is the angel of death apparently job's life depends upon him the satan and accordingly the sutton must also be the angel of death let's continue with the clear car the rama the bremen ladava we actually have a hint to this idea now we all know the alphabet alphabet the alpha beta and um in hebrew so every letter of course has a value but there's many ways to look at the alphabet it's called what we're going to look at is called alpha beta ochenios we're looking at the alphabet and we're looking at the letters that come directly after when you're looking at a word why are the rabbis called supreme right in english they call them sages oh no scribes let's call them scribes right because sophie means scribes however what is the scribe supposed to do he's supposed to count the letters and what does it mean to count the letters does he mean he's to make sure not one letter is missing absolutely right if there's 500 letters on one page he's to copy over and make sure there's 500 letters on one page but whatever he's copying because if there's one letter missing or one extra letter it's no good but it also means to count right to count the actual value of the letters right there's multiple ways of doing gamache i'm not going to go into that but one of the concepts right here is if you look at a word if you know every letter even though you're looking at a word you could be looking at numbers or at bash you could be looking at different letters okay we're not going to go into that idea but this one concept called osiyoshniyos you're looking at the letter that follows the word so if you look at i have here on number three the letters of the psalm allah every letter that follows the one that follows islamic as an ayam that follows a nun what letter follows an alpha is about and what follows islam it is a man so in place of the psalm the word for satan you have the word grapes what are grapes is where wine comes from and what do we know it's a big problem addiction is a big problem to to strong drink so this is what he has to say he says like this the hint of the idea is that the son is actually a partner with the great he's a partner with the great we did look back in partial noah right but the first thing that noah did when he left the tava the ark was he planted a vineyard by the way for those who don't know a vineyard is a great uh grape uh caramel what do you call it uh great garden a grape garden thank you very much that's it so he says just as the wine come the wine by the way for those who don't know hebrew yay in it it sounds like wine yay in wine it comes forth it comes out of the grapes and when someone is meshach assad that when a man becomes drunk because chakras adam when the when the wine causes a man to become drunk what does it do it's either bastard enough it causes a blindness in the eyes not not a literal blindness but a spiritual and perhaps it does even cause when we're talking about stumbling right you see someone who's drunk he's tripping his over his own feet he's running into cars you know if he's walk on the sidewalk and he certainly should not get behind the wheel so this is a plug for do not drink and drive okay do not drink and drive because it causes accidents right worse it could even be worse as it says now there's a verse in uh genesis chapter 49 verse 12 just to get this idea through our heads it talks about part of the blessings he is red eyed from wine and white tooth from milk so this right that's the hebrew meaning his his eyes became red from the wine so look at rashi over there and he was bloodshot eyes for it is common for those who drink to have red eyes so there's a redness and i don't think this means like it's someone who drinks a glass of wine every day when they come home from work is not going to have red eyes but someone who is very habituated in drinking too much right if you ever see sometimes their nose is red and they're maybe it does happen once in a while someone just drinks once in a while i don't know but let's let's take it for what we know that if someone drinks too much their eyes become red mustam sheikh or holy he's trying to bring this home that is you're just physically drunk you go around like i'm gonna say like a a blind sailor right the boat's rocking back and forth and you're like falling all over the place right a drunken salad so too this is what the samik mem is it's a partner with the wine called mizimotov the all of its initiatives right its goal is to blind the eyes of man until he's no longer able to see the sun now he's using this because we're talking about a little bit talk about a little bit later but basically you're not able to see the light okay let's just take the word shemish meaning their likes right as we spoke about before to say to see hashem and this is going to play to the theme of the few verses we read already we know that the wine will cause this blindness to the physical eye the zest some chaos sorry this is the same this is that arch angel of asav who we call the satan who is a partnership in the blindness whose whole goal is to try to cause a blindness to the spiritual intellect the shalom so one would not be able to see the grandeur of god this is exactly what the word means we're talking about for those who just came on board the psalmic mem aleph lamin is the satan is the archangel the administration of asav it's two words to blind you from god that is his goal i hope this is very clear so the clear card says it's a milat it's a combination of two words psalm blindness to godliness clear as mud i hope reality is used twice sorry the alec is used twice once for the first part of the sunday this is something you need to know furthermore from what is required for you to know right the evil inclination the satan is to be compared it's analogous to what is as luv is a fly or a mosquito something that's it's constantly around and it's really hard to get rid of and he's constantly it is trying to get into flesh that is not healthy it doesn't have the power in its mouth to bite into healthy flesh so it's looking for a wound a sore an opening the end of your lip the side of your eye where your your ear is right it's looking for a hole it's looking to enter a weak place and he mentions brought down a gemura brachate which i have here so i want to read it um no i do have okay and the evil inclination is like a fly it's in gemara bracha 61a and it sits between the two entrances of the heart this is you know the metaphysical uh it says in ecclesiastes 10 1 dead flies make the ointment of the perfumer feated and putrid shmoel says that the inclination the evil is like a type of wheat as it says transgression this we're going to deal with this verse crouches at the door so in hebrew i have it right below this rovates which is the word for sin is also related to the word for wheat okay um i want to look at that verse a second it's genesis chapter 4 verse 7 is it not so this is what hashem is speaking to cayenne cain is it not so that if you improve it will be it will be forgiven you if you do not improve however at the entrance sin is lying now it's not just lying it's in ambush right and to you is its longing but you can rule over it rashi says for to you is its longing let's go first to the first one you can improve yourself if you improve your deeds i know there's a couple religions out there that they just believe there's nothing to do with your deeds and if you if you think your deeds have anything to do with anything then you're a failure and you are um a denier because it's all through the grace of god no broke hashem yes god has a lot of grace but he also gave us the power to change our deeds and deeds matter in fact all deeds matter in fact this was an old saying of mine i think i should make a bumper sticker but i never did anyway if anybody wants to take the idea on with me be a partner all deeds matter i'd love it so anyway that's what rashi says right regarding this verse that's what god is asking kind if you you know all you have to do is work on yourself improve your character for to you is its longing the longing of sin meaning the evil inclination which constantly longs and lusts to cause you to stumble but you can rule over it if you wish you can overpower it you will do it if you want okay let's continue in the clear car see says we just read the verse le peta jatas kistams vu what does a regular fly or mosquito do it's ana royvates the buster hashem it's not looking for healthy flesh there's nothing it can do around healthy flesh it doesn't have the power in its mouth in order to create a new opening the chalet within the healthy or complete flesh rotates vein therefore it it it crouches by the entrance safatai means lips but it could be a wound right you have two sides of the womb so it's looking for the entrance it's looking for a place to find even the smallest opening yearbots is going to be very important in the in the battle between yaakov and this angel the angel of asa what you want to do let's keep reading here that there at the oh little opening that's where it's lying in weight and ambush to open up even more even open wider the opening of the wounds this is what the evil inclination wants to do its anon is dave it cannot it will not there's no possibility of it connecting and joining up with a human who is perfect who is complete who's healthy i shall love parrots because there is no break there is no unhealthy flesh there's nothing unhealthy about this person there's nowhere to break through i'm sorry there's no chance of opening up this person towards sin or is downfall you shall name and when it's with concerning a person who is i'm going to use the word spiritually mature who's healthy spiritually and intellectually the whole myself with all of his actions very old deeds matter he's got no business the the the son is out of business he's on a lockdown he's on a corona lockdown he's got to be the dude stay by himself right he's not going to mix okay low yahoo club because he has no he's no chance there's no ability to overcome the other person the human being ah however however when the person himself opens up an opening even a small bit and it's going to become very important when we talk about the hit on the leg of yaakov pirates gdero veracala then there is this opening of the fence even for the lightest slightest transgression then immediately the hr rod will join up and say this is what he's going to say what do you think he's going to say me and you are the same we're bros man come on man come on man we're brothers then he will take you up this journey from the light seemingly insignificant not severe sins to you know to much more severe and heavier sins um he's going to try he's going to make every effort to widen that breach until we'll go up this is a based on a verse in second chronicles 36 16. uh it says until the lord's wrath but he's using he's saying a different word the word we're using in in the actual passage is hamas with a tough but he's changing with islam as hamas is a crime so he's going to widen he's going to make every effort to widen this this opening until the sin is so great that basically there is no remedy and that what it means in the verse until the lord's wrath ascended upon his people beyond the remedy in other words when the person is beyond any help he's incurable he's unselfish salvageable that's how bad right if you keep going in that direction until there's what we call no return but the secret of judaism is there's always return but you need a more drastic recovery program but anyway let's move on um now this is a verse based on isaiah 5 5. so much so that you breach its walls its walls are breached until it shall be trampled so the whole verse says like this and now i'll inform you what i'm going to do to my vineyard i will remove its hedge and it shall be eaten up breach its walls and it shall be trampled so this is the same idea of beyond repair it is the arch angel the administering angel of asap it knows it knows that the ultimate battle between jewish people and since we know asap is western society christianity we know that it all comes down and hangs and depends on keeping the torah keeping the torah shmira satora the desire to come close to hashem through his torah now how do we know this how do we know this so i want to take you on a journey it's not far from where we're at we're in chapter 32. just go back to chapter 27 verse 40. you know when yaakov when gitzka gives the blessings right so to both the the sons so what does he say to asap he said you shall live by your sword you shall live by your sword you live by the sword now you will serve your brother okay so asaf should be serving yaakov right and it will be when you grieve why would asa breathe when he's aggravated when he's agitated because his the younger brother he's serving the younger brother but the younger brother is only above him when he keeps the torah but if he's not keeping the torah he shouldn't be above him so this is what's going to agree this is what's going to agitate asap the western society christianity if the jew is not doing what he's supposed to do anti-semitism what does it say then you will break his yoke off your neck then you will have every right to say this is unfair you're you yaakov are only allowed to be superior you're only allowed to be above me if you keep the torah when you fail to keep the torah i'm going to make an uprising a revolt and god through yitzhak tells him this let's look at rashi a second and it will be when you grieve to read it's an expression of pain i will laminate in my speech you can see in psalms 55 3. when the israelites will transgress the torah and you will have cause to grieve about the blessings that he took you will break his yoke clear his mud so my message of course is please my fellow hidden jews just begin with the desire just have the desire to do the right thing right and you can begin to learn that's that's where you start okay start praying start praying and learning you're going to save the world right let's go on hine calls meaning for for asap the whole time that he doesn't see any sin in the jewish people but we're not talking about asaph but we're talking about the angels right so as long as he does not see any sin in yakov at all he the satan will not couple up with him upon him to blind him to blind his eye of spirituality in its entirety but when he notices and sees that yaakov was breaking through the fence even the smallest amount in coming out he sees that god graced the jewish people the not only and god gave the jews a blessing but unfortunately if the jews are not keeping the torah they're not worthy of the blessing and they're worthy of having asav remove his yoke the ocean because of so much wealth and property and honor the yaakov of youth yatsam miguel all that yaakov did yaakov meaning the jewish people they left this very important trait the trait of being sufficient and happy with small amounts they went for the wealth they went for the properties they went for honor now there's nothing wrong with those things in general if they're used properly right if they're used to serve hashem then it's good when it's used not to serve hashem then it's bad then it's a reason for asav or the sasha asov the satan to have a claim so this thing is called his top kudz this is the way of a torah scholar not to look for riches yes it can live let's say comfortably modestly but he should be happy with and sufficient with a little bit but yaakov was the yacht the avatar yaakov it says that yaakov remained alone right that's the whole idea he went back for what seemingly petty stuff why he needed that extra what did he need it for put his life in danger the aesho marine likado now the bet and the cuff not not that they're interchangeable but in this sense when it says yaakov remained alone read it like this yaakov remained the caddo to be trapped he went back and he was trapped trapped by the satan the makham sakana in a very dangerous place which we're all alone at night that's when all the dangerous spiritual forces come out at night and he remained at night all by himself on account of these small vessels again how much could they be worth he there was this basically a scheme to go back a desire to go back and to raise up and carry just on account of what of these little these little um these little insignificant articles well there's a concept called misery loves company that's how i translate these words and i think it's referring to the sun himself when the jew goes down to a certain level the sutton is quite happy because misery loves company that he remained in a in a place that was very dangerous all by himself that's when the the islamic meme says come on man i now found the power i got the power he says to right the sun says i got the power man after the fact that yaakov began his downfall he himself made himself a little bit blind in his own eyes how did he do that because we know those who love money those who love money or what keep me either come on all they are mom own who's blind who else is blind other than people who love money it says regarding that in michelle that's proverbs 27 20 the grave and hannah will not be sated it won't be satisfied and the eyes of man will not be satisfied neither what does that mean louis rashi the grave again will not be satisfied from receiving the wicked therein just as the eyes of the wicked man will not be satisfied from wandering after temptation and gratifying as lust what do we know about someone right who loves money he'll never die who always will die only halfway to his point of satisfaction right he has a million he wants to he's got five he needs ten right it's always he's only not even halfway towards his goal that's how he will die so we see the words of barna the eyes of man will never be satisfied that's when the psalmic meme says he may ace liquor now is the time to come close now is the time to wrestle now is the time to cling and i'm going to have a chance to put into his eyes dust the afar dust and and and and dirt kadasha suma me called the call in order to cause him entire blindness i wanted to be completely blind got me meaning physically sickly also from his spiritual intellectual eye vizesha amar the avatar yaakov jaka remained alone this is what it means kashir avar hook his top goods he already transgressed this statue of being satisfied with a small amount viovato levado licado and he remained alone to be trapped meaning he was alone he was he was no longer an individual but he was like with the masses kimi pasi yusur hine hena lasakin atomo bavor davra morpazet but that's very hard to understand why would any fool risk his life right to be all by himself at night in dangerous territory just for a small thing like this is this is very important the desire for money will cause someone to forget about hashem right as it says in deuteronomy chapter 8 verses 13-14 right hashem is going to bless us going to give us this blessing but is it really a blessing and your hurts and your flocks will multiply and you're solving your gold increase and all that you have increases and your heart grows hardy and you forget the lord your god who has brought you out of the land of egypt out of the house of bondage right you see clearly the castle is all this increase and then what what's the result the ram you're going to end up forgetting about hashem your god so where we going with this it says like this miyad what happens immediately after he crosses back each emo that's when this arch angel of asa that's when he tries to get him to forget about god entirely yaakov himself opened himself to the trap just a little bit and that's when the sutton comes and really tries to give it all he's got so the word the the word the abec is like the word why is an aleph interchangeable so it's the say for yet zero which is attributed to adam the first man wrote a book or let's say authored a book maybe it wasn't published but it was kept oral okay we have it today i have it my library okay and i do refer to it every once in a while i should read it more often but anyway it's brought there that's the source but the reason why it has to do with there's five different parts of your mouth that pronounce different 20 different 22 letters and therefore there are nasal there's tongue there's teeth there's throat and i forget the other one right now but basically you have these five letters which are the aleph i'm sorry it's four letters the aleph the hat the hay and the iron i'm already on page four they're all gutturals and therefore they're all interchangeable so what's what's the idea avdeck means dust doesn't mean wrestling but we understand when you use the word then as we already said that's when you're attaching yourself and embracing the other person so we saw that in rashi also so why is it written within aleph by alef in order that we can learn this whole idea of this dust in other words why would the word dust raising the dust have to do with wrestling that's the word for wrestling right when you're embracing somebody why aleph why use this term when it comes to dust it doesn't make any sense kerosene is driving this home the whole idea is because he wants to blind you he wants to blind you your um your intel your intellectual spiritual eyes just as the dust rises and blinds the person so too it rises up into the mind to blind the person from his spiritual intelligence kadela haviu li dei hachasat elukaima the whole purpose to cause you to forget god and this is what it means in coolin 90 91a did i copy it anywhere yeah number 13. it's just a quote and there's two different opinions the rabbis say why did what did they do with this phrase how do they understand and he wrestled with him so the war answers because they required for the other interpretation we should have been lazy we'll be sure that levy says this teaches that the dust from their feet ascended to the throne of glory it's written and he wrestled with him and it's written somewhere else in the prophets at 1 verse 3. i'll read the whole verse and the lord is slow to anger great in power but he will surely not acquit and the lord his way is with a temptus and with the storm and cloud is the dust of the state so we're relating this somehow goes all the way up to the throne of glory odd kisa covered until the actual throne of glory which means to cause you to forget that to that point um he mentions i couldn't find it but in the ncifra and the talks about the reason why king said keyahu became blind but the bottom line is this idea causing you this blindness is in order to reach the essence of your faith in the creator of the universe and ultimately to blind you from that relationship with he who sits on the throne of glory marsha on russia and no gambit he said now relating to this idea how it actually reaches or concerns the the throne of glory lando zamamar remember it says in the original verses when did this angel want to leave he realized that the sun was coming up as the sun is coming up he wants to depart so it's before odd means before just before meaning until just before the sun comes up because once the sun comes up too late it's like the vampire right what happens when the sun comes up i'm sure you've all seen the movies for those who haven't they're such a stuyot as a vampire who when the sun comes up they have to go back in their coffins for some reason anyway fake news let's put that aside but apparently this is not good sunlight right let's say for example let's just take an example there's a supreme court case over on an election fraud let's just say so there's a party that wants to say sunlight is the best enemy against fraud let the let let's see what it has to say maybe there's a cure right because mold doesn't really as far as i know it doesn't really grow in the strong sunlight how do you know if you ever get lost here's a tip if you ever get lost in the woods maybe it doesn't even woods anywhere and you don't know where north south east or west is because that will help you find i hope you hopefully you know where you're going you just need a pointer and direction that at least in the northern hemisphere that we're in is where the moss will grow by the base of the trees right because the sun doesn't hit the northern part of the root of the tree as much i don't know what happens in the southern hemisphere i guess it's the opposite okay i'm just guessing i'm i'm really just guessing but uh so if you ever need to know where you ever heard this before see it's a good thing you came you learned one thing you learned a lot how to save your life so the sunlight kills the the infections it kills the the the impurities as we all know right in this day of coronavirus that the lockdowns are not good right i'm telling you that sunlight be outside as much as you can get some vitamin d we're going to hear about it a little bit later in this hang in there it's very good the sun is very healthy and very good and yeah you heard it here and i didn't make it up it's the truth and guess what happened as the sun is coming up this is a prevention this is preventing the sum of men from doing what's what he wants to do because the rising of the sun is he would not be able to cause uh in yaakov the what his ultimate goal is is for him to not believe in god because the rising the sun is in the reason to believe in god yes that every single day like clockwork right that the sun rises that that shows you that there is a creator of the universe and someone who's constantly guiding the universe like the ikeda mentions this is a safer impartial on the posix not in british but he mentions it over there probably about the word hayon because if you look in deuteronomy chapter 4 verse 39 it says and you shall know this day why does it say this day and consider it in your heart the lord he is god in heaven above and upon the earth below there is none else it's true it was referring to the giving of the torah on that day but it didn't have to say this day look at the hebrew specifically as the day as the i'll call it a miracle if you want you know the miracle of nature that every single day the sun comes up the word hayong is a a symbol a symbol for the sun right as the sun rises you will know it should place on your heart that within knowledge of the the cycle of the sun obviously the sun doesn't go around the earth but as you you if you're aware of astronomy right you're aware of the cycles of different planetary orbits whether it's the moon when it's the earth whether it's you know just looking into the sky and just being wondered by it right if you're aware of the the miracles and the wonders of nature specifically the shemesh the sun itself yahoo hamas then the intelligent spiritual person will be able to understand that hashem is hello king that hashem is the lord god just like abraham abraham abram he understood through astronomy right we talked about this the other night the six different pillars the six six different um amudim of knowledge right if you use them for total learning your total learning will be just propelled right like a thruster a booster rocket right to unknown heights there's nothing wrong with i'm going to call them secular knowledge if you use them in the for the right purposes in order to know the world know hashem and glorify god so that's what avraham did he understood astronomy he understood the sun i'm going to say his beginning he abram himself he went up like the like the what he called like the break of dawn it says in isaiah 40 41 2. he who aroused from the east the one whom righteousness accompanied he placed nations before him and over kings he gave him he god gave him dominion what's dominion mean we should know it's the the ability to choose who is going to be the next president who's the next leader right as the um that there's a company that deals with um computers in the elections it's called dominion okay because because they're choosing who is the leader okay we're talking about abraham right now who aroused from the east who rose up from the east abraham right he came from eretz kazdin to arts canada the the one whom righteousness accompanied obviously it's him and god placed nations before him and over kings and gave him dominion he made his sword like dust and his bow like wind blown stubble so miyami misra said who arose who arose from the east with righteousness passage then this passage is the governor baba basha says that he wore some kind of pendant on his around his neck it was some kind of stone perhaps a pearl of some sort and it would heal people but what did he do show him the first name of the coleman see us okay he went around telling everybody yes he was the true missionary for god right he wanted to spread the gospel the good news hallelujah avraham and he went around to tell everyone that the one true god now i just want to refer now to the gemara here so it says here blessing of review right we didn't see this maybe we did uh there was a question whether he had a daughter named because he didn't have a daughter at all but uh he possessed knowledge and everybody that everyone needed from shimboy okay says that a precious stone hung around the neck of avraham our forefather any sick person would look at it and be immediately healed when avraham our forefather died the holy one blessed be he hung this stone he took it off his neck and put it on the sun it hung from the sun which from the that point on brought healing to the sick that's why i'm telling you go outside find every reason during this lockdown to get out into the sun by i said this explains the adage that says as the day progresses sickness is lifted beautiful let's go on if it had not been for the sound emanating from the universe hammacher the sound itself the the sun somehow pronounces or exclaimed proclaims that there is a creator of the universe roma this is also because rome is asap they battle each other they don't have room for each other this is interesting so you have the sound coming from the universe if you didn't have that sound coming from the universe all you would hear is the cheer chatter the cola the sound coming from rome which totally contradicts the unity of one god and that's why it says odd o odd until the sun comes up not including but just before you de-adhere to us hashem is because once you understand the the true nature of the world and astronomy yo the yaakov understood the shemesh like his for his grandfather avraham he understood there's only one god that would not fall for the ghost it's for this very reason that sick that um that evil people are what are examined or judged in the mornings we see by saddam chapter 19 in genesis verses 23 and 24. when did the it says the sun came out upon the earth and lot came to zoar and the lord caused rain to come down meaning brimstone and fire so when did this come look at rashi at dawn at the rise of dawn as the dawn rose a time when the moon is in the sky with the sun when there's still boat there since some of them worshipped the sun and some of them worship the moon hashem said if if i punish them a day then the moon worshipers are going to say ah see had it been at night they wouldn't have been destroyed so god said okay if i punish them at night the people are going to say the same thing had it been by day meaning the people who worshipped the sun when the sun rises we would not have been punished nothing would have happened so that's why it says as the dawn rose he actually punished them at a time when both the sun and the moon both rule okay let's go on this angel of asav saw that what killed he could not overcome yaakov he couldn't overcome yaakov the same ayan siklow me called the call what was his goal to totally overcome yaakov to make him right totally blind in his spiritual intellect from everything he had to try another method he had to try a totally different scheme the same could sought iron cyclo to blind him a little bit just a little bit remember he's a he's completely whole and yet what could the satan do he had to find a little opening somewhere you holly rose in order to cause him right uh minimally that he shouldn't be able to see the secrets of the torah and words the holy words that are hidden now this is referred to having challenges which is referred to the yara that's where the thigh see this area here this is where everything is hidden right here by the thigh so he says like this and it says in song of songs chapter 7 verse 2 how fair are your feet in sandals o daughter of nobles the curves of your thighs are like jewels the handiwork of a craftsman okay so we're referring to to what the torah the secrets of the torah your height what is it about the thigh truth be told me people don't know this the thigh is supposed to be hidden if you walk out today into the streets most people don't have their at least in the summer time they don't have their thighs hidden the thigh is the upper part of the leg it's supposed to be hidden makes sense because you're conservative right you're a conservative person so you understand what it means to have your thigh hidden so two devrake targets cesar so two the thigh so too the words of torah are supposed to be hidden i want to refer you to the the gomorrah and sukha 49b the very last few words what is the meaning of that which is written the hidden of your thighs is the song of songs chapter 7 verse 2 why are matters of torah like into a thigh it's to tell you that just the thigh is always concealed covered by clothes so too the matters of torah are optimal when recited in private and not in public so he says the clear card does not want to remove this verse from its simple meaning meaning he hit him in the thigh that's true it's certainly true that he affected him and hid him in the actual thigh ah however shiny no teen time badabra but i want to give a deeper reason lamin noga badafka the copyright why was it specifically in the upper thigh like the hip alasha rama was low he hinted to him this all happened because you love money get it through your head this is because you love money as lisa then without any doubt you will become blind in spiritual matters the call but the truth is if yaakov has sufficient strength that he won't come to complete heresy the comic com at least this is what the sudden is thinking yeah at least he can affect him a little bit in the thighs remember the sutton realized there's no way i can overcome him entirely but maybe i can affect him a little bit i stand the chance as to something if i can get the jew if i can get yaakov right to diminish just a little bit of his knowledge and i stand a chance now we're going for the end here i know this goes a lot longer but i don't have the stamina so we're going to go through and i think another two paragraphs when it says the vertex the socket of his hip became dislocated right the ball became dislocated to teach you what kishnay kenyan there are two things to acquire in this world one is torah and one is mammal one is money but guess what they don't go together they don't go together now i'm just going to clarify something so people don't get misunderstand me money property honor all that if it's used for torah it's fine okay if it's on its own as a goal it's not fine okay so these things contradict each other ki him kazarus lazuna zoo they're like two competing wives vitteka this idea one is being pushed off for the other you can't have them both okay one has to be submissive to the other and that's what it means in psalms 119 71 it is good for me that i was this is king david it was good for me that i was afflicted look at the word in hebrew in order that i learned your statutes totally um from the word like poverty impoverished afflicted okay it's good for me that i became impoverished or in order to learn your torah let's see rashi it's good for me that i was afflicted that i was chastised and afflicted in order that i repent of the evil way and keep your statutes in other commentaries i found the following it was good for me that i was afflicted it appeared good to me when i suffered privations in order to learn your statutes when i learned the torah in pain okay so we see they conflict with each other hinushi okay okay next paragraph this angel wants to escape he wants to leave because let me go for the dawn has broken he realized there's no way that he can bring yaakov any further towards heresy and he yes it was yaakov who said i will not let you go until you have blessed me the omer lo ashley that at least admit to me admit to me yaakov wants to know shayna taylorjoli estaplus that you are not able to overcome me regarding this riyas histakus the seeing and glancing at really understanding the concept that god is one kadesha malek basically like we do every friday night we he mentions here like we do on yom kippur basically the the yetzer hara has to totally succumb and answer amen right that um i want to be totally victorious i want to get you to say i'm made to my blessing in order that the malach this evil angel will answer amen but against his will the hatagai yellow that we get the prosecutor to actually be the defender that's the ultimate goal because no matter what we do all deeds matter if you're doing mitzvahs you're creating angelic forces that are going to be your defenders if god forbid you're not doing positive acts but the other way you're creating demons you're creating negative forces that are going to be your prosecutors but ultimately you can overcome and do truva then you're negative your negative uh creations will actually turn into the defenders themselves like you say the same yom kippur just like ultimately the same will act on yom kippur now yom kippur is representative of the world to come there will not be a yatsuhara there will not be an angel of death there will not be right the the satan in the world to come so yom kippur is a hint to that idea now i want to speak about the name of yaakov versus israel itself israel no longer will your name be called yaakov but rather israel because you have commanded power with god and with men keep this in mind it says with god and with men now the lushen of your shark hail that's what israel is you shru you shrug ale with there's many ways to understand the name okay but it also means besides everything you already know it means straight to god but when you say straight we're talking about visually since all this evening we've been using the word right to be able to see or to become blind and we're going to no notice he closed the place i have seen god right pineal my face i've seen the face of god so ki yashar who lost he's now going to prove the love the language of yashar is the language of seeing go to numbers 17. [Applause] i know it says behold but look at it as look i see it but not now this is billow cursing blessing the jewish people thinking about meshiach he says irena i see it vlog but not now uh shu rendu velocaro look but not soon it's not sorry below girl it's not close look but it's not close that's how you read it okay a star is going forth from jacob and the staff will rise from israel which will crush the princes of moab and uproot all the sons of seth okay we're talking about king mashiach here so he says the ho ho the lopezette that he admitted he he admitted in this who we're talking about the the what the um kiyako roa pineal he's admitting this no longer will you be called yaakov but rather right the name of israel the satan is actually admitting he's saying right yaakov saw the face of god and he wasn't able right it didn't go up he didn't succeed in what and causing him to become blind in knowing hashem and that's what it means ki sarita imelo kim now sarita we said and you striven with god god you fought with god and you want look at it like this like then again you saw god a car shame yaakov as soon as he was able to overcome and not fall for the for the um you know the schemes of the satan yaakov was basically admitting to this idea i'm sorry the name yaakov is myra yaakov itself the name teaches as look in jeremiah 17 verse 9 that what the heart is deceitful above all things the word deceit akov so this is the two names of yaakov yaakov and israel so the word akov means like twisted not straight that's the heart mikol from everything his deceitful heart from everything whereas the israel is lush and me sure okay so twisted as opposed to straight so eggcav is more twisted but israel is straight like it says about the future in isaiah chapter 40 verse 4. every valley should be raised and every mountain and hill should be lowered and every crooked terrain shall remain a plane and the close mountaintops add a champagne so this idea in hebrew is that everything will be straightened out let me show that which is crooked see the words that which is crooked will be let me short in the future god for god bless you everything that is crooked will be straight and it's not straight what appears in other words we're going to talk about the difference between what man sees and as opposed to what god sees what man sees is not always strength when it's both you need both the the the quality into the spiritual insight of god to be able to see straight man alone will not be able to see straight but man with god or god with man together we will be able to see straight and that's what it means that now your name will be israel kisarita as it says you strove don't you don't say stroke but you see you see with god and man together man can seek straight only with god and then basically he's telling him that with your ability your spiritual ability your spiritual strength you'll be able to be a tsar a tsar means a leader a nagging is a an ambassador to god a leader a representative of god it's only emailer only with god and man are you able to overcome that's what it means israel you sharp hell straight with god but looking straight with god seeing eye to eye that's where we're going to see that this is you looked at god you saw god it's looking eye to eye with god you're sure that's what israel is looking eye to eye with god it's like unbelievable it's an intimate relationship with knowledge meesha hanira gambein that this looking straight also with the eyes of god as if you're looking through the looking glass of god okay we're not going to go through the whole next paragraph we're going to end here but basically it leads us to yaakov called the place pineal pineal the face of god kiriti elokim because i saw god face to face okay and basically this is regarding what i already said that the same wants to blind the spiritual and the spiritual eye of man through the what through the dust of lush and hara okay we're going to end here but basically we know already what the sama wants to do to us to cause us to lose our clarity our pristine vision that will elevate us and the world and bazrat hashem will strengthen ourselves in torah and in deeds and truly knock off this um and we're going to see you next week with rajashim have a shabbat shalom and a great life [Music] is