Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: Rain of Blessing is withheld on account of these 3 Sins

[Music] welcome once again to the ebony beat midrash home to torah a warm welcome okay so for those that are not aware of what we do here we use the clear car as the basis for our discussion and i want to tell you i i have to just keep repeating it this sage right with 400 years ago and he knew hebrew like no other right and he's able to decipher the text to to such a great extent because he was the student move he was the star student of the morale who had direct messora a tradition all the way back to moses and it's just unbelievable what he does is he sifts through very similar to rashi all of the oral torah right he had the whole oral torah at his fingertips and he's able to explain it to us in at least 400 years ago in terms that were relevant to his generation and it really it's no it's not much different from this generation these are these are eternal truths okay and so to have the whole oral torah at your fingertips to explain what is the best meaning behind it is just a treasure trove right and and i want to tell you something else there's a rumor i don't believe it i don't believe it one bit the rumor goes around that the yeshiva students don't know tanakh it couldn't be further from the truth so they know the gomorrah so they know the gomorrah the gomorrah explains the tanakh and the prophets came to warn us and to encourage us to get back on the path a prophet cannot come and reveal anything new the prophets are explaining what we were already told about sinai and we need to get back on the bandwagon so to speak right so they're explaining it for that generation and what happened originally and what's happening today it's no different right nothing really changes the people change the time the clock changes but we're facing the same tests that the generation of the flood faced and that's we're talking about partial and the generation 400 years ago faced and we're facing today so it's interesting parshas noah right we're in chapter 6 verse 17 if you have the hebrew sheets in front of you it's on the very bottom of nun gimmel and the passage says like this amount in the right place yeah chapter 6 verse 17. as for me behold i'm about to bring the flood waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which there is a breath of life from under the heavens everything that is in the earth shall expire listen to the beauty of the hebrew va'ani hashem says as for me behold may the s hamabu mayam i am bringing this floodwaters mabul is a flood okay we're going to talk about rashi in a second how he explains it it's just unbelievable he's going to bring it al haaretz okay interesting let's look at rashi a second behold i am ready to agree with those this is what hashem is saying when he says behold i am bringing the flood hashem says i'm i'm ready to agree with those angels who originally i conferred with right when he says i'm going to make make man he says let us make man we learned a very important lesson about humility hashem is the ultimate in humility and he taught us a lesson when you're the boss when you're the uh you know in the employer you you confer you you ask advice from your employees people who are lower in stature than you and that's what he did he says let us make man he discussed with the angels and you know what they said what's the point they're they're not like us pure spiritual beings they're made of earth and they're going to sin they're going to be brought down hashem did it anyway he didn't listen but he conferred that's great so hirashi says behold i'm ready to agree with those angels who urged me long ago and if you look in psalms chapter 8 verse 5 king david says what is man that you should remember him right referring back to the angels in the early part of creation but what is the word mabul right mabu the rashi says it means the war out when something is worn out it's so everything would be worn out and mixed up the word for being mixed up is bill bal bill bale that right we know tower of babel right it's a good good word to know right and not only that everything is transferred everything is moved around the word jose right everything from the high ground to the low ground and he also mentions about targum ankalis the word tufna from the word toof is float because everything is caused to float and be brought down to babylon which is deep and that's why it was called there's a an aramaic babylon is called shinar shinnaar because all those who died in the flood were shaken out the word right they were all shaken out over there okay that's just some background so that's the verse we're only gonna deal with one verse okay we're gonna go deep into a concept called measure for measure it's very important to understand what this is god acts with us measure for measure whether it's for the reward or whether it's for the punishment what is a punishment in judaism what do you think god is a vengeful god he just wants to punish and lash out no he loves us and he wants us to know how to correct ourselves so it's like it's a sense of prophecy when you're able to recognize you're able to come to a recognition of what you did wrong hashem will bring the mess the sign to you and you'll be able to change your character you'll be able to make the correct adjustments tweaking whatever it is because he does it in increments slowly but surely does rather shem right and hopefully you get the message because he believes in you that you'll do chuva so he'll send these messages in little increments but if you don't learn then it will come at the end a whammy but guess what you think it's so you don't learn who's a wise person one who learns from everyone you can even learn from other people what not to do right when somebody gets the whammy so to speak at the end so maybe that message he didn't get and that's he's going to get measured for measure somehow that's also going to be part of the tikkun part of the para part of the atonement has to also fit the crime but also for us the observers the other ones who are living in this world that we should be able to learn measure for measure what what what to do what not to do and how to change our own own lives around let's start with the cleo car he says tom ledina the exact reason for the generation of flood why they perished you know why they perished through the flood he says because of three sins now you guys would probably think okay must be the three big ones the fish the gesso these are three sins the sin of aida worship the sin of sexual impropriety or sexual perversion and gezel so what happened to murder is it is no maybe the murder was not on the top of the list here they weren't really guilty of that we learned other places that when hashem wanted to bring the flood it was originally he had in mind cause news okay but the the what they call the the straw that broke the camel's back the final straw that finally brought the flood on was ghazal okay so we're gonna go through these three sins and see how they match up to tanakh what hashem has to say right to the three sins and how they parallel to the need for a mabul that's one one concept and but we're going to focus mainly tonight's class on ghazo ghazal being thievery so what do we have idol worship sexual perversion and the last one is thievery in fact that was what broke the camel's back so let's start off with the vodazara the first verse he wants to bring us is in jeremiah chapter 2 verse 13. what is jeremiah telling us for my people have committed two evils what two evils are they let's see if we can decipher the verse for they have forsaken me forsaken god is one of the evils the spring of living waters so that's the first thing who is hashem hashem is the spring of living waters and what do we do to dig for themselves cisterns so we dug whatever let's try to think metaphysically we sought waters elsewhere broken cisterns that do not hold water so let me tell you before we go into the rashi the two evils are number one abandoning hashem and the second evil is attaching ourselves to idols how do you see that as we said we dug ourselves cisterns broken systems that do not hold water let's see rashi two evils had they exchanged their deity meaning their their all for for one his equal that would be one evil and now that they have forsaken me hashem capital m e that i am the spring of living waters to follow idols which are like cisterns of stored up water and they're broken and cracked their water is absorbed in their cracks these are the two evils so number one leaving hashem and then clinging to worthless absolutely worthless ideas and thoughts and uh service that's idol worship okay that's the hebrew let's be the hebrew in jeremiah obdu i am the source of the the spring of of life of the spring of life lakhs in order to dig for themselves these burrows these these cisterns these burrows are nisbari the sisters themselves are not able to contain water they're broken the water just leaves and evaporates okay so that's the first we're not going to spend much time on idol worship that's one number two giloi arias that means the revelation of nakedness which means perversion which has to do with um sexual immorality the the statement he's about to make is ish we all know that if somebody was with another a man was with a woman who's not his wife she's married to someone else someone else's wife the capital punishment it's capital crime and the punishment is strangulation now you may say well what happens well i understand when you have a sanhedrin so then you have a based in first of all you have to have witnesses you have to have warning and you have to have a sanhedrin so with all of our history out of what one year away in 57 81 how many years did we actually have a sanhedrin right i'm going to guess like a 1400 years out of all the 5781 years of history we only really had a sanhedrin a real saint edge from the time we left egypt right okay it's probably we had one in egypt and amongst the but it wasn't the same so you had from the time we left egypt until the destruction of the for of the uh first temple and then you have 70 years of exile and then another 400 almost 500 years of the second temple so all together right 900 years plus 500 years about 400 years right give or take okay we had a sanhedrin a few years afterwards but at some point when we left israel the the capital the capital punishment was no longer uh in in um could no longer be taking place okay so what what does the gomorrah in kasuba say it's amazing in kosubo 30 b which you'll find in number three on the english source sheet alpha p she bitlo abba miso is based in even though there was once there's a once there's a uh no based in then you there's an abolishment we don't have the death penalties so in other words it's really weird what he's saying in fact maybe we'll just read it in english here from the day the temple was destroyed although the sanhedrin was abolished the fourth death penalties were not abolished now how can they be you need the sanhedrin to have the death penalties silica more asked were they not abolished it is clear that they were abolished because today as today there's no sanhedrin newer capital punishment rather this is what it means that although there were no earthly court imposed executions i added the word earthly the punishment of the fourth death penalties was not abolished who made sure that they took place hashem he still made sure that people suffered the the death penalty one who was liable to be executed by stoning either falls from a roof god forbid or a beast tramples him because how was stoning done well you were thrown off headfirst by like like from a two-story building and if that didn't kill you they rolled the big stone on top of you and if that didn't kill you then all the people huh car accident that could be yeah well we'll see because that's one way so then all the people around you around the the bottom of where the the person was if he's still alive would then throw stones on him and why is the stone why is um falling from a roof or beast trampling you similar to stoning except costoning is which involves being pushed off an elevated place and then stone okay what about one who's liable for burning burning is one of the four capital cri capital punishments he either falls into a conflagration which is like a fire or a snake bites him what i mean i've never been bitten by a snake but the idea is that there is a burning sensation within the person and that's with how he explains it here in the gamora what about one who is liable to be executed by decapus decapitation that's beheading they might be either handed over to the ruling monarchy for execution by the sword or bandits would attack him and kill him and this is the point i wanted to bring one who is liable to be executed by strangulation which we just said for asia's ish for adultery either drowns in a river or dies of diphtheria now what is diphtheria i had to look it up on wiki wikipedia and it says it's a serious infection caused by strains of bacteria called corona corn bacterium and that make that make a toxin poison it can lead to difficulty breathing heart failure paralysis and even death okay so basically i have heard that those who had coronavirus very severely have felt in their lungs as if it's filling up with liquids that they're drowning that they can't breathe and that apparently is what the doctors also claim so it's not just the people who suffered from it it's like drowning interesting so far okay now that's what kind of it still happens to this day even though we don't have a sanhedrin even though we don't have an earthly court that will take care of the uh the capital punishment hashem makes sure and takes care of it and that's how we're going to just end this piece on the kasubus i'll read in the hebrew alphabet someone who's liable for strangulation perhaps he will either die in a river drown in a river or as we said diphtheria so what does it come out shin nimsa that the dura hammable that the generation of the flood shalom they stumbled they sinned with we know bestiality we know asia adultery and therefore they were their death was through henna meaning through drowning drowning estrangulation that's what it is therefore the logic dictates right that the law is they would be drown in water now we're going to read a verse in psalms 32 verse 6 and it says like this let every pious man pray to you at the time you are found now to see the hebrew because it's an absolutely beautiful verse and we're going to go a little bit off subject a little bit but um right regarding this a a pious person would pray would pray to you at an opportune time or at a time that you were found robbie milov lo yagyu what's he praying for actually only that a flood of vast waters should not reach him now this is going to be amazing because what are we talking about this pious man should pray at an opportune time a time that he is found so let's look at rashi real quick at the time you are found when you are found to accept his prayer and what is this when a flood of waters about a flood of vast waters that he's praying that they don't reach him that he should not fall into the hands of his enemies who were like flooding waters and we say on in on days of takanoon in second samuel 24 14 it's like we say it every day sometimes a few times a day let us fall now into the hand of the lord we'd rather fall into the hands of shem hashem because his mercies are great but not into the hand of man we ask that we should not fall into the hand of man right the um hashem fine i want this is going to just go off topic a little bit i said the main topic we're going to talk about is guzzle thievery but i think it's appropriate just to talk about our wives right marriage for a few minutes here because since we are talking about adultery and here we're talking about what a man should do a real hasid he should pray an opportune time what is this talking about it's talking about isha it's talking about your wife how let's look at um let's look first number six on the source sheet on that verse am i correct it's that verse no it's uh i said it's 32 verse 6. we did that already okay it's number four and no we did that we did that okay let's do uh number five tom talmud bob lee brock out eight a so it says in in proverbs 8 35 8 35 we have that somewhere yeah number five yeah yeah no i was looking for the actual verse and well i did put it here kimatso i'm sorry kimatso matsukaim meaning whoever finds me kimatsi someone finds me then they find life if you find god you find life the yipek razon mahshem and you're going to find you're going to actually obtain favor from hashem i'm telling you now we're talking about yes the lord we're talking about finding yourself every male out there i encourage you if you don't find your wife you'll never find yourself you hear me say this all day long every day right you find your wife you'll find yourself so again for those who finds me hashem is saying finds life so the gomorrah cease to clarify for it said and this is our verse for this let every pious man pray to you in the time of finding that the overflowing waters may not reach him and that's the psalms 32 6 that we already read with regard to the this phrase the time of finding rabbi hanina said what does it mean the time of finding the time of finding refers to the time one must find a wife in other words i'm going to tell you when you're 18 19 20 21 maybe today it's already up to 34 but let's assume the time you're ready to to get married right bob you're ready to get married you're 18 start praying start praying for what that you should find the right person that a person should pray to find a suitable woman to marry as it says now this is a little bit of a play on words because we read the word says whoever finds me finds life in in proverbs that's mishla 18 22 it says matzah isha you find the wife you find goodness right isn't hashem tov the yapic rats and the same part and part of the verse and it obtains obtains favor from the lord now what was the custom in there it's israel 2 000 years ago the custom was that when a man married a woman right you see first year they're married you would go up to them and say no was it a matzah or a mozza what's that i mean i don't understand why you would even ask a person this question is very personal but you're basically asking did you find a good wife or not such a good wife and how do we see that in other words they would ask the groom whether the which are which which passage is more appropriate whether the appropriate passage for his wife is the one we just read in proverbs that begins with matzah right he who finds a wife finds good and obtains favor from the lord or perhaps there's another verse that starts with matzah it's mozar really but or whether the more appropriate verse the be the word that the verse begins with is moza and that you can find in ecclesiastes chapter 7 verse 26. it says that i find the woman more bitter than death okay more bitter than death that means your life is ruined right you got the wrong one but look everyone should be blessed like i'm blessed with such uh an anxious kyo this route hashem but you have to pray that's going to be the key all right don't expect what probably she's you know when they say the better half she's probably the better half so you know you need to pray for something better okay so i told you this was a little bit off the side because we're really going to deal with guzzle thievery but i wanted to complete this thought let's go on because he goes and says look at the second part of that verse meaning in 32 6 in psalms 32 6 even though this pious person should pray to hashem at the time that he is to be found it's only about a flood of vast waters that he that should not reach him so that includes mccloud that implies that's the lack of a wife god forbid not having a wife there's a possibility of a flood of vast waters bringing you down and you need to pray that it doesn't reach you now i'm thinking a little bit metaphysically it could be the the yates of hara and everything that comes from it has okay we're not going to go into it here not a children's channel but you have to use your imagination right with balcary with the spilling of seed and whatnot leave that to your imagination for now okay so the let's look at uh that rashi on that ver oh we did that already okay so he go back into the clear car and he says it's the second line down on nundale this infers that the lack or the absence of a wife that's going to be when the floods of these vast waters come from the fact that if you don't have a wife you have nobody to save you from sin do you understand your wife remember onan ben pellet with korach she saved him from sin bazrat hashem all our wives such righteous women will save us from sin ye give a love without her we will end up being flooded with these great waters will end up overtaking us now we begin with ghezo the great sin of thievery and this is so amazing when you think about it why should ghazal end up bringing these flood waters why it will amaze you how gazelle now we're going to deal with ghazal the fish gazelle i'm sorry gozell anyone who thieves nicknas he entered into the domain of someone else right and in other words you didn't have to physically go into their property you know today you can someone could steal online right you're entering into property domain means within his reach something that's not yours you're entering into the reach of your friend the domain of your friend my friend means the other al king dinhu lahavi alayhim rabbi now we're going to discuss how this is the the result the consequence will be this great flood um should come upon such a person because then what happens as the flood happens every drop of water is touching each other right you have like when you deal with fluids it's very different than liquids liquids touching you sorry fluid solids touching each other they're not touching really they may just touch at a certain point but when you have liquids it's totally becomes one goose it becomes one solid you know it's not solid but one uh unit right liquid so what happens is here it's he's saying like this because anyone who thieves and i'm sorry because then what happens as a result of the flood that each drip each drop touches the other and enters within the within the border of the other becomes what like one liquid mixture leficia begisme bracha now we're going to discuss the difference between a reign of blessing which bizrat hashem we had the other day right it was beautiful i'll just tell you what happened there was a miracle right it's a sign from god it was a sign from god zero zero wait wait i'll explain what happened i think we talked about this already in the middle of the day all of a sudden it rained and people told me they were out there i wasn't out there but solid balls like this right like hail whatever it was it was heavy it was short and it was sunny for a while but i looked on the um accuweather everyone everyone said it was sunny every different um site i went to it never nobody ever claimed it was raining and it was what for half an hour i mean they could have gotten they could have updated could have done something no update nothing so as if it never rained but it did rain right so later in the day they claim that it was a very low cloud that missed the radar the raider didn't pick it up and somebody said they looked out the window and all they saw was one cloud they thought it was very weird it was so low and it's only hit the mountains of jerusalem nowhere else in the country did it rain it was like a sign for us right we just started mentioning rain next beginning of next week already we want to start praying for rain it's coming okay so that gesheme bracha is blessed reign the oppositionism is well we'll see the opposite will come as a result of thievery and what it's going to be amazing how we talk about it so there's a verse now i know it's these are not common words in hebrew but try to understand in job 38 25 it says me p pilag pilag is like basically separating its divisions who separates who separates what leseth to allah these are not common words you'll see the gamora brings it down i'm sorry rashi brings it down the word shatef is arab arabic so in arabic a hair is called shitfa every hair on the head is coming from a ta'ala tala is a shaft some so let me just use our let me use follicle a follicle he's going to describe that every hair in your head comes from its own follicle if two hairs come out of the same follicle if there's something that is going to drain someone's eyesight and therefore hashem i don't know how it works right in terms of the science uh of of the body but can you imagine that if we had many hairs coming out of many of our follicles apparently it would be unhealthy it would drain our eyesight now try to imagine i mean he's going to describe discuss other things about thunder and lightning how their bang bang bang bang is supposed to altogether also that would be too much for us to handle you can imagine right you have a thunder one minute here one minute there or different parts of the sky imagine if it was all together that would be like whoa that would be like the worst horror movie you ever saw maybe we couldn't handle it but he's now going to discuss the idea of rain that the way the clouds work is that each drop will come down separately if they teamed up imagine either the weight or the you know the volume however it works the velocity would be damaging to the ground and the crops and would cause such plagues of you know starvation right drought i mean people things would after the rain goes away or your crops would be devastated you would have a famine and many people would die maybe not directly from the hit you know of the raindrop that was combined with other raindrops but ultimately it has an effect on the earth okay so bear that in mind let's back to rashi on job 28 25 oh first off let's hear the rest of the verse who has separated a place for the hair imagine as if we're talking about hair but we're talking about raindrops as well and a way for the cloud of the thunder claps again when keep that imagery in mind on the last latter part of the verse something to do with thunder now let's look at rashi to every hair on the head as we already described the word shitfa is arabic i have given ta'ala a separate shaft from which to draw sap if two would draw from the same shaft a person's eyesight would fail these have not been changed by me meaning hashem kept this within the human you know species rest almost 6 000 years how then should i change now the word eoth which is job and the word oyez which is the exact same letters just the switch with the yud and the valve what's the difference between a yud and above a hair's breath it's almost nothing he could change the word job into my enemy right job was not god's enemy but he's talking to job as if he could do that just for the hair's breath and this is the meaning of min hasara from the hair another explanation the word shatef means a streaming raindrop set apart for each drop in the whole of the clouds now i don't exactly how it works but i think i remember when i was a kid they were talking about little dust particles each raindrop either forms or somehow is assisted by a dust particle or something very small imagine if they were all collected anyway each drop has its own hole for if they were to come down together from one opening they would soften the earth and turn it into mud meaning if the pounding away at the earth the rest of it says and for a way for the cloud of the thunderclaps we don't understand what that means every thunderclap clap has its own path and if two of them would go along one path now this could be this is obviously very deep and we'll have to investigate it further another time but if sound waves would all collect together you know thank god he gives us little thunders here and thunders there but imagine all together in one thunderclap whoa he says the creatures would not be able to bear the sound right humankind i don't think our kids would ever sleep again right if you if you have kids and you know what it's like the first time and they're really aware of the fact that there's this uh storm outside let's go back into the cli oh no um i'm going to skip reading tom and bob lee baba bastard 16a it's pretty much what we discussed okay um let's continue so after reading the verse in job 38 25 mikan the maiden from here we learn and that's actually the the gamora i just read didn't read but told to you outside yes that each drop from the clouds has its own shaft where its own pattern and it has its own pattern uh kim lo nima and there's a hair's breath between each and every drop kadeshilo tikkanes [Music] in order that the drops don't combine with the other that they don't touch or they don't enter the troom the domain of the other raindrop zeha goes out this again is the concept of thievery who nichnas betray he enters into the domain of his friend you can imagine also competition in business it has to be honest right there's competition of business that could be like thievery okay i'll give you an example when you have let's say a town of a hundred people and you know that you need a hundred pot potential um clients to have a pizza store so if you open another pizza store in that town that can only hold a hunt handle 100 clients potential clients that would be stealing right until the town grows to almost 200 then you can begin to open up on a second pizza store or you can open up a pizza store that sells different stuff in other words if you're selling a different product it's not a problem right there's a lot of issues i'm not giving over ahead to i think you have to learn about it but this is the idea there is an exception though by the way so even though a town or a village can only handle a certain amount of clients for a certain business so opening it theoretically in most cases would be stealing there's one exception that's a school a school if you only have let's say 50 kids and you know for a school to be viable you need 50 potential clients it doesn't matter another school can open up anyway why they say this is a famous expression that jealousy a positive jealousy keynote sofreem amongst the sages amongst the rabbis amongst the teachers increases wisdom right this is about free speech man come on man free speech who says come on man i don't know somebody i heard recently but anyway so free speech and education there shouldn't be censoring okay that's i'm not going to get into that but the idea is that you have to if you want if you want your school to survive you have to offer a better product and if you're offering a better product meaning a clearer uh you know the teacher can can speak uh in a clear language or he's more patient with the kids whatever a higher level of learning you're allowed to do that you understand when it comes to education free market right capitalism at its best so he ends like this is that goes as we already said over and over again the one who steals enters into the domain of his friend of his fellow dinhum then it's logic logic dictates that will be transformed or turned over from a reign of blessing gesh me bracha to a mabul which we described as a flood kia's call hatipot arvin because what happens then is all the different droplets mixed together and that's what happens in a flood alzheimer's paracomed the meseka's tinus if we go to the first chapter in tinus that's number 11 on the source sheet 7b i'm going to read what ribbiani says robbie ami says our reigns only stop on account of thievery we want rains and this is interesting because in the end of days who's going to come to jolion and pray for rain right and guzzle is one of the major seven categories for non-jews and if you ask me it's probably besides the idol worship um i mean anybody who's let's say already and aware awoke i love that word he's woken to the seven of chad laws he's probably not doing much of odazara right but what about thievery what about all the intricate laws i mean you just imagine what's going on in america how corrupt and this is where i'm getting political it is so corrupt right and it's between like i'm just going to use terms that might not mean anything to anybody let's just say between the left and the right right everyone has their own aspect of corruption right but you have an obligation to vote for the least corrupt that's really all you can do because the people running for office in this case in in in our lifetime seem to be right all corrupt and it's you have to choose between those who are at least corrupt okay let's go through this gomorrah the reigns are withheld only due to the sin of robbery now i want you to hear these verses because at first glance it doesn't mean anything but when we go into the hebrew it should come alive and jump off the paper it says like this he covers his hands with the light what does that mean al-kapayam kapayim regarding the hands ki sayor he hides the light he covers the light i read the whole verse and he has commanded it due to prayers what is he talking about that's in job 36 32 this means that due to the sin of stealing which involves hands right the sin of stealing hands god has covered the light and no rain will fall what happens when the sky is full of rain clouds there's no light there's no light it covers so we're going to have try to just get a little bit idea now even though we didn't discuss it he covers his hands with the light doesn't make any sense look at the hebrew again regarding his hands al kapayam and it's not hashem's hands it's regarding hands that steal ki sayor that covers light that hides the light the light of the sun due to the clouds we said brains do not stop except on account of thievery and okay rabbi ami adds the term hand means nothing other than violence the word hamas believe it or not is yes it's a hebrew word but the um the enemy of the of of the jews today there's a terrorist organization called hamas they chose that name which means violence now how did they choose that they didn't say oh let's call ourselves violent they actually called themselves this three-word very long word you know in arabic in england in in english it's also long but it's not as long like you know the plo is the palestinian liberation organization it's very similar right hamas is an acronym for what this very long arabic name but they chose it and just like we call them the plo we call them hamas because that's what they are criminally violent okay that's what hamas means criminally violent and here the so he has the word hand when it says al-kapayam meaning regarding the hands means not nothing other than criminally violent as it says in jonah jonah 3 8 and the violence that is in their hands okay and what about light light means nothing other than rain now this is very hard to get your head around because we said it's the light that's being hidden by the clouds so try to get your head around that he spreads abroad the cloud of his light which is in job 37 11. okay let's go back into the clear car so he goes back to this idea of the verse we read in job 36 32 regarding the clouds which he calls kapayim ki sayur comes the rain what does that mean whenever we think of the word geshem rain we're always thinking that word means a a a reign of blessing whereas flood is going to be not the opposite but it's going to be yeah let's call it the opposite right and we can look in rashi in verse 7 verse 12. so if you go to uh number 15 and the rain was upon the earth right the hebrew geshem al-ariz that's how in verse 12. but then that's how right that's how it starts but then if you go to verse 17 obviously 17 is five verses later the himal so it goes from the point of just rain that's how it starts and then it goes into marble goes into a flood verse 17. i want you to read that rashi because it's very important it says the rain was upon the earth that's our verse in verse 12. and further in verse 17 now the flood was upon the earth so what was it was it the rain or the flood so russia continues when he brought them the reigns when he originally brought the reigns down he brought them down with mercy why did he do with mercy because he wanted them to repent he wanted them to know so that if they would repent they would remain just reigns of blessing when they didn't repent they did become a flood so let's go back it's four lines down in the second paragraph on page mandala when hashem originally brought down the reigns they were reigns of mercy sweet mercy ullah yaksa rubichuva perhaps maybe they would learn their lesson and repent and then they would remain reigns of blessing now he's about to make a comment that sounds like he's not agreeing with rashi it's not necessary he's not agreeing with rashi but i'll explain it he doesn't it says bazem you shaft shalom needs to talk and it's tariq lomar from here it actually resolves that rashi didn't need to make this comment rashi says in verse 7 7 that we will find on the page six number sixteen see nach went in and his sons and his wife and his sons and his and their wives with him into the ark because of the flood waters right so in the beginning even though we're reading we said 7 12 was that the reigns came and then 7 17 the floods came already back in 7-7 we talk about them going in because of the flood waters look at the second part of that rashi because of the flood waters noah too was of those who had little faith believing and not believing that the flood would come and he didn't enter the ark until the waters forced him to do so so it sounds like he was of little faith he didn't really believe that the flood would come until the water came so high he had no choice but to go in that's what it sounds from rashi correct now it's true they both agree he didn't go in until the the waters came but what was what was the reason according to the car it's not the same as rashi rashi says he was that's what rashi says he was of little faith and the clear car says keep shooting mccain what i said earlier makes more sense and according to the shot of rashi it's it doesn't rash's shot doesn't jive with the why al kopanim is it's true he wasn't sure but why wasn't he sure because he built he had and now he was optimistic he was hoping there's a possibility they would do chuva so i didn't enter he didn't enter because of the possibility of them doing chubba kulai yakuzu so only when the water got up to here he went in could derek show you another yonah just like the prophet jonah musupak he was also in doubt if the target if the the end result of those that call uh the the the punishment would fall on on the people of ninvenue why would they why maybe they'll do chuva in fact he actually believed they probably would right that's why he was actually afraid to go there he it didn't it wouldn't look good for the jews he's telling the jews and they're very slow they're not taking him so seriously they're not doing juva and god says go to the non-jews or ninve and he's going to the non-jews and in vain he knew they're going to do chuva how did he knew they were how did he know they're going to do juva who was the leader who was the king of ninja at the time our measures tells us it was pharaoh the same pharaoh yeah pharaoh didn't drown the whole egyptian army drowned he was the only one left and he was the king of ninja and if yon was going there to tell him you better the truth or you're going to be destroyed you better bet that he was going to get his people in line because he went through it already he knew hashem at this point okay guys never heard that before okay see we learned something new today at the event at bay midrash anyway so yonah was in doubt maybe they would do chuva kimi tamzen mr and that's why it says in verse seven seven nip nay because because of the flood wars he only went in because of the floodwaters of as long as it was still raining lo nicknas la tava he did not enter the into the ark because maybe the people would repent the yugish and all that these reigns are are simply reigns of blessing and that's why aydah geshamim hainu gishme bracha netsari the reigns only stop the the reigns of blessing only stop meaning it's no longer a reign of blessing on the count of ghazal on account of thievery kizer this is the theme he's repeating over and over again when someone steals they enter into the border within the border within the trum within the domain of the fellow they know the logistics it's no longer um plausible no longer logical that the rain that should come down is a reign of blessing because then right reign of blessing the drops do not enter the tomb the the the domain of the other that only comes through a flood okay the last paragraph is absolutely amazing the kirov may nail omar it seems plausible for me this is the clear card to say that when rabbani ribby army was speaking and he gave us this whole thing about job 36 32 about al kapayam regarding my hands the hands not my hands the the regarding hands that which is what covers the light we're talking about thievery and gezo he says it's specifically talking about the generation of the flood rev that's what he was referring to and that's what he was speaking about and now the clear car is going to give proof and i'm going to give proof that's going to give evidence if you examine well diverse al kapayim ki sayor we translated over the clouds the cut the the he covers the rain but again we're going to call the kapayam hands that's what a kapayam are regarding the hands which are thieving ki sayor covers the light with clouds let's see llama kara gets okay why is why are we calling why is thievery called hands and why are we calling rain light that's we're referring to it right we're referring even though it says copayan we're saying it's thievery and even though it says light we're referring to them as reigns mikrozen perhaps this is because of the verse that comes right before look at job 36 verse 31 we've been reading 32 it says for he judges the nations therewith he gives food to one who has many children let's look at rasheed real quick for with the clouds he judges people and chastises them by withholding rain right isn't that what the prophet is going to talk is talking about in the end of days those who do not come to shalom rain will be withheld okay remember we just experienced sukis it is the time of judgment on water rains right it's all coming together now and this is the seemingly the only holiday that the non-jews are obligated to somehow observe on some level by sending their leaders to you shalom and it says even egypt which doesn't need rain it has denial even if egypt doesn't come they're going to experience a famine right and that's what it says with look at rashi with the clouds he judges people and chastitizes them with holding rain causing famine as well of all sorts of plagues now i just want to add in what i spoke about earlier about strangulation right because if we're talking about what happens in america maybe all over the world at this point where let's just keep it pc a little bit where there are relationships that we all know are forbidden yet the government and i'm not sure which government or the present government the past government but seemingly that these are not just legalized they're they're whatever let's use the word legalized right that the government promotes it and gives a certificate that's the problem in other words perhaps what people do behind closed doors even though it's forbidden and they'll be judged but when society has basically spoken to the point that they're giving out marriage licenses to such on these word unusual relationships this is where a bigger judgment is coming down okay and perhaps i've heard it said perhaps this is we're going to use the word metaphysical spiritual reason behind the present pandemic which shall not be named okay but what we do want we do want to return the crown we want to return the crown of hashem right ketter torah the ketter torah that means the crown of hashem that's what the word corona it's a crown is 620 it's 613 laws for the jews seven that's 613 by the way sorry 620 613 plus 7 and 620 to return the seven laws right to the world meaning that they we we should all bring the crown back to hashem by doing what we have to do okay but let's go back into what we just said so if you look at verse 31 says ki baam because within them he judges right yadi nameem jazz's nation judges the nations he judges the nations therewith okay shmamina what do we hear from this that he's talking about the generation of the flood we're talking about the whole world they were judged through water the armor al-hager and what did we say regarding ghazo it is kapaym shiba kapayam the hands now what did you do listen to this i know that most people are born with five fingers right not everybody but a majority of humankind has five fingers on each hand ten fingers all together bizrat hashem right if you don't have it okay there are ways there are surgery and some people cannot be healed from this uh predicament but each one of the fingers are not webbed right there that you can use them this separates us from all the animals we have very you know agile hands we can do things so this is a very interesting gemara in kasubus hey it says like this look at number 18. and this is what ruby elizabeth said why are the fingers of a person similar to pegs now the previous part of the gamora was talking about yeah here la shinhara you can put your fingers in your ears and not listen to lushnar or you can flip your ears you know with your fingers or you can close you whatever you can use your fingers for all kinds of things to save yourself but he wants to mention that each and every finger has its own particular use and we discuss a lot of these measurements in our classes okay so we've discussed these ideas but let's go on and read the gemara if we say it's due to the fact that the discrete meaning separate from each other and each every finger was designated for its own discreet sacred matter sacred matter as the master said the small finger is used for a span a span is this the the distance between my pinky and my thumb okay a kamitsa the next finger because it's not easy for me to do but when the cohen is in the temple and he picks up it's called a comet's a kamitsa a flower it's so that's what this finger is used for and then okay and then this middle finger is for measuring between the tip of it to my elbow and that's for an ama what's this finger for for sprinkling the blood and this is for the koenig and the god they'll have names right the pinky is called azaris this is called a kamitsa this is an amma this is called an etzba and this is called a godel okay we talked about this in the laws of shema we're not going to go into it now so let's go back to the gemara let's go back to the clear car he said god created each and every finger for its own specific use it was brought down to the gemara so rata shalom he didn't want a singer going into the domain of of the other finger this concept that the the act of stealing desecrates the holiness of the hands the hands are holy it should be used for holy things and by stealing you're desecrating you're removing the holiness of the hand the al-qaeda that's why that verse we read in job the third what did we say was 3432 right that that's why kapayam is used because then what is happening is that the clouds are covering the light of the sun that the clouds would be so thick and dense so not even able the sparks or the the sun shining through it cannot pass through the thickness of the clouds now when the flood was happening which was not just 40 days it would it took a long time it was almost a year guess what there was no seasons the sun and the moon were not visible there was totally no you couldn't see the stars so he says lo shimsu call you mo samabu the entire time that the flood took place you had no light from the sun the moon the stars they were and on account of the denseness of the clouds the the the water of the flood came in a raging torment the yugoslavia and therefore whatever gesh me bracha the blessings the the rain of blessings that stopped you had rain it was called rain it's called flood that's so the rain of blessing stopped the lambo and what came down was the marble meaning that the the drops were connected in such a way and that's why it says regarding hands ki se or the light is covered it's just the thickness of the cloud and the clear car ends off with his famous expression upper za yakar mode and that's why he is called the clear car because he uses well i don't know exactly but he uses this expression that this was a precious because yakar means a precious vessel the torah is the clear car and his explanation is perox he's trying to explain that what i just explained was is a very precious sweet delicious piece of torah so my message is we all have to band together and figure out a way to all get along and not kill each other over this election because no matter what happens i believe there's checks and balances it's true but if there's anarchy and people get rid of common sense then and i think all the jews anyway should move now don't even wait i think you should have moved a long time ago but if trump wins it's just going to delay the inevitable if biden wins it's going to happen much quicker meaning the downfall of america and i hope it doesn't happen we should pray for a good outcome and i know that just delays everything but we have to pray we have to pray for the welfare of jews all over the world god knows what's best and we have to really trust that it will be for the best even if it's a disaster it means the jews will come home so we're already welcoming you welcome home to torah when you come to trail study with us we're here every single day rain or shine corona or no corona we're here and we welcome you and i say shabbat shalom and kolkavot for you guys listening this long and we'll see you next week bizarrontashem call tooth bye [Music] is