Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: The New Covenant, what is it all about? Nitzavim

[Music] okay good evening everybody Russia shot is just around the corner and with parshat did savvy that would be chapter 29 of Deuteronomy verse 9 so the text tells us that you that's plural you are standing here today who have all of you again plural the feminine location in front of the Lord your God roche cab shift taker interesting how do you translate shift taken as tribes so you have to your heads you have your tribes then you have the elders and then you have the officers sick nation this show train camp coisa strap then you have all the rest of the jewish people then you have the children in the women top cab the shake em the gear huh uh share McCarran Hanukkah and then you have the Prospero type to speak the converse which are amongst you and you can and it says all from the Heuer would to the drawer of water make hotate hf ha I'd show evening me now and we're going to be dealing with the next few verses as well so I just want to you know what we will believe that for now so the fact is you're standing all here today now we know that the Bible the Torah is a book of prophecy so the fact that we're standing here today reading it also means something and what happened in last week's parsha most prominently were the curses horrible horrible I'm gonna say prophecy but if prophesies negative prophecies don't have to have happen don't have to happen that they don't have to come true but if you don't listen to what a sham says then these negative prophecies would or could happen of course there's also blessings if you do it God asks you to do don't be blessings so rushing on this very verse verse which has a delineate delineation of groups of people he says truth - truth code them the after Copco he is Kogi is for hell that I think in the first okay that they're the most distinguished ones come first the more important ones are listed first cashews cashews codon now I mean anybody reading this could really figure that out right but we don't understand what it means then by that ninth word shift takes happen if it says all your all your tribes right we're talking about your tribes that means everyone so he will say it means the heads of the tribes thrush a cab shift taken but nor for that to make sense we have a Hebrew speaker here and on Mariana one man on video it should have allotted it should say rush a cam licious taken the heads of your tribes but there's no Lobby so just capture that moment from you know for a second we're gonna delve deep into the words that God gave us three thousand three hundred years ago as if we're standing there today and we're going to understand it much better than we are that's present so the clear car mentions as I mentioned already the broschi and he goes are rush a cam shift take them their heads the tribes Comeau this shift take them as if it is saying the heads of your tribes nevertheless the lammott is missing it is missing it's not there in the text below clean up the lovely female it's not for naught there's a reason that it's missing that's gonna teach us something very keen Gemara motionless a drama I was there hoping the matzo yo Jimmy close Sharkey him Oh cuz she he cuff you know Moses gathered the people many times why in this particular case is he listening the people in some kind of an order of who's in for the first okay many times okay Cadiz Chloe travel right okay that's like the questions just laying the groundwork now we're going to go into a little bit insight and then he goes even deeper and deeper and deeper mahanakhon who the proper way to examine this and look at this is that Sharat sought to lick roti man breathe ha - ah you've heard those words before a brief for the shower that Hashem wanted right now for them to enter this covenant but a new covenant Kaka Capri tarisha in place of or underneath it's not a new Torah but it's a new covenant okay it's the same Torah but it has another dimension to the Covenant I sure nits cow kale a your day hey go because we had ruined this covenant we somehow spoiled the Covenant through the golden calf the sin of the golden calf I should not send me such shallow how you a diet a ravings if I'd said there's gonna be one of the most important themes were going to be talking about tonight the Jewish people are all guarantor is one for another okay what does that mean yeah we're all responsible to each other what does that mean we're gonna we're gonna see but this was the Covenant that actually solidified itself a few of the guests the five weeks have to be going to the Land of Israel okay a few except we go to the land of Israel and we were standing at the mountain of mouth a bear a bell and breezy we actually entered the covenant that that has been so few far she ought to go God wants to get us ready so that we don't say it's a very difficult thing as you'll see to take responsibility for other people say okay if someone else sins I'm responsible that's what it means or Jew and of course when someone does a great mitzvah we all benefit okay so even though it's not happening the actual Covenant doesn't happen so we go into the Land of Israel teams later he's getting us ready because it's huge and if you have any second thoughts you better get out now alkane Kulish hugger sharp enough yah said they ain't no mere waha shave before this we add to this covenant this new covenant then anybody can do whatever they wanted we say in America live and let live maybe they say that New Zealand maybe they say that in Israel how would they say it like just live your own life what do I care whatever you do man any man can live by his own thing but the righteous person today okay yep okay so basically what he's saying is prior to enter in this covenant anybody can do whatever they want and nobody would even open their mouth to speak and to give rebuke why would you get why would you rebuke anyone what you do doesn't affect me and what I didn't affect you I can sit in my own private I'll gain therefore Rama javi up in the Sarat breach shall her vote I'll get a shrew a hard to receive a heart a bob that's why Moses saw fit to bring them in now already into the mess or it into the let's say the bond into the transmission of giving rebuke why because they're about to make you know in a few weeks time this oath at the mountain Cola arrowroot see the Godot Lola Hoshi robbing me alone and this our vote does being a guarantor one for another that's really what you are you're guaranteeing your you're in collateral for the other we're collective and talk about it's called collective punishment baby we're going to speak exactly about that one body we're gonna get to a real suit and so there's no greater reason for other than our vote to give rebuke it's because you're responsible for whatever else does as we know the verse says right you should love your neighbors yourself on and on it says yes to give rebuke otherwise you carry their sin the verse says it if you don't you see somebody doing something wrong and you don't rebuke them you carry their sin what does that mean see how our voice even though our she's robbing the oven it's the greatest reason to try to get the the masses away from doing sin 10 yen it's past our love lest you seize or grab the other person sin with the sin of the many keiko array of heroic shall live in the thighs mmm oh no let's say you your best friend and came to you and said I need a loan but you don't have that kind of money or you can't afford at the moment to put that out it's not liquid on your assets in a real estate so you say okay you know I'll sign for you I'll sign your loan okay so you're taking responsibility if they don't pay it you will and then what happens is the next thing you notice after they got the loan they're throwing their money around they're being is you would think not not as responsible you would be if you took that loan and as I know more people what do you think you're gonna do you're gonna to calm to the side and say listen you know I sign one that well I hope you know what you're doing you know you're gonna give them a little bit of rebuke right I hope mahira out of fear penny it's correctly Charlene Bavaro you're a little bit afraid that you're gonna have to pay back that loan on on his account because he or she don't pay it back cocked as much you sell a raving zeebad said this is exactly what's happening as Israel takes responsibility for each other meaning in terms of being a guarantor as I call me she HP other loci are 0-2 Yahiro brothy no team no team meet Erica Sato then what's gonna happen is if you do have within your ability to give rebuke in other words you know that whatever you say it's gonna be effective so then you certainly should sneak up and that's what's gonna happen if you see whether it's an individual who were the masses turning away from the true spiritual path you have a better translation that no team leader at house 800 because the the madarao he uses the word say-tell as spirit the rob bomb uses the word Saito's intellect so i'd like to combine it to a called spiritual intimate who master zero limit travel so when you give the rebuke the person then fixes his character returns back to the proper path Vemma Alania ally may not be many but if you hide your eyes you ignore what's happening her a hoop in the como you are in his place you are as bad as he is or she is the emo in the closet oh you're in the same worldview you're in the same huh the same notes and guess what happens ready for these words the head - Robin - Louie ball the sin of the masses are then on you Felicia enviado lochia but someone who does not have the ability to read it for some reason maybe they don't know the language maybe they're far away maybe they don't think they're effective maybe someone else could be more effective but let's just say you don't have the ability maybe because you don't even know it's in private Amos Mara no tenant she admit passed along to ourselves then logic dictates that you don't absorb the other person if you're always you're able to give review and you don't but if you never had the ability to then you're not responsible it's not gonna sit on your shoulders clear as day clear as mud deem low cane if everything I said is not true remember this is the cleanest most Shabbat the high gala kibriya addicted the huffy low Nicolas soup with grease harvest I used to translate what this is talking about basically we all know that it's only sin the kills so why would anybody in the right mind enter this covenant because if other people are weak and going to sin if I entered it then I'm also gonna die otherwise I have a chance to live forever and it would only make sense with his knowledge not to enter such a covenant the Mithila familia doling it passing above on a door honey style sometimes we'll find that there are great people on every generation who actually absorb and take communal responsibility for the sins of the generation in a hidden way we need people who sin in private commercial Arabic Rachel aha another if you know about the story of I had that he look at your assertions and if you're familiar with Joshua chapter 6 verses 18 to 19 and I'm gonna tell you also if you go if you want to check out Joshua 7 verse 1 but basically what happens is after the conquered Jericho and it was a pretty easy conquering it should be like that throughout the land but the next time we come in to fight we lost 36 men in battle and Joshua knew there's something wrong one of the people stole he stole that we called the booty huh stole the booty and 36 people died and they do a lottery they really wanted him to confess confessing is huge it's a great part of true love of repentance hey diddle re finally to figure out who it was but the truth is look at Joshua 7 1 it says the children of Israel committed a trespass now is that true right in 7 1 but also if you look in I think number number 16 in Joshua 711 it says hot tub gets trial Israel soon did Israel sin one person sin and all of Israel is considered to have sinned you can open up the Tanakh if you want but this would be on page 3 number 16 it says in Hebrew cut to Israel Israel sinned you agree with me but who sinned one person what what say that's the communal responsibility correct okay and Zillah ficha condoms a low hit till Amorim Alec Lau the truth is this stilt is taking place way before we stand on the mountain and actually enter that covenant but this is all preparation takes a lot of preparation to coming to this point Halim oh and they hit miss ordering where they would still hide their eyes from any rebellious as we see now this is going to be in jeremiah chapter 2 verse 8 so you'll find this on the first page on this short sheet imagine the leadership say well let's look at the words of Jeremiah use the priests who the priesthood teachers they did not say where's the Lord they were not teaching the people where God was and those who hold on to torah or teach her it did not know me the ones who teach turned didn't even know god and the rulers rebelled against me this is about bad leadership and the prophets prophesized by this idol name bow and this is the word that uses and the people followed those who did not help them in other words what are the leaders responsibility not just to be role models but to be role models first and then to rebuke the people well you can't rebuke people if you're not living the life right so this is going into the idea that there weren't times in history where the leaders were not doing a good job horrible job and why Lamar shallow Toa Lermontov ha ha wouldn't that like dismiss them as leaders well what they said was why should I get reviewed they're not gonna listen it's not gonna help but guess what you can't else not God God says you still have to do it so if they don't listen but you carry the city I know if you watch it but odda should see the zoo so before we entered this covenant before this reason came to be Coco a favor of Mari note empirical Shalom the atre and we still do it today to some extent we said and we think we're doing midst thoughts we think we're doing the greatest good for the world and for ourselves sometimes when we said basically anybody who's a sinner or is bitter of spirit he gives this permission to himself he gives a prophet to himself he thinks that he's bringing doing good for the world - okay who's rahera sua show Marcus he he thinks that there's this release of the whip against against rebelliousness basically he's giving himself a green light which the leaders said they have amidst the to rebuke and they figured no they came up with their own excuse right listen so I'm not gonna do it alkane who else a of they Royce javi lost community its what ends up happening the people who give the blessing to themselves you're doing the right thing just do more more sinning more sin because they think what they're doing is right if I mean biggie Louie the Tommy but they miss a tag sometimes they do it openly Tel Aviv and sometimes they doing in in secret about in how yoga darling Hameed me yeah sramana shame a poison but if the leaders the great people of the generation would consistently rebuke the people give ethical teachings to the people as how you Ramos ought to feel a bit Xena then the people would feel wrong doing it even in private ten you've added of our let's the thing become known in public I guess everyone is relating to everything I'm saying you can if that's the case dinners before haight-ashbury yacht has Gunny the Maori Shona then the logic dictates that the guilt of the sin the sin and the guilt is resting on the the leadership Kiko seebik I didn't the tsuba because they're really the for all the sin that comes anyway if they were living good examples and they were giving rebuked the people would less likely be sinning even in private that's the thing become known and that's why it says in your chesco in ezekiel chapter 9 verse 6 the verse actually says like this old man young man and maid in young children and women you shall utterly slay but to any man upon whom there is a mark you shall not throw mirror and you shall commence from my sanctuary now those words are underlined you shall commence from my sanctuary so they commenced from the old man who were before a shadow so the way to read this word is mimic dashi tequila from mark statuary they should start because I'll tell us don't read it yes it means that shot but there's a deeper level youth are shy from my Holy Ones it shall begin so what we're gonna learn is that piranha youth negative occurrences punishments will come into the world because of the evil people but it starts that hits the righteous verse the righteous suffer first on account of evil people start from my sanctuary start with my my holy people my my holy ones my sanctified ones so there's a verse in Exodus 20 to 5 that's number eight on the source sheet it talks about the responsibility we have not to cause damage so like when you light a match or throw a cigarette or you know you make a campfire you don't throw rocks around if you don't have a hose so if a big wind comes and you're not responsible to to put it out or to make sure it doesn't spread you're someone responsible so it says he takes a eh-eh-o matzah coaching when the fire goes out spreads and finds four the actually verse goes on which is very interesting because it says the stack of grain or standing grain that's going to be consumed so what's consumed first the grain where does it find first its finds of thorns so says I'll teach us that with irani youth punishment comes to the world it's coming because of the thorns the torrents represent the inferior ones people are sinners but who gets it first who's going to suffer first who's going to be consumed first the grain the good stuff the righteous ones the Ferranti youth bully Allah keen before Haru showing they know max he'll kill minute Siddiqui like I just said the Tama shall devour so this is the reason for the matter okay the reason for everything who set up them till now the thief should be yo dumb shave it motioning la Hache robbing the oven because the leaders have in their hands a rod a shaded a rod of authority to what to rebuke the people to bring them back away from sin but however reported they had Miller has a queue dying but their hands are weak in Torah and the weakened from Torah from being strong they're not they're not strong in fact raw food but IRA they're weak in Torah ooh beer kyon coach lots of emunah and their knees are weak in faith and if you ever see those commercial would people not their knees together when their mom is afraid or weak so that's a little bit visual okay that's why cuz I'll say I don't know if you know this but the king the the leaders go in first to be judged before the congregation any time in in the court and especially on Rosh Hashanah as I mentioned its era of Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah just around the corner the day of judgment he me Yoko me of who shoots me Meadowlark Mauritian my Malibu yacht who else besides the leaders are able to to place a proper fear of heaven on the population keeping your those shave it Motech okay we're going to deal with these two concepts shave it and mopping shave it is a rod and multi cos law the the Sioux miss Tyra Baris it's in their hand and their ability the rod let's say the rule of law and the mote cake I'm sorry the rod is more punishment and they melt eggs the rule of law to place a sort of enforcement in the land by setting out police as we see where we have officers as because I'll tell us that on Arab Rosh Hashanah the debt the night of Thursday of Rosh Hashanah the Godot lamilton the crook Tila that the leaders are judged first the Aqua yolks there be no need and then during me called the ten days at uber but to say be the seven days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur the Indy intermediate people are judged and then it says akka Copco you shall be off the plane and then the rest of the Jewish people are judged on Yom Kippur the Fischer koa Kai shufoo shufoo yo chair Missoula uh but Nick national identity law very much now we understand what Rashi says AHA shukran suit coating that the more important one goes first at least in this verse because were talking right before Rosh Hashanah who's gonna be judged the ones who are most responsible through code in latina to ten he's gonna be giving judgment first yeah because he is Mata am to Louie boorish a.m. because the two young the guilt of the people is hanging on their heads our cane syndrome oh ship in the sorrow to breathe that's why Moses ordered them and the way he did especially in this entering this new covenant with traditional house they often in the very fashion he did Kaman Saachi console by our booth bakudo mill I'm called melee tennis a 10-minute Misha Taft am in order right from the aspect that because of their entering into this new covenant then the people who are the leaders they always will come first in judgment above before those who underneath them victim miracie Rashad that's why the leaders come first now we're going to get into that word it said rush a.m. shift taken your heads your tribes which we know cannot mean your tribes because there's an order to this is going to basically tell us that your heads your leaders are your shave it in other words rush a cab hi new should take your leaders they are the rod will see that ki raat a regime code mean L is a caning notice that the leaders come be through the others the heads come before the elders in every every place calum yo-chan nishinoya Mishima recom a la ceiba Scott hi-yah because who you more likely to listen to people who speak and put you in your place or people who have a long stick and put you in your place it's so simple right Shadid Mooser yahoo kena the yolk and the mushroom okiya the D board Nevada you agree or don't agree the statement is that the rod gives more ethical teaching it actually straightens one out it will distance somebody more you know distance somebody from sin more than if someone only reviews with speech alone and how do we know we're gonna skill three verses in order okay the first verse we're going to look at is if it's number nine here on your sheet page two in proverbs twenty nine nineteen the devar Gloria Vassar Evan a slave cannot be or will not be chastised with words because he will understand Kathleen the a mana he'll understand but there won't be a response you won't get a it won't be effective so a slave cannot be chastised with words you you it you with that don't you belong look at the next statement in proverbs 26 three that's number 11 a whip is for the horse a bridle is for the donkey but a shaded Lagasse lean or oddest for the body of fools for somehow another reason hitting a fool's more effective but we hopefully can live up to what it says in Proverbs 1710 the humility caused by rebuke of an understanding person if we're understanding were wise we're maizena right then that would be more effective than a hundred blows to a fool you follow what it says so knowing all these verses he goes in order he wants to get across this point that Macomb must cost nevertheless when it comes to fools they don't really get words kamoko no you be a strong Tom meets shape at the Mokka amongst the Jewish people there will always be always be these two you know call to you executive and legislature right you have this idea of wealth that's the correct term but you have a verse you you're probably very familiar with it it's in Genesis 49 verse 10 the scepter shall not depart from you who de know the student of the law between the steam now look in the Hebrew loius or shaded muta Yehuda the the kingship even wheel off Kings we have princes they're always from the shape of the viuda and they have the strong arm we'll call it the diplomatic arm of Israel okay so that's the shape it is in yahuda but what about the rest is versus mole caked the vein Rockland there's still a hub multik and what's the moment that's the st. Andrew that's the lawgiver they're the ones to keep the law and legislated okay so he says the word shaded to the a LaRouche a gully up above oh they're Roedean at Tom the shaven so they are the Exile are they are the leaders even when were names out we don't have a temple without of a king nevertheless they ruled the people with an iron fist and what about the motek that's going to be the st. hadron a lunacy a Eretz Israel they are the princes of the land of Israel Balaam deemed Torah Bobby they're the ones to teach Torah in public Azusa wrote no flutes as we said the shade shall not depart from Judah that's referring to kingship and that's a type of rulership and the other is rot the Sanhedrin that's the lawgiver that's the rabbi's and the province is a shave it we said one is the king of a libero afterthought a.m. the other is the spirit that's upon the lips like we're doing now we're learning Torah it's the spirit on the lips but the excited Rob Mari because someone who's a sinner and his dinner in spirit yo turn Ishmael had to ha how right be shave it so anyone who's a sinner bitter spirit is going to listen more to the ruler of the shaver to the rod then then listening to someone who's only a monkey flip a pet he's not gonna listen to as quicker as fast or as effectively key llamar you know what they're gonna say the time ooh it's just words you ever see those we were kids sticks and stones may hurt me but no how's it go but words may never hurt me so that's not true but anyway we get where it comes from because Dixon's doesn't more effective in damage but the truth is words to be very damaging but in this case we don't I rebuke okay so hey you don't say you know yeah just it's just words how cane I'm Ella call him the Kula meeting at the den I wash madam that's why the leaders would be taken first to be judged because of the guilt of the people of had that alkane our gonca run shura shaken Hema burrows a raising table mean the odd Cola that your leaders they are the chief officers of the their chief Karen tours right when it comes to or on behalf of the people and he says the nuts on table table will give reason why since rush a cam what it means is your heads high no she's taken they are your rod hey Mumbai that's mom shaven no dish with him they themselves are the the rod of like a task master master comma da da da da ma if you look at Isaiah it's chapter 10 verse 5 what do we know about the rod right how did we see that God's rod he calls Assyria whoa that Assyria is the rod of my wrath what was Syria doing giving us rebuke basically we were sinning and as a result punishment came into the world you should know punishment is not God is not an angry god that punishes for the sake of of punishing all he wants us to do is to have this intimate relationship with him and in order to do that we must free ourselves from so many things like ego and guilt and make room for him and we have to work on our character and that character God doesn't really associate with bad character he wants you to cleanse yourself and he'll assist you he's there for you and he wants that relationship but sometimes you need a little nudging like you have a horse in order for the worse need to go faster or two left into right sometimes take a little stick and you hit the hit the donkey or then the worse in the right place with your stirrups you ride horses yeah stirrups probably not but you know how to kick it where's the right way I have to make a go where you want it to go so what does it say that verse for my fury is a staff in their hands it wasn't to destroy us but to fix us Carla are sure shave it you see that that enemy our enemy is called the staff in fact one of the biggest things we all make a mistake like the dog I don't everybody has a dog that ever tried to hit their dog with a stick and I mean playing they usually try to bite the stick but you know it's you that's hitting them why they might eat a stick because that's what they do and they think that stick is what's hitting them so they break the stick we have to know that it's a sham who's doing this to us out of love Karl or Laura she shave it that's why so - the heads are called the shaded key Hema the aughts mom shift taken they themselves are your rod be your dumb love kiosk your to music Amy and they have the ability to give you rebuke much more than the elders I can name code name with Connie's baru's that's why they enter first into this covenant sure a hem code usually a lathe and afterwards all the rest of the the people who walk in a straight path and have a straight heart zigneshrao the elders of the Jewish people mow cake the law givers a ship the Ruach stilt am whose spirits upon their lips your meat to Russia they still can also kill the evil right they get really evil he get the God Amy actually I'm shot through a Roger Bob they also have a police force and enforcement force that can make the people straight I'm not locomotion but not like the heads not like the leaders Kirishima Ashland yo Jim Shella Minister Kenny they have more authority than the elders the article each party is wrath as we saw in the verse then each Jew each person before the women and the children can achieve a toughness mine L had varam I'm gonna stop there but that's basically all the women and children they basically listen til to the to the man to the to the ones who are protecting them then verse 11 it says Lee over a cop debris Sasha Melo kaha right for you to pass into this covenant of a Shem you are God as we saw verse 11 this is indeed to his imprecation that a shame about seals with you today Marsh of muskie ROM the color partial blushing Robbie now this is like something that clean car loves to point out to us and there's some really deep stuff going on if a certain word and a verse is singular and the rest of the verse is plural gain English it's really hard to figure that out I don't know the language something you guys do new English what Hebrew for sure has the when I say you in English you don't know if I'm saying you plural are you singular but many European languages do have a difference in singular plural I would have Chinese anyway so the very fact that this one verse actually is actually these two verses but out of all the whole parsha is spoken and singular Zulema passage his kippa are Bruce had breathed his keel embellishing yaki it's only this this verse if you look at other verses before the seven verses after the whole the whole posture seems to be in plural but these verses this one particular first and concept is singular so he says the mole fate how take this is clear-cut proof she Iike breeds it that the prime purpose or point of this covenant is Bob or how hoot is for the sake of this communal responsibility and this is what Addie was mentioning earlier we're going to see it keep its out of our go to you call yourself to each hot right Addie that from the aspect of this communal responsibility all the Jewish people are like one person ship is Monty a Shalom Aqaba Ava Ava protein at a time when you get in a hit a wound in one particularly that's called Goutham Argus Michaela then the entire body the whole body feels it and is sickened affected by it chakras mine shall I tell you the same thing is true with one juices Coulomb Margie Sheen we all feel it commotion Emma like we saw an ah-ha we saw in the parsha by Joshua it says hot on your trail it says Israel sins also the measure should he look in Jeremiah chapter 50 verse 17 which you will find on your sushi number three at the number 17 as scattered sheep is Azure why is Israel called a scattered sheep the truth is look at the words sad to Zarate Israel it's the fact that the set which is called Israel it's scattered yet when we're in exile we're going to be scattered but the sheep itself is a very sensitive it looks like a big an out because all the fur the wall but it's a little tiny animal and it gets knocked in the hand and the foot the whole thing shivers because it's that the pain or the sin in this case scatters it's what's the word for pizarra it's diluted it's not diluted well that's for sure when we're in diaspora were scattered but within the being itself it's dispersed that the pain gets goes to the extremities if they'd only got hitting this hand the whole body feels it because of the pain without this yeah it spreads out that's what Pizarro means like the aspirin but it's within the being itself that the pain is felt throughout so it's in other words that's the word ROM and even show you around what's there why is Israel compared analogous to the Sheep Ma said what is it about a sheet there's much alike if there had been a far off when it gets hit in just one of its limbs Coulomb are teaching the whole animal feels it so to Israel I can Avada hotter I can dismiss criminal he alone sin as we know it says caught to Israel Israel sin so the clear Carson is linear ax according to what I can perceive should call Cadogan Chicago Rouge has hurt him in me lot scissor ah that this drush ax the way to expand this whole idea is from the actual word teaser ah which means dispersed because what are they saying may occur shame to say after the fact the Jewish people is like a sheep should as much a look at that that may have wore off after the fact they're hitting any one of their lives Coulomb abhi she what would that feel it in pain her NPI cut it's like one person circa wave a Virat he has a pain one limb shut they tickle at the cool a and then it's thrown that pain is thrown or spread throughout the entire animal towards destruction like it feels the pain it just wants to die the alia days them in a ditch you cool on gouda a Caucasian heart and then through this logic dictates that they will be one group one society one package like one person that's what the Jewish people are in fact we'll see soon I'll talk about it so cult when we take the floor me me the four species there they have different levels of different meanings like the the X rogue they say it's like the heart of the body has a heart and this the the palm frond is like the spine we serve a chef with all of our limbs and the willow is like the lips and Hadassah's like the eyes and we bring it all together because we want to serve a sham with all of our limbs but another level is there is this idea that the etrog has taste and smell and it's compared to those Jews that have both Torah and mitzvot and then actions good actions and then there's the the Sidra the palm frond the lulav which is like your your spine and that has because it's part of the date palm so that has taste but no smell and that would represent people that have torah but know midst it and then you have the hadass which has smell but not taste and i would represent Jews that have mitzvahs but not Torah and then you have the will that has neither taste nor smell and that we represent the Jews that have neither mrs. are still Jews and we need everybody and they're all bound together as one because we really are one and that's what Sukkot is really only about but that's one of the main things that's one of the main themes of Sukkot so what's gone so we saw that okay the goethe Khakassia cot the okapi came hey Missouri even if they're physically actually Sicily dispersed like you wanted to say the aspirin if I do ich mir I'll let hobb the teeth and even if one Jew does not see another Jew he lives in Hawaii the other one was in Alaska another one wins whoever coca-cola is New Zealand perhaps lo ye throw shovel cavero but Toto totally I mean he never was able to say chauvel a cab how you doing they didn't have texted you that thoughts they didn't have Telegraph's you may never have seen the person through for god knows how long no young remove uh though you can be sure that ones you would not say if only my pick my friend could feel my pains and I could feel his things like in reality that what's on me is what him god forbid you would never want that Lacock name mark on that's what it means la Avraham the breeze Hashem that were entering into the Covenant of God singular blush on your feet as an individual all together he argued the bridge z3r cube Gouda akatsuki jihad that through this covenant through this Brit hadashah through this new covenant we become what we argue Z and through this collective responsibility they get Mark Hoppus Keisuke Martians ooh he's going to explain with God's help the rest of the inverses in this parsha which we are going to examine surely the verse says attempt did savvy my own you are standing here today la misma who parsha attendants of Eden McClelland why is this partial attention 29 in close proximity to chapter 28 you had 98 curses in chapter in chapter 28 and now in chapter 29 you're all standing here today you notice to teach us the Theseus realm a a close contest I am the Metris tells us that the Jewish people heard them it's a really weird language here ready a hundred curses - - why does that if just say ninety-eight we're gonna see something you probably never heard before a hundred curses - - aside from the 49 that are in chapter 26 of Leviticus interest kahani so he just turned 98 now we heard 49 before her recouping a.m. and the Jewish people's face turned green or gray greenish gray like pale like like like they died in their footsteps I can do sick Rashi now look at Rosh I really want you to see what Russia was to say here I don't know I'm not sure if I copied it over but odd Khan up till here I've explained according to a simple meaning of the passage and the gut Act Midrash says like this why was the passenger standing today juxtaposed with the curses because Israel heard one hundred curses - - besides the 31 and Taurus go hunting witches in Leviticus their faces turned pallid upon hearing the curses and they said who can bear these Moses began if so then you're standing here today meaning you cost so much anger to God nevertheless he never took total destruction of you and behold you existed before him so what do we see there's this constellation going on you got the curses which is almost like total destruction and maybe have Moses saying I'm gonna say it's not so bad but look you're still here today after all those Carson's are told to you you're still and you did pretty bad things already you're still here and today we're reading these and we're still here and every generation we know we're still here reading these think books we're still here so there's this doom and yet there's this consolation or consoling going on Moses is kind of like chill baby chill okay then Rashi goes on and says why does it say today Taeyang has it like this day which means this they exist and it becomes dark and then like you know our days begin by night and then end at sunset they start at sunset and it's something so the day begins with darkness but heads would like he did give you like and so the future is gonna give you like the curses and punishments actually sustain you the darkness right curses and punishments or darkness okay so that's going to sustain you and keep you standing before God in other words members rebuked it's not punishment for punishment saying it's there to make you better people then and the passage before this to consists of words of conciliation where it says you've seen everything you sham did okay so we got that point let's go back into the clea car we have this big problem with the idea that it said 90 didn't say 98 it says 100 minus 2 also eh Macomb the saw takes a fake Godot there's also place to supply a huge doubt mocchi capably route 10 Clooney Shellhead oh because Moses says you know it's all gonna be okay I mean that's just words I mean we got God telling us these horrible horrible things gonna happen to you I mean that's like trepidation on one side and then Moses sayings came knocking to get totally right down he mashallah also they have Kalia ah Dana the truth is we weren't like that until now we were still but the Italian learned if my life's awesome she's new cruel and cold hollow a show after okay huh the truth is why are we still standing because we didn't see the full ramification of Nod not all my da curses we didn't we were still the desert you know for 40 years we didn't act so bad like we did later on so very nice he gave this consolation but solely but look we have like you know who knows how I'm going to live and how long we're gonna sin we have the chance to get him totally wiped out till the full measure that God can send us on the curses so if you want to say if you would come to say she Hebrew costume the luck about who he dealio Ashmont actually ruin the cause for all of us then maybe these curses the anger of God would slowly increase our time until the full guilt - we were totally fit to receive all these curses off became nevertheless God in His mercy will not totally destroy you because of your sin as Moses himself basically he is writing and saying through the time it's like an INR you that you won't be totally destroyed but keen on you eight Laham closer the tougher Tokiko so basically if you have this idea that Moses is consulting them so then you're basically at a standstill I mean what is really going on you have two heavy hitting curses coming from God you got most somehow coming and consoling them so then it's all for naught what's going on no kingly Alleluia popped a man the truth is the Jews may not become totally fearful of that Omar Allah Ya Allah arrocha I'm in Oakland Carlos and it's not going to go upon their leaders or their heads about the real the real result and consequences of those curses so we have a contradiction basically keet hooray Kivar Hatano Kayla Mikayla the truth is we could say well we've already sinned like this one like that and lo Rob Subhan Allah and we have not been passed on and ambushed the word the worst it could have been Gama ish Moshe 50 fado even Moses promises us this verse I think could be read in two ways she got me no steam and not new Lovato no yoga Bunner rot they could be justifying themselves by saying bye if we continue to sin we're not going to be exhausted out with evil so in the end we were stuck with this this dilemma we have so many times with the toad the cursors are telling us we are going to be so rejected and persecuted that we're going to be destroyed and yet we're going to see soon the verse clearly says the God will not reject us to totally destroy us so we have a dilemma with which one is it in Cain hace Moshe trade 2 volumes since ray Haddadi you see that in Moses himself is contradicting himself in the time he Mithila Abrahamic Lalo's could they should we had in the beginning he designates these taught these these curses in order to make them fearful the a cockney shame Oh Tom Lida Borelli bomb but only later that he can solves them it speaks to their hearts we often you hug him that even if you do sin Loyola meets article olives you won't be destroyed because of these curses and if you want to say it Chloe Hulu that the curses do actually take place and have begun take place of Aloha ban could they look color tumbly calm ray but it doesn't have the ability to destroy them entirely the red curve are hefty files that need people who are God already promised that we would be destroyed and yet we have another verse in vain ikura 2644 look at the eco 26:44 and it says but despite all this while they are in the land of their any means i will not despise them nor will i reject them to annihilate them thereby breaking my covenant that is with them for i am the lord their god that covenant is forever so what's going on here and another question that's just the first question llama load new Philemon ultimate s Club ocean the terrorist Co hiding why didn't the Jewish people turn green or gray or pallid from back in Leviticus from the 49 curses why is it only after the 98 to God yeah BAM yesh Naga hush eco honey lyrica even those curses are enough to scare the heck out of somebody eh oh the doc take my nose but no sock Elijah if you look carefully at the words of the mattress it remember it said a hundred minus two you guys are gonna see something you've never seen before it we always say there's a 98 curses ask any any little kid any Jew who walked on the street I'm gonna curtain 98 so why does it say a hundred minus two t plus u s-- type must be must be there really burn right there there two missing ain't con man you don't have enjoyed y'all name 98 captain Havel Elam a blur so why didn't it say 98 like Coderre camera hoots like it said except in the 49 it could just say except for the they could 49 it could except for the 98 it says - so if we looked at the we saw that Rashi Katya let him ask you dying with that but you're standing here today just like the day begins with night and it will become light for you in a day so - it will become light for you we're talking about the world to come it's it's talking about the world to cut the God will sustain you so I'll see man dr. Schnurr first of all we don't see it the text it's an ax men - but not in the text I'm not sure Moshe I'm gonna call divine where did Moses get all these words so now we're gonna examine this will be closer near lorem is it seems you can say like this should be Kola a low sperm will flourish in the Taurus go honey who the partials ki Tov o the coulomb eh mcComish cachet or if there's always a space in a place for someone who's very stubborn whose culture RS to remove the fear of God from upon him the lead typical shown last note and to somehow bring some kind of justification on himself for his actions lavaca shots allah ma are you they either touch mullah a new sheet and he could seek out some type of salvation personal salvation through some type of acts some type of scheme coming up with a scheme in order to save himself like the children of the the flood Kedar Sharma dorababu so in Jogja chapter 24 verse 18 this is what it says he has light upon the face of the water that's really all the really focus on when the righteous man knocked and Methuselah would rebuke them they would say we are light enough to swim in the water in other words they justify their own salvation that they don't need something we can do it ourselves we are light enough to swim in the water water we have popera some light materials I guess you know if you said bamboo all right styrofoam we'll have a life jacket just be fine I could do it on my own so the creeks are sensational honesty most gitanos Kalos she shot throughout the name mine basically they were saying we have our own small boats that will their verdict and the float on the water so to the paintball sailors so - with these curses then somehow justify that they can get beyond that we're done with the stubborn people so it's written if you look in Chapter Deuteronomy chapter 28 23 and your skies above you would be like copper and the earth below you like fire you have to look a little bit to Rashi what they're talking about but basically we're saying that this infers specifically what's above you and not what is upon the other nations so the Jews can always say you know Frank it's not really raining on us where's not what happened it's not really it's not just about us we can go and take from other places if we suffer right we're talk about the Jews who not faithful right people who are stubborn that will just go other places and we did we saw Jews did they go and move other places low Moscow Russia are hobos it's not effective to go in he shot me in my turn it's gonna rain there's God says it's not gonna rain here we'll get our produce from somewhere else in came yaksha air Paloma they'll even be more stubborn and they'll turn their backs a lick Eknath - who a min Sharma we'll just go buy the produce from the nation's th average mom because you know what they did business around the world the non-jews also of them they'll be able to do business the famed ever Vitara so - whenever pestilence of war would occur they would just say in malta al now she I'll just say for escape with my soul now look in proverbs 22 five troops and snares are in the way of the perverse it's really the party wants to you preserves her soul distance himself from them so basically that's the case but called the close yo hurry company and that could be why that those clothes didn't really put him at the first to a 49 in Leviticus didn't turn their face green because they were still stubborn and could always have an excuse how they're gonna get out of and a shmuck company he knots up mayhem i they talk Poulos I know she's because they can always try to save themselves to some type of personal scheme I'm not into God's name law other my social agent over if a man has ever threatened that something like this would happen to load to fire a jean show he's not really able to separate himself from his sin from his punishment if that's the case ain't no yapanese Shawne Merriman he's not really able to separate himself the truth is he cannot separate himself from his personal punishment and he's not able to save himself Keeler y'all give me mine in his heart if he's that close minded he doesn't even know what he's doing wrong he doesn't know why it's coming upon him and he's just gonna suffer he need the open closed Robo snow off in those curses by this place they're in the plains of North that I may aim they were actually a hundred we said 98 minus 2 I mean 100 minus 2 he says they were actually hunting wait to hear this the madras counts them and he comes up with a hundred however i'm just gonna go to english at this point he occludes them but it does not explain what they are we're gonna see soon a verse and you can say wow those are the other two so see what it says if you look in chapter 28 verse 61 it says also the Lord will bring upon you every disease and plague which is not written in the Torah strove to destroy those are the two that have not written clear as mud yeah it's well chapter page 6 number 22 Deuteronomy 28 61 also the Lord will bring upon you every disease and plague gum khojali the Kamaka I shall look it to the safe return which are not written in the Torah those two are not written you have 98 to the written and you got two that are not written you see the verse so he counted a hundred but guess what - least see when you have the 98 you still can somehow justify getting out of it but those two you can't and they're hidden and then I'll are you hid there hidden for reason because they have to do it the world to come the world to come is a hidden world it exists right now we can reach it to it we can be experiencing it guys we're doing it every time we learn Torah we do it we live Shabbat or Shabbat you know we're mama SHhhh in the world to come we're in that that space that is undescribable these two are not written in the tar because in the tour the tour is about this world there's nothing about the tone really on its shot level that's about the world to come okay it's deeper and deeper levels just like this one is it's about the world to come so let's go back into the text a little bit he says without a doubt the author of this measures did not count those two amongst the ninety-eight he didn't count all the diseases and plagues but he did count 98 asides for them but with them it's a hundred however from those hundred minus two do not really mind they're not really missing they're only missing because they're not clarified regarding its essence or its quality quality in pain if Sharlee he shot a man and if that's the case it's impossible to guard yourself against them I've came to Hellenic puzzle therefore one should become frightening confounded Ragna Hazama and trembling should seize you because of these two they're not that are missing and hidden regarding their essence and equality and you should be afraid from doing them lest you face total destruction that's pretty deep and Moses says from his heart ain't overcame commercial fish after that the this matters not as you thought therefore they're hidden from you those other two in order that they're you should have and ordered them sorry connectional oh yeah look I'm Malcolm the shaman man in order that there won't be for you any place to really come up with these excuses and hide from them guard yourself against them sure a hard way pomf eunuchs hick asked him the hollow snake law saying that there were many times that hashem got very angry but did not afflict us with these two alpha p she eat them room she called even though they were fitting for to receive them for him to have sent them now if you say if that's the case why is there such a designation anyway of these curses especially why were they not even explained to they're hidden because they are speaking about a punishment in the world to come which is hidden from the aspect that a man can become so confused in darkness in his physical world as physical existence that he's not able to explain that to understand the essence of the onus that he would get in the world to come like the way that the Torah itself is hidden in the it hides the spiritual reward for this very reason we're not about you ask any Jew even secular especially secular but everyone knows we only have an opportunity to make any change in this world once when the next world there's no more efforts there's no free will there's no efforts we go to a cemetery we hide our senses we don't want to mock them they can't even wear sisters they can't do nothing there's no midst of that person can do it's finished this world is the only girl that matters at the moment because the only opportunity we have right now to gain the world to come but basically from the aspect that a man could be confused because of this physical body this physical world the world of illusion that we're living in right now which is not able to comprehend her or understand the the possible punishment that one would get in the world to come that's why it's hidden the Torah hides the essence of the read the spiritual reward for this very reason and now we understand what it says when Moses says basically behold I designate for you 40 s sorry 80 98 curses all of those curses are in this world God khojali the coal market also every disease in every plague has Shia tell affected it relates to a sinner that's for the world to come in order to punish him I shall look to the safe return so which is not written in this Torah the eternal OD bruh mins the Irish clue the Torah does not speak about that Onision all about the punishment the world to come God will ro shoeshine the hollow then rather it's only going to be applicable upon the evil people once they reach that point this is the last paragraph in there when it says you are standing here today like today which is dark and then turns light because that's how our days work first it's dark and then it's life for all those kakoton Kagami became misty your existence is eternal also after it becomes dark darkens on the sun and the moon the day that you die meaning you no longer in this world with the sun in the mood to shoe the law or boorish an you return to the eternal light of God which is in its Coloma bar which is eternal life in the world to come the Akash of who knocks eh that seal of God after Muto and after it's understood and placed before a person that such a thing exists as eternal life after he dies he may possess Avinu perish then you would understand what it means gob called Holly the gun mark I shall go to to be safe returns and also the plague in thee and the diseases which are not written in the star that's what it means cos I look at velocity lawyer so - it will be light for you and the future will be like for you just like it's like for you in this world so - right at the end of the day the second part of this light so - Zoe who shop gob law see so - the light will shine for you in the future the clothes are you suing the kindness cab this is the hard part understand this anti-semites out there then it's the curses and the challenges the asourian the challenges in the tests that give us existence and position with Hashem but Saudi must come the Fanaa god is saying all those tests and challenges like it the ten tests and challenges to Abraham they position you before me commotion in mark now we know we talked about this this morning there are three gifts there are three good gifts that God gives to the Jewish people and all of them are acquired two challenges and tests I'll tell you what they are we're gonna talk about all about the world to come it doesn't come easy Torah it doesn't come easy and everything straight out those three things you won't live in Israel you're gonna meet challenges you want the world to come you're gonna have challenges some bigger for others right so he says all of them are through challenges one of them is the world to come and we're gonna look at miss Leigh that's proverbs chapter 6 verse 23 it's really the second part of the verse for a commandment as a candle the turns light and ready disciplining rebukes are the way of life what does it mean Derek I am always there a high means the world to come during a time the way of life is eternal life how does it come it comes through takaful Musa it comes through rebuke and ethical teachings ethical effort working on your character the Akasha gilliam moejisha so doll of a bar after Moses reveal to them the secrets of this world to come I share the funny loggia to which prior to this they had no knowledge of he made the Zen its color of damn this calmed their minds this is how they were consulted ru de Havana state mottos a Leo and they're loving it's through the understanding of these two additional we'll call them curses are plagues that are actually hidden they understood okay so I'm gonna say shabbat shalom and to Allah and may we all be written school book of life immediately may we continue to work on our character and become the best people that we can be that God gave us all these talents and we should figure out how to use them and if we don't know how we should learn from the Torah house and go to the rabbi's go to sir Maya learn in whatever city you're in and I'll see you next year [Music]