Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: What right do we have to the Land of Israel?

[Music] good evening everyone we are in chapter 26 in Deuteronomy the first verse Parshat kita bow when you come into the land so let's open up the books we're looking at chapter 26 and Deuteronomy and it says like this reading English verse it will be when you enter the land that a Shem your God gives you as an inheritance that's the first description of the land and you possess it I know in English that's not the best translation of the word the very stuff it really means to conquer it like the ROM bond brings down that's why there's a difference in the ROM bond and the Rambam is there a mitzvah to live in air to sell or not to conquer it okay the ROM bond says this is one of the 613 mitzvahs to conquer the lands and to dwell in it to live in it to settle it and that you shall take up the first of every fruit of the ground that you bring in from your land that a Shem your God gives you and you should put it in the basket and go to the place and the Shem your God will choose to make his name rest there okay so we're gonna deal with that part first it says in Hebrew valhalla kita voehel Haaretz a share auto new yellow heheh no tane laka not how I knock Allah is as an inheritance we restock and to conquer it via shaft ah ba and to settle in it and then you're supposed to take the car Tommy ray sheet when you take the first of all the fruits of the ground cloak pre Adama I should tell the in the article which you're gonna bring from your land it is called your land Shen gives it to you I share out the new oil of heaven la nothing laughs the Santa pretender the halacha Alamo commercial youth cars Chemeketa leash con the shocking Schmo shop okay so let's deal with the first couple issues the CLE car wants to point out to us is that these words to possess and to dwell in it only appear one other place in the entire Torah exactly word for word and that is by the laws of the Kings interesting ly enough because we're learning the the Rambam flaws of the kings and their words so if you travel to chap to Deuteronomy 1714 but I'm a traveling man we're traveling in our Foolish Deuteronomy 17 14 that's the first one on the source sheet since when you come to the land that the Lord your God is giving you and you possess it and live there in it doesn't use the word not a lot as an inheritance here it's talking about it's almost worth worth right except that one statement not colossi not brought but word for word and you possess it and live in it and then you're gonna say we want a king like all the other nations which we know that itself is problematic but that is not our topic for tonight that's not the chef we'll talk about another time but the exact words will restart Leah Shafter book you possess it and live in it so why is why is it that these there must be a connection between these two and over there it doesn't use the word na kama so the clear car says because you know what's gonna happen he said it's not even him predicting it the Torah predicts it Hashem himself warns us over and over again because after you dwell in it and you had but you had conquered it you had possessed it you know it's gonna happen you should on your trail you HOT Israel will wax in fat and will rebel in fact somebody put up on their Facebook the other day a very anti religious the person he wanted to know I mean he really didn't want to know but he he made it like it was a question why is it that all the most advanced countries they're all secular like he was trying to say that the more advanced you are financially well-off that you don't need God it's only for the stupid masses who are poor so God already says you will waxen fat you will grow heavy meaning with abundance and then you will repel and then what's the next thing that he predicted would happen vish avila heavy me on a road that could call it going and it's then you will then request from God the concepts of authority or rulership like all the other nations that was the main problem that we wanted to be like all the other nations and of course Samuel Wright he's a little bit taken back he was you know he I think he took it personally I think he had every right to take it personally he was the conduit he was the leader she will Hannah Gabe anyway so if we continue with the clear crisis that's what our parsha is about our parsha is going to be about B chlorine the mitzvot bringing the first fruit up to show lion what is it about these first fruits he says the reason for the first roots the whole concept of the first fruit its intent height to come on our behalf Nia room lava bomb it's there to subjugate and to bring down or subdue our arrogance our elevated hearts and why is that why is it because after we conquer and create settlements then our hearts raise up saying the land belongs to us because it was through our might our sward that brought about this victory and what's the fact that's really missing the chief he says the issue who has a sham as a result they will forget about God and that's why it says when you come into the land that a Shem the Lord your God is giving you as in inheritance what is it about an inheritance unless you have like 15 siblings and your squabbling over everything it's not really a war there's a will there's you know a pecking order and everyone's going to get their due so in truth you did not get the land through conquering that's not why you came to the land keep the MF Lobeck Torah you rashad atop ba l RS but rather has mislaid look at miss Leigh that's proverbs 1914 what is this word and not how I used a house and wealth are the heritage of the father's by the home knock alot avoid okay so that's the part of the verse he wants us to see I'm a mere sham how is maternal aha it's rather from God this is gonna be the most important line of the whole evening at least in the next five minutes and then we'll have other important lines of the whole evening it's rather from God Himself the land was giving to you as a mater not as a gift but there are some stipulations if the clear car rights Alma not locks zere a loved moola on condition that you show your gratitude now you see we're already segue into this whole idea of the bickering of the firstfruits and there's another condition the Lishman calm its lot off and to observe guard keep all of his Commandments now that might be the truth but it's very difficult for accept to accept that now let me tell you a story did I tell you the story about me walking down the street when I first became religious in Philadelphia had my black hat my tie my suit jacket I was fresh I was from you know religious maybe you know half a year visiting my hometown and I walked by the subway and this man is standing there with a red bow tie and he got letters papers from Louis Farrakhan's group the Muslim Brotherhood and the letter was addressed to me yeah - dear rabbi the congregants laymen and Jewish community members God gave you the land of Israel but he made a conditional did you keep them it slugs but you failed and that's why you're not there anymore we represent the Palestinians who you have you know basically it was a letter of pro pro pro palestinian this coming back in I was from six months I knew God was talking to me you know like you walk down the street and it's like beer you how many people Jews walk down that Street that are religious know you know well was new Jews Roe wasn't you know that's far-fetched but anyway I felt God taught and I knew I had made the right decision to become observance in the Torah the Misses then look at me now if you're not an Ursus trail okay so as it says so we mentioned it's very difficult to even imagine such a thing but rather that what do we think that we actually took it by force and that it belongs to us should has the bulk to your wish that we took it as a as an occupying force you urushibara me a vote fo and then it says the shaft to ball that you dwell in it that's also problematic like @osha of Atocha is a resident residents know it should be like a temporary resident like a Gare it gars a stranger we are all Gary we were all strangers this rule does not belong to us we're just passing through all the Jews converted about Sinai and so even though we are made may be many many many generations after that we have to feel and sympathize it says in the Torah 36 times to love the contrary because you were converts because you were strangers and then your children won't be strangers you always feel and you shouldn't but you always still to some part of me that is still you know from somewhere else from Texas from Oregon from and even Jews who are coming from the Exile they also it's the same thing I I believed as many hahaha that apply to Valley chuhwa that applied to conference because they do come from a strange background denied they weren't brought up religious so they also have they have to be reached out to it loved so it says like like a toe Shou knows you're gonna settle in it settle in it like permanently and guess what the next verse that he brings in if you look in viagra 25:23 don't think the land belongs to you you know what happens every Jubilee year the land shall not be sold permanently I need some money I can sell my land for a lease up until 50 years depends on where it falls out on the calendar of the Jubilee if it's three years before the Jubilee I can only sell it for a smaller price not really selling it clawed at lease home I can lease it out for three years it's gonna revert back to my property and when Jubilee and so - if it was the 49th year before the Jubilee I get a bigger price because I'm gonna rent it out up to 49 years but it automatically goes back to my family's inheritance as we came into land of Israel was divided and so that's the point here that it's not yours what is the what is the verse say the land shall not be sold permanently for the land belongs to capital a me to me for you are strangers and if those say residents and you notice right away that I didn't put that word in everyone understands the word it's a temporary resident cuz that's what we really are Keely how are etske Gary my tab and that's what the clean card brings down to get this very important point to pull across and what is all the point of all this call that you're the a holiday room because if you think that it's you who conquered it then it brings you to a certain arrogance and haughtiness fish at a sham the result being you forget the Lord your God and I out Canaan because of this God says I commanded you the mitzvah of the firstfruits now we're finally getting around to what we spoke about earlier this is that this is the parsha dealing a melee with the firstfruits and the Rambam actually mentions the reason for this Mitzvah she a cart Tom its kazoo that the private reason of the crime purpose that dismiss with us remember one of the misses is therefore to improve our character all the misses somehow or another the Vilna Gaon says the whole purpose of life in the Torah is to think ourselves better people better human beings the Torah is taqaddum adult which translates as it helps you assist you guide you in character development that's all it is we create the image of God it gave us free will and now what we're going to do with it use it to become what better it's not just baby better the best you've been things we could possibly be and when you go to heaven God's not going to ask you why you didn't achieve what Yaakov is reality or you it's nothing to ask you why don't you cheat with falesha achieved why didn't you achieve what you were created to do just you know comparison to anyone else why didn't you why didn't you come the level of Moses nothing to ask that Lin all I asked you to do was live that's all you were the best thing he could possibly mean and that's a whole new perspective on Tara the Vilna Gaon the greatest grabbed by last few hundred years and of course he didn't make it up its traditional way back it's throughout the to my table with so many clubs that God created us with an evil inclination and the Torah is that is the flaw is the antidote the Torah is the Talmud says that tor is the antidote the the pill the the drug against the illness the God gave us God gave us to be its ARA and the torrents the antidote so the Rambam says this is exactly the the prime reason for this mitzvah is called hokhmah aa which is I would call submission but when your you ever had wrestling with your best friend and you're on top and they're on the bottom and you say say uncle say uncle okay anyway my day uncle man I give up we're not talking about giving up anything we're talking about being submissive to us yet so that's the word hockey na and his top dude I would call into servitude or subjugation it's a very similar work this is what the read the midst of brings to our life a submissiveness of subjective to a Shem and as proof on this ready for this according to the klique are he says this testifies to what he just said if you look at verse 3 it says [Applause] okay could you pass me a I have my honor in verse 3 it says you shall come the tomb ever will be the Kohen in those days and you shall Satan I declare today now that we'll throw you off because what is really st. Hebrew I declared today it's past tense so the question the Cleveland's gonna ask is how is it that the very first word you're gonna use which is 3 when you open your mouth the first word you say the immortal a lob you say to him he got a tee high oh I declared today guys if you know Hebrew it's got to send off alarms I declared today and then you're actually making a declaration if you read aloud you see it's clearly a declaration you're about to make I declare today to ascend your God that I have come also past tense to the land that has ships which work for fathers to give us the codes going to take the basket it'll land before the altar and then you're going to continue it's part of what we call b-boy a a confession they say here on the side a declaration but it's actually the beginning part is more of a declaration how we got and I from verse 12 onwards it's more of the confession so what the clear car wants to actually bring across and this is like the most fascinating thing you all agree with and resonate with and you're gonna go home and just know it how do you declare the glory of God through your actions correct so when you see your first but you have a fruit tree and it buds the flowers there and it's about to make into a fruit to go down to your tree and you see the first bud and you tie a little red ribbon I think it has to be red I don't know it has to be red and you watch it and you'll anticipate you're going to take this when it becomes a fruit we're not talking about a whole mess of fruit we're talking about one fruit you're gonna have a really beautiful basket and you're gonna harvest that fruit and you're gonna fill your gas tank or feed your camel and you're gonna make that Trek to Jerusalem and you're gonna park in the mammal law that has a nice parking lot and you're going to walk into the old city and then you're gonna up the mountain and as you're going there's torches and there's acrobat it's a huge party and dancing and celebrating and you're just being buckled and it's a beautiful and happy time the shaboots are out should look so why am I telling you all this because that's what you're declaring I do declare that everything I did up until this point past tense my declaration is I'm standing right here but I didn't just come here like what he called transported from wherever I was to here there was a lot of effort money preparation to get here and so the clear card says you know what it says he got a tea hey yo masha'Allah haha I declare today to Hashem your God he got a tea lushing of our past tense hallo a diet Lily gave clue I don't get it the guy didn't even say anything yet the first thing is I declare it that's the first word coming I declared LS sure got to love her what he really means to say through I declared Shiva halifa Mahavir up through the walking the transportation and the coming Zukhov or DOMA it's already as if kilo he got a tee Derrek Lee doing it's as if I already made a confession it's as all house confession done by the way silently our religion does not require you to tell another human being that's your sins in fact we're gonna see that's a sin in itself okay there's always time to vent and talk to you know your spouse and but it's it's a sham who you need to say you're sorry - okay so read is done silently now that's why it says ki baat T L hearts I came for I came to the land meaning to say not by the laws of conquering love but all right Jerusha keep keen but opens a but only through the following way what way then a sham Swartz who our forefathers - give it to us kena open session is Rajas sham la beauté nila take minor the God's words were for us to give to us remain I mean I am getting tested for testimony on myself ba ha ba I have according to bringing transporting all the efforts involved and bringing these first fruits to what he made a sham it's from God hiya tartly that God gave me the land as a gift and a portion and a gift Aminah Ouma Tana and in part and in verse 2 it says and you shall take from the first the Lacock term a race sheet you shall take of the first fruits of the ground that you bring from your land that a Shem gives you and you shall place it in a basket so the verse says like this the Licata may rate sheet capri Adama I share table in the article I share Chemeketa note a lot the some topic I met the halacha LM a coma sharing youth caramello kappa the shocking smell shop so it's interesting he wants to - no it doesn't say and you shall give from the first it says you shall take from the first - you and me big deal but you have to understand God dictated to Moses to write it very specific and if you were telling somebody did you're giving something you're giving from your firstfruits you could also say you're gonna take from you but why specifically take and not gift so he points out that it does say remember he's not making anything any of this up on his own he is caught because all gamora's left and right meds rushing that that word is significant why does it say to take it not to give to tell you that it's from this first that you're going to bring to the house of God in order to give you're gonna take in order to give Hidayah the cover Bishwas brought you're taking this in order to give thankfulness and acknowledgement and honor / / le même n nu T cos from it you were taking ko priyada MA from it from the ground right you are taking all of the firstfruits the T skeptiko priyada mouth and then you will merit to get the fruits all the things that come from the ground now we talked about blessings blessings in general I mentioned to you that the whole world belongs to God diverse the whole row belongs to God so by you eating it's called thievery you're stealing how do you how could you eat God's food it blocked in well you mean Oh God doesn't really need it then he gave it to us but how there's another verse that says God gave the world to man so but it whose is it is it God's or is it man's cuz nothing changes they're both true the world belongs to God the world moves demand so before the blessing before the acknowledgement that it's God's that's called stealing after the blessing the blessing permits you that God then gives you only it's done the words by us eating without a blessing we are stealing but once we acknowledge that it's him through the statement it's yours then he gives it to you so there's this constant like it seems like back and forth a taking and giving it so I cash to cover how data it's only after you already acknowledged it avi how keep Taavi are a sheet in the article that you're bringing the first from your land which is Shem your God is giving you because this RS that says in the diverse your land the land is not called viewers until after you've brought it it's all in the first it's all in yours after it says toughy that's okay so only if you bring from your land I'll you they have a zoo and it's through this taking or let's say bringing it's through this bringing that you did Irina you are you - how bout zoo t Catholic I copied it's only through this bringing that you're able to take the all the fruits of the grass and the Havasu and this bringing is the declaration remember we said why does it say the first words he gotta tea I declared not I do declare but I have declared where's your declaration it's the silent declaration of from the first time you put the ribbon until you put it in the basket and put it into the constand and then you say this now the next part this is verse three and you bring it to the coin which will be in those days now that's why I printed off another sheet read around by we're not going to read it now but if you see the wrong body we're gonna look at what he has to say because Rashi says one thing robbed the clear quartz is another but the verse says in verse 3 you shall come to whomever will be the Cohen in those days so latisha I'm Luke Azam it says in the gomorrah Coutu vault in the thirteenth chapter but Alicia he ate from the first floor of the firstfruits then they were there were ties there were things that were given to Alicia and he was not a cow Moos not a lady so what right they have to give Alicia these tithes these firstfruits so the rumor tells us over there it's to teach you then anyone that brings gifts to sages Tabitha ha ha Meem the rabbi's the people who sit and learn all day it's as if they actually offer it up this is an offering there's no blood involved by the way just addressed them as if they actually offered this first fruit offering who me the taller dorrance accommodation Hamid mr. Kareem and from the fact that we connect that we hang this gift of giving to a righteous person a wise person the firstfruits you might have had some other ideas for example you might you might have thought softer thank takamina chilly you know between came the coming Thomas haha she about to Michelin that you might have thought because I think I just described how worth you have twenty four groups of the car hottie from twenty four different cities different the areas of the country and that city that area the country they would come and do one week twice a year in other words they would end up doing two shifts of a week in the temple and they rested time they spent learning but they had work can you imagine what a great plan two weeks a year okay that was just in the beta McNish they still did other work and ISM a tremendous amount of work so twice eats what two weeks during the year twenty four weeks apart they would go and serve in the temple so what you when you give it to the co eight you might think you can only give it to Kali whose atomic awful the truth is we swish soggy during the weekday when we learning that when it comes to the ties you do you do this so that the to strengthen them in their Torah I don't know if you know the value it of course is your first fruit but we're talking about one fruit we're not talking about from a whole orchard one fruit so you might think that you have to give it to the to the Cohen who's the top of thousand not necessarily true because he made both Hamas awesome and maybe there's not a Tom Coughlin lipstick our name so you might think you might think she got too much Yama Mitchell apricots on top of that you would wait but no the Torah says which will be in those days and then he says look at the Rob Bob because the Rama didn't agree so the Talmud Cockrum is literally what it says a Tamid means a student haha of the wise when we consider our rises they themselves consider themselves students if you want you stop learning any when you want the spiritual climb you know there's only one direction did you there's no such thing as stagnation in spirituality if you're either going up or you going down and if you're a student and what did these rabbis say they in the talent who do they learn the most from from their teachers from their comrades colleagues no from their students just stick to the questioning forces that they have to be honest so you question they actually should appreciate the questions and spend the time studying more in order to answer it sometimes the student answers his own question if you're a really good teacher you can hopefully get the student it's usually in the question itself but it's fascinating okay that's where the time column is have a good Shabbos picture let's look take a look at the rabbi because it's interesting with I think what he has to say it's very interesting and we saw the verse it says and thou shalt comment to the priest that shall be in those days to the priest that shall be in those days prefers first truths like all offerings take it's one of stress this is an offering no blood involved are given to the men of the priestly division who are signs of essentially for a week at a time ok let's see what number 10 says nothing and but he may not bring along a priest from his city in order to offer him his first fruits okay so you're talking about you could be from anywhere in the country and of course your friends your friends are in your city but that's not his time it was his thought that's one thing but they only get one week you know every 24 weeks so just to know Rashi wrote you have none else than the priest who lives in your days as he is but the Rambam is raining I don't understand this for in the case of an elder coming of the Sanhedrin its proper to say and thou shall come unto the judge this would be in those days we saw that by the the rebellious elder meaning that even though he's not as great or as wise as the earlier stages which we can all claim right whoever is around today we're not as why so how can I bring and how can I even go to anybody if there's nobody like Moses around there's nobody like Solomon around nobody like Dov it right or you know the rabbi's of the Talmud they're not around anymore I'm gonna ask some rabble a listen it says you should go to any of the priests that will be in those days that's what God's Word says even though it's not as great as wise as the early judges still he the elders obligated to hearken unto him whoever used to go to wow that's really the reason I wanted to bring that you guys can read the rest on your own but at least you have the source okay let's go back into the text remarked Oh a love and you shall say to him he got a tea I have declared already Baba's ooh already in this grimming already I appreciate sharm el marriage of wine even though there's no words from the time the only thing you said is to the wife you know don't forget to bring my favorite lunch or to the kids make sure you don't forget something because everyone's coming up to your life but you didn't confess anything you didn't mention anything yet so there's no word we're talking about the time the ribbon and walking up and doing everything that we spoke about already there's no words now look at this verse you're gonna love this verse in Psalms the nineteenth verse I think it's a two through four yeah now I underlined highlighted certain words because when you see those words you certainly think of speech or words it says the heavens recites or declare the glory of God and the sky tells of the work of his hands what does it mean day-to-day utter speech what is that talking about and night tonight tells knowledge did you understand that the words up until now is that the the sky is speaking and you know day and night is somehow getting a message across verbally but what's the last part of the verse there is neither speech nor words their voice is not heard well if that's true so what does it mean to recite or to tell or how to speech you followed my issue here so here we are that says like this maybe I should read in Hebrews so beautiful shai a sham I'm the sovereign kavod a sham that the heavens speak they tell over the story of the glory of God oh ma Singh Yadav and the work of his hands Megiddo Rekia the heavens declare that word migitus had got it a young Leonia BL oh man somehow another day today is somehow is an expression of something words lie little idle you Hobbit us that's a harder one to translate but he translates it here as tells over aim oh man they ain't the morning there's no sang and there's no words Blee nish McCullough there is no voices heard you wanted to declare the glory of God you need to open your mouth do you he did but it's like we've been saying it's the actions well we all haven't been saying that have we right some people think that there's no actions but we need to know that doing the actions are yep so he says Kaka bazoo so to the actual transportation all the movement getting to that point is Madiba on the EDA a lie it somehow is a declaration and it's a testifying upon me k ba TLRs why I came into the land lobe it's it kotti not because of my righteousness you get it we say happy day out we're sinners and we have such great great grandparents you know Abraham Isaac and Jacob they were perfect with we could be ghetto compared to them okay we did not get this land because we were deserving and the truth is even when left Egypt we weren't deserving you know what we got it cuz they were worse they were worshipping idols you know we also worshipping idols in Egypt but they were worse okay they were bad and a few more still around okay let's keep your head high it's not because I was righteous why am I here because God kept his promise kami sama isa should wha because it says in our verse which has sham swore to whom our forefathers our forefathers latisha have been do you miss Beata para and this is a very interesting word we're about to talk discuss the the confession itself atones the confession itself acts as well become this Beca part why is this basket place next to the altar it's not burnt on the altar it's eaten but its place it's symbolic God says put it next to the Cantus to put it next to the altar it's atonement it acts as a town mint just buy the cow and putting it there when we do V toy when we do confession that's part of the atonement process so verse four says and the Kohen the priest takes the basket from your hand and he places it before the altar of God is that what it says okay somebody's still walking someone has to mute their camera not sure who okay that's better and verse four says the Cohens will take the basket from your hand and lay it before the altar of a Shem your God bubucaca Cowie not enemy or mia there ha the he Nico with net Misbah hashem why because what he's doing he's he's taking it says that he's removing your sin the cohen was removing your sin and the different words evanka of ohnaka vatos ass up Tikku part in order for atonement take place and then you are told that's what the clay car breaks down and you should just know is you're stressing the idea this is part of the atonement process as we mentioned there several times and then it says Vinita via Martha okay this is verse five you shall call out and say now this is what bothers to the economy we know this is a confession so why are you calling out it says the Quran is a loud voice not like V do not like a confession that is done in a secret in a whisper he taught Sifu it's very brazen it's wrong someone who specifies goes into details so already we're getting an idea if someone wants to talk about who they used to be and how much they changed without going into details that to strengthen somebody else in their faith that's fine but he says it's so brazen for someone who goes into great detail about their sins in public novel dubbers a yahoo lover become robbed but this what he's about to say should be and can be and when you hear it it's like amazing this should be exactly through what you mentioned earlier lajas seer how passion is area Cove it's part of the removing of the sin of Jacob of the seed of Jacob loto been the coop cow and to pin it up on what we had done wrong and we come from the seed you know there's different seeds that we come from we come from our mother's seat as well now we're not talking about viii we're talking about the four mothers we're talking about Sarah rifka Rock oh man you know what they came from the house of LaVon they came from the house of Avadh and if you notice in the confession well let's just say this is the allowed confession what are they saying an era me and tried to destroyed my floor father who's the rme and who's from Arab LaVon he he descended to Egypt and social soldier in there a few in number and there it became a nation great strong and numerous the Egyptians it's like our Jewish history here a Jewish history lesson and guess what everybody who brings the first fruit has to say this and they have to say in Hebrew not in English it's a Hebrew the egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us and placed hard work upon us then we cried out and she heard us he brought this place right I skipped a few things right and behold now look at 10 I had brought the first through the ground you have given me over and over and over not that I fought for it but that you had given it to me and I'm here to prostrate myself before you and you're gonna rejoice with all the goodness that Shem has given you okay so now the verse says like this the clear curses that the seed of the mother came from a Narumi aramean we said the are ami aviv of thee right fella it's mister talk about love on and our amel sought to destroy our forefathers lo his spirit LaVon bhishma but love honest I mentioned by name but rather what is telling you because there are four mothers let's say LaVon was and he was from Aram and do you know about the way they acted over there how came the hard Manhattan mekomo they acted like we we say when in Greece actors Greece or when you're in Rome V like the Romans so what do you think they were born there our mothers were born there they acted like that and they changed they were valid Shula they were convert they got rid of their bad character traits but it was not easy because it's in the scene things are nurse and things are by nature the things that are by nature our most difficult to change the things that are nurtured are easier to change but they're not easy I said easier and what does he say he says only men new nimshi comida rob that it's from them from the place of Aram that this bad character came in to us and that's why god it stresses you know what you're gonna do you're gonna save you've reached over your shop turbo you're gonna conquer it and you're gonna dwell in it and you're gonna request a you Shiva shall shop a ball them as that you're gonna look for peace in this world you're gonna look for serenity in this world but I'm telling you now you will not find it this rule is not made for serenity and we're gonna get into when Yakko Yakko sought serenity immediately God brought upon him the sale of Joseph okay we'll get I don't forget to it but we'll talk about at some point but he says Lavaca Sheva shall Shah Baba Lisette when you are looking for requesting for some permanent residence the rest permanent residency of serenity in this world as is mentioned in the Madras review Mia says now this is the Madras that when Abraham Athena was walking around in that place Beshara Avraham mihalick the Aram Narayan who Barham knock were there were two places that he lived one was called our I'm not arrived and the other was called Arab knopfler it says he saw the people there and you know what they were doing they were eating and drinking like gluttons goodness boy clean the show to you cousin and you know it Aram said he said how vile oh you have healthy birth result if only it would be that I would not have a portion in this land I don't want a part of this people I don't want to live here they have dead character willeth et me shablak up you talk a drifter but guess what it's from there that Isaac took a rifki Rebecca and Yaakov took his wife's from that place me Shambo mod Yakko the Big D vacation she Vishal Sharma said and it's from there that he saw it he was there while he was with Levada he learned then he thought and he sought peace tranquility in this world and right away I get this that cuffed soul of Riggs Usha Yosef right away we know that jumped up or awoke the anger the questions the anger of what the anger of Yosef declawed meaning we refer to that God was not happy with Yaakov yeah so he brought the sale of the oh and because of that we went down to Egypt go back to the first just look at the whole history here usual skal AB insane before shame your God IRA men tried to destroy my forefather character how do you destroy it not yeah maybe he did want to kill him but he was trying that was the goal like we talked about all our enemies Billa is Bala he descended to Egypt and so surge or so drew in there right that was big right Yosef gets solved and he goes to Egypt of course that was all for the benefit of us in the world and all that but that's the process he gets soldier and their few a number there in Egypt became a nation great strong numerous of course the Egyptians mistreated us and afflict us plays hard work upon us and so forth and God eventually saw all of our bitterness and he took us out okay so you see world history of Jews history in this state and I'll you daisy through the anger that came out on Yosef or Yakko hello everybody it was Yaakov who was being punished to the self yes there through this myth now Gail had of our that's called snowball us you know when you take a little snowball and you roll down the hill it becomes a big snowball so the word nipple Gail means to roll you know you know a lot I'm gonna have a lot of circles here Judaism okay we dance we dance in circles you get married you go around the groove in circles anyway so here it's by going down it right through through this there was oh I call it just simply a domino effect right this is that that hit that it's rolling there's something's on the roll here through that we went down to Egypt right to the sail Yosef and there we were what what were we in Egypt Gary we were we were strangers gary means stranger and you can understand right that convert is someone who wasn't brought up with all the nuances and behaviors and they have to adopt so - we all converted to Mount Sinai but the term gear literally means strangers so this he says there we were strangers who bow bokura barzola Marik Oh to a bone and it was there you know it was like in Egypt Egypt me tribe is a tight place that was you couldn't escape he describes it the West's all the way the toward us has a crucible a pot this iron pot go back to the place good Bob beaucoup at bars Oh God brought us to this basically to the hot pot Lamar ache Oh telephone in order to spit out empty out of this sin yeah would you let's take gold pure gold it's not pure but after you boil it up this little scum on top and you get rid of it that's exactly what happens when we talk about whatever is gonna happen and Gehenna help which is hopefully short and not too painful because we that's what life is about Oh everything we do and everything that happens is always about getting rid of the sin okay so the character traits that we have we've to work on so that we don't sin any more but whatever we did sin we have to get rid of and our we are going down to Egypt was a process of being put into this furnace or this crucible of iron in order to eliminate or cleanse us from sin that was the process when we stopped our toe will we reach into our pocket come out with the wrong change this is all part of the atonement process right you wear that okay this is the life of the Jew blessings and curses the crew God is not a meme God that just punishes the punishes measure for measure he wants you to approve yourself he wants you to fix yourself he wants you to work with your character so when it's obvious to you so you get it and when it's not obvious to you he'll make he'll make it obvious try it maybe hinting until it becomes obvious if you don't get the hints he loves us he wants us to have a good time no I just feel back because we discussed this verse many times you go to Genesis chapter 4 Cain's offering was not accepted Abel's was we know that came then killed Abel but before the murder takes place which means Cain failed Kane failed look at chapter 4 verse 3 after a period of time Cain brought an offering to Shem of the fruit of the ground and that's for Abel he also brought of the first thing the first things of this block and from their choices Hashem turned to Abel and his offering but the Cain and to his offering he did not turn this annoyed came exceedingly and his constant countenance fell so he should have learned that you know he could have done better okay even though he was one who initiated but Cain brought the inferior flax of the ground and Abel brought the better of the wool from the from the sheep Shem says to Cain this is very important if you want to know God's will for you in this world why are you annoyed and why has your countenance fallen brace yourself I say me our own Heath God says surely if you improve yourself you will be forgiven how many people have seen that verse and never put two and two together you do confession you'll be forgiven is that part of the improving process but if you do not improve yourself sin rests at the door it's desires toward you yet you can conquer God or he tells you it's up to you so the last thing we mentioned was that like the domino effect then we end up down in Egypt and there we were Gary man we went through the crucible of cleaning out the sin and and that's why it says a rummy evade avi it says the aramean wanted to write he sought to kill my father and we went down to Egypt but one lime right there the his kid said dareth hit not loot our Martian ash move beyond room the clear car says it's mentioning this in the way of an apology about the guilt by a saying we conquered and we settled because remember that is the arrogance that God wants us to get rid of as if to say Chimay I've owned Zak that it was from that sin the sin of the arrogance the sin right that what Mischa ro sham Cassatt lador owes that sin left an impression for many generations and that's why we say Oh they'd of the my father the word obey means destroyed right he wanted to destroy he sought to destroy so you would think that's future tense but it's not it's present tense its present tense because there is still that impression till this day you just don't you know it's in our DNA we come from Sara and roughly okay so it's still there in our DNA and we have to constantly be on guard against this okay verse 6 the meat sock el Hashem LK abou Tina and we cried out to God the god of our forefathers verse 6 as I said I think it's seven yeah then we cried out to him the god of our forefathers and the Shem heard our voice and saw our afflictions prevail and our freshen so in Hebrew these are a few words that we're gonna try to learn a little bit we use my shame at : oh he heard our voice the yard at a name in Anna Yano he saw our affliction that a Malay knew in the hard work Lula has a new and the pressure the pressure so he says if it had not been if it had not been for the merit of our forefathers God would never have listened to our prayer he lays hood a vote no hash a map to feel at a new why because while we were in Egypt we were idol worshippers I said these four we ride a worshippers and the Egyptians were idol worshippers why do we get in not because of righteousness but the people who were worse that's true the God's Word our forefathers the feet shy you've been myths rhyme Roy the Hatim while we were in Egypt we were not so so good and if you want to look at the source sheet and I think it's number six but it says Ezekiel 20 verse 8 yeah so yes it's much later in history but it describes what happened in Egypt this is from the Prophet prophets don't lie but they rebelled against me with the capital Emme and would not consent to hearken to me that's already bad enough and they did not cast away each person the despicable idols from before their eyes neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt and of course and I said to pour out my wrath over them to give my anger full reign over them in the midst of the land of Egypt I wish everyone at shabbat shalom and a shot so uh may you all be inscribed immediately in the book of life like all the rest of the tsadikim out there [Music]