Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz: The Coming of Moshiach and Unity without Conformity

my baby [Music] thank you for coming and tonight uh Brooklyn film we have many many dedications uh first there before shlema for poor Rachel batayelet rava moshev bengita Ephraim benavidayo and Barbara may all of them have we reflection Israel in addition this year tonight is in memory of Carl which is ainar Ben I can't remember able then able again May uh this year be an eloying for all of them in addition wants to thank all of those who have participated and gave contributions to the end of the year fundraising campaign to scale the mitzvos and may all of the blessings for those who support projects of the spreading of Torah be upon the contributors and their families and it's a very first reminds me that even after the year is over it's a new year one can always contribute and dedicate the classes and programs throughout the year so the fundraising is not over when the campaign is over there the needs are constantly there and thank you again in advance for any assistance that you can give to this very worthy cause I apologize if my voice is a little low tonight for some reason I uh went through spots for the weekends with orthomayak and apparently uh at my age even that is too much of a trip I'm not sure exactly what happened but I have a kind of a bad cold but hopefully we'll be able to get through get through the get through this year we are today was of course I saw a bataves and um before I talk about departure which is that which is which is what I want to do I just want to share a very quick thought about the sorry but hey based that's very fascinating and uh this is a fiddish that reveal safe Cairo the base Yosef brings in the name of David who was one of the great rishonim whose expertise was in tefila and Min hug him of customs of FEMA and the Abu dram says the following idea uh we know that if any other fast other than Yom Kippur falls out on Shabbos we do not fast if the nine survive falls out in Shabbos we will observe the fast Saturday night and Sunday we will not fast on Shabbos but their withdrawn says if the tenth of tayvace were to fall out on Shabbos the tenth of Taves would override Shabbos and we would actually fast even on Shabbos now uh interestingly this is an untestable proposition because based on the configuration of the Jewish calendar the 10th of tables can never call it fall out and Shabbos so there's no way to prove that we draw them right or prove him wrong because it just cannot happen based on when Rosh Hashanah can be the tenth of tables will never be unchallis but in theory if the 10th of tables would be on Shabbos we would even fast now the question is what is so unique about the tenth of tabase I mean after all the only thing that happened on the 10th of tabase was The Siege against Jerusalem started nothing happened there was no war there was no casualty there was no destruction if any fast were to override Shabbos I would have thought maybe it's the ninth above which is the actual day of the Corbin bias we shown and the Corbin by ashaney why should the tenth of Taves have a distinction and a khamra and a strictness about it that you don't even have for tissue above itself Cipher gives a very very beautiful and interesting explanation points out that although you're generally not allowed to fast on Shabbos there is actually one major besides Yom Kippur there was one major exception where you do fast and Chavez or you can fast on Shabbos and that is a Tinus column the Tinus column is if a person had Friday nights a bad dream a dream of tragedy a dream of of death or whatever it would be so the Minogue was that a person's professed to be movite whatever evil decree that dream has so a Tinus for khalim you can do even on shoppers although it's an interesting you're allowed to fast even on Shabbos but as an atonement for the sin of fasting on Shabbos you have to have an extra fast during the week to make up for that event so on one hand it's mutter on the other hand you need an atonement for fasting on shops so the is though that Italian is much around Shabbos why is that so differentiates between fasting over tragedies that have happened in the past and fasting in order to avert a tragedy from happening in the future the ninth of shivas orbitamas is all about past tragedies so we don't mourn past strategies on Shabbos just like Shiva itself essentially you don't observe the shiver restrictions on Shabbos because Shabbos is not a time for Mourning now the tightness of a khalam um the tightness of is not about a tragedy that has happened it's in order to avert a tragedy from happening it's preventative it is anticipatory that type of fast you're allowed to do so says the Hassan Cipher even though we would normally view our Sarah bete base the same way we would view Tish above it's a fast about a past tragedy in which case you wouldn't be allowed to fast on Shabbos but he says there's an aspect of a servant potato vase that is future looking it is said some Cipher writes that I saw a bite is the Rosh Hashanah of the base of miktas meaning to say just as every Rosh Hashanah Hashem decides who will live and who will die anasara bataves he decides for the coming year will the base be rebuilt or will it not so we're fasting not only to mourn something that happened in the past but we're fasting similarly Yom Kippur that Hashem should forgive our sins and have a favorable decree for the Binion base of makers and that is why indeed you could do that even on Shabbos in fact Yom Kippur itself indicates that that when you're a fasting not to commemorate or remember some tragedy but in order to prevent some future Misfortune from occurring that you're allowed to do that's essentially what Yom Kippur is that is a Tinus column and the Hassam Cipher wants to say that that is the idea of some of some gedalia I'm sorry about sorry repetitors foreign interesting difficult deep stories and narratives and family connections certainly if you're a family therapist you can write books and books and books based on home Inspirations and the like but we finally come to the end of yaakovino's life and yaakov had a quite an eventful life and quite a difficult life uh but the last 17 years of his life from the age of 130 to the age of 147 where he died he spent in Miss Ryan surrounded by all of his sons especially Yosef from whom he had been separated for 22 years and at the very end of his life he gathers together all of his sons in order to give each one a bracha and the braqqa does not only pertain to them as individuals but as each one is the founder of a tribe the bracha that he's giving is identifying the fundamental nature of that tribal unit now this itself is a very significant point about the meaning of community and the meaning of unity it's very very clear throughout the Torah that the concept of tribal affiliation is quite significant meaning the tribes had their own niseum their own heads of tribes they had their own Flags they had their own position in the desert when they come to Eric Israel they will have their own portions of land this is Ruben's land this is you suck our land this is yehuda's land and tribal affiliation is a very very significant point of identification and both yaakov and Moshe rabena give bracos based on the tribal level they don't just bless the Jewish people now one might wonder why do we make a big deal about tribes after all aren't we introducing just another disunity concept I mean uh you know we have enough that we fight over so now uh all right so today because we don't really know our tribes unless you were coming or a lady so we don't really have Tribal affiliation that much so we're not going to be fighting Allah you suck on whatever it is but when those divisions existed they were very very significant in fact the ramban actually writes that they were responsible for a civil war in the Book of Judges safer Shelton we read that a woman was raped and murdered essentially and the other tribes demanded extradition of the wrong door being the wrong doers save it Benjamin refused to deliver the wrong doors because they said other tribes have no jurisdiction over crimes that were committed within a tribal boundary and they fought a war over this very similar to the American Civil War which was fought over cessation controversies and thousands and thousands of people got killed so why does the Tyra even make a big deal couldn't we just have had that you know yaakov is the founder of the Jewish people and we are binay yaakov where we are binay Israel and that's all why is there any importance at all to the notion of tribes and the answer is the Torah is teaching us something very very important about the meaning of unity and community that unity and Community is not sameness and conformity yes every Jew who is part of the faith community of Israel has a common responsibility of Torah and Mythos that's the common denominator but within that parameter within that framework we have to develop individuality we have to develop the uniqueness of our relationship the way ruvane served Hashem is not the way Shimon did it each tribe represented a uniqueness in the particular way that they served you know wanted to create a community that is not based on Conformity but a community that celebrates different diversity now again I realize that these are buzzwords when you hear in modern society diversity typically they're talking about transgender abortion gay marriage and the like I do not mean that but I mean within the framework of Judaism we have to have an appreciation for the fact that people are different we are individuals tribal units highlight the idea as the Metro says that the beauty of a garden is not when you simply have one color flower there are Gardens like that but for most people the beauty of a garden are different flowers different textures different smells different colors that creates Beauty so people ask sometimes when mashiach comes are we still going to have ashkenaza men's virgin and of course ashkenaza inspired of each of them subdivide into numerous groups right with swardom you have Moroccans and tunisians and syrians and Iraqis and Iranians and among ashkenazim you have yakis you have German and the Polish and uh whenever Hungarian Czechoslovakian I mean these little countries looking back anymore but he's because Lithuanian so all of this disunity all of this maclocus is not going to appear is that going to disappear when mashiach comes I don't know but I would suspect it would not disappear because although these things are bad if they turn into sources of rancor and disagreement if each one has respect for what the other one is doing it actually becomes a more beautiful way to serve Hashem with all of these different colors and use and this is the significance of tribes tribes remind us that Community is not the same as conformity arctus is not the same as homogeneity their Canon should be diversity different ways of doing things and this is highlighted in yakovino's bracos each shave it is given a different bracha each shape it is given a different Destiny each shaven has a different strength and this is an issue that's very very relevant not only in quality Israel as a whole but it's very relevant in terms of how we raise our children and how we teach our children in school you have to train a child according to their personality should not be a one-size-fit-all situation rather we have to be able to speak to the individual uniqueness of the person that we're dealing with whether it's our child whether it's our students and everybody knows every parent is a teacher and every teacher should try to be somewhat of a parent at the same at the same time right my father is my teacher my teacher is my father okay so that's Point number one about the beer Casio even before you get into the specifics of the brachos the fact that jakovino envisions a tribal division of Amy Israel highlights the notion that within Community there has to be diversity and there has to be difference now gazelle tell us a very interesting thing foreign [Music] gathered together yaakov wanted to reveal to them this is Rashi brings us when mashiach is coming he was going to tell them when mashiach was coming when will the Gola be but then Hashem made him forget it Hashem took away the knowledge he was gonna reveal it and it was taken away from him so the Metro has a whole dialogue that's not in the hummus in which yaakov said to his children perhaps Hashem has taken this knowledge away from me because you're not worthy you don't fully believe in Hashem you don't fully accept hashem's Commandments so the Metro says that all of the tribes answered Israel Hashem you have to understand what the matter is doing here and it's in the Torah it's in the Forum and Shema Israel refers to the nation of Israel here nation of Israel there's only one God but Israel is also yaakov's name so according to the medrish this was first set by the tribes when yaakov accused them or yaakov suspected that perhaps they were not totally loyal to Hashem they said listen Israel that's a big question how can they call their father by his first name that's a question but but the Metro says they mean the search name listen Israel Hashem Hashem is our God Hashem is one there's only one God our heart is whole our faith is full and then it is said that yaakov responded in gratitude Baruch shame that's what we say after Shema Israel it's not in the Torah but we say blessed is the Glorious name of God forever and ever this was yaakov's gratitude as being reassured that his sons had a moonachielema in Hashem yaakov responded has an interesting discussion there are actually two different sources for the origin of baruchem one is because that's what yaakov said when his son said to reassure him so One Source connects it to yaakov there's another source that when Moshe Ravena went up to shamayam to receive the Torah and this was such a beautiful praise that Moshe stole it from the malachim and he taught it to binay Israel at Earth now the gemara says that is why we say but quietly because we don't want the angels to get Jealous by hearing us saying it out loud except on Yom Kippur we can say it out loud because we are like the Malachi yashares so the gemara says we can't not say it at all because yaakovino said it but we don't say it but cold run because apparently it got forgotten and Moshe reclaimed it from the malachim we don't want the malachim to be to be jealous so Baruch shame is always said silently again let me remind you Baruch shame is not in the creation in the Torah and when you look at the next possuk is the ahafta at all and yet we know that yaakov said it and Moshe took it from the Malachi in fact even on Yom Kippur itself you can really get a sense of the transitions on Yom Kippur we say Baruch shame out loud because we are like the angels on Yom Kippur so at the end of nailah you finished and you finish the Vino malkena so what do you say at the end right before the chauffeur blowing the end of Yom Kippur we say yes we say it once and then we say Burger shame three times we say it out loud we say it out loud we're still in Yom Kippur it's still Naila and then um we say uh Hashem seven times Etc and then we have Kadesh and then we have blowing shofar and right after blowing chauffeur maybe you dance a little bit but right after blowing shofar we start my roof weekday Myra right you never get you never get excused you'd figure a whole day of Yom Kippur maybe they can let me off for my roof no we came out I've got to do weekday mode in the weekday Myra when we say yes shame is already said silently amazing it's almost like a kick in the stomach there because you see you're no longer an angel a minute ago Baroque shame covered and a minute later I can't say it because I'm not an angel and I can't steal it from the angel so you see like you see viscerally this notion of losing my dracus now it's interesting that one of the commentaries points out that baruchus if you translate it into Aramaic we know that we say kadish right kaddish requires a minion and there are many different types of cottages mourner Scottish and the whole Cottage and the half Cottage and kalist but the basic structure was the same and the most important part of Kadesh is the statement omaya may God's name be blessed forever and ever yeah the gemara says anyone who answers with all of his strength even if there was an evil decree in heaven that was on his head for 70 years to rip up that evil decree if it is said what does it mean with all of your strength some say that means so with all of your intention and concentration and some say it means quite literally you scream it out in some places like total siren you actually you know they scream out yeah in fact even in yeshivas I mean it's interesting I remember the very first time I was a day school kid I was in uh sixth grade and we had a class trip to Neri thrill in Baltimore which is the shave I wind up going to and one of the things that really shocked me was just hearing a hme rabbi in the Yeshiva based Madras compared to what it was in the Young Israel or whatever it is just a regularly Yeshiva base matters you know not until the siren and still was like so much louder than I was used to but here's the interesting point about yahishmai rabba is almost an exact translation of Baruch and look at this Baruch shame blessed is the name of the glory of his kingdom yahish may his great name be blessed Leola had forever is so it's not a hundred percent but it's a very very very close paraphrase foreign so you may ask a very simple question I have to say silently because I took it from the malachim and they're going to accuse me of stealing it yahisha May rabba I'm supposed to say loudly why am I not afraid of the malachim seeing that I'm stealing it in translation right so in other words are the same why is Baruch foreign that although Angels do understand all languages not just Hebrew Angels don't understand Aramaic and why don't they understand Aramaic it's not clear it's kind of a jargon language because Aramaic is close to Hebrew but not quite Hebrew so Aramaic Angels don't understand mimaila when I saying in Hebrew I got to be quiet when they say Robin Aramaic I can say it out loud because the malachim don't know what it is that I'm saying why don't they catch on after a while I'm not sure but this is one of the Jerusalem that are that are given now one final point about this then I want to go on to something else is not only something that is said in creation but in fact in the basement whenever a bracha was recited instead of answering on Main a man was not answered in the basement they would answer Baruch shame so for example there was davening in the basement every day there was darling the kohanim would have a prayer service so if they would say Baruch the people would not answer Ramen they would say Baruch shame because the ain't Onin amen and instead you answer baruchus now why is that so why don't you answer on Main to the base of so the Marsha says an interesting thing there's a well-known gamara in masakis Nazir that is often quoted in in books about Dominic God of Maine the one who answers our main tour is even greater than the one who made the brown Amen to your bracha is greater than you're making the brown how could that be so a Mane just means I affirm it's true why is our main better than the brother so the martial gives a little bit of a kabbalistic explanation that's but I think it's worthwhile to go over this he says the following he says that when we make a bracha we make the bracha using we don't pronounce the shame Hawaii we don't pronounce the Ted gravity we don't pronounce those four letters we just say right we just say it that way that's called adnos that's a lower level of kadusha a lower level of hashem's power in the world now the Gematria of Agnes Olive dalid nunyod so what is that that's um 5 55 that's 65 right adnos is 65. yet is 26. so Agnes Plus havaiah equals 91. 91 is the Gematria of Amen so the martial says the reason why answering amen is greater than the bracha is the bracha was made with the shame adnas but our main adds the shame to otherness and it brings a higher level of godliness into the world it's like it's like steroids to the bracha it adds steroids to the bracha that's so then the martial says beautifully with this we understand why there is no reason to say Amen in the basement because in the base of miktash every single bracha was said with you they didn't say like we said and they would pronounce the shame of Ayah people make a mistake they think it was only done on Yom Kippur no the shame of I was pronounced every single day every single brother now if the purpose of our main is to add the shame to the shame adnos in the basement you didn't need to add the shame of iron to the same Madness because the bracha already had the shame Havana and that's why the martial says ain't known in a main but miktash but instead you say Baruch shame because that's always the response when you say shame as we see on Yom Kippur that when the Cohen God all said the shame of Ayah we would bow down and we would say Baruch and the martial says that's not only Yom Kippur that was every time the shame of Maya was said every single day yes very very beautiful idea of course it's interesting that so the Gematria of our main is 91 and it's interesting the gematry of sukkah the sukkah is also 91. and indeed the Mal shematov says that the idea of Asuka is a double hug from Hashem both the shame Madness and the shame you're getting this double connection to our Karishma and that's the same idea as the answering of our main as as well okay but now let's continue with the breakfast and uh obviously each Buckle one could spend a lot of time on but I want to focus on the bracha given to Yehuda so jakovino gave yahuda a blessing Lo yasured miahuda the scepter of Royal Authority shall never depart from Yehuda that yaakov essentially made Yehuda the king of the Jewish people and that actually means that the kings of the Jewish people will come from Yehuda again was not around then but eventually through but it starts off with yaakovino designating Yehuda to have the scepter of authority so the ramban has a very interesting discussion here and Hanukkah was the victory Of The Maccabees the hasmonians over the upon him established a dynasty a monarchy that was an independent Jewish state for 103 years until the Romans came and the ramban raises a famous question and that is given the fact that The Maccabees were Sadiq melion they were willing to risk their lives be more certain Epic the Torah and for mitzvahs and remember the maccabean rebellion was not for political Independence it was to be able to keep the Torah so they were righteous they were sadiqam why is it that the dynasty was simply annihilated the gemara says that eventually there was literally no Survivor of the hasmonean dynasty and anyone that says they are descended from basimonians is a Slave Herod for example there were no survivors they were wiped out they were annihilated why should it be that such sadika were annihilated or at least the later generations and the ramban says because even the righteous committed a sin because after they achieved a military victory over the ivanim instead of making themselves Kings they should have looked from some for someone from the tribe of Yehuda actually descended from and they should have re-established and that was in Nevada it wasn't an available that they fought and it wasn't enough area that they achieved victory they were the only ones who could do that but they should not have assumed the monarchy afterwards and that was there another man gives two reasons why it was sinful SIN number one is because it's a violation of yaakovino's directive that Marcus belongs to Yehuda now it's interesting by the way it's not clear how luckily what that means it's very interesting in other words it's not a Mitzvah in the Torah Kings must be from Yehuda in other words it's not God that said it it's yaakov said it to his children before he died so if you if you are a king other than from the tribe of Yehuda are you transgressing a Torah law what what are you transgressing so the ramban kind of fudges a little bit the rambanslation is they transgressed of their grandfather now it's not clear what that means in other words well is that a violation of a Torah law like what what violation is that in other words I didn't carry out my grandfather's wishes so how logically it's not clear but the ramban does say obviously it's an available because that's why basically was wiped out now he then gives another reason why it's an aveira which has nothing to do with this but I'll mention it anyway and that is even if you accept the legitimacy of Kings other than Yehuda the king cannot be a coin there's a special issue for a Cohen to be a king because you have to have a separation so to speak between church and state but for the opposite reason for as we might have it in the United States in the United States we separate Church from State because we want to protect the government from religious influences now obviously that's not a Torah problem because the Torah wants a state to be religious but rather the issue is not that you want to protect the government from religion but you want to protect religion from being contaminated by involvement in partisan politics that when the Colleen is a religious leader when the Colleen is involved in Coalition building horse trading concessions to and the like for more money or whatever the advantage what happens is they are no longer speaking with a pristine and pure religious orientation they have other issues on the agenda I don't want to be too specific but but this is indeed the world of Israel in which obviously a very very religious people are involved in deeply involved in politics and there are certain costs now I understand the justification for it I mean they feel that the only way they could protect the interests of religious people is by being involved in the system but one has to understand there's also a cost because when religion is outside of that system it becomes a moral voice in which people respect when it's part of that system you're just another fighter you're just another Street Fighter so I have no particular reason to respect you more than anybody else and as a result people often will compromise and some of the fundamental principles or the like so the ramban gives us two different reasons two opposite reasons why the osmanian dynasty uh was punished one is because it wasn't Yehuda and it has to be yahuda the other is because even if you don't need yehudah you can't have kohana but I'm going to stick for the rest of our time I'm going to stick with the first reason that malchus is given to shave a tune now it's interesting that Yehuda was not the only candidate for Mello if we had to ask ourselves who should be Melech maybe a logical person to be malach would be Yosef because after all no safe did have the executive experience of running a state and Yosef was a role model in terms of being righteous even though he was living in matrium for so many years and in reality Yosef did have a certain aspect of mauchos even in a rich Israel because in fact his Marcus was larger when the ten tribes split off and founded their own kingdom so the Kings from the ten tribes tended to be from the tribe of Ephraim who of course is from Yosef so in a sense the malachas of you shall I am and the temple was always malco's based of it that is some shave at Yehuda the markers of the ten tribes is Yosef Ephraim which is Yosef uh and indeed before mashiach Ben David comes there will be a moshia seifu will get killed so it's a little bit more complicated on one hand yeah the ultimate is Yehuda David and yes and yes Yosef pops up a lot whether it's the ten tribes so what is the purpose of choosing Yehuda more than Yosef interesting there's a medrish in last week's Parsha on the Posse love Yehuda that means yehudah approached the osef please so the measure says this is evocative of a pasok in the prophet amais who says the following Hashem behold days are coming in those Messianic days vinigash ER that the flower is going to meet up with the Harvester now let's first understand the posix simply before we get into dresses the simple meaning of the prasek is this we know that Harvest occurs late spring and summer and plowing occurs the beginning of the winter typically after the first rain so normally by the time you plow there is no harvest the Harvest has already taken place Hashem is promising that the fertility of the land will be so great that they'll still be harvesting when it's time to plow the plower is going to bump into the Harvester so the positives of the plastic is fertility the fertility will be so great that the Harvest will keep on going past the summer into the beginning of the winter but the medrish gives a Different Twist on it it says the flower is called Yosef and the I'm sorry car race is called Yehuda the flower is called Yehuda and the culture is called Yosef and the prophecy is that when mashiach comes Yosef which means the ten tribes will be reunited with Yehuda the two tribes and this is foreshadowed in by yigash just like in mitzrayim Yehuda approaches Yosef in Messianic era the ten tribes are going to be reunited with Yehuda and binyam in the two tribes and it's based on this metaphor that Yosef is called the Harvester and yahujah is called the plower right so you understand that this is a Messianic prophecy about the reunification of Yosef and Yehuda as just like it took place in mithram it will take place with the ten tribes being reunited within Israel so here's the question why would it be so that yahujah is called the flower and Yosef is called the Harvester what is the significance of those designations so we have a beautiful explanation from the Avenue Naser the avni Nazar was a great great Christina sharabi who died at the very beginning of the 20th century and he was a very interesting person in this way he was not he was a great bridge but he also was indisputably one of the godolm of the poskin of the generation and all all people considered him to be one of the godolija door mamish and although he knew Kala tarakula his specialty was hilkashabis he wrote one of the great Classics for him analyticals for him that's called the egg lay Tau the reason I'm telling you this is because he's going to explain Horace and quotes there by reference to Shabbos Concepts he says we know that plowing is one of the 39 malachas of Shabbos and harvesting is one of the malachas of Shabbos right these are one of the 39 melakas what's the definition of plowing crushing the Earth to make it softer and more receptive for planting right that's what Plumbing is you know you're breaking up clods of Earth so it gets softer and it's more pliable and it can absorb seeds so plowing is softening the ground harvesting is how logically defined as Oak air governor mikidulo uprooting something from its source of growth I pick a fruit I pick a plant I pick a flower it was growing from the grounds when I separated from the ground that is considered harvesting that's why for example picking mushrooms on Shabbos technically is not harvesting because mushrooms do not grow from the ground they don't have Roots mushrooms really get their nourishment primarily from the air or whatever whatever it would be so it turns out plowing is softening the ground co-chair is Detachment from the ground that's your definition so says the Avenue Naser if you understand this definition you can understand why Yehuda is called the flower and Yosef is called the Harvester dirt ground symbolically refers to a person's yet Sahara a person has tivus a person has lusts a person has pulls for material Comfort or pleasure that's called means earthiness dashmir even the word Kashmir it means materialism now Yehuda well let's take Joe say first Yosef detached himself Joseph was the Harvester he's attached his spiritual lessons from desire and taiva when Yosef is tempted with Potiphar's wife Yosef just says no your safe doesn't give in Yosef separates himself from his Earthly nature that's why he's called the Harvester he takes his meteos and he uproots himself from all of the earthiness that might drag him down Yehuda on the other hand when Yehuda is subject to a very similar sexual temptation Yehuda gives in yudan Thomas he gives in to a woman he thinks is a prostitute so the difference between Yahoo and Yosef is when faced with sexual Temptations For example Yosef just says no that's like harvesting yahuda on the other hand fails but then through repentance and introspection he softens up his earthiness and dedicates it back to our kadishburg yahujah represents the one who fails and teaches us how to do chuva Yosef represents the one who is so perfect that he does not fail so with this understanding perhaps we can see why is given to Yehuda more than Yosef of course we've had kings that were no good I mean certainly we've had Richard but the ideal nalak like Davina Malik that Governor himself followed yehuda's model in so many ways Yehuda was nirshao with Tamar David was Nisha with bathsheva same type of Temptation now whether about Trevor was technically married or not that's not relevant to this discussion but he certainly was Nick shell with being with her uh Yehuda was willing to admit that he was guilty not to embarrass Tamar so too David admits that he was guilty of a sin he could have given all sorts of excuses dominant midst of the loving and guilty so the combination of strong earthiness that pulls you in a wrong direction coupled with the honesty to acknowledge your fault to do children and make it better as opposed to Yosef who simply doesn't fail a Melech is supposed to be a role model a melak is supposed to be an inspiration America is supposed to be a guide and a teacher something that we look up to but sometimes to look up to a person who is so perfect that he never makes a mistake that may not be the ideal leader for me because he's so much above me you know the Zoho genre of gidolin biographies these are biographies written about the great great rabbis uh you know whether it's modern rabbis or emotion find things right the more and more biographies are written all the time about all of these great rabbis and you know uh by and large it's worthwhile reading I actually enjoy reading them myself and I learned a lot some of them are really beautiful beautiful books but refutner already in the 1970s it's interesting I don't think there's a biography of a footner which is interesting why there wouldn't be but okay that's but we've put their remarked in the 1970s when this genre was kind of beginning that he felt that some aspects of the way the biographies were written worried disservice because they were painting these godollam as super human geniuses who never made a mistake and never had a struggle so a typical biography would say when he was four years old he knew the whole Babylonian told me by heart when he was five he finished the Zohar and when he was six you saw me and you're reading these stories about these amazing kids these super Geniuses who learned you know 21 hours a day um you know and when they were when they were when they were three years old and then they would take a little break for nursing or something you know and the footner's claim was on one hand you read them and you you know you're amazed it's like reading like you know amazements you know um once again this book of world records or Ripley's Believe It or Not type of thing blood pressure what does that say what does that what do you tell your children we're not like we're not going to be that we're not going to do that what do we learn from that actually said the mistake is that Godzilla we're not born you don't live at least some of them weren't they also had struggles they also had difficulties they also made mistakes you know we don't have a time when he was 80 or 90 or older in which he was so meticulous on the laws of La Shannara that if he spoke Lush and her in his presence he would fall asleep he trained himself to fall asleep like an amazing thing he had control over his body to fall asleep at 15 did he have those struggles now granted how luckily there may be an issue of Russian horror are you allowed to write negative things about people okay that's an interesting holoca issue but refutner said in reality we would learn much more by seeing how a great person struggled with difficulties and maybe even sometimes failed but then came back with chuva and dedication because that's something I can relate to I can say oh wow he failed I fell he came back I can come back this is also a pedagogic and even a parenting tool although you have to be careful how to use it let's say your kid is going through a difficult period questions of emuna or just difficulty in school one of the things you might want to know that you have to be cautious with this is sometimes you may want to open up and talk about a struggle that you yourself had when you were that child's age you know and even though that means maybe you're tarnishing the perfect image of course kids don't think parents are perfect anyway but the perfect image and the like but sometimes the way you help a person is by showing them that you too struggled teacher exactly the same way now it is true that teachers may not want to talk about all the stuff they did as teenagers or younger but on the other hand you can't underestimate how powerful a pedagogic tool that is when the rebbe tells the students I did exactly what you did you know I climbed on the roof and went through whatever stick would be involved and the kids can see so what's interesting is Hashem wants as a king for the Jewish people not a king that is so perfect that he never fails but a king who even though he fails can teach us how to come back from failure because the first is something beyond me and the second is something I can relate to and I can learn from because I fail and I make mistakes and I have to be shown that you can come back you can grow that mistakes are not final things can be made good things can be repaired you see the person who never breaks anything may not be the model for people who break things but the person who can break something and fix it that's a good model because that's a skill and I'll be able to incorporate and this is part of the idea therefore that the malchus has to go to the plower who is still connected to the Earth and not to the culture not to the Harvester who was disconnected from the earth and in reality if you think about it if you just look at the whole history and even the future lineage of the Messianic line you will actually see that throughout maokos based of it and mashiach there is this undercurrent of sexual impropriety that is always there let's look at every site first of all let's start with Russ right Russ the moabite is the great grandmother of David America comes from us the moabite convert Russ is from Moab now what is Moab lot after Stone was destroyed had an incestuous relationship with his two daughters and the child from the older daughter was called MOA from my father so rust yourself comes from that incest and Russia and Boaz their Union was surreptitious at night bubbles was even embarrassed that uh no one should well I I want to declare they didn't consummate it that way but but but but she came to him uh in the middle of the night and uh he was very frightened and he actually made her leave before Dawn so nobody should think that a woman came to the threshing floor so there was that appearance of impropriety and then we have David and batsheva now remember from David and bacheva come and the rambam says mashiach is not only descended from David but mashiach has also descended from shlomer from that government had many sons but he said from that particular son so there's always this appearance of impropriety in Marcus based of it because Hashem is showing us that imperfection can exist within greatness and one should never feel that because they're flawed because they're broken they cannot achieve closeness to Hashem it's a very important lesson what is the um I think this is a song by Leonard Commonwealth an interesting Jewish fellow who had some Orthodox Connections in his life he said when you have a crack in the Bell that lets the light in and the notion is that the crack the awareness of my inadequacies the awareness of my failures the awareness of my mistakes can actually give me humility and in that humility you can feel the presence of God in a very very powerful way in some ways from Southern Grace that Sadiq who never since is a wonderful thing but there's an occupational hazard of a sadaku never since and that's arrogance potential arrogance the one who fails can no longer be arrogant because he knows he fails so on one level of course better not to sin than to sin for sure on the other level The Sinner who makes mistakes and does chuva has the blessing of knowing their limitations and being humble and in that humility there can be a greater connection so this is kind of the deeper meaning why the flower rather than Yosef who is called the the Harvester sashem as they say there will be a mashiach Ben Yosef before they'll be a messiah and according to uh rabbinic tradition there's not a lot of there's not a lot about Joseph it's very fragmentary but Yosef is going to be killed in the pre-messianic wars of Gog and Magog but the villagon says that that's not inevitable through Cuba and massim tovim we could avoid the death of and then it would be possible that you'd actually have mashiach man Yosef serving under in other words all of the navuas that mashiach Ben Yosef will be destroyed is a worst case scenario but that worst case scenario is not necessarily going to be inevitable this is the teaching of the beyond the gun another teaching of the velnigan which is quite frightening things that the villagone says that the pre-messianic war of Gog and Magog will only last 12 minutes and for 250 years nobody understood what type of War could last for 12 minutes unfortunately now we do know what type of work could last for 12 minutes that would be a nuclear war so that's the worst case scenario but but indeed that is a scenario moreover the bill nagone said more than 250 years ago that when Russia moves into the Crimea it's time to put on your shabba's clothes in honor of mashiach so the Vilma gone had some sense that Russia invading uh to the to the east uh I'm sorry to the uh yeah or whatever you know the Ukraine and the like the map is getting mixed up it's also a harbinger of mashiach so if you combine those two predictions one is the invasion of Crimea and the other is nuclear war you get a scary combination of Gogan Magog that we hope we can avoid but then you have the third teaching of the Quran that all of this can be avoided with true van maasam so so we have three different teachings of the Quran that kind of intersect one is Russia invading Crimea is a sign of moshiach two is the war will only be 12 minutes which is nuclear probably the third is that everything can be avoided and circumvented and cut shorts by chuva masim tovim and advanced Israel so in a sense the third step can mitigate the severity of the first two steps so BSS Hashem we hope that we will experience the Gula in the latter way rather than the other ways thank you for coming and you have a good day good chips anybody [Music]