"So That All the Nations of the Earth Will Know" with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom Alim everybody welcome back to the GI mid we are at era and a warm welcome a very warm welcome home to Torah to everybody and as you know we use the clear as the basis of our discussion I encourage you to learn Hebrew there are links Below in the description box so you can get the black and white version of The Source sheets we always deal with fundamentals this discipline is called Maka in order to grow spiritually um not just you as you will see to create a spiritual momentum for the whole nation okay that is the bottom line and what we're trying to do here at the I madash is learn how to grow spiritually individually and as you will see and it will be proven to you that your spiritual growth has a ripple effect and I don't even know if that is the best description on the whole nation okay with that in mind in fact just before we even begin I just want to mention mention now there is a website called just one thing where you can take on either or Mitzvah or some Minh or commit yourself to doing something better that you're doing now and it will help because they match up with a soldier it will help protect the soldiers as we will see tonight in tonight's paraa so we're in par AEV in Deuteronomy chapter 8 this is obviously not the beginning but what we do here is sometimes only deal with one or two verses and we could speak for close to an hour and this doesn't even scratch the surface so I encourage you to obviously learn on your own learn deeply learn often so if we look before we go into the clear on Source number one Deuteronomy chapter 8 verse one on the English sheet so every Commandment that I command you this day you shall do that you may live and multiply I'd like to just stop there in the English and explain the Hebrew so the word Mitzvah here you would have expected it to say all the Mitzvah but it's every commandment every individual commandment which I command you the word is command you singular so each and every or at least one commandment which I command you individually personally not necessarily the robin as the latter part of the verse says the word is plural that you're going to actually perform you're going to keep you're going to do that you will live but all those words are plural why is it that the verse begins in the singular and then then towards the uh second part of the beginning of that verse it turns into plural let's just read the rest of the uh the verse not only will you live but you also multiply and increase you're going to come and you're going to conquer you're going to possess the land which hem had sworn to your forefathers okay now the clear Begins by saying what I just mentioned to you the cleart points out in the Hebrew that it begins the verse begins in a in a expression or language of Singularity meaning the word is right that God says um or each Mitzvah that I command you singular but meaning that phrase finishes Bim withar that you will guard them you will keep them you will perform them as he spells out or V and what is he trying to get he wants you to know there's a verse in Proverbs 10:25 you can see that on verse on Source two this idea at the end of the verse that the righteous person is the foundation of the world the world is in existence and continues to exist because of those who are righteous we have to discuss what that is but in in English when the Whirlwind passes the Wicked Man is no more but the right is the foundation of the world the righteous person is the is the foundation of the world what does that mean when we do we follow through with God's commands we're being we're acting righteously correct by doing the Mitzvah the world will exist somehow it's having an effect on the entire world let's see how as the clear card continues a even an individual all he does is perform one mitvah Ash how great and praiseworthy is that person what happens we discussed this before one is supposed to look at themselves as if what the entire that you are entirely in balance with all of your Mitzvah and with all of your sins with all of your merits and all of your debts you're somehow in Balance you are supposed to look at yourself as if you're in totally balance and what happens all you have to do is one Mitzvah and your whole balance becomes to the credit God forbid if you do one sin all of your not credit but your balance is now towards the negative well guess what you're also supposed to look at the whole world as if the world is in Balance 50 towards their credit and 50 towards their their demerits and you're the you're the determining Factor now I understand why so many Jews that I know have a Messianic complex because the power they just don't realize it the power of doing one kind act can bring mhia can bring and Usher in the Messianic uh era it's so funny you know this week we went to to the cave of elah nvi elah Navi is the harbringer the one who will announce the coming of mhia soem with all that we're going through and you'll see here that one could do whatever it is they can do to bring messia to bring Redemption to the world so the clear says great so even one person who does just one Mitzvah how praiseworthy is that means to cause to be off balance meaning to determine through the scales at for himself that not only does he himself or she she herself causes her or himself to be judged properly I'm sorry positively so too that would cause the whole world to be judged positively so is chuva a Mitzvah of course it is the source is not exactly where it says in the Torah to do chuva it actually the source is that when you sin you have to bring the Corbin to the Bas of mikdash and you have to confess V that is the PK that's brought least in the rambam and many others that's the source that wants to do truva so understand the confession is part and parcel of truva obviously there's reget regret there's uh the uh the will not to perform that same sin again okay but a single person who does TR not only is he forgiven or she forgiven but the entire world wow and the clear says that's why it says it's exactly why the verse starts out in the singular I am the one who commanded you individually but in the end when um when you perform it it's as if you well we're going to see it's as if you all performed it unbelievable what he's about to tell us is if one Jew does one Mitzvah it's as if all the Jews performed that Mitzvah first of all all 613 mitzvos are intertwined you've heard me Express this before I think last week we spoke about a spark plug is that right we talking about spark plug you do one Mitzvah right you know the concept of Mitzvah Mitzvah orar Mitzvah Mitzvah it's the same it's basically trying to explain that idea how is it that one Mitzvah drags another Mitzvah so when you do one Mitzvah you're igniting that's why I use a spark plug you're igniting in a spark in all the other Mitzvah in other words you're opening up the potentiality to perform them whether it's actual performance learning as we'll see it just like all the different Mitzvah are actually interconnected and the Jewish souls are all interconnected what I do affects you and what you do affects me just by doing one Mitzvah I can affect the entire world and that's what the clear card is going to explain the just by one Jew guarding actually performing observing a Mitzvah it's I mean that's like an unbelievable statement it's similarly as if the raim the Harmon the the populace is also guarding the Mitzvah and that's what you learn out of that first verse so when it says it's as if we have to use our imaginations but our spiritual eye we have an intellectual spiritual eye and the Tom dorah right the Rach ra mosha Kuro explains that when you you know one of the 613 Mitzvah is to imitate God he's merciful you should be merciful when you judge other people when you act in a merciful way and you judge other people mercifully you open a spet in heaven and flows down Mercy onto the world and what ends up happening is not just are you judging someone else favorably then God is judging them favorably and the entire world is being judged favorably I'm really summing up a book that cannot I will give you down below there's a how many series I I think I gave at least 14 or 15 classes just on Toma D'Or just in the first chapter that describes all this so you'll see that more inside how one can bring the Heavenly influence of Mercy into the world just through your thoughts okay and of course through your actions so somehow there is a rip effect it's not just imaginary you have remember we discussed this idea that the whole world is just a hologram anyway right so so the real world is the spiritual world and the physical world we call it in in in Aramaic and in Hebrew and it's an illusion so when we're dealing with metaphysics here we have to know that's what we're dealing with that's what this level of the class is on but he says even more so he says as a result of a single Jew doing a Mitzvah it's as if everyone is keeping Mitzvah and reaches this benefit to everybody it will benefit the world and then he goes on he says theat now we understand why it mentions specifically mentions this idea of the word mitvah I told you when we read it in the beginning it's a little bit awkward every Commandment that I command you this day you shall keep to do call mitv why wouldn't it be plural why is it singular so here he says it's it's singular to teach you this very principle that he's about to say something we haven't even brought down yet that if a Jew observes keeps just one mitv as prescribed meaning Hally he actually fulfills it as prescribed it's going to cause something to happen and that's what the verse says it's going to cause that you will live in plural one Jew singular or Mitzvah does the Mitzvah properly one Mitzvah properly it's going to cause it's going to cause the plural the nation to live and it's like gor St hedin 11a there's a MCH Locus we discussed this before a few weeks back the MCH Locus between reab yokan and Rish as we all know they were KES they were brother-in-laws right famous two famous rabbis in St hedin um we're talking about re Yan's opinion so you should know rl's opinion RL seems to be extremely harsh if you read this verse it's in Isaiah chapter 5 verse4 it saysa the Nether world what's sha like ganam like we call it hell for those who for those who lack a a good vocabulary word for sha it's Nether world we call it hell it's geham it's geham so therefore geham has enlarged itself and open its mouth without measure nowes has his opinion on this verse therefore what happens geham will open itself will enlarge itself and open its mouth Lively Hoke to anybody who's missing even one statute what's a a Mitzvah if you miss just one you're going to spend some time in geham now geham we already know is not a really long time I'm not down I'm not dumbing it down it's supposed to be a very uh uh what's the word I'm looking for a a learning experience Right Where You Will finish off your the truva process so to speak okay you will um become cleansed from your sins there so according to will open itself if you are missing one Mitzvah now that's pretty harsh and rokan says to him how can you say such a thing rokan says in the middle is it not satisfactory to God their master that you said this about the Jewish people according ra lish's opinion then what's the result most of the Jewish people are going to be got what doomed to gam now in Judaism doomed to gam does not mean Eternal damnation we're talking about anywhere from a split nanc up to 12 months maximum nevertheless that is R L's opinion thank God for rokan now this is very you have to like open your mind to the words in if you understand the Hebrew it says that hell is going to open its mouth why for those Liv Liv means like this according to Yan even if one learned now the word learning is important only one statute of course we know he has a share in the world to come so when it says Lively that means someone without any Mitzvah so according to R as long as you did one Mitzvah you're going to be spared Gan now the word learned what I think learned here means because it says lamad if he learned what's the purpose of learning in order to do I think what he means is someone each one of us have a certain Mitzvah that we are attracted to that resonates with us that we have a strong affiliation with an appreciation for something resonates in our soul so I suggest spend time learning so you could actually perform it properly you cannot possibly do a Mitzvah without learning it in other words you can do it but it wouldn't be proper right what do we say that a a um to be Aid you cannot be an ignoramus there's no such thing as peity piety without learning if you're an ignoramus there's no way to achieve peity so we're connecting this idea even though the language is lad to learn just one Mitzvah I have no doubt what it means is to perform it to the best of your ability it's negligent to try to perform Mitzvah properly without having guidance whether from a rabbi from a book right you have to have guidance so the clear continues and he says I'm going to just read in Hebrew kadash yedin he dared out the verse so what does it mean right you would have thought like that you're going to go to geham because you didn't guard even one guess what there's an inference that the truth is that if all you did was guard he's used the word Shamar not lad that's how he's understanding it that if you guard it you actually observe you perform just one mitvah you are saved from the Nether world Mitzvah because of this principle that one Mitzvah drags along another Mitzvah not only not only are the Mitzvah interconnected and The Souls of the Jewish people are interconnected but let's just stick with the Mitzvah here that by doing one Mitzvah it's as if you did all all of them if you did one right just one right it's as if you did them all right because that spark ignited something in each one of the other mites that are only in potential doing you didn't actually do them but you arouse them in potential he explained this already and we learned this in so we were discussing this idea MIT which maybe has more weight or more importance we discussed this idea that the two sets of tablets right there was uh between man and God on set one which had many many many words a lot of letters the second side which has the the five Mitzvah B which has uh lot less words and yet the fonts filled up the entire tablets so from a distance you're looking at it which ones do you see which ones God is basically telling you you should focus on more importantly so it's the Mitzvah between man and man now we also discussed the idea it's to Mitzvah to imitate God and we discussed the Tom dorah the 13 attributes of mercy and if you imitate God brings Mercy into the world so it's been told by the Von that the correct the correction of MOS is really the ultimate purpose of creation of each person so that's we should focus on now the word Mitzvah itself because Mitzvah implies both types of Mitzvah between man and God and between man and man but the word Mitzvah does not mean command the word Rashi uses in twice that I've seen in the talud the word Mitzvah he translates or explains as to connect now what is what are you connecting to so the word Mitzvah when we use atbash so the word Mitzvah the last two letters is V and fine the me and sadik in the atbash which is like a z b y or alif t shinin is the word Mitzvah is really God's name that you're connecting to a Godly you're you're connecting to God and when we say You're supposed to imitate God so doing the Mitzvah even when you're becoming Godly in the sense that you're acquiring his traits for sure when it's between man and man of course you're supposed to be Godly right can you imagine what it means don't hold the grudge right don't uh resent and all this stuff right give rebuke don't hate him in your heart there's so many Mitzvah that have to do with the heart that transform you obviously to be more Godlike so too the Mitzvah are there to make you more Godlike so all to bring God into the world to bring and cause you to have a spiritual EV elevation that's the purpose of the Mitzvah to connect with the Divine okay look at number five on the soury it's Deuteronomy chter 8 verse 2 you shall remember the entire way in which the Lord your God LED you these 40 years in the desert now let me ask you something how was it for us we had everything we had the man we had the water we had the protection over our heads we didn't even have to what change our clothes we didn't even have to go to the bathroom our you know I don't have your socks but after a full day right here we didn't even have to change our socks and our feet didn't crack maybe they didn't wear socks they just wee sandals but either way they didn't have to shower or change their socks and yet it says God we have to remember what God did to us for the in those 40 years in order to afflict you and to test you let's see the Hebrew to know what is in your heart whether you will keep his Commandments or not okay so the beginning of the verse was you remembered the whole way which God guided you during these 40 years sh midbar while you in the desert Le in order to afflict you what Affliction was there and the Affliction was in order to test us and then it says in order to know in order to know whether what's in your hearts whether you're going to keep the Commandments whether you're keeping them or not whether you intend to keep them or not I don't understand let's see what the Kar has to say he says like this the word to test you n no right n the root is nce what is a nce and don't tell me it's a miracle yes it's a miracle but not in this context in this context a is a flag pole that you raise on high have you ever been on a tour we took a tour we didn't have a flag pole so the guy the guy usually use that so you can all follow you don't get lost if you ever do get lost you just look for the flag pole right when it moves you move but it's held up high the important thing is that it's held up high and the C says what is the word here to test you it's like this thing that's held up high just like it says in Psalms 4:7 look in number six many say who will show us goodness raise up over us the light of your countenance oh lordu raise up over us or the light of God's countenance of your countenance of God so the clear is bringing this as a proof text it doesn't mean that there's not meaning in it just keep in mind that the word no means to raise up over us what the clear is trying to say that what the Torah is saying is that God Is afflicting Us in order to test us to raise up our hearts as if he raised up our hearts on a high pole for what purpose as if it's placed in front of open eyes that everyone can see it so your heart is being revealed to the world what's in your heart what's on your mind so to speak what are your intentions wait till you hear this what does God want to do this is so appropriate to be learning right now and you'll see why God wants the world to know what the Jews intentions are are they going to be obedient and serve God or not the whole idea of in order to make known is just like it says in Isaiah I'm sorry Joshua CH 4: 24 I would say drum roll please but don't hit this table that the people of the earth might know the power of the Lord that it is mighty that you might fear the lord your God forever but it all stems from the Jews the Jews are going to do the right thing keeping the Mitzvah as you'll see or at least the intention to keep the Mitzvah the go will know it and they will be in fear from this the clear continues Ro that he wants to inform the nations of the world are you listening non-jews listen to this he wants you to know what the intention of the Jew and it's really for us too we should know that our hearts are laying bare before the non-jews of this world are we is Our intention to keep the Mitzvah or not and I just want to mention even though we seem to be living in a secular State and the only reason it's a secular state is because of the um the Supreme Court if we were a true democracy okay that means the people have the say and the people of Israel love God love each other there's such Aus right uh I forget the statistics but it's close to like 90% plus Jews observe yum kipur right in the 80s 80 percentile women light shabas candles right for the most part they have Friday night dinners there's a lot of Mitzvah and all the that you've seen over the last 10 months this is into the war into this uh the Gaza War and the hisbah war and the houti war and the Iranian War right the unbelievable unity and love that Jewish people have for each other is shining bright so it's really and I don't want to get into any politics but basically it really comes down to uh the Supreme Court which is not the voice of the people versus The People's voice and what they want and that is what we know the Jewish people really want so we are basically not a secular State not a secular people every Jew there's no such thing as Aon there's no such thing as a irreligious they're just less religious if you want to put a label on them less observant less observant correct Okay so then he says either way you look at it that if you actually guard meaning uh observe and perform his Mitzvah then what happens this is the key listen to me God will allow you extra success above the nation if you do his mitv and of course there's still going to be place for others to make a claim L also camey why didn't every why AR we all in this Le Level Playing Field how come the Jews experience this unbelievable success and I'm telling you now in after 67 what do they call that West Point they started studying and and The Six Day War before that they were studying the ma the maab war and I guarantee you from from now until who knows to mhia comes but be up soon people would be studying the Gaza war and how what we did to save innocent lives if there were any innocent lives right so and urban Warfare against a ruthless enemy and the the what we did we call going Way Beyond the letter of the law meaning that no other war in history has done what we have done in order to uh I don't know if it's smart or not but let's just say to save so-called innocent lives let's leave it at that so what does the clear say yeah the go can make a claim and say why are the Jews so special didn't you have uh the the Arabs the ish right they came from Aram and then you had from Yak you had asav and then the Christians and right everyone comes from the Seed of Abraham why can't we all be on a Level Playing Field so God responds who was ever put into the Candace ens I'm talking to you which go which nation was ever placed in the trials that the Jewish people ever had to face there's no one on the planet Earth all all of history that that face the trials and tribulations the pilgrams the Holocaust the Crusades the list goes on and on the what happen the uh in in Spain in 1492 what do they call that the exposis Inquisition but there's also the expulsions Lo zarua the Jewish people this is very important we went into the desert there was nothing there we trusted Hashem he gave us what water and what else food shelter warmth cleanliness yet we were let's say Afflicted to a certain extent but we were trusting we were tested like that and we are still here so to the opposite if God forbid the Jews would sin you know what this is part of the promise that if you don't keep the Covenant like you're supposed to you will experience what we call the curses okay but we took them we accepted them and unfortunately many of them have befallen us but that's part of the Covenant the go will say now about perhaps about the Jewish people because we are in a state of the mama what's it called uh you know destruction it's only in the last 150 years you've seen the the land come back to life but for 2,000 years it looked like we were on our way out and the the land did not produce in abundance when the Jews weren't here that's also a promise a prophetic promise but what would the go say karos from both sides look at what happened when we weren't here as Mark Twain would have said or other people would have said how desolate the land was and look at what it's today you can't imagine it's unbelievable you go to the shook you go to the Farms you'll answer when it was desolate you would say it's because they weren't in perfect alignment with God and that's what it means the whole idea that God would test us and show the world where we're at just like it says in Genesis God had tested Abraham we explained it in the same way and actually this testifies to this idea as we saw towards the end of verse two God wants everyone to know are you keeping the Mitzvah or not masma what does that infer this whole idea of this testing us the it's also it's a test whether or not to show the non-jews to show the non-jews what exactly is on our hearts are we intending to be obedient and serve God and I think that we can see a slow upgrade a slow progression at least for the last 150 years the Jews have been coming back wanting to do the Mitzvah to to involved in the Mitzvah that are on the land and so this is a very I think appropo like I said before I think that the whole world is watching what's happening you cannot turn a station whether it's on the radio a television uh do any kind of search online without something popping up dealing with this present day war the whole world is watching a War I wanted to show you a few ideas here go to the second page it says right so God tested Abraham right we said we spoke about this this verse come and see this is based on the midan come and see what is the difference between the first and the last there was a test originally with Abraham and then there's going to be a later test let's see so the test that was at first Hashem tested did Abraham so you so and so you are brought forth in the generation of the desert so the desert was the latter generation for the sake of your answer to your trial and knowledge that is the verse we just read basically but the last ones to be tested there is a future test the one we're in right now so it's in brought down in mid tanuma God tested Abraham just like we said but what does that mean there's something meaningful behind it come and see what is between the first and the last the first were tested by Hashem as it says God tested Abraham but we're also connecting that to our verse and so you brought forth in the generation of the desert for the sake of your answer to your trial of knowledge which is in our verse chapter 8 verse2 but the m is relating to Something in the future that the last ones were tested by the Nations that's our generation we are being tested by the nations of the world as it says and this is literally what it says and these are the Gentiles whom God allowed to test Israel now there's a mid that says right says remember the way that God LED you in the desert in our verse chapter 8 verse2 and remember the whole way he will feed you and starve you I mean think about about it the verse in Deuteronomy actually says that the Lord your God your people have not lacked anything so what does it mean when we go go back to our verse two see our verse two mentioned that's in number five that God during those 40 years he Afflicted you he Afflicted you what Affliction was there yeah do you know that if you had food every single day we think that's not Affliction but what Affliction was there that we needed to have food brought to us every day we had total Reliance on God we were made humbled you had to have absolute trust in God can you imagine if you were self-sufficient you had a job you had a store you had all the food you needed here we are we're brought out of Egypt and in the desert every single day you couldn't even store it you could not store it whatever you did not finish was gone and then the next day you started was zero that's the Affliction if you want to call that Affliction so I want to discuss that a little bit we didn't really finish oh yeah we did finish the clear car but I wanted to go through this idea of look in um on that last sheet I gave you so it says here in Deuteronomy chapter 2 verse 7 for the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand he knows of your walking through the great desert these 40 years that the Lord has G been with you you have lacked nothing so we didn't really lack anything because every single day we had okay but there is a concept that a blind person is Never Satisfied a blind person is Never Satisfied look in Ecclesiastes 6:9 better is what he sees with his eyes than that which goes Sates his appetites so this is all vanity and frustration it says in the gamar that if you're if someone's blind they'll never be satisfied they'll never uh quench their thirst or satisfy their hunger we spoke about this when we talked about the Locust the um the plague of locust it was so dark right the the Torah describes there such a darkness that the Locust themselves couldn't even see and they kept eating until everything was there was nothing left because it was like they were blind because of the darkness so a blind person so going into this idea that if it's you don't see it you'll never be satisfied so what was the Affliction the Affliction was at the end of the day it rotted you didn't see what you were going to get the next day and there was an anxiety there's a natural anxiety correct so turn the page going back to this idea the Nations will afflict us it says in Judges chapter 3 verse one and two it's the very last page now these are the Nations which the Lord left this is the verse itself to test Israel the Nations the nations are going to test Israel all those that had not known all the wars of Canan only that the generations of the children of Israel should know to teach them War just as the early ones did not know thereof it sounds like it's a legacy and you got to see the Rashi on that that after the Exile or through towards the end of the Exile we will be facing these wars we have to have faith we have to teach our children the truth about war okay there's a lot to know but look at Rashi on that through whom to test Israel to test the other generation that did not know about the Miracles of the battles with Canan and did not witness the Great ACT and therefore they rebelled against the omnipresent so there's another Rashi here only that they should know just for this alone did he allow them to remain to EXP explain to the Future generations of the children of Israel what sin causes for now they are required to study Warfare when we fulfill the Mitzvah and each person takes upon himself just one thing right takes upon himself to learn about a particular Mitzvah you could bring an end to this war because this War is Over Am Israel and one person by doing one mitv has the power has right the kavana the the the thought process the will as we started in the beginning to bring about a major change uh the war I'm going to just say I think is going fairly okay right yeah it could go much better or God forbid it can go much worse so we're standing at a precius really it it's just going okay there's nothing to complain about really could be much worse but believe me you and I tell you with the from the bottom of my heart just one thing we take on one Mitzvah each and every single one of us match ourselves up withen just between us and God take the Mitzvah bring ourselves to a higher spiritual level I guarantee that this will have a ripple effect on the world and there's no question in my mind that what we're already doing and what we are yet to do will be studied for all eternity okay so I wish everyone a shabbat shalom and a great life we'll 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