The Actions of Our Fathers are a Sign for the Future Generations with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

Heat. Heat. [music] [singing] [music] [singing] >> [music] [singing] [music] [singing] >> Shalom everybody. Welcome back to the midash. Welcome home to Torah. A warm welcome home to Torah. Uh tonight is ro kesh kisv and let me just give the normal introduction then we're going to talk a little bit about the month of kisv very short but basically we're using the kakar as the basis for our discussion it's not the regular standard clear we're using a book that he wrote called the ear gorim and it's always fascinating fundamentals in Judaism we all need to know and tonight will be no exception we will learn something that I mean I learn something new every time I prepare a shear. So for those who would like to follow with the Hebrew, right, they're Hebrew sheets and you can find the link down below in the in the description box. There's a link and you just have to find the right share, the right year and I suggest you follow along. We're in Paris TDOS happens to be Rokesh. So let me just give you a brief on Rosh Kesh. I'm just going to ask uh whoever just came on to mute themselves. Okay. So, first of all, it's the month of Kissv. You might have thought that the word lev would be lammed, right? Kiss, but it's not written that way. It's lammed v. And it's a hint to the idea that this month is like the word to cover [clears throat] lev not just we're not talking about the heart necessarily. I'm sure people will talk about it that way, but Lamidv, Lammed V, the number 36 [clears throat] that Let me just ask you a question. This is the month of Hanukkah. Hanukkah's coming up at the end of the month. How many candles do we light when you buy a box of candles? It says 44 candles. That's what it says. Correct. Do we light 44 candles? I'm sure at the end of Hanukkah, all your your box empty. Your box should be empty, right? So we actually like 36 candles. 36 mitzvah candles. There's a shamish. So there's eight additional candles, right? So you have 44. Sorry, you have 36 plus 8. Do the math. Am I right? You have 44. So the mitzvah is 36. So it's the hidden light. This is the month of the haganuz. There's something about the idea that when Hashem created the world, there was a superal light. That superal light lasted how long? 36 hours. Whether you look at it from the beginning of creation or right before [clears throat] um man was expelled from the Garden of Eden. How do we look at it? So there are three days before the sun and the moon were and all the luminaries were um created and put in their place. So, there were three 12-hour periods for we'll call it Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, right? Because the the luminaries were created on yomie. So, in creation, there were 36 daylight hours that were lit by, let's just say, the suppernal light. I'm not going to belittle that opinion, but I like the other opinion better. And that abraish was created in the morning on Friday. So he experienced 12 hours of bliss, you know, in the garden of Eden. And he wasn't expelled until Moses Shabbat when he had to create fire. He created fire. That's why we use fire on to remember that Odum created invented fire or discovered fire how to make it. So that's 24 hours of Shabbat, 12 hours of Friday. So that's 36 hours of this supernal light. But Hashem took that light and he hid it in the future for the sadikim. We're going to talk a little bit about that tonight as well as some other interesting ideas. So I'm I just want to stick with the idea of 36 for a moment. So this by the way this month is the shortest has the shortest day of the year, right? The day that Yseph um overcame the test with Mrs. Potif happened to be the shortest day of the year um or roundabout. Some say it was on actually the 25th of that month. Remember we didn't have uh the Gregarian calendar. We had only a Jewish calendar was the 25th of that month, the 25th of the night of Hanukkah. um and that he overcame the tests and tribulations that Mrs. Potifur had put on her. Um how do we know that? By the way, if you look at Rashi, he says that he was alone. Why was he alone? That she felt she could take advantage of him? Because what happened? It says in Rashi that everyone went to church that day. Meaning they all went to the house of a vodara. So she was she felt this is the day I could take advantage of him because back in the day during adarishon created a certain holiday called kalanderia right what did he create it for because at the time that god said you will surely die on the day that you uh eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil so what does he mean that day he didn't die on that day but he saw from rashashana the day he was born the day is getting shorter and shorter every single day And then around the 21st, things stopped getting shorter and shorter. And by the 25th, he realized, uh, I'm [clears throat] not going to die. He thought life was being snuffed out by the idea that every single day just got shorter and shorter. And he thought he was going to die. He made a holiday on the 25th of Kissv. And uh, the rest is history, as we say. Let's go on to a few other ideas because this month in the zodiac is Sagittarius. Sagittarius is the symbol or semo of the bow and arrow of a fighter of a warrior and it happens to be a month of war, right? Whether it came to um the with the Greeks, right? That's the whole story behind the backstory behind Hanukkah. So, we discussed I'm just going to go through my list here. Oh, by the way, the bow the kesh the very fact that it's a kesh kesh is a bow is going to relate very much to this week's para what I'm going to discuss with the who we're fighting against. Unfortunately, we have enemies. You know that. So, one of the enemies is is Ishmael. If you [snorts] never heard of that before, the Arabs are out to shoot arrows at us. And we're going to see how that plays itself out. And not to dismiss, we're also at war with Asav. And uh in a certain sense, both of them were warriors, but the bow and the kesh specifically is referred to in this in tonight's shir with Yeshel. And now what did Hashem do? He took that light, that supernal light, and he hid it. He hid it away for the sadikim in the future. And um how did he where did he hide it? Now, first of all, the word hidden implies what that it's still there. It's just you cannot see it. That's what it's it's hidden. It's covered. But we could what's the word? Mine it. We can uncover it. In fact, that's what we're here to do. to draw out the light. But where did he hide it? In other words, it's access accessible. It's not hidden like it's gone. It's hidden like God wants us to mine it to have access to it. And where did he hide it? He hid it in the Torah itself. I mean, there's many things we can discuss how that is, but behind me, right behind me, we have the Tammud Bavi. And how many trackctates are there? I'm not talking about Mishnas. Mishnas were in the 60s. It could be 63, 64. But how many actual trackctates do we have in the Bavi in the Talmud, which is by the way probably the deepest cabalist book ever ever ever ever written. Uh, okay. Some will say the Zohor, some will say, you know, uh, there are 36 there are 36 trackct dates. This is where the hidden light is. In other words, it's the oral Torah that reveals what the written Torah is all about. And Rabbi Kessen mentions, Rabbi Brightawitz mentions, the Ishmael has a certain zakut. The Brmila perhaps there's other ideas and there is a special like there's the only name of a nation that has God's name attached to it. So I'm not here to put them up on a pedestal. What I'm trying to say is that we have a spiritual battle and uh the only way we're going to win this war is through the spiritual battle. Obviously, Hashem gives us the tools to fight the spiritual battle even a physical in a physical way. But, uh, basically the energy of this month is going to involve kindling, right? Going back to the Hanukkah idea, kindling one's inner light and using wisdom. So, I'm going to just mention two things. And how are we going to do that? I've pushed and I in the uh description box below I gave a whole series on the 48 ways to wisdom. If you want to acquire wisdom perot says in the sixth chapter of and the sixth Mishna that uh the way to acquire wisdom is through 48 different ways and I suggest people uh learning it not learning it but you know practicing it incorporating their lives if you want wisdom. And the other thing sounds funny but you heard of TM maybe it's called TNM. Uh they tr they usually call it transcendental meditation. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about Torah and mitzvah. TNM TM right through to Torah mitzvah. This is what we should involve ourselves with which will uh kindle the inner light and um help us be victorious in this month of war. Okay, here we go into the clear card itself. The clear begins by telling us about a medish. We're really going to skip most of the medish because there's I'm not saying it's irrelevant, but it's not as relevant until later on. Maybe next year or the year after. We'll get to it. There's like I don't know 10 15 pages. We're only going to deal with the first page and a half. So, he introduces Parasto with a very important idea. It says told us ben Abraham, if you want to look on the English source sheet, it's actually a quote from Gammor Babatra 16b that mentions that Asaf on the day that his grandfather Abraham died, right? The day that he sold the birthright, he committed five sins. Was he a big huge sinner beforehand? I don't know. But the measures tells us on this day he committed these five uh great sins. Um the first thing was that he engaged in sexual intercourse with the betrothed maiden. He killed a person. He denied the principle of God's existence. He denied the resurrection of the dead. And most of all, or last of all, he despised the birthright, which is so famous in the narrative of that day where he sells the birthright to us to Yakov. And there are different, let's just say, verses that prove what he did. I'm going to just fly through them because I really want to get to the meat and potatoes of tonight's shar that it says in the puss asaf came in from the field and another place where there is a a rape it says for he found her in the field in Deuteronomy chapter 22:27 so something to do with a field and there's a connection over there when he killed a person it caused him to be faint that's what he says and he was faint and uh we have the idea of the soul faints before the slayers in Jeremiah 4:31 he denied the principle of God's existence there's a verse in Genesis 25:32 what prophet is this to me and then later early you know later when we're going through the Dead Sea through the sorry through the sea of reeds uh in Exodus 15:2 it says this is my God and I will glorify him so there's a gazer sha this and this he denied the resurrection of the dead when he came attack. He says, "Behold, I'm at the point of death." Right? He was willing to u to to sell his birthright for that. So that was denial in the resurrection of the dead. And um it actually just says in Genesis 25:34 that he despised the birthight. So these were like the five big sins that he committed on that day. It's important just to know that it says, right, this is how the midish be begins. These are the toos of what are toos? toos our progeny it's trans chronicles but we already learned by paras noak that it's character it's the character that's going to live on either because you set in motion certain character or andor it's going to continue in your progeny because you lived a righteous lifestyle and your children will live a righteous lifestyle but actually what he's going to open up for us is a famous concept called Um, we call it the misa abos sim labanim. Have you ever heard that expression? What our forefathers did, they actually did. They they they walked the walk. They did certain actions is going to be a a simmon, a sign for us, us, not just the generations of the past, today, for us and for all of history. They It's like you set in motion a certain spiritual path. But we're going to talk about mistakes they made. [clears throat] They were human beings. They made mistakes. They set in motion certain tikunim that we know. It's a famous expression that Abra was mim chakras yitzak was makain mka and yakov arvit mariv. These are the three times a day that we pray. There's a huge amount locus. Is it based are these prayers that we do based on the corbanos cuz we do a tummy offering in the morning and the afternoon that's shakra sinka and then we burn the rest of the corbanos at night whatever is left over that's mar so it's a big discussion couldn't they both be true apparently they are both true >> on a carbonus level because our prayers replace the carbonos these sacrifices or offerings but on a deeper level what we're going to see is they made a slight mistake and they established these prayers to mitake. I remember the word we thought mak means they established it. They did more than just establish it. They established in order to mitake in order to fix something that needed fixing because otherwise it would affect us negatively. You follow? You'll you'll hear it when we see it inside. So on the right side on page one, it's page 66. The verse says, well, we just saw the verse. These are the toos. These are the well, it's chronicles, but it's it's more than just history. They're laying out what's going to happen in the future. That's what told us here really means. He says the whole time that we're involved in learning about our forefathers and it could be just talking about the very fact that we're learning these parot that has to do with it could be in general whenever we're learning about our forefathers it's incumbent upon us to clarify what exactly is this idea of the forefathers. is and how whatever they did, how whatever they are is going to hint about the future. And we're living in the future. It's well known. Now, this was a news to me. Well, I mean, I already knew this, but some people say the first time they ever saw these words is in the Ramban. The Ramban Mahmanades was famous for those words. Well, you have a mid tan before that. And where do you think they got it from? This goes all the way back. This is our tradition. So, it could be that that's the first time it was written those words. But listen to the words in the it says, I can't take it any other way. They themselves are somehow laying the groundwork as a sign for the children. To me it means exactly those famous words but you don't see the word. Okay. Therefore it's incumbent upon us. We took upon ourselves to see to clarify. We want to know right. We want to know the future. We want to know what they did and how that's going to affect us. Aos see the forefathers they begot right they were the ones who right throughout the Torah it's he begot whoever it was who who really gave birth the women the mothers but that's not what's referred to the reference here is that it was yet right these are the told us of these are the chronicles these are what happened to Yeetszak the son of Abraham well what about the women. We have a famous expression, why were the women barren in order? Because God loves the the prayers of the sadikim. And therefore, many of our mothers have experienced not just, you know, Sarah, Rifka, Rael, Kana, right? So many that their mothers were aot. All of this idea of the fathers having a toa meaning something that's going to foretell the future and the women being barren which is also going to foretell the future. We'll see soon. Um there are this is going this is serving as an example about the future relationship that we have with the non-Jewish world and we are experiencing a rise in anti-semitism. Listen, if you lived in any other time in history just we haven't experienced it since the Holocaust. It was like a huge guilt on the world. But before that, we were discussing how our great-grandparents came to America and had to find a new job every week because the I'm not going to say it was anti-semitism. Maybe it was run on money, but it came out in a very anti-semitic way. You cannot deny that the Jewish people suffered and it caused a lot of assimilation, right? I don't know what their motive was, but the end result was was catastrophic for the Jewish people. Um okay so this is going to discuss the relationship we have with the non-Jews because all of the again progeny or [clears throat] uh history chronicles of the forefathers it's going to teach us about the redemption somehow it's going to shine a light on the redemption itself and OSH because we are Zion. What is what does Zion really mean? The marker. We are the markers. What happens to us the whole world sees. I mean, how did they say it? Like the we're less than 0.01% of the population of Earth. And yet, if you would walk around, I don't know, anywhere in the world saying, "How many Jews do you think there are in the world?" It's unbelievable what people think. like 25%, 50%, I mean even if they would say 1%, do you realize how off they are so obviously we make a big mark right hopefully for the good ultimately for the good and so we are the to and we have a very interesting verse which we're going to start with and that's in Isaiah chapter 66 verse 8 who heard anything like this who saw anything like these is a land born in one day is a nation born at once. This is very messianic because it's chapter 66 that Zion both experienced birth pangs and bore her children. It's a little cryptic, I have to admit, but this is the introduction about perhaps the birth pangs of the Messiah. There's something about the fact that Zion is going to be born is going to have children [snorts] and he says like this in so that's about the fathers. What about the mothers? We have three mothers that were not going to count Leia. We're not going to count Leia, right? That we had Sara was barren. Uh Rifka was barren and Leia, I'm sorry. and u and and was was barren. So it hints to the three times. Okay, women don't get too uh upset here because every time we have an exile or a destruction, there's always a gula. But apparently we're talking about the very fact that our mothers were barren that foreshadows the idea of exile, of the land being barren. Okay? As opposed to destruction. And you'll see why I'm separating that. There were we're talking about three times there was a mikdash or twice there was and there will be a third. >> And then there are three destructions. We're going to talk about three guluses, three exiles. Usually we talk in numbers of four. He's going to list three. He's going to talk about Egypt, Babylon, and Asaf. Let's just say the those are the big ones. Okay? So there were three uh exiles and there were there were I should say there are two there were two temples and there will be a third. So the aos is referring to meaning they have told us it's referring to the temple and the mothers being barren is referring to the exiles. But don't worry because there's a there's a tikun. Now continue on the left side. This thesis, this proposal that he's putting out to us, the three forefathers. I know it sounds really the three fathers. The three four f o r e, right? Forefathers ragimlim. In other words, from the mikdash mikdashim, the algimlanim. So he's listing the three the and he [clears throat] says they hint to the three mikdashes again we have first and s second which we already had and the third which is yet to happen which we're praying for every every day and what he says is the three destructions I don't think he's because we know the third temple is never going to be destroyed and he's not talking about the third temple by the way it says in khazal this is the famous Gomorrah. It lists it in however you can find it. I'm not sure if I have it on the sheet. Oh, I do have it number six on the sheet. So, basically the idea is that Abra was ton tonil shak established the the morning prayer, yitsak the afternoon prayer and yakov the evening prayer. And he says, so the is not talking about destruction of the temple but the exile from the land. [clears throat] Okay. So in I'm going to do this real quickly in number six on the source. Rabiosi son of Rabbi Khanina taught Abram instituted the morning prayer. We know he got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord. So the idea of standing is always about prayer. We see also by pinas he stood up and he prayed and the plague ended. So the standing up the rising in the early morning prayer. Aram prayed and he established the morning prayer. Isaac instituted the afternoon prayer. He went out to the field to converse with Hashemak. The idea that he conversed that word in Hebrew also means prayer. And you can find that in Psalms 102 verse1 a prayer of the afflicted when he is faint and pours out his complaint again the word before the Lord and of course Yakov when he encountered the place that also implies that and that's in Genesis 28:11 that he prayed and we see in Jeremiah 7:16 also the word tifka which is clearly referring to prayer as well. And you do not pray on behalf of this nation and do not raise on their behalf song and prayer and do not encounter me for I do not hear you. This is just in the negative but it refers to tiffka as prayer. So that's the gammorra that explains the three aos uh mat uh these three prayers times of prayer. Going back into the text, Ara was gamish. Ara actually caused there's something he did. He wasn't perfect. He made a slight mistake. He said, let's just read again. Abra was gamishon He actually caused the exile to Egypt because he said in Genesis 15:8, look at number seven on the source sheet. He said to God, "Oh Lord God, how will I know that I will inherit the land of Israel?" That doubt, that question, God already promised him and he said, "You're going to have a son." And the whole thing, okay, but he said in Hebrew, "How will I know?" They would call that of some sort. Listen, we're not judging. It's already been established. This seems to be a problem. And according to the clear according to the medish that he's claiming this is what brought us down to Egypt. What about yeets? What did he do wrong? You know it says in the midash, well it says in the puzz 28 look it says it says Isaac loved Asaf. How could Isaac love Asaf? God himself. Look at Malaki in number nine on the source sheet. Malaki chapter 1:3. God says through the prophet, I hate Asaf and Yeetsak loved Asaf. Well, guess what it says specifically? Because he had given him food. Look back at number eight. It says, right? Um because his game was in his mouth. something to do with food, something to do with drink. And what happened, even though we're referring to this as the um exile of of Bavl, that's how it started. But Persia took over Bavl and Persia is where Kashro had a suda. And of course, we we went, we participated, and this was the downfall of the Jews in in in Persia. So, the Hebrew goes like this. like it's brought in the mids since loved right God hated but it says in right as it says in as the reason that loved him was because he fed him nice food it says keep sight and and on account of again relating to Mishna and what about Jacob? Yakov was gamishi Jacob was the one who caused the the third and that I mentioned is the one we're in now. Asaf and as it says in the PK I'm going to just read the last one. Yakov Garam Galishi Olav he accepted Asov over him in Genesis 33:14 number 10 on the source sheet. How did how when Yakov comes back there to Israel, how does he treat Asop? He says you're my master and I'm your slave. He said this and that was remember there's different ways to look at it right you're supposed to appease the when you're supposed to appease the you know there's certain times you do that but maybe the language he used I don't know but that's what the cleur is saying in in Genesis 33:14 now let my master go ahead before his servant now the next piece is also very important because we wonder why Asav this galut this exile that we're in now so long. It's three It's 2,000 years. It's a long time. Look at those words. He says, "And I will move at my own slow pace." This according to the clear we're going to see is why we're in this long exile. Let's remember is so it's not all it's not all dark. So the last line of the right that verse please pass before me and we we know the rest that he's going to go slow but it says there's this idea that Jacob represents the spiritual world and Asav is somehow going to represent the physical world that Asav is saying you go in front of me. Let your world which is full of sin as we saw in the beginning um about Asov and how he acts um actually that was about um right Asov and your your world comes first which is not the right attitude that you should have when it comes to foreign ideas and the rest of the verse I will go at a slow pace. What does that mean? I will go to a small place, a spa, a pace tell us init 78:14, which means it's going to be a long, slow, agonizing exile. Okay? Shakur Adoni and it was all caused because he called Asov my master. Okay. Um I just have a side note for myself since Jacob said he would go slowly measure for measure so therefore it will go long and slow. So you understand we said aos sim the clear card really wants to get into the meat and potatoes because we shouldn't just let it go as just a general statement but let's examine it clearly the next paragraph on the right side on page 67 just as we are referring to or um you know mentioning it we're already maybe even causing just as We spoke about the gullus kimok the exile. So too tikn isos. See we have something to look forward to. Just as that happened negatively. Guess what? We have the tilos. We will be redeemed on account of these that we do. And he brings the verse in Jeremiah chapter 31. It's actually 318. Look on number 12. With weeping will they come and with supplications I will lead them. Hashem says through the prophet God's going to redeem us. He's going to hear us. He's going to bring us back because and we know already is weeping for her children, [snorts] right? It's through praying and tell us and this is another says basically the same thing was but why before I go into this I want you to understand how time seems to work we do have a six day week meaning a seven-day week but there's six work days then you have shabas so too the world was created in six days and then there were shabas right that was like the pattern but the whole world's built on that pattern. We have 6,000 years and then we're going to have a thousand years of Shabas. So, we're in we're really towards the end of that, you know, in the 6,000th year in the end of the right 5,786. We're almost at the end. [snorts] So, it's divided into three sets of twos, right? My math is good. So you have 2,000 years of to vahu we call chaos and void before the Torah was brought into the world meaning revealed in the world. Then you have the 2,000 years of Torah and then you have the final 2,000 years of Messiah. Okay? But when you have a graph, let's just say and we're going to discuss the first 2,000 years. We can pretty much just scratch it off the off the the graph because it was to vivo. It almost didn't count when Aram discovers God in 1948, right? And according to the Jewish calendar and then well, he was born in 1948. And then when he was 52, he discovers God in its fullness. That's the year 2000 in according to the Jewish calendar. So that's really the beginning. That's when history begins. That's called Shakar. And within a few hundred years, we're redeemed from Egypt. So in other words, in 2448, we're out of there and we're standing at Hari and the Torah is given. So shakar means the morning. [snorts] So according to like Jewish history, the first 2,000 years are not really part of Jewish history. It's it's world history, but it's not until Abraham comes on the scene. And that's called Shaka. So I just want you to know in terms of time he's going to describe times of remember uh Abra discovered Shakrit which is the morning and then whatever according to that timeline we're going to find out midpoint is like afternoon that's going to be okay we'll discover BL Babylon and the and then the last which is what we're in which is near the end of the year 6000 which we'll talk about again comes back to light to that light and see the light at the end of the tunnel so to speak. So here we go. Let's go back to where we left off where we just mentioned the gamorra inos and it says somehow another this redemption I'm sorry it's the actual yeah the redemption of from Egypt is compared to the morning light. How do we know? Look in Song of Songs 6:10. You see this number 13. Oh, by the way, Jeremiah 31:8, which we had read, with weeping will they come and with supplication. Look at Rashi. What does it mean with weeping will they come to the redemption? Through prayer and repentance like I started the whole year with Torah mitzvah and doing chuva prayer. Okay. Song of songs 6:10. Who is this who looks forth like the dawn? Uh Rashi mentions right there. No, let's just say the Hebrew miso. Okay. Fair as the moon, clear as the sun, awesome as the bannered legion. Um Rashi mentions like the dawn. What's the dawn? It progressively lights up little by little. We're talking about the beginning of daybreak. It's unbelievable. It's great. Shakar is also the dawn. It's the it's the beginning of the light. So that what does that mean? According to that's the beginning of the day of or let's say the morning of the world. It was already in the third millennium meaning it was 2448. It was in the it was in the beginning part of the third fourth, right? We're talking about that middle period is the beginning which is it's really called the very beginning the of daylight because those first 2,000 years of to are not included. It's just that they never existed. Because those first two 2,000 years without Torah and without reaching the world reaching its its well let's the revelation the revelation is the ultimate right without reaching its takas of the Jews accepting the Torah what are you left with it seems like in Jeremiah 33:25 thus said the Lord if not my covenant with the day and night and that the statutes of heaven and earth did I not place in other words the world would not exist had nobody accepted the Torah once the the Jews accepted the Torah then there's what's existence existence takes place look at Rashi on that the bottom of page three if not for my covenant if it is possible that the covenant that I form with day and night to be in their time should be abolished as if it is possible for the statutes of heaven than earth to be abolished as though I had not placed them. Also, the seed of Jacob just like the world exists, the seed of Jacob, that's us sitting in the room, right? We exist because the Torah was accepted. Our sages, however, expanded in regard to the covenant of the Torah and circumcision to derive from here that because of them, heaven and earth were created. It's because we accepted the Torah, because we keep the covenant that the world still exists. Okay, going back into the clear where we left off was the word uh was this PK in Jeremiah 33:25. Okay, because those first 2,000 years are meaning they're they're non-existence really. It was as if the world had not yet been created. So it comes out it's only in the year 2001 right it's back in the in the early days that would be the beginning of the world the the the morning of the world that's when the first redemption took place that's why it's compared to the morning Right. This was the very beginning of what we call the authority of Israel. We were just families. We were tribes. We became a nation at Hari. I mean, we were forged into a nation while we were in the crucible of Egypt. But we didn't become a nation until we left [cough] and stood at Hareni. >> [clears throat] >> And why were we why were we redeemed? Look in Exodus chapter uh 2 verse 23. Um chapter 2 verse 23. >> Number 15. There you go. So we were what's the [clears throat] word? We were persecuted by the Egyptians. But when we cried out, listen just to hear the words Elohim that when we cried out, our cry ascended to God. That's what happened. God heard our cry. Okay. This is the idea that he that Abraham established for us shak when we're crying out to Hashem. We're praying to Hashem and that God will hear us and he did hear us Abraham. There's also a hint to the [snorts] the progeny of Abraham Shahi Ishmael that he gave birth rights and Hagar but he gave birth to both Isaac and to Ishmael Abraham who what is Abraham? What is the language? Why was God why did God change from Ara to Araham? because he is as the puss says aon look in Genesis 17:E4 so you have over there number 16 as for me my covenant is with you you shall become a father of a multitude of nations but wait to hear this we became the Jewish people and I mentioned this in my last week shar or Sunday shir I don't remember anymore but basically this idea that we are Elon alco look at the next ver um source in Deuteronomy chapter 28:1. So God lists Abraham, you Ara will be the father of many nations. But guess what? The people that he gives off, which is us, the Jewish people, God will place you as supreme above all. Above all, that's the Hebrew. God places us supreme over everything. Obviously, we're talking about the non-Jews, but even everything in the world. Okay, so we're like two lines up from the bottom on the right side. This idea to translate and to understand that the when is born, what does mean? It's to mean to laughter. It also means joy. That this hints to The actual joy that we experience at the first um at the first uh redemption, what happened at that first redemption? Samantha, what happened? What what happened? We went to Arseni, right? When uh people quoted they wanted to get the Russians out of, you know, the Russian Jews out of Russia. Let my people go. But what does it say? The Pik said, "Let my people go so they should serve me." Right? The whole [clears throat] idea of was servitude, actual freedom, right? Like it says on the the l were engraved, freedom through the engraving. So this was the real per point of joy. As it says in Psalms 19:9, the orders of the Lord are upright, causing the heart to re heart to rejoice. Hashem, this is a this is a reason to rejoice. I I I'll tell you, I did a lot of um comparative religion similar to you and everybody wants to be the Jews, right? Whether it's replacement theology, what it's usually that, right? that you had it. Don't admit you had it. I don't know if I told you a story when I first became religious. I was walking around the uh Philadelphia to get on a subway and there's a guy with a bow tie, red bow tie, standing by the entrance to the to the subway and he had a letter. I was like really newly religious. And the letter said, "Dear rabbis, um, Federation and, uh, layman from the, you know, synagogues of Satan, God gave you the covenant. He gave you the land of Israel. He really cherished you. He loved you. And it was, you know, very, but you didn't keep your end of the bargain. And he took it away from you and he gave it to us." [laughter] Right? They all want to be us. No matter who they are, Christians, there's 80,000 different sects and there's different kinds of uh of Muslims. I don't want to get a hate mail, but they all think they're the chosen. They think they're the enlightened. That's it. Very nice. Very nice. But it says here in our Torah that the laws of God are just and they are and we see that God placed a lot of responsibility, right? We're not here to say how great we are. We're here just to let you know we have a great responsibility and we're here to share it with you. Right? Okay. The next piece goes like this where we left off. Are you aware that the first redemption was not complete? Look, whether it's because we lost four fifths of the Jewish people in Egypt, I don't know. Or could it have been because we were on such a low level and we had to be taken out before 400 full years. We didn't spend 400 years in Egypt. We only spent 210 years in Egypt. If we would have spent 400 years in Egypt, there's no question we would have gone into Israel. Messiah would have been there because the full cauldron would have separated the dross. But because we were in such a low level, Hashem took us out earlier and it could be the reason. But he says the first redemption was not complete. Nola, you know what happened when Yitsak was born? Who else was born? Well, I mean, not at the same time. Obviously is an older brother, but we're talking about Ishmael was created or born in order to prosecute, persecute to hate and provoke the Jewish people. That's what Yeshel did by that first exile. It mentions in Jeremiah 4:29 from the voice of the riders and the archers. Remember I mentioned we're going to be talking about Ishmael a lot. He is the archer that it's referring to over here. Uh the entire city they came into the thickets and they assembled among the boulders. Every city is deserted and no people are living in them. Well, think about think about Tehran. Now I understand that Persia is not Ishmael per se in terms of the um DNA but the Maharal who's the Revy of the Clearar says clearly that Persia this is going back 500 years ago that he's quoting even further than that that Persia is representative of Ishmael. In other words, even though they're not the DNA of Yesh. But what are they? It's the religion. It's the religion. the Islamic religion and that's what they represent. And today's news is that [clears throat] Tehran has no water and there are sink holes in the whole place is at risk of being swallowed up in the ground because their aquifers are empty and they have made a new capital somewhere closer to Yemen. You know, the Yemen coast over there. They're uh or Oman. But they they they're doomed. I'm sorry to say. I hope I hope that uh that they have a what do you call it? A regime change and then turn to us and say, "Okay, we're ready. Help us with the desalination, you know, issues and help us capture water from the air." All the different things that we're doing miraculously with the wisdom that God gave us. So over here the verse in Jeremiah 4:29. So that verse is referring to Yeshel actually as archers. Shuve keshet. What did we say? Keshett was the month of you know this month of Kisv. It's the it's the symbol of Sagittarius. It's the guy with the bow. Interesting, right? And that um the next verse he wants us to look at is chapter 21 of of Genesis verse 20. Am I right? Yeah. It's number 20 on the source sheet. And God was with the lad. He grew and he dwelt in the desert and he became an archer. This is talking about Yeshit. That's what he did. As one shoots a bow as Rashi says. That's because that was his occupation. Now, it's very interesting that all these these all of the enemies all the enemies of Yeshua around us are all shooting what do they call projectiles like like arrows. I mean even one of our defensive machinery is called I think right is something to do with an arrow right you know that you know what I'm talking about >> David sling >> no but the word arrow I don't know how it fits in but because we have all these other things so David slaying right um but anyway the arrow missile I think it's called the arrow missile defense thing so interesting that we're we're fighting their missiles they're we're fighting their arrows okay So, as I mentioned, and look at Rashi on Genesis 21:20, what does it mean? He became an archer, he who shoots an arrow with a bow, specifically a bow. Now, I want to keep reading the rashi because we're talking about Yeshua. He would dwell in the desert and way the passers by. He would, what's the word? Like pirate. They're like pirates. And then very interesting, this is what is meant in Genesis 16:12, that his hand will be upon all. You wonder what's going on in the world with immigration. You wonder what's going on in the world with all this immigration. Everywhere you look, there's Arabs [clears throat] everywhere, right? Islamists everywhere. So the PK over there, what does it mean in Genesis 16:12? His hand will be upon all, and he shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against everyone, and everyone's hand against him, and over all his brothers shall he dwell. This is like what's happening today. There's I mean, you just have to open your eyes. It's in the Torah. It's like yesterday's newspaper. Today's newspaper. [snorts] >> Now, what did they do to us? I want to just explain real quick. in Isaiah chapter 21:14 toward the thirsty. This is actually a quote from a raba uh chapter 2 uh 4 basically is all summed up in Rashi. So I didn't bring the medish what Rashi says regarding this verse in Isaiah 21:14 toward the thirsty they bring water the inhabitants of the land of Tema with his bread they came before the wanderer. The Jewish people were wandering. Not at the time of the Exodus, but at a much later time. Isaiah is recording this. What happened? They came and met us. We were like desperate. We had no food and we had no water. And you know these uh Yeshalites, they played a horrible trick on us. I don't know why we fell for it because they said, "Here we have water and we have food." So we said, "Okay, give us the water." And they said, "No, no, no. First you eat the food and the food was very salty fish. I understand Jo Jews like herring. They like salty fish, but you have to eat it with a cracker and you have to have something to, you know, to shoot it down with. Anyway, says, "No, eat the salty food first and then we'll give you the water." So they proceeded to give us a lot of the salty fish and when it came to the water, these jugs of water were empty. They actually tricked us. They gave us the salty stuff first because when you eat a lot of salt then you become um very thirsty and they they tricked us. And you know what God says about these IshRaelites? Think about I'm talking to you. You know what God did to Ishmael when he and his mother were thrown out of the encampment and they went that God saved them. Their father in heaven gave them water and they turn around to us and don't give us water. Listen to listen to what Rashi says. It is customary to bring water. But you, the inhabitants of the land of T did not do so, but with his bread they came before the wanderer. They brought them sorts of salty foods and blown up flasks. In other words, they were empty, but they looked like they were full. and he would eat and ask to drink. We're talking about the Jews ate the salty fish and then they got to drink and he would put the opening of the flask in his mouth. I'm sorry, the the Jew who's drinking and the air would go into their inards and the person would die. That is the first part. Another explanation, what does it mean toward thirsty they bring water is as follows. I did not do to your forefather. This is like God speaking. Ishmael when he was thirsty, I revealed to him a well of water. Uh listen, we'll make this again. I'm not talking for Netanyahu, but uh I think that we'd all like to see a regime change. And if there is, we got the answers for Iran with their water problem. They have a major water problem. Okay? I don't know if you heard. And uh we have we have the solution. But anyway, we're not like your your forefathers. Okay, so the last part of that paragraph, we pretty much did. This is the last paragraph, and I'll try to sum it up as best as I can because the truth is we talked about Ara. We're going to talk about Yeetszak, but we won't really have much time to talk about Jacob and we'll have to leave that. What about he is the one who established MKA? Meaning that just as he caused the gull shenani, right? Because again we said that he enjoyed the food of Asaf. [cough] Um he was the one who caused the galeni. So in that 6,000year cycle, we already dropped the first 2,00. So the the the the year 3000, that's was the beginning of Egypt. in the year uh of 4,000. So that's where we have the that's called midday and that's let me just I skipped something. One second. So you're now in the 4,000th year. This is when Israel was really at its height in terms of its authority. the az hit palu ala and who was praying for the ghoul at the time Ezra and Daniel and the people of his of their like we're talking about the greatest sadikim in the very beginning of the second temple period kamosha holyak is just like we know that gave off birth to Jacob Ramasu this hints to the idea of our n our enemies that are in it And I'm pretty sure what I'm about to translate is the right translation, but basically that they follow it after um basically in the of keeping av according to the are theim because of the we follow we kept because we kept the Torah there was some kind of merit that there was a redemption by Jacob as We mentioned that Asov was also born or created to prosecute test hate Yakov who rai this hints to the third exile. Remember we're only using Egypt [clears throat] Bal and Asaf. Usually we use different numbers and different names but these this is the third and final exile that was after the second redemption because this is that long Roman exile that we're now in holy sadikim but Yakov gave forth 12 sons and they were How do we know? Look what it says in I I skipped something again. He gave off a perfect letter, so to speak. All of his children were sadikim. And it says in Isaiah, it's actually chapter 60 verse 21. Where do we find that? Is it on here? Yeah. And number 23. the sadikim your people all of them are righteous Isaiah says right they shall inherit the land forever aon of my planting the work of my hands in which I will glory so all of your children are he was the one who established the evening prayer pale alagali to pray regarding that third and final uh exile Arvit this is considered the end of the day of the world ifi that is the date time period we're in now the gman of Israel it's also considered the evening time for the Jewish people what do we say about the evening time look in Zakaria 14:7 um and it shall be one day that it should be known to the Lord neither day or night and it shall Come to pass that at even tide, eent tide. Evan tide means at the time of ace erv, the time of the beginning of the darkness, it shall be light. We have what to look forward to. We're might be approaching very dark times. Maybe we passed them already, but it eventually not and you know it could happen slick. We've already been 2,000 years, so it ain't going any slower. It's only going to get quicker and quicker as the time approaches. What did they say? It's darkest before the dawn. We say it. It came from uh came from us. What does it mean in Rashi by this last idea? It shall come to pass at Evan tide. Uh I just read in the Hebrew or it's going to actually be light. So how do we start the whole talking about right? How it's it's the hidden light. It's the right it's organ. Well, it's going to come out eventually. Look what Rashi says. It shall come to pass at even tide, Evan tide, before the thousand years are up. There will be a splendorous light whenever that time is any day now. And all the good promised to Israel will come. And there is a um translation target not like the light of day and not like the darkness of night. So this is the superal light. This is the hidden light that will be totally revealed as we know in the time of Messiah that knowledge will fill the entire earth as right as the sea covers the waterbed it's like from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth and if we put our own little effort just try a little bit harder to do a little bit more Torah learning a little bit more mitzvah a little bit kinder to whoever it is that's around you This month we have to be kind to ourselves also right maybe first most foremost uh bizm will come to our own personal gula and we'll experience the national and the universal gul as well so kesh have a great shabas and we'll see you next week [music and singing] >> [music] >> You must [singing] be your [music and singing] shing. [music and singing]