The Atmosphere of Jerusalem Atones with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom Alim everybody welcome back to the mid welcome home to Torah a very warm welcome of course what we do here is we try to learn the Hebrew text of the CLE car as we learn these incredible fundamental ideas in Judaism and I do encourage you to use the Hebrew text which I have a link to you have to go down into the description box and uh we encourage you to follow along in the original Hebrew if you want you can also join up by sending me an email or a WhatsApp message that you would like the adjoining English sheets which I put together it's not a translation of the entire class it's just uh additional sources uh so we don't have to flip through all of the uh different texts um okay so let's begin we are in parat Pinas we're at the very end of the Paras of the paraa which is really chapter the first few verses in chapter 28 numbers 28 veres 1-8 I think we should just become familiar a little bit with them and I will point out certain words in Hebrew that raise alarms that cause him to comment based on the rich um message that kazal has have left us okay so he's not just nitpicking the Hebrew it's based on our tradition that there's a message within the Hebrew itself that has a mendous message for our lives and has should have an impact on us by the way chapter 28 29 is dealing with all these different corbane corbano are the offerings um they call them sacrifices but I I use the word offering much better and literally Corban means to come close bringing yourself close to Hashem through these offerings but these are mainly um holiday offerings through the seore through the congregation the t is the first which is nothing to do necessarily with a holiday but it's a tamid means it's continuous it's a steady thing every single day so every single day this tamed was brought actually the first time it was brought was in the desert when we were doing the inauguration for the Tabernacle and that you can find back in Exodus 29: 39-41 and it's they're almost exact in other words the prescription of what was necessary then is a command for us to perform every single day when we have the temple when we did not have the temple this was nullified unfortunately correct unfortunately however keep in mind a few things Hashem already prepared how are we going to find atonement when there is no Temple through our lips we're going to see hosiah Hosea 14 we'll see it shortly but also keep in mind the 17th of tamuz is just around the corner and it's a memorial day it's right it's a commemoration unfortunately of the destructions right it's in other words it's a 3-we period until the the 9th of a where the real destruction took place but there was sieges and there was the beginning of the destruction that took place on the 17th of tamuz and interestingly enough the tamid ceased on the 17th of tamas that's when this continual or steady offering a daily offering let's call a daily offering cease now truth be told it was done twice a day it was one in the morning and one in the late afternoon let's become familiar with the verses and I'll read in English and then I'll point out in the Hebrew uh certain words that I highlighted Hashem spoke to Moses saying command the children of Israel and say to them my offering my food for my fires my satisfying Aroma shall you be scrupulous to offer to me in its appointed time and you shall say to them this is the fire offering that you to are to offer to Hashem male Lambs in their first year unblemished to a day as a continual elevation offering the one lamb you shall make in the morning and the second second lamb you shall make in the afternoon with a tenth e of fine flour as a meal offering mixed with a quarter hin of crushed oil it is a continual elevation offering that was done at Mount Si for a satisfying Aroma fire offering to Hashem and its libation is a quarter hin for the one lamb to be poured on the holy altar an intoxicating libation for Hashem and our final verse the second lamb you shall make in the afternoon like the meal offering of the morning and its libation shall you make a fire offering for a satisfying Aroma to Hashem now in the Hebrew I highlighted certain words as you can see when it says two unbl unblemish unblemished Lambs you're going to make them as a continual burnt offering so in Hebrew means to Le twice a day as an now that's singular interesting you're going to bring two as in that's the first thing one of the things the cleard is going to point out another thing that bothered him is it says one now there's a difference between a cardinal and a ordinal number if you look on number 10 on the English sore sheet so Cardinal number is like one two When you're counting something okay and um the Cardinal number is a number that says how many of whatever something there are as opposed to a ordinal number which is When you're counting things consecutively you have a list and you're going through the list so there's first second third now what the par here does it says it uses the word EAD which is a cardinal number as described one and the clear is bothered it should say the first okay because when the second one is brought it's it literally says I know in the English here it says the other lamb but in Hebrew it says hashen the second one is is done in the afternoon and then interestingly enough what what else the clear will point out is that the afternoon offering is mentioned twice whereas the morning offering as an offering is only mentioned once okay with that in mind let's begin to dissect what the clear has to say he begins with two questions he says based on this verse verse four regarding this one lamb you're going to do in the morning and it's from the very fact that the verse says the right in the same verse four it mentions already the second lamb shouldn't it have said it surely should have said and he obviously we want to know why it doesn't say why isn't the first one referred to as the first and not just as one that's his first question and if we don't continue how are you going to sleep tonight why is the morning offering only mentioned once whereas his whereas the afternoon offering is mentioned twice as I pointed that out already now he mentions obviously that these same verses similarly appear in Exodus 29: 39-41 in parous toave that's where he ends his questions and he begins to answer vly it seems to be able to resolve to respond to answer by way of what the sages speak about now we're going to enter into whoa really what I want to do at this point I should have done the little brief another brief introduction but I'll do it now by the way we Jews we come to sh a few minutes early with enough time hopefully to say coronos we actually read them learn them recite them before our doing okay before we pray three times a day at least at least shakas and and Min and of course there are different things to say at night but the idea is brought down in the the book of Jewish law that when one finishes the passages of these burnt offerings you actually say you ask Hashem May It Be Your Will that this should be considered and accepted as if I actually brought them I already mentioned we're going to talk about Hosea chapter 14:2 but before we read that the sh the ra let me tell you where these are right this is the first one was in uh chapter one Haka 6 okay and later on in in the r brings down the in me the first paragraph he mentions that we say the the section of the daily offerings and um he mentions that wherever it's possible it's best to say with the congregation I think this is key and if you couldn't say it with the congregation you end up saying in your own house meaning before you came to sh you should read it again when you get to sh with the congregation somehow or another it's so important to read it with the congregation why that's my question and then in the be he I think he answers it and he says theban is the truth is that this offering was offered twice daily by the coim in the temple on whose behalf on every Jew we gave half a shekele in the month of Adar meaning right before the new Financial year begins which begins in Nissan and throughout the year from Nissan onward until the following Adar that they would take the money the Kim right the gizbar the the treasure take the money from every Jew that we gave the half shekele sitting in a bank account so to speak in a Koopa and they take that money and they're going to buy these carbonos for the tior for the congregation on our behalf so they belong to every Jew and okay so h how you say that in English Hosea 14:2 take words with yourselves and return to the Lord what does that mean with words with words we're going to use words and return to the Lord say these words you shall forgive all iniquity and teach us the good way Hashem is the one who forgives no one else only hasem you are the you shall forgive all iniquity we're going to talk about this verse a little bit later and teach us the good way and let us render for Bulls the offering of our lips in other words when there won't be any more offerings because the temple will no longer exist we will plate Hashem we will render them up with the words of our lips just look at the last Rashi the last Rashi let us render for bulls that we should have sacrificed before you we should have but the temple no longer exists future tense let us render them with the application of the words of our lips okay um there are a few more items I want to bring but I think that we'll talk about them later although the Zohar in number five mentions and emphasizes the great benefits from a daily recital of the coronos hence it it's proper that even one who's in a hurry say anyway the passage of the Ted offerings and the qataris so like there's a whole order if you're late and you have to you know squeeze them in then literally minimum minimum the T and the should be said okay um so now what he's doing he's going to take us now to a verse in Isaiah 1 verse 21 and you'll find that now remember the prophets are coming to give rebuke and you can read chapter one and you'll see it's full of rebuke and at the very end he even says rebuke but in the beginning how has she become a harlot obviously we were on a high level and we descended we descended to what you would be called a harlot right it was called a faithful City full of Justice MTI Mish but then it saysed Yol the only parts of the verse the clear brings down are these three words that righteousness would Lodge in her in Jerusalem however but now there are full of murderers so it's a very interesting Rashi I want to focus only on in the Middle where it says in righteousness would Lodge the daily sacrifice would atone for the sins of the night and the daily sacrifice would atone for those of the day that's all that Rashi is quoting we are going to open up this rashan understand it much better but I do want to me mention a side point that part of the rebuke of Isaiah was the very fact when a capital when a capital crime a capital punishment is about to meet be Meed out to a criminal so the San hedrin that deals with life and death issues is hearing the case if they didn't make a final decision but it looks very much like the person's guilty what they need to do is say you know what make our final decision tomorrow because maybe there will be a scalable evidence that comes through and the guy will get off if they decree it today they have to kill him the same day and what happens when overnight or the by the next morning um he's proven to be innocent so what's appropriate when they decide he's probably going to be guilty is not make the decision now let's make the final decision tomorrow but when he's innocent they have to declare that in other words they've already got like a little like a poll a survey they know where everyone's leaning and the guy looks like he's going to be innocent they must declare him innocent that day so he doesn't remain on shilas overnight it's not right you keep him overnight everyone's going to think he's guilty right if you already think I'm talking about the Bon the San hedrin they already pretty much know that he's innocent they should declare him today to be innocent and let him go so Isaiah was critical of the fact that they were not doing that they weren't following that methodology and they were holding people even though they knew they were innocent just for even one day overnight so that's words in which righteousness would Lodge in her now we're going to see a whole another concept okay because what we're going to say is I don't want to speed spoon feed you too much but basically what Rashi just said that the mour sacrifice would atone the sins at night and then the daily offering which is brought right before Sunset would atone for those of the day there there's a certain strength in the afternoon offering that is lacking not I would lacking is probably not the right word that the early morning one does not have there's a certain strength in the afternoon offering that will when that person goes to sleep will be free of sin and that's why mentioned when you walked in that this um I don't want to say his name a certain dignitary from America's visiting here and you know what maybe just sleeping in Jerusalem he'll do chuva and we will see the power the power of the city of Y what it what kind of effect it can have on somebody so it's not unusual the what we call coincidence It's Not Unusual coincidentally that we're learning this right now where this not such righteous person will be sleeping over in Jerusalem probably last night and tonight anyway so let's continue in the clear car because he just mentioned this verse in Isaiah 1: 21 Yol what does it mean it means that a person Jew and non-jew perhaps not sure but it has such a strong effect that a person would not go to sleep Lodge in Jerusalem while sin would be in their hand and as a result why because the that the daily offering that's done in the morning is it actually atones for all the sins that took place that night so by the next morning whatever sins but it's very strange because we're saying that you don't have any sins at night but that's what it says and the whereas the late afternoon meaning at the end of a day is so for the 12 waking hours of the day at the end of the day that offering is atoning for what for whatever took place in the day maybe at this point I will explain see at night the cleard will say that what kind of sins occur at night only the sins of the mind of thoughts here and Mak the night time is not a Time for Action whereas in the day it is it's a time for thoughts and action and this is part of the answer I mean it's really the main answer but we'll see why that the one in the afternoon is mentioned twice because there's two aspects to its atoning value whereas the one in the morning is really coming only to atone for what is necessary which is the thoughts so he brings a verse from mikah 2 verse one which is number 14 on the sheet woe to those who plot iniquity and work evil in their beds When The Morning Becomes light they perform it for their hand has the power so let's dissect the Hebrew a little bit Woe Is to those who think sinfully ra and um they plot iniquity right on their beds meaning at night time where's right away but when the light of the morning comes they perform it because they in the power is in their hand to do such a thing meaning in the day look what Rashi says right away when it says they work evil on their bed all night they decide in their hearts how they will perform evil the following day in the morning but it doesn't they're not doing anything at night except for the thought alone so what comes after this that the night time is not the time for the action the time the night time is only the time for thinking about it and scheming and contemplating about doing the sin which means like this that the and the the sin at the the thoughtful the thoughtfulness of the sin is really just one it's not the action it's just the thoughtfulness of the sin the a sh low there's nothing that follows it remember we said the difference between a cardinal number and an ordinal number it's not a list it's one there's nothing that follows it there's no follow through key you said there's a key it's very possible that there would be a thought without a follow through of an action and that's why it says in the morning one a there's one lamb you should do in the morning ready this is I think you what we thinking of because it's coming to atone for those sinful thoughts that one had upon the bed you know what that means to regret to retract all so what happened true he had these thoughts on the bed he was going to do it the next day but it's very possible and even probable that he will retract or regret about his negative scheme and it will never come out from his thought into actuality now we understand why the the language used was because it is just one and there is no list there's no follow through there's nothing following it the sh there's nothing that's coming after it and that's why the morning offering is only mentioned once but the sins of the day C cul means it's coupled it means it's doubled means it's it's quantumly bigger bisa fake without a doubt it's more than what you had at night even though at night he did contemplate to do it but he didn't act on it at night and now comes the day when he does act on it he or she comes and acts on it during the day they're also using their makava because if they had no Mak no thought that would be called an an means you not you don't bring any Corbin it's not even a sin you knocked into the wall and uh and and turned on the light switch on Shabbat you really tripped and the light went on right as opposed to shig shig is where you knew that it's forbidden to do but you didn't realize it was Saturday or you knew it was Saturday you knew it was forbidden but you didn't know the punishment there has to be some kavana but you don't have full kavana and ma means fully cognizant of the sin so if you're fully cognizant of the sin there's obviously Mak there's thought and kavana so it's neither of those meaning if if if there was neither of those then it would just be onus and so that's why he says of course there's no doubt the person is obviously thinking about it at that time so there's action and thought because without a doubt there's no way that he performed it the action without thought and action because if he did you would already if it was no at all couldn't be ma as I describ and it couldn't be shog as I describ but rather just a noose where there's no Corbin at all therefore it's necessary that the afternoon offering is coming it's actually coming to atone for two sins what are the two sins Allah which is not so bad just the thought alone the AL by the way when we talk about thinking of doing a sin there are certain sins that the thinking about it actually is a sin and that's ID worship and adultery perhaps okay so we're we're not necessarily talking about those but necessarily just the thought it's coming to atone for the thought and the action and that's why it's mentioned twice meaning the afternoon offering is mentioned twice in our par now we're going to enter this whole idea of sleeping in Jerusalem is somehow just sleeping here is going to have and create a certain effect but it's due to the tumed offering perhaps let's see maybe it's in addition in addition to the Ted offering we are going to dissect this from the very fact that it says we're in the second to the last paragraph okay so now we're on the second to the last paragraph and instead of reading the medis first let's read what the clear has to say and then we'll read the med remember the med said right a person does not Lodge in Jerusalem with sin in his hand l why doesn't the med say that a person doesn't wake up from his sleep with sin in his hand if he was in why since the language says in his hand what does the hand represent action all right it's inferring that we're speaking about a sin of action that is performed with your actual hands now I don't know if it means with your actual hands but be performed it's performed we already concluded that at night there's never really any action because it's only it's only thought and thought is not action now it's actually coming to include to add something for us to learn to to hear to be inferred and that is what what are we going to learn from this that the t is that the T offering it's coming to atone even for the sins of the day even though they have both aspects both the thoughts and the action the how much more so the one that's coming in the morning is coming to M Just For Thoughts alone now let's read The Source because the clear card did not make this up going to that um it's basically it's midbar mid pares Pinas it's chapter 21 meus 21 and It quotes our verse right and you shall say to them this is the fire offering that you were to offer to Hashem the male Lambs in the first year on blemish to a day as a continual burnt offering one lamb you shall make in the morning the second lamb you shall make in the afternoon so the the the med says are you saying that we bring both at the same time I mean you know then you read it no it says no it says you bring remember we saw that it says singular you're going to bring them both but it's like one Ola it is one Ola but the time is going to be divided there's a split in the time and you bring one in the morning and you're going to bring the second one in the afternoon okay now go to the right side re the the son of he says it doesn't even say sleep it doesn't even say sleep but it's really a question it's understood that it's talking about overnight but nevertheless the word doesn't use the Hebrew does not imply overnight so what never was a person in in Jerusalem in possession of a sin K how can that be so the med says the it actually says this in the Mish that the morning offering would atone for the sins committed during the night and the the afternoon offering would atone for whatever sins occur during the day and it brings as a proof our verse in Isaiah chapter 1 verse 21 SED yino righteousness lodged in her now this medress bothered me greatly and I thought to myself this doesn't really make any sense why doesn't make sense to me number one every Jew gave a half a shekele are you saying that in order for the the tomed offering to have an effect you have to be in Jerusalem if you're not in Jerusalem it doesn't have an effect it's only for those that sleep here the whole the whole thing doesn't make sense to me Jews could be all over the world you can be in K you can be in Tel you be wherever it is and why should it only be that night right it should be every single day so that's going to be the first question the second is why does it so shouldn't it affect every Jew and the second question is why do you have to be here overnight okay so we have a lot of of answers and I don't want to get bogged down with too many of them CU some of them seem a little bit s superficial some of them are a little deeper but I want to go through them because I think they really add flavor to each other so the first thing is brought I think this is really the question okay actually the statement is thanks to the atoning power of the daily Tom offerings no person would spend the night in Jerusalem in the possession of sin that's what we walked away with but what's not clear is why should this be weren't the tomed offerings paid for and offered in the name of every single Jew the entire Jewish people and therefore any blessings that elicit from God should therefore cure to all Jews equally wherever they may be and that was my question andem I found it so here we have the r Mori altar of Gore in the IM emis he said says that you know what the truth is that the the the tamid offering has a limited ability to atone what does it atone for this power extends only to those sins that do not occasion a dedicated sin offering in other words if one sinned bog Bish that means it could have been a severe sin but he did it inadvertently he brings a sin offering if he did it on purpose there's no sin offering but we're not talking the heavy sins if you're already coming to Jerusalem for to bring a sin offering or if you're doing chuva but you're not in Jerusalem it's not going to have an effect but if you're here already and you're bringing an offering for a I'm not going to call it a lighter sin off you know it's a lighter sin but that's what he basically says so if you're already coming here anyway for your heavy sins this will help you cuz you're new it will help you for your lesser sins okay and I'll tell you what he says like this therefore only people who come to Jerusalem and bring any Sin Sin offerings they have incurred are eligible to have the balance wiped clean by the tumed offerings so there's some kind of effect of the for those people that are already coming here with their own offerings on another occasion the IM suggested that to benefit from the atoning power of the T offerings you have to come to Jerusalem and join a group you're part of a group okay who are present in the temple when the offerings are brought it's a very nice idea but I don't buy that either I'll tell you why well I understand it but there is an aspect that when the kohanim from different cities would come and do their Shir their tour their uh their what's the word I'm looking for Tour of Duty yeah Tour of Duty in the temple so there were 24 groups they're actually right there's 50 you know 54 weeks in the year but they div divided the co into 24 groups so they served one week twice a year in other words 2 weeks a year but 6 months apart and the city that these coning would come from that whole city would be celebratory the entire week and go out into the city square of whatever Village or town they're from and take off from work and pray the whole day they're participating and they're not in Jerusalem but they're really participating equally in other words they're the con that didn't get to jus either they were too young or too old or they were you know the the wives and whatnot the whole city would somehow be involved so that was what bothered me how can it be you have to just be in Jerusalem so then the the IM sonim alter he explains that although everybody does receive the atonement granted by the offerings but not everyone can maintain this newly acquired state of innocence for long so his explanation is this is like an a vaccination longterm not like the other vaccinations that don't have any long-term effect right they have longterm effect and that's what he's saying here so in other words only those who come to Jerusalem and spend the night and its holy environs will be sufficiently fortified to avoid resuming the burden of sin that the tomed offerings had removed from their shoulders in a footnote there's a similar suggest and the T offering is atone only when supplemented by the holy atmosphere of Jerusalem very interesting idea ritak sosin points out that the Ola offerings atone for the sin harboring improper thoughts which we discussed and that is a sin that is very hard to shake off therefore based on that the sieges the sages teach us keeping one's mind pure is a moral challenge that a human being right cannot really stand up on his own for that's why he needs the help the additional help of the tumed offering and that will help the person free himself of sin it means free of the sin that otherwise sullies the human heart but this is the next question that he asked why only when someone spends the night in Jerusalem because there's only the only one way to combat the scourage of improper Thoughts by occupying one's mind with the thoughts of Torah that is the antidote that is the true vaccine thus therefore before taking full advantage of the ol offering one must renew his commitment to be diligent in Torah and this is going to happen in Jerusalem the city of Torah a stay in Jerusalem is the perfect stimulus for such an undertaking since the holy city being full of Jews on pilgrimage to the temple and otherwise is engaged in God serving activities and let me just tell you there's a thing called Mas sheny it's like um time share so we're obligated on certain years to keep like four out of the seven years to keep this m this tithe it's a certain tithe that we take and we put like into a piggy bank I don't know if that's the right usage but let's say we put into a little safe and this money can only be spent in Jerusalem for food and for shelter and that's it so you're going to take it's time share because you have to come and spend it in Jerusalem on yourself so it's called a spiritual vacation right time share it's really it sounds very selfish but this is how the Jewish people this is what God wants he wants you to improve and how you're going to improve by spending time in an atmosphere full of Torah and that's in Jerusalem only only in Jerusalem so this idea that when you do this great Mitzvah of Master sheni and spending your your agricultural tithe in Jerusalem it instills instills the fear of God into that person and this would be like a summary in this light we can understand that while every Jew has a share in the Ted offerings because all of us gave money and we all have a share in it only those who spend the night in Jerusalem breathing in its holy air Fill Their Minds with Torah wisdom can benefit fully from the power to atone that's a beautiful piece and I couldn't I could not like let that go without sharing it okay so that we now we're in the very last paragraph on the first page and now we're going to answer the question why is it singular remember it says there's two on a daily basis to each day as a single offering the clear asked shouldn't it have said maybe it might have made more sense well we're going to find out why it's singular right why wasn't it plural he asked so it seems the very fact that we even need to ask the question tells it all that each one the morning is coming to atone for something unique to the morning and the afternoon is is coming to atone for something unique in the afternoon both of them are really a single offering but so why does the Torah divide them up into two separate times because the one in the morning is the one in the morning is coming to atone for whatever sins took place at night which is here thoughts and the one shall and the the one of the late afternoon is is coming to atone for those sins created during the day now I want to continue there's two more paragraphs that are very beautiful and he says however according to our way and understanding we now explain the following in the very first few verses of the Torah it says it's Genesis 1: 5 where it says God called the light day and the Darkness he called night and it was evening and it was morning one day very similar we have the same problem with the ordinal numbers versus the cardinal numbers because in the beginning it says day one but by the second day it's called the second day it's called the third day all the way up until the seventh day day so why isn't day one called Reon it's day one and in day one there was a creation of light and darkness you have a creation of light and darkness and you may think this is what he says ready this is how you answer the this is how you answer the meaning meaning that was a nickname for the early Christians but it means anyone who is a heretic anyone who's an aporus anyone who follows another religion and so this is how you're supposed to answer him he already explained this in pares brais why does it say one day and not Day first day in order to remove from the hearts from the thought process from the hearts of those Heretics who say I'm going to tell you what the Heretics say m that whatever God created light mour goodness is not the same God that created nighttime Darkness or bad it's but the Jews say right opposite anyway this is what they're going to continue to say along the same thought that whatever happened in the beginning right if is it really one God it's not possible they would say it's not possible for one entity to create two such Divergent things so opposite of each other how can they emanate from one this is what they would say and I know this is what many Christians do say to a certain extent whether the Old Testament is one one particular God then the New Testament is a different God right the one the Old Testament was just full of Mer of justice and the one the new Test full of Mercy it's like two different gods right or where did the devil come from they some believe the devil is at war with God that he's a rebellious angel that he's a power on his own and he created evil no God created evil Vil as it says in Isaiah 40 45:7 so he goes that's why the Torah says that the AR and the Boke meaning the night time and the daytime they're both parts of the same creation that God one God created it's all part of what we call day it was one power that created both day and night now we understand when even though we are referring to two very distinct burnt offerings and it's called ol it's called one Ola singular because they really are two different Olas providing two separate things but it is one to one God to one power and now to finish off there's going to be two more insights in this little paragraph I want to mention that if you actually look in the Torah itself the Torah tells us let's look at number 17 Leviticus 1 chap chter 1: 11 he shall Slaughter it on the Northern side of the altar so those who are familiar because they say corbus every day they know this verse you're going to slaughter on the North side so you may never think pass that but look what it says number 18 that the truth is that in the morning it was slaughtered on the northwest yes the north but the Northwest and in the in the afternoon it was slaughtered on the northeast so the Torah tells you it's on the North the oral tell oral to tells us it's Northeast and Northwest depends on right and so the morning is in the Northwest the afternoon is in the Northeast why wait till you hear this Insight I would say drum roll please everybody together all at once now come on you could do better than that okay there you go so it so the tummy of the morning is right the morning is the morning offering is slaughtered in the Northwest to teach you that it's coming to atone for the sins of the previous night the ones that happened the previous night cuz where is the sun set in the west okay now what about the T the offering of the afternoon is that's going to be slaughtered in the East meaning the Northeast to teach you what that it's coming to atone for the theirs of the entire day the day that's coming okay so now that's one idea there's another concept and that's how I sum it up at the end the number 19 but let's read it in the clear car there are those that say that the reason why it's like reversed from what you would have thought right wouldn't you have thought that in the morning you Slaughter in the East and in the evening you would Slaughter in the west because that's where the sun comes up in the morning and that's where the sun resides at night no to destroy to actually destroy these idah worshipping thoughts of those who serve and worship the Sun and the Moon and rather to teach that everything is under the opes the authority of one God and blessed is he and his name now I want to mention what I write here is that in order to avoid any possible connection with sun worship the offering was to be located north as we know specifically North why to prevent the onlookers from seeing the sun behind their sacrifice lest they be tempted to be consider to consider it as the object of their worship so since in the northern hemisphere the Sun starts in the East and goes down towards the South and then settles in the west so we're offering in the north so that anybody looking at us offering it cannot see the sun cuz the sun's not in the north but more than that so in the morning you're doing it in the west there's no sun in the west it's in the East and in the morning the sun is in the East and that's why in the morning we're slaughtering it in the west a beautiful beautiful idea and I hope it all comes together and I don't know if I skipped anything did anybody notice I just want to hit number 16 so that we can understand what it says in Bidar 1821 regarding that famous verse that we spoke about inah okay Co AO as the verse said may you forgive all iniquity God is one who's going to forgive all iniquity and accept good we're going to focus on those words and accept good and let our lips substitute for Bulls so what we're going to read into the verse is when it says right may you remember we don't have any more um Temple how we going to bring the carbonos as we mentioned in the beginning we're going to say the carbonos we're going to learn the carbonos well guess what this verse tells it all it says theak to what is to we'll see shortly so the medra says you know what the Jewish people said to God Holy One Blessed Be he Master of the Universe when the temple stood cor you know what we would bring the daily offering and that would atone for our sins the only thing we have is prayer okay well that's very nice where's the reference to prayer the word Tove to is a gatri of 17 when the Ana they originally made 18 blessings now we have 19 blessings but what what 18 now they're telling me the word to means 17 well guess what there actually is a huge M Locus different opinions what exactly were the 18 blessings before we had the 19 so there is an opinion that the Heretics was added later which makes it the 19 but it was already included in justice so in other words there's an opinion that Katan just divided it he figured out a way to make that one bra where we play for justice and we pray against the Heretics and he made it into two so that took the 18 to the 19 and that Jerusalem King David's Offspring right we pray for the for yam and we pray for um we pray for for The Offspring of DAV so those two were really one and they were divided so which comes down according to his opinion there were 17 Act ual blessings then there were 18 and then there were 19 according to the way they're divided up or added okay so that's what it means here when it says to has the numerical value of 17 but one second don't we have 19 so the med says remove from the count against the Heretics which was much established much later in yav and also The Offspring of David which is only established later on account of David's declaration in Psalms chap 26:2 if you look at Psalms 26:2 that whole chapter is based on a righteous person walks in Purity and vigilance and prays for divine help in avoiding life's pitfalls and verse two says like this this is King David EX examine my heart examine me Hashem and test me scrutinize my intellect and my heart well I think David kind of probably regretted asking for that because God did respond with the test of bacheva um there's a lot to say about that um we're going to skip that for now because this is the important part well it's all important but then the medra says rebi Simmons says what does it mean to take good the gatri of Tove not the GATRA at 17 but we call atbash so in other words in atbash the GATRA is to but in other words the word the letter t v and bet are interchanged with the like the atash means the AL is interchanged with the T like a is with z b is with Y okay so you have the word neish take my soul go back and read the verse again you forgive all iniquity and take my soul and let our lips substitute for the Bulls so since the word to is really equivalent to the word nefes which is soul so when the people of Israel said before God okay when the Holy Temple stood we would burn fats and sacrificial Parts upon the Altar and therefore be atoned of our sins aave but now what h we have no Temple and of course we're fasting that's with the 7 the tamuz and the ninth of right we're fasting and therefore we we're we're offering our own fats our blood and our souls to you when we fast May It Be Your Will that this should serve and as atonement for us and that's what it means as the verse concludes let our lips substitute for the Bulls meaning accept our prayers and our fast instead of the sacrificial B Bulls which we no longer have today I want to say that everything's in the Torah how we should think how we should live our lives the beauty of the spiritual World in which we live because this world is only a hologram the real world is the spiritual world and the Torah is like it's the communication vessel it's it's it's explaining to us the metaphysical world the only way we can understand it and the truth is it has been handed down right the Torah itself has been handed down physically as a physical vessel and as an oral vessel right from rebi to to student from father to son and anybody can join whether you're a complete convert or you're a righteous noahide a righteous noahide will certainly want to know God and what God wants of them just like a Jew has that obligation so with that we'll see you next week have a shabbat shalom and batem this coming week who knows who knows who knows we can only we can we can be optimistic we can dress in our white clothes expecting the Messiah to come at any minute and we should all do chuva and remind ourselves of the sins remind ourselves of our own sins that we did that we need to chuva and most likely it all comes down to our character development unfortunately the way we treat each other and probably the reason we treat each other the way we do is because we don't know how to treat ourselves right it has to come from self-compassion know you're creating the image of God which we all are and that um if we can just figure out how to improve our own not only actions towards others but it stems from our own self-worth knowing that we are in creating the image of God batm we'll see you all next week call to have a great life [Music] oh