The Three Guarantees of Yehuda and Chanuka with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

everybody [Music] everybody welcome back to the ebony midrash welcome home to Torah uh as of course we always deal with the fundamentals and tonight will not let you down you will not be disappointed uh we use the Clear Car for at the discussion and you can find the link below for the Hebrew sheets that we're going to be using if you want the English sheets you have to email me and I'll put you on the email list I just want to mention that this is you know Eric Hanukkah so to speak the end of the calendar year the non-jewish year the fiscal year let's call it that and we do a fundraising campaign so there's also a link Down Below in which you can participate we have a lot of new and exciting programs coming up this coming year and this will help us greatly tell him it's about you shouldn't Merit to do many mitzvot and one Mitzvah brings on another Mitzvah so bizarat Hashem you'll participate in whatever way that you can so we're in parashat vaishev chapter 38 in Genesis and we're going to deal with three words these three words out of this whole verse for the next I'm going to assume approximately an hour these are the three items that Yosef I'm sorry the Yehuda gives Tamar as collateral now what's going on here let's just go through a very short very short synopsis up until this point there's such a thing as a Leviticus a leveright marriage where that if a a husband dies without any children so then the other either siblings or other closer relatives not only have the right to marry her but basically she cannot marry anybody else she just can't just go and marry someone from a different family until there is a it's called like a divorce but it's khalitza where she removes the shoe from one of the family members and then she'll be free it's a whole ritual it's described in the Torah but basically the background is Tamara was married to one of yehudu's sons died then the other son married her and basically there's another son who is very young and Yehuda basically says wait till he grows up meanwhile he's not marrying her and neither is Yehuda for that matter now Yehuda is going on the way to take care of his sheep to Shear his sheep which is significant and he's going to a certain place in the South America Israel and he runs into his very own daughter-in-law right who he technically theoretically could or should have married himself now this is a little bit risque shall we say because she dresses up as a prostitute and he gives a pledge meaning he actually wants to give a goat now he only has sheep with him why wouldn't he give one of the sheeps that he has with him so this is going to be significant instead he pledges to give a goat but in the meantime she wants a real pledge meaning collateral to hold until he brings that goat which never actually happens and we're not going to discuss the rest of the story what we're going to discuss tonight are the three items that Yehuda does give to Tamar as collateral very strange correct that we're going to discuss for the next hour these three items and I mentioned these are fundamentals in Judaism a foundational principles that every Jew should know be aware of it's not an accident that let's just list my questions before we get into the clear cards questions it's not an accident that he offers her a a goat meanwhile he could have given her from one of his sheep because he obviously had his sheep with him and why is it that it's these three items that he gives to her as collateral which actually saves her life because as you know the story goes she does get pregnant seemingly out of wedlock being would say zukook connected in this levitical leveright marriage so to speak that should have happened didn't happen but she's kind of stuck she can't just marry anybody so who is she with and as we know some very important principles we'll have to discuss it another time but that one of the most important principles in Judaism is truva is repentance and we do learn many principles about repentance from Yehuda and what he did in order to save her life okay let's get into it we're on chapter 38 verse 18. so the verse says like this actually I want to start with 16 and 17 because this will lead up to what we're discussing so he's obviously on the road and verse 16 says so he turned aside toward her on the road and he said he spotted her now the question is how guilty of a sin was was um was Yehuda in terms of going after a prostitute we have a measures that says that a an angel forced him in this direction and brought him there on the other hand she was also sitting in the middle of the road now she this is the the righteous women of Judaism she must have had such a pure heart and she was willing to die she had let's say to a certain extent she understood that the mashiach was going to come through her and she was willing to put her life on the line in order to have the seed of Yehuda placed inside of her meaning the consequences that follow that didn't come to be which I described very briefly and you can look it up yourselves um so she had Purity in her mind whereas the push-up shot the simple explanation for Yuda was he was not thinking in a pure fashion right he was thinking with his um with his body let's say with his inclination so he said get ready now I will come to you for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law she was wrapped you know um she was dressed like prostitutes but apparently back then they were much more modest I guess than what we assumed today and she says to him what will you give me that you should come to me and this is where in verse 17 he responds I will send a kid from The Herd but if you read a few verses before he had all his sheep with him so she said well he's not going to send it yet he's going to send it in the future maybe a few days or the next morning whatever so she says only if you give me a pledge until you send it okay now let's go into our verses verse 18. this is like the uh the the focal point of tonight's class so he said to her what is the Pledge I should give you I mean he knows what he has and what he can give but he's asking her what is she willing to take and if she already knows what she wants apparently so she said I want your Signet ring in other words a ring that has some kind of signature on it that you use to emboss is that the word I'm not sure but you have let's say an envelope and you seal with wax and you put a signature on it that it's yours but basically it's a special ring that remember Yehuda is mahut and makro signifies Authority kingship and so he has this special ring also she wants his cloak a special garment and she wants the staff that is in his hand and he gave them to her and he came to her and she conceived okay um is there anything we want to see before we begin with let's just look at Rashi real quick on Verse 18 regarding your Signet ring and your cloak your ring which is your seal and your cloak which is with you but you cover yourself with okay so let's now go into the Clear Car what we'd like people to learn the Hebrews so we do encourage you to look at the original Hebrew and we're on page 173 halfway down where it begins with 38 verse 18. um so she asked for his hotem she asked for his mate that's the staff and she asked for His Garment it's a very strange word for a garment it really means a fringe and we'll see what it's referring to shortly but she's asking for these three things so the clear card Begins by telling us hat according to the most simple explanation and I think I gave it over to you already Nera Lee tangtom Lama not on is collateral according to the simple shot it seems obviously that this Torah itself gave us a very clear reason why he gave these um well he actually gave anything as collateral but so we're looking now into why was it that he gave these three things so according to the clear cards nude that yeah that that um yehuda's intention was not so proper it was for the sake of uh illicit sexual relations he did not know that it was daughter-in-law which actually made it okay in other words normally you're not allowed to be with your daughter-in-law but in this case because it was a leveright marriage it actually was permissible but he didn't know that it was her so it sounds like he was interested in a relationships outside of marriage foreign car Begins by telling us what the problem is with these three items sorrow that he the word I think the best way to understand it is he devalued it usually means shamed so he put down on a very low level this special signature of the Holy Covenant which is in the skin obviously we're talking about the circumcision the breach kodesh he didn't value it and we have again we're an aravind that describes anyone who is bowel Aramis any Jew who is um involved intimately with a non-jewish woman which basically kind of means his his he's going to hide his brismilah Maybe by pulling the skin over it to hide it whether it's out of embarrassment or uh that he that shows he's not interested in the Covenant which is not a good thing so that seems to be the first thing um means the signature this is God's signature within our flesh well and he also devalued uh the the staff of Authority or rulership that he had in his hand because that's what the the shave it that's what the Mata represented at least to Yehuda but he devalued it which the the staff itself right and that's what Yehuda was he was a Roa a shepherd and a leader and what do we know about Shepherds or leaders we'll talk about a king it says in Deuteronomy chapter 17 17. I think I have this on number four on the English Source sheet one of The Commandments to a King is basically do not become distracted by taking too many whys you have a role a responsibility and the verse says and he shall not take many wives from himself and his heart must not turn away and he shall not acquire much silver gold for himself the idea being that the more wives no no you know the more trouble no the more wives the more distractions you have okay so not only that what do you think about a person of this stature of um as Yehuda had Israel note it's not fitting it's certainly not proper it's it's not right it's not you're talking that a a leader amongst the Jewish people should be associating with um I guess they call it the oldest profession of the universe of the world and not only that as I mentioned the word patil that's the word used in Parsha sitzis the threat of we'll just call it uh blue but it's not blue it's actually tehalis whatever tejalus is but here we're talking about the it says his cloak so the special garment that he used that believe it or not it's hamatsili minarayos it's something that would help Safeguard against illicit sexual sexual relations and the clear card brings down the Gomorrah in menagos mem which you'll find on the number five on the sushi basically there's a story I'm not going to go through the whole story so I kind of skipped the whole middle part but basically there was an incident involving a certain man who was diligent about the Mitzvah stitches can you imagine he's really careful about citizens and at the same time he has an inclination and this man heard there was certain prostitute in one of the Cities overseas and she either was the most beautiful or the most desired or the most expensive whatever it was he had this desire to be with her and she usually took as a payment 400 gold coins he went ahead and he sent them to her and he fixed an appointment he was very you know yakish about it and when the time came he sat he came and sat at the entrance of her house and I skipped all the rest because I don't think now's the time but you could become familiar with this amazing story so he went up and sat naked at the top of her bed she two went up and sat naked in the meantime that cities slapped him across his face and the story is that she actually converted to Judaism uh it's let's just say it was a happy ending and they got married but um not here it was not a happy ending there it was a happy ending like at the end of the story so basically he did chuva this that sitza saved him from um you know continuing along the path that set him uh 400 zoos you know read in the bank and also um it took him far away from Marriage Israel okay so we see that citrus can save a person however in yehuda's case it was not the case why the truth is he gave it away he she even asked for it right she asked for these things these three things and he didn't have these these three things on him well he certainly didn't have the sisters because he gave his cloak away what the verse is actually telling us position not on schlossier Michigan that he gave over meaning he gave up it from his own possession for at least a temporary moment uh these three items as collateral and the clear car says it's actually coming to answer a very important question why didn't he remember why did he devalue his own the Holy Covenant his own circumcision his own signature of God in his flesh at that moment or right when he gave it up will be mateado as well as the staff of authority that he had in his hand as well as that sits the should be gadav that citizens that was on His Garment okay so why did he not remember all these three things you know what he gave them up he gave them his collateral because they were devalued in his eyes keep in mind you know this is the first paragraph where he's really laying out the problems therefore he didn't remember well he wasn't cognizant he wasn't thinking about the special signature that he had in his flesh Leticia Nathan shibiado because once he gave over the ring it's already out of sight out of mind so to speak so the Gautam it's very important means a signature even though we're referring to it as the ring okay a ring you could have used other words there's other kinds of it's just a regular ring but this is not a regular ring this is a Signet ring it's a special ring that gives over the signature and the impression let's use it like that the impression foreign therefore he didn't have the thing in order to remember the special signature that he had in his skin so to the staff he gave away didn't he it was no longer in his possession so too with the again that word patil which means Fringe but we're referring to it as the Garment hainu hatsitis that being the citiz these holy uh for those who are not familiar we're talking about the fringes on the Garment that a four corner garment that a Jew must put on he gave that over to her yeah therefore he was lacking he didn't have in his possession anything that could save him from his news so therefore just before we get into the next paragraph understand that when we have these three things first of all right we all all the men anyway we have the the the mark in the flesh okay the uh the circumcision and we bizarat Hashem were wearing stitches we may not all have the authority but we should realize that as God's chosen people we are as the Torah itself says you are a you are a a holy nation and a light to the Nations but we have a a big responsibility therefore we that says we are a kingdom of priests so every Jew should hopefully realize the that we all embody these three ideas okay what I'm about to bring out is a midrash now I don't have a copy of that midrash I don't know where to look for it but I have been told that the first Rabbi who coined the phrase my Sabo cinnamon the bunny is actually the ramban but I know the ramban did not make it up he must have gotten it from this madrish it's just phrased differently we have to understand what it means the actions of the fathers are like a hairbringer they are a foreshadowing they are setting in certain motion what the children meaning the progeny us will experience so what they experienced we will experience in a either very similar or almost identical fashion so he brings down he says according to The Madras the fish everything everything I'm going to say it again everything that occurred to our forefathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob that was a sign for the children even if they themselves Abraham Isaac and Jacob and of course we're talking about the the 12 tribes as well anybody who's considered the forefathers of the Jewish people it doesn't mean they were aware that this is going to affect the rest of jury but that it what their actions are set in motion so they may not have had this in mind okay that's what the clear card says Alpha Pisa was lordness they weren't they didn't have this intent possessed nevertheless this story about yahood and Tamar Parable nevertheless right within the story it's going to deal detail out to you we're going to show the details that that became that the assim what will happen happened as a result of this very story the hodia is in order to inform the Jewish people to inform us what will occur to us to the children at the end times at the end of History why that because what came out of this relationship this one-night stand so to speak through this act of taking on The Prostitute Tamar which wasn't but he certainly thought she was guess what comes out from it no could be her but came out from it came out from her but it's no lot so it comes out from it you know came out from it the goal Turn the Page sep zura Israel what's the word goel the Redeemer the Savior okay who came out none other than mashiach comes out meshiach comes out the savior of the scattered sheep of Israel I think this also we're already going to get into the idea that he had sheep with him but he didn't give her a sheep he gave her a goat keep that in mind and we're about to see why so the go L I just want you to know when we talked about in Jeremiah chapter 50 verse 17 you'll find this in number six that's what the Jewish people are called We're called we are the Sheep of God we are the scattered sheep of Israel okay now why didn't why did he send her a goat look at the Top Line in the clear card Mayhem what is the goat representative of we can see right here in Daniel chapter 8 verse 21 that the he goat is the king of Greece can't make this stuff up we're only we're on air of Hanukkah as I mentioned and I think we'll talk about this a little bit so if the he goat is the king of a non-jewish Nation specifically Yvonne okay he's giving that over and by the way on Yom Kippur there are these two goats identical goats one goes to debate the mikdash one goes to Hashem the other one is sent out to a cliff and it is destroyed basically and it carries the sin of the Jewish people I want you to keep this in mind because it's going to come up this idea that the he goat is the king of Greece that's the last thing we read and the clear card goes on and explains what it says in Gomorrah Shabbos 77b which we'll we'll discuss in a minute he says foreign that the rest of the Kings it's not just the king of Greece but it's the kings of all these other nations they're always going to come first like he sent the go to her then he this is good this um this idea that they can see success before we do now the good morning actually says like this I underlined just the middle part which is the the important part there was a famous Rabbi had an opportunity to ask another Rabbi a bunch of questions so he asked why do the goats walk in front of the flock of use ewes use these are the these are the Sheep so the goats walk in front of the Sheep so he answered to him and he said it is just as it is in in the creation of the world how is the World created first it was Darkness then there was light right as we see there was first evening and then there was morning so we begin with the darkness and end with the light so he says goats which are typically dark he uses the word black but I think it means like goats are almost always white and goats so sorry sheep are almost always white and goats are usually a darker color okay she said to them so too the uh the the dark goats precede the use which are typically White um let's move on in the clear car I think we're getting an idea here it's like we're building a very interesting picture here again we're on the arith the just a few days before Hanukkah and uh we're celebrating a rededication of the temple the temple itself is the edifice of bringing light into the world and the oven that grease represents Darkness it's very important just to bring that up so he goes like this Lama is a misage boratia so why are the goats LED first and the quote is Cabrio Island just as the world when it was created just as it was first black or dark I mean I think yeah so we're talking about the creation of the world just like there was evening first and afterwards there was light so balisa fake there's no doubt she is that this very question actually leads us into a great um mystery umos why when we go back to the Gomorrah or the statement he makes regarding this idea of Daniel chapter 8 verse 21 why is it that the Nations become much more successful before the Jewish people do and the answer is just as it was in the original creation of the world the first thing that was used was Darkness meaning created and used was darkness and only later is the light so too the Nations who walk in darkness right they roam around they feel their way around in this Dark World this world the physical world but only in the end of times the agriculture Israel then they will use the light that the Jewish people will emit the aim Khan Makoma says this is not the time to go at lent in this but I think I will just spend a minute maybe two because it's Arif Hanukkah as I mentioned Greece is considered Darkness and in the word is from the word hanuk now hanuk has many meanings but one of the meanings is which is education Hashem brought us into that dark Exile which was not as painful as the one following it which is the Roman Exile which is where the Adam the the Ed the Exile of Adam which we're in now it was a way of giving us a education as well as clinical preparation an education a preparatory education in order to endure this long much longer Exile see the Greek Exile made a bit you know from 200 250 years but this unfortunate dark Exile that we're in in Adam has gone on for almost two thousand years so the and can you imagine that even Jews who are secular well they call themselves sicker there's no such thing as a secular Jew but they feel estranged from religion nevertheless it seems like they still light Hanukkah candles now maybe because it's so easy right but nevertheless the Jew who has almost stripped himself almost stripped himself of anything Jewish Still Remains connected to these lights it's it's like an amazing thing if you really think about it that it helps us in our long our long dark exile now we understand what it says here in verse 16 mati tanli what what are you giving to me she's asking what what's the purpose of this relationship remember she really felt that Yehuda should marry her okay she wanted the seed of the mashiach so she's asking what benefit is there to me remember she's not like uh it's not like acting as a real prostitute so she's not interested really in the money so his response was I'm going to send you a kid from The Herd again if you read the Suki before he's got all the sheep with him for shearing purposes but a kid would probably mean we're talking about a young goat that doesn't need shearing so that's what he wants to give her interesting so the clear card begins to explain what does it mean I'm going to send you a kit from the herd I'm sending you the um now I'm going to have a hard time translating this but I'll try to get the point across the kings of the Nations who are the goats I think we saw that earlier in Daniel chapter eight we had only used the example of the king of yavan but nevertheless the clean car is reading into it that this is symbolic of the the kings of the Nations which I I want to say something I hope I'm not going to get banned but basically the the goat represents the Satan okay it represents the the negative forces this is one of the reasons why that the the the goat on Yom Kippur is sent out and killed but he says I'm going to give you from a kid of the herd but it's minute Zone okay so these the um how do I express it it says minute Zone Israel what I want to explain is a little bit outside of the the box here is like the when we send out the goat they're carrying the sin of the Jewish people so too the um the the kings of the nations of the world like Pharaoh Haman whoever these people punish the Jewish people meaning that the Jewish people deserve to be punished but they either went overboard or they stepped up to the plate when they shouldn't have had and God will punish them for basically it's like this remember it was originally our sin that brought the punishment or whatever it was on us but they were the ones who participated and therefore we suffered but they carried the sin okay so actually I'm going to speak about it Saturday night in the Tomah divorce here on me the number nine that God will cast our sins into the depths of the sea so I don't want to get too much into it now but basically that's what's happening that it's the meshiach it's through the mashiach that the Jewish people will be redeemed in the end of times and she so she so she said what will be the pledge right that's what she asked meaning How will I know how can I be assured that I'm going to get these um that that kid uh when I say kid I'm talking about the baby goat vashalah um and he went ahead and he sent to her meaning he sent her right there on the spot he gave to her the Signet ring the staff and the Garment and he says this hints to those three things these are the three things that guarantee the Jewish people will not totally assimilate and will eventually be redeemed the whole time we're in our Exile so we have like we said the uh the hotem ring right the staff the meaning when I say hotel I'm talking about the brisk kodesh the Holy Covenant in in in in inscribed into the flesh we have the concept of kohanim that we have a holy Mission and of course the holy garment called the Titus okay let's move on Michigan he's going to discuss the different um the different the the you know we discussed these three things he's going to talk about each one individually so the mishkan reshon the first collateral that he gave over was the kotama ready we spoke about it being the ring the Signet ring on his hand and then we spoke about it being the the um the ins the incision on his flesh which we call the circumcision but it's even more than that it's actually God's holy name it's actually the unit in the hay which is part of God's name God himself in the Holy Torah placed his name yunin hey on each of the the tribes and each of the father's houses within the tribes if you go to parsha's pinchas I'll tell you where it is it's in um and numbers 26 verse 5. where do we see it on the sheet and number nine so ruthane Israel's firstborn the descendants of Ruby and where you would never see it in the English the family of the Hano Heights from hanok the family of from palu so if you've seen the Hebrew it says there's hey added to the name in the beginning and a yud added at the end same thing with Hapa Louis you have a hey in the beginning and a year at the end and that's throughout so the question is why is that that the case I want you to look at Rashi on that he says you know this is what the nations would say about the Jews and it's not far from what they say today they say you're not the real Jews you're from the car rights or you're you know the Europeans or who knows what they make up all kinds of stories so here already Rashi wrote a thousand years ago which he obviously got from the midrish the nations are going to say you know you Jews you were slaves in Egypt and the the Egyptians ruled over you if you were ruled over by them physically then for sure they took advantage of your women and slept with your women which means you're not really Thoroughbred Jews you're a disgrace you're uh whatever your your ma you're a mixture of mutt you don't have any true lineage I hear this from the what do you call them the anti-semites until this day so let's look at Rashi since the nations were denigrating them saying how can they trace their lineage by their tribes right that's the lineage in the Torah according to their tribes do you do they think the Egyptians did not exploit their mothers if they the Egyptians mastered their bodies all the more so did they exercise authority over their women therefore what did God do he went out of his way he made the Torah he puts his own name yud and hay into the name of all the father's tribes therefore the Holy One Blessed Be he is appended he appended his own name to them the letter hey to one side the youth to the other side now you may ask I shouldn't even ask this yet but shouldn't it be good hey why is it hey good oh we're going to get to that so let's continue in the Rashi there's a famous verse King David I bear witness for them um actually this is just a statement in the the madrish I bear witness God's going to Bear witness for them the Jewish people that they are the sons of their fathers that's why he put the yood and the hey into their name and even King David in Psalms 122 verse 4. it says over there just if you want to look at number 11 real quick there ascended the tribes the tribes of God testimony to Israel so the very names of the tribes and the the the the the father's houses as they left Egypt as recorded for the 40 years in the desert that they have God's name embedded into them it's not an accident because it's not necessary to write let's just continue in that Rashi so we shift a call a doosly Israel so that's the idea that the tribes of God that's yudhay is a testimony to the Jewish people that this name the unit hey testifies for them regarding their tribes for this reason in each of them scripture writes with the hay in the hood um okay let's I just want to show you Rashi on that verse in Psalms 122 4. where it says the tribes of God so it says yudhay which is the testimony of Israel for the heathens were talking about them when they left Egypt and they would say about them that they were The Offspring of adulterous unions if the Egyptians ruled over their own bodies surely they ruled over their wives so said the Holy One Blessed Be I attest that they are the sons of their father I'm telling you they're pure they're thorough they're not um from illicit relations and he bestowed his own name upon them as we see that he added the letters of the name the yurden hey one on each side and this is the result of the name yurin hey is the testimony to Israel now let's go back into the clear card because he does ask that question why is it then that in each of the names you have the hey first and the yield at the end right if we're telling you God's name is embedded wouldn't it have made sense the yud and then the hey wait to hear this you have to be sitting down in fact I would ask for a uh a um what do you call it the drum roll but let's move on this is how time it works a signature works right it actually it's in reverse in other words if my ring had something written so if I put it into the wax it's going to be backwards so wouldn't it be better if my ring is backwards and then the time it is right but when it comes to God's ring it's going to be right and when it comes down it's going to be in the opposite and this is the way the Clear Car expresses it this is how the the the signature works it's in a mirror image that the way a ring works of God the Ring of her karishbaraku Isidro when it comes to his ring it's in perfect order but once it's signed sealed and delivered onto the tribes then the word the letters are in reverse just like any other signature or right Stan now he does bring a proof text in Job 38 14. I don't think it's for our discussion but just for a proof text uh 3814 says Joe the seal changes like clay so in Hebrew you wouldn't see it in the English but basically it's a reversal it's a mirror image okay that's just for um a text proof so again the stamp itself is serving as a not just collateral but an assurity every time that the Jewish people go into Exile God is with them there's a gomori Magilla 29a I do have it here it's worth reading I don't know if we'll spend time with it um you know what I will I will spend the few precious moments because it's worth it and number 13 on the source sheet Magilla 29a it was taught in a Brice said come and see how Beloved the Jewish people are before the Holy One Blessed Be he as every place they were exiled the Divine present went with them they were eggs out to Egypt and the divine presence went with them and there's a verse in first Samuel 2 verse it says that I reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt it's a rhetorical question the answer is yes when they went to Babylon they were eggs out to Babylonia the divine presence went with them it says in Isaiah 43 14. for your sake I have sent to Babylon so too when in the future they will be redeemed the divine presence will be with them as it says then the Lord your God will return with your captivity by the way that's in Deuteronomy chapter 30 verse 3 when we mourn over the temple we've mourn over the fact that we're in Exile one of the things that we should have in mind is that God himself is an exile and that we are praying for his return and not just selfishly for our own but we should feel the pain that Hashem has for his children that he went into Exile because we went into Exile it's like this unbelievable love relationship he loved us so much that he went into Exile when we went into and into Exile and the fact that we're in exiled and it's very painful but we think about the pain that God has for us that he went into Exile and that he would return so the continuation is it doesn't say he will bring back right in chapter Deuteronomy 30 verse 3 it says the Lord your God will return with your captivity it doesn't say he's going to bring back the Captivity but it says he will return which teaches us that Hashem himself the Holy One Blessed Be he will return together with us when we return from our various exiles okay let's move on we are where are we okay here we are so okay here so the last thing we said was everywhere we go into Exile the Shekinah goes with us and that's the name of the yud and the hey meaning the name yurin hey with the love in the hay are not living up to its fullness in this world it hasn't been totally revealed until we are redeemed once we're redeemed then the glory of God will be known through the entire universe everyone will have the knowledge of God it will be so obvious and by the way when that takes place we do know we no longer accept converts converts come when it's not as obvious right during King David's time they stop taking converts everyone wanted to be a convert said sorry it's too late right it's too obvious so Now's the Time basically how you miss when we are redeemed it's as if we're sitting around enjoying the food of the table of Our Father in heaven now in other words we're going to be having the temple and whatnot and we'll really feel connected to Hashem now this is a verse we're now going to discuss how he brings in in Exodus chapter 17 verse 16. which is number 14. and he said there is a hand on the throne of the Eternal and there shall be a war for the Lord against a Malik from generation to generation now this is a very cryptic verse in Hebrew it says okay for the hand for his hand is on the see it doesn't really it says case but a case here means he say the throne he say means a seat the Throne of God so let's see the Rashi for there is a hand on the throne of the Eternal The Holy Hand of the Blessed of the Holy One Blessed Be he was raised to swear by his throne to have a war and bear hatred against a Malik a Malik for eternity now what is the meaning of the word Cass case kafsamic as opposed to kissee which is usually what it would have been and also why is the Divine name divided in half in other words why are we only using the yuden hey what happened to the revenue the answer is that the Holy One Blessed Be he swore that his name would not be complete until and his throne will not be complete until the name of a Malik is completely obliterated and when his name is obliterated we're talking about a Malik then the Divine name will be complete and the throne will be complete okay um so that's when the olive would return to the word as he says well okay let's go into what the clear card has to say about this verse so he says Michigan the second um the second collateral that was given we're talking about the Garment so regarding that garment so there's the the olive of kise which is missing Hashem even the aleph itself just keep in mind the alith the aloof the aleph represents one because that's what aleph is the word aloof means like Mastery the general the like the master the right the one who's all over ruling in charge but also it represents God himself not just as one but a alephism is made up of above which is the slanted part of the letter and then you have two yuds one above and one below so the yud which is twice the good has the Camacho of ten which makes it 20 and above is six so 26 is the Gematria of anahe and above in a so if the aleph is missing there's something missing in hashem's name so hashem's name is not complete and nor is the throne complete until sometime in the future now he says that the word remember the the one of the um collaterals was the Garment that's referring to the census we spoke about because what is the purpose of the Cities if you recall it's a special color we're not going to call it blue but called Tequilas it's a greenish blue but you look at it of the titsis and it reminds you of the color of the sea which then reminds you of the color of the sky which then reminds you of the color of what the Throne of Glory back to the key say as we talked about earlier so here he says like this just as this particular color is similar to the Sea which you're looking at through the titses the yam dominicia and the Sea the color of the sea is similar to the sky and the sky the color of the sky somehow similar to the sapphire stones that are on the kise coven now if that's the case the clear card says the whole purpose of the census itself is to remind you of God's holy Throne which brings us back to the original verse in Exodus 17 verse 16 how the hand is on the throne of the Eternal the hayota patio and it's that very thread that very um we'll call it a threat because that's really what patil means but it's the Garment is it a ravone rem is Leota so it's serving as collateral in a certain way to be um the actual Throne of Glory which is greatly involved in being collateral Hashem because right now it's collateral because he goes into Exile with us and he's keeping us uh Jewish and safe and in the future his name will be whole and the throw will be whole and there's an interesting verse in Psalms 132 verse 13. so it says in psalmsion God chose Zion there's no question that's what it says but listen to what it says he desired it for his habitation Hashem lives here Hashem wants to be involved in the life here in in what we call Zion in Israel especially how to buy it now the word Eva it's like for the word right I'm sure you've all heard that word the Tavon or a tava means a desire so uh that's you can see it in the word but what is the word the makeup of the word his desire it's it's Olive and then it's above and a hey so the clear course says kyocios aleph hey that is actually the Fulfillment of God's name and the key say covered because you have like I said you have the um the love and the hey connected to the original yud and the hey which is missing the love in the hay and also the olive represents the name in its fullness okay the truth is there's so much more to do it's just another um the end of this paragraph and one more I think it's worthwhile let's continue with three lines up in this the second to the last paragraph um what does it mean that we spoke about this garment REM is in in Exodus chapter 39 verse 3. um the way they made um some of the um some of the garments for the coin was they they used Golden Threads and these threads these Golden Threads were also intertwined with other colors and one of them being the word the tequilas so in Exodus 39 3 in the Hebrew it says the kids meaning they cut out threads basically from the gold and they worked it into the blue wool which must have been absolutely stunning and amazing to see so he says not just the mishkan and its vessels but the mishkan and its vessels actually serve as the collateral so what is the word mishkan means the dwelling place of God it literally means that God wanted a house so he called it a mishkan in fact that's the name for the Tabernacle but the same word is used in reference to the templas also so there's a measure since most rabba that brings down from Exodus 38 21 I have that on page five it says these are the numbers of the mishkan the mishkan of testimony it just happens to mention mishkan twice and if you look at Rashi then why is it say Michigan twice this alludes to the temple which was taken as security by the true destructions for Israel's iniquities when Israel right it was taken as collateral for Israel's sins when Israel fully repents the Third Temple will be rebuilt so we have to understand in in Hebrew in Israel today the best loan you can get is a mishkanta is a mortgage because it's a lot of money for a long period of time with low interest and you basically give up the house is the collateral so that's how the word mishkanta is used for a mortgage it's the best type of collateral so the temple itself believe it or not the temple itself is our collateral God knew that we would sin and that we would have to pay the the worst price which is our own lives however he put the mishkan as the collateral and therefore this was the greatest thing Moses did not go into the land of Israel there's we have a tradition that if Moses would have come into the land of Israel the mishkan The Tavern the the temple that he would have built could never have been destroyed and that would have been our downfall but the fact that it was destroyed it was in place of the Jewish people's collateral for the Jewish people so it's mishkans twice as the clear car says that it served as collateral twice already for the Jewish people for their sins and because we shall see the third base of mcdosh and there will no longer be in Israel that would sin okay let's talk about the last thing about your staff umatra now we have at the bottom of this page five I brought down from the Chabad website that by the way there are five verses where yaakov has an extra love you know yaakov is not spelled with the extra love but There is five verses where yaakov has an extra vov and there are five verses where the word eliyahu Elijah is not spelled with the usual love that is written there so the question posed in this piece was why does Jacob's name have an extra love so the more the um the Chabad Answers by saying that yaakov took a letter from the name of eliao as a pledge that he will come and announce the Redemption of his children meaning the revelation of mashiach but another question was asked why was it specifically the letter above so the letter above by the way the in in English if you say V A V like it's referring to the above that the word the letter of or even I should say the word love means a hook it means a a a connecting like this a hook so the answer is the love means a connecting hook and you can see this in the pillars of the um the covering over the mishkan looking chapter in Exodus chapter 27 verse 10. over and over again the word used to refer to as attached by the hooks to the poles that support them and in Hebrew above serves as a grammatical function of Attraction attaching and connecting one word for to another like and like the word end The Love Therefore symbolizes Unity our present Exile was caused by Sinatra unwarranted hatred and dissension and it will end when the true obviously shrouds all unified when we are Unified um just another idea in the last mission in Eddie youth mentions the Elijah's purpose is only to make peace in the world as it says in Malachi the very end of the entire Tanakh well I shouldn't say yeah right end of the prophets the end of Naveen it says in chapter 3 verses 23 and 24 behold I will send you Elijah the prophet and he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the Heart of the children to the fathers therefore yaakov specifically took the love from Elijah's name as if to symbolizes that he would hook together he should hook together that his speedily unite the Jewish people so that they will Merit the in the immediate coming of the mashiach so I want to read now the last paragraph where the clear card mentions your staff see the staff looks like the letter above you're with me it's like a letter above okay so that staff is like the pledge that of the love of Elijah because Suraj the very shape of the love is like a staff and Hazard tell us and that's what I just read to you basically there are five times that Elijah's name is written without the love and there are five times that the word yaakov is written with an extra valve doesn't make any sense and the reason is took a pledge that tujakov he promised yaakov that he would come and he would be involved in the Redemption of his children perhaps therefore that's why it was specifically above he took the vov REM is specifically above because it represents the staff the staff that that Yehuda gave to Tamar that's was a shave it emotion that very special staff receptor of rulership that it's in the hand of Yehuda mushkan ayode hashama that's going to redeem us it's going to be the guarantee that we would be redeemed but basically all the days of our Exile all the days of desolation all the days that were in Exile there's this promise that Elijah would always come oh REM is love or perhaps it's a hint of the vov shall shame her God though Kenneth so we spoke about the name yud and the Hain above the Hague so there's above and a hey missing well at least the verb because you still have the hay so then the gods God goes into Exile and he's always going to be with us and he's he himself the yud and the Hand of the love is going to be the guarantee that it's going to come back and hey see in this world we only use the yurden hey okay and as opposed to we don't pronounce the full name now some says that God that he sorry that um that how do I read this that Elijah actually received some sort of slap in the face so to speak the hamisha is the five fingers on a hand which is used to slap is it's like five vovs meaning above is looks like uh the straight line and therefore the cold Ayla devarim Brewery in the Navy now this is the clear cars I'm going to say sense of humor he says all these things are clear to those who have on who are able to understand uku vote Hashem nevertheless the honor and glory of God is hidden in this matter is therefore the why should pay attention and develop this further so I'm glad I had the opportunity to speak to you here and um Hashem we should see you know this coming Hanukkah we should learn the lesson of but called anti-assimilation right because that's really what Hanukkah is all about training us not to assimilate and unfortunately right many of us have and all we are holding on to for dear life is those little Sparks those little Sparks of light that are down below tend to on the left side and that I'm saying this for those who who understand what I'm talking about down below tend to him to the left side of the doorway those little lights with the the most inferior of oils and Wicks which could be used is still shining bright and um you know a little bit of oxygen a little bit of Holiness can take you and bring you to such Heights and I wish you all a Happy Hanukkah I'm not sure if there's going to be a class next week but bizarat Hashem will continue learning nevertheless and uh I look forward to uh to seeing you again anyway I wish you all happy Hanukkah a shabbat shalom and of course a great life [Music]