The Uniqueness of the Prophecy of Moshe with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

anybody [Music] Shalom everybody welcome back to the human abatement welcome home to Torah a very warm welcome home to Torah we are doing the partial for those who have watched this before and were part shot by ikra Leviticus chapter 1 verse 1. now in addition to that I just want to stress a few things number one we use a lot of text this is very text heavy so I suggest you go down into the link below in the description box on YouTube and pull up the link that will direct you towards getting these sheets very important number two before we start you should also know we use the clear car that's the text we're using to uh to have this discussion uh which he always deals with fundamentals you know right the absolute fundamentals of Judaism uh tonight we're going to be dealing with prophecy a lot of depth to a certain extent a certain a certain extent a lot of depth and um I just also want to mention that pesach is around the corner and we do collect my uska to distribute so there's also a link below in the description box where you could in most countries get a tax deductible donation but of course you're doing it not for your taxes but you can benefit from that as well meaning you can give more because the government is going to refund you or Grant you less taxes however you look at it now here we go as I mentioned we're in Leviticus 1 chapter 1 and the verse says in English and then we'll do it in Hebrew and he just as he called to Moses so it's obviously God right he called to Moses because God's name is not mentioned the first word but then it says and Hashem spoke to him from the 10th of meeting saying now I just want to stress even though we're going to be dealing mainly with the small Olive in the word okay that's going to be the hot topic for the evening nevertheless notice it says lamework every verse that says lay more when it says God spoke to Moses saying it's always understood way more means to tell over very important however here we're going to have a greater insight into the word lanewar because of the fact that the very next verse verse 2 says speak to the children of Israel and say to them right okay we're dealing with that's going to be the main topic of the igra however we're just dealing with the small aleph and we're dealing with the word laymore because as I said laymore usually means to tell over and it is it's true that it means that here but it can't it can not only mean that here especially because of the following verse which actually spells out what laymore means speak to the children of Israel okay so let's begin first with Rashi just to understand that Rashi says that every time that God communicated with Moshe whether it's the adabe or whether it's the yomere or whether it's vietsav which means he spoke he said or he commanded it would always be always be preceded now this happens to be according to Rashi he brings this down not everyone agrees but that it was always preceded by God calling Moses by name in other words a very endearing concept so the word actually is a it's it's more of a greeting and an attention getter but as Rashi says it's the version of khabib it's a language of or an expression of affection okay so keep that in mind because what we're going to compare the prophecy of Moshe to the prophecy of Bila so just you should know that when it came to billum if you want to look it up already to numbers 23 verse 4 where it says via Carlo Kim El Billa that God if you wanted to put an olive there which it's not in the text it would be the same as God called out to Moshe but it doesn't say that it says via car viacar has a different meaning so if there's no aleith it's via car as opposed to vayikra which gives it a different meaning and a different connotation and it opens up a whole story here because what we're going to do is compare this calling out to Moshe literally as Rashi says it's very endearing and infectionate expression such as just as an example Rashi brings down when the Angels called each other in Isaiah 6 3 the Corazon right there too the word is calling out okay so the first thing Raj one of the things Rashi will I'm sorry the clear card will do is do is a comparison to the and we're not going to translate as God called out to billum we're going to translate that as God happened upon him almost almost random but it means a lot more than that I don't want to give too much away but Rashi over there okay let's do it Rashi over there on chapter and numbers 23 verse 4 he says the word via car that means the same word well it's not really the same word because there's no Olive but almost the same expression used for Moshe without the olive it expresses a casual meeting or occurrence now in Hebrew we're going to call it vimicry or arai but it also denotes something shameful an expression used for uh uncleanliness usually caused not only but caused by a seminal emission we discussed this in uh when we talked about parashat Amma Lake right where they happened upon you on the way and that was in the number chapter 25 where the word implied either impurity or even right impurity in the sense of a seminal emission we spoke about the act of um of sodomy or rape or or homosexuality over there that a Malik took on so to speak the weaklings in the rear okay also Rashi mentions in numbers 23 4 regarding villain that God appeared to him with reluctance and contempt okay now this is going to make a difference between his type of Prophecy and Moses's Prophecy again when we talk about villain's prophecy it was with reluctance and contempt he would never appear to him by day okay so when it comes to Moshe however he appeared to Moshe at all times or whatever time she wanted and meaning Moshe as well Moshe could call upon God and speak to God at any time as well just to get an idea the difference of Moshe and all of the prophets Moses was able to be standing erect meaning vertically and speak to God face to face mouth to mouth in fact God's voice emanated from Moses's own throat Moses was not in a state of a trance or a dream or any type of epileptic fit anything like that he was consciously he was awake and he writes as opposed to any other Prophet would go into a dream state of sorts and only then therefore there's also a difference between billum's prophecy and Moses Moses's Prophecy but one of the things we're about to be told by the clear car and he brings it from a madrish and that there is a equivalency or something equal there's something similar I'll just you read the words he says the Thomas sheldavar okay so actually let's begin with the clear car says so we can pick up the clear card immediately Begins by telling us after this he quotes the verse elifra Katana notice that the aleph of the word is small as if it's saying the very word we've been discussing via car right you have the word take away the Olive and what's left is the car small to make it as if obviously it's not but there's something about that word the yikar that we have to understand vitamo sheldavar and the clear card says and the reason for for what for the small Olive as if it's not there is in order to equate right to show you the similarity to equate the prophecy of motion to the prophecy of villain now what you may think is that they were equal in Prophecy they were not equal in Prophecy as the clear card will describe a few lines down but there is an equation there is some sort of similarity as we mentioned in numbers 23 verse 4 that the word appears now in order to prove this point the clear card does bring from midrash in bar and this verse the verse in Deuteronomy chapter 34 verse 10 that says lo kamba Israel kamosha ode now you'll find that in on number two on the English regime it's chapter 34 10 in Deuteronomy and there was no other Prophet who arose in Israel like Moshe whom the Lord knew face to face we're going to unpack this verse Willow come so that's past tense but it can also be present tense so there is not and there was not and Truth is there will not be another ode be Israel a another prophet in Israel and that's at least how we're reading it Israel in Israel kamosha like Moshe Adu Hashem Now We're translating it as whom the Lord knew but I think we the Clear Car will open this up for us whom the Lord allowed to know in other words who informed it was God in foreign motion it's going to play a very important point in that translation okay so when we read the word but Israel we we think we understand it as it will not be and there was not any Prophet like Moshe in Israel in or amongst the Jewish people and the Clear Car continues to quote the madrish of but amongst the nations of the world come there was there was there was risen up such a prophet umanu and who was that amongst the non-jews billah that's what the medjush says now the clear car is not at all happy with the way most people would understand and he wants to explain what it really means foreign do not think that the explanation is not that billum was equal to Moshe in Prophecy halilah now the truth is I have a number three the entire madrish that discusses this very point I'll just read it real quickly just the first few lines so it is learned that no other Prophet arose in Israel like Moshe locom Navi o'd be Israel commotion that means in Israel none other arise did not arise but amongst the nations of the world one did arise so that there cannot be a claim in order that a claim would not be made by the non-jews by the Nations to say and you can imagine them saying this you know if we would have had a righteous Prophet if we would have had a prophet like Moshe we would not have we would have worshiped the one God of Israel right and the major says it who was that Prophet that they had that was like Moshe that was Bill and the son of boor however the rest of the imagers actually goes into explaining differences six differences between Moshe and villain so if the magistrate tells there's differences there has to be one thing they had in common or at least one thing there was something they had in common but it wasn't in its entirety and so there are three things that Moses had that pillow didn't have and there are three things that billum had that Moshe didn't have and you can read that at your leisure in the meantime what we think it understood so far um that there was not um anybody like Moshe in Israel but there was somebody like Moshe amongst the non-jews and that's how we read it and that's how we understand it up until this point now the clear card is going to explain what it really means what does the meaning of there's an equation somehow there's an equal something equal about the prophecy of Moses to the prophecy of villain and this is it shamosha his what did Moshe have Moshe was able to achieve much more than he was fitting much more than what was fitting to receive according to his own preparation in order to be a prophet you went to profit school and what did you do there you worked on your character right you didn't work on your meditation exercises I'm sure that came later right the main thing is that you have to be a Bucky and expert in Torah you have to have a refined character you prepare your vessel and then as we mentioned about when it said God whom the Lord knew face to face in Deuteronomy 34 10 we're going to understand that that's from top down you prepare yourself from the bottom up but it's not up to you it's not that you have free choice whether or not you get property prophecy or not you you want prophecy and you prepare yourself whether the prophecy comes or not that's up to Hashem allowing you and informing you and giving you the gift of Prophecy that's nothing to do with you there's many people who went to profit school and never achieved prophecy at all but here what we're talking about something even greater so let's say for example Moses prepared himself that I'm going to make an assumption it was like a hundred percent 99.9 he was prepared as a vessel to receive prophecy and Mo and God gave him more more than 100 percent okay so that's what the clear card is saying this is the difference meaning I'm sorry in this case this is the similarity what is similar about the prophecy of bilum and the prophecy of Moshe the Moses himself received much more and we're going to see that has to be true by villum who was a scoundrel I mean he was a lowlife he was a sick man I have to tell you but I'm going to tell you the kinds of things that he did but he was involved in bestiality with his donkey let's leave it at that if he could do that he could do anything and then what do we know he brings down the idea and good like the verse I quote in Deuteronomy 34 10. whom the Lord knew I share yadu Hashem meaning God God to know informed let Moses know what it was let's use the word made known it was God who made known and the nuclear car says Hashem is not written whom whom knew the Lord It's not that Moses knew the Lord it was that the Lord made known to him and that is how to read it okay so you hear what I'm saying that this is actually telling you as Hashem that according to his own preparation to receive the prophecy that was not right it was over and Beyond that's not what Hashem made known to him because it was God doing the work man Motion in this case did all the Preparatory work down below and it was God who let no be known I'm going to just read this again that Moses according to his own preparation it was not that that made him aware of who God was Hashem yadu but it was rather than Hashem made known Venus and lo and actually granted to Moshe keep in mind these words because they're very beautiful Joseph additional abundance of bounty at least in the in this in the realm of Prophecy meaning over and above what Moses had prepared himself for now we do have the word be Israel what is Big Israel we think in Israel that's how we thought to translate it that billum sorry that Moshe was right he was a a prophet within Israel and nobody would be like him meaning there could be somebody like him outside of Israel no the clear card says Israel in the Merit of Israel it was on account of Israel as we'll see later on he describes it Israel but at least it's in the Merit of Israel and not necessarily even on his own Merit at least the whatever over and Beyond he prophecy was able to receive it was on account or in the Merit of Israel and that's what it means Israel commercial he's the only Prophet the only Jewish Prophet all other Jewish prophets only received what they were prepared to receive Moses received let's call it a higher level a much higher level but it was not for his glory it was not for his sake it was for the sake of for the Merit of the Jewish people as the clear card will now describe all the other prophets of Israel each one of them did not receive more than what they were prepared to receive now what about billum why would we say to equate the prophecy of Bila to the prophecy of motion within the Nations there was a person one who did arise who a prophet who did arise Israel was all for the sake of Israel it was done for the sake of Israel first of all his blessings are obviously very beautiful but it wasn't for his sake that's for sure in fact it was quite embarrassing I think he lost his job right over the blessings hired him to curse the Jews he couldn't even do what he was hired to do should he certainly received much more than he was fitting to grasp or to achieve according to his own preparation was which was probably almost nothing right how can we even think what he prepared himself as a vessel for the word of God I mean he was a greedy guy he was prepared to receive money and he would do anything to do that anyway so the clear card says he named it how you do it this is something that is well known and if you don't know it you should know it that whatever prophecy a prophet was able to reach was able to grasp was able to achieve that was fitting for him according to his own Preparatory work that very Neville that prophecy clung cleaved stuck to him and I think we're going to use the word not just as his Essence but maybe within we'll call his nature as we're about to read and that became so much of his Essence that he made an acquisition to ilu like a Kenyan that was the vaclo that's I'm sorry that was the VAC that was clinging to him Lo yifare Melo and it would not depart leave um evaporate it became part of the person's this prophet's essence and whether you want to look into the different personalities with the applicant Jeremiah Isaiah these people these great prophets they worked hard on themselves and their prophecy is in line with their personalities of our Koma but anything that a prophet was able to achieve and the only Prophet we said this any prophecy that he was able to grasp or achieve that was beyond this Preparatory work that's little bemikra the lobatsan that would only be and I like the word superficial it would only be by him like either happenstance chanced it's not part of the Jetson not part of this nature it's superficial it would only be a gift from God and this is what we're talking about what happened to Moshe and the truth is it happened to Villa it was over and beyond their Preparatory work that's why even though we say by Moshe since there's a small aleph it's as if the Olivet is not there obviously it's there there's going to be a reason that's going to be one of the questions that clear car is going to ask so if you're going to tell me it's the same so why didn't God write the toe have the toe written without the olive there is an olive there well that's going to play an important part and that's really going to be one of the the clear Christ's question so now we understand that the word of the akar is really written by both Moshe and by Billa to teach you what laharashus that they are equal in this in this particular fashion the message that there was to both of them this achievement but this achievement was not a permanent deep-rooted part of their nature that was added Nosa that was added over and above their nature now the clear card goes on it says Rashi this is actually going to help us resolve what Rashi had explained earlier so when Rashi said and we read it on Deuteronomy 34 10. sorry we read this in numbers 23 4. where um we said that God chanced upon billum and Rashi mentioned at least in Hebrew he says lushan arai the Lush and Tuma this is a language of mccret with arai and Tuma without the Olive and that's mentioned by billum now this is where the Clear Car asked a very interesting question on Rashi meaning he's bothered by something that Rashi went out of his you know went out and said I'll just give you some background Rashi is not making up anything on his own he's taking it from what you see behind me the vast Treasures of the oral Torah he wanted to explain what a simple shot the best or easiest way to read the text so he chose from amongst all the different esoteric deep possibilities and wanted to get out give it over in the most simplest fashion so he would call him a pashtan he's giving over a shot and he could have chosen anything and he chose a few a few examples within that Rashi such as Russian arai a language of temporalness and election of impurity and the clear card says you know it would have been enough if Rashi just mentioned one of them why did Rashi go out of his way to mention those two examples amongst others so he says in other words we want to know the difference between the prophecy of bilim and the prophecy of Moshe one is the car by billum and the other by moshes vikra and that's how Rashi Explains It by telling us these two examples wouldn't have one been enough elephant so the clear card is saying you know you know what Moshe I mean Rashi thought like I did the thesis the premise that I just laid out for you that's exactly what Rashi was thinking and then we're going to get into rashi's head and understand why Rashi said both of these meaning that this is what Rashi must have understood as well that the prophecy that Moshe had was the McRae meaning superficial and not part of his nature from the aspect that he was preparing himself to receive this prophecy the physical and that is what the clear card saying was bothering Rashi So Below Alice Clow so the question the clear car is really posing is if you go back to R Parsian vegra let the Torah write meaning why didn't the Torah just write the car El Moshe just like it says Villa the truth is there is an olive there so why did it why did it even write a small one came back he's claiming this is rashi's actually coming to resolve and to answer that very question why is there an Olive foreign remember that language that used by villain for your car it's a lesson of awry superficial happenstance guess what it's mahshmagam La shantuma it's also inferred within that language tumor both and that you could not say by Moshe it's impossible meaning what the tumor part khalili God forbid that's why there is an olive written by Moses name in order to exclude to remove Min in order to remove the language of mikra from Tuma because by Moshe it was the mikra in the sense that it was over and above and beyond his own Essence his own nature and therefore it was we're going to call it superficial is probably not the best word but that's the word we're going to use over and Beyond his nature nevertheless God made sure that there was an olive that was small by the by when Moses was called to read it the car as if to say right because it's small as if it's not there as if to say for your car to teach you that it was only bemic written opportunity listen to this that it was only in this category which we're going to call supernal prophecy right over and Beyond what he begets him by Nature was able to achieved because it was over and Beyond from the aspect that it was over over and Beyond and added to whatever he himself was prepared to receive as we have said okay and you could not say the opposite meaning that it's to remove the mikra and apply the tumor but it's to separate the tumor from motion that's why the olive is there by the way the olive always represents God so you're not going to mention Tuma in terms of God and for sure now the type of Prophecy that Moses actually did receive was a supernal prophecy I just want to talk this out a little bit we learned that the tour itself says that if you hear a prophet the prophet is a certified Prophet right he came with already experience under his belt the Sanhedrin is already recognized him he is a bona fide prophet and he tells you to do something and you don't do it the death penalty should be put to death that we don't have that today but let's just use this as an example to understand it that the Torah itself is what we think is prophecy well it's not and I explain why it's actually Beyond prophecy it's exactly what we're describing Moses's level of Prophecy it was over and Beyond as I mentioned that all prophets basically fell asleep or were horizontal and they woke up and described what they saw okay they describe their their Vision through Illusions and allegories and that's what they saw and that's what they described Moses was not like that in fact while Moses was awake Hashem actually when God spoke to him he spoke to him through his own throat that's a very strange thing but nevertheless that's what happened and therefore when God spoke right if you would violate any one of the six thirteen Commandments there's no death penalty except for a handful okay you have 613 commandments so let's just say you know whatever I'm throwing out a number about 36 of them would have the death penalty well guess what guess what we know that if you violate the other right 580 something you're not going to get the death penalty in fact many of the positive Mitzvahs don't even carry any penalty at all but if a prophet says to do a do an action you don't do it there's a death penalty and the reason is because the Torah itself is over it's over Beyond prophecy it's not prophecy it's super prophecy so when I say it's not prophecy don't get me wrong of course it's prophecy but it's not the same level as prophecy is what we're discussing here it's super prophecy okay now the last thing we said was that the ALF is small okay here we are we're actually in a new paragraph now when the last paragraph on the first page that the clear card is saying this is what the medrish was thinking the author of the measures was thinking when it was quoted this verse and this is the language of the medrish Hashem emotion is it possible to think that it was for the needs of Moshe himself the God spoke to him I mean who wasn't Moses let's say an emissary wasn't he a intermediate to a certain extent of transmitting the message of God to the people so when God told him everything that he told him or whatever it was that he told them was it for Moses's own sake that God spoke to him that's why the word laymore said as we said in the beginning the word Lamar always means to say over that's what it means to say over lay more however we said that this is a little bit of a um it's a little bit confusing because the very next verse says speak to the children of Israel so lame according to the clear card it's explaining as we said earlier that it was for the sake of Israel he says that it was for the needs of Israel that God spoke to Moses it wasn't for Moses's sake it was for our needs that God spoke to Moshe the lilithm not for his own needs and now the clear card actually explains this very beautifully by first putting a caveat obviously when you just read the measures at face value it's lacking clarification it's lacking an explanation because where would it ever come upon anybody's mind let alone yours why would anybody ever have thought for even a second that when God Gave Over more than obviously more than just 613 mixes there's so many Torah principles throughout the Torah from beginning to end meaning the entire Torah but he says why would you ever think that God spoke to Moses about the Mitzvahs he told them about all the Mitzvahs for the sake of Moses alone obviously not first of all I mean their misses they're just for women there's misses just for leafy which he was this was carniva she was not although maybe you want to say for a period of time he was but for the regular Jew I mean for a landowners he never even made it into the land of Israel obviously not you cannot say that and here's another good question was it only Moshe that heard the first two Commandments was it just for him first of all that out of all the Ten Commandments well some say that we heard all of them in in one how do you say in one shout out in one phrase We heard in one moment all Ten Commandments there is an opinion like that but almost everyone agrees that the first two we all heard we actually heard God speak to Moses which um I'm sorry that's all the other ones but we all heard um the word um if you look at the word even Torah right tough and race that's 600 and then you have a love in the hay Torah so that's 611. so there was 611 we heard from Moses called the Torah Moses 611 misses we heard from Moses two we heard directly from God and so anokhi I am the Lord your God and you should not have any other God that we actually heard ourselves so he says was it him alone no the answer is no we actually heard those two misses so eleven therefore when God spoke to Moses it was for the sake of the prophecy the advantage the high level of Prophecy that he spoke to him so two lines down towards the end of the verse the end of the line says that's why Moses actually merited the level of the car right because it was for the sake of Prophecy to tell over that extra level of Joseph of Prophecy that was over and Beyond his own ability to prepare that was a gift from God and it was for whom not a gift to Moshe it was a gift in order to give over to the Jewish people it was over and Beyond his own prep work that God spoke to Moses face to face for whom Israel for the sake of for the Merit of in the honor of the Jewish people the Lo babura not for his own sake and this is what it means when it says emo that it was for the sake of Israel that God spoke to him that it was for their needs that he merited this additional level of Prophecy not for his own sake not for his own nature not for himself as we said earlier in the verse Israel that was in um Deuteronomy 34 10. how do we read it we said the bet must mean that there was not going to be another prophet in Israel like Moshe and we said oh so outside of Israel there would be a prophet like Moshe that's how we've been reading it all along that there was another prophet-like motion not in Israel and that would be billum guess what we're now going to read the BET differently if you look up in your dictionary the word BET right the letter bet it's a prefix but it has meaning it doesn't only mean in or with but it can mean for the sake of on account of as we see now the usage of the term of the expression bet you know the letter bet as a prefix is on account of so Moses's level of Prophecy was not for his own sake but was for the sake of Israel when the Jewish people themselves sinned with the golden calf what did God say an emotion 34 verse 7 in in Exodus you'll find this where are we going to find it 34 7. it's number seven on the English version and the Lord said to Moses Lake raid go down what does that mean go down so in gumar brajos on 34A I'm sorry 32A number nine in the source sheet I only want to read the first part it says over there it's number nine on the English the gomori elaborates upon additional aspects of the sin of the golden calf and God said to Moses go and descend Lake reign for the people whom you have lifted out of land of Egypt have been corrupted so what would be what is the meaning of Lake rate of go and descend says that God said to Moses go and descend from your greatness Moses was elevated on account of us he received that extra prophecy for us and if we were not deserving of that prophecy then he was not deserving of the ability to transmit that prophecy because we were lowered he was lowered we're great he's great isn't it only for the sake of Israel so that you may serve me as an emissary that I granted you prominence and now that Israel sinned why do I need you there is no need for an emissary and we have verses to prove it in the in the Gemar Brothers okay so let's go on in the clear car he explains the words you're going to descend from your greatness what greatness was that mitoce from that extra abundance of Prophecy Israel that was granted to Moses on account of the Jewish people now the Jewish people were forgiven this takes place the golden calf in chapter 32 right then you have 33 you have the whole um Moses pleading for our forgiveness so in 33 verse 11 you see that there well that's before that so then there was going to be a forgiveness by Godzilla so after we were forgiven Moses was returned back to the status he had before he had earlier and that's what we see already in chapter 33 of Exodus verse 11. do I have it on here yeah number 10. then the Lord would speak to Moses face to face so there was a point where Moses would then um be able to speak to him face to face once again okay so that is the meaning over there and the Clear Car uses that verse to show you that he was returned to that status of the highest level of Prophecy after the Jews had dontruva and God forgive them for the golden calf the sin of the golden calf now the last two paragraphs are quite short and they take on a little bit of a different direction quotes to Yoko de madrish mode at least in the old days the children would always begin learning the Hamish at age five from vayikra I'm assuming that there are many khadari many of the the harei yeshivas still do this and they start the children learning from this Parsha vayikra why so the question is why would why is it accustomed to begin show teaching the children from the carbonos the things that have to do with the offerings so here's the answer Ma carbonoscaine just as the carbonus are not allowed to be blemished they have to be pure and um written they cannot be impure in any way they have to be completely pure so too that's how we look at children children are pure and they should know this this is why we begin teaching children the qurbanos as opposed to what I would have thought start with the Genesis the nice stories especially about Noah and the Ark that's great children's stories no you start with the qurbanos they should know they should know ready for this [Music] there's a few verses over there with the different qurbanos in Paris Pinterest it mentions that we would bring Crossing vineshana which means the sheeps that are less than a year old now in Aramaic and Hebrew as well there are certain letters that are interchangeable such as the sin which is really a shin but the dot is on the left the sin and Islamic are interchangeable so even though it says it is a sheep we understand in the in the in the madrish then what do these korbanas Dobson so the word cough bet crisa is is laundering to to launder to cleanse like bleach it cleanses the sins of man is and it makes the person it makes him makes him or her like and you'll you know you have to forgive me but when I say born again it's because we invented the term and they stole it but it this is what the Clear Car 400 years ago says and he's basically on the medrish this is the emergency that they this the corbanos cleanse a person and makes the person like a child who is almost newborn right bed shut up and this is another reason why we have a small Olive in the word remnants to him to you this is where the children the small beings should begin they should begin learning from here meaning they should be learning this from the beginning from the start because the aleph is the first letter of the alphabet so you're going to teach a child every child that's how they begin with whatever letter a is in your alphabet right you start with a and then you go to B and then you go to C so you're going to start with a this is where you start since it's the first letter of the alphabet now the last few lines are like this he means another level not alternatively like everything we set up until now is nothing but rather another explanation another level what is the language of elif elif is a language of limud now I'm having a hard time because always Limu means learning Lila made means to teach it's the same root and I want to preface this with the idea the rosh hashiva of Weinberg who he said to us and reminded us the students when it says right we all know there's a Mitzvah to learn Torah wow it's such a big Mitzvah we spend so much time learning Torah of course you have to learn Torah so where is it say in the Torah you have to learn Torah doesn't say it the rambam actually brings a verse and says this is where we know you have to learn Tara Vishing and you shall teach your sons one second now I asked the question where do we know you have to learn Torah and you're bringing me a source from you have to teach your sons yeah that is the source how else are you going to teach so the learning is all part of the the process in order to eventually be a teacher right you have to learn first you can't teach if you didn't learn so either it's it's not Preparatory and it's not like it's actually the Mitzvah so the roshiba says when you learn you want to learn properly you learn in order to teach and all my friends who are teachers I mean the truth is it says in the gamar already they ask the rabbis who do you learn more from your teachers your colleagues or your students right they all admitted they learn more from their students now theoretically you can answer that right logically and say well obviously in order to prepare for a class you have to really understand the the Homer the material and then in class your your students are going to ask you the great questions and this is going to help you when you go and re-teach it a second time to be more prepared that's all true that's that's all true but there's a statement that says when you teach your child and your grandchildren it says that it's as if the person is getting it from C9 now when I read that the first time I was thinking okay the child or the grandchild's the one getting it from C9 because he's learning from his grandfather which is like going back in the transmission like there's a chain link fence or what do you call it a just a chain where you're going back link by link so if someone's going to learn from their grandfather of course it's going to be like learning from cni no I want to say it's better than that what could be better than that watch this because it says if you teach your grandchildren it's like the learning from Sinai it's not talking about the child alone it's talking about the father or grandfather when you are in the process of giving it over you're getting a direct link that's Hashem is teaching you directly from Sinai meaning you're getting sigata the Shema you're getting Heavenly assistance to make sure you're giving it over correctly so go out of your way to teach when you teach you get a special seat of the Shema and that's that's all I want to say for now so back to the language alif is in fact in the Israel today they have oppon what's open and open literally means the the school where you learn that's what it means and so maybe think people think oh it's just a place where you learn Hebrew no it means like a uh a place where you really learn and that all pan is okay so there's a verse in job 33 33. you'll see little number 13 on the sourishing if not you listen to me be silent and I will teach you wisdom I will teach you wisdom but listen to the words if not you have to be quiet you have to learn to be quiet you have to still the ego okay and then God says I will teach you wisdom look at the Hebrew right the first owl of his eye the second is teach you and I will teach you wisdom remes what is a remnants to the hintis there's no way for your learning to continue to exist ing the only way for your learning to have permanent existence and maintenance is by one who makes themselves small like the Alice the thing Moshe this hints to the idea of what mosheem Korean Zoo he merited this endearing greeting by God not like billum which was the car which was just happenstance and and the McRae but in a real sense this um this greeting this kriya with an aleph the fish that Moses himself as the Torah says he is this the humblest of all the most the most humblest right he was exceedingly humble he was Martin attachment and what else did he do is bar up minasrara he ran away from Authority now that doesn't mean he ran away from the cops it means that whenever somebody wanted to give him Authority such as even God himself he said please give it to someone else there's got to be someone else better than me he said in Exodus chapter 4 verse 10 by the burning bush by the snack he said Lo ish Divine manoki I am not charismatic I am not a man of words find someone who's more effective and that's where the Clear Car ends so there's a lot of insight into the small Olive there's no doubt there's a lot of heavy duty understanding that we went through with prophecy the difference between bilham's prophecy and Moses prophecy as well as the prophecy of all the other prophets how they were different than Moshe as well um how how one can make themselves smarter by really you know getting rid of the ego making yourself small understanding that in order to learn and make this learning a permanent thing one has to really learn how to Humble themselves and I'll give this as a plug to the 48 ways to wisdom as in the uh there should be a link in the description box below one should learn the 48 ways and incorporate them in their lives according to the Ville nagoon one cannot acquire Torah unless you actually make a Kenyan you acquire All 48 ways first and then you can acquire the Torah and he bases it on I'm sure a lot of things but one of the examples he gives is the very dimensions of the Holy Ark which holds and contains the Torah okay and the dimensions are in terms of length two and a half almost and Alma is a cubit from your elbow to the tip of your finger which are six hand breaths so we said that is um two and a half so that's 12 that's 15 hand breads there's 15 on each side that's 30. and then the the shorter side is a is a um and a half so that's nine taffa nine hand brets which is really 18 because it's two sides so what is 30 and 48. so in order to acquire the Torah and maintain the Torah and hold the Torah one has to work on their character similar to what we said about the prophets the prophets can only attain prophecy by by working on their character and I want to say one more thing further regarding this that the the kuzari explains that there are four levels of existence according to the philosophers the Jewish philosophers however he says there's actually a fifth so get it like this you have the domain which is the inanimate objects the mineral world then growing from the mineral world you have things that grow from the ground right so that's summer that's the plant life the tree life and then you have animal life and they eat right in other words the the growth eats the minerals the animal life eats the things that grow and then you have what we call man man is Mida bear man is the one who speaks the clear card says that's well known in in Jewish philosophy however there's one more level above the Madame and that's prophecy and he calls the Jewish people we are a prophetic Nation so listen if you're Jewish you can tap in you can tap in make yourself small learn God's wisdom this infinite wisdom and you will have insights that are just beyond this world um if you're not Jewish attach yourself to the Jewish people through their Torah through their wisdom join their Community as they Bend off whatever it is okay so there's there's a lot there's a lot to uh to go through here I just want to sign off by telling everybody really have a great Shabbos partially right and we are um mom is just we just celebrated rosh hudish and we're getting ready for the ghoulash lame of bisrata sheb and here we made it we're looking forward to the the in-gathering of the Exiles right we miss our Brethren we're looking forward to the building of the Mesa mikdash we're looking forward to the coming of mashiachukenu our righteous Messiah and all the good things and all the value that come with eventually right the resurrection of the dead and all the good stuff that was just awaiting us so first of all have a great Shabbos a huxa Mac and we'll see you next week [Music] 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