Tomer Devorah Middah #12 AS YOU SWORE TO OUR FOREFATHERS with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] everybody love me because hey good day everybody welcome back to beyond the seven life from Jerusalem with Rabbi Aaron David Poston um where we've been doing a wonderful series on tomor devorah which has to do with the the 13 attributes of hashem's mercy and today we're on Part 12 so if you haven't caught them all you can go back into no high World Center uh feed and uh find the tomor devorah we've done them every two or three weeks um uh it's always a joy to be uh with the rabbi Poston in Jerusalem he's such a busy fellow and got such beautiful things to share and I'm really enjoying this series and from what he's been telling me we've got a great one today so let's just jump right in and see how the rabbi's doing Shalom Rabbi post and uh you're are live on the air we're going to turn it over to you sir to all your subscribers Watchers now and those who are watching later so that's everybody all over the world I guess it's still Shabbos somewhere in the world it's Saturday night 11 30 here in Jerusalem and it was a beautiful day great Shabbos got to see my daughters one flew in from the stage the other one came up from Tel Aviv I had a grandson born and um yeah brisp was about to channels tomorrow thank you thank you okay so we by the way so we're in number 12 meet a twelver the attribute the 12th attribute of the 12 of the 13 attributes of Mercy again like you said it's worthwhile seeing from the beginning for those who have no idea what we're talking about I'll just give like a minute and a half summary just get a so we can get going because we have a lot of um of Homer a lot of material to cover in a short period of time and I think that we're going to go very late so it's already 11 32 P.M okay so just an idea and a minute and a half um summary in uh right after the golden calf incident the center of the golden calf Moses prays for our forgiveness Hashem grants it and he says anytime you get caught up in sin this is what you need to do you need to not just say them but actually incorporate God says follow my ways just as Hashem is Mercy so too we should be merciful this actually brings such Shepherd down such abundance of Mercy into the world when we emulate God's attributes of mercy and we're basing this now on the prophet uh chapter 7 where he towards the end of uh of Mika he describes these 13 attributes of Mercy in a little bit of a different phraseology but they're basically the same as we know none of the prophets come to that they you're not allowed to invent a new religion what they have done and what they do it's very rabbinical of them is to uh explain what the five books of Moses is saying this we're referring back to Exodus chapter 33 so here in Mika chapter seven it's a deeper understanding of what has already been granted the Jewish people uh when we were in the desert so this one is called as you swore to our forefathers now just like to put in context number 10 and 11 it's good to also give a little bit of review so number 10 was Titan Ms liyakov giving truth to yaakov and number 11 was granting to avraham so these were dealing with other people now for us Jews we're talking about mainly how we deal with Jews but it actually applies to all you know how we interact with other people as well but giving true to yaakov was basically people who just followed the law they don't go beyond the law and by the way this is called beyond the seven because we here believe that even though there are seven principles and therefore seven Noah laws for the non-jews nevertheless as I mentioned rabbin Nissim many others believe and they understand that any amidst them in the Torah that is logical or ethical a non-jew is obligated to follow but not necessarily in the same strictness and the same details as Jews but to at least follow the spirit yeah make the world a better place sure yes right those laws so there are people who just follow the Commandments and don't go beyond the letter of the law nevertheless even though measure for measure God would normally behave with them in the same fashion they they behave nevertheless Hashem shows that mercy and goes beyond the letter of the law with them and number 11 because avraham and exemplified such hasid so that people who are do go beyond the letter of the law we have to act even more merciful towards them show them even more kindness so dumb number one to those of our let's just say people we have problems with difficult people people we interact with even though they are not hasidim let's say they're not Pious they don't go beyond the letter of the law nevertheless we should treat them with a lot more respect than they deserve and number two number 11 was for those who do exemplify and go beyond the letter of law of course we have to so now what is what does it mean as Hashem swore to our forefathers what is it that he swore to our forefathers now a non-jew could be sitting there well what does that have to do with me I hope through this session we'll have a better idea what perhaps Mazel means okay that means the let's say fate constellations and what nature brings you and how you can change your muzzle and as we do know I should say hopefully many of the people who are watching this understand that the higher level noahide meaning there are wise amongst the Nations and there's the pious amongst the Nations the wise ones figured out these seven laws based on only logic not necessarily because God commanded not necessarily because they even have or want a relationship with God but they just whatever I mean it's really hard to believe how someone can really follow these laws and not believe in God but let's just say they figured that they're not on their own they don't believe necessarily in the revelation of Mount Sinai now even though the six Mitzvahs were given to Adam and a seventh was given to knock they were repeated at Mount Sinai and it was there that the obligation really fell as a you know a continued obligation on all mankind because it was expressed by God at Mount Sinai so knowing that if some people just see it as a just way to live you know a uh a balanced way uh a civil way well if that's the way they look at it which I think is great but the truth is they start only yeah if they live that their whole lives like that and they don't change they will not necessarily be rewarded in the world to come but at least they will get some reward in this com this world and perhaps they kept the world from you know falling apart and disintegrating because that's not what God wants he doesn't want the world to disintegrate and fall apart but he really does want to give you the greatest reward possible so you have these seven principles these seven laws to follow but if you follow them because you know that there was a revelation of Mount Sinai God commanded you and also you have a relationship with the Jewish people which is going to be key in this in this uh um lesson because recognizing that there is a and this is like a dirty word a chosenness a unique relationship that the Jewish people have with God and as Dan and I were discussing beforehand the idea that you're gleaning the wisdom you're taking the Bible the the Jewish Bible the scriptures seriously and you realize I mean come on the Book of Genesis basically the creation of of the Jewish nation and then you have Exodus the unbelievable you know Miracles that took place until Mount Sinai itself and the beginning of the construction of the Tabernacle you have Leviticus which is all about the coinim and basically the Jewish people are as God says a uh a holy nation but a a kingdom of priests so we are the priests of the Nations and then you have numbers which is basically well let's say Leviticus I mentioned is all about the Priestly um uh activities inside the temple and then you have about midvar numbers which is really the 38-year history most of it is dealing with the history of the and and different laws and then finally the last 30 days uh 37 days of Moses's life you're dealing with um Deuteronomy so if you believe the Bible if you believe it just for you know at uh you know simple shot uh face value you understand that there is a unique special relationship that the Jewish people have so we're saying God swore to the Jewish forefathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob something and if you as a non-jew well let's say let's start with as a Jew and that's really what we're going to talk about tonight mostly um that there's a unique relationship of forgiveness and Grace undeserved reward and if we look at the Jews as a Jewish I I guess it's a little easier for me maybe I don't maybe it's harder for me but if we all look and recognize that the Jews actually have a special place and we should right right tell me if you right God says to avraham and later on to the Jews right those who bless you will be blessed so there's a mission involved yeah take this seriously so you can change your Muzzle you can change your relationship you have with the Jewish people by gleaning the wisdom the special relationship that God has and you could join in whether it's a full-fledged convert which we're not trying to convince anybody to convert it happens to be an option or to become what we don't exactly have gertosha but let's say the next level almost like a gear toshav to the extent that you are so enamored by the Jewish Community either you want to live amongst them or you want to associate with them or do business with them or give charity to them whatever it is uh in whatever connection you have maybe it's just through the Bible and you're learning right many of you are probably sitting and learning from rabbis all day long or an hour a week or in five minutes a week whatever it is your connection to the Jewish people can change your muzzle which we're going to get into get can change your fate can change your success can change your Prosperity can change your can change your entire existence okay so apparently God made a covenant with the Jewish people that's big news but before that at Mount Sinai he also made a covenant with Abraham Isaac and Jacob and it's true he made that he made a covenant with no with knock these are different levels of commitment of Covenant so God did swear to our forefathers so let's start with the Thomas davara for those just who are not familiar over my left shoulder uh the the remark wrote this about 500 years ago approximately because anyway that's when he lived and um he was a big kabbalist and spot and you can listen to the introduction to hear more about him so let's get into the text okay yes right this is big news there are actually people on this planet right out of eight plus billion people some of them are not acting properly right just just you should know just in case you didn't know that Hashem has Mercy on everyone that's already a big statement right like I said I got a lot of material here to go through now we have a verse in um Exodus chapter 33 verse 19. so if you want to read the English and then I'll focus on some of the Hebrew words and Rashi 33 verse 19 Rabbi you said correct uh it says he said I will let all my goodness pass before you I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you and I will favor when I wish to favor and I will have compassion when I wish to have compassion okay look this is very complicated and we have to unfold we have to unwrap there's so many layers of an onion here God did say this to Moses to tell the Jews when you're in trouble when you want you have sin and you want to be um relieved we have troubles in general you say this and this is a very very special segula we do say these constantly um but it's not just saying them it's actually incorporating them and following these this part of the 13 attributes in this chapter and this was like almost like an introduction to that so in Hebrew it says that's the first part of what I want to bring out I will show favor to him I will show favor and the latter part is and I will have compassion to whom I have compassion for now really I have so many things in my head I'm trying I'm gonna try my best to give it to you in a very um a clear order although I think I will probably not do such a great job and I want everyone to forgive me for perhaps you know any mistakes they're mine okay I have a lot of material here uh let's just find out what Rashi has to say on this verse so Rashi says right in the beginning it says I will let all my goodness pass before you so what does that mean Rashi says the time has come that you shall see some of my glory that I will permit you to see because I want and I need to teach you the order of prayer because when you had to beg for mercy for Israel you begged me to remember the Merit of the Patriarchs what is this we have to unfold what does it mean there's Merit of the Patriarchs that the Jewish people and for that matter even non-jews can somehow tap into the the they were righteous these people Abraham Isaac and Jacob they were unbelievably righteous and they earned so much credit in the bank so to speak and we're his descendants and we're not on those levels and I don't know where the non-jew is but perhaps they're also not on that level now um I'm going to quote from Rabbi I'm going to call him a doctor also but uh Rabbi Dr Henry Abramson he gave two examples of what does it means in the Merit of our forefathers these are illustrious ancestors of ours just keep in mind avraham is Ava mongoim he is the father of many nations you know we have whether I don't even need to mention the other religions but all the religions of the world that are somewhat you know helpful to the world um are you know coming through his seat right even the ones to the Far East it says he had six additional sons from qataret or Hagar I hope you want to look at it and he sent them to the East and we had at that time uh Buddhism and Hinduism anyway so all the world's religions to stem from you know the illustrious avram himself um okay so having that in mind that if one Taps into this idea because it's like unbelievable I don't want to get too far ahead of myself but I keep thinking of these ideas to throw in so I'm going to throw it in now and I'll have to talk about it again later like if somebody is from you know a Jew to a Jew or maybe even a person who belongs to any of the others religions who claim that Abraham is their spiritual father so how can I disgrace that person I would be disgracing our father I mean this is already like getting into where we're going with this having Mercy on people who are not fit acting appropriately but they at least say they believe in God or they believe in a religion that comes from Abraham why wouldn't I I mean if I disgrace him I'm disgracing our um shared ancestry I mean it's really a disgrace to me as well so to be very careful and that's where we're going to go with this but I wanted to give you two examples from Rabbi Abramson so imagine you have a checking account I'm sure many people do and you keep a ledger because if you know that if you mess up you know if you bounce a check it could really mess you up in business or even in friendships or whatever you know it's not a good thing so let's say several people and whether it's a company or a marriage a right instruction the same account and you're not keeping track so what one could do and the way he described it is you link your savings account to your um your checking account and therefore if God forbid right if for some reason because you will be charged but you won't bounce the check and so what will happen is if you over would overdraft you tapped into the overdraft basically so your check will be honored now you don't have the money right think of our credits I don't have the credit but guess what when I'm in overdraft I can tap into the the the merits of my forefathers it's like having a checking account and I'm going to overdraft I can tap into the savings account okay so that's one example that he gave another example he gave with his um family and they have I guess a package deal with their cell phones and I'm I'm really not familiar with this here in Israel because we don't have it but I do know the concept it makes sense they're called um uh rollover minutes so for example you get x amount of minutes on the phone x amount of text x amount of time on uh on the internet whatever it is so so let's say one p one of the you have three phones or ten phones on the same package and one talks too much meaning they go over the border the other one text too much goes over the other one but but if they could somehow share whatever however the rollover minutes work whether it's interphone or something like that that as a package deal that you're all included right because all five or ten phones were guaranteed this many minutes for that but they were overused by one but underused by others so somehow another this idea of rolling minutes you're tapping into something that you're not really privy to but because of the Covenant because of the package deal you get to benefit from something that perhaps and we're going to call this idea because we have to Define what Hain is because if we read the verse correctly right in Hebrew so the word is used twice as a repetition of that word so what is Cain is Grace it's a free gift it's um it's may may not even be intellectual it's an undeserved free gift and it's also unconditional and there is no measure these are very important under things to understand now the same word was also used by Noah okay so there is this idea and I want to tap it into the in terms of um the noahide um people relevance now there is no question right once you believe in the Bible that there is this unique relationship that Jews have with God and it's unlike any other nation which is exactly part of this conversation that Moses has with God in chapter 33 which we will discuss and so what we began to say in the in the um I keep saying clear cut in my head in the uh Tomah devorah right there are those people who just act in improperly they're not they're not acting befitting they're not acting appropriate yet Hashem has Mercy on all and we started with this verse in Exodus 33 19. I shall show favor to those who I shall favor which what in the world does that mean so we started to discuss what Cain is Kane is a free gift undeserved okay now it does say who act improperly it does not use the word Evil later on we're going to see the word evil apply but in this case so far Hashem is showing because we know that if you give Mercy to those who are evil that's misplaced mercy so it seems at least at this point we're not talking about anybody who's evil they're just they don't know how to behave it's just inappropriate I wrote down a few points that I want to mention I'm not sure how to do this um okay I'll just list the like the bullet points number one we're not talking about who evil people just people who are acting improperly we see that Hashem cares okay and we'll see why you know what let me read the rest of this paragraph it's very short now this is the Gomorrah we're going to look at it carefully this treasure is for those who do not act properly now this is out of context because I have to go into the Gamora to explain that Moses was taken up to the Heavenly spheres and God showed him all the different treasuries all the different rooms um how you say treasury houses yeah Warehouse is very good um and we're going to discuss it and I think we should discuss it more in detail but basically you know this is for these people who did kynax for Orphans these are people who did Mitzvahs right and then Moses sees one that's just huge it's like I mean I can't even I don't even know 100 times or a thousand times or a million times bigger than all the others and God says this is for people who do not act properly I mean that's crazy what does that mean so that actually there's a there is this is how the Gomorrah explains there's a treasure House of Grace that a cottage bar who Graces and gives them as a free gift so that's what we're gonna have to talk about so number one we said evil it's not evil it's just acting improperly number two that God does Care number three that there is this special treasury that is going to be dispensed for free but there's still criteria in other words if I come to a another Jew for a loan and I want an interest-free loan or you goes to get a loan they want to make sure you can pay it back so they want to look maybe at your age maybe how long you took a residence maybe you have a mortgage whatever criteria so they may give you an interest reloader they may give you as a non-jew a very good deal right so there are criteria for this I'm going to call it a free gift when you're giving charity so even when you come for charity they want to make sure that you're not maybe a drug addict or that you really tried to get a job whatever it is okay now let me just read the Hebrew Because the actual phrase is that this storage house that he showed Moses was bigger than all the other storage houses was for those who are not acting properly what does that mean yes there are many of the storage houses that are for those that have acted properly because he's mamish graceful he's showing compassion he's actually giving them a free gift and um now let's just read the next paragraph and I'll go through some of the other bullet points um the fisherman God says you know to Moses what this Treasure House is is because they have they have this Merit that they didn't earn but it was granted to them because it was earned in previous generations through their parents or grandparents right now I just want to say I talked to other Jews and I say you know you're not so religious you think you're not so religious you don't want to be connected to the religion and I'm like one second why what what's going on here you don't believe in it okay have you investigated it we're talking about Heritage or Legacy or something right yeah so I say to them do you realize I mean you you seem to be proud that you're a Jew but you don't want to do any of the responsibilities so I I said one second the only reason you're Jewish is because your great great grandparents suffered to keep Jewish to stay Jewish not that they suffered not everyone suffered but some and many times they were willing to break the ice in the in the in the pond just to go to the to the Mikvah at that time of the month for the woman or to risk their lives to give a Brit Mila to their child um to go out of the way and spend extra money taking Kosher meat right there's so many or to wear a wig or to wear something over their heads when other people might make fun of them there's all kinds of things that you know our ancestors did to remain faithful and we're not even taking consideration they weren't stupid people I mean we come from them right they were Pious they were righteous they provided an education for their children so that we can be here today there's so much things they did isn't it worthwhile to check out and investigate why they were so willing to make the word sacrifice instead of suffer willing to sacrifice certain comforts right even money just to provide to be able to do the Commandments of God according to the Jewish religion so you know just to think about that now the truth is it should also apply to non-jews you're here as well because of your father's father's father's fathers who accepted perhaps a religion or a faith or they kept Morrow they ended up in jail or you know they didn't go to war and and commit harikari and suicide right I mean they're they're you're here today because of some Merit as well for doing the right thing Perhaps Perhaps I don't know everyone has to ask themselves so there is this thing called screws avos and God actually swore he actually swore to them you'll find this if you go to um in Genesis 22 16. that God actually swore to I mean it's not the only place he swore to them but here's one example if you want to read it 22 16 says and he said by myself have I sworn says the Lord that because you have done this thing and you did not withhold your son you you're only one he's talking to Abraham obviously yeah right so many times God made covenants and told him how much he loves Abraham Isaac and Jacob and that he swore and so here's just an example the sacrifice that Abraham was willing to do which really made no intellectual sense whatsoever um other than obedience and God swore hello me I'm sorry one second right it's part of the um foreign says God so yes he is sworn he's sworn what that there will be this Everlasting Covenant it would be unique relationship and that um so I'm going to just read here um yeah verse 17 has all the blessing yeah I swear to the forefathers meaning that even if in the future the the Jewish people Israel doesn't act properly yes that they will Merit they will be this um roll over a minute so to speak that would be the idea of going from the checking account into the savings account to withdraw so that it could save your you know okay so the peacock and again this is very interesting this is like I would highlight this line so the fact is that even though if the future children act improperly they will Merit because the descendants of Abraham Isaac and Jacob to whom I swore and now drum roll please consequently I will lead and guide them until they are rectified so you have a book called The Bible you have the five books which is just the first part I mean I don't know if it's a quarter of the book or you know what I mean it's a very small part of the book here so here you have it right it's a very small part of the book the rest of it's the prophets the prophets that's God's continuous guidance continuous involvement in trying to rectify it's from his attempt whether we did or not that's that would be our that would be up to us but consequently I will lead and guide them until they are rectified there is a constant involvement that's why we're going to talk about this why do bad things happen to good people or why do bad people sometimes Prosper this is really part of the key of the conversation that Moses had with God before he revealed these um when he revealed these attributes of Mercy okay so I want to sum up some bullet points here number one so what is scootavos it's not just protection but it's remaining pure as well and another bullet point on this is that he swore to our forefathers that he would take care of their children that would be us Jews and anybody who connects to the Jewish Bible connects to the uh the philosophy of Abraham okay now let's go into the last paragraph this is how a person should act well how should a person Act ing even if a so someone who's really evil now I think it really means evil in terms of uh Behavior not necessarily the person himself is really evil so and why do I say that because we know that if you're really truly evil you don't have any kind of Mercy on these people the problem is that we assume they're evil because they're acts so if they act evil Oz I'm sorry don't act cruelly to them foreign or don't act um in try to humiliate them either but you rather you should have mercy on them and what should you say so so Yakov you know in the end they're just like me they're children of Abraham Isaac and Jacob sharing you know what if they're not um kosher you know they're not acting properly guess what I will say him share him their own grandparents great great grandparents were certainly kosher they certainly acted properly now I'm going to read this in English and then I'll say in Hebrew a person who disgraces the children disgraces the forefathers so yeah pay attention listen the Jewish people have made mistakes we're the first ones to admit it this is what the whole this is what the whole Bible we're the Publishers of the Bible right I'm not talking about the five the first five the first five it airs a lot of dirty laundry sure and but the rest of it the rest of it is rabbinic uh these are the rabbinic leaders right the prophets were the accepted rabbinic leaders okay they came we we heard we didn't always listen great but it's all published by whom the you know from the unshakeness of the godola time period that the Bible was put together I'm talking about the latter half you know the the prophets and the writings so yeah we're the first ones to admit they're not where we're not perfect but Baruch Hashem we have a lot of friends right no hides who actually help right they say hey aren't you supposed to I was great a great friend he says you know I mean these Jews they're in denial they don't believe that they're you know the chosen people I tell them man you're the chosen people you know get with the program do the Mitzvahs right don't intermarry don't go to church just go to synagogue you know so they there are people who are helpful in this idea again what does God say that I will lead and guide them until they are rectified meaning there's hope he cares he loves us so too whether I'm Jewish or not and I see a Jew misbehave am I going to love him and guide him and help them until because that is following God's footsteps this is what God wants this is what he's involved with so therefore I too don't have to you know there's an idea when you give rebuke right so you you're gonna pull closer with your right hand which is the mercy same time you're going to push a little bit with your left I don't know which comes first doesn't matter maybe it does but the point is you don't want to just push away with your left you need to pull together maybe simultaneously with your right um so going back to this idea a person who disgraces the children disgraces the forefathers ain't resignation basically you don't want to you don't want to ever disgrace the forefathers right so in other words if you disgrace the child you're disgracing the forefathers do not want their forefathers to be disgraced because of me we're talking about Abraham God God says Those Who bless me will be blessed that's including his children he should conceal their shame and help them Rectify as much as he can say um so now if the person is in complete Russia now that means what does it really mean if you're a complete Russian means you're probably causing other people to sin so that is a line that has been crossed if someone is sinning privately and you know about it that doesn't make them this kind of a Russian in fact they're probably embarrassed to be sitting in public so that's already a plus right that's a positive thing and they don't want to execute them excommunicate themselves from society as a whole by sinning in public so there's already a shame on their own there's already an embarrassment on their own so you can reach out to this person and try to help them and we're really going to talk about the idea of having grace and mercy on them to the point that you're going to bring in more grace and mercy into the world that's the underlying thesis of the entire time of devorah how you cannot just help yourself right you're changing yourself by following God's Ways by following these 13 13 attributes of Mercy but you're actually drawing an example a little example sure by drawing into the world these these um these ideas um okay I want to get into so much so we'll start with what do I have here let's go to bracho 7A um oh here it is okay good morning brothel 7A um basically I'll sum up some of it and then some of what I want to read because it's really um helpful for this discussion we're having let me just pull it up here okay here we go so there is a discussion between ribioconon in the name of Ruby Yoshi and Ruby Mayer now we usually do not go with rebymair when his name is mentioned however this is not a halacha this is more like a philosophical discussion however it could be that's enough that we're not going to go by red mean there so I'll quickly discuss the other opinion that we probably do go with I'm really going to skip over it because we're talking about ready Mayer's opinion this whole discussion is based on repeat mayor's opinion so the the Gamora actually says that Moses asks God for three things first thing he asked him is that if you uh quite complicated I don't want to confuse anybody but if you go to Exodus chapter 33 verse 15. sorry 16. at 33 16. 33 16 says for how then will it be known that I have found favor in your eyes uh I and your people is it not in that you will go with us is it not that you go with us so Moses asked God that the shrina should rest with the Jewish people God says you know I'll send you into Israel and I'll just send my agent No No Moses says no we're going with you if you don't come with us we ain't going so there's a special relationship that Moses wants to continue on with God and that's clear when he says right if you don't go with us we're not going basically now in that verse itself the word is used so there is this idea of finding Grace in God's eyes meaning a free gift something undeserved now continue with the verse oh my God um is it not that you will go with us then I and your people will be distinguished from Every Other Nation on the face of the earth now this is Moses asking God number one the first part of the verse you go with us and number two don't go with any other Nation you made a covenant with us now I want to give a little bit of depth here Moses understood better than anyone else that if the Jews do not act properly God would be willing to separate himself with them kill them off start over with Moses I mean that's the whole idea that Moses says no no wipe me out of the book which is coming up this week right and that's why in this week's parsha's name isn't even mentioned okay that's not for now the point is it sounds very strange I get the idea join us have a relationship with us a very unique and special relationship but why should Moses ask but don't have that unique and special relationship with anybody else any other Nation we're separate keep us separate and an Insight is like this and this is very good for no hides to know that again the background the back story is that the Jews sin with the golden calf some of them okay and God was willing to wipe out and start over with Moses as Moses going to do it I'm going to start with you so what does Moses say to himself you know I'm not going to live forever with these Jewish people right I'm gonna die they're gonna go into land of Israel and they're been a sin you know what God's going to do he's going to say you know what is what the Christians say right I am going to start over I'll just you know I'll find another group of non-jews who keep the seven Noah laws like like Abraham he was a non-jew that kept all the seven Noah laws and was a Pious person and I chose him so after Moses would die Moses is concerned I won't be around to negotiate and try to get God to keep the Jews around so I'm gonna while I'm alive I'm gonna make God swear that he will never choose another Nation no matter how bad we are and no matter how good a group of non-jews will be God will never displace us or replace us with any other Nation it's clearly written right there I want you to read the best part of that verse again the first part since he said well can you read the whole thing but I want you to focus on the second part of the verse okay the second part of the verse he says then I and your people will be distinguished from Every Other Nation on the face of the Earth okay so Moses was saying do not make a covenant with anybody else in addition to what we have okay you won't get rid of the Jewish people when I'm gone promise me I just fought for their lives I I you know what I mean I God says I'm going to start with I'm going to start a whole new nation with you get rid of the Jews and Moses fought for our a very existence and he won he won that negotiation hands down and he wanted to make sure it was solidified that after he died it could never be again now so we I don't know if I start off by saying the opinion of revokana neighbor of Yoshi was that Moses asked for three things number one that God should have a special relationship relationship with the Jews number two that he should not have any special relationship with anybody else and number three which is where there's a mock Locus is the third opinion is that he asked why he said Show Me Your Glory in other words go to verse 13. and 33 verse 13. verse 13 reads and now if I have indeed found favor in your eyes pre pray let me know your ways so that I may know you so that I may find favor in your eyes and consider that this nation is your people right so even though the word appears right at least twice that I see right here and you're you're dealing with the same idea but he's asking I want to know your ways what does kazal tell us he wanted to know why do good people sometimes suffer Obviously good people also Prosper but what really bothered him is why do good people also sometimes suffer and of course bad people suffer but that didn't bother him so much what bothered him he wanted an answer why do bad people sometimes Prosper so that was really the Crux of this question that Gamora goes into some really interesting ideas I don't want to discuss them because that would take us away from rebby Mayer rebby Mayer says that question was never answered God said I'm not going to answer you but rather I'll tell you that I will show favor to whom I will show favor and I'll be merciful to who I'll be merciful and it's basically none of your business this is the right this is the Crux of the matter so if rebby Mayer is correct then we have a discussion now I don't know if he's correct or not it's irrelevant this is not a holotic discussion this is a philosophical discussion so I found a very interesting answer in the malbum that discusses the idea here and this is where I think that there's a good insight for non-jews as well so the malbum explains that the argument between about this verse this very verse I will show Mercy I will show Grace To whom I will be graceful to him thank you and this is referring to people who are not fit they're not fit and yet God's showing them Grace again we have to work out within our personalities and our whether it's anger whether it's the love we have to figure out how not to embarrass them how not to um you know be ungraceful and unmerciful I know if that's even a word but we have to follow God's ways this is what he says about people who are not worthy right before I read the marble let me just go through the measures itself that discusses this idea a little bit clearer um just a little bit clearer so I don't know where to start I'm going to try to get to our Point here so we I mentioned that um okay let me just read here I'm going to read it in English because it would take too long to translate back and forth and what it was written above so it says I shall make all my goodness pass before you remember the verse we discussed and this is alluding to the attribute of beneficence and the attribute of Retribution okay and then it says I will be gracious when I choose to be gracious now all this alludes that at that time the Holy One blessed me he showed Moses all the storehouses of reward that are designated for the righteous so Moses said regarding one particular one who's this for so God says that's going to be for those who perform commands and then Moses asked about another one who's this Storehouse for he said those are who raise orphans and God explained the purpose of each and every Storehouse afterwards Moses saw a great Storehouse and he said who's this for and so God answered him he says he who has good deeds to his credit I give him from his own reward but he who does not have good deed but he who does not have good deeds to his credit I perform for him Gratis and give him from this storehouse as it is stated I shall be gracious when I choose to be gracious and I shall be and so therefore right I shall be gracious when I choose to be gracious means to one whom I desire to be gracious and um there's a tremendous idea here brought down it's called unreal unrealized virtue contrary to what one would expect the midrash here implies that the store hair the storehouse designated for those who leave the world empty-handed is greater than the ones reserved for those who have accumulated a wealth of good deeds in other words all these other storehouses where people did things my seem told him actions though those were smaller than the one for the ones who didn't deserve so what are you going to come away with going to walk away and say well I guess if you don't deserve it you're you're better off in the long run no so there's a beautiful explanation here people of great spiritual accomplishment he observed sometimes imagine themselves imagine themselves as supremely worthy individuals but the truth may be somewhat different people of this type are often amply endowed with Talent wealth favorable personality traits and are so well suited for the Endeavors in which they excelled that they would have achieved even more had they been more eager and attentive or more generous with their time and resources as a result when they are judged in the next World they actually may be found efficient in light of God's high expectations of them right when we go to heaven God's not going to ask me how come I wasn't like this other guy he's going to ask me how come I didn't fulfill what Aaron David was supposed to fulfill and I may have rested on my Laurels thinking that I'm so smart or so rich or whatever good look whatever it is I have no idea but no they will be rewarded of course from the story houses embarked earmarks for the midst as they performed but not as lavishly as they might have anticipated there are others on the other hand whose achievements pale besides those are the first group meaning they never reached the levels of accomplishments of the first group but they are nevertheless more highly regarded in heaven these people yearn to serve God with all their hearts to increase his honor in the world and share our goodness on the people around them and indeed do so to the extent they can but this will be very important because I'm going to give you an Insight on the run on the Melbourne owing to their personal financial or situational limitations I'm going to call that either nature or Mazel okay in other words it's beyond their abilities they were born into a poor family and they never had the resources to have so many Shabbos guests or to give so much charity or whatever to Florida an extra special regardless can you take a quick question Rabbi yes um my friend cookie out there is asking is it true that uh Hashem has Mercy on those who are merciful and gives to those who give that's 100 sure we're talking now in other words you get what you deserve now we're talking about those who didn't earn it are still going to get it at least that's what this commentary is explaining due to their own personal financial situational limitations they are mostly held back from carrying through their intentions and their achievements remain insignificant compared to those who are more capable if less Earnest and dedicated peers when these worthy Souls arrive in the next World they have a relatively meager supply of Good Deeds to their credit now because they lack in this world the ability to do it although they had the will nevertheless God takes their notable Ambitions into account and he generously rewards them from a special Storehouse set aside for this purpose for all the good deeds that they aspired to perform that they never actually got a chance to um there is a beautiful explanation as well in the Robina bachaya to parshus and I think this is going to take too much time um maybe after I read the album on what we just read in the gemara and the madrish maybe I'll turn to that because we didn't even we didn't even begin with the explanation in the tournament of work we just read the paragraph but there's a whole explanation we didn't get into it so there's a lot like I said in the beginning there's a lot of stuff to to deal with so the malboom and I'm going to do my best to explain it I mentioned that the Melbourne tries to explain the actual argument between the two and prior to this actually there's there's a lot okay I don't want to get lost I want to try to make it as smooth as possible as simple as possible so the modeling explains that remember according to Rubio scene a second okay let's go that according to rubby Mayer this idea of God's mercy and and um and Grace was speaking about people who were not fit who were not it was not appropriate to receive this kind of reward not necessarily that their behavior wasn't fit even meaning to say that it wasn't fitting for them from the aspect like we just read in that comment from their muzzle meaning they weren't born with wealth they weren't born with certain talents so they weren't able and capable although they aspired to do these mitzvahs Rabbi is that uh to perhaps Foster uh growth um overall I mean can we take from this if you are able to do do if you're not able to do work on it well some things may be uh beyond your ability like for example we just happen to be very graced that we have an organization that we can host a hundred plus people for Passover we have the infrastructure we we can collect money and just beat yourself up if you can right but some people if they don't have the attributes to do this I mean for whatever reason we've been graced but what about those who had not with the the infrastructure the know-how whatever and they would love to have guests but they can't even afford it so they they ask they whatever they they try but they're not able to raise the money through extra working projects whatever it is but they would love to have guests but they they in the end they don't so the very fact they wanted to have guests Hashem will reward them for their aspirations this is so I think I don't see why this should not apply to anybody in the world um I mean I do have one idea why it might not but for all practical purposes it should at least for um practical purpose when we read on you'll see why so just again it would prevent unhealthy competition well we're talking about the world to come which is you know God's pure grace giving those people who had positive or high aspirations but never met them but they tried as you said you know but they never accomplished it yeah they weren't they didn't have the means yeah then what about the people that had the memes and did what we'll call average they had the means and they only had you know three guests when they could have had 15 or they only gave out a hundred dollars when they could have given five or a thousand or more so going back is not a good thing right right he explains according to rabiosi were supposed talking specifically about people who are fit and it all comes down to their actions and they're going to be judged according to their actions and their actions alone whether it's rebby Mayer is the one who says no this is God never answered him because it doesn't work like there's no logic to it and that's going to be the bottom line um he but he says there are two ways that Hashem acts in this world one is called the Natural Way nature which I would also simply put um according to judgment in other words measure for measure everything is meted out exactly that would be nature and then there's something that's called above nature and that's where I believe if someone attaches themselves to the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob attaches themselves to the modern the monotheistic philosophy of Abraham um attaches themselves to the mission of the Jewish people they can change their masal they can change their fate so the malbum says there is another way that God works and that's above nature meaning that according to the strict level even one who let's say is born with bad muzzle what's bad Mazel what you say you know they were going to be dirt poor and they were born to parents that never even educated them properly or whatever maybe even abusive or dysfunctional disadvantage right so someone who was born disadvantaged so if that person himself is righteous and it would be fitting because he's righteous to have miracles happen for him and by those Miracles happening he would be given wealth right it's like rubbing on that lamp and the genie comes to you and like all of a sudden everything changes for you no you know why Miracles will not happen because that's going to withdraw from the savings account yeah and let me just phrase this maybe a little bit differently if the person he had this disadvantage but he was righteous and therefore deserving of miracles to happen for him and then obviously Everything Changes on the outside therefore according to Nature according to Nature if the person was not righteous but he prospered Hashem himself is not would not necessarily change nature in order to bring that upon him right and God is not going to do good Miracles I'm sorry even bad miracles in order to bring this person down therefore it would be impossible to know what the reason is why someone who's evil prospers or doesn't prosper God's not going to do Miracles always it's very possible that even good things could happen to him maybe because of the muscle because of the Fate you just don't know why is this bad person prospering this bad person was born through a wealthy family and inherit lots of money so even if the person is fitting to be punished the the model is not going to necessarily change for bad by way of Miracle this idea we don't ask for miracles to happen we don't want Miracles what happens is if you it's like taking that money out of the savings account and then it gets it goes down down it's not something we're interested in doing therefore it's impossible for any human being to distinguish the reason why this righteous person is either prospering or this righteous person is suffering because perhaps this Sadiq happens to have negative muscle bad circumstances surrounding him nothing to do with him so he would require constant Miracles and having constant miracles he is actually a punishment for him we we don't know how this world works but believe me that if you have God change nature on your account it's going to be taken away from your future account so when when um when miracles happen it's deducted from your merits and that is a great punishment you don't want that therefore again it's impossible to stand by um in order to establish this idea of what reason is for this righteous person whether things are bad for him or even um a bad person to have good it's just beyond our imagination and that's really the explanation of the of them album in other words Revy Mayer is right there is no answer why I mean I know Rabbi is this like Karma like if somebody has Bad Karma and it's beyond Karma it means there is no logic see at least Karma would probably be measure for measure I don't really know what karma is but that's what I imagine it to be measure for measure that's more in line with ribiosi and I gave a whole class I happen to believe rabiosis correct but it's irrelevant I have to know both I have to understand both opinions I have to be able to explain both opinions so right now often people that work hard still don't get ahead why does it happen yeah right and that's really let me let me put it in briefer terms that's because he is getting ahead in the world to come you won't see it here and because if he would get rewarded you saw it here yeah you're taken away from hey for the world to come and therefore it's none of our business we should never judge people based on their success or not success in whether they're righteous or not righteous bottom line okay now I want to go now very hard thing for a lot of people to do yeah and I'm gonna get some some examples from verses in the Torah now um now we did speak about this idea that if someone is really evil wouldn't we hate them shouldn't we have why are we so it if they're really evil and they're causing other people to be evil yes so go to Psalms 139 verse 21. Psalm 139 verse 21 says did I not hate your enemies O Lord with those who rise up against you I quarrel so when somebody is really really truly evil then we have an obligation to perhaps uh dishonor them in public there's always a way to deal with them privately first but once they've proven to be God's enemy so then there is a there is a point of going against them but most people are not really evil their actions are evil but they're not evil and you you have an obligation to try to bring them back and the only way to do that is to pull in with the right and push out with the left but there's a there's a trying to be a balance there just going back to one more idea that we asked the question um who is correct ready Mayer or riviosi so there is an interesting verse in Jeremiah 12 1 that would seem to prove readme mayor being correct so if you go to Jeremiah 12 1 . all right Jeremiah 12 verse 1 says you are right O Lord when I contended with you but I will argue with you why has the Way of the Wicked prospered all who deal with treachery have peace you'd have to understand that this is uh hundreds of dilemma for sure and if Jeremiah has not been privy to the information right we're talking about Moses himself s and the answer was given then either rabiosi was correct or mayor was right well sounds like from year me Jeremiah's question that really mayor's right that there is no answer the answer was never given okay um let's go on and go to well now we're going to get into this um the introduction to that Canon because there's going to be quite a few other verses to show you so he's basing where Moses prayed he really wanted to come into land of Israel the word the root is khanina which is praying for a free gift Moses himself prayed to come into the land of Israel Maybe he didn't deserve it I think it was a little bit deeper than that I gave a share in Parsons according to the Clear Car basically Moses was saying um that I mean it is praying for a free gift but he didn't want to come in for the wrong reasons so he was not he was basing it on not resting on my laurels in other words I could save a God I'm so righteous I did all these Mitzvahs and I'm going to go into land division I'm going to do more minces No Moses was so humble and so honest that he basically said look I want to go into land of Israel to do more missions but I won't say that because if I say that who what if I get there and then I S wow the Joffa oranges are so nice wow the Golan Heights has such a great skiing uh option and I love the land and I get distracted and I don't do the Mitzvahs but I just benefit from the land because I think it's so great so Moses is saying like I won I'm not gonna I don't want to go into the Land Based on even my promises because who am I well I'm just a human being the only person that can make promise is the only being that can make promises is God and he fulfills them the human being can only if he promises something he's to fulfilled right away and I'm asking to go into the land who says what's going to happen maybe things will change when I get there so even that he wanted a free gift he wanted unconditionally without making any promises so that's partial but the the um the Ravena bahaya begins with a verse in Proverbs Chapter 19 17. chapter 19 verse 17 says he who is gracious to a poor man lends to the Lord and He will repay him his reward so what is malada Hashem he's granting God a it's really weird I mean God doesn't need anything and you're giving God Alone okay God Is A lender to him who's gracious to the poor actually you have to read it like this God will compensate the person when you see God is supposed to take care of the poor right so you give money to a poor person it's like you're lending God money and God will pay you back that's how I understand it okay you are a human being with some money in your pocket you see a poor person well God's supposed to take care of that poor person correct well I mean God Is Not a Human Being he doesn't have pockets how's he going to make it happen we don't like to use Miracles God doesn't want to use Miracles so the guy begs to you he knocks on your door you cross paths and he says I'm a little bit down on my luck you have a job and so you get him a job or whatever it is you help him out so you're like the you're acting as the lender for God which means God will pay you back for the money you lent this guy okay that's shot in the verse so in this verse King Solomon is the Proverbs explain to us the usefulness meaning on a functional level of how to practice charity right it's a huge deal practice charity and the great reward that's in store for the performance of this commandment in this life in the world to come it's a well-known fact that the eyes of a wealthy person are turned inwards towards his own wealth or to the many people whom he believes to be his friends so in Chapter 14 verse 20 in Proverbs what does King Solomon say Chapter 14 verse 20. Chapter 14 verse 20 says the poor man is hated even by his friend but the friends of the rich are many okay look we have a lot of sympathy right now for this poor man but apparently King Solomon the wisest man he understood the psychology of society right this poor man he might have had a lot of friends maybe when he was rich and all of a sudden he lost his wealth unfortunately it could be he lost his friends as well and who has all the friends the rich guy right so the remaining Baha'i explains the poor on the other hand had no one to focus his eyes on except Hashem I mean you know broken-hearted feeling down feeling like you have nobody to lean on that's when you really attach yourself to Hashem he cannot rely on his personal wealth seeing he doesn't have any he can't turn to his friends either seeing the poor doesn't have many friends and even if he had many friends before he became poor they're likely to abandon him as they do not want to be associated with a loser a person whom they now perceive as a failure right this is a big problem with Western Society they have to you have to teach children you have to teach yourselves you're not your wealth you're not your bank account you're not you're however they express your your job is nothing to do with what's in the bank it's a very sad fact that many people probably experience a great amount of of depression because they view themselves based on you know certain external things anyway Solomon King Solomon already taught us this piece of human psychology I want you to go to chapter 19 verse seven see we saw 1917. but in 1907 1907 says all the Kinsmen of a poor man hate him surely his friends distance themselves from him he pursues statements that are fit for him but they are not found okay so just go to reverse four in the same chapter wealth adds many friends but a poor man is separated from his friend you see how this poor now it doesn't have to mean poor only in finances but this is the example given right even the brothers of a poor man hate him right from his previous um friends and over here he finds himself separated from his friends Solomon means that even if he had one solitary friend left this too this one will also return away from him seeing the poor person is shunned by all his other friends peer pressure is unbelievable but ready for this God still loves him you're you're worth who you are is not based on your wealth nor how many friends you have to a certain extent especially if it's based on this these aren't really good friends um so but we have to know God loves the person and this is made very clearly in Isaiah Chapter 14 verse 32. oh verse 32. Isaiah 14 verse 32 reads now what shall the messenger of a Nation announce that the Lord has founded Zion and therein shall the poor of his people shelter themselves okay so this is very interesting because we start off by talking about this special unique relationship the Jewish people have with God um who are the Jewish people we are acting as lenders to Hashem I mean we give up a lot we're teaching the Torah I don't know if we're being compensated physically in this world I mean I know I'm not I mean uh I don't I mean I thank God I have a an organization called yeah and I get a very small uh stipend um but nevertheless people teach they're they're teaching for for either peanuts or for nothing there's a concept says that God gave you the Torah for free don't charge you're not supposed to charge for the Torah all right that God gave you for free so this is of help to the to the world seeing that the Jewish people which is signified by Zion in that verse act as lenders to Hashem in supporting the poor when they perform charity Hashem in turn is indebted to them and has to repay them both in this life and the world after now by the way it's not this is still the Ravena bachaya he claims it's not a custom for the Book of Proverbs to mention Commandments that are already explicitly written in the written in the five books unless there's a new dimension that he wants to help us understand so the words were when Solomon spoke in chapter 1917 it's being gracious to the poor instead of using Mirage which means merciful so um the verse said you're granting grace to the poor okay it doesn't say it's extending Mercy to the poor it's granting Grace has a connotation of free right it's a free gift you're extending help for free without demanding any sort of compensation from the recipient now Rabbi Rabbi what about those that would take take it for granted um how do we relate in that regard if we keep using our criteria when you help somebody that our criteria so if the person doesn't fit the criteria for example and we just get like he was on drugs and you're not you don't believe he's going to use it for the right thing I mean you have every right to ask you know like like a bank teller uh what do you know the guy who gives the approval for for loans can I see your plan right um you want me to invest or help you start this business and I I'm gonna give you the money but I want to put some input you know you have to check in with me every three months and I'll give you more if it's succeeding if it's not that's the limit I you know um this is a good idea this is not a good idea I mean anybody giving money has the right to give his input right that it's not going to be wasted whatever the criterias are so I don't know if I'm answering your question but um to start with if the person is not worthy of your charity again who are you to decide that you can speak to a rabbi um so anyway even when the recipient did not have a claim on such generosity nevertheless God extends it without strings attached God himself will do that um if only we could do that now Purim is around the corner and what we do on Purim specifically when people put their hand out and ask for money you don't investigate okay so normally during the year 364 days of the year someone comes and asks for a loan okay you can have a whole conversation what are you using it for now again you're just giving them something if you on Purim they want a large amount of money you could invest again but the general idea is we're not going to investigate we're just going to give freely and that is for Purim is even higher than Yom Kippur it's a really unbelievable day to pray for whatever you want it's an amazing day I don't even can't even verbalize explain the heights that one can reach on Purim I have no doubt about it okay we know Sharon yeah hi Sharon shalom shalom okay so let me just continue we're almost finished so God extends it with our strings attached in other words this um you're kind to others Hashem is beyond kind to you um he had explained this as being one of the attributes when he told Moses and Mount Sinai and this is our verse chapter 33 19. the hinati at the right basically I reserve the right to extend my grace to whom I will be graceful and I will be merciful to whoever I extend my Mercy to we are commanded to emulate this attribute of Hashem and I think I already talked about this verse but if not in Deuteronomy chapter 28 verse 9 it would be nice if you read it to us I think we didn't read it I quoted it 28 verse 9. this is the basis for the whole idea of following the 13 attributes of Mercy chatova in its right time everything will happen so Deuteronomy 28 verse 9 says the Lord will establish you as his holy people as he swore to you if You observe the Commandments of the Lord your God and walk in his ways those last two words in Hebrew and walk in his ways okay big key yeah so we're commanded to emulate the attribute of Hashem when the Torah writes these words you shall walk in his ways just as God extends his Mercy by not asking anything in return we too must relate to the poor without asking anything in return When someone practices this commandment and he makes certain requests from Hashem in the course of his prayer his prayer will be favorably received now the verse he quotes here is from Psalms chapter 30 verse 9. Psalms chapter 30 verse 9 says To You O Lord I would call and to the Lord I would supplicate okay now I'm not sure supplicate is actually the best trend I mean what does it mean so it means to make an appeal but in Hebrew is a free gift this is the idea that um you're you're when we pray and I mentioned this before I make sure not to pray by saying God I did all this give me what I deserve because I can never right the inappropriate sure I could never listen God has done hesitant kindness with me from the moment maybe before I'm sure 40 days before I was even conceived but sure from the moment I was conceived at least physically and from the time I was born and every day of my life since he has shown kindness how can I ever pay him back how can I ever say my Mitzvahs are totaling up to the point where you owe me I only will always owe him he will never owe me so therefore I am forced to be real and say whatever yes for that definition that clarification free gift I cannot ask for anything beyond that um so now when it says just to make a quick summary that this idea is as you swore to our forefathers just that free gift listen I probably don't have the the Merit coming to me right I don't have the rollover minutes whatever I don't have the money in the account I personally don't when it comes to other people how do I treat them that what they're better than me they're in the same position I am but they're the children of Abraham Isaac and Jacob or as I said to the nun to the to the noahides you have bought into the religion of Abraham he's your spiritual father so you're related to him like I'm related and Sharon when she becomes Jewish she's about to avraham she becomes literally in every sense the daughter of Abraham that's a full-fledged convert I don't know what they call you know when I have the non-jews that ask me for prayer that to pray for them I usually would say the daughter of Adam and Eve okay not the daughter of Abraham and Sarah but why not if you become not even full-fledged Jewish but attach yourself to Abraham I think there's a there's a there's there's room here there's a lot of room here um so anyway they don't deserve it on their own but they're only because God made a covenant with Abraham in this case he made a covenant with Abraham keep that in mind and that's separate from the Covenant at Mount Sinai so you could attach yourself to the Covenant of Abraham a non-jew for sure attach yourself to the Covenant of Noah and as Sharon has so proudly mentioned that you would like to attach yourself in a different way through the Covenant of Sinai the cyanatic well keep in mind even the seven laws were towed over at Sinai so there is a semantic covenant made with the non-jews of Sinai as well element there yeah so it's all open to you I hope I hope I didn't confuse too much because there's a lot wrapped in this and they gave us a very short paragraph to deal with of course there's many commentaries and I I don't even I've always tried to understand mazal and and and sometimes even even uh supplicate for such I mean uh sometimes for myself life can be you know seem like such a one-way door where you're out pouring out pouring you just don't have you know the resources to do uh the many things you you'd like to and you know it just hits a wall at times and so uh yeah you're looking for Amazon trying to understand the way I think it was uh uh um the ram cowl explained it quite well uh what series was that um might have been a path of the just um I'm not certain 100 and I don't want to misquote but uh um clarify the difference between uh yeah let me give you some background maybe to maybe I'll give you some insight so as you probably described on a more spiritual level the Masala is like fate when you were born according to what star according to this according to that and the Jews outside of mosul God took avram outside of the tent outside of the tent means outside of the stars and we are directly connected with Hashem and we're above which basically means that we have a little bit more leeway in terms of free will but we're not going to get into that now because anybody can attach themselves to this higher level of mazel and I'll explain that in a second so and that's partly what Sharon is doing but Mazel is a flow literally means a flow so the flow that's already let's say from before creation into creation and we'll call that fate however it's an acronym masala's mem Zion it's the acronym means the place zuman means time so we're asking Hashem we're praying to Hashem everyone should do this non-jews as well I God I want to be in the right place at the right time only you can orchestrate that without miracles in other words give me the Insight give me the clarity to be in the right place at the right time the last letter doing the right thing and how are you going to get that hopefully with the reading the Bible right having rabbis having smart intelligent wholesome uh role models to follow this will change your muzzle you're tuning in to the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob you're saying I want to attach myself to you you're the only Power in this world and everything is under your right the Genesis God created time and place time and space knowing that he is the ultimate orchestrator of time and space you're just hoping to be there doing the right thing and that's where the Insight comes hopefully you'll have the right Insight well first you have to pray to him for the have to do the to be in the right thing the right time definitely a lack of mazel definitely comes from being in the wrong place at the wrong time simple as that ah simple it's so simple it's unbelievable well thank you Rabbi so much for clarifying that I also appreciate you pointing out that there is a massive difference between prayer and supplication um yeah just in that one verse uh but there's so much in this lesson that um yeah I think you probably we probably could have broken into a couple of parts and uh still going on but uh um yeah beautiful beautiful stuff there for sure and uh you clarified that exact verse where um was it uh in Exodus 33 16 where uh Hashem made it clear or when Moses was praying for that uh specifically uh building that Covenant uh No Other Nation right that that is just mind-blowing right I mean just think about it he was afraid not afraid he was concerned the Jews the Jews are human beings you dropped the ball and there's a bunch of you know righteous non-jews that's kind of like your Philadelphia Eagles there a few weeks ago I think just before our last uh time uh I was telling you Philadelphia because you're originally from there uh Philadelphia was in the Super Bowl and you know they were kicking butt the first half and dropped the ball the second half they just couldn't stop the offense of Kansas City and uh lost it in the end uh but we're all human yeah yeah but uh God made a covenant and he will not change it he will not divorce US and there's this eternal Covenant and we are sharing the tour with the world hopefully for free and uh doing our best well hopefully people that do benefit support the uh uh places that they actually benefit from um we know you do so much there in Jerusalem for uh those in need like you you mentioned with Purim coming you you're gonna have uh what a hundred people you were saying uh for for a meal that would be for pesach but yeah yeah Purim we have thousands of dollars that we give out to um to needy families throughout the year but specifically uh on Purim as well because it's a mitzvah and it's a special Mitzvah to give out the charity on Purim so we do have a link in or a website and maybe perhaps down below I got to post it up there ubana.com if you want to support uh uh uh yubinay and everything that postings doing there in Jerusalem beautiful beautiful stuff we so appreciate you sharing this series with us and uh it's it's got so many uh intricacies that I'm sure it would could keep on fluffing uh but just even uh first exposure uh for me to Tomo dvora uh it's just beautiful stuff so we've only got one more uh uh a session in this it's only 13 attributes we've done 12 parts now um Hashem Willen are we on in a couple of weeks or we just leave it at your schedule well we'll just say a couple of weeks I'm really not sure where I'll be holding pressure wise right before pesach um it's coming up in a month and uh we'll try our best we'll try our best to make it happen before passage that'll give us some time to think of what we'll do after PESA because we have to start something else um so let's say let's shoot for some time before Passage well thank you so much Rabbi um so yeah folks uh that's gonna be our show for today beyond the seven live from Jerusalem with Rabbi Aaron David Poston uh who I appreciate so much uh sharing uh the beauty of uh Tomer devorah the 13 attributes of hashem's mercy and may we all be able to integrate uh I think today's lesson you know especially about being kinder to uh the poor and uh how it all works out and um it's just such a joy so uh till next time we're gonna sign up for now have a wonderful wonderful week folks bye for now everybody [Music]