VICTORY FOR ISRAEL How to Receive Limitless Boundaries and Be An Everlasting Light with Rabbi Poston

[Music] Shalom everybody Welcome Home to Torah a warm welcome home to Torah that's for starters again we are still not back in the Y date midash we are in the command center making tias people are making tias right now as we are uh giving this class and listening and I just want to mention that this class is going to be the ultimate in knowing how to win the war we are in the middle of a war and it's a secret right the secret that we're going to how we're going to win but now it's been revealed you will find out through the verse that we're going to deal with in Genesis chapter 28 verse 14 where Hashem says to whom to Yakov your seed shall be as the dust of the earth and you shall gain strength how does that relate to the war before we begin I want to show you just one short clip we'll be back in in a minute how and what we're doing to help the soldiers with mitzvas to fill in and sit specifically and we'll be right back okay I just wanted to show you what we're doing here this is the command center we are making tius for the soldiers the green ones are for the regular Soldiers the white ones are for the KY of for the uh um the the well the Navy and the Air Force okay so I want to just show you a quick land whaty okay you didn't do it yet okay so this is what the room looks like this is a command center and they're being shipped out every day to the front lines here are the seven pairs of toilin that barem people have donated either money or actual tfillin we had them checked we had them refurbished but basically most of these here are brand new sets and I'll give you just an idea and these special special cases for theim and they're on their way now to the front line okay so now that we're back you could contribute all the links uh of how you can help and if you're local in Jerusalem you can actually come and make cus with us on Thursday nights actually every afternoon I want to thank those who have already contributed we've already sent 13 sets of to fill in to the front lines there's another Six coming next week they'll be uh at the uh at the front lines I just want to mention I've seen a lot of political pundits speaking about the war trust me when I say this you need Haka and you need the generals to decide what happens in a war you need the professionals King David we learn the gamarra how did they go to war and we're talking about an optional War right now we're involved in a mitzvah but nevertheless when you wanted to go to war what did you do you had to come up with a strategy that means you had to go to the generals and after the generals and you had winning strategy then you went to the Kim and you went to the SE what the urin vum and the Sanhedrin had to say the Sanhedrin would would say okay then you go to the UR vum the breast plate to find out if you're going to win or lose so you don't just go to war and you don't just comment if you you don't if you're not a rabbi and know the H who also knows and consulted with the generals I suggest you keep quiet and if you're a politician and and a general and you didn't speak to the rabbis about the moral aspects I suggest you do that okay the next idea I wanted to bring is that um how do I say this oh it's Thanksgiving so I want to spend just maybe a minute and a half and I'll give you some food for thought no uh Apple what do you call not just apple pie pumpkin pie Thanksgiving is a Jewish holiday and it's celebrated every single day the very first words in our mouth is I am grateful how grateful am I what does Thanksgiving that's what it means how grateful we are now when not just Columbus but anybody set out to discover a shortcut to India and they discovered a new world that's why they call the American Indians Indians they thought they discovered a shortcut to Indian what else did they discover there besides peanuts and tomatoes and a few other things turkey and you know what turkey was not in the Western World in fact the rabbis didn't even know what whether it was kosher or not but because it tasted so good they were forced to declare no I'm kidding of course it's kosher and um what in Hebrew is the word turkey not none other than hodu it's hodu it's a turkey is called hodu and that's because of this well you look I want you to think about that I want you to think that's your homework uh I I began by telling you these words today are going to Enlighten us how we're going to win the war okay um and it should be as you will see if you stick it out to the end how this could be the last and final war okay um now back to the politics again I just wanted because I didn't mention this earlier that the politicians mentioned there are two goals of this war one was to defeat Hamas and the other was to bring our hostages back keep in mind that anytime there's a huic issue there's always things you're weighing you're juggling issues so again stay out of it if you're not an expert in either H or in strategy these are two issues that are very complicated leave it to the experts okay here we go so in par in chapter 28 verse4 and then it goes on to mention these directions West Westward Eastward northward and Southward again and your seed shall be as the dust of the Earth but then what is what does that mean we're gonna find out and then if you notice the directions what kind of directions are these it starts off with what West and then East then North then South we're going to see I might as well just take there just to show you although when we get there it become very clear look at number 14 on the sour sheet if you go to Genesis 1314 when God speaks to Abraham he gives the different idea he says go right he said lift up your eyes from where you are look northwards and then Southward and then Eastward and then Westward it's a different directions than we have and if you go to Deuteronomy chapter 3:27 when God speaks to Moses about looking at the land he says go to the top of the hill lift your eyes and what are you going to see Westward and northward Southward and Eastward totally different than what we have in our paraa totally different what God spoke to Abraham so we're gonna have to deal with the directions in our para but first thing we're going to deal with dust of the earth second thing uara what does that mean we said You shall gain strength we'll see and then the order of the directions of the land of Israel so now the clear what we're dealing with here is the clear guys you have it in Hebrew there you go so on page kid 136 the clear right away he says you know what it should say instead ofat which is what singular remember God speaking to Yakov to one person but he's talking about all of his seed which is US shouldn't the verse have said the here look it's on this page right here the Hebrew you got the Hebrew second page thear is making this claim for grammatical purposes that it should have said and they will right as opposed to you shall just one person gaining strength but plural all of his seed so why is it directed or seemingly directed only to yakob okay that's the first question and he already begins to answer by telling us there's a in the med now this medish is in when Panos when bad things come now this is in relation to Abraham and Isaac I'm sorry okay it's in other words yov feels he's Harish he's margish he perceives he senses as opposed to Abraham and and Y and we have a verse in a Lamentations number two on the sore sheet it says and he has cut down in Fierce anger all the strength of Israel he's withdrawn his right hand right hand usually represents Mercy that shielded Israel from the enemy but what does Yakov do there's a burning within Yakov he feels it he's empathetic perhaps he has burned in Yakov like a flaming fire consuming all around the Hebrews yov okay Yakov feels it and perceives it oh what about when something good happens what H what happen when something good happens when good Tidings or good events take place wow yakov's got the good and the bad down right he's he's he he feels it he perceives it and we have a a verse in Psalms inil 147 look at number three on the oh that the salvation of Israel would come out of Zion and it's almost trembling when you hear these words when the Lord Returns the Captivity of his people yakob shall rejoice Israel shall be glad it's so beautiful right Israel so why Israel is Israel that means the Jewish people who's yakob yakob is just yakob perhaps is thear is trying to explain this medish that the medish is referring to Yakov perceives The Good Tidings he will be he will rejoice y Okay so now we understand I mean he's trying to answer why does it say that he shall gain strength it's Yakov alone who's able to perceive that the goodness for the Jewish people now I had a little trouble and I perhaps we can have some help here poates usually is like the one who breaks through but it can also mean a leader so I want to make the the leaders are the ones who have the breakthroughs right the trend setters but they're leaders okay that's what they are and um but the truth is we're going to deal with this as okay um as um multiplicity and gaining strength since that's how we're going to translate it gaining strength so a leader gives strength to the people as well the dictionary actually refers to the a that leads the the flock so the the animal that's leading the flock is somehow called the poates so this is a a gaining strength let's leave it as gaining strength as we see in the English translation taken from the kabad website okay now in AAR we are we do need to deal with this idea why are we called right the seed of yakob is called AAR it's this the dust of the earth is that a good thing or a bad thing it was a hint to yov a hint of the future a prophecy so to speak what will happen to his seed in the Egyptian Exile at that time our rabbis teach us in so the midwives were doing everything they could to save the Jewish children keep them alive and the land the Earth itself swallowed up these babies to hide them from the Egyptians how are they supposed to survive there probably very diffic you know great difficulty but just think about that a second the land swallowed up our children in order to save them and then the Egyptians yamak Shaman whoever they are I don't think they exist but anyway they were truly evil you know what they did they took plows and they tried to kill the babies that were inside the earth that the Earth swallowed up miraculously that's what it means and there's a PK in Psalms in in 1293 go to number six on the stor sheet it says on my back the clownman plow so King David is referring back to the miracle that took place that even though they tried to kill us they could not kill us our babies but nevertheless what does it mean the we are called the dust of the earth it's referring to that but wait the verse goes on sorry I skipped something actually I didn't skip basically the best if you look at number five it brings the whole gamor well it's not the whole gamorra but the suia and s 11a y once the Egyptians would notice them really realizing that they were Jewish babies they would come to kill them but a miracle would occur for them and they would be absorbed by the earth and the Egyptians would then bring Ox in and would plow upon them as it says and we read that verse Psalms 1293 the plowers plowed upon my my back uh after the Egyptians would leave the babies would emerge obviously miraculously like the grass of the field now this verse Ines Ezekiel 16:7 I cause you to increase when they try to kill us we increase even as the growth of the field now we're going to see it's written one way but it's read another way we mean we understand it deeper see once the babies would grow they would become they would come like many flocks when you see a whole herd of Jewish children of Jewish people uh to their back to their homes we will return to our homes so in the verse it actually says that you did increase and grow up and that you came with excellent Beauty however the gamor itself says don't read it as with excellent blue Beauty read it read it as as many flocks meaning increase so we can use the word again back to this idea of many increase to many so let's go back to where we left off we like four lines three lines down in the second paragra the reason for the increase the reason for the increase is because we and I'm going to use the word in our humility and our NOA we lowered ourselves like the dust of the earth that they went ahead and they plowed over our backs they plow on our backs and it's for this very reason that we increase so much within the Earth we increase so much so much did we increase that when we were in the desert you know how many people were we weren't 600,000 we were like three million and unfortunately you know four fth of us died on the way out of Egypt before we even had a chance to leave in the Ninth Place of Darkness okay so it was amazing that in this encampment right even though you had four sides to the encampment there were three tribes on each side each tribe had a flag but each side had a flag so each so you had basically four flags on each side even though you had three tribes okay so in other words each tribe had its own flag and each Direction had a flag so that's what he means here you had la and he's claiming here that's what it means when it says in our verse that you will expand you grow strength in all these directions now he takes us to numbers 2310 numbers 2310 is none other than b Mar Rasha who's trying to curse us but actually he ends up blessing us and he says be v v myriads talking about the Jewish people like the plants of the field I have made you and you have increased and grown okay so he's looking at us and amaz right how good are your tents oh Jacob he's trying to curse us but in the end this is a blessing and what does the tarum anus translate these words did I skip something oh does say it says did I did I read that okay I'm going to read who counted sorry numbers 2310 who counted the dust of Jacob or the number what is the word Roa see Rua a Roa is a square a square it basically means like four four-sided object so it's talking about the four sides of the encampments of the Jewish people H so again numbers 2310 I think I read twice but in numbers 2310 who's counting the dust of Jacob it's so much is okay even though B har Russia you want it to end up like the Jews in a good way may the soul die may my soul die the death of the upright and let my end be like his anyway these are his words and he's referring to the dust of Jacob being so plentiful but it fills the whole Square it fills all four sides of the encampment in the desert and that's what Roa now the tar says may AR Shira the four dwellings okay the four directions are the four dwellings to teach you why is what's the verse mean that we merited to have these four directions in the desert the four um Flags because Yakov made himself like dust of the Earth to the point where everybody tramples on poor little Yakov the poor Jews right we're not so poor trust me okay so that's like just leading up that's like an introduction right right alternatively there's going to be three deeper reasons means a deeper explanation another explanation that yob is being told that your seed will be like the dust of the earth means Affliction on account of the affliction that you will be like the dust that everybody tramples on but what's going to happen in the end you will expand you will strengthen you will multiply because anybody that's in an Afflicted State you know what's going to happen to them just like it looks look at number nine Exodus number one uh verse um this is Pharaoh having a conversation with his advisers get ready let us deal shrewdly with them L they increase P year bed but you know what happened as a result of his um Eno his afflicting us we increased the women the Jewish women gave birth to six people six babies at a time the worse the harder you give the Jews the harder time you give us the stronger we get and the more we increase so that's uh where I leave off so that's what it means when he says the reward for the the uh the scheme to cause us not to increase was to increase in other words as long as the Jews had free time they might cohabitate they come home from work the husband says hi to the wife they have nice cand like dinner and who knows what will happen but if I Pharaoh will cause them now to make their own bricks and double the quot they got no time for that candle Lake dinner okay another explanation on account of their humility like Abraham so we're talking about yakov's humility and perhaps his seed but at least Yakov similar to Abram what did Abram say in Genesis 18: 27 he says the famous words I am but just dust and Ashes that was the essence of Abraham to a certain extent and as a result of yakob also carrying that same trait he merited to expand to strengthen himself in all four directions as it says in Psalms look at number 11 now I would translate this as the meek shall inherit the Earth but I won't because people might get mistaken by another religion who hijacked our religion so there is a verse there's a you know there's a verse in the in the other religion that says love your neighbor as yourself it's like wow big Kish well guess what it's in Leviticus so to here in Psalms it says the hum shall inherit the land the Earth keep that in mind so it's the we will inherit the world we will inherit the land we will inherit ER Israel through our understanding of our own character traits and being humble this what he says next paragraph do you know what it says in the Torah about people to keep shavis beautiful things this is number 12 Isaiah 58 he quotes just 14 but I feel I feel like I want to read 14 if you restrain your foot because of the Sabbath from before performing your Affairs meaning your personal affairs business on my holy day you know what you should do you should call the Sabbath of the light the holy of the Lord honored and you your honor and you honor it by not doing your wanted Ways by not pursuing your Affairs and speaking your words but rather maybe I should read it in Hebrew first oh no sorry the next part okay so it's true I read that in Hebrew then you shall Delight with the Lord I will cause you to ride on the high places of the land but you keep shabas I will give you to eat the heritage of Jacob your father what is it talking about it's talking about the land without boundaries in Hebrew and inheritance I'm sorry Rashi and inheritance without B boundaries very important we are at a war for the last 75 years since the state of Israel Over the boundaries of Israel if we can get our act together and keep shabas we'll have less of a problem with the boundaries of er Israel that's my message in the meantime we'll continue in the cleart so he says this is what it says regarding those who are sh Shabbat those last words I will give you to eat of the heritage of yakob your father meaning this is what AB was promised the land of Israel and yes I have to tell you Gaza is part of AR Israel okay let's that's why the Torah says that your that your seed will be like the dust of the earth just like all the farmers know not all of them do it but next year everyone will keep it keeping sh the spaical year not to plow not to plant and not to harvest there's many other rules you'll find out and it says in l 25 verse two right and what does Rashi say there just like we have to keep shabas once every seven days we have to keep shmita once every seven years um okay let's go on to the last line of that paragraph Co so to your seed they will honor Sabbath they will keep the seventh day of the week holy and as a result of that they will expand and have the a true inheritance to the land without any problems just gain strength okay now the clear continues theba the very first thing in this paragraph the CLE wants to the clear wants point is that's the I'll translate in a second that's the first statement Bel his CID second statement I think they're two separate statements one is notice why does the Torah at this point I I already mentioned that in other places you don't have this order but why is it that in our in our case we have east and west right they're parallel they're opposites and then you have north south right we see in Deuteronomy that um in Deuteronomy it was West and North and then south and east we know we never pick where I should I have to talk for myself the clear points out things I never would have noticed in a hundred years maybe maybe I'm exaggerating but this is important as I said this is going to tell us how we're going to win that last war that last battle wait till you hear what you have to say so the first question or statement he says is notice that there the the directions are completely opposite of each other they're parallel in an opposite way as I said we started off with West and East and North and South the second thing he says they're not in order which we already noticed in compared to 3:27 in Deuteronomy as well as what we saw also where is it in in Genesis 13:14 a different order so if I don't tell you the answer you're not going to sleep tonight right okay so we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna continue so he says there's actually a mid now I want everyone to put their seat belts on these are like very hard words for me to translate and understand like I can understand them intellectually but emotionally and uh spiritually how do I understand it that the salvation to the Jewish people will not come until the time that we are in the epitome epitome of loneliness Mish downtrod kicked around like a football hopefully we we've already been through it been there done that man do we pray that's the case Shar it says in Psalms by the way this is from mid in in in Psalms 4426 now we're also going to read 40 4427 so for our soul is cast down to the dust right the rest of our our belly clings to the Earth that doesn't sound very appetizing but wait the next verse says arise to assist us and redeem us for this for the sake of your kindness we're relying on hashem's kindness so so far that's what the me says the the clear's understanding what it means we're at the very last three lines four lines on the first side the whole time that we haven't reach that downtrodden state that we're not truly relying on the promise and security and faith in God the and what so what are we doing then you know what it's very normal if we don't rely on God who relying on ourselves or the next strongest person next to us we're thinking of schemes in order to save ourselves from the trash Heap through our own personal thoughts and schemes that's why unfortunately it says in Isaiah chapter 6 go to page four on on the top and the Lord removes the people far away and deserted places this is not a good prophecy right we're distancing ourselves probably from not just God from the land of Israel's B okay why would we be so distan because we're not relying on the salvations of God relying on our own personal schemes and thoughts how we're going to get there however so we see that the efforts that we make there's no uh good results coming from there's actually it's not worth relying on you know what do they say about someone who's insane they try the same thing over and over again and they get the same results there something like that right so let's try something new let's put all of our faith into Hashem instead of right he says you know what would happen when you rely on hem then our eyes are pointed upwards towards God in order to call upon him the time that we are really in need because of the pain and the troubles I just want to relate we spoke about the name yesel God will listen to our prayer okay when he or them the future Hold Us tight in a bad spot now he continues at the same time he's now going to try to explain why they the the the directions are in opposite directions and we said already it starts off with West and East and ends with North and actually ends with South it actually ends with South so keep that in mind here we go so at a time like this when the Salvation is coming it's coming in a way where we're kind of fleeing from one end to the other end or maybe extreme or here in directions we're going to end up going from the most extreme low state to climb the ladder to the highest places now what he's saying is if you were an atheist you didn't believe in God if you're just looking at nature just from nature l you would not come to believe how could anybody go in a natural fashion from a very low state to very high State maybe you'll go little by little maybe your luck might change somewhat but to the total extreme it doesn't work like that in the natural world that's why it was told to in this Vision in these three stages and we're going to talk about those three stages right now that if it's if it's true by this it's so much more True by that but literally it's like Lo it's not this so then it would also be true by that this is a a Hebrew phrase for certain kind of logic I don't want to get stuck on it but basically we're talking logic from the very beginning what were the words the first statement was your seed will be like the dust of the earth that's when our our souls are thrown down to the lowest levels and then then right away at the same time then we talk about gaining strength meaning to sayala that you will go up the leader will rise right the expansion will go and raise you up and cause you to go above now if someone might say if you might [Music] say that if you're going to come from the lowest place to maybe another level but you're not going to go from one extreme to another you're just going to move in small increments right to end up right you people are not going to believe you're gonna end up on the highest level so it says over [Music] in Daniel see Daniel speaks about a a rising but only little increments it's Daniel 11 verse 34 and when they stumble they will be helped with a little help small little increments of help Daniel that's we just read so what's the Torah teaching us so why does the Torah say Yama the west and then East it's true those two are parallel to each other the west and the East but guess what they're also opposites they're opposites what happens in the East that's where the sun always Rises and in the in the West the son always sets what is it telling us we're talking about the Jewish people's Destiny here shimra when the sun will finally set for the Jewish people like Rashi says what is what happens what happen in in Esther's time right H was very rich he actually paid a to kill us what happens to his booty to his schl to all the weal the Palaces it was given over to who Mor Esther so the Hebrew the the sorry and I think I did something wrong here I didn't bring ah so look in Genesis 4927 regarding bamin Benyamin actually has the place on the harat where the altar is so it says bamin is a wolf he will pray p r y okay because a wolf is a w is an anal prey in the morning he will devour plunder and in the evening he will divide the spoil so right in the evening and Rashi tells us that even when the sun will set for Israel meaning when we go down down down through neeter who will Exile us to Babylonia in the end the spoil will go to like Mester so we will become quite wealthy right we will be rais raised up we will have honor we will have Glory um so if you want to look it up in in Esther chapter 8 ver7 it says behold the house of hmond I have given to Esther okay so in the end that's where all these spoils go to back to the rightful owners the Jewish people now so when it comes to the sun setting at that time there's this he's using the word fleeing but there like this running to the Other Extreme that's against ites it's almost like it's a it's seated like the like the sun against it which is a positive thing now if you might come to [Music] say that this will be specifically if they would be like the Western Direction it's true that even though the sun does set there meaning the far end of the West it comes around and it's East again and the sun does rise this is the way the Jewish people are even at a time there's even a small light because we are the Light of the Nations and Boyer we are light to the Nations these days for those who have the veil removed their from their eyes to see it from there meaning even though we seem to set in the end we rise again in the East it's not that the sun always R is always in the and rises in East but here in Israel everyone knows and maybe this is like uh Jeopardy right if you ever looked at the roof of a house and looked which direction is the dud sheemish the solar panel facing we're in the northern hemisphere I mean I kind of gave it away already the dud sheemish is always facing south because a majority of the day of the sun is in the South it may start in the Northeast right when the rises in certain parts of the the year and it's May the Sun May settle in the southwest but throughout the day the majority of the day the South has the most amount of sunlight okay and that's why in the Northern Hemisphere by the way if you ever lost in the forest right you guys never got lost in the forest but if you ever did and you want to just even if you weren't lost you just want to say hey which way is North you look for the mold or the Moss because that's less sunlight and that's why it grows okay so keep these two things in mind you're lost in the city look in Jerusalem or anywhere in Israel look for the D sheemish which way is it's facing to the South and if you're in a forest look for the Moss okay let's go on we're almost finished we got five or six lines left um and then we're going to be stunned by the the words of the clear um so meaning even in the East the sun doesn't sign shine forever Tavis Tavis is going to be right after this month right it's after K right so you're talking about the midwinter it's usually January end of December January maybe sometimes to February but it's hardcore winter the the sun hardly rules right there's so much cloud and overcast and rain and snow even though in that month also the son does not really rule nevertheless the Torah teaches ofba the last directions were North and then South that even if it would be in the direction of the north and look at Isaiah chapter 5 vers 11 I'm sorry it's five verse 30 and he shall growl over it on the day like the growling of the sea and he shall look at the land and be hold Darkness this is not a good prophecy the distressed one and the light shall darken in its Eclipse so this is like Northern dark that's not a good thing but what happens in chapter 60 the whole book and I encourage you to read the entire chapter 60 Sam in Isaiah but I'm only going to take one verse and what happens later on in the South well let's see what he says um so the last thing we spoke about was Isaiah 5:30 it's very dark that's what Israel's like when we have lost our light entirely but guess what happens remember there's an opposite and that would be the South there's a going up from The Other Extreme that's against it but he says the last he uses the word and I'm stressing this for a reason to be that southerly direction but wait till you hear this what happens in the South shra R we only know the word d d but the Rome means Rome that it will dwell in the South Theo it's not just Rome it Dar is living or dwelling Rome is the highest point that's where we want how we started off talking [Music] about that's where our light will shine our light will shine most coming from the south and now let's go into that verse in chapter 60 verse 20 of Isaiah your son shall no longer set meaning your sh your light will shine forever the word b remember we said Sunrise is y setting I know it's counterintuitive means the sun sets and the verse says your sun will no longer set meaning the light of Israel shall shine forever and it comes from the south R let's just finish the last thing he says will dwell forever in the heights of the world meaning we will cling to a the light will shine forever your M have to be sitting down this is the promise this is the promise of the Final Redemption there's something to do with the sound the direction of the sound I'll leave it at that you can think about it I just want to give we should all strengthen our faith we have to work on our faith right we have to work on our MOS right El Lata El Lata that the Jewish people are in a battle they're they're they're sleeping in Gaza or in the northern part of Israel in the cold mountains what are we doing are we feeling it are we doing enough right every thousand Jews that went to fight there's a thousand Jews staying behind doing Mitzvah putting on to fill and that's why our soldiers somehow feel let's do more Mitzvah if they weren't religious it's a a cha Revolution going they want they want to do more MIT because this is the way that we're going to win the battle for us to do more so each one of us I'm talking for myself figure out what we could do more to strengthen our own our our serving but the main thing is act if it ever comes to arguing with people over nonsense stay out of it let it go let it slide there's much more important things to uh to be concerned about at the moment and with that I wish everyone shabbat shalom we're coming up to Hanukkah the light you know the light's going to that little light is going to give off a whole lot of light so bem we'll see you next week have a great life [Music] called [Music] oh