(Way#6) MASTERING FEAR: 48 Ways with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] hey good afternoon folks welcome everybody back to beyond the seven live from jerusalem with rabbi aaron david poston he's teaching us the 48 ways this is a profound course folks it's very exciting and he's on part six today last week's class was awesome it's only going to get better and better and better and better and i just look forward to hearing more and more from rabbi poston so let's tune in rabbi how you doing this evening in jerusalem i know it's very late thank you so much for teaching us i appreciate every moment you do share thank god bro hashem once again to all those people that are out of chavez already and people who are watching this at some point during the week and the shabbat shalom whoever is still out there in shabbos world yes so thank you very much for having me that we're going to continue now with uh it's called we'll call it yira it's number six on the list i want to remind our viewers and what we're doing here this is a package of information that was handed down at mount sinai now when i say at mount sinai because it's the mishna and it says this these were this is part of the mission in the sixth the sixth chapter of perky havot but the truth is it was way before mount sinai because the exodus we were slaves we had a slave mentality we weren't really ready for wisdom so we had to be taught how to acquire wisdom and the 49 days that it took us from leaving egypt until we arrived at mount sinai earth i should say we actually arrived in mount sinai a few days early earlier than the revelation but nevertheless it's the package of the steps let's say called the steps that we had to go through in order to be able to receive the revelation now isn't that wonderful right so anybody who's already wise and is watching these series will say oh it's so pushu obviously you need these different steps you might be missing something so it's worth watching it's worth reviewing it's worth knowing and for those who are on the path that i'm on right to acquire knowledge if you didn't know it so it's important information and if you know it it's good to do review as we'll find out is one of the uh 48 ways to wisdom is to review in the meantime what we're talking about tonight is called yira and we're going to talk about some misconceptions what it means to have fear many misconceptions and what we're really talking about we'll discuss that as well i just want to reiterate last week we spoke about or so all was the idea how small we are today when we talk about this year we're going to think about how great god is and the truth is next week we're going to talk about humility and these are all part of like i said their steps okay so there's a logical sequence it's not my logic this is from the kurdish work himself this is from the almighty that created the universe who created every one of us and we'll begin but we use this safer by the way this is just one of this farm we're using right if you can see this this is published by sharp press but it's put out by a couple of friends of mine uh comrades as we would say colleagues rabbi nakami they still are very much associated with ashitara and uh they adapted this based on the teachings of noah and this is a safer called midrash it's a it's also it's not as modern i mean this was put out there this year but the schmall the original safer is about 500 years old and it was translated only recently into english and we use that also thank god and and some of my own knowledge uh putting it all together here so we ask you to bear with us it's very late here it's a it's already 11 35 at night so um it's the bewitching hour as they say now take the word year off is you'd raise olive hay okay also the word to see to comprehend with your eyes right to see something is spelled very similar in other words aleph is basically part of the root to see is reish olive hay and yera is yudresh so whenever you're reading and you come across whether it's to see or to fear you could be confused or let's say i am always confused because i really need context i i have to guess sometimes just through the context is it to see or to fear and we're going to hear in the very beginning that there's no coincidence that those two words are are very much related so in in this in this book that revenge put out it basically says that fear comes from drum roll please seeing seeing impending consequences right that's that makes sense right to have a true sense of fear you have this idea that oh my gosh something is coming or there are consequences to whatever it is that i'm about to do so the roshiva gave like a lot of examples right but one of the things that fear hopefully this type of fear should generate would be greater alertness and a lot of energy to move forward okay and he even says that you know this is going to get your blood running through your veins if you have a true sense of year okay we're going to now not even translate it as sphere although we're going to call let's call it let's call it what it is it's urine it's being able to see the consequences and have your blood running through your veins being alive which brings me to the next idea and that is what really is life itself what did god give us this life on this planet for this 120 years to make free choices he gave us free will this is the greatest gift that he could have given us so that when we could and will earn what we call the world to come it's through our free will through the choices that we make so just i just want to talk about this idea because we are created in the image of god and if i ask anybody if i ask you what does it mean god has no body he has no limbs he's he's not physical in any sense so how is it that we're creating is in his image so i just want to go through a little bit idea that in hebrew the word for an image like if i make a shadow i hold my hand up to the light so i look down at the ground i see an image of my hand is it my hand no it's like an echo it's like it's how do i say it it's not really my hand right but it's an image of my hand but it's not my hand so if we're created in the image of god that makes us not god it's very important to know we're not god real but the image there's some kind of an image right that is not physical right that shadow i don't think we can call a shadow necessary something physical but in hebrew the word for shade is sail the the the word used in the torah when god says he's going to create us in his image it's the word selem right it's very interesting concept in fact a camera is called a mat slayma because it captures an image right it's not a it's not the actual thing that is being captured but it's an image that's being captured so we are created in the image of god the image of god is i'm gonna it's nothing new here it's the free will that he gave us okay he's the ultimate in free will beyond what we can imagine uh having free will but he instilled a like i said that shadow of an image that's what we have that's what we are because god is not obviously not physical so this is the most important thing so one of the ideas we're going to get into and we're going to deal with the gomorrah bronchos 33b but i just want to say it now and go through some of the material and then we're going to get back to this gemara and that is the statement that says everything is in the hand of heaven except for the fear of heaven meaning what that he gave it over to us he gave it to us okay so we're going to talk about that later um i just want to talk about like when you let's say you were given a one of these prizes right to be on a show where you get this shopping cart and they say to you you have 10 minutes to fill it to the top i don't know it's almost even beyond you know the rim right as much as you possibly can so the fear and i'm going to use i should say era right the fear that one would have is they're going to miss out on the more expensive items or the items that they actually could use wow as opposed to running around with popcorn because it's big bulky and light and maybe quick to empty one particular shelf but come on how much of a waste of time so if i'm going to try to tell you the fear that one should have i'm going to just tell you right now is that they wasted their whole life right they wasted that 10 minutes running around the shopping market they had the opportunity to to fill it with i don't even know what is it and valuable and useful instead they filled it with sugary cookies yeah or something so when the bell rings the fear is that you're going to waste your time you're going to win you're going gonna go down the wrong aisles and you're gonna have to backtrack and maneuver your way around just to get to that which is really important and that's gonna be the fear that we're gonna talk about and we're gonna talk about the difference between i know that uh you spoke about this in your previous class the fear of let's say punishment that's not worth talking about but it's called rome's the fear this or remember we spoke about all yesterday's thinking of something greater than ourselves in the same sense this year is also going to be focused on romans the greatness of god but the greatness of god that we can achieve that for the fear of not serving hashem ah thank you robert okay so we're going to get into that so i'll just mention a statement that he writes living with fear means recognizing that life has so much to offer you want to make sure you don't miss out and end up with a cart load of soap suds this is after he discusses the idea of running around a supermarket on a 10-minute grab and so basically you're afraid of not reaching your potential okay that's going to be the bottom line now he goes through certain misconceptions and i want to go through them because i think they're very important one misconception is that fear is painful well it's not comfortable fear is not comfortable right you're going with that shopping cart it's not a comfortable feeling knowing that you may miss the opportunities of a lifetime okay but um what do people naturally do right they they do whatever they can to avoid pain right if they think that fear is painful they'll do everything to avoid it however we do know that people pay a lot of money to do bungee jumping to run out to jump out of airplanes with parachutes to uh moving a roller coaster ride whatever you don't go to a horror movie right people spend money so yes it may be uncomfortable but you have to know that it's not painful right fear should not be painful it's going to be uncomfortable it's fine but what it open up ultimately does it would open your own eyes to seeing the significance of your choices and help motivate you to push you beyond your comfort zones right i mentioned this like back in the last few years where they're talking about on campuses having comfort zones or this idea i don't know exactly what it means but basically nobody ever became great in a comfort zone right you have to go you have to push your limits another misconception is that fear is paralyzing we spoke about we spoke about this a lot as we went through some of the other 48 ways or it could have been that i spoke about this in my shari trouba uh class about fear as well that sometimes we think wrongly again if it's the wrong kind of fear it can be paralyzing but really fear should motivate you right how do we know how do we know some people god forbid they we've heard the stories of um you know where a car was on a jack meaning someone was changing a tire or was working underneath the car and the jack went and somebody came by and with superhuman strength is able to lift the car off it's because of the fear of the impending consequences god forbid someone should die or be um what's paralyzed for you know you you you quickly do what you need to do how about if someone offered you 25 000 to do something right you said no no i'm not really interested but all of a sudden when soon they offered you 25 000 you're ready to go right because you fear losing such a large amount of money so you get the strength to do whatever it is so it doesn't have to be paralyzing it can actually be liberating and fear there's another misconception people think that fear means a lack of freedom it's a little bit harder to explain but basically it gives you the freedom to attain the greatness that you actually do desire like so fear of god actually becomes freedom from nonsense let me just give you an idea the the idea for um the ten commandments were engraved the word for engraving is um cake okay to gray to engrave it also means the me also means law so there's a there's a parallel between something that's engraved and the law itself okay but the the the idea i want to give to is the the the the word for freedom is and the word another word for engraving the same idea of carving out cocaic is also haroot so it's through the engraving on the ten commandments the meaning the tablets that contain the the the commandments is is the same root the same word for freedom and as broke hashem those who man who are married should know and realize by now that having constraints right having you know borders right thank god in marriage you did you create borders for yourself and your and you're you're interested in your family that that actually opens up a whole new avenue for freedom and intimacy okay so basically fear will leave you unencumbered it should actually create uh freedom fear should create freedom as opposed to what we think that it means a lack of freedom and some think that fear is demeaning like you don't want to be a servant and i get it um but to truly serve hashem that's where we're going to go into this to truly serve hashem properly and you have to have that all this is going to be like it's called a prerequisite or in preparation for truly serving hashem properly this is going to be a prerequisite so we're going to get into that whole idea there's run a ship surely yeah um so now that i got rid of all the uh what you call it uh misconceptions how about um the main thing here is gonna be you sh you should be afraid of meaninglessness in other words if we're trying to release the true potential it really matters so then if i said to you or i try to get you to say dan i want you to say to me i'm totally happy being mediocre can you say it not with a clean conscience okay so really the ultimate human fear is to leave live without meaning right we should be afraid of being mediocre be afraid of not living a meaningful life be afraid of waking up in the morning and say to yourself what did i do with my life can you imagine so hopefully this will this is the idea of one of the ways to acquire wisdom is to have this i'm gonna i just call it healthy fear so we have to get into it and what does it mean and you know i know you spoke about this verse i don't want to get to it yet but i'll tell it now this you can find in uh psalms chapter it's the last verse of this whole chapter it's um psalms 111 verse 10. we want you to read it you i'll read it the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the lord reishi's hashem so a good understanding to all who performed them hilato o met us live and his praise will stand forever so this is like from the verse it sounds like it's a prerequisite and there is a statement in perchando's chapter 3 verse mission 11 anyone whose fear of sin precedes his wisdom we had a freeze i hope he's all right uh-oh got a poor network on his end if you want to hang on there folks uh yeah i really enjoy that verse he was just sharing out of uh psalms chapter 11 verse 10. oh we got you back rabbi i'm sorry we had a freeze for a second with a poor connection there okay did everyone hear the verse psalms uh 111 verse 10 the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the lord good understanding to all who perform them his praise endures forever and then you started to share a couple of things and then boom it locked up all right so we all know that fear of sin avoids means avoiding doing things that are that have forbidden undertones so fear of sin precedes wisdom means that the motivation for all a person's learning in in that his torah study is motivated and motivated by his fear of sin he will know how to fulfill mitzvos properly and thus how to avoid even the slightest form of sin so in other words you're approaching your torah learning because you really want to serve hashem properly the bottom line it's going to be we're going to talk about it surely and maybe i'll talk about it now maybe i'll go into the verse in isaiah 33 verse 6. isaiah 33 33 where are you [Music] oh i'm in 32 next verse 6 and the faith of your time shall be the strength of salvations wisdom knowledge fear of the lord that is his treasure okay so this i want to try to bring this verse like not just home not just bring it home but bring it down to a level that we can try to understand it so what do we understand that the fear of hashem involves yourselves in the pursuit of wisdom and knowledge of god this will save you from the difficulties from difficulties thus assuring you the peace for all time this is what hashem's message is now um i want to tell you when this verse was said by isaiah he prophesized this if you look in chapter 32 he's talking to his kiaw about the the northern tribes being run away by sanchez now central is not finished he's coming down to yehudah so he's giving um strength to hezekiah in the face of this incoming assault by the assyrians by saint gerard and so um so he's giving him strength he wants to give him wisdom now something about the prophets you should know the prophets never revealed anything that wasn't already known they came to give rebuke okay and what is already known means it's within the revelation it's in the five books of the torah now we have a written torah and we also have an oral torah so one of the lessons here by the way the gemara shabbos 31a mentions that these six nouns i'll tell you what they are the word faith the word times the word strength the word salvations the word wisdom and the word knowledge those six i'll just read the verse the faith in your times will be the strength of your salvations wisdom and knowledge okay i'm going to skip the last few words fear of hashem that is man's treasures for a second that those six words represent the sixth sader siddhuri mishnah we have in our oral torah six specific parts thank you and how they relate is like this the word faith right the faith that's referring to what we call zeroin the book of seeds by the way the only book the only the only um gemara that we have from that in the babli is brachot so you understand how that relates to faith because farmers if there are any farmers watching and today they have farmers almanac and whatnot but basically you have to have a lot of faith right you can do all the work at the right time expecting um a good crop but it's only going to happen as a result of hashem's grace and having rain in its right time at the right place in the right amount so you have to have a lot of faith when it comes to seeds to seeding and that's what the first track that's with the first uh sader of mishnah it says the second word is times times is relating to the festivals right shabbos is included by the way but all the tractates that deal with the festivals that would fit in times now guess what this is going to make all the feminists very happy um the faith of your times will be the strength what strength that's the the seder gnashing all the laws dealing with women because they are our strength and the the the word deal with salvations the satan are dealing with salvations is um where do i have this here is one second i'm doing this by memory i have i have written down somewhere here it is and it does deals with damages in other words when you go to court and you have restoration so salvations and restoration when you have damages that's what you're going to court to to claim right restorations damages and the other word is wisdom wisdom is dealing with consecrated items such as cutching so there's a whole tract there's a whole seder called kachin and knowledge is dealing with purity and that is um taharat now after we got done i'm trying to explain how all of our earl torah fits into this the six nouns of of this verse it ends with the fear of the lord is his treasure so i hope you understand we're talking about how to acquire wisdom you need to have this oh this year this uh fear and that for some reason is god's treasure what does that mean so let me let me go through this gemara let's say word for word so resh locker said what is the meaning of our verse and the faith of your times would be the strength of salvation wisdom and knowledge the fear of the lord is his treasure so it goes through everything i just said faith is destroying seeds because a person has faith in god and plants his seeds your times that's dealing with the moed the festivals which deals with the various occasions and festivals that occur throughout the year strength that's the order of gnashing women salvations that's the order of nazekan damages as one being pursued is rescued from the hands of this pursuer hopefully through the court system wisdom that's the order of kadosh kaching the consecrated items and knowledge that's the order of taharat purity which is particularly difficult to to master so you need a lot of knowledge even if a person studies and masters all of these right let's say yeah they have a good brain it's not enough the fear of the lord is his treasure it is preeminent it is such a necessity now that's where i want to go into some of the comments on this gemara so here we go let me just see if i'm in the right place no i'm in a different gamora that is i'm sorry there is more dimensions yes okay this is actually in bronchos 33b okay so this is back to the original thing i'm not sure if i actually went through this i wanted to let's go to sorry let's go to 33b this is a different different from all together so the gemura makes a statement uh by rebbi khanina concerning the principles of faith rebbe kanina says everything is in the hands of heaven this is the verse i started off with everything in is in the hands of heaven except for the fear of heaven and how do we know that right if you go deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 12. you want to read it for us yep pulling it up deuteronomy 10 verse 12 says and now o israel what does the lord your god ask of you only to fear the lord your god to walk in all his ways and to love him and to worship the lord your god with all your heart and with all your soul now what does it seem it seems like there's only you have to read the hebrew though the israel now israel ma is going to play a very important word means what what exactly is god asking of you could mean a request but we're going to see the difference between the word i'm sorry the word which means to borrow and which means to request just keep this in mind what does god show ale ask or bar ask of you means only it's a how do i say it it minimizes it's just one thing that it's only to fear god your lord but then the next few phrases seem to be what i call service right the true services to walk in all of his ways and to love him and to serve your lord lord your god the call of the holy entire heart and with your entire soul so the remark continues basically and asked a very important question because the word is two words but it means like only and when you say only at me it's minimizing okay trust me when you say only it's minimizing correct so the gemara is taking this as fact is the fear of heaven such a small thing that it's such it's minimized mean like this can it be that can it be presented as if god is asking nothing asking anything really significant but we know didn't rebecca is saying the name of shimba yochai and this is a very important statement that the holy one blessed be he has nothing in his treasury there's nothing in god's treasury except than a treasure of fear of god so for some reason all of our fear of hashem of hashem is stored away in god's treasury and it says in isaiah 6 which is um the verse we just read right the faith of your times will be the strength of your salvations wisdom and knowledge fear of hashem that is whose treasure that's his treasure yours hashem is his treasure the question is okay it's it was given to man right we said it was given to man so it's man's treasure but it's being saved secured guarded in god's treasury okay why this is the question we're going to deal with um we're going on a a on a beautiful drink a beautiful journey so um the fact that it says the field of the lord is his treasure it means that the lord values and treasures the fear of heaven over everything else remember he gave us free will and he says everything is in my hands everything belongs to hashem except for this like i said when it comes to free will this it's not okay i want to have chocolate ice cream or vanilla ice cream that's not what we're dealing with we're talking about do i want to have knowledge of the greatness of god and do i want to try to serve him and imitate him and become as godly as i can be that's ultimately what this year because we talked about seeing the consequences of my actions is it going to bring me closer to my mission in life to my to having meaning in life or is it going to take me away to what we call counterfeit meaning right we think oh my god if i can just get this i don't know nothing letters after my name and put a plaque on the wall or gain some kind of the trophy or attention in some way that that would that's meaningful okay so what's really truly meaningful i just want to go through the rest of the gemara because it asked the truth is that yes it is a small thing when it comes to when it comes to um moshe because moses had it and if you have it it's a small thing but if you don't have it like god it's not we're going to talk about the fact that he put it in his treasury because it was very dear to him because he gave it to us it was no longer you know bound in his sphere of course he's the ultimate in free will but nevertheless year at sherman was not something that he needs and therefore he gave it to us okay let's uh basically so ruby kanina stated it's comparable to one who asked for a large vessel let's say i came to you and asked you for a large uh large vessel and you actually had one the way that you give it to me is like if you have it so it's like to you it's a small vessel because you have it but if i came to someone for even a small vessel and you don't have it it would seem to you like a large vessel okay this is very much common sense so in hashem's eyes it's considered very large and voluminous and volumable it's like it's considered a lot in hashem's eyes the reason i wanted to speak about this word ma in the verse remember it's we're in deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 12. it says what does hashem show el mi i just want to talk about the word there's four letters so a the first two letters if you just switch them around it's means power but it also means potential right it means potential ma means what i just wanted i mentioned next week we're going to talk about another another means humility so the power to say ma that's what wisdom is the power to say what i don't understand wow this must be mom what is this must be bigger than me you follow where i'm going with this it's awesome yeah it's just awesome the word el is when you borrow okay if i borrow something from you i'm a i'm a showail if i request something from you oh so let's talk about like this let's say i give a loan when i give a loan so i give you greenbacks i give you money i'm not going to print my name on them because i don't expect those same bills to be returned to me those are to be used you're going to invest them or pay off a loan i don't know whatever i don't i don't care what you're using it for but i don't expect as a loan to get back what i gave you i i expect a equivalent but it'll be different bills if i lend you my my watch because you're going on a i don't know an important business meeting and you have to wear this watch where i lend you my car i expect to get my car back so this is going to have a lot of um implications in terms of the mitzvot itself because the reward for a mitzvah what is what do we know that the impercal vote you guys are learning what's the reward of a mitzvah another mitzvah another another myth so here let's go through this um some of the comments now i want to just read through the gamora a little literally uh word for word in there actually we did that let's say the comments then you know what i'm going to read it from the hebrew and translate it because i just read the english very quickly but uh basically rebecca nina said hakobi deshame everything is in the hands of heaven meaning that everything was a cult of our hobo everything that comes to mind everything that we humankind experience for example whether we're tall or we're short whether we're poor or we're rich whether we have wisdom whether i'm sorry whether i'm smart or i'm not smart whether i'm white or i'm black it's not coming from any effort on my part ain't no bone marrow rather everything is nick everything is coming as a set it's established already by the will of hashem except for yerat shamayim except for what we call the sphere of heaven sadiq rasha that it's not given over by the hand of god if the person is going to be righteous or not this is entirely up to me that's the bottom line everything with them rich or poor right everything like that is is not decided by me it doesn't matter how much i try if it's already been established except for one thing the only thing that has not been decided whether i'm gonna be righteous or not because the kardash god gave this over to man this is what we call free will vanessa in the fun of he put before him two options and the one is to fear god that's what he wants you to choose and that's the verse we read in in deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 12 and now based on that you can review it if you want and we understand from the language that god is so el he's asking from man only one thing well it sounds like it's only one thing rock your shamayim the voters hashem to do two things it says one thing but okay what is it that he should fear heaven and serve god for example kagon i'm sorry kayvon since rock came to louis vuitton this this is the only thing that depends on free will of man and has nothing to do with any um decree from on high so the gomorrah asks based on the word ki-im okay remember i said means to minimize so the gemara s regarding this verse is it not the language of motion this is moses own words he says right in deuteronomy it's moses speaking it's only to fear god which implies that it's something very small it's having fear of heaven seems like it's a muat muant means something very small and um it only that is what god asked to do so the gomura asked is that really true could it be that that fearing god is something very small the muat is it possible so the gomorrah says rebecca nina in the name of rabbi shimbarayan the only thing that god has in his treasury is the fear of god and this is answering the question that it's not small it's not small in god's eyes it's something big because it said in isaiah 33 6 that the fear of hashem is his treasure that is his treasure so this proves that fear of god is not small so that's how it answered okay it's small promotion because he has it whereas hashem he doesn't have it it's not in heaven it's already given to man so it's something very much treasured by karish barku himself i wanted to go to a venue that i thought was very interesting because this is going to segue into the idea of humility which i think i already did segway to a certain extent by saying ma so here it goes this is the daniel da on prophets 33 b that the karishbaraku does not have in his treasury except a safe full of your shamayim alone so there's to ask lubazza what is um so negative about this what is her what's extracted i'm not really sure michelle can mean one or the other but like what's so what's so detrimental about this is a good thing a bad thing and furthermore lamar obeys gonna solve why does it say in his treasury so he begins by answering the question as he always does it seems to me with the help of hashem to be able to answer this that it's well known that there's two types of fear one is called yirasa ownish that's fear of punishment and that's considered garuwa this is a very low level whereas the other is called yirus haramus this is something you're fearing the majesty or grandeur of hashem roma moose i i put down a few different definitions it could mean majesty grander evolation elevation okay so this fears the grander majesty of hashem and that's bachat that's considered very praiseworthy as opposed to fear of punishment and this idea of roman moose this idea of fear of the grander is mitsuy the cult of ashamayam this is found this is very common by all the angels and all the heavenly hosts they have this right they have it they don't have free will it's so clear to them and that's why when we talk about this idea fear of heaven we're talking about the fear that the p that the the angels have the fear that um the heavenly bodies have that's the fear that we're talking about that fear that the heavenly host have that's years from roman that's the fear that they have that's the fear that we should have on us that's the goal we should have the fear the all the clarity that the angels the angelic forces have um someone who doesn't have the i guess recognition he they can't decipher the difference between this type of fear which is fear of punishment versus the fear of the grandeur of hashem sorry let me rephrase that that the only person the only entity that can have the true knowledge of who is a real believer meaning who has real era between fear of punishment and fear of the grandeur is only krishna himself because qidabra is a muslim because this whole idea of knowing the difference is sitting right here in your heart right you may act all fearful but you may be just acting out of the fear of punishment but maybe you're acting out of the all of god guess what there's only one entity that knows the truth and that's god himself even the angels cannot read and recognize the heart it's only hashem who knows what's hidden in the heart and that's what it means when the only thing that god has in his treasury is specifically this it's his treasury nobody else has this he allah it's by him it's revealed to him it's known just this storehouse of what we call the fear of heaven meaning to say the year is haramus no heges bisho the type of fear of the grandeur of god that's accustomed amongst the angels in heaven does that man have that or not [Music] inaudible that everything is in the hands of heaven except for this year chamayang because nimsa called niggs our bid where everything is decreed by god's word and it's only year it's only this fear that remains the sharkness territory limited the only thing that's totally hidden because the word is for treasury is good news good news means hidden away it's hidden away oh god is the only one that knows the gazero together because this is treasured to him right because of the idea that man chose it and it didn't come out in other words god has no abilities let's say over your decision to be righteous or not okay this is totally what he gave over to you and it does it's not a decree from hashem everything else in this universe is a total decree from hashem but he decreed free will on man and therefore it's up to you now the question the gomorrah asked was is it really that your mind is such a small thing that was the question asked hello they don't even ask the gomorrah did not ask for the verse itself which bothered the the ben yoda this is the banished high so he answers of course as he always does nearly it seems to me with the help of heaven to answer this question you know what is it not to explain the word ma as actually a noun it's a thing and what is this thing it's another that is the actual concept of humility that is called ma right we talked about the word ma it's the ma the power of what the power of being able to ask what right to have humility this is like a prerequisite in order to get to another which is humility you have to have jira nava to be a balance you need to have this or this fear has because to be actually complete with the the attribute of humility you you well how do you read this that's the question be this another yasi if you want to complete you want to become perfect in humility you have to be able to reach yeera first year but he says really you know what fear is actually greater we're just dealing with this idea that everything is in the hand of heaven and that's why it's talking about it like this and you can actually learn it from that verse that what does it say in the foreign again i said is borrowing and expect the same thing back which is you you're doing a mitzvah you'll you'll it's actually something small because we said ma ma is humility and something that's humble is considered muat something very small and that's what he's asking from you to be small okay velodover maruba not something a lot now there was still a few more comments that i wanted to go through and just hopefully there's just so much beauty and gorgeous wonderful rabbi okay i'm gonna go through some of these we have some time and by the way this verse in deuteronomy deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 12 right that's what we're dealing with yes sir was told over by moshe as rebuke before he died now after he already rebuked them about the sin of the golden calf and that he didn't want them to return to egypt this is all after aaron had died oh i know i skipped one important thing about the ma just to show you that let me just find the verse it's in chapter 16 of exodus chapter 16 of exodus verse 7 and in the morning you will see the glory of god when he hears your complaints against the lord but of what significance are we that you make the people complain against us in the hebrew at the very end what significance are we what are we we are nothing just to get understand what ma really means okay i wanted to not skip that okay okay back to this idea that this whole um rebuke in [Music] deuteronomy 10 verse 12. he said to them even though you did all these wrong things with the golden calf wanting to go back to egypt right guess what god still loves you and he has mercy towards you the name of your mind that's the only thing that hashem requests of you is just to have gira towards hashem that's the only thing that is what the verse is asking in other words we're i'm trying to you know nail it down this is one of the ways towards wisdom and god says this is all i want from you and you know rashi in the torah explains on this verse that the intent is not by rebecca nina that it's only your chimayan but oh if you read the verse all these different types were ideas behind serving hashem they're mentioned in the verse right let's go through the verse again right now israel what does hashem require viewer ask of you only to fear hashem great and then it says and to go in all of his ways and to love him and to serve him with all of your heart and with all of your soul so we see the idea towards servants of hashem which brings us full circle what does this all is that i should not just fear hashem but includes any way that i could reach my potential in serving hashem yes that's just due to my lack of hebrew understanding i mean i'm on the chabad site you know reading this and uh the word for service they use the word worship and to uh worship the lord your god with all your heart soul and might and can you just help me to understand the the the connection in the hebrew language between the words the english words worship and serve yeah i'm going to i'll try thank you sir i'm sorry i i mean you look you look in the dictionary right every word i i tell my students every word has at least eight meanings at least i should say every word almost every word you can only get it from context right and evid a servant and a slave is in heaven the same root a voter should believe what the torah itself calls and what we call the act of serving in the temple is a voda it's the same today in modern hebrew of oda means labor it just means to work so you have to know the context but let's say avodah zarah right strange worship so is it in the halachic sense uh it's four ways that we serve hashem there are four specific ways that we serve hashem and if you serve a different power with these four ways that's called a vodazara where if you serve hashem in any in any way but these four ways it's called evodazar strange worship strange okay so i don't know if i'm answering your question um why did they translate worship listen how do i serve hashem my worship is not just sitting in a synagogue and doing what they call worship right when i help the old lady across the street when i reach into my pocket to give money when i sit there and hold my tongue and not uh speak in hara that's all service of hashem right that's a jew doesn't you know it's not just prayer the gomorrah even asked what is a voter shabalith a devoted lady is prayer but it's not restricted to that it's all kinds of loving hashem and fearing hashem and right so it's worship it's not just physically bowing and praying okay so so those four ways you you mentioned those four ways again is that out of this verse is that that's what they were i didn't mention what they were because i hope i can remember what they are right the idea of bowing the idea of slaughtering animals is called carbonate right incense if i'm not did i say prayer let me go through them again what are they i can look them up real quick but basically like incense sacrifices um bowing and prayer they might be the same um but there are four bases now i know where to find it sir yep thank you so much rabbi any of those uh to a different deity so that's that's a vodazara or if you serve hashem in any other way but these four that's a vodazora bingo thank you sir okay um another point that the truth is that hashem is that god really requests only this idea of the era the idea that through the era we will reach the other attributes that are spoken about in the verse because mitzvah gore mitzvah the one mitzvah drags another mitzvah so if you can get yira down you'll be able to let the code to go in all his ways to love him and to serve him or you say worship him with all of your heart and with all of your soul another idea i think i already mentioned this that this was prophet isaiah prophesizing about the fall of saint that he was saying to the jewish people that they should fear hashem and that the fear of hashem is god's treasure that through it they will be assured victory and live in peace for a long time in their land um another idea brought down that the reason the gemura brings in the very beginning the words of ruby canina and doesn't ask on the verse itself is because from the verse it was allows you to explain a concept called yira to the eats that would be fear of sin and fear of sin if you just looked at the simple shot anytime it talks about fear you may think it's just talking about fear of i should say fear of punishment sorry fear of punishment you think it's the fear of punishment because that's what people have when they think of fear but once it says it's a double muad it's something very small so perhaps the words of rebecca nina is inferring that the actual verse is not talking about something very small it because we explain that it's in hashem's treasure so that your shamayim is something sickly it's not a it's something very spiritual it's not something very base and physical fear of punishment because that's what fear of punishment is it's very basic and physical but fear of romanus fear of the incredible greatness of god and grandeur of hashem is something very much more spiritual and that's what we're speaking about here columbus years what you're fearing is the grander the the high level and the greatness of hashem himself [Music] okay i think i spoke the other ones out already and maybe we'll uh i i have just too many notes i know if i get started i'll never end i think this is a good introduction to getting into next week which is called another and uh humility and i think i pretty much segued right into it with uh with some interesting ideas so bizarre to sham we'll get into this uh next week so would that mean next week is like a 6b or or would that be a part seven rabbi it's number seven we finished six although i have a a lot more to say on it but we'll leave it for now uh number seven by the way next week it's called anova humility and this hashem that'll bring us into the following one called joy simcha so i don't know maybe maybe i can try to put two in one two classes in one i don't know we'll try i have to really start with just find so many treasures i want to share well i hope i didn't divert you or distract you in any way with a couple of questions today you really poked on some points that were useful uh not useful helpful uh in my my growth and uh thank you rabbi they're beautiful i i appreciate you staying up so late to share this the beauty of this this course with us so hashem willing we're on for next week yeah i know this is being discussed amongst nochites they say some of them say look it's just um we just have to do our bit and keep the world going we don't have to delve into so much jewish stuff like i don't know what jewish stuff they're talking about jewish wisdom they should definitely check out right jewish rituals okay i get it right but wisdom your whole basis fruit is believing hopefully i shouldn't say if you want to be a righteous gentile it's believing in the revelation of sinai it's believing that the jews have a mission it's supporting them in their mission you're required to give a lot up in a certain sense maybe socially you know giving up your churches and whatnot maybe that's simple more simple but it's called world view to become more familiar with the jewish worldview because you are and i know i'm going to get a lot of trouble for this you are part of right the jewish i'm not gonna say jewish people i'm not say jewish religion but i do mean that you are you have adopted judaism as your worldview and that even the diamonds made with coal whether you are in the process of converting or in the process of trying to decide whether you convert or in the process of just checking it out not knowing where you're going with this you should become as familiar as possible with what we call jewish wisdom and what i shared with you tonight and i know riley kaufman does as well perkier vote this is jewish wisdom and when i say jewish it's not for the jews this is the wisdom that the jews are supposed to share with the world much of it much of it so i don't know what people are so afraid of i saw some of the comments on some of the other videos that you have and people are comments that um up in arms no these rabbis they only know about judaism they don't know anything about noah hyde i don't know where they come up with such a uh a sweeping statement like that um we know about jews we know about judaism okay we know i'm saying everybody knows a little bit different some know history much better some no kabbalah some no some no right there's all these different um branches of wisdom that one should become i think as familiar maybe the halacha part less so if you are i mean look there's you've heard my introduction to the the um the beyond the seven there's so many that actually apply to the nocheide you know and you know when i say especially about courts of justice and damages and all kinds of you know things to do with torts and those kind of laws especially you need to know the laws of abortizara a foreign worship yeah you have to you have to you know and the laws of murder right laws of stealing all these things are necessary so how are you going to learn i mentioned earlier right and this is a controversial subject are non-jews allowed to learn torah and i've come to the absolute conclusion yes and no yes you are a non-believer you don't you have not accepted this you then you're really limited in what you're what we're allowed to teach you what you're allowed to learn i'm sorry to say um because you may use it against us you know we have many many detractors and if you're out to try to prove us wrong stay away go home you know but if you're interested in learning because you either are thinking about converting or you're already on the on the on the way it's almost unlimited what you can learn what about the person in between they have so much the bed no then they not have so much to learn just for themselves the scripture is certainly open and all the peru shame all the explanations which is quite a lot trust me there's so much to learn so you're almost like wow i don't know some they think they're limited there's like of the torah is open to you you know what i mean there's just a few things that may uh not affect you or relate to you at all there's so much to learn so my i'm encouraging you i i beg you right if you're on the path continue on the path stay strong continue to learn there's so much to learn whether no matter where you are on the spectrum and don't be discouraged hang tough okay so much rabbi you're so encouraging beautiful words today and i think maybe we just ended at that and i look forward to this class it's just wonderful so hashem willing we'll see you next week [Music] is