What Every Jew Absolutely Needs to Know About Converts with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

anybody [Music] everybody welcome back to the ebony date midrash welcome home to Torah a very very warm welcome we're in parashat I know in hutzler you guys are behind one week for a while but we're in chapter 10 of Numbers verse 29. I think that I'm going to title this class what every Jew needs to know about conversion or converts especially since we're dealing with in the middle of right towards the end of chapter 10 verses 29 through 32. it's not the very end but it's near the end all of a sudden we're introduced to the idea that Moshe is requesting from his father-in-law Israel one of the most well-known it's controversial whether you actually converted or not but we're going tonight with the idea that yes he did convert okay uh one of the most well-known famous converts in fact one of the portions of the tour is even named after him which we're going to deal with his name okay we're going to deal with his name tonight that if you read the verses you'll see that Moses calls him he spoke is based on which means loving and endearing okay so you tear yesterday is a language of somehow extra an appendage not necessarily part of whereas he calls him is a more endearing loving name so let's begin first of all I want to mention for those who are not familiar with what we do here is we use the clear car as the basis for our discussion so of course there are many other meanings to the verses we're reading there are deeper meanings there are various meanings but this what we deal with is one of we'll call fundamentals that every person should know at least the shot the explanation of the clear car because he unravels Rashi he unpacks the midrash and he's explaining the verses on a grammatical right something very particular to the word the words that are used and how they're used so it's a great way to learn Hebrew so I encourage those to go deep down into the description box there's a link where you could pick up the Hebrew sheets now if you're really interested in the English sheets and you want to be on my emailing list my private email list then shoot me an email asking to be on the uh the English sheets so you can follow the source sheet the short The Source sheet material a little bit more um in a better fashion than not haphazard right having to look up every every verse or every every Madras or every gamara or whatever source that is being quoted from the Clear Car so that's number one number two down below you'll also find links to other um or previous classes on that Parsha as well as other great speakers that we have on eBay okay so as I mentioned we're in chapter 10 verse 29 and I'll read the whole verse in English and then in Hebrew then Moses said to hovav the son of ruelle the midianite now we don't know at this point that it's Moses's father-in-law Jethro but right away the verse tells us it's Moses's father-in-law which has a different name and we're traveling he's telling he's telling uh Mi ISRO that we're traveling to we're about to travel to Erich Israel no seem we are traveling right about the land which the Lord spoke about that I'm going to give it to you and then he says walk with us come with us go with us we're going and we want you to go with us however in the Hebrew notice no seem was the first word when it says we're traveling or I like the word journeying we're journeying and you'll see why as opposed to just moving or going whereas later when he says come with us meaning walk with us go with us and he says it's like a promise the hait of new look we will be good to you or it will be good to you what will be good to you to come with us for the Lord has spoken of Good Fortune for Israel Hashem now that's the first verse if we go down to to verse 30 through 32 I want to point out a few things that we will discuss so yesro responds I'm not going to go but he uses the word which is re related to the word okay that I'm not going to go I'm not going to walk with you I'm not going to travel with you but where will I travel where will I go for I will go to my land in my birthplace meaning he's heading he's heading back to Midian so in the Hebrew he says but to my birthplace my land and my birthplace that's where I'm gonna olech I'm going to go Moses is begging him to a certain extent he says please don't leave us because you're familiar with our encampments in the desert now you may think just from reading this this person could turn it out to be what part of a fifth column I mean if ever is not with us he'll be against us and he knows how we work how we sleep where we are at I don't think so I don't think so in fact we'll see what it really means when it says that you know our you are familiar with our encampments in the Hebrew it says okay you know you like intimately know our encampments it's true but you know it that we're in the desert but then it says I'm sorry Lane name a name that you will be our eyes right if Israel was like a Bedouin he would be a great guide right you'll be our guide you know the uh the terrain of the desert that's not what it means that's what we think it means at first then we will bestow on you the good which God grants us what is the second promise that Moses is trying to give him that is a greater promise than the first promise in verse 29. in other words verse 29 did not convince him oh yeah it's going to be good for you or we'll we will be good to you somehow that was not convincing enough to get him to come but perhaps if we tell him we will bestow on you the good which God grants us that somehow is a addition some added factor that Moses did not use in the first attempt that will convince him or assume hopefully convince him in the second we call it a promise okay um I don't know if I mentioned this already because I spoke to you guys before we started that we were about to enter the land of Israel and converts do not get a um a piece of the land a piece of the real estate however as I mentioned that when you marry a woman marries a man then she will be a part of his estate and her female children will certainly marry other Jews and they will get part of the real estate and it'll just be unfortunate for the men for a few Generations until their daughters intermarry but the truth is you can always rent an is always place for you okay so don't be dismayed that could have been part of why hovav was dismayed it could be because we're that's how the Parsha develops and at this point he tries to convince his convert father-in-law to join why now okay so let's start with the clear car and we're on page tough koof pay Tet and it's cuffed head in other words halfway down that first page it says 29. right go with us and we will treat you well right we're going to be good to you so the Clear Car points out right away Khan show a limaforshim the the commentators questioned they had a question they were bothered what are they bothered about after the fact that yitra was not appeased he wasn't willing to go with them after the very first promise which we saw in 29 right we will be good to you so what exactly did Moses add when he repeated I'm using the word repeat he didn't repeat the exact same promise but when he repreated when he gave over a second time a type of a promise in verse 32 where he said then we will bestow on you the good which God grants us now I don't want to go into any of the answers I want a list here's a good four or five good questions this is the beauty of the clear car he wants us to really become familiar with the terminologies that are used with the inconsistencies or the anomalies or the most logical questions and then only then will he attempt to answer so that's the first question the second question he asked why is Moses right now calling him which we know is Israel right he's the father more Moshe why is he calling him what does that name symbolize and why is he calling him that now next question it does say no seem anaknu in verse 29 Moses says we are traveling but then he says at the end of that verse in 29 travel with us now it's different in English let's say Journey with us or we're journeying and basically come with us so there's another it's a description by us as journeying when it comes to you you are being requested to take that physical walk maybe I'm giving some of it away here uh walk with us so the clear card says you know it could have been the other way around it could have said we're walking and we want you to travel with us in other words I think he's emphasizing the idea there has to be a distinct difference in the Hebrew between noising so so obviously the word is the verbiage the words used were very distinct and so he wants to know why it's used that way next question in I believe this is the beginning of verse 30 where he says to him meaning Jethro says back to Moses I won't go but he uses the same word that I will go to my land now what's the clear card bothered he says I won't go but to my land I will go why is the word I will go even though in one time it says I will not go but the same verb of going is used twice couldn't the the verse just simply left out one of them here I'm not going but there I will something to that effect why is no it is a distinct sentence within that sentence in other words if you look under yeah we're looking at verse 30 where it says the Omar elav Lo a lake there's an upside down Wishbone which has a distinct it's like a colon or semicolon it's a it's a really hard column it's a whole thought he said I'm not going to go meaning with you but where will I go so we have to still this is going to help us once we understand what the word lake is in reference in in distinction between then the whole puzzle will be solved because we'll understand what lake means and why he says I'm not lake with you but I'm like over there back to my people I know you gotta have a lot of patience and the curiosity is going to kill the cat you just can't you're you know you just can't wait but anyway then he asks another question what does it mean in the 20 in verse 29 where it says so we don't know that much about Hebrew right we'll admit that so it says the Lord has spoken of Good Fortune for Israel that's a a very nice translation the art scroll says for Hashem has spoken of good for Israel okay so according to the Clear Car he says what it should have said was Lily Israel the good was done to Israel's gun done for Israel what is the word Al Israel what does that mean I would have okay the good done upon Israel that would have been a simple explanation but he's going to go into it much further what does the word I'll actually mean and how would that be a way to convince the ISRO to come along with the Jewish people so here we go we'll begin the next paragraph Venera according to the cleocar it seems that the language La shown the expression of lake is what does that mean it means it's a movement of feet alone it's simply Lech go physically now I know what you're thinking what about avrah madinu didn't God say uproot yourself entirely he did and he didn't if you remember when we learned that partial the Clear Car expresses that God did not want to scare avraham into thinking that he had to give up everything at once in fact it was more of a journey as you progressed and physically started walking then you're you're leaving your birthplace right there's a whole idea of um here I have it here in verse in chapter it's number three on the source sheet Genesis chapter 12 verse 1. so God said the Abram first thing I want you to do is like physically leave and then leave from your birthplace meaning it's the next hardest thing to give up I'm going to start with what's easier and then your birthplace is hard to give up and then even your father's house it's actually a whole progression I'm not going to ask you all at once to give up everything entirely but it's a physical movement at first and slowly it's a spiritual transition as we go along so let's go back into the clear car because I did jump ahead all I mentioned was the halika the concept of Alika is a language or an expression that falls meaning it's applicable to the movement of feet alone it's like an uprooting it's a movement of a person from one place to another but it's entirely possible we all are aware of this that even if the person actually physically moves to another place let's say for example just theoretically someone moved from Arkansas to Texas or Texas to Arkansas or they went from all the way from Australia all the way to Hawaii or or Texas or North Carolina I mean this is a big move but where is their head their head is back from where they left right how many Americans come to Israel and their head is still back in America so he says like this it's entirely possible even though the person went to another place but it's entirely possible that his mind his mental state is still very much connected to the place from which he left is a physical movement but not necessarily that you're taking your persona your spiritual journey with you you're still wandering about the old country of a lushing to see it but when it comes to and I'm going to use the word Journey it's a taka it's a complete uprooting um you totally moved on let's say this means physically it includes any kind of physical movement or uprooting as well as makshafto as well as his thought process in its entirety and the clear card points out this is exactly why God said to avram in Genesis chapter 12 1. we're going to read also 12 9 the 12 1 God says what does that mean that just in the beginning it's just it's a it's a first move in your processor there's no question that your your soul is is tied up with the house of your father I'm only going to make that request at the end I'm not going to spring it on you in the beginning all right God's merciful I want you to get up and start moving and then slowly slowly in steps or stages will you relinquish your connection to your father's house but that's like the third on the list that's what the clear card mentions now in addition I should I'm sorry at the end meaning at the end of this um little Excursion from where kazdin in his movement towards Erich Israel in chapter 12 9 of Genesis it says in avram traveled continually traveled Southward look at the Hebrew the yisa of ram it's true avram traveled but it was first no say is second for a reason okay um the Clear Car explains at first avram was holic physically moving and only afterwards because that's how the verse clearly says it he was hole only afterwards he was no say anegba meaning he traveled further south now this is a very interesting idea it says Avi that it was Hashem who caused him to forget about his father's house how through allowing him to go through these stages and I want to point out that this is a very similar language look on number five on the source sheet where in Genesis chapter 41 51 that Joseph named his for his firstborn son Menasha in Hebrew Min Nasha right why did he name him because God caused me to forget two things the second thing is all my father's house that God has caused me to forget that's what God did and helped Joseph with meaning that would be the answer if anybody asked how come Joseph didn't come back when he realized he was you know it could be free as a Viceroy and inform his own father hey Dad I'm alive right because God actually prevented that from happening he caused them to forget that will deal with in those partials but as a proof text that this is what's happening that as you continue to move on your journey you will eventually have these disconnections with your old lifestyle okay let's go on this statement that was made in the very beginning it says he is calling him what in the world is I think I have here on the Rashi in the beginning and look on Source One and Rashi right away we learned that kovav is Israel okay and he had many names yesterday was just one of them because through him a portion was added yetter is an appendage something added but rather here because why was he called kova because he loved the Torah okay this non-jew became Jewish he converted because he loves the Torah this is one of the reasons why he's called okay let's continue in the clear card he says ISRO that means halim means like it's hidden it's somehow you know covered over we don't know that this is yesterday it's hidden we only know through okay logic perhaps to the rotora whatever now this is the Clear Car saying perhaps who we're talking about Mosher perhaps Moshe thought like this okay now this is very difficult to explain because if you read the gemara that he's quoting in your vamos you will definitely come to the wrong conclusion you will come to the wrong conclusion so make sure that you hear the rest till the end of this this point okay this is what happens when someone comes to convert the good morning analyzes of Bryce the master said with regard to a potential convert who comes in front of the court in order to convert you know what the judges say to him well what did you see that motivated you come to convert fair enough they they inform him of some of the lenient mixes and some of the stringent mixes so the governor says you know what is the reason that they're gonna the the based in the court is going to say this to him and you know why it makes sense you know look if the guy or girl is going to withdraw let them withdraw now right it sounds too hard right let them withdraw from the process and if they want to continue let them continue so Rebecca this is the important part this is the part we're quoting he says converts are as harmful to the Jewish people now it really says cachet they're very difficult that's the correct translation they're very difficult to the Jewish people as a leprous scab now the word safachat you have to wear the safachat is like a lesion with like in in leprosy so it is something that is attached to the skin but it's an attachment and uh let me explain now because we're going to go into Isaiah Chapter 14 verse 1 just to show you a proof text as the convert shall join himself with them and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob so this idea they will in in Hebrews is similar to the word safarat they're joining it's it's an appendage now the truth of this concept is not as you read it not as you think there is difficult to the Jewish people as something that's an appendage now what happens converts by nature take this thing seriously so seriously that Jews who take it for granted look at the cover and says wow you're so religious you're making me look bad I mean you understand that you are doing things right and when you do things right and you actually know there's a God and you fear there's a God and you love this God how does that reflect on me who maybe didn't even think twice about it maybe I think about it but how serious you made the decision you gave up everything what did I give up we're going to talk about that I left Egypt I was so happy to leave I'm Not Looking Back what was there the Cucumbers the onions I mean come on I got nothing back there I got no family I got nothing we didn't you know so you are what we call an ideal example of what it means to be a Jew and I around you look bad okay I don't look so good that's what it means that's shot Okay so let's go back to the Clear Car and he mentions which is very strange but I want to explain it so we learned in a Gamora so if an animal has five legs who only has three legs that's considered a blemish now we're actually talking about the difference between a front leg or a back leg so in the fir if they had either three or five well together you know the extra leg was in the front so what's the problem so that would be a blemish that would be I could not bring that to the temple for a sacrifice but what about a back leg if the back leg was either missing or an extra one so then that would be considered trafe in other words it wouldn't be kosher to eat but the Gomorrah says it's as if it's com it's removed so we have this idea oh yeah if it's extra it's good don't think like that just because extra doesn't mean it's good okay so we're talking about the word Jethro why did Moses change his name to kovab instead of yetter yetter implies you know it's nice that you're along the ride with us but you're just like an extra you don't even have a place in the land and that's not the right attitude that a Jew should have towards a convert but rather you know what we need you you're not like oh you're coming because neba you need us no we actually need the convert and here let's hear it out he says al-shame meaning the extra appendage the imkane and if he felt like he was just an appendage he wouldn't really feel close to the Jewish people in a proper way I'll came there for Moses goes out of his way and actually changes his name to kov or calls him why China to actually show him the truth to hint to him what it says in Deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 19. the ahaft you have an obligation it's one of the 6 13 Commandments and how many times is this concept mentioned in the Torah 36 times no less than 36 times there's even opinion says and more through other hints that what you shall love the converts shall love the stranger embarrative for you yourselves Were Strangers in Egypt okay now you want to bring them close this is how you should approach them now this is why Moses had in his mind to convince his father his father-in-law to come with them that's very nice come with us but he says we're journeying we the Jews were journeying it's lainu when it comes to the Jews we think of ourselves as journeying necronacea listen to this why are we on the journey where we left right we're traveling away from where the place that we came from we left Egypt we ain't going back we had nothing there we had no real estate right we had no Vineyards or Farmland we had no family we left through and through you know my wife always points out to certain Jewish women she says wow that lady she left Egypt and she ain't going back right this woman is freedom all the way right so there ain't no looking back if you let right but for a convert they may have and in most cases they did have a very good Family Life maybe they have wealth maybe they have family whatever it is they obviously have what normal people have right so they're giving up a tremendous amount of so what was Moses saying regarding you Jethro ISRO Nick you know as just like God said to avram so too Moses was using the same strategy I think you probably have a big strong connection to Midian so I'm only asking you to let hitana right I don't expect you to have given up everything so nevertheless what I Moses and requesting of you is come with us it's going to be good for you right Hashem Al Israel because God spoke good now we have to go back to the actual language here for um God has spoken of Good Fortune for Israel so perhaps what you know yistro's thinking you're only promising me physical good stuff right you're asking me to physically go and you're saying that God is good for Israel meaning they're blessed and I will get the same physical blessings so third line down it says Russo Loma what was Moses really trying to say to him that Moses was admitting we're commanded the Jew is commanded right to do good with anyone who is what clinging to us because you're physically clinging to us we have to be physically good with you so it says that's why the word all Israel is used remember we asked why does it say Ali Israel not least Israel so he uses that verse in Isaiah chapter 14 1. let's go back to number nine on the sushi it says right the Lord shall have mercy on Jacob and again choose Israel and he shall place them on their soil and the stranger shall accompany them accompany them and join up look it looks the word that they're joining as an appendage even nilva Hager right when it says the stranger shall company them it's so sort of like just an Entourage like you're not really part of the Jewish people and that's that's really a problem so the word I'll implied that as well so it's seemingly what Moses was saying look just come with us physically I don't expect you to make that full transition of giving up your entire past so easily so that's uh then he ends like this that language the expression of Al is something that's just additional to the prime it's an appendage okay let's go on to the next paragraph the Omer a love loyal if you recall in the beginning we said that yes ISRO said regarding what you're saying to go with you on YouTube with you I'm not gonna go but if we're thinking of the word elec as we said I'm not going to go with you physically what Israel was saying I'm much more than that I actually I'm not saying that he's comparing himself to avram but in the end we're going to see that he was probably more advanced spiritually at this point than avrah mavina which is a very hard thing to say but it seems like the clear card is saying that because he says with you I'm not going to go I'm not prepared just to physically go you got me Hook Line and Sinker I'm ready like never before the word is Clarity it was absolutely crystal clear to be ISRO she is that when Moses used the word just physically walk with us though that Moses had the suspicion that isro's mind was still traveling around his original place like um like Midian and his his place his land and his birthplace but you know what the truth is that the Torah was so endearing he loved the Torah so much had no thoughts of his homeland of his birthplace he gave that up entirely well what do you mean he's saying I'm going back there he's saying I'm only Alec there I'm only physically going back there that's how they're very right that's how the verse ends artsy the Elmo latitude in verse 30 but rather to my land to my family I'm going to go listen to what the clear card says that what Israel wanted to do in with all of his with all of his desire in its entirety was to cling to the divine presence and that's when he says so I'm not going to Alec I'm not gonna physically go with you but rather to my homeland I am only going to physically go that's a physical walking because you know the real reason drum roll please the real reason go ahead do the drum roll There You Go the real reason I'm going back to Midian I'm going back to convert them I am all in with the Jewish people and I still care about my family but not in the way you think I care about their souls you think I'm only there for the physical he says then for certain it will it will be constantly on my mind as I wander about over there my mind is wandering over here in this holy place I may physically be in Midian but my mind is here with you sure about in which my not just my mental state my emotional state my spiritual State my psychological State my entire mind is wrapped up with you guys my physical body may end up traveling to Midian but I'm in it all the way so let's continue on to the next paragraph the Omer he says please don't please don't abandon us don't leave us don't forsake us this is going to be a whole new eye-opener what was going on in Moses's mind that he's asking at first if I told you right you're a gay or you're you're a potential convert and I treat you like you know you need us we don't need you that we already saw that's inappropriate in fact it's the other way around well guess what it's so much the other way around we need you we need you because you are actually our role model so much so that if you abandon us we're going to be lost we have no way to fix ourselves without you uh being a role model let's see may Allah so it means forget it really there was you didn't really um um there was no suspicion that you were not going to return to your house and forget about this holy convocation the holy people that you you um you attached yourself to so Moses is not saying don't abandon us because I don't think that you're not going to come back because of for whatever reason but rather you know what I was worried about Moses is saying I'm telling you what I'm worried about you got intimate you knew these people you knew how we were in the desert remember every time we encamped it was the hanu imploro meaning because we always had complaints and Mac loca's arguments and disturbances you saw how I'm going to use the word evil hell not perfect we were you saw how imperfect we were you saw our warts and everything our scars Mac Locus UT Luna right every single you saw this with your own eyes Israel I'm wearing that on account of this you're not going to come back that's why I'm afraid you're not going to come back and join us not because you're so attracted to something of your past and your house your family but because of the disgust you must have for us that's why he says I'll know please don't tazov otanu us don't leave us the word militian that's what is the whole concept you're leaving us who's us meaning to say Bo Loma he comes to say your ray Ani Moses is saying I'm afraid that you're going to leave us in verse 31 we said inasmuch as you know intimately our encampments in the deserts just to re-emphasize this idea when we were in the desert it was the day in Camp Dean Camp but when one time Arab schmooz you know like whether it's three days or six days right before she was it says Israel Israel encamped One Singular Israel encamped singular and Raji says we before receiving the Torah we were absolutely unified but it could have been the only time in the 40 years we were in the desert that we were actually unified what happened all the other times fighting complaining more complaining okay so Moses is thinking to himself right and in fact that's what Rashi says he says Rashi now Rashi says now that's interesting because that's all the Rashi says I mean that's what I'm bringing down for a reason um I'll show you which Rashi in in Source number two in chapter in chapter 10 of numbers this is the comment on not sure which verse you're familiar with the encampments in the desert I think that's verse 31 Rashi says it's fitting for you to do this to remain with us it's Roy for you to remain with us because you are familiar with the places in which we will camp in the desert now I just want to stop there even though Russia continues this idea of what we just mentioned about Hill he he saw the evil side of us and that's enough to want to run away okay let's continue let's go back to that state in the last name we said Rashi says I'll show you but the clear card continues and he says not only did you know intimately our encampments but all the encampments that there were these complaints on the Sheena Hashem that we turned away from God how can I need doe egg so Moshe is saying I'm afraid this is what I'm worried about Pena you're not going to come back to us that even if you do go with us even if you do come with us I'm still afraid that your mind will wander back where you came from thinking it's much better it's much better in Midian there's peace there at least here with the Jews is like turmoil right like who's going to give me a wing of the Yona of a dove and I'm just going to fly and I'll dwell in peace there because when it comes to these encampments by the Jews shame but they're difficult to say the least as we already said therefore Moses is coming back and saying this is the reason I'm requesting even us don't abandon and this is another drum roll drum roll there we go that that through this by you staying this is means you're causing Merit to us you're bringing us Merit how are you the non-jew bringing Merit To Us by hanging out and staying with us and not leaving Israel because all the eyes of the Jewish people they will be looking at you they will their eyes will be towards you lil mode to learn a a fourieri argument what's a logical argument as I mentioned before that you gave up everything remember we had no problem giving up Egypt who would want to be there right even today who would want to go back to Egypt but we gave up nothing you gave up everything so this should mean something to us so we should learn from you you abandoned your land where you were born and all your Authority and you came and you attached yourself to the divine presence Israel how much more should we now that's why it says in the end of that verse right you will be for us a scout no you will be for us a guide no that our eyes will be towards you that in order to bring a greater level zakirabim to bring the Merit of the the the community to a higher level it's because of you now the next paragraph he says it will be that if you do go with us the the fundamental concept of this necessity that we want you to physically go with us but also um that we're expecting that when you go with us and we're thinking that your mind is going to be elsewhere perhaps you know back where you came from and when you see all the um the difficulties deficiencies us causing us ourselves problems that's when we actually need you the most the worse we get the more we need you in order to bring us to a higher level Hashem now remember when we looked at the difference between verses 29 and 32 he's going to point out I think he's going to point out this time no not yet okay but let's look at 32 when it says that foreign right then if you go with us then we will bestow good on you the good that God granted us enu that means what you're causing us the good stuff that God's actually giving us in other words because you're the cause for us to improve our actions that's why God is granting us good and that in return we're going to give to you it's really yours okay I'll say it again I seek some confusion all the good we're going to bestow on you the good which God gives us because God is giving us the good because you caused us to be better so since you caused us to be better God gave us more we're going to give you more it's really yours okay is that clear okay and that's what he says um what does it mean it's going to be we're going to be good to you um the goodness that we're giving to you is what you gave to us okay in other words our good is because of you yes see after the fact that it was you who were the siba the cause of our ability to fix ourselves we fix ourselves because of you and in return that's good for us God's going to grant us more therefore what is means you're bringing the majority the masses to a higher level that's what the gear does aim Kane and he's this is how the clear card ends this paragraph what's Moses saying you're the best guy for the job who else is capable or he's even sensitive enough to do such a thing only a guy like you throw that's why yitra was silent and then Moses pleaded again on his request the net terlo that's why Moses requested remember the question was what could Moses be trying to convince let me ask you if your father-in-law wanted to move in with you and live with you and and and travel with you you'd probably say Hey Dad listen go get an Airbnb you know you know we'll see you on the other side of town like go back to where you came from Moses is pleading with his father the Lord to come along right because the scooter rub him is so great because what this particular type of the gear a true gear a gear setic a true convert could bring to the Jewish people is unmeasurable okay now we're on the uh the last eight or ten lines eight or nine lines in its most simple fashion the way to understand it originally Moses promised him physical reward right he promised him something of a physical nature that's when he says in the beginning in 29 hey it's going to be um we will be good to you do you see the name of God when he promises him anything in verse 29 no I mean the name of God Appears in the verse but when it comes to us granting you any good we will be good to you but when you go down to 32 it says then we're going to be Stow on you the good which God grants us keep this in mind one second he says in the first promise God's name isn't mentioned this vitro did not want to accept he was not interested in the physical benefits doesn't interest me what interested him was spirituality a closeness with Hashem that's why he says a lake Lo artsy he says El artsy he says I'm going to my land when I physically go to my land it's going to be great they got Walmart Target which I don't know if people go to anymore but you got all these great places to shop so I got that in in in in Midian but the second promise that Moses gives them remember we asked how can the second promise be greater God's name is included in that in that promise it's of a spiritual nature now what does that mean it was all ready for this gistro's descendants sat on the Sanhedrin I have here towards the end just for an example look at number 10 on the source sheet numbers 15 24. it what does it mean it's because the eyes of the congregation it was committed some sin was committed inadvertently we're talking about what who are the eyes of the congregation that's the Sanhedrin and this verse is dealing with where the Sanhedrin made a wrong a wrong ruling bashogging it was they made a mistake in their ruling and in the end it could be that the Jewish people worshiped Idols so there's a special uh offering brought by the Sanhedrin if you look at Rashi it says over there if because the leaders literally the eyes of the congregation caused this transgression and it was committed inadvertently meaning the leaders heard and they said it was actually permitted to do idol worship when it was not so anyway we understand that the eyes of the congregation are the Sanhedrin and if you turn the page number 11. uh it's Thomas Sanhedrin 106 a halfway down by the way there were three advisors tufaro you had billum job right so billum said yeah Wipe Out the Jewish people throw the babies into the Nile and we all know what happened to billum and then uh job unfortunately I say unfortunately he did the right thing in terms of protesting but his protest was silence and therefore his uh punishment to a certain extent for that was to scream out and suffer afflictions but ISRO ran away that was his protest so if you go down halfway it says in Israel who fled after he disagreed with that Council and and Pharaoh sought to kill him his descendants were privileged to sit as scribes in secession in the session with Sanhedrin in the chamber of the Hoon Stone and there's a couple verses to prove firstly you can start with judges 1 16 we know the kenites the Canaanites are the tribe of Jethro and regarding the Canaanites if you go to First Chronicles chapter 2 verse 55 it mentions these are the people who are the scribes of the Sanhedrin they were the Ken Knights okay so let's finish off the Clear Car he mentions that that the promise that Israel was more interested in was a spiritual of Nature and the promise was that his children would end up being part of the Sanhedrin and we'll Turn the Page the last few lines like it says when he's when when Moses says you were a um a scout or a lookout he wasn't talking about that he was even though it's past tense but the verb makes it future tense it's somewhat prophetic that your descendants will be sitting on the Sanhedrin as the eyes of the people right the the good which God gives to us we're going to give to you his kir Hashem God's name is mentioned in this promise this is of the spiritual nature the goodness of the spiritual aspect of this relationship that God would give him a spirit a certain a spirit would descend upon ISRO and this was the answer that was uh well actually here it means that um he requested again the cane hayah that's exactly what happened according to hazal and Sanhedrin which I just quoted yahshua balishka the gazis that the children of Israel merited to sit in the Sanhedrin they have takat and that's certainly within that promise where he says you will be not just were but you will be the eyes of the congregation so what I'm going to I think we'll see title this year whatever Jew needs to know about converts and conversion and this is absolutely like 101 before you start helping converts before you start getting involved know who you are know what the whole concept of conversion would just passed through us every single Jew is a convert to Judaism we all converted at Sinai and hopefully we will all go through a process like Abraham our forefather where he went through Allah a process of alcoholic conversion but let's call it the transformation and transcendental uh you know awareness to to higher levels and higher Realms Hashem right we should all learn more Torah that will change us for the better we can be more loving kind people mataki and our omitos fix ourselves and by fixing ourselves of course we fix the world and with that I will say shabbat shalom have a great Shabbos and a great life and we'll see you next week [Music] amazing [Music]