Why did Innocent Children Need to Die in Korachs Rebellion? with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] torah a warm welcome home to toro welcome to the yibbani bait midrash baroque hashem we have a handful of people someone skype some here in the in live in the audience we have a few more people coming i want to remind everybody learn hebrew the source sheets there's a link in the description box below okay you click on it and you can follow this year sometime in the future right now we have those that are joining us they get the sheets in advance and they get extra they get some of the english uh translations of some of the verses some of the sources that we're going to be dealing with okay so here we go we are going to start on tough ratio dalid it's in chapter 16. it's not the first paragraph we're actually going to deal with a very small paragraph it's the bottom half of page one that i gave to them and it's the first five or six lines uh five lines of the second page that's it however we're going to go deep into some very fundamental issues ah shall i believe him okay here we go it says in the midrash the truth be told i rashi doesn't quote the whole matrix right there's a famous medrush everyone knows kara came of course with some types of arguments but there were two right two particular arguments that are expressed in the medrash that he came and he says look we have this garment it's full of the color blue we'll call it queles i shouldn't say blue we don't know what color it's color tachylis it's a slight green blue right it's not blue it's not green it's tachylus okay that is the string that is on the seat seat and he comes and he says i have full garment would a full garment require the strings if the garment is fully that color okay that's all that's really quote in rashi we'll see actually you know what let's look at rashi on the english sheets it's page one and it's at the very bottom highlighted um it only mentions now the truth is manjushtan khomar brings a second argument what about a room like this full of sephrate torah right full of torah scrolls would that doorway require a mezuzah why would it just right basically the idea is if the whole congregation is holy what does that mean you don't need a leader basically and what is a leader that's we're going to talk about a leader seems to be something that guides you or causes you to remember what you need to do that's what a leader is so if you have a leader but everyone's holy you don't there's no use for the leader which is really problematic because if he wants to be the leader then why is he arguing on the whole idea of leadership so it's quite complicated we're going to try to make it as simple as possible because what we do is we read the words we're going to learn the clear car he was the talmud mukha he brings down the part the beginning part of the medrush right karak took it sounds like he took people into his argument and there were 250 plus dustin aviram and onbin pellet okay we'll see what happened to om bimpel that's that's actually not for tonight but what did he take maloka he took a garment that was entirely this special color of greenish blue and that's as far as rashi brings up let's take a look at rashi real quick further it states these were the chosen ones of the congregation he dressed them with cloaks made entirely of blue wool they came and stood before moses and asked him does a cloak made entirely of blue wool require fringes or is it exempt he replied yes it does require these fringes they began laughing at him and saying is it possible that a cloak of another colored material one string of blue will exempt it from the obligation of trellis and this one which is made entirely of blue wood would should not exempt itself now the pro the problem i see just with rashi off the bat is he doesn't bring the whole majority about the books the room full of books full of sifreitar okay shouldn't bother us too much at this point but basically they were claiming that moses made these laws up how and why they came to that conclusion well i'm not sure we'll deal with it tonight but let's again stick to the text here we go they asked further in other words they had another question buy it malaysian a room a house full of uh torah scrolls would it require a mezuzah okay so what the clear car begins by saying is it makes sense for zitsy simply rashi also brought it why would citrus make sense that this is something that karach took this is the beauty of learning you know the torah with jews you know i'm not saying i'm you know we're all learning with with a great jew that's the clear car so there's a thing called smith smith means proximity the very fact that if you just turn your homish back one page well i don't you know in my book it's like that it could be you just look back at a few a few few verses right if you go back we're in chapter 16 verse one go back to chat in in numbers go back to chapter 15 verse 37. we say this more than once a day we say at least twice a day right so here you have the whole partial of sitsit so right after hashem god through right got through moses through god is telling them about the mitsubishis and then it says karak talk so now it makes sense where they got it from that he took the census and presented an argument but what about the mezuzah where did he come up with an argument of mezuzah well hang in there watch the words we're going to learn right the second question was buy it okay this llama bits it says it makes sense it rests well with citrus meaning we understand why he had a complaint dara smoking because we darshan one of the ways of expounding the torah is based on what we call the proximity the placement of one verse next to another or one set of verses placed next to another paragraph because from the very fact that korach took is placed right next to the parties of titus but when it comes to mezuzah who mentioned it where is it mentioned where any guesses no i couldn't guess until i read the clear car and then it's no longer a guess nero lafaresh the clear car will explain to us where this idea came from the mafik la medici you know what's going to come out from verse 27 in other words go back to chapter 16 again and look at verse 27 verse 27 7 says let's go back to 25. moses stood up and went to dawson in aviram remember dawson naviram are two of the 253 people and the elders of israel followed him he spoke to the assembly saying i'm sorry skip 26 20. let's go back 25 moses stood up and went to dussen aviram and the elders of israel followed him moses he spoke to the assembly saying turn away now near the tents of these wicked men and do not touch anything of theirs lest you perish because of all their sins 27 this is our verse okay let's look in the hebrew as well the yeah the alumi so they got themselves off from near the dwelling of korath dason and agrion from around misawa me from all around vedas dawson and aviram went out what's the word nitsavim to be standing but what are the next two words well pesach by the doorway of their tents the shaham uv nahim the topham their wives their children and their infants okay so what do you need the words why do we need to know that they went out standing erect by the entrance of their tents why is that necessary so i'll tell you why it's necessary to teach us that they went up standing erect in a chutzpah dick in a very had what had it what's called brazen right fashion and look at the the words of the clear car la malayalam why do the words by the entrance of their tents appear ella to teach us they went out standing erect to curse and to blasting regarding the whole idea of this mezuzah that is attached to the entrance to their tent now we know that karach brought karach brought the argument about the wall in the um the tukhalas and it was then it was dustin aviram that brought the argument about the mezuzah was the one who had a grievance in green grievant grievance a grievance he was the one who argued about partisans and it was das sifu they added they added the argument further regarding the mitzvah of mezuzah that is by the entrance of their doorway this is what they said they basically this is the narration that's not written in the text but this is what our tradition holds happened they said that was moshe was border bolivo stay mitzvah they said that moses made up invented these two mitzvahs and their argument was similar to his argument kamosha kitab robena bahaya the rebecca mahaya writes very similar to this idea shame shattali just as a garment that is completely this particular color called the phallus has tenet what's svara logic it means the reasoning is no tenet is giving i would just say logic dictates meets its is it should therefore be exempt from situations so too the same by it male sparring so too a room a house that is completely full with sifrey torah with torah scrolls should be pature meet mezuzah should also be exempt from mezuzah shakola ether kadoshi at a time when the whole congregation is considered holy enon they do not need a leader and meter is not necessary well this is going to be the main topic of this evening what does a leader do as i mentioned he guides he reminds right he leaves ode removes bezel lomar there's a further hint in this in what was said that they also said or tom shtay mitzvos elu they understood they actually understood the reason behind these two misses hashem they both serve as a reminder for a person regarding the mistress of god you hear this mezuzah and sitsis remind us of the relationship that we have with god of his commands of the details of the guide itself which is the torah it is an instruction manual just go back one page or wherever it is chapter 15 verse 39. in numbers and it refers to the verse of situations and it says uri temoto usakartan right on the english source sheets you'll find it on and number five right uh no that's we already did that it's number six when you see it you will remember all okay it's like this this shall be fringes for you [Applause] there we should be sitters for you and when you see it or we eat them auto you will remember us karten as come mrs hashem all the mixes of god and you shall do them and perform them veloso suru akhiray levatham and not wander after your hearts the achara mayhem or after your eyes i share a tamzoni macaran after which you are going astray let's look at rashi on that verse interestingly i will tell you a secret that the word seat in the torah is not what it says here look what it says because the numerical value of the word seat c is 400. guess what it's not why sadik is 90 unit is 10 sonic is 90 good is 10 it equals and tough is 400 sorry so it comes out to what 613 613 how do we have it one second okay that's six hundred what do one say what do we have how do we have thirteen so you add this to the eight threads and the five knots that's 13. so it's 600 but i have a secret for you it doesn't say anywhere in the torah the word seat seat with the second yard so the answer to this problem now your whole faith is ruined the way is pronounced is with the second unit it doesn't even make sense that doesn't have the second unit it should have the second unit sonic yod sadiq tough okay so don't let that fool you when you look at the word seed in the torah there's no second good but okay it actually equals 600 okay and then you have the eight strings the five knots which equals 613 so you remember the 613 mixes when you look at the seed seed okay let's go on here we are the mezuzah what is the point of the mezuzah kadeshiska in order for you to remember hashem in your comings and your goings as you enter and leave the home uh at a time when the entire congregation is considered holy enum there's absolutely no reason to have something an item an object a religious object in order to remind you that right about hashem why keep allah because if that was holy even without this reminder hashem le negadam tamid hashem will always be in front of them this is their claim we're all holy we all know hashem is with us we don't need this [Music] this who this is being hashem and all of his mitzvahs meaning we have a an awareness of hashem and all of his mitzvahs vain and there's absolutely no need for them they're unnecessary except for people who are likely or tend to forget about now this is a i would say this is a deep philosophical question i can understand why they themselves were punished but why were their children punished and not just simply their children who were like seven eight nine ten years old who could have been a bardas but infants innocent infants why were they punished now i do want to mention just on the sidebar that when does a bed knock become bar mitzvah so to speak there's a mock locus as in everything many opinions hold just like a jew a girl would become obligated in the midst of noah when she's 11 i'm sorry 12 and uh boys when they're 13. but there's a very strong opinion that once they become what they call bar dot cogniza of what's right and wrong and that usually could take place any time around five six seven eight years old they're already then into that category um just keep that in mind for those who are uh benenoch who are watching now we're talking here about younger than that okay they're not bar docked they do not yet have a functioning brain to know what's right and wrong they're innocent okay why would the innocent children of clorox rebellion right the wives perhaps they coach them their men their husbands who knows but this is going to be the question the clear card just says and the reason this is the reason why even that not just them but also their children were punished yes delve deeply try to understand from bena or building and being in building of the same idea we need to really um concentrate if kara and his congregation then when it came to the infants why would they be included why would they come within this umbrella of this punishment okay great question everyone's bothered if you don't continue listening you're not going to sleep tonight right from the very fact that what they argued about was the mitzvah of titus and mezuzah the very fact they argued about this oh for those who are not aware what a mozuza is i'm assuming that everyone does we spoke in detail about what the titus is pretty much right it's the fringes that are on the corner of your garments right it's a four corner garment that you've got citrus on fire these these fringes one of them is this color and this they're wrapped in a certain way we're going to deal with a lot of these details as we go on mezuzah is a little scroll which has the first part of the first paragraph of the shma and it's rolled up and it's neatly placed in the doorway on the right as you come in on the left as you go out okay so here we have omasik the perique been made my leaking we're going to see this in depth i just want to go through it superficially for the next five lines and we're going to go back and deal with these source materials themselves it's in gamora shabbos 32b there's a whole mock locus there's a whole sugiya discussion why under what circumstances what kind of sins do parents do that end up having consequences and ramifications on their children perhaps even death okay i don't want to go into right now do children die for the sins of their parents they don't it's an accepted fact there are times when they do and there are times when they don't okay so these are going to be times where they do and as much locus here you know the gomorrah gave several different examples of when that happens i'll give you one example when people take vowels and don't fulfill them then there's consequences such as the what we just described perhaps the death of the children here rabbi yehuda and mayor argue and charomar bonnie nasim bavon for the adult for the father not wearing situs this could have grave consequences on his sons hatomar and one says just right if you have a house and you didn't put a mezuzah it could have grave consequences on your your children now the clear car says the time the schneider it's even though they're two different mixes but the same reason is why there's some common denominator between citizen and and mezuzah that's going to cause the death of children and what is that lefice nehem zika rome because they're both coming as a remembrance as uh during the break told they asked you know look i don't i don't like bringing other religions in so much but you know the christians say you don't have to keep the torah you just have to believe right we're all holy right well guess what we mentioned that was clorox opinion right so to to live but label karak and put the christian same category no sweat off my back but still we have to answer the claim why is it so important hashem gave these commandments why is it so important to act as a zika run and we will deal with that we will deal with it say so we already know about the mezuzah it's on your doorway in order that hashem should be against your eyes meaning you should be what spiritually you know god conscious right in all your affairs as you come in and as you go out should be constantly and it sits is what about sitsis the zikron emits us it's to remind you of the mixes by the way i just want to clarify because i said this many times and i want to drill it into your head the word mitzvah means to connect god wants that relationship and he gave us opportunities right even the name yud and hey and of love and hey that's god's holy name the word mitzvah the last two letters of the word mitzvah are the last two letters of god's holy name the first two letters we discussed is where you have the aleph and the tough the replaceable it's like replacing a with z or z with a so to the next letter b with x y z with y right so you have interchangeable so atmash was used by the united states army you can look it up look in wikipedia just put in a-t b-a-s-h and it'll say it's a it's a hebrew form of gematria and it's used in the fashion i just told you and they used it to beat the nazis they actually used it in encoding you know the spies use codes or maybe on the radio they use different codes the newspapers whatever however it works to get the message to your own allies or your own men on the on the battlefield uh what they need to do so here we have this concept called abbas so the mem and the tsadik are switched with the yurt and the hay in other words if you use the odd button mesh it up mess method at athbash is now you have the first part which is and the second part which is love the whole khan the root of mitzvah is without the mem causative sava seve right it's used to describe a group of people working in harmony right a staff right you have okay we've talked about it before we will continue to talk about it again so you're used to it so this is in order to remember the mitzvahs meaning the opportunities to have an intimate relationship with the kurdish barack obama go to hoshea chapter 4 verse 6. you'll find this in uh number page number three number eight on page three the titus now this you have to know you have to feel like how can this be god says if you forget my torah seeing that you have forgotten my torah i too will forget your children we're asking the question why would it be that karak's congregation those infants the children were were suffering from the consequences of the parents let's read the whole verse my people were silenced for lack of knowledge because you have rejected knowledge what is knowledge knowledge is hashem's torah i will also reject you from being a priest to me seeing that you have forgotten the torah of your god i too will forget your children in hebrew granddaughter yeah it's really on the next page but um you forgot you caused to forget the torah of your god i god i'm going to forget your children and let's look at rashi god's going to forget your children for those who stood on mount sinai we stood there mount sinai we offered our own children as abitakon as a security for us keeping the torah right we said nasa nishma that's plural we yes all of us you know let's say horizontally but also vertically meaning uh generations to come we have to do everything we can to instill a love for torrent mixes in our children okay so here we have the last part of the clear car two lines and then we're going to go into the sources rich full chock full of beautiful luscious delicious sources what are tolados produce we can call it chronicles children literally what else do we know todos are when you go back to parshas noah these are the toddlers of noah rashi right there describes this is talking about his character so character todos or masintovi see all your day through forgetting about working on your character forgetting about doing good acts if you forget this esther god will forget your children if one would forget about trying to accomplish mitzvahs and good acts which are called todos generations chronicles or good acts so too god will forget your todos your produce your children and furthermore that banim are enough children are considered i'll just use the word offshoots because anat means a branch offshoots and what is sitsis sitzis look like offshoots consists of shahem anathm in a they extend extend from the beggar now that's as far as the clear car goes but i want to tell you there is just chock full of some really good stuff so what i want to do is focus on for the moment the gamora in shabbos we've read it very superficially but there's some really good comments so if you have the hebrew i think it's passed around yeah and then you'll turn the side turn the back in a while but let's start with the front right so this is where there's like uh for those who have a little arrow here okay and we're on the right side halfway down it says the gamora brings an additional mock locus i already told you there was discussions of different mixes that people were doing if they or they fail to do would have grave consequences for their children so pleaguib there's actually an argument regarding this rebbe mayer and rebbi yehuda they argued it's for the because of the sin of not fulfilling mezuzah that children die haramar and the other one said sitters it's on account of negating nullifying not fulfilling the midst of the abstinences that children die so the gemara says you know what i understand fish lama lamanda omer the opinion no we don't know which one says which whether it's rebel uterurally man but we know they argue and one holds one side one holds the other when it comes to the mitzvah the sin i should say of doing doing mezuzah i understand because look in um deuteronomy chapter 11 verse which one 11 20. it says right i'm sorry 20 and 21. it's really 21 but i want to make sure we have and you shall inscribe them upon the doorpost of your house and upon your gates in order that your days may increase and the days of your children listen to the words and the days of your children on the land which the lord swore to your fathers to give them as the days of heaven above the earth so what do we have in hebrew laman your buddhism in order to extend your days you should have long life but also also the life of your children so within the parsha within the paragraph dealing with mezuzah you clearly have a life for your children as well correct great so the governor said i understand that because it starts off as saying you know you should write them as those on the doorpost your house and right after the next verse says in order you should have a long life and your children great but what about sitzes where is that brought in how do i know the children god forbid could die on account of the parents the father not fulfilling the mitsubishi's elder lamanda um sits is but according to the opinion that held the midst of sisters is why children die my timer what's the reason i'm a raf kahana now rafa hanna said this but some say that somebody else said it who's who's the other person shilima sheila mari so we don't know maybe they both said it ravkahana some say it was sheila mari it was from this verse what's the verse in jeremiah chapter 2 verse 34. now i want you to know we're going to go back to verse 30 but let's read 34 first jeremiah chapter also in your skirts now in hebrew it's that means the corners also in your corners of your garment nimtseou is found what because of the corners of your garments that don't have tsitsis the blood of the souls of the poor who are pure who are clean who could that be look at the word ev means poor but it's really like two words it's are children the evianim the poor is a combination here so it's the fathers and the sons who are innocent so also because of the corners of your garments you didn't do sitzes will be found the the blood of innocent when it says nikim clean and read it again in english also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor but not just poor's fathers and sons you did not find them breaking in now hold on that last part of the verse we didn't bring yet we're going to bring it now he let's just say like this at this point we understand that the person did not fulfill the midst of situations because of the canaaf the word kanaf appears in the parasha of titsus so we know what tamar says is and the word about the blood of the souls as neem these are innocent souls innocent people it's talking about the smallest of the children who are innocent of sin that's what it's talking about right the one who says because of the mezuzah that's why children die you can also learn it from here name where the same verse or let's say um i mentioned in this in verse 34 where it says you did not find them breaking in now what does that mean you didn't find the breaking in look in the hebrew lobin means digging under the ground like through a cave in other words when somebody tries to break into someone's house by breaking in the door or knocking on the door whatever it is that's one way the thieves come in but some come in stealthily so if someone comes into your house stealthily and you find them and you kill them you're not a murderer okay so the point here is that when they're when in the hebrew when they're coming in through a cave and you find them it's really what it's trying to say it's a cave door and not a real door a real door has a mish golf like a uh a beam that's holding up and then you have door posts that's called a doorway it's the shape of a doorway looks like a doorway it quacks like a door it is a door but if you're coming in from a cave you're climbing through a hole and there is no mezuzah in so now keep in mind the same verse talking about mezuzah in ho in jeremiah 234 is also talking about mezuzah meaning they also failed to put in mezuzah you did not find them breaking in but for all these so listen to what he says the gemara since it says their openings were like a ma'ara a mahara is a cave and a cave would be a cave doorway would be exempt from mezuzah like we said the verse name the verse itself in jeremiah is making complaint shaman that the jewish people themselves had doorways um kahugan they made them like real doorways and they they're actually obligated to have mezuzah's the nagoban but they made them like cave entrances and did not put mezuzas on them they were violating this positive missile putting a mezuzah and that's why the verse ends regarding all these things meaning plural the citrus and the mezuzah this this prophecy is speaking about the jews not keeping these two particular misses now the truth is i want to go into detail in the source sheets but i couldn't help myself i want to just read the next few lines because this is one of the most famous prophecies that we know of that we're aware of especially those amongst the benenoch movement correct where it says comes rashlakish and he says regarding sitsis that any jew who is careful in the midst of situations means in the future some explain even in ghanaian maybe it's not physical but every jew who who keeps who's very careful about doing the mitzvahs it's this will merit to have 2 800 servants meaning people who want to serve you people who want to serve you and how do we know as it says in zechariah chapter 8 verse i see i did skip jeremiah 2 verse 30. okay let's just stick to zechariah 22 right now so said the lord of hosts in those days when 10 men of all the languages of the nation shall take hold of the skirt of a jewish man it actually says a jewish man people want to know oh we're you know where the word you come from means it's just yehuda we're talking about anybody who is around today as an israelite is a jewish man the prophecy refers to yehudim look in the hebrew commands beyond you know what's going to happen thus he says god in those days who's going to hold and grasp ten men mikola shanot how many la shannon we say there are 70 languages there are 70 nations they're actually going to grab the the corner of the garment of an ish ud it doesn't say ish israeli it says not because we're all from yehuda but because we're all believe in the mahfud of david of the mashiach who's coming through the seed the real seed not the imaginary seed the real seed of king david right who's from yehuda now how did we get two thousand eight hundred if there are ten men from each language which you said there's seventy so ten times seventy is seven hundred and how many corners are there four corners and due to four times seven hundred now you have two thousand eight hundred people who want to learn torah let us serve you let us come up with you teach us your way that is the point here now i want to go into some of the most fantastic explanations if you have the page now i'm missing knife here it is we're going to start with the right side right okay so it says like this the or me the connected meda it's on the back side of that sheet the clarification the explanation of measure for measure remember we asked the question why did these children have to die right these are infants we don't really have a sad totally it's not totally satisfactory yet because we didn't read all the comments but why would it be measured for measure if the the parents i mean god said this is what's going to be but let's see why again the clarification of the concept called measure for measure meet a canadian media for the sin violating the sin of mezuzah so we have four opinions here the first one is the mahara b or shikheva nabani nikkorin beso adam did you know that children are called your house you're you're right you've been buy it right people who feel like family through your house so therefore when a person sins with his house by not having the mezuzah there shaina maniac he fails to place a mezuzah by the doorway of the house also his children will pay the consequences there are amongst number two there are amongst the acharoni and they explained that kaivon shamozuza he smeared the mezuzah serves as a guard on the door for those who are aware of the famous story of oculus i suggest you look it up oculus what transpired in not only his conversion but when his uncle the caesar sent many troops to try to bring him back and every single time the troops came and had a conversation with him they end up converting to until the last time when his cousin or brother caesar said don't speak to him just bring him back and as they were taking them out the door he kissed the mezuzah and they said oh what is all that about and of course he had a conversation and he said if i haven't seen the story in a long time something to the effect of you guys you will guard your king but our king guards us right something to that effect so hashem is our guard he places he told us to place these holy words of the torah again if we remember god will remember us if we forget god will forget about us specifically our children let's continue that's why it says the mezuzah is a shmira for the either evil forces or destructive forces do not enter the house of a person when you remove that shimmer by not putting the mezuzah yoho la masteries the destructive forces are able to enter into the house okay let's go into the ben yoda this is the benishchai and he clarifies by saying the moscow the moscow is the top beam that's hold that you know the doorway has two side frames and there's a frame on top okay so the masjid is rem is that hints to the father now i just want to mention we're only going to be talking in terms of sexual okay sexual position so this moscow the thing on top represents the father because he's the rosh the el young he was on the top and he's higher above the joseph ramez leisha now he adds that the there's a hint about the wife the woman she's the russian the dresher would be you know the threshold and explains because she's down below and he's above okay then he says the mezuzah is hinted at al-habani how is the mezuz itself because that's on the two sides right this is on one of the two sides that's basically we call the doorway the two uh the left and the right this represents the children and when you don't fulfill the mitzvah of mezuzah which is hinted at as we said by the children may sinbad of the children are taken out of and now we can actually understand if you go to deuteronomy chapter 11 verse it says you should put them up the mezuzah on the you should put this parchment on the mezuzah of your house on the children of your house the torah itself should be in them the word mezuzah now the word mezuzah mem zion uh valve zion valve tough it's the same letters as zazu marvis zazu so what does that mean zozo means to move you're moving death by putting up the mezuzah you're moving or removing death kalamar meaning to say mitzvah on account of as a reward for performing the mitzvah of mezuzah you're zazu kol habani mamisa you're removing you're get removing all your children from death now let's see the the villenegon in iman he's going to quote the rambam now i actually have a copy of the ramban i sent it by email but i didn't make copies because too many pages well i could request i request or suggest when i do read i'm going to read some of it the ramban you're going to get a flavor here's just a taste right now the vilna gone explains based on the ramban [Music] and anything similar to it you're doing it for the sake as it says it's ryan right we'll make kids friday night executing this rhyme so many mitzvahs to fill in there's so many mixes that we do as a remembrance that we left egypt that god removed us from egypt right i just want to mention also in terms of let's say addictions bondage it's so important to know and understand that the israelites leaving egypt leaving bondage is there to teach the world we are shining light yeah everybody experiences their own bondage their own restriction their own chokehold so to speak in life and if you want to know how to experience real true freedom learn it from us learn it from the torah okay so he's just mentioning that the mitzvah mezuzah and anything similar it says in the torah regarding that zeke let's see if it's ryan why the glossary spark hashem is not and we know because we live in a generation where we don't see open outright miracles all all over the place right but that generation did see they left with the ten makos the ten plagues so many miracles around them right but hashem's not going to do it the cold door leine called russia because he he there's such a thing as free will and there's so many evil people and deniers and heretics the god's not going to perform it for them that really god commanded for us to perform these acts these misses that we should have this remembrance as a sign to what our eyes had seen el binenu and then we're supposed to repeat it and tell it over to our children uh and to their children's children as well we'll be named until the final and last generation okay this is what we're this is our job the the hatsarik lichtov zos of pisgahbatim and this is necessary to write on the doorways of your houses in the mezuzah and we need to pronounce we need to remember through speech through our own mouths every morning and every evening that's why it's the shema it's in the shema miss the rabbles we have so many myths like this rhyme that we're talking about the whole exodus from egypt and so too since the mezuzah is acting as a remembrance and the children of the human being they are the zikrano shalom they're the ones who remember you after you die right it's serving as a remembrance they are the children are your remembrance your legacy your children are your legacy move on if that's the case then it's well understood therefore if a man a person fails to perform a mitzvah like these mezuzah and sitzes that act in a way that serve to cause you to remember so the ownish is the punishment be it the var zikrono that you you will lose your just like you didn't remember you won't be remembered um which is your children and therefore that's how that idea ends now okay so i want to go into the ramban itself and i did pass on to you guys through the email and the whole essay but i want to just start from page 296. in other words halfway through the ramban on chapter 13 of exodus verse 16. but it's really interesting reading i want you on your own time to read the first few pages here i just want to focus on this idea the ramban now begins a lengthy discussion of the unique importance of the exodus in other words why is it so important that so many mitzvahs so many misses are let's see right it's not just it's not just for me to remind myself that i was in bondage personally it's true but this is a legacy of the jewish people okay so even those non-jews you all know that we're only we who we are because of our experiences in life right going through the uh the the servitude the slavery of egypt and coming out as royal slaves royal slaves to hashem so explaining why the torah gives us so many mitzvahs to commemorate that event he ultimately expounds on the underlying purpose of all the mitzvahs and creation itself i'm talking about the ramban the ramban does so i'm going to read it in english it's a fantastic piece here now i'm going to tell you the general principle regarding the explanation of many misses now from the time of idolatry from the time my dodger came into the world came into being in the world from the days of enosh views regarding what did enosh he believed in god but he thought he needed an intermediary see this for us jews is idol worship okay to believe in any kind of intermediary is idol worship and therefore enosh believed in um god but he believed also in intermediary so that's where views regarding the authentic principles of faith began to be corrupted by people some of them some of them denied the fundamental belief in a creator and said that the world is eternally ancient they denied hashem and they even said god does not exist and there's verses to prove all this but okay you can read on your own and some of them deny deny god's knowledge of the particulars of human events they say how can god know is there knowledge in the most high and some of them admit to god's knowledge of world events but deny his supervision over them like he created the world left where he's too high he's not going to be involved with those petty creatures and thus in their minds making man like the fish of the sea fish of the sea means we're like another dimension far away from god okay as if we cannot relate to or communicate or commune with god so far away making man like the fish of the sea and that god does not oversee them and there is no punishment no punishment or reward for their deeds right basically they're saying hashem does not see us hashem has forsaken the land however when god favors a group or an individual and performs a wonder for them involving an alteration in the world's usual course and natural law remember we're talking about and then creating miracles if god would do that the negation of all these heretical views is may is going to be made clear to all right if there was and like i said if or when god would favor a particular individual group and would create wonders miracles for them that go outside of nature they wouldn't be in there wouldn't be any heretics everyone it would be clear to everybody for the supernatural wonder indicates that the world indeed has a god who originally originated it ex nihilo meaning something from nothing yeshmiah he knows all over sees all and he's all powerful but and when that wonder is further more publicly declared beforehand through a prophet the truth of the principle prophecy is made clear to all as well that god will speak to a person or reveal his secret to his servants and prophets with acknowledgement of this principle the entire torah is sustained okay now god now shows how the ten plagues miraculous wonders all expose the falsity of the aforementioned heretical views we witnessed it our great great grandparents saw it all scripture therefore states regarding the wanders in egypt so that you will know right god perform these miracles in the desert so that you will all know that i am hashem in the midst of the land indicating the whole concept of divine providence for god did not abandon the land to random occurrences as is the heretical view but scripture further states regarding the plagues so that you will know that the earth is hashems indicating the idea of the origination of the world by a creator for they meaning the earth and all its inhabitants are his by virtue of the fact that he created them from nothing and it also says in relation to the plagues so that you will know that there is none like me in all the world meaning indicating the idea of the omnipotence of hashem he rules over all and nothing can deter him these three declarations and the miraculous plagues that precipitated them were needed because it was the egyptians who denied or doubted all this accordingly the great signs and wonders in egypt are trustworthy witnesses with regard to belief in the creator and the entire torah now because god did not perform a sign or a wonder in every generation in those generations there was signs and wonders in our generation we don't have that i'm going to see it again now because god does not perform a sign or a wonder in every generation in sight of every evil person or unbeliever he commanded us that we should constantly have a reminder and a sign for what our eyes saw in egypt and to transmit this matter to our children and our children to their children and their children to their children until the last generation and god was exceedingly stringent in this matter of making reminders of the exodus just to keep in mind those first few pages i didn't read to you have a lot to do with the midst of to fill it i implore you to read it you want to know about the filling and it being an oat it's a sign to remind us hashem took us out of egypt and to always have it on our mind right that's where the brain is it's a very beautiful piece but let's go on god gave us all these different misses to remind us that we were in egypt and that he took us out these reminders and as we see from the fact he imposed on a very severe penalty karate being cut off if we eat hames on passage he makes his leaven bread yeah it is it's khames is uh is cutting off cut off not intention no it's that's the that's that's the consequence for immigrants okay that's called excision karate okay both i'm sorry and also the passive offering if we don't bring a passage offering we are cut off from the jewish people again all reminding us of the leaving of egypt and it's required further we write and attach upon our arms and upon our heads right between our eyes everything that was witnessed right that's what the parshiot the paragraphs that are in the torah that are in the in the uh in the filling describe the leaving of egypt about all the signs and wonders and that we write it again in the mezuzah at the entrance of the house on the doorpost and we speak about we recall this orally every morning and evening as the sages said even the barakah mr yatseev some say it's actual biblical law right it's a derisa which is derived from a verse in deuteronomy 16 3. what does it say over there you'll remember the day your departure from the land of egypt all the days of your life okay if you have a religion you just believe in something like that it doesn't sound like you're fulfilling this here it says in deuteronomy 16 3 you put on the filling put on the to filling so that you will remember the day of your departure from the land of egypt all the days of your life okay and we make a sukkah every year what's the purpose of the success to remember hashem took us out of egypt there are many other commandments similar to these that serve as a reminder that we had left the servitude of egypt and all these commandments serve to be a testimony for us through all the generations regarding the the miracles that god performed in egypt that they shouldn't be forgotten because we don't have those miracles happening to us on a daily basis but they happen then and we're we're commanded to remember them and consequently there will be no plausible argument for any unbeliever for the unbeliever to deny the fundamental principles of faith in god since those principles can be directly deduced from the wonders of egypt [Applause] for one who purchases mezuzah for a mere few dollars and attaches it to his doorway and thinks about what it's supposed to bring to you you've already acknowledged god's origination of the world that god's the knowledge of the world affairs and the supervision thereof and also the truth about prophecy and you believe in all the cornerstones the foundations of the torah besides the fact that he has acknowledged the creator's kindness towards those who perform his will is very great as you know that hashem will bestow kindness upon you and those who do his will that he took us out from the egyptian bondage towards freedom with great honor in the merit of our forefathers abraham isaac and jacob and he desire who desire to be always in fear of his name meaning abraham isaac and jacob always wanted to be on the right path this is like an amazing amazing um it's how many more pages this is pretty much we're almost there it's it's a very beautiful piece i hope you're enjoying it the ramban now avers the foundation of faith which the remembrance mitzvahs can impart in fact be derived from all the other misses therefore because constant awareness of the principles of faith is the best bulwark against heretical thoughts the sage's right that one should be scrupulous in performing a minor mister just as in performing a major mitzvah for all of them are in fact major exceedingly beloved since through them a person is constantly acknowledging his god i mean what could be wrong with that for the ultimate objective of all the commandments what do we say the ultimate objective is is that we should believe in our god and acknowledge to him that he created us the ramban now goes into describing the purpose of creation and that is in fact the ultimate object of creation itself for we have no other explanation for the first creation and the most high has no desire for earthbound creatures except this this is the whole point of creation that man should know and acknowledge to his god that god created him and the purpose of raising one's voice in prayers the purpose of synagogues and the merit of communal prayer is this that people should have a place where they can gather and acknowledge to god that he created them and caused them to be and where they can publicize this and declare before him we are your creations that's the point of it all this is the intent of the sages of blessed memory when they use the verse in jonah chapter 3 verse 8 and they call out mightily to god from here the word mightily you learn that prayer requires a loud voice for boldness can overcome evil and now the very last paragraph i know i told you this was worth reading and i give you a lot of credit for bearing with us until now this is the during lesson of the manifest wonders of the exodus through recalling and acknowledging the great manifest miracles of the exodus a person can ultimately acknowledge the hidden miracles see we live with hidden miracles we're not some of us most of us are not aware of the constant miracles going on all around us we could and we should but at least we do tap in and realize there are these hidden miracles in everyday life very interesting comment here which are the foundation of the entire torah for a person has no share in the torah of moses our teacher and this applies to non-jews as well unless he believes that all our affairs and experiences are miracles i'm living with this so we're constantly reminding zach let's see it miss ryan that god took us out of egypt this was a miracle miracle of miracles i mean it was unbelievable and we're living with that in our daily lives if we just bring that to the forefront and then we can realize even the small miracles and how much gratitude we should have and we just burst out in song and praise and joy and if you're around a good community then everyone thinks you're normal right like our community you just go around praising hashem all day long everyone you know they're not going to think you're weird right and there is no element of nature and the ordinary course of the world in them at all whether regarding the community or the individual rather if one observes the commandments his reward will bring him success and if he transgresses them his punishment will destroy him all by the decree of the most high as i've already mentioned and the hidden miracles the vehicles of this reward and punishment can be more clearly recognized as a regard as regards the affairs of the community it's so important when somebody converts they're not they're not going to be accepted by the jewish nation if they come and say listen i just know it's true i believe the bible i know it's true so we'll tell you very nice live however you want according to the bible and be uh whatever you want no the idea that someone says i want to be right like ruth says your people are my people she's the she's the paradigm example of a convert because it's not just that your god is my god that's fine for a bet not but that what your people are my people okay so ben noah will hang on to the census a convert becomes a jew right full-fledged 100 israeli and um it's joining the community okay joining the community listen you can wait until we have a gertoshav maybe it'll be in six months from now maybe six years maybe sixty years maybe six hundred years right we don't know but for three thousand three hundred well let's say last two thousand years we didn't have gyarator shot okay let's go on um this whole idea of the uh recognizing the the reward and punishment in regards to not only personal affairs but community affairs this is why there are these curses and blessings in the torah right that appears as the predictions of the torah in the matter of blessings and curses look in chapter 29 of deuteronomy several verses 23 and 24 what will the nation say and all the nations will say for what reason did hashem do this to the land of course to the people as well and they will say because they forsook the covenant of god the god of their forefathers how many anti-semites how many you know people all over the world have said this and didn't come to this this is a miracle right that we're still around we shouldn't be with all the suffering that we have gone through right it says the assyrians it says in the bible they are the wrath of they're like the hand of god they are the rod of his punishment right even these anti-semites we have experienced all this yet we're still around but because we are the witnesses we are the true witnesses we're not doing with the right thing we suffer individually and collectively so that's how it ends here this idea that the the nations will say for what reason did hashem do this to the land and they will say because they forsook the covenant hashem the god of their forefathers here scripture is for telling that the matter will become known to the nations that it meaning the devastation and desolation of eretz israel is from god as their punishment for forsaking his covenant that's why we have to repent that's why we have to do truva right and it says regarding this similarly in deuteronomy chapter 28 verse 10 and then all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of hashem is proclaimed over you meaning that when we do the right thing right when we do the wrong thing it will be obvious and when we do the right thing i say it's obvious meaning through the consequences so unfortunately it is what it is the question is what are we going to do about it right god says i put before you right life and death right good and bad choose life life is the torah life is god's will then all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of hashem is proclaimed upon over you and they will revere you this is how the torah is coming to an end in chapter 28 verse 10. so you have the positive the negative right at the free will so this is the time to do truva and we will then re deserve to be revered not that it's a personal thing but we're supposed to bring god consciousness into the world and mizrat hashem through doing torah and mitzvahs and of course the whole world is available and free to join us on whatever level you want to fully committed partially committed living your lives as it is it's all good right anyway so with that sayonara we're going to sign off we're going to wish everyone we're going to wish everyone shabbat shalom and of course a good life call too see you next week [Music] is