Yisro Vs. Moshe: When Torah Knowledge Breeds Arrogance, It Corrupts Judaism

the yeshiva.net [Music] okay today's class is dedicated by your dear friend of yehuda applebaum in the merit of menachem mendel ben vito for reforeschleimer criva complete and speedy recovery la riches yemen for shannon tavis and thank you very very much for your love friendship and generosity may we hear good news but neglect there's a fascinating story that's recorded in the beginning of parshas israel israel or as he's called an english jethro arrives to the camp of the jewish people of course he brings maisha's wife to pyra and their two children gershom and eliaser but the terrorist says that israel is shocked to discover that maisha is serving as a one-man educational and judicial leader for a community of several million souls remember that the jewish people numbered there were males between 20 and 60 600 but then you had people younger than 20 people older than 60 then you had females so certainly the same number may be more so you're dealing all together with a community of maybe two or three million people and yesterday turns to his son-in-law maishrabeno as he watches him sitting and leading and judging and teaching and mentoring and guiding the people from morning till night from dawn break till nightfall responding to all of the disputes the quarrels the disagreements the conflicts the problems do i have to tell you about a few million jews living together in one place you have a community just of a few hundred families and rabbis are quite busy and stressed here you're dealing with the entire claudia israel in one place and israel can't believe it he says to murshid um what is this that you're doing to the people madua vada why are you sitting alone and the whole nation stands with you from morning till night rabano responds and he says in his gracious sacred words the nation comes to me because they're seeking god they're searching for hashem any issue any dilemma they come to me i'm the one who judges between a person and his friend his colleague i also have to teach them and let them know the laws of hashem the kimbers of the laws of hashem and his lessons his teachings as torah so his father-in-law israel uses faithful words when he says what you are doing is not good lifetime it's not good naval t-bile you are going to wither away you're going to khalilah decompose you will not be able to survive you're going to rat roger says you're going to rot you're going to decompose you and the people both nobody will be able to deal with such a situation it's simply an unsustainable system that's going to destroy everybody this is too heavy this is a load that is beyond you you're simply not capable of doing this alone it's unbearable it's too much it's going to destroy you you're going to wither away novelty and yesterday then intervenes and says listen to me and let me give you advice first recorded his first recorded event in history not the last when a father-in-law tells the son-in-law how to do it correctly and what's his advice his advice doesn't seem so complicated we call it delegation we call it middle management we call it hiring bringing in people to be able to support you to be able to help you to be able to ease the burden on to ease your burden so you don't have to do it all alone eustroy suggests that moisture rabbenu appoints from among the jewish people capable people anshei khail people of strong character a valor of dignity irela kim people who are god-fearing they care for truth more than anything else oh it's working hello hello hello okay people of truth ances people who care for truth saying better that's a big one people who abhor money abhor money of course doesn't mean that they don't need money but abort money means they abhor when money becomes very good thank you thank you when money becomes the main factor and how to decide truth and he wants that moisture banu should appoint these people to manage to help govern to help mentor to help handle disputes and quarrels among a few million jews who are living in the midwest living in the desert he suggests that marsha appoints captains of the thousands captains of a hundred captains over fifty captains of ten so the people themselves would be entrusted with the application of the divine law maisha will deal with everything gigantic if there's something very big very difficult they don't know what to do they'll come to mush marsha will also be the one who will teach the turtle he will teach the laws but when it comes to a specific dilemma a particular question a conflict between two people who are neighbors and the question is right who uses the string for the laundry right you remember those conflicts in the bungalow colonies do they really have to go to mushroom there could be a local a local presence where these things are handled and how does the traitor conclude the story the torah concludes the story by ishmael marshall maisha listened to his father-in-law vayas khalashama he implemented everything that he told them to do when yesterday told him do this delegate to these people they will ease your burden and if you do it yesterday told them at the end for your chaltan mud you'll be able to survive you'll be able to function you'll be able to do your job and the whole nation will be able to survive in peace maisha implements it now before we get any further i just think it's always important to point out a very profound and simple and obvious important but not always an easy lesson and that is very often if you would imagine the scene you have maisha rabbenu he's the prophet of hashem the rambam calls maishrabe the greatest that human civilization has ever produced moshe is a prophet moshe is the one who liberated the people he has proven himself he has taken them out of egypt at this point they have already crossed the sea israel comes and arrives and the father-in-law comes and he critiques his son-in-law and he says you don't know what you're doing the way you're doing it everything is going to be destroyed you're going to fall apart the whole nation is going to fall apart now who is israel he's not even jewish he comes from a foreign culture of foreign civilization what would be our instinctive response even if i'm not martial if not if i'm a simple guy and you just there's an expression verbisto right who are you who died and made you king yeah you haven't even been here for a while egg came it says they had a meal for him mushroom who made a whole feast by him the next day he already had criticism this whole society is dysfunctional most people would be extremely dismissive i don't before i discuss it with you i don't even hear you it's too much you're triggering me too much especially that it's a father-in-law but even if it wasn't a father-in-law comes from a different society not even jewish fun i might respect him i may listen to him his family in honor of my wife the honor of my children he owed yesterday a debt of gratitude but here we see something very powerful moishrabeno listens and he implements everything that yesterday did which teaches us that sometimes a society needs to be able to receive feedback from somebody who's completely outside of it that's not comfortable you don't eat my kugel you don't know my culture you don't have my cholesterol you don't deal with my problems you didn't go to my schools you're not part of the of the greece and the flora and fauna of my community of my culture what do you really understand and there is a point to that something sometimes you have to be inside the situation to be able to appreciate all of the nuances but precisely because of that sometimes you need somebody from outside of a situation to be able to point a finger at something that is not working and instead of people being afraid of that which usually comes from a lack of inner confidence when you have confidence that your product is good and that basically you're trying to do the right thing then you're open you're open to feedback from somebody who cares who may share a perspective that people inside may simply not profess that's in parentheses there is a big problem here an obvious problem that we want to raise today and it's raised by commentators through other generations and that is there's an expression in yiddish augusta for vial let's see if it works in english a guest for a while sees a mile okay works of course what that means is sometimes you're a guest in somebody's house and you notice things that people living there for a while not don't notice because as an outsider you're not part of the you're not part of the challenge you're not part of the of the goulash of the mishmash of the issues so you could see things you could sense a vibe you could notice things that other people take for granted or have made peace with it so we can understand very well this concept easter is a guest he comes from a one a mile from a guest for a while even a guest for a while sees a mile sees toward distance other people it sees some things that people don't see in fact later in parishes barlow it's interesting moisha asks easter to stay with them to stay with the people and the expression he uses is you're going to serve as eyes for us eyes such an interesting expression as somebody who comes from a different place your way to provide us with a certain set of eyes which means with a certain vision a certain perspective that other people don't have history refused yesterday went back to his country but this is how maisha defines the role that israel could play if he stays among the people vais laina so we could all understand that and everybody knows that it's good for a school for a company la havdal for a corporation for a shul for a website for an organization for a community to have what's called avadhabi kairis or a movaker people who could from the outside examine things look what's going on and of course give constructive criticism not to undermine or denigrate or destroy somebody or coming from jealousy or not forgiving purguna as they call it in hebrew but rather coming from a place of of empathy and understanding as the famous expression cherish constructive criticism because that is what will raise you to the greatest heights a person who's not capable of hearing somebody who may say something that will challenge me will stimulate me ultimately means that i'm locked up in the prison of self and even though i may be justifiably afraid because last time i listened to somebody it ended up disastrous but if that means that i lock myself up for life and don't listen to anybody i'm hurting myself much more than anybody else great people people of authenticity of integrity people who grow on any level any level of growth always requires because somebody to be able to call me out on something somebody to be able to point a finger and say you know maybe you should look at this in a different way maybe you should be curious and inquisitive as to what was going on at these moments this is something that real people cherish compliments are always nice to receive but they don't not necessarily very helpful they're helpful because they give validation and they give satisfaction so they're helpful in that sense but much greater help comes from people who don't only compliment people who challenge you people who stimulate you if you have a personal trainer who just compliments you on how good you look so you should fire him or her a personal trainer who wants the person to stretch of course compliments are important but i want the person to stretch i want the person to challenge themselves it's true physically it's true emotionally it's true mentally psychologically and of course it's true spiritually that message is very clear from this story but the question is did moisha really need yesterday to say this is this such a complicated nuanced i need your professionalism here because uh and your constructive criticism on how i did it wrong not that i'll uh not the not that i'll be able to do it next time any better okay thank you better yes sometimes beautiful thank you ribs sometimes there are nuanced things that are not so visible under the rug under the carpet you know tucked deep inside the books that you need a real professional to be able to expose just like we take x-rays and we take cat scans to be able to see that which is beneath the surface but what yesterday was telling moishe here was the most obvious of issues to say that from all people moishe rabeno a regular administrator an executive a leader who's who's apt who's competent on the most basic level gets this i ask you a question you can deal with three million emails a day i ask anybody people have a challenge with 20 emails a day 50 emails a day i get a few hundred emails a day and a grammar shig i don't know what to do i'm behind right now thousand three hundred emails so i try to deal with pikachu issues issues that are connected to life or the opposite always as soon as possible but people deserve answers some serious questions that's not three million emails maishrabena was one person dealing with every single jews this is what he says i i'm in charge if there's a debate they come to me the conflict they come to me plus i'm the teacher i'm the prophet i'm the mentor i'm the guard and everybody wants to learn and there are issues we can understand their issues jews have disagreements they have disagreements today they had disagreements 3 300 years ago especially when you put a few million of them together living in one place in one community everybody together in other words you had every issue in that place it wasn't like one community has these issues another community has other issues everything came together the one time in history everybody was living together literally on top of each other you'd base mill machine israel traveling in the desert from itzrayam guided by the clouds of glory it was incredible it was amazing it was divine but nonetheless there were still disputes as you could free throughout the whole hamas so even a regular person you would think would understand this certainly mushroom like come navi be strong commercials considered raya mohammed the faithful shepherd of the jewish people unparalleled mushroom is sitting there israel says you're going to wither away and that mishra banu says you're right sorry let's change this may qaran microsoft what was moishe's thought initially and if my did have some mahalakmusha did have some strategy how it could work he should have told you so sorry thank you for your input it makes sense but you know i have a system i'm not going to wither away but my acquiesces to his father in other words he agrees with her so now the question is what was moisture's initial thought to establish it this way and then have it altered and not by a jew by somebody who came from a foreign culture his own father-in-law yesterday i told him to alter it obviously moshe had a way of thinking about this had something much deeper in mind it's true that he obviously understood that ultimately if you want a sustainable system authority is going to have to be delegated to leaders in a system of hierarchies where everybody can have access and everything can be dealt with with efficiency and professionalism and in due time but nonetheless moisture recognized the floor in such a system and he wanted to guide the nation at least for some period at least for a short period in a particular way something was bothering myself about easter suggestion it's not something he would jump into or he would embrace even though he understood it and that's why he surrendered to israel and he had god's consent for it yesterday told him you have to ask hashem hashem's consent but he wouldn't embrace it immediately on his own it had to come from yesterday there was something that bothered moshe there was something that perturbed my show it was almost like he had to make a statement even if things were changed afterwards and they were changed but maisha had to make a statement the statement was that he alone is judging the entire nation but why yesterday's system seems perfect it's called a hierarchy practically speaking not everybody is a moisturabeno not everybody knows everything not everybody can be an expert on every field of dispute you need middle management they call it so you have courts you have judges you have mentors who can deal with smaller groups and localized conflicts everybody has to teach every single jew you need the prime minister of a country the prime minister of a country or the president of a country to deal with every single conflict in court it's not sustainable there's nothing wrong with that it's a very logical concept i want the prime minister of israel to deal with every single conflict in israel why did maesha view lahav the why did maisha view not lahath why did moshe view delegation of his authority as a regrettable concession why is it not ideal what was moisture's perspective and how did he think it could be sustained if at all when it comes to torah it's always very cohesive and then you need a third passage to be able to show you how paradoxes merge together there's another scene much later it's this is in shmois and yesterday much later in the book of numbers and by midbar and and over there what happens is it's the only moment we find maisha surrendering to the spear to the point that he asks hashem to kill him and what happens is the nation revolts and says we don't have food we're starving we remember the fish that we used to eat in egypt and now our souls are dry all we have is the mana which is not food that is very pleasing or appealing and they're all sobbing and crying about how horrible their life is in this desert maestrabenu at this moment is devastated he tells hashem i don't know how to lead these people and if this is what you want then just take my life kill me give give my position to somebody else let me not face my own ruin my own destruction it's the one time in the whole homage that martial asks for his life to be taken and again i'm going to add something in parentheses some people don't often realize what leaders go through we sometimes look up at a leader and the leader seems invincible the leader seems immune to vulnerabilities but such moments and khomar show us that mashrabeno who was certainly the greatest leader in jewish history at certain points asked sashem to take his life not just ask hashem to make his life easier he feels that he literally can't continue living in such a state he's facing his own ruin and destruction it teaches us how vulnerable the human spirit is and sometimes the greater people are much more vulnerable and face their own pain and anguish in the presence of leadership much more acutely than others would imagine because you see the theme again in tanakh for example navi one of the greatest prophets begs and at one point says you know i should have been a stillborn everything would have been much better if i was a stillborn cursed is the person who told my father your wife gave birth to a baby i wish i would have remained eternally pregnant in my mother's womb which means i would have died in utero that's what he asks for david tehillim you see how profound his vulnerability is the same as true elio you asks to die and yaina asks to die these are prophets these are people who spoke directly to god and heard god's voice but it shows us that sometimes the greatest of the great struggle with such deep vulnerable emotions and it doesn't undermine their greatness it simply demonstrates how in touch they are with the vulnerability of the human spirit and the gigantic titanic responsibility that was conferred upon them it makes them real people humble people and therefore people who are truly qualified to be conduits for god and never allow ego or corruption or cluelessness or ignorance to control the show this was such a moment and hashem turns to moshe and he says you need help we're going to appoint 70 leaders to help you what yeaster i told moshe in terms of teaching and the judiciary leadership of the jewish people now hashem says you need 70 leaders with you this is the beginning of the sanhedrin the genesis of the institution called the sanhedrin 71 people maisha was one and he appointed 70 people who become prophets and these people are going to carry the leadership together with you seven the elders 70 great sages who are all given a piece of moshe's prophecy i'm going to confer some of the divine spirit on you and place it on them like lighting one can many 70 candles from one candle even if the first candle is not missing its light but now there are 70 more candles burning there are two people that experienced this divine prophecy and they weren't part of the list of seventy elder and madot elder that made that the terrorist says begin prophesizing i guess you could say they were caught in the moment of inspiration they were caught up it was it was uh contagious the prophecy energy was contagious and it caught these two people perhaps by surprise so they're now prophesizing yahushua who's moisha's greatest disciple is extremely threatened by this phenomenon you have 70 prophets appointed by moshe but now there are two two people who became their own prophets he feels that this is a potential threat to his teacher's authority and he runs over to his master and he says my master masha incarcerate them imprison them this can undermine everything moshe's response to yahushua is one of the most magnificent responses i think of a leader in history maisha responds to yeshua who says arrest them imprison them you know they're imposters they're they're taking authority for themselves in a situation that is inappropriate it doesn't belong to them and moshe says moshe says to yahushua and i'm going to quote it in the original then i'll try and say um says are you jealous for my sake are you envious because of me let me tell you about my wish i wish that all of god's people were prophets that hashem would place his spirit on all of them you're telling me that two jews became prophets elder and maida not part of protocol i should arrest them i should squash them i should stifle them and i'm telling you my ambition is i want everybody to be a prophet give me another few million prophets and i'll be happy. that's my agenda don't get jealous you're jealous you think i'm jealous because there's two prophets this is what moshe is teaching his disciple who's going to succeed him as the next leader yahshua it's the moment where you see my shirabenu in his full splendor of how he thinks this is not about my power my authority i'm the boss i'm the master i get the glory i get the honor the 70 people are fine but they're under me suddenly there's two people not under me i am i threatened am i jealous am i envious and he tells yeshua you missed the point i want every jew to be a prophet i want every jew to have direct access to hashem direct access to the rebel initially let every jew hear the voice of the divine let every jew feel the presence of hashem and experience his or her blueprint and design and will in his or her consciousness this is not about me this is about me helping every person accessing the light of god in their own heart there's a famous quote of a leo hanavi there's a seifer called ton of it's a madrid called tana de vey eliyahu which are teachings that were given over by elio by elijah the prophet and uh i think it's parashani or parashat 10 parasites i think he says over there maid and the elisha mayan i call heaven and earth to testify for me ben is whether a male or a female whether a slave or a mate servant whether a kusi or israel each person according to his or her deeds the divine spirit can rest upon them in other words any person no matter how great or small no matter the gender no matter the background no matter the persuasion no matter the class no matter the tax bracket has potential to access divine inspiration this is why moshe is resistant to a hierarchy moisture doesn't want anybody who has a question no matter how insignificant that question may be from another person's perspective to think that he or she can't go directly to the leader of the nation to myself nobody should think i'm too small i'm too valueless i'm too inconsequential my headaches what relevant are they to the big cosmic plan to the big cosmic picture there are important people great people who could show up at mashallah's footsteps i should be embarrassed it's a bizarian it's a bizarre to deal with simpletons like me who have petty issues based on my own petty background and based on my own internal struggles obviously moshe knows that perhaps one day we will need to delegate we will need to create a system that works that is sustainable where everybody can be heard and for that you need authorities you need leaders you need mentors and guards in a more localized fashion you have to be able to have management that deals with local conflicts etc but moshe wanted to send a message to the jewish people for eternity for all times that the system that he's going to create based on yesterday's suggestion is actually a non-jewish suggestion it's coming from the outside it's not his plan he may do it god told him to do it but that's not the system how it has to be it's a compromise based on reality of tending and making sure that every person gets heard making sure that within 24 hours everybody's questions can be dealt with but everybody has to know that ideally in truth in essence what's the right system that everybody goes straight to the top everybody can go straight to the top everybody can go to moisture himself without any intermediaries without any hierarchies without anybody saying that's a stupid question merch is going to laugh this this uh this somebody else can answer okay creating courts creating judges creating leaders of different levels creating middle management is a necessity it's a necessary reality but it's a formality to maintain order to maintain structure so that lines shouldn't extend for three or four days but in essence there's no higher there's no lower there's no bigger there's no smaller there's no jew closer there's no jew further there's no jew more important there's no jew less important there's no jew more significant there's no jew less significant my question is too small i am too small my family is too small i'm embarrassed to go with this question that's not a jewish thought that's not a jewish perspective to maintain order and structure you need to have help you need time management you need people to help you need people to support you but in essence that's about a system it's not about a perspective it's not about a hash office oil where hierarchy starts being worshipped where there's a concept of real elitism you're somehow more divine you're somehow more worthy you're somehow more holy moisture says no every single jew every single child every single question dilemma and struggle belongs at my door because it has a place in my heart and my soul and every jew has the full right not only right responsibility to learn turtle directly from me the person who received directly from hashem the prophet who received directly from i want to be the one to impart to inspire to teach every single person every single jew wants to know what god says they can come to me and receive directly not through other channels not through filters not through other teachers mentors and guides obviously it's important to have all of that that's what yesterday says in martial greece but maisha establishes that's all in order to be able to maintain order and to be able to make sure everybody gets what they need but don't confuse system with substance don't confuse a system to maintain order with a perspective that starts looking at god and judaism from a very elitist and very often arrogant and narrow perspective so when yesterday reminds me that you have to lead the nation according to the practical necessities maisha could concede but not without first giving the message that this is never an essential division this is not a hierarchy based on real truth on ms it's a utilitarian compromise due to our limitations of time and mental space in essence every jew belongs right at the door of maisha could go right to the top to mushroom himself or herself you know there's an unbelievable story that's brought in madhuri shrabba parsha sav one of the greatest talmudic sages was a man named rabbianai and erbiana was walking along the road and he met a person and person was seemed very the person was extremely handsome and dressed in a very royal and aristocratic fashion he seemed like a very respectable human being so ribbianai saw a distinguished jew in front of him he says with the master mind being my guest and the person says of course as you please so rabiani took him home and they sat down to have a meal and abian i thought he has here in his home a great dignified talmud scholar he starts asking him questions on humash the man knows nothing on mishnah he knows nothing on talmud knows nothing agoda knows nothing finally he tells the person it's time to bench would you say grace after meals and the person says let yanai say grace in his house so rabiani says can you repeat what i tell you the man says yeah that i can do i can't answer any of your questions or say great but i can repeat what you say and abhyanae says say a dog has eaten yanai's bread the man jumped up and he seized rabiani by his cloak and he says why did you steal my inheritance rebiana i said what type of inheritance of yours that i steal and the person said that he once walked by a fader a classroom with students with children and he heard them reading a verse aposic from the last parish of his eyes siva lano maisha marashikaila maisha has commanded us the torah it's an inheritance for the community of yaakov for the community of jacob he says according to you moisha should have written torah sivalano maisha may russia it's an inheritance for the community of yanai it's your inheritance but that's not what it says in the torah myra it's an inheritance for anyone who comes from yaakov that means the territory belongs to me as much as it belongs to you why are you cheating me for my inheritance at that point the madrid says i realized and ibyanai conceded rabiani reconciled with him what's the point of the story to shame rabbi taylor is trying to bring out his point rabian i mistakenly assumed from the person's impressive appearance and attire that he was a scholar he finds out that he's ignorant so he treats him with contempt why should i honor you but the stranger defeats rabiani on a basic point of jewish principle on a basic positive territolan russia killing the terror is an inheritance of every single jew not of an aristocracy of scholars judaism belongs to every jew equally no jew is essentially closer to god than anyone else there's no room for a superiority complex for a sense of elitism and the term is marusha yerusha an inheritance because inheritance has a very unique halacha let's say somebody a father or a parent is worth 40 billion dollars and sadly they pass away the orphan the ear that they leave over is one day old or one week old how much is this one week old baby worth what's the answer 40 billion dollars that's what he's worth legally on paper he may not know it he certainly doesn't know what to do with it take a couple few years but it is means a yerusha of every jew what does the word yerusha mean yerusha means he or she could be one day old they can't read they can't talk they can't even crawl they certainly can't learn russia means if the whole target belongs to them it's theirs it's essentially theirs so yes some people have the schools of developing deeper knowledge and deeper skills and more awareness they have a privilege to be able to teach they have a privilege to be able to impart but to turn that into a source of superiority complex and arrogance and elitism that's the antithesis of the terror itself which is basically a relationship with god who's infinite so when you're close to infinity you feel that you are just a conduit and when it turns me into an elitist arrogant person it means that i'm connected to everything but the torah this is what he's telling rabiyana may russia if i'm reminded i know it's not exactly the same but it's a very cute story there's a book called the prime ministers the prime ministers is a book that was written by a man named yehuda aviner zakrenal he was an advisor of four israeli prime ministers levy eshkol and uh and yitzhak robin and golden mayor and menachem begin and he wrote diaries of his encounters and he published it in a book a few years ago the prime ministers it's a very interesting book there's a great scene in that book he says levi yeshkol was the israeli prime minister during the 1960s he led israel from 1963 to 1969 including during the six day war of may and june 1967. the prime minister levy eshkol had a driver his name was maisha the classic typical israeli jew moisha he drove the prime minister and he was driving the prime minister of israel to a meeting with world leaders world leaders who were were at a summit and levi yeshko was supposed to address them there eshkol's hebrew was not completely fluent because his native tongue was yiddish the prime ministers of that generation loved speaking yiddish because most of them came from russia lithuania poland eastern europe laviash culture so his his native tongue was not hebrew was yiddish so he learned the dish he became the prime minister he learned hebrew became the minister of israel but he had a better yiddish than he had than he had a hebrew you know not long ago colin powell died remember the chief of staff and when he met yitzhak shamir the prime minister of israel chief of staff the joint chief of staff of the united states he passed he died a few months ago so when he met yitzhak shamir he turns to him and he was an african-american he turns to him and he says it can't raid he tells samir you want you know how to speak yiddish shamir almost fainted here's the african american joint chief of staff of the u.s asking him and he says it turns out he was a shabbos guy in the bronx when he was a kid he knew yiddish very well and he said shamir loved it also came from eastern europe anyway so eshkol is in the car and they're coming to this meeting with world leaders he had presidents you had prime ministers you had vice presidents at the meeting and he turns to his driver in yiddish and he says maisha israel what is your opinion about what's happening in israel so moshe says alza's merced you know everything is fine so lady ash calls says maisha bamas don't just give me a diplomatic answer truthfully what is your opinion about what's going on in israel so when you do she says the prime minister wants to know the truth so he says yeah i want to know the truth so he says the truth is that nothing is going well and he gives it to levy eshkol as only an israeli chauffeur if you ever took a taxi in israel you know the taxi drivers are very opinionate it's not like in america you get into a taxi two hours the guy doesn't say a word right you want to have a conversation especially before the era of phones of of of cell phones nobody to talk to in israel you want to be quiet but that's not going to happen anyway he starts sharing a litany of complaints about the way the country is being run this is dysfunctional this is corrupt this is not working and then he says and if you're asking me let me give you my suggestions for the future of the israeli economy and he gives leviashkol scholars suggestions about how to run the economy at the end of the conversation eshko was trying to reassure martial that everything is going to be fine and he says maisha vasens if it's good so that's good moisture you'll see it's going to be good the problem is that they already arrived and all the leaders were waiting for lesbian to approach him and avenue says it was surreal people are saying prime minister come they're all waiting no he has to finish his conversation he said hey you have the prime minister of israel taking his driver's concerns about the economy very seriously he said he doesn't know if this can happen in too many other countries in the world it's a very true sentiment about the jewish people and to his credit levy eschkel felt that he understood it that the country is made up of real people it's not made up of certain individuals who's who people who make it in who's who have an entry in wikipedia that's not who a nation is made up of and where did he get this from he got this from the dna of the jewish people and it goes back i think to that scene with moishirabenu mashinabenu essentially says the rambam says in in the laws of talmud he says there's three crowns there's the kesser of there's the crown of priesthood that was given to aaron this is the kester of uh of malchus and that was given to uh that's the kesser of malchus and then the rambam has an expression the rambam says the crown of titus for everybody my russia killers yakov call me of shiyutsuyaviv whoever wants come take this crown the crown of judaism the crown of truth the crown of godliness the crown of terror crown of aveda's hashem it doesn't belong to david it doesn't belong to aaron it's hefcker you want it seize it and the rambam says might you think this crown is inferior to other crowns he says no it's far superior to any other crown that sense of complete egalitarianism which is the source of real democracy is implicated and it reflected in one or more very interesting concept and that is when it comes to the building of the michigan in two weeks parishes truma about everything it says that betsalo made the mishkan he made this piece of furniture this picture or my shirt who made it but sal implemented it there's one exception the aaron by the ark it says usu they shall make so the commentators say valatorium the marriage the commentators say because the iron is the place where torah is held and that doesn't belong to one individual ever truth belongs to every single person so moisture abnormal tells you sure you're jealous you don't understand how i think about things nobody has more access to god nobody has more spiritual wisdom essentially they have people who may have dedicated their lives to learn to study to implement so you want to look up to such a place you want to learn from such whether you want to be inspired by such a person but to use that in order to create a real absolute hierarchy where you're worthless and it's all about me you're missing the whole point because i'll say the mattresses which means doesn't have das we spoke about what does this is real real personal integrity and authenticity where the wisdom becomes part of your own inner life so the corpse of an animal is better than him so the fate tire asks why better why better i understand that they're equal because they both smell because whenever knowledge becomes a source of corruption it smells smells badly when anybody uses terror and religion and god to camouflage corruption to abuse to exploit to manipulate to lie to deceive it stinks but why is navel a toy menu and he says something very sharp he says at least the corpse of a dead animal doesn't walk around but this person could walk around can write can teach can lecture can present can even be popular but essentially when somebody doesn't use terror as a tool for self-enhancement for personal refinement to realize that if hashem is true god is infinite so the moment i have an ego based on god i don't do with god it has to do with my own insecurities or my own pettiness in the presence of infinity if you really experience infinity if you experience tighter then the natural result is deeper humility not deeper arrogance is the humblest person from all why is he the humblest why can't he just be also humble because if you're a motion obeyer you're more humble you're not less humble if you're closer to the source you feel how your eye is a conduit of infinity so you're more humble than anybody else more remote from the source less humble the closer to the source the more humble so ishmael so when it comes to the aaron it's plural of usu so moisture bananas velta jew is connected to everything meeting the beautiful position job chapter thirty four pericle medal of deposit says god doesn't recognize the face of ministers over others he doesn't look at the wealthy in lieu of the poor all of them are the work of his hands my spire it's like a child you say this child has more significance to me than another child we know the curse of favoritism when it's real authentic every child may have a different mission one child is skilled in this year another child is skilled in this syria one child is great in math another child is great music one child has greater iq one child there's more eq but to make a fundamental hierarchy and say this jew is really closer to god fair that's not authentic judaism we're saying that cotton vergado so moisture says every jew needs to learn torah directly from every jew needs to be right at the shear of moshe every jew no jew should say i'm too simple i'm too stupid i'm too ignorant i don't have i don't have an education i don't have protection i can't get into the seminary i can't get into this to the should the club i can't get into this yeshiva moisture says that doesn't work every jew belongs in my yeshiva every jew belongs listening listening to directly from me and even when it comes to quarrels it's not only learning even when it comes to quarrels and disputes there's no such a thing you don't come to me you go to somebody else that doesn't exist or this question is not for me this question is for somebody else in marsha's world if it's your question if you want to know what god wants concerning this detail of your life of course it's for martial and that means it's direct maisha bain is the direct transmitter directly the imrayamas the gary rabadim ray ms they tell the story that there was once a jew who came over to him he had a sick daughter and he needed advice about how to deal with this ill daughter and he went over to the emory emma's and he said i want to consult you the gary rabbit imraemus's time was very very valuable he had hundreds of thousands of khasid and he had a very very busy schedule and he worked hard on himself and he learned a lot of the day and this drew came over he said i want to speak to you about this insight i don't have time i'm sorry and he looked at him with my crank attack inside he says 20 years i have time to be with my ill daughter 20 years i'm taking care of her that's what i have to do and you don't have a few minutes for me and the reamer stopped and he said nobody ever defeated me in an argument like this jew and he said come let's sit down he said nobody defeated me in an argue he was a sharp jew to get it ever nobody defeated me in an argument like this person there's also something else you know i always know how to get into trouble one of the problems of leaders is that sometimes they're privy to information that comes to them through filters right you have great people but they're surrounded by gaboyum the gabayan are not necessarily immune to human deficiencies like i'm not so sometimes information gets filtered i transmit what i want to transmit i give you access to what i want you should have access to that's very dangerous i can't have my finger i can't have my finger on the pulse of a nation if i don't have access to everything that's going on the good and the bad and the ugly heaven and earth if i don't know what's happening in the lives of real people not fake people fake news not people in caricatures and books and magazines real people if i don't have direct access if i don't if i'm not privy to that information and then i make decisions and then i give out verdicts and it's sometimes so sad to see how a fine person could be manipulated and exploited because he's trusting and other people and by the way it's not necessarily sinister but people have a bias it's not necessarily sinister always we always judge people favorably not necessarily with a horrible agenda but everybody has a bias and a blind spot and maybe this is how things should be dealt with so let me give access to this type of information so i can elicit such a response and that's why people become cynical because a tire that's not based on real transparency and authenticity and truth intelligent people don't buy it they can't fall for it so you have people who say oh you see what this one said then his son tells me that they didn't even give him access they didn't give him access to his father to tell him the true story imagine how embarrassing it is how how how insensitive how inhumane it is i remember when i was a child it stuck in my mind it was somebody i knew and unfortunately he lost his mind he was a brilliant brilliant kid and he had his challenges i guess then the mental field was also much less developed and he would walk around in the street he would speak to himself he would sometimes scream at people you really had to have compassion for him he had a lot of mental anguish and mental illness and mental stress and i saw him as a kid growing up i saw him as a kid and once this i saw with my own eyes i was already uh i was probably 14 or 50 maybe 13. the lubavitchery was walking into his office and this man was standing there and he took out an envelope with a letter and he gave it to the rebbe and i saw that ever had a secretary who knew who this person is and he probably knew from previous experiences that what's going to be in that letter is probably going to be highly problematic or disrespectful and so forth so as this person stretched out stretched out his letter i saw the secretary who i'm sure just wanted a protected ebber from reading a letter that at best would just be rubbish and at worst would be a letter that would contain truths based on hallucinations and maybe even very disrespectful comments and remarks so he he hopped he thought the letter out of the he hopped this person's hand to take the letter you know he'll pass the letter onto the rubber and i'll never forget the laboratory looked at this secretary with such a gaze who was so sharp i got scared i didn't i was just watching he looked at him he didn't say anything but it was almost like dear not mixing to my business know your job and he stretched out his hand and he took the letter from this person i don't know what it said in the letter and i saw the person behaved in the streets he's already have dialoma in this person but it was a very profound lesson if you want to be a leader you need direct access to truth truth is not always comfortable truth is not always rosy truth is not always nice you need direct access to truth moisha wanted that direct access of course he appointed trust trustworthy people yesterday wasn't telling him to appoint people who are biased and people who are corrupt and people who have big egos and people who have protection people who you can bribe then there's nothing to talk about then you're just destroying anything that has to do with authenticity he wanted me to appoint an sheikh khalan sheikh m is girelli kim sine bets are people who hate money where are you going to find that right that somebody once said where are we going to find somebody who's assigned a better we ain't going to find somebody who hates money and the response was fake come if you have enough money you can buy that too for enough money i'll start hating money no problem so even if moisture acquiesces to israel it's about formal maintenance never to be confused with the essential system of how judaism views god views moisha views torah and most importantly views every single jew there's a very interesting missionary it just shows you the thought process of our sages there's an interesting mission in masaka's edius chapter one mission of three it speaks about a lot a huge debate how a mikvah becomes disqualified through mayam chauvin through water that is not natural rain water but water that is processed through sinks etc how a mix for gets disqualified how much of that water and there's a huge argument between shamai and between hilo it's one of the few arguments between shammai and hillel themselves not base sham basil but hillel and sharma each one had his perspective at his perspective and hillary had his perspective and then the mystery continues the sages say they're both wrong the verdict is not like either it's not like that how do they decide the verdict so the mission says who decided the verdict two weavers who worked at the dung gate schneidger dying two weavers who worked at the shah ash boyz by i don't know if you ever saw the various gates but there is the dung gate in jerusalem it's called from the word two weavers menial workers who work there they came and they said we once heard from shemaya and naphtalian that if you have three lugima of mayam shaovin that falls into a mikvah that's still being filled up it disqualifies the mecca and that became comes from two weavers who worked at the dung gate of jerusalem this embodies it represents loy nicor schuyler of nadal casa toyota's hefca it's monoclocal there's no essential essential distinction essential difference i may have once told you a story it's a very very uh i think it really captures it captures this message there was a jew his name was manya mozensen he was a russian jew he was at hamut he was a great terrorist scholar he was also very successful in business he was a diamond merchant and a very successful one and though he spent most of his time studying and in communal affairs but he did very well in business and he was a khasid a disciple of the fifth laboratory known as the ashab the rabbit of shalom david who passed away 1920 business and each year he would come for yamtif he would give the rebbe a gift the most beautiful diamond that he managed to obtain that year that the rebbe could use for any one of his seduces any one of his charity purposes he could use this diamond for this was his custom and tradition every year one year he came and he arrived there was a system known as going into the rebbe for a private audience and in front of him was a very simple jew somebody was known as just a very simple fine god-fearing joy he went in front of him and he was there in the rebbe's room for a very long time this drew left and now as ramanya mussenson's turn to come in he went in and he would never kept him there for a few minutes and he left and as he related the story he said i felt resentful i'm a very accomplished person very influential very affluent about surah abbardas he was a great man and me he gave five minutes the person in front of me was there for such a long time and the person was known as a very simple jew he didn't say anything it was his rebbe but he kept in his heart he felt he felt very uncomfortable after yamtif it was time to say goodbye he came in with his diamonds and he gives the lubavitches diamond and he says this is a beauty i have for you this year it's extremely expensive you'll be able to use it and get a lot of money to giffordstaka and the rebbe looks at it and he positions it and this part of the hand this part of the hand he turns it around he says if zen is the godless i don't see the beauty of the stone so he starts pointing out and he says let me explain to you and he explains he's a diamond connoisseur and the rebel looks again he says zenith i don't see the greatness and after a few lessons he finally gets frustrated he said rabbit maven rabbit you have to be an expert and when it comes to souls you also have to be an expert you're a connoisseur of diamonds i'm a connoisseur of souls and if money understood this was a response to the grudge he was carrying in his chest which is never good for a relationship because of the rebbe's behavior that night we don't know about souls how who knows about souls the soul is greater the straw the soul is smaller a soul is a helical kami mao it's a piece of god in its source all souls are one they're all infinity even if the souls manifest themselves and are embodied we don't know about the depths of souls we always have to have or and reverence and people who have the privilege to study more torah are supposed to be people who are more sensitive to souls not less sensitive to souls real tighter creates so much deeper humility that's what moisture the first leader and the first transmitter of toyota was saying i'm here for every person all the time from morning to night every lesson every shear every dilemma every conflict every woman every child every man young old senior citizen a teenager child adult even a baby me all my everybody is equal yesterday said it's not practical okay moishe said so let's be practical but the practicalities will not take away from how the system is essentially because even after moisture introduces the system based on israel the titus still says but you have to know how you might just set it up so that even now when there are courts and there are judges and not everybody could run directly to martial but this system remains essentially the same nobody owns anybody else nobody owns toyota nobody owns god nobody owns people nobody's superior to other people who are inferior in fact the prophet yermia in chapter 31 the end of jeremiah he describes what mashiach is going to look like the times of meshech what does he say [Music] nobody will teach anyone really what's going to happen to all of our jobs nobody will teach his friend nobody will teach his brother lamer saying to us hashem come let me teach you about god it won't happen why because everybody will know me from the smallest to the greatest and the emphasis me when it comes to me everybody knows in the same way when it comes to other levels of manifestations there are different skills and different minds and different hearts that are sensitive to different realities but oh you see when it comes to atmos when it comes to the essence everybody has exactly the same axis because either you're part of it and then you have access and if you're not part of it my skills and ego won't get me closer to it now you might ask but self-cool stuff let's say moisture is right but it's unsustainable so three million emails a day and remember the same amount of whatsapps a day the same amount of texts a day same amount of telephone calls a day not everybody uses whatsapp in the desert huh oh letters right i forgot i forgot there used to be something called a letter right alaia mashallah right you remember with a stamp with an address you opened it up you read it more than once you cherish it you put it back in the envelope you opened it up again at night and you read it huh you sat down to write an answer and you wrote it again person got it three months later so you could say moisture was just planning to do this for five days for six days for for what a year half a year so the truth is there's one last point with this we finish and this is a title from the market of mizritch and he says there's something grammatically very strange israel asks moisha what are you doing why are you sitting alone and moshe says they're coming to search for god yahweh allah kim then maisha uses these words i quote listen carefully if they have an issue he comes to me you hear the problem in english if they have an issue it should be they come to me not he comes to me [Music] [Applause] between a man and his friend so if you're judging between these two people they should both be there so margaret of music says something beautiful he says there's two types of questions that people have they used to say why is it that when you have a dintara a woman has a face a chicken in the olden days he had a chicken and it looks like the chicken may have a hole somewhere and you go to the rav the dove says the chicken is tafe and she doesn't even think and she throws the chicken out and she gives it to a gentile even though the chicken was a precious commodity in the ancient in the state the same man who would throw out the chicken without blinking when the rabbi says your friend is right and you have to give him the hundreds drupal he screams corruption the answer is by the chicken you're losing money here you're losing money here he says by the chicken he's not upset because what's making him upset is not that he lost the money what's making upset is that somebody else got the money you see people could follow a lot as long as i throw out money yeah they're upset they're upset no problem you need new mezuzas you need neutral you need new talos you need new this all right it's expensive we'll figure it out god will provide but if somebody else gets the money oh yeah yeah now it's all corrupt i'm not worried about the money i could lose the money jews are not so stingy but somebody else got my money that's already a different issue there's two types of people who have disputes as the market one is i want to know the truth and one is i don't want you to win so moisha tells yesterday you don't understand the jewish people you think the jewish people their disputes are based they want to win if that would be the case they would both come kill ahem dover when they have an issue boy like only one person comes they're not busy fighting he just has to find out the truth if it was about me winning and you losing they both have to come and argue and fight and scream it's not about that they want to know the truth i don't care if you lose i don't care if you win you're winning is also my winning they're looking for truth so keela hemmed over when they have an issue boy like only one person comes to find out the shafatiti bin between a person and his friend their friends even in the dispute why are they friends because they simply want to know how to resolve it what's the right thing what does god want ah from this you don't wither away from this you don't wither away you wither away from the conflict from the hate from the animosity from the negativity from the toxicity unless you don't wither away dear friends i'll ask was yesterday right it was my shirt the answer is it looks like from hummus that yesterday was right the truth is as follows and moshe knew this when people walked into his presence when people walked in this i once heard from the rabbit when people walked into moshe's presence they already experienced a different part of themselves and most of the conflicts were resolved because when you get to realize who you really are you know that most of the conflicts are coming because i'm trying to protect myself with superficial defenses that are based on my own inner sense of guilt pain shame and adequacy to be in the presence of somebody who can suspend their ego and create complete room for you and your journey with absolute compassion and no judgment and helps you cast a light on yourself and puts up a mirror to who you are so that when you are in the presence of moisture moisture serves as a mirror to show you who you really are 95 percent of the conflicts dissolve or they're very simply dissolved and i'll illustrate it to you with an anecdote they say there was an old father and a son who lived together on a farm they were very poor they had one coat it was a winter day like today but even worse we're in a tent the father said i'm 95 years old if i don't have the coat i'm going to die from cold the boy said i'm out in the farm i'm outside i need the coat the father said but i'm old you're young and strong they got into a fight the father says i need the coat he says you're indoors i'm outdoors yeah but i'm an old man and i'm your father they go to the rove they go to the roof who's right the son says i want the coat cooler shall he the father says i want the code coolest thereof thinks he says i'm sorry your son is right you're indoors you're indoors find a way to protect yourself indoors but he's outdoors outdoors what is he supposed to do the only shelter the only protection he has is a coat your son is right son says you see i told you i'm right son takes the coat puts it on and they walk back from the rabbi's home back to their hut at the end of this farm it's freezing and the son sees his father shivering literally trembling a 95 year old man shreveling from cold and he can't he can't deal with it he takes off the coat and he says tati here's the coat and the father says thank you puts on the coat and now the sun is trembling and the father feels horrible he says i think you should have the cold no no you have the coat they come home and the father is wearing the coat and the boy goes out to work and the father's looking out the window and he sees his son trembling and he calls him and he says you have the coat he says no no no no i see how cold you are you have the call but the rabbi says you have it so i know what the rabbi said but voluntarily i'm giving it to you so now they get into a new fight the father says it's your coat and the son says it's your coat they go back to thereof thereof listens thinks he says give me a moment give me a moment he goes into his bedroom he comes out with a beautiful pelts with a big fat warm fur coat and he says you know i just remembered i had this in my closet for many many years i don't use it i have another coat and it's here so why don't i lend this to you so you'll have two coats one for the son one for the father and when god helps you you have money and you can afford another coat you'll give it back to me that's how he solves the dilemma so the old man looks at him and says tasha what's his kasha why couldn't you do this the first time you had the code in the closet the place for 20 years he says good question i didn't think of it why didn't you think of it so i'll tell you why i didn't think of it everybody's energy is connected right you know about the experiments of mirroring neurons mirroring neurons it's an unbelievable experiment the source of empathy right when you're involved in an activity they found another person watching it or even with animals with monkeys they're experiencing that same experience from empathy with the other person so we affect each other in ways much deeper than we know consciously so thereof says as follows the first time you both came in the boy was screaming it's my coat mine the father was screaming it's my coat what do you think i was screaming it's my coat unconsciously subconsciously i was screaming it's my coat i didn't even think of giving it to you but now you came in the boy was screaming it's your coat the father was screaming it's your coat so my system started to scream let me share the coat so the idea came to the surface you see we often view life as victims i'm responding to a situation very often i could create a situation good my mindset my mental state creates reality it carves out reality as a result of the rabbi hearing these types of people he found out a part about himself that he didn't know before before that why should i give a code to somebody else i'm a rabbi i'm not a gemach but suddenly he started to hear a different voice inside himself when people came into the presence of maishirabano they started to hear a voice inside themselves that they were unaware of they started to see a part of themselves that they were unaware of my ship by his very presence held up a mirror to a person that said can you see who you really are and then i suddenly discover as we all discover that so many of our grudges and anger and frustration and hatred and animosity and toxicity and negativity it's coming from my own internal sense of emptiness of danger of valuelessness of inadequacy my own unresolved tension that's simply expressing itself through all of these types of secondary emotions or defensive emotions to be able to help me navigate this world but if i could be in touch with my own plymouth with my own core which is what mashina menu represents he embodies the nashoma clause the zeitgeist of claudius through the soul and puts up a mirror to me so then so many of our conflicts just go into the dustbin or they can be resolved very easily the focus not anymore is i'm going to win you you're going to be wrong i'm going to be right so i'm going to soothe my pain the focus really is the appreciation of our oneness and that all of us are infinitely valuable and for me to win you also have to win and for you to win i also have to win because if i win and you lose i also really didn't win it's like a couple imagine a husband saying as long as my wife doesn't lose this is going to be horrible you're living in a very petty place you're living in a in a prison a relationship is not about me winning versus you winning it's about recognizing the truth that we're essentially one and that that oneness and connection elevates us to our own deepest place so this system moisture is not going to wither away moisture is not going to wither away everything will be dealt with fine it's not 3 million souls it's 3 million frequencies of god's light that's different but the easter egg says much i got it but jews won't always be able to have the ability to walk into your room and have that mirror hanging there seeing themselves in that way you have to create a workable system that can be maintained even after your passing even after you're in the islamists and hence moisturabenu creates this system but still never forgetting the pristine ideal infrastructure that martial created where every single jew is equal every single jew has all access as all the access to hashem and to hashem's first representative and shliyakh and teacher mushroom and that every jew knows that if i can go into a much deeper place i'll see that i'm not about conflict but i'm really a frequent a divine frequency of light have a wonderful week this class is brought to you by the yeshiva.net please help us continue the classes make even a small contribution at www.theyoshiva.net donate