A Holy Nation - Parashat Yitro

you shall be to me a kingdom of ministers and a holy nation go kados the mid tells us and also thear says that in essence offered the Torah to the other nations of course he did not go to every single person and see what do you think do you think not everyone became a Prophet this is in essence going to the Sim to the angels of each Nation he went to the nation of Ishmael and said we have a Torah and Ishmael said what's in it said you're not allowed to steal isma said no this conflicts with our ideology we live by stealing we live by stealing you know we steal all of the Nations money we pretend like we're the United Nations but in reality it's going to buy missiles and bombs to destroy people that are innocent and haven't done anything we also steal people's mind and pretend like we're the victims we steal so this T conflicts with our ideology we don't want it then went to asav and as said what's in the tah and they said the to says don't murder said don't murder that ruins my whole belief system we believe we can murder whenever we want if someone is in our way if someone is going to expose us if someone believes in something different than us if someone simply has no value to us or perhaps we have more value of them being dead than alive we want to be able to kill them without having any problems on our conscience hence we Justified all the pgrs inquisitions holocausts and destructions throughout all of history in the name of isav so this T doesn't fit other nations were offered it and one of them was also lot lot you remember lot the time of Abraham ainu where to the Merit of Abraham Hashem sent the angels to save his nephew lot and from him his two righteous daughters brought the mashia to the world this was one of the way that the Z says to us was that hid the seed of the mhia from its enemy the Satan by bringing the seed of the Messiah in a unusual way so lot was also offered the Torah and lot asked what's in the Torah and Torah says to you you're not allowed to commit adultery now it's to be promiscuous lot says no this doesn't fit my agenda the fact that good came out of him doesn't mean that he himself was good as we see after his first daughter made him drink in order to be with him because he thought that the world ended and they have to repopulate the world initially he didn't know this was the idea and he fell for it but in the morning he knew what happened and he still decided to drink again thinking that it's going to happen again which he did with his other daughter lot was wicked lot wanted adultery and therefore he rejected the toah aadh tells us in chapter 19 of the book of Exodus before he gives us the tor says in the name of a and now if you huren well to me meaning to hasem and observe my Covenant my Brit breit of course we know refers not only to observing the Torah but also the Brit morality if you aren well to me and observe my Covenant you shall be to me the most beloved Treasure of all people for mine is the entire world you shall be to me a kingdom of ministers and a holy nation go kados these are the words that you shall speak to the children of Israel so here is telling us through m i want you to be a special people everything is mine anyway but I want you to be my favorite Nation I want you to be my beloved Nation I want you to be part of my treasure I want you to be the ultimate treasure among all the people and in order for you to do that you have to observe my Covenant and observing my Covenant requires you to be kados what is kados it literally means holy but what is Holy Rashia kados and the and and all of the other sages of all confirm any place you see the word Kus you will see morality you will see modesty you will [Music] see you will see holy people that act in Holiness when it comes to intimacy that's where you will find Holiness wherever you find lack of Holiness you will find the opposite of everything I just said said immorality promiscuity and so on and so forth so tells us before he even gives us the Torah I offered the Torah to Ishmael to asav to lot to all the nations it didn't fit their agenda why they didn't want to be holy they did not want to be holy do you want to be holy because if you do you can be my chosen people because on this is the foundation of the entire Torah and therefore just a few verses later when mosenu actually goes to am and brings them this message and says am is if you want to receive the holy Torah and be the holy people and be the special treasure and chosen people and chosen and above all of the other Treasures of this world you have to first prepare for this treasure that's why hasm gave us the message before the actual treasure how do we prepare you sanctify yourself today and tomorrow what does it mean sanctify yourself what does it mean how do you sanctify yourself you sanctify Yourself by going to the mikve and avoiding any type of intimacy with your wives or anybody else for that matter for the next few days why because in order to accept the Torah you have to be in a place of Holiness and if one is intimate even though the act itself can be holy they still have to remove whatever fil is on thems so to accept the Tor you have to be in a state of Holiness but why now because if you cannot keep yourself holy for a few days then certainly you're not fit to say that you're going to be a holy people and be holy forever see here we see in a couple of places where m is telling them this and then Moshe clarifies further in verse number 14 be prepared after a three-day period do not draw near a woman you cannot be with your own wife why we're about to get the Torah we have to show that we can be holy we can't just say yeah yeah we want to be holy we want to be holy no no no you have to be in a state of Holiness we are meant to be a light unto the Nations not to follow their misguided practices remember every Jew has to remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew we don't celebrate non-jewish holidays even if they seem harmless it's a z disrespect to the Tora and could lead to CH Hashem desecration of God's name stick to our holy Torah and our own holidays that's the path of a true Jew