Axis of Evil | Rabbi Ari Kahn | June 25 2026

Okay, today's share is sponsored by Rabbi Michael and Jerry Laxm of the Roo of the Granddaughter Aviarat Shaina Aarona. Is she doing any better? >> It's working. >> Yes. >> Okay. Take full credit. So, and next week there's no sheer shasam >> and they decided not to open. Excuse me. >> Well, you come for the breakfast primarily, so I don't know why uh >> I I I figured you wouldn't even be here. So, >> I don't think so. At night, it's also right around the time the fastest is ending. No, >> we'll see. We'll see. We'll we'll >> negot Okay, we can negotiate. >> I don't know next week. >> Tidbits. >> Yeah. Anything in the Torah of tidbits? You you shouldn't like ask a live person. So today is 12:41. So it's probably going to be within 5 minutes from there. Okay. At some point I'll translate or explain something, but meanwhile it's pretty good. for So I wonder within these couple of verses how much untruth, misrepresentation outright lies, exaggeration, conspiracy theories, I think we can keep on going, are contained within these couple of uh of verses over here, which means again this this is basically a how-to instruction manual for anti-semites. Although obviously the term anti-semite, I mean those of us who know anti-semmites is a relatively new term, you know what year? I don't know. It's interesting. Look it up. It's a relatively new term. I believe it's a 19th century term term, which means no one ever referred to this again. It's interesting when a particular type of hatred needs its own uh its own description, its own definition. And part of what what we could be thinking about is you know on the one hand what happened on the other hand what's missing what assumptions are being made what assumptions are being uh or or what facts are being ignored which means that there's a whole bunch of things which are all unfolding over here at once. I mean first of all we have and I'll point this out. This is what I'm saying now is is in not unique in any way is Kazal note that historically Moav and Midian did not get along with one another but the Jews have this remarkable ability of uniting the world and we bring people together and they're I mean just think about it today the the extreme left and the extreme right who could bring them together I mean what what what you know what elements of basic humanity do they share that they're able to come together which means I mean the reality Somebody really should nominate the Jewish people for the Nobel Peace Prize because of their ability of of of uniting the world and bringing, you know, together. So, I mean, it really is remarkable. And if that's not enough, then they go and they find this other person to go and reach out. And essentially, what we have over here is what I'm going to call for the moment a generational Confederacy, which is an unlikely Confederacy. It's people who historically and again this is something which a the sources I mean the mafur should point out but b it's pointed out based upon other sections in the Torah where we see wars taking place between these people. So we'll we'll note this again is that these are people that could not get along but they finally find this sense of unity and they find this reason to be able to be joined and to be merged and to uh and put their fates together as it were. And it really again historically really is quite remarkable. The other thing which is interesting is almost immediately they they want to do a couple things is one of the essentially they see the Jews as being this large destructive force. And again thinking about numbers relative we don't know we have no idea what the numbers are compared to the Canonites compared to other nations around over here. But it's it's also something which is out of this uh anti-semitic uh what is it? Well, no. Yeah, I was going to say, you know, their uh their instruction manual. One of the things is that you always see the Jews as being far more numerous than than they are. I mean, if you were to uh if you were to say, oh, there's 200 million people in the United States, 200, 300 million. And how many Jews do you think there are? So I don't think the average anti-semite is capable of getting to the the proper number. And for that matter, if you say how many billions of people worldwide and how many Jews are there, I don't think they're capable because again, for small amounts of people to control, you know, everything to control the banks and control Hollywood and to I mean I mean that's why a lot of us are tired because we're putting in overtime and and and it's a lot of work. It's a lot of work and we control the birds and we control the I mean there's there's all kinds of things that we control which also gets to another point is they see us as being far larger than the numbers really are and they see us as being incredibly a destructive force. Look at this destructive force and they're going to destroy everything in its midst. So I'm saying these elements of uh again I don't want to depress any of you but I mean unless you're like me and you don't read any newspapers so then I I don't read any newspapers. I know he reads them so I don't have to. >> So Naomi doesn't she's she's she's too rah from all kinds of other mitzvot. But this is uh this she's apparently she gets paid for it. And uh so if there's something interesting she tells me I I I I know you find this hard to believe but I I I I don't read any newspapers. and I'll watch the news and I'll listen to the news. I don't uh Nope. Yeah. Then you say, "So, what was I doing by the JNS conference the last couple of days?" Which is pretty funny because I don't know any of these people are, but I want to support the significant other who was speaking. So, the again, a lot of this is so current. That's that's really what what's interesting. And the the other thing which is interesting is that they immediately move towards a nonconventional conflict. Let's attack them but it's not a conventional ways which again you can try to understand why that is. Do they think they can't necessarily go to war against them? We need to do something else. So that that also is uh is I I think really quite interesting. The the other thing which is missing from this whole discussion over here and again you can read again and giml read all of this okay they're afraid the Jews are over here and they're going to destroy everything and then we're going to you're going to curse them we'll expel them from the land there is lacking a basic historical knowledge and by the way I don't I don't necessarily expect them to have that knowledge although although maybe they should and I'll explain that in a second The essential historical knowledge which is lacking is that they don't seem to know about the Brit Bayim. They don't seem to know that God has promised the land of Israel or the land of Kanan to these people. These people have no interest in taking over your land Moav. They have no people. They have no interest in taking over your land Midan. There is simply that is not the objective. I mean again have you guys read Herzel? I mean I I I mean Ma No way. Have you people who complain I should be louder need to put the hearing on louder. >> So have you read Herzel? Have you uh again other than that unfortunate part about Uganda ha do you realize where we're supposed to be going? So I'm going to say this again. Thi this whole section over here when I said before how many elements over here are just really not based upon truth. Again this unbelievable force which is going to destroy everything in it in in its path and there are so many of them and I and I keep on going. But but this whole narrative is essentially not true. That doesn't stop them from wanting to destroy. That doesn't stop them from uh from setting out on their mission. And it also doesn't stop them ultimately from their own self-destruction in terms of where a lot of this is going to end up. But just think for a moment if they would have known the Brit banarian then they would have known oh these are the children of Abraham and as the children of Abraham so they're they went down to Egypt there was this covenant by the way that's a really important word for today there is a covenant which was made between God and the Jewish people. Part of our side of the covenant was unfortunately to be strangers in a land which isn't ours and to be enslaved. And we fulfilled that part of it. And the other side of that same coin was the reward. And that reward is to come back into the land. And that's we're on the way. Which means this whole narrative that we are here to destroy this land and then maybe we can curse them and defeat them and expel them from the land. Expel them from a land that they have no interest in being in. But again, historically, people love expelling us from lands. It seems to be this uh in thing to do. Again, I I guess I have to go find the maybe the protocols, elders of Zion, and to find out exactly, you know, what is going on over here. But none, nonetheless, you know, we've been expelled from so many lands. And there's there's a deep underlying issue here. And if you don't understand that the Jewish people have a land, what you're really saying is that the Jewish people are not a nation. Forget about a nation like every other nation or a nation unlike every other nation, which really is an undercurrent of what also is said in this week's para. But in order to be a nation, nations have certain elements to them. And one of those elements is having a national homeland. And they don't recognize that we have a homeland. So notice that we are a nomadic people who just destroy everything in our way. And that's the way historically that they see us. And therefore, they need to go out and to preempt that. And it's not a conventional war because it's a different kind of a people. And there are other things that they either seem to know or to think or to suspect. Now, as I've pointed out many, many times, Rick claims he's been listening to me 25 years. Then he means he's probably heard this 25 times. And the the other thing which is incredibly important is that, you know, should they have known this? Of course, they should have known this because Midian is from the family of Arainu and Moab is from the family of Lot. And if anybody should have had a little bit of inside information over here as far as what God has promised to Abraham and what you know, yeah, I mean, if anything, if anything, they could have said as family members. Remember, there's a point in Lo's life that he may very well see himself as being the natural heir of the childless Abraham. So, anything promised to Abraham, he's got a good chance of taking it. And if you've noticed a little bit of of Rashi where the shepherds of load and the shepherds of Aram get into fights and part of it is because the shepherds of load say, "Well, you know, we're going to inherit all this one day. This is ours. We don't have to care if we let our our sheep go and graze wherever it is that they graze. This is ours in the future." Of course, they made a mistake. And that mistake is not knowing that Aram's going to have his own children. Moab is Moab. So Midian as one of Aram's own children can say, "Well, you know what? We're contesting the will. Of course, you contest the will. Why? Because they were not included in the will. They were sent away. They were for the benra who were sent away. But still, if anybody knows about promises made to Abraham and rights made to Abraham and their inheritance of Abraham, they should have a really good idea of this. So now you realize that they have this knowledge of these people and there are these, you know, these uh dangerous people who need to be dealt with in a particular way. So you have this wonderful distorted understanding of who the people are with only a selective really a selective acknowledgment of uh of the identity. And part of this again I want to stress is that these are I mean again this is almost going to be like it's almost going to be like Christian theology saying that the Jews are cursed and they they're a nation that's going to wander throughout. They're they've been pumped. They've been punished and they're always going to be a wandering people. And therefore, this is this wandering people who will leave destruction wherever they go. And again, you and and therefore they can never possibly come back to their land because they've been expelled from the land. But at least that acknowledges a historical fact that we were once in the land. Of then you have identity theft of cosmic proportions. And then you claim that you're the new Israel. So therefore any bene any any inheritance spiritual or otherwise goes over to the church and Rome is the new Jerusalem and so on and so forth. But at least there's acknowledgement of some kind of distorted understanding of history. Over here it seems to be that there is like this less of an understanding where there could have been more of an understanding and nonetheless I'm going to point out again you have this plan which ultimately wants to hire somebody who's going to get to annihilation. And if I would use the word right now of uh of a final solution, so some of you may think that I'm being unfair and a little too strong. I don't I don't think so because I think that's exactly what you hire a bam for. And as the gar tells of balam somebody who's willing to swallow up an entire people and it's also interesting you know we get to you know he sends his message in and he says a nation left Egypt and they're you know all they're sitting over here they're they are adjacent and go and curse this nation for me. I hope this reminds you of something. I'll tell you what it should remind you of. It should remind you of the discussion between Hammon and Akash because there also he is negotiating the destruction of entire people. And there's one thing which is missing in the destru in the description. Do you remember what it is? Israel by name. He doesn't name them. He never tells Akash who they are. There are these people who you know are dangerous. Okay, get rid of them all. over here the message sent to bum there's a nation came out of Egypt which means you could say on the one hand but of course he knows it is because he you know he went to Sunday school bum must know his biblical stories on the other hand you could say it's not mentioned it's deliberately left out now why is it deliberately does bum care which means what kind of an individual of a sociopath is bum you know pay him the check and he'll destroy a nation genocide for uh of course we get accused of the genocide and the people who are actually paid and willing to do this which by the way there are people being paid today to do a lot of uh the evil which is taking place. So so and again with a ro and with Hmon there's money which is changing hands. So never under estrine made the ability of financial incentive in order to uh incentize to motivate certain types of uh behavior. Bum then okay there's a couple of elements here the the elders when they go in Zion it says and they carry their magic with them so that itself is interesting why are they doing this and again the commentaries deal with this there's this conversation taking place without words we also know we're trained in the occult we have certain abilities we can do certain things But this calls upon an expert, you know, a fifthderee black belt ishim and and bam is described as a kosin later on in the Torah. And then he says something which is surprising, but that's only if you forgot fibration. So I just now framed what I'm going to do for the next couple of minutes. But the thing which is surprising is he says that wait over here as God speaks to me. Which means that he believes that he will receive some kind of a divine visitation and he will receive some kind of a message from the divine and that will then tell him what it is that he has to do. And then lo and behold in God does appear to him and of course he tells him don't go don't go you can't curse them they are blessed now the thing about whoever you curse is cursed you bless is blessed is also something which goes back to ber I don't have to necessarily remind you where it's from although although and I ask you again do they necessarily have over here a a sharp historical understanding knowledge memory as far as who was the one who told that when you curse them you're cursed and you bless them you're blessed and so on that's not bum it's somebody else who has that ability which means if I'm actually going to do what I plan on doing for at least part of the time today if I'm going to read through the section through a prism of things which took place in beret and I've already I've pointed out you know I've done this already the last couple of minutes if you didn't notice hold it what knowledge should Moab have? What knowledge should Midian have over here? If I think about this, if Bam is going to curse the Jews, he is going to be cursed. That's safer. If he blesses the Jews, then he's going to be blessed, which is actually a pretty cynical way of analyzing of what happens afterwards because he wants to curse them. He's paid to curse them and he blesses them. So, does that end up working out better for him? So let's let's hold on to that for a moment. And then he tells them, I can't do this. This out of my pay grade. I just can't do this. I I have no ability to do this. So the the the involvement of God in the story is definitely an element which is interesting because now we don't know what to do with Bum. Is Bum a monotheist or he's not a monotheist? In one of my lectures over the years, I I called him a tortured monotheist. So he's tortured because he seems to know it, but he doesn't like it very much and he doesn't want to be limited by it. But God says you can't go. As we continue the story, they go back and relay the message and and and and new messengers come and then in cuff just one second we have again elima and God appears to bum at night and he says right and and God also gives a really interesting response over here which I'm not going to delve into. It's it's essentially God already told him it's not going to work. God already told him not to go and he now is pressing the point. And all that I'll say now is again I I don't want to overly go into this but he was selective in what he says to God. God is equally selective in what he says back to him. And there's a really interesting conversation and it goes back to this point of truth and being truthful. He's not being truthful when he he's not being truthful when he reports back to the people. I mean there just a lot of undertoe over here. He nonetheless goes and travels along the way and then there is this really interesting scene with the donkey that opens up its mouth and his leg gets crushed on the gadair. And you know, as we're doing this, we're not exactly sure why are we reading all of this. And then in Z when he finally meets up with he says to why didn't you come? I mean, he did come now, but essentially saying, why didn't you come the first time? And then he says, you know, the way you're behaving, I cannot give you the honor. I wanted to give you honor. I can't give you honor. So, so this idea of the cavode I also want you to pay attention to. That is the very end of source number one, the last pok. Then again in source number two which goes towards the end of their conversation when I go back to my tortured monotheist. Many altars have been have been built. Many offerings have been brought. Many mentions of idolatry have been made. And then he makes maybe the most famous blessing in source number two. This is again towards the very end of Israel which is taken to understand as observing the morality of the Jewish family. Rashi makes that point. If you uh if you need me to find the rash for you, we can we can look for it. But it's it's morality that he sees. What we don't know by the way is if he likes the morality. He makes this again he sees something and he says something to to what extent he has an ability of saying what he wants. Israel and their camps. I mean, one of the things Rash is that you can't look in from one uh from one into the other unlike a lot of the apartment buildings in many neighborhoods in Israel when all those years ago when we first moved here. So, real estate agent was showing apartments. I was sitting and learning. Naomi would go on various things and uh and by seeing that she's religious, oh, you have to go to Harnov. That's where all the religious people are. So she you know looked at one, two, three different and uh every apartment was built looking at some other apartment. So she came back and she said you know this is I said well most of the people that don't have televisions. So anyway, so let us continue in and again there's this observation of the morality of the Jewish people. Now again that's going to be something which is going to be really important. It comes back again to this and going back to those who are blessed are blessed and cursed or cursed and so on. He gets upset and he says why are you doing this to my enemies again you have blessed them all these times which again I could be a little cynical go and say hold maybe he does know something preparation run away so keep that word in mind it's also interesting I said I was going to give you honor again another he's not even a tortured monotheist. He's uh he's quite cynical and he says essentially this god that you speak of has prevented you from receiving honor. So just keep in mind all these various words that we've been using along the way because I think all of them are important. So let's pause for a second. To you want to come inside? You want to sit outside? You ready? That's it. I disturbed everybody. You have a good seeker. Okay. So what I said in the very beginning is that what we were doing is something till now I was noticing this confederacy which is generational bringing together the various people who can't get along with one another bringing them together but now I want to do something else is and I want to instead of looking you know across this way at the various people I want to go backwards because as I've been trying to hint the entire time is that we really are dealing with something which to a very great extent is extremely boret oriented and therefore let's go back to beret. We'll start with a larger with with a larger observation and then we'll get to the more specific one. It should be of no surprise to us that God speaks to the enemies of Israel at night and gives them warnings. I believe that uh this happens multiple times in Beret including times that we're not told. Okay, I I I've discussed this before. I even times we're not told which of course is the most interesting thing that I could say it's there which mean and but but part of what we need to contend with is that when God does speak again if if we'll go backwards the various episodes with with parro we don't see it with aimel we do see it and avi gets completely frightened by it he gets completely spooked by this and god as soon as you said you're dead and he and he takes that seriously somebody telling you you're going to die is is a little can be a little frightening. So he he has this nightmare. God God gives nightmares. How's that? God gives nightmares because he would say, "Oh, nightmares is the product of somebody's you know, God gives these people nightmares." Um subsequently the one well love we're going to get to right now. loving has his nightmare. And my very very strong two varies I say my very strong suspicion is that that same night that Yakov is up contending with what Kazal call which is actually based upon a it says in the verse not in in but in that he does contend with an angel. My strong suspicion is that that night Asovv was also having nightmares and uh Asov wakes up in the morning also completely changed and you don't gather a coalition again 400 soldiers setting out for war and then you wake up in the morning and you act like like a little puppy and uh and you go running and you know wanting to make peace. So I I think ASF got spooked. Interesting. I think God gives people nightmares. And but by the way, some people will wake up in the morning after having a nightmare and get completely spooked and saying, "Oh my god," or whatever they say. And some people may say, "Okay, that was just a dream. Move on." Again, I don't know. I don't know how much to torture you. Did Hitler ever have nightmares? >> Hitler, did he have did God ever give him nightmares? Did he ever warn him? I don't know. I don't know what to say but I do want to continue with Lavan. I mean first of all the language by Lavan is going to be incredibly similar to the language that takes place over here by Bum. So just hold on to that for a second and I am very very far from the first one to notice this. But what I am going to do is I'm going to show you a cluster of them which I don't believe I didn't see anybody putting all of them together. I was actually so convinced of this that I didn't send this out. If anybody wants, I can send this to you. That uh one of the tools that they have on al alhatra is that they have a uh a Torah lab where you're able to take sections of the Torah and compare one to another and it will give you colored comparisons. As I said, I I already knew what I was looking for and uh I I actually printed it for myself, which is completely worthless because my printer is not in color. But I do I but I but I do have the two sections over here. So if anybody wants I can send it to you in color. This is just a visual to see. Oh wow. That's that's interesting because there really is a cluster over here. If we'll start in source number three took everything. Okay. Here it is that you know the Jew goes and takes. By the way there is one thing here he did. So okay right it's called. So just notice the word cavode is here is again we're just looking for for you know the the I keep telling you the fancy word we keep using for this is uh in interextuality but but but what we keep finding again there's going to be a cluster of words over here and Yakov says you know we have the the sheep and the and and the stripes and the brown and then this and the white vet says God God did this. God was micromanaging. God is involved in this story. He then continues and he says so and again I'm going to point out that just like I believe that Yakov had this nocturnal scene where he is struggling with this angel. I believe over here as well Jacob has this dream. Love's also going to have a dream as we'll see in a moment. And all of this is given but notice the word cavode. Notice the word. Okay. The the dream taking place. We'll continue a little bit long more along the way and we'll go all the way down to and she steals her father's. No, we don't know exactly what are I also years ago gave a whole lecture just on and mentioned the various possibilities about what this can be. So, notice that other word. Uh, did did I point out? I didn't I didn't point this out. Did I? >> I did or I didn't. >> I did point it out in in source number two. Run away. Run away. Which means this is what's told by go run away. Over here you have the word barak again and I'm saying all of these in my mind are minor points although you'd have to admit go look for the word barak. I don't know if it's mentioned any other time till this point in Ber the word cavode I don't know how many times that it's used and there is a cluster over here but the the more important things are going to be the next two that come in source one that is the same that is the same term being used. So therefore, meaning that's the one that Kazal point out that that that's the what do you want to call it? That that that's the the easy one. That's the lowhanging ex right that's the low hanging fruit if you will. Okay. Lowhanging exoggetical fruit. Okay. The place that he gets to is a place called Gilad. It's only going to be called Gilad because of something else that takes place. And now what does God say? God appears. Be very careful how you speak to him. Now, if I were to analyze this verse by itself, and God comes to somebody and says, you know, this is the right place to use the Arabic, right? Dear Balac, right? This is the right place to use. You don't know what that means, then forget that. So, uh, be careful. It's not dear Balac, by the way. It's not. it it's you know be careful. God says be careful be careful that you you know in terms of how you're going to speak to him. So if you would have received s such a message what would your response have been you would have been real careful. So he catches up to him and he took the girls. The girls are going to come back into the story also. I would have made a party for you. Anybody want to translate that? I have in the power of my hands, you know, the L is an interesting word to do evil to you. Does he really? Didn't God just now warn him? God said, "I should be careful how I speak to you." What's that? Do you realize what he's doing over here? God meaning God said to be careful. Is he being careful right now? No. He would not have made the he would not have said I could do whatever I want. Which means he is ignoring God. Love had this. So I'm going to say it again. When God appears to these various people, do they still have free will? What's the answer? Yes. Yes, they still have free will. How do I see this? I see this based upon love. Because love is able to still nonetheless do what he wants. By the way, who is the other one who has a dream where God tells him something and he ignores him? Haru maybe not but but that's bum God says don't go you can't curse them and then he has another you know like like anyway what do you mean anyway it's it's not going to work no matter what's going to happen it's not going to work so hold on to that for a second there's also something interesting here about Rael just as a side point says whoever took this won't live and so on and Rael had taken them and Rael we're told ends up dying because of this. So it's interesting because the whole story of Bum is somehow the power of his words can do something and now over here you see an inverse of this the power of Yakov's words somehow have an ability of doing something. So again I I'll just note that as we go on we let's pause for one moment before I read on because we're going to have two opposite approaches. One approach is going to be what we're all familiar with and we're familiar with it because it is there in the middle of the pavan makes his entrance into the hagada and what do we say about him? Lavan wanted to eradicate the Jewish people. Rashi actually tells us that is in source number 13 is the ode. Many possibilities what those words mean. Rashi reads it as verse 14 wanted to kill them all. Which means when I now think about Bum as somebody who has his dream, right, and nonetheless proceeds along the way to try to curse them in order to eradicate them all, I can now say, "Oh, that's really interesting because look about what love does." And I'm going to say it again. This is the read of Lavan that enters into not just Rashi. It enters into the Hagada. And this is how we read it. Is this the only way of reading it? So if we read a little bit further in back in source number three, we find him saying responds. He quarrels with him. We know what I do to you. Since God has done all of this and so on. So I think our temptation is to read that as far as economics, right? You had nothing when you got here and now all the stuff that you have is all because of me. Right? That's the temptation. And I want you to read it not economically. I want you to read this in terms of nationhood. Again, what is Yakov doing right now? Yakov is headed towards the land of Israel. Why is he headed towards this place? He's headed towards place because this is the promised land. This is the It goes, by the way, it goes back to the great B of this is the place which was promised. And YaKob knows something. What does Yakov know? That Yakov is a nation. Nations have lands. nations, which means the subtext of all of this is do I stay with love on and I I could take this on lots of levels on on a certain point I could say let's let's just put it this way. Let's say you were one of Yakov's adviserss and YaKob uh you know is working in the field and you go out with him in the field, go out with the sheep and he says, "Listen, I'm not really sure. I'm at a crossroads in my life. You know, on the one hand, you know, my parents, if they're still alive, live off in this far away place. I have a brother there who wants to kill me and chase me down. I'm over here and I essentially have a father-in-law who's not uh that easy to live with. But on the other hand, I've I've been pretty successful. And the reason is God has been protecting me because God has done all this all those kind of micromanaging and so on. And uh what should my next next step be? Which means he can stay over here. He's successful financially. Or he can get this crazy idea in his head which for better or worse a lot of us have. And what's this crazy idea? That this is not home. But there's another place. There's a promised land. There's a place we're supposed to be. and I need to go back to that place. Which means when YaKob wakes up his kids and says I I I know that you have a grandfather love him. It's the only life you've ever known. He's the only grandfather you've ever known. But you have another grandfather. His name is Yitzk. He's sadik. You've never met anybody like him. He grew up in the house with the greatest man who's ever lived, a mino. It's time for you to meet him because we're part of that story. We're not part of this story, right? We we are Jews. We are the children of Abraham. We need to go to the land which God promised us. And Love is saying, "No, the girls are my girls. This is this. Everything is mine." And essentially, you're part of me. You don't have an independent identity as a nation. You're not an independent nation. And Yakov's response is, "We are an independent nation. We're on our way. We're going back home because we are a nation. And now you go back to the beginning of the para. What was missing from that whole narrative? The point that was missing was they were saying something was which wasn't true. They're not interested in taking that land or living over there. We're on our way home. Don't you know the story? Haven't you read the book? Right? Haven't you heard about what this is all about? So I'm going to point out again it's not just these random words that I've noted along the way which point towards a thematic connection and all those words are there and they are important and they are part of the story but when I you know I gave the title for the class the axis of evil there's an axis of evil which runs across going from from Moab to Midyan right going off to bum but there's also an axis which seems to go backwards as well which transcends history because they're saying the same things. They're doing the same things. They're making the same claims. And this is one which continues. We'll just go one step further over here. At the end, they get to some kind of a dant. They make a covenant, which is really quite interesting. It's love who says this. Let's make a covenant. Yakov seems to be insisting we're a separate nation. By the way, Yakov wins at this point. You don't make a covenant with your own family. You make a covenant with somebody else. You make a brit with somebody else. Your brother's your brother. Your sister is your sister. So, let's They make a covenant. They eat. And it continues. It it speaks about not crossing over. There's a boundary. This is your side and this is my side. Which means Yakov wins. Even though Lav claims, no, they're all mine. We're all one people. At the end of the day, there is a gal which is made. And Abraham, so again, is this the same God or these different gods? Which means, do share a god or not? And I'm just going to leave it at this. And I hope that you notice the various connections, but there's more than I think that we've noted till now. In source number five, in the very beginning of the para, the target says, who he says, "Oh, that's the same guy." So now, just in case you thought that all of this was just my imagination, if you look at source number six now in Beret, Rabba, and this goes back in Batra, God comes in a dream at night. So now again, you knew I wasn't going to be leaving the the dream sequences yet. So, it collects these things. Yeah. That's how God speaks to them. And I'm going to ask again, you know, are all these three the same? They're not because frightened and the other two are negotiating, which means they they they seem to take it a little differently. Look at this. A and I'll I'll note already various commentaries based on this and I'll just skip for a moment based on source number nine which is a garraum without a nation. He swallowed a nation who means all of these people are the same. Rashi says it's slightly different to know who by the way these three people are uh at least according to one of the commentaries I saw the only three people who come from this particular place who identified being from this place said that okay I have to be careful now the rationalists among us will say that this is a thematic connection mystics among us will say that you're dealing with some kind of a reincarnation I don't care how you choose to understand this. It makes no difference to me. I can assure you that whatever you do or any place in the middle, there have been those who have expressed this understanding. This fellow who you don't know necessarily unless you've learned say for chauffe where you're talking about a battle byan and it says The Jews are intermaring and worshiping other gods. So I'll say it again. There are three people who are described as being from Arama and that is Bum this fellow Kushan and again the other one is Lavan. So therefore it's seen as there being some kind of a connection. The the mystical sources also speak about this. I again I'm not interested right now in necessarily you know crossing every tea or dotting every eye on this. I think that we've seen enough to realize that there is a at least what we can call a theological proximity taking place over here. And I and I'm not interested in taking it further than that, but let's re realize that for a moment. If I go back to some of the sources that I skipped, look at the in source number seven. He's talking about the verse in Bidbar. So you have to see it again. It's paracuff bed plus a cuff dollid which takes us back to our first source. So that's where you know we have our talking donkey right I don't know if his name was Mr. Ed or something like that. We have over here the Malathan appearing and he have his leg crushed into the wall. Correct. And then and he's beating up his donkey. He's not happy at all. And now let's read the that no this is all the same person or this is all the same personality againatic or other but they made a covenant and the covenant what was the what was the witness of the covenant it was the ga and now he's break and you stay there and we stay here and now he's coming attack crosses over to curse out the people. So what is going to attack him? What's going to attack him is the witness. What is the witness? The gal is the galade. Galade was the name of the place that the gal is going to attack him because he broke this. And then he continues and he writes. Is that enough for us? So it's so what just now happened is is that it read in the love and story in in a much more profound way and I I I already noted you know that there were all these other words which are here as well which you shouldn't ignore because they they are all pointing at the same direction. Source number eight goes in the same direction but it adds one more word which I want to get to and that is this is the motion of his kingdom also. So I just want to take this to another level beyond what may seem obvious to us. what happens at the end of the story which means a after everything else bum wants to curse he can't curse run away you're not going to get the covet and so on and so forth there there is a plan B and what is the plan B the plan B is you send down the girls and by the way Bum gets blamed for that I mean later on the Kish bum gets blamed for that apparently was Bum's idea but when I say it's Bum's idea whose idea really was it was love's idea Benai we are one people we're going to be together We're going to stay and be together. We're one nation. We're not separate nations. Which means there's one way to attack us and that is that we are so different and we're so destructive and we're going to destroy you. And the other one is in is okay. We're really one people. Let's go there. And which by the way is not always innocent. There is another story like this in the Kish. You know what it is, right? That was that was a question. There is another story like this in the Kish and that is in source number 15. And then you have whatever does happen there with Dina and they not only say let's then intermar and then he continues contin to explain how we will then be able to take right that that's what we're saying but when he comes back to the people he tells them how we will then be able to be in position to take swallow them up and take all of their possessions which means there are two ways of doing this one way of doing this is by noting how destructive the Jews are again you make all kinds of rumors and innuendos and insinuations about who they are and the other one is let's swallow them up and then let's take away all of their resources and but again what's interesting is that the Dena story is takes place in terms of and then we will marry and you can't help but note at the end of the story and I'm going to say things which are obvious and should be known and should be clear I I wrote about this in my very first book so this takes us back at least to uh when I said it the first time probably at least 1996 maybe before and that is what happens afterwards and then Shimon and Ley come and that they're to save their sister and they wipe out the city. What's interesting about our story is that Yakov then says to separate Shimon and Le because of their anger. He does not like this. And what happens then in our story is that it is an Zimi of Shimon who now finds himself on one side and then it's Pinas from Ley Cohen on the other side but it's the same characters involved. So I'm going to say it again. the the the bat perspective on what's taking place over here is interesting. And what happens immediately afterwards is in source number 16, God says to Yakov, "Now come back." And finally, you know, he's on the he's back in Israel. And you know, you have to keep your vow again. Keep the words, the power of the words. Keep your vow and build this thing that you said you're going to build. again. When you ran away, when you ran away, get rid of all of your idolatry. So, I'm going to go back again and note that in our uh episode over here of the end of the portion when the girls come down, right? What happens is immediately they start to worship Balpur as well and therefore this combination of idolatry together with sexual sins is the recipe. So I want to pause there for a moment. I mean first of all we go back to the m of so again is love now sorry love is bum now thinking about that blessing that he gave and say now how do we unbless h how do I reverse this? Let's do some reverse engineering over here. Um, if I go back to that verse, where did we have that? >> Right. >> Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I see. I see. >> I know. I'm just looking for one more. Sorry, I was looking for one more turn of phrase there. Sorry. In source number four, right? Which means the Jews don't play with the occult. The Jews don't do these things. The Jews are not involved in idolatry. the Jews are not doing these things. So, it's really interesting now that the recipe in order of defeating them is let's send the girls and let's now in a sense become one and let's find their kryptonite. That's really what it is. And the kryptonite has two different elements of it. One are going to be this intermarriage which goes back to a certain element of what loving was saying and the other is idolatry which by the way the truffin were there in the story as well and and Rael takes them and over here also after defeating they have all of this idolatry and they have to get rid of all of this because if we're going to go back to Israel if we're going to go back and be us we can't be them. If we're going to worship God we can't have any of these things with us. So I'm going to say it again. These two negative points are all here. But this all ultimately there's one thing that's really taking place and that is there seems to be some kind of a knowledge or acknowledgment that the again it goes back to the point which is beneath the surface. Love makes a brit with Yako. Yako has a brit with God. There seems to be this understanding by Bum that if the Jews do certain things, they then will have forfeited the Brit with God. The Brit then ends, which means God keeps taking care of them. God keeps on being behind the scenes. God keeps giving people nightmares and God keeps on protecting us. So now, what do we need to do to break that alliance? What do we need to do to take away that power? So sexual outrage is one wonderful way and by the way now you go to the background of the Dina story will our sister become no there needs to be purity we need to fight for this this can't possibly be and the other thing is idolatry and it would sound as if again we're guessing now it would sound as if what the theory is that if the Jews break the covenant they no longer will be supported And that comes to an end. So I'm just going to note one other intergenerational identification which maybe this really will take us towards next week and that is that the person who comes in to fight is of course Pinfas. In source number 18, source number 19. If you want, we can keep on finding other places. Pinas you have the similarity in source number 20 after the whole showdown with he goes back to says perse the same like pinas has and it's at that point that you have him seeing let's just get the exact verse and you realize this is also the Torah for ove you know this the incredible loud display but that's ultimately not God that ultimately it's not this loud thing there's something which is very quiet so I'm not explaining everything because if you didn't notice I'm rushing because I'm finishing and that is that ultimately Eli Yahu becomes, if you will, the Mala or the emissary or the for the Brit that whenever there's a Brit, he's going to be there. Which means the claim on the other side and and and then you go deeper, the Brit, the whole idea of Britain, the idea of self-control and self-limitation and so on and so forth. But it's it's much more than that. It's that the claim on the other side is that God will abandon us when we break the covenant. And maybe it's kind of like the covenant between Yakob and Love and one side breaks it, so now it's forfeited. But this is a covenant which is also transgenerational and it's with every generation of Jews. And if one little pocket of Jews at some point break the covenant, it's still there for previous generations and the subsequent generations. Which means the same way you can have a a love who somehow morphs into a bum, you're going to have a pinas who morphs into an elyah and you're going to have and he is the one who speaks about the Brit. And he's the one who realized the Brit is ultimately not something which is very loud and displayed but is something which is very quiet and in internal but this internal brid is actually eternal and therefore it's something which also lasts. So I'm going to say it again. If I if this wasn't clear enough, the story in this week's para is not a new story. There are elements of it which are there just staring at you. The cluster of elements are all there in the love and story already. You have Midrash, Gumar, other mystical sources telling you that either there is this genealogical relationship between Lavan and Bum or there is a deeper spiritual and within the students of the Arial. It's both. It's both a descendant and a Gilgal. They're both they're both true. This is love on 2.0. This is who he is. And therefore, he can have a dream, but he can ignore the dream. He could be told by God where somebody else could be told by God what's going on and then really be careful which means even when God warns you, you can still have your free will and not to be bothered. So who knows who God has warned throughout history and said don't start with the Jews. This is not going to take place. The other thing which for us is uh you know sometimes it's comforting sometimes not is to realize that ultimately in the background when people really are going after us that God is there in the background protecting us warning them and doing what needs to be done and whether it's going to take uh the wealth of love and give it over to Yakov or whether it's going to be to make a donkey start talking and and throw a guy into the into the thing which symbolizes the very covenant that he broke. But that covenant could be broke. But the covenant between God and the Jewish people is one which remains because it's also throughout the generations. So the same way that they're going to attack us in this, shall we say, intergenerational approach by this confederacy of evil which is not just in one generation but goes throughout history. We also have this other side of of being protected by that. And ultimately we realize sometimes it's very quiet, sometimes it's the middle of the night, but God is there who is still guiding us and guarding us and taking care of us. And that's also a uh part of the message of this whole story and therefore don't ignore the dream because the dream is really the important thing over here. But then don't ignore the cluster because there are all these other words that come up as well because when we read this story part of it should be wow what an interesting story and part of it no there's something familiar about this. I think I've seen this before. It could even be that if some of you unfortunate enough to read the newspapers, maybe even reading about it now.