Episode 8 BEYOND THE 7 with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] hey good afternoon folks welcome back to our eighth lesson eighth installment beyond the seven live from Jerusalem with Rabbi Aaron David Poston he's spending some deep time teaching us some wonderful wonderful things that are all universal that actually go beyond the seven I'm enjoying this class he's teaching us so much so let's just jump right in see how the rabbi is doing tonight rabbi posted so good to see you I know we keep you up late but you know what it's joy to hear Torah and thank you I'm so happy to be here thank you Dan for having once again and hello Shalom to all of the audience live and whoever is watching this afterwards so thank you for joining us and thank you for having me oh my pleasure my pleasure yeah you're teaching us some wonderful things auditory you know a few things that get me thinking during the week that's good we have to think we have to always be thinking so the first thing I want to start with was a little message about race and now that's a hot topic these days and I'll keep it Torah oriented because look this is the Noahide world center and everybody from all over the world all different Creed's race religions are tuning in and I want them to know what the tour actually says about race Judaism is not a race and it recognizes that there are races there are 17 nations and different colors and different shapes and forms of human beings we're all created an image of God this is what Judaism has taught the world and back to the beginning you know back in Genesis you know Adam the first man Adam pronounced the D like a t Adam Adam not Adam but so he was created he was formed not far from where I'm sitting right now and Hashem the Almighty the created the universe took soil from the entire globe little bits and pieces from different from the different continents from different places in the world where nations would eventually reside and he took that soil and he formed man now it's true that the entire body was made from the soil and the soil that was used specifically for the head was taken from the Temple Mount so he was created on the Temple Mount from soil that came from all I use this term the four corners of the globe we know that the globe is round but we usually word corners I hope everyone forgives me for my my lack of that a better better terminology so in reality we whoever we are every human being is multi because I have I have like you have soil that originally came from the entire globe now when man was dispersed and then lived in the different countries there's a vibrations there's an energy that's coming from that place and that is what and I'm not talking about evolution okay it may sound like I'm talking about evolution but I'm not that there are the spiritual vibrations the physical methods called metaphysical aspects of living in a certain temporal and locale whether it's the Sun whether it's the soil the combination thereof affects the skin if that affects the way the face is formed and the way the different aspects of the body reacts to that soil and might prove that I've given is that when Jews have been dispersed themselves they begin to look like after many generations like the locality of the local people the natives of wherever they're at now it is true that there are converts who then join in and that would help let's say enlarge the gene pool create low you know the Jews looking more like the local people but even those communities without converts who people had not converted we're not intermarried okay meaning intermarried after a conversion at those Jews began to look like the people of the locale the question is why why does that happen okay so I don't want to I don't want to spend too much time but I just wanted to speak about this because I think it's an important topic that we all have to look at each other as a brother okay no matter what color or whatever you know different aspects you have you know in your face or body that we're mom we're really your brothers and this is the message the Jew the Jew has this responsibility to teach the world how to love each other right I mentioned this in previous sessions that we're all supposed to teach each other - we're supposed to teach the world how to treat your brother so we have obligations specifically towards Jews and hopefully the whole world will pick it up and treat each other so one of the source materials that we use for this idea is by Yaakov when he was told by love on in a negotiation what he could keep in terms of feed the sheep and the goats and what he was supposed to leave behind and this I don't know what you call my shyster I don't know if everyone's familiar with that word but LaVon was a shyster and he tried to trick Yaakov and basically keep the wealth for himself but Yaakov was very smart and he wasn't using magic and he wasn't using DNA manipulation or whatever you want to call it the GMOs genetic genetic manipulation on a fire he was using the Torah wisdom that God gave him and that when a couple has relations you know sexual relations intimate marital relations it's very important what you have when your mind is going directly into the seed that is going to go into the woman and also the woman is when what she's thinking about is also going to affect her seed the ovum and the zoo Gomorrah I don't have it in front of me but the Gomorrah is that there was a black child that was born to a Jewish couple who obviously was not that dark and it aroused quite a few eyebrows you can imagine right happy would be there maybe there was suspicion that somebody wasn't faithful meaning the the woman wasn't faithful and the rabbi's asked interrogated the couple and they discovered that there was a picture of a black man hanging on the wall of the couple's bedroom and this had the effect on when they were having the interrelations on the fetus okay this is what Yaakov used he carved her he made some manipulative carvings to show the type of patterns that LaVon was telling him these are the ones you can keep so while these animals were having sexual relations that they saw they themselves saw these pictures or patterns and they developed these patterns and therefore Yaakov himself was able to keep these these sheep and became very very wealthy so just keep in mind this is one of the things we call holiness kedusha in in in life is to get married and to have a loving relationship and to only think about your spouse and okay we're all tested okay we're all tested we're not angels but it's um it's very important so just as a side note the ROM bond had written a book called it garrison kodesh it's it's not the famous against the coalition everyone thinks about but it's talking about the sexual relations what's permitted what one should think about how how it should be performed and of course there's you know it's up to the couple but there are guidelines that are used to enhance holy children so it is on the market it's probably out of print in most places but anyway it's such a book that exists in English it's called the holy letter a friend of mine I helped him actually write it mosha core it's called the holy act okay he translated it and that we translated together you can order it through him dr. moshe core k uhr you can look it up I don't know it was published by a place of Rabbi Yaakov Hebert it was called the lab la B anyway if you look it up it's a very I don't know necessary book for newlyweds and for anybody who wants to be holy okay so that's the first thing I wanted to mention about race that we really have to be on this and how we're gonna do that hopefully through not just my learning but learning from rabbis learning from the Torah it's it's a real shame what's going on so booze rata Shem we should learn and take this world to the next level okay and what okay thank you so what I want to mention here I want to make I want to go through a few things I I left off giving over some of the commentary to a Gomorrah in Gomorrah Bravo 17 a that discussed rabbi Yochanan and when he made a seal when he finished the book of Job so we talked about at length last week that I didn't finish and I wanted to because there's a lot to speak about so I didn't continue I also I'm not sure we really finished and touched what really needed to be talked about at the end of chapter 18 in the Mesilla to be a sharing in the book the path of the just or as they translated here the way of the upright but we're familiar with the path of the just myth see latisha ream so I want to do that I also want to talk about job in this week's barcia when I say this week's barcia I mean last week's for sure in Israel and this coming weeks brush it in the outside the Land of Israel I also want to talk about seat seat which was at the end of this week's portion in Israel and it will be the end of this week's portion coming out side of things of Israel so where do I start that's the question so let's start with the finishing the Mesilla Tushar aim as well see if there's any end take notes yet okay so this would be really the finishing paragraph with paragraphs bless you paragraphs in chapter 18 we were dealing with the trait of Hussey Deutz so let me just sum this up a little bit we spoke about the idea of going beyond the letter of the law and a ignorant someone who doesn't have wisdom can't really go beyond the little because they don't know where the law begins and where it ends again just to reiterate also we talked about seven overreaching concepts for the North High and there are many many subcategories so one must be and I'm using like I'm not here to tell you what you have to do but I'm just telling you that if you want to be a hussy you have to be knowledgeable and not only knowledgeable and what those seven overreaching concepts are but then to be zaheer be careful and concerned and as strict as you can on yourself for starters before you can reach this level of cassie dude we're basing this on again the mistletoe shari begins with zaheer to be careful in the beginning and only in later he talks about classy dudes so there's obviously you can count how many chapters there are but there's we're talking about different levels and you don't skip levels I'm just skipping for the sake of being short and to the point that we want to talk about how's he do it so I skip to chapter 18 so the question is where we're gonna go from here are we gonna go back and discuss all the other chapters that's a possibility another idea I came up with was to go in depth in the book of Job job was considered a prophet for the Gentiles so of you know as on the Noahide world center how can we not understand how important this character is in the Bible okay and go through it word for word like reveal cannot did with his students and made this such a statement the statement again that we're talking about is pleasing or somehow sending satis action to God and that itself we discussed can be very controversial because we know that God doesn't need anything there's nothing you can do for God so what does it mean to give Nahas roughly yokes row there's a famous expression anybody's not familiar with it I have to tell you you have to go back and study again okay because this is an important trait and we're talking about in terms of Cassie dude though the word Cassie dude is based on s it so we're gonna see now that you're actually doing s it to God God doesn't need anything why how can we so let's try to try to understand that with the last few words of this chapter so that's a good introduction so he begins by telling us the practical definition of Hesse dude is based on everything we spoke about I just want to mention now that Rebbe Eliyahu Destler this is in the mid-table meal yahoo most people are familiar he writes I just tired says volume 5 page 35 that one who is not a Hassid serves Hashem from the perspective of self I think there's a certain amount of self-absorbed personality he wishes to perfect himself which is not a bad thing in the eyes of God however he says such service falls under the category of the he root that's the lower level at the beginning level not haseen now he describes the Husson is one who serves Hashem not because he's obligated to and this is where I think trying to explain this to non-jews who should be aware that of I'm not saying a vast majority but a certain amount of the Misses in the Torah are not at all obligated okay they're not at all obligated to anant you and I'll just give you an idea things that have to do with the holidays things that have to do with lycopene mitzvahs that are not rational okay so that isn't but what about all those rational ones right so let's use them whatever talks about a an obligation and the book is talking to both Jew and non-jew so when it's talked about an obligation to a Jew it's talking about the rationale as well as the irrational or things that have to do with holidays whenever it's talking about to a non Jew it's talking about all those rational Lords okay keep better moon so the huset serves Hashem not because he's obligated to or because he seeks to top self-perfection he does so because he loves Hashem I mean think about we did we really discussed this iBM is one of the seven mitzvahs to love Hashanah them well I discussed this idea that the Rambam clearly says and I think it's bit I know it's based on the Alette the first mission of the 11th chapter in sin Hedren that talks about who gets a piece of the world to come we spoke about Bill I'm not getting it every other non Jew can have an opportunity okay so the idea is that if a non Jew and righteous Gentile how is he because he considered righteous because he believes that the Torah is from heaven now I want to take this one step further if he believes the tourists from heaven it means that he believes every word of it right and if you understand clearly that the Jew has a special mission as a priest being the the leaders the Roma audition yeah it's kind of something that if you believe that the tourists from heaven and therefore the Word of God that you basically and I'm using paraphrasing because it doesn't say it I'm saying that you believe in the mission of the Jews and therefore you support that mission if you support that mission then your part and parcel of this again we talk about being Jewish you're being part of God's plan to improve the world to make the world a better place so you as a non Jew you have to work on yourself it's true and the Jew seems to have a mission that's beyond just himself but if you're buying into the mission already so you're going to help the Jew in every way he can write perhaps even educate the Jews by saying hey why are you eating pork I'm in the McDonald's I'm allowed to but what are you doing here there's a kosher it's right down the street you think it's not it's it's serious I know several righteous non-jews Jetta they know who go out of their way and have relationships with non-religious Jews and try to strengthen them in their faith they call them Jews in denial that's you know they meet Jews and he's in denial he doesn't accept the fact that he has this mission so I want to like kind of educate him a little bit to what he has to do let me just continue to read what the the mick taught me Leon says again he does so because he loves her Shem and longs to please him not himself you're doing whatever is beyond your obligation what's beyond 7:00 again we're talking that vertically not horizontally to please God not yourself this is implicit in the root word of classy dude the word is s in which means to give of oneself to others in this case it's talking about to Hashem with total unconcerned for oneself this is what allowed Esther rabbi Destler says indict off now yeah I think it's very important I also want to mention something that rabbi hyman Kaufman Kaufman mentioned and I'm not arguing with him I think that he perhaps he can correct me if I'm not correct in this assumption he mentioned about teaching and he went to a rabbi and the rabbi suggested if you don't need the money you shouldn't go into teaching I think that he was talking about as a partner as a job as a tough kid in this world to be a teacher I thank God I spent a long time at a trattoria with Rabbi North Weinberg rioted the author he wasn't the author but the author of the series basically called the foodie ways to wisdom and he taught us that we as Jews have an obligation to teach all the time so that doesn't mean that your job that's your professional okay when I told my profession I think the real kind coffee was told that as a profession choosing a profession but to say to a Jew you're not ready yet to teach or if not Weinberg was very against that wherever you know you have an obligation to teach go ahead and you wanted to say something well rabbi Haim Goldberg of the Noahide world center oh I consider my rabbi um you know he was a high school teacher and then a principal for thirty years and then you know once that thirty year mark it boomed back to Israel he was or you know she Myka rabbi jump right into the cause you know and and be a portion of but he did that as a livelihood for 30 years as a teacher it was in just general education but he you know with his shmegan time to jump back into the cause and the purpose for the nation of Israel and this is what I love so let me just say there's two aspects of why you have an obligation to teach I don't mean it's a profession so rueckheim Kaufman again if he was speaking about a profession I get it but to tell somebody you can't teach you shouldn't teach now if someone doesn't have any information at all okay I get it but once you know remember what happened in Russia maybe not people are not familiar but it was forbidden to teach Torah and therefore they had underground groups the wrote the Rebbe Nachman taught us this all the time that people put their lives in danger just to teach one letter if they were learning the alphabet the alphabet the the alphabet and all they learned was a few letters they had an obligation to teach their neighbors or to other people even at the risk of their own life so you basically knew almost nothing and whatever piece of wisdom of information was coming down to you you have an obligation to teach that to somebody what about a father it says in the Torah right a father has to teach his son so we're not talking about as a profession you have to teach and if you don't have sons we all know that students are called sons okay so let me explain in two levels I gave this idea before that when they ask the rabbis who did you learn the most from right so you would think that they learn the most from their own rabbis right because I'm sitting and learning I'm learning for my rabbis but the rabbi's response was not what you had what you would think they actually said I learned more from my students right the actual question was posed who do you learn more from your your rabbis or your colleagues or your students and they all answered from the students so the question is even as not a professional teacher you will learn more from teaching now more than that you ask anybody we talked about this already I don't feel like if I think it's so important so I will repeat myself that each one of the 613 mitzvahs has a specific sentence in the Torah that tells you it's one of the 613 misses and if you ask anybody where does it where do you know that it's so important to teach I'm sorry to learn Torah just to learn cuz that's what we're kind Conklin storage is learning it's from fishing nan Tom livin FN you shall teach you shall teach your son so why because it's a prerequisite in order to teach you have to learn so how do we know you have to learn Torah from the mitzvah of teaching so teaching and learning or really I don't know if parallel is the word but it seems like teaching is the IKAR is the Prime and learning is only a prerequisite so the rocha shiva told us that it would have to learn properly you actually have to learn with the mindset in order to give it away and that's cussing dude that is true cussing and therefore you will be filled with the Spirit of God unbelievable there's even a promise that if you teach your grandson I think I might imagine this it says that it's as if you're receiving the Torah directly from Mount Sinai the question is is that talking about the grandson who's learning from you or is that you the teacher giving it over to generations in advance I think it's both and I think it's more on the grandfather that when the grandfather is teaching his grandson it's as if you're receiving the Torah directly from God himself and rc9 there's this channel it's opening up for continuity right continuity that that took that's and that's a code word for teaching now there's all kinds of ways of teaching not professionally when you're sitting on the bus and if someone says why do you guys do that or you know you're at a business meeting and someone asks why do you guys do that I mean just to have an an answer even if you don't have it on you say you know I'll get back to you it's a great question and then do the research right you have an obligation to teach so I think that Rabbi Kaufman was speaking about professionally and he's gonna make that clear that we all should not say oh when I get to this point then I'll teach because teaching is intrinsic in learning without being willing to teach I don't think you can even possibly learn because it's all about self-interest and maybe that's the beginning of beings are here but hopefully we'll get to the point of being a huset and truly have something that we think is valuable in order to give to someone else okay that's a great way to start so now he talks about again we're in the the very last few chapters of chapter 18 the last paragraphs of chapter 18 in the seals he sharp so he says it doesn't merges that the guiding principle of has he dude is expanding expanding the fulfillment of all the Midlands now when I say all the Mitzvahs I'm talking about for a Jew all the metals are applicable to him and for a non Jew or the at all the missiles are applicable to them in all the appropriate and feasible scenarios and applications and I'll read the comment in summary the essence of Kassie dude is bringing satisfaction to Hashem through discerning his will God's will and striving to fulfill it in the most complete way so that's for anybody okay Jew non-jew this is what we should all hope for in practice this means to observe the mitzvahs in a manner that broadens their scope so that their performs with depth and applied to every relevant aspect of one's life so I I really feel very good that we called this beyond the seven because this is ultimately the paragraph I wanted to get to in this series and now read the footnote on that one there are myriad applications to this principle meaning there are many possibilities to illustrate so there's a few illustrations here the Torah prohibits for example a Jew from gashing himself for pulling out hair as a sign of mourning don't go overboard or don't do like the Gentiles do this is in Deuteronomy chapter 14 1 well it prohibits only these two actions the prohibition is animated by the underlying will of God that can be applied anywhere the prohibition reads you are the children to a Shem your God you shall not cut yourselves and you shall not make a bald spot for a dead person now there's a lot of issues here we're talking about pagans how they react to death like this is the end we all know and anybody again who believes in that in the Bible being from heaven actually that actually the next piece in that Mishnah not only does it say that who goes to heaven are those who believe that the torrents from happened but those who believe in the resurrection of the Dead or let's just say for that matter whatever comes after this life you know it's so important that a non Jew who wants to be righteous should at least study these pieces of the Torah to understand spirituality it's not just about keeping rigorously seven let's say I don't I don't think they're they're dry but just simply legalistic laws right there's a reason for them we're talking about perfecting mankind and doing God's will and with that in mind let me continue as Rashi explains the tour stresses that at least the Jewish people here are considered children of Hashem and therefore must act in a dignified manner even while grieving the Husson which is general Jew and non-jew extend this attitude the entire scope of this conduct and will act dress and speak in the manner that is befitting a child of a ship so I know this is heavy stuff but we talked about you know thought which we're going to talk about in chapter 19 if we get to it is qivana what you do the behavior how you act and the results of your action okay here let's just finish this paragraph he brings another example and this I know does apply to a non Jew the Torah commands a person to honor his father and mother in Exodus chapter 20 verse 12 this refers to honoring them through speech and action let me just explain we have in in Judaism there's two mitzvahs one is to honor your parents and one is to fear them so just for practical purposes honoring is positive mitzvahs fear or negative mitzvahs so the positive mittens one has in there in honoring their parents is to feed them and to dress them and to stand up when they walk in the room and it sounds like fear to meet them at the door when they're coming in the house right to do active things in which you can do to honor your parents okay and fear of your parents means don't sit in his chair don't stand where he stands when he talks to his the print person or he stands at the door and talks to guests that's not your place right don't contradict him right obviously it could say he's telling you to do something against the Torah they're still away with honor to teach your own father so for us it says say to your father in a nice and honorable way dad teach me this tour again you taught me once teach it to me again so that hopefully it'll register that he's violating that for that precept for example so these are ideas in terms of positives and negatives he goes on he says that even though this refers to speech in action but it doesn't address the colonel attitudes one should have towards his parents anyone who observes the presets of the Torah will serve and treat his pants with respect but the Hasib goes further right beyond the seven beyond he deduces that a Shems will is that he actually developed an attitude of respect for them that he care for them lovingly now we also discussed that I don't mind repeating myself because I don't expect that everyone listened to all the previous sessions but we have two sides of the ten commandments there's two tablets one side and hence the five mitzvahs that are first between man and man and God and the second set is between man and man and yet the fifth commandment on the side begin of the on the side between man and God is loving your parents and we're supposed to develop an attitude of respect and gratitude for our parents giving us physical life even if God forbid they were unkind we're abusive or brought up in a dysfunctional family which in really we can really send us a side ball you know how we supposed to relate to a Shem but there's mentorship with enough therapy and love and an Torah and growing up and maturing we'll see beyond that and but in the meantime we're talking about a relationship with God even though the fifth commandment loving your parents and therefore what we spoke about up until this point is when you serve God it's just like you would your parents the example I gave was if your father said to you you know it's really cold in this room and so you could just give them the remote control turn up the heat or you could turn up the heat and you can even offer him a blanket because you know his will you know what he wants you want to please your father so - were taking this as wanting to please Hashem again there is nothing you can do to please Hashem but it's from our perspective I spoke about this in terms of the Tonia in terms of the book of Haim vulajin of net sahayam right these ideas are from our view it's not heretical okay we spoke about this it's not a reticle it's an attitude that we should have in wanting to please Hashem which is a very difficult thing to to understand but let's continue now I finished that note back into we spoke about the difference between pre-shoot pre-shoot means abstinence and he says that this is an idea of making sure you are here in the negative Commandments again that was in the beginning while the trade of kasi do deals with the expanded fulfillment of positive Commandments which according to some there are 30 some there 60 that are obligatory maybe even more for banana and therefore some of them are positive Commandments and I heard in the previous class also that Haim Kaufman spoke about the idea of setting up courts of judgment if a non Jew wants to be a judge in his court he should not only may he but he certainly should learn the hoshin mish pot that's 1/4 of shock and arrow right how is he supposed to judge and know the difference when when his clients not client that the resident of this town says I want to be judged according to Jewish law which is every right to say ok how is he going to how he's gonna judge him harshly Quentin Jewish law right if he doesn't know it so this is something that I think it's understood that there's so many stuff we already said in the Rambam that a non Jew can even go beyond the 7 and keep kosher as I mentioned also I mentioned again that their loss of Russian Hara which are taking priority over eating kosher for a non Jew but if a non Jew is already very careful in the way he speaks and he decides I don't want to eat those animals to grow at the bottom of the sea and I don't want to eat those animals that are like vultures I want to perfect my my soul in my body and I want to take 1 more things just to be a better person right for whatever ideas he has then this is God's will that the human being should perfect themselves so why not so he's allowed to learn the laws of kashrut he's allowed to learn the parts of the shotgun art now he's already learning the shotgun ara what would prevent him then from going into the source material right if you have a discussion in the show Canara where there's a yes i mean there's a second opinion where did that second opinion come from who said it he's certainly allowed to go into the Gomora itself as we already spoke about also and I forget right now at the top of my head that I mean the Rambam mentions it helps us Yogo that a non-jew which one but not just a non-jew talking about a righteous non Jew who decides to dedicate himself to Torah learning he has the level of cutter Shakur dodging the holy volleys of a high priest I think we spoke about that too so I don't want to go back too much on that let's just finish up this last piece so he basically says that both the key root and Cassie dude they're basically the same concept just one it's structurally one it's positive ones negative namely the essence of both is to add to that which was explicitly stated it's not called adding to the Torah it's adding respect it's adding depth anything that we can determine based on the explicit command that it would be a source of satisfaction to a Shem blessed be he because that's ultimately what the hussy wants to do and why are we talking about this because the Rambam mentions it right that he calls the person who has accepted the jewish mission as a non Jew who's accepted the the the Torah from heaven as a seed they almost saw olam this is what prompted me to discuss this idea of kasi dude because if you're already called a huset you might as well know what it means if you want to live up to that name this is what I'm suggesting you do okay go deeper take on more willingness to go deeper and learn more I feel the the energy of the Mitzvah not just it's a dry mitts okay don't steal why shouldn't I sleep right and what is all that Intel there's so many things I gave examples you just take somebody's pen and say he doesn't care I'll just use it and then return it to him without even mentioning the word that's called stealing so what's the right thing to do and what about returning lost objects okay some there's a lot of loss involved do I have an obligation and if I don't return it am i stealing okay so there's a lot of ideas that people don't think about so he just ends this is the definition of authentic class etudes up until now that's everything we spoke about so I just want to mention at the end he makes a summary true classic dude which requires a foundation of deep wisdom is defined by a desire born of love to bring satisfaction to a chef a desire to do more than simply a he adhere to the explicit commandments similar to the driver that exists in any loving relationship whether it's husband or discuss this is the very beginning yeah my wife is sleeping and I have something in the room so I want to get it I could turn the light on and wake her up where I can tiptoe through the room now by tippy-toe in the room with that little bit of fear that she wake up is because I love her and I don't want her to lose the sleep maybe I'm also afraid she's gonna throw a shoe at me but even because I love her and I want to please her and I don't want to do anything that will damage her or our relationship let me just finish that last point similar to the drive that existed anywhere in any loving relationship it means to discern in the midst is what it is that a sham really wants for us and to strive to fulfill them as well there is one little last little comment on this little finish this part since hössi duty is the fulfillment of the mitzvahs in their broader sense it goes without saying that first all the actual halawet requirements must be at here to scoop asleep so everyone understands that before you move to the next step get down learn the seven in their broadest sense in terms of the holistic requirements only then does the expansion of the midst of scope or its performance with more passion because that's what God wants he wants your passion which will be discussed in the next chapter with the accessible Sarna explained that's a new side to knitting he says this is based on - health effect if someone is lacks in actual performance but engages in the conduct of kasi doot he's under that core category of pseudo Hasina's which is not prep is not what a sham once since he shows that it's not the will of a sham that he seeks but only a good feeling that he himself derives from doing this pipe what he thinks is a pious act and that is problematic okay I think at this point while we're still in subject of classy dude we should talk about which one oh yeah yeah yeah I don't know which way to go let's talk about this week's partial so when I say this week's partial part I'm talking about partial Sherlock and where do we find him in this week's parsha so when Moses is telling the spies what to look for it gives them a whole checklist let me open up its you'll find this in numbers chapter 13 now we're specific line to verse 20 but before that there's a few verses I want to look at he said 13 first one okay so I think let's say learn for example 17 start with 17 Moses sent them to spy out the land of Kanade and he said to them assent here in the south and climbed the mountain see the land he gives them a checklist how is it and the people that dwells in it are they stronger weak are there few or numerous and how is the land in which it dwells is it good or is it bad and how are the cities in which it swells are they open or they fortified and now our verse and how is the land is it fertile or lean are there trees in it or not you shall strengthen yourselves and take from the fruit of the land the days were the seasons of the first ripe grapes I only focus on these words are there trees in it or not the truth is if you want to hear a whole hour and a half class you can look on the last class I gave was righteous Gentiles and the praise of the land of Israel but let me just try to sum it up that cos Allah is telling us and you can see from Rashi when when Moses says is there a tree in it or not he's asking is the protection of a righteous Gentile or Gentiles still there because if we're going to go into the land and there are some righteous Gentiles who are protecting the natives of the land we don't really stand much of a chance this what he's saying now from one of the very beginning in our series we talked about the forty five righteous Gentiles perhaps thirty when it was in Israel 15 we're outside the land remember we discussed that about hope you do go back to it if you forgot it that really I mentioned that there are righteous Gentiles Cassini Loomis Olaf that are keeping the world going just like there are 36 righteous Druze that are keeping the world going there's forty five thirty in the Land of Israel that are protecting the non-jews from harm so even if we came into the land right Moses saying it's check if there's a tree he's actually asking is there a protector the tree acts as a protector in fact we'll talk about the word Salaam Salaam later on when they said when the spies came back khaliv in 14 says their protection is removed from them God didn't asked them is there protection there yes he did when Moses said is there a tree or not because the word for shade is sale the way for protect the word the protection is Salam and the word for the image of God is Selim because we are it created every human being in the image of God what is an image when I take my hand and I put it in the Sun the sun's up there what's on the ground Shan shade is sale this is a Selim this is a image it's not really my hand it's just a hint of the hand so to our souls are just a hint of God but how do they really manifest is it looking this is going to this is going to be the difference winning a righteous Gentile and a non righteous Gentile the non righteous Gentile I don't know I hope you don't stop me don't you gonna stone me it's like when the time it talks about non-jews being like animals it's talking about when they don't possess the Selim Elohim when they're not possessing these character traits that imitate God we spoke about the whole Torah it starts with lesson God brings Adam his wife he closed the naked that's how it begins and how does it end God buries Moses this is called Hesed show Emmis it's the it's the highest level of hazard because nobody is there to say thank you okay it's all about caste and if it begins with castle ends with custard the whole idea is about custard we're supposed to imitate a sham this is what I want to get across to you guys listening to this it's about being the selam aleykum you can go from being an animal right to be a true dedicated imitated model of God okay I don't know other words to say that Selim Elohim you could be you don't have to be but that's your loss and that's our loss so we invite you to become at sell a mellow game and it's all based on me dos which we will then get to in those commentaries or Amjad but so I just wanted to pitch in this is a very big but you want to see the Russians themselves which tells you can I can I just ask you a quick question because that selim elohim III want to do some research on that can you tell me how I would transliterate that into English Selim is TZ e el e em sell em Fela sadiq vomit mem I just want to read some of these the gomorian Bubba Basra 15a because the word 8/8 is not as it's 160 the hamachi is 160 okay and the word Selim is 160 when it says in how does job open headers look what happens it begin the book of Job begins by telling us that he's a man from a place what is the place oops I involved Sadiq okay this it's basically a play on the word of eight when Moses says find out this is what Rashi says when he's Rashi says when Moses says doesn't have trees he the word 4/8 is really sealer doesn't have a tree does it have a worthy man who will protect them with his merit that's what Rashi says the gomorrah actually says like this that job lived at the time of the spice and this was proven by the fact that it's written here in job 1 1 there was a man in the land of boots his name was Joe so here in numbers 13 20 when Moses says whether there are trees in it or not so tomorrow asked what's to come what's the comparison what is gluts and what is 8 so this is what Moses said to his room he said this I'm sorry this is what Moses said to the spies basically is that man whose name jobs still alive and therefore living in Israel he whose years are as long as that of a tree and who protects his generation like a tree so that's that part later on is 49 when when Khalid comes back and says their protection is removed from them he says basically their shield does raashi their shield and strength their virtuous ones have died namely joke who had protected them then there's another interpretation the actual protection is God himself that's why I want to say that Selim we're talking about Selim l Hakeem that a person June unjú is able to behave through mass intervene through his kind and proper acts is bringing God into the world is being that Salim Elohim that he's supposed to be and that itself is protecting the people I just suggest the people to see that video on what I gave over in let in depth and in length but now we'll go to the comments that I began last week and cut short because I felt that they were too worthy to try to summer on me and I think we'll I'm not sure where I left off so I'm kind of kind of start I'm going to kind of start in the beginning of my comments so first of all job lived to a hundred forty years he did not die early like you would have expected if he was as sinful or as bad as his friends were accusing him of that he might have died early okay or a painful death but not only was everything taken away from him and through the book but then everything was restored and things some things were doubled so the idea that he was so there he was how does it end he actually lived not just a good life as it says but it was let me just use the words that he is here oh yeah the suck pain so they are your mean then yeah then he of died he was own and satiated with days so the big question is how can a Siddiq ever be satiated because it Siddiq always feels there's more to do how can I be resting on my laurels I'm not perfected I have too much work to do in this world guess what Abraham if you look in Chapter Genesis chapter 25 verse but I think it's first eight seven or eight it uses very similar words you know he died at 175 and it says in the English anyway he died a good old age mature and content this idea mature content in Hebrew is Zoff came to so there he was old and satisfied is a very awkward word to use when we're talking about tsadikim and it needs to be addressed so that's what we're gonna deal with in the beginning we're gonna go into deeper ideas later on okay so what is what is an important thing to know that a zebra a Okinawa Okinawa would say when he finished the book of Job he would say praiseworthy is the one who passed away with a good name because a good name is better the good oil will when Joe passed away he passed away with a good name so that's important so that's just Rashi the marsh Shaw explains the question that we're bothered by he says like this the idea of the whole concept of safer job is speaking about the death of a man you know eventual death of man and all the pains that he has during his lifetime that's why when rebuking on finishes the book he would say these words now the explanation of the end of man anybody who didn't who doesn't know we're talking about must go back to last week's so we're in number eight they have to go back to number seven so the end of man is death and the end of an animal is slaughter meaning that also the end of an animal is to be slaughtered in its time whatever it's time means nevertheless what was the beginning of this animal's life the ending the atom on the beginning was used for carrying loads and to do work right we're talking about domesticated animals would say care whatever beasts of burden and beasts of burden so the good more does mention in above Mencia a story about Rebbe who actually said to an animal and it was not nice it was not good but he said this is what you were created for well guess what so two men even his end the end of Menace to die but when that's in his old age in its time in his old age but all of his life you know what his obligation is his mission is to be God though I'm Elba Torah to grow and to become great in Torah this is talking about everybody remember Joe visit Joe he's a prophet and he was a non Jew and yet everybody is obvious when I I just have to send it for the non Jew it's those mitzvahs that are obligatory on them and for the Jew even beyond okay for what's obligate on them which is more so that's what the job of man is to God though the alma mater nevertheless nevertheless the the what rabbi Yochanan said was everything for death they are standing so and here we have to tune your ears a coal Amita hey mom Dean this is going to become very important in later commentaries like the cloth and so Kabbalistic ideas we're going to get into because also before it's time in other words man is standing to die before his time as well meaning the end demand will be either according to his sin if he sins and an animal according to what we called McGrath and randomness so this is something the book of Job goes through the Providence of God versus the muzzle of versus constellations when we call a non Jew who is not yet adopted the seminal high laws and maybe he's a pagan we call him a a iku means are you they he's serving Mazzello slovenian is no solo he's the constellations he's basically he's not believing in the Providence of God but some other forces I'm gonna leave that quite vague for the moment also the ideas job deals with reward and Punishment it deals like end with the idea of fate versus free will there's so many topics that Joe will deal with basically why do good people suffer why do people who are not good at prosper right so basically that's the same thing okay so the reason is that the end of man is a coin to as soon as we've said or animals according to fate therefore praiseworthy is the man who's what these are the important words drum roll please she I said mitzvah some asymptoting who does kind acts who does mitzvot and masam told him kind acts and then he's putter he's I'm sorry nifty he when he passes on he at least dies with a good name from them when he passed on from this world he dies with a good name okay now that slaw is a little bit more Kabbalistic but we'll deal with it he explains also when the safer when the book of job was finished so it says that job job finish when the end we just read the last first that he was so very yummy he was somehow satisfied in his days soul ahora it seems how can we ever use those terms when we talk about Siddiqui why because we know in Pirkei Avot it says greater is one moment in this world doing good acts in all the world all of the life in the world to come there's nothing you can do to advance your level that's it once you die all we have is this world in order to do mitzvahs and kind acts now once person passes on he is considered hochiminh a mitzvah he's free he's exempt from any Mitzvah so big change basically according to Jerusalem Talmud it says and from that point onward there's no ability for a man to perfect himself there's no ability remember the mitzvahs are basically tikona Meadows they actually fix you listen we don't always understand why each Mitzvah is but it's to put this to make us more sensitive and God conscious okay that's for sure okay so there's no more ability to do any of that which is not the case while he's still alive while d'état takes still alive he's going to add to his perfection each and every day he's going to go up level by level and if that's the case how is it possible to use these words by a sadiq that he is so there be a meme and again it strengthens the question because Abraham we know is it's Isaac and the same words similar words are used when he passes away as well so this is the beginning of the answer it's clear in the words of the Gomorrah where rabbi Yochanan finishes the book of Job that he writes about him right the book itself writes that he was so very yummy so the question again just reiterated is how is how can you relate to a righteous person ever being satisfied in his days so it's clear when it says the end when Romulan says the end of man is to die meaning to say that his end or his Leto his purpose the goal is just like the end of an animal who's supposed to be slaughtered now what does that mean that okay there's gonna get really freaky let me just explain about the four levels of existence you have we call domain inanimate mineral world and then you have some math which is plant life that comes from the minerals grows forth from the minerals and then above that you have higher you have animal life which exists on eating the grass and whatever grows the herbage and then you have man which is one step above and eats or consumes and survives on the lower three worlds okay so just like eventually the animal will have a tea will find it's let's say brought up to the next level it's fixing is through the blessing the blessing that the righteous person is going to make when he consumes or at least let's just figure when he makes the when a man when a Jew sweaters an animal there's a profit to be made he's making a blessing when he slaughters the animal that already is helping the Tico and for the animal he's raising the entire world he's raising from the mineral that was then brought into the grasses of the herbage which was then brought into the mouth and digestive system of the animal which is then being brought up to the highest level of man through eventually eating or consuming this animal name like you know Sophia if he didn't slaughter the animal in other words it was novela it was just you know roadkill or just died on its own so then it's called them total loss I got to start all over again it didn't get that blessing on the rabbi who slaughtered it or the person who slaughtered her or the that was able to eat it or even for that case and just keep this in mind even a non-jew we you you take an animal and you slaughter it however you slaughter it then you're gonna consume it wasn't availa so then so perhaps for you it's exactly the same thing we're bringing up to the next level that part of the world okay if that's the case the same thing applies by man that his end is going to be good when he completes himself through his actions this storm of mankind in general not just a Jew the a mooshroom toe Ellis because at this point right after he dies he has no more possibility of increasing anything it's only while he's alive so so then I started looking on how mita so therefore his end the goal of his end is eventually to die where his soul will then go up to the highest level and non-jews this is what it says in our holy Torah right when I say only turn time at the altar as well then you want to know where exactly you can look in the first mission of the 11th chapter of st. Hedren salic which says that every Jew is a personal will to come and through this discussion the Gomorrah and it's clear bilham had been mentioned does not get a portion that obviously righteous non-jews do okay so though just I I happen to think this is where the rava got his idea that hookans who's considered a hostage who goes through world to come those non-jews that buy into the tours from heaven and there is such a thing as resurrection of the Dead okay that's for another class if you want anyway so that yeah so what happens at the end of a person's life I mentioned the very beginning in our first class every Jew every non Jew every human being has a yates ihara the purpose of life is to have a war jihad in energy high right against rah ruse oh god mr. baza mohammed aaser ah where he finally perfects his soul as much as he can then he is exempt he's passes on and he's no longer fighting with his eh larva finished okay yeah wonderful stuff rabbi and wonderful now we continued remember the rabbi Yochanan continued and he said everything after he said about man's end is to die and the end of the animal is to be slaughtered then he says a cold Lamesa hey mom Dean all for death they are standing but again I want you to tune your ears to the words all for death are standing what does it need to stand so this is interesting according to the way that slack explains it that so people came to comfort comfort the family Rebbe boon because he died short he only lived let's say you only study Torah for 28 years I don't know if he was 28 years old he died but he he definitely died young so they said that Rebbe the ribbon boon reached the 28th year of learning Torah what he was able to reach in 28 years somebody who studied their whole life a hundred years couldn't even reach okay so basically the question would be we'd understand so if he learned so much as 20 years why wouldn't why we be comforting through that let him he could have lived more and imagine what he could have learned if he learned if he lived 29 35 40 60 80 1 Majan if he would live 200 years if he was able to accomplish in 28 years imagine what he could have learned what he could have accomplished every day that he lived afterwards how is that a consolation first of all I do want to mention the number 28 is coop coop means potential so he reached his co-op he reached his potential but that's a side point that's my commentary we'll put it in the in the Talmud at some other date hey hey so that was the question why couldn't you live longer how is that a consolation to anything and then it comes out basically that we really lost him because he only lived a short period of time so Robinho's Shmuel sabah answers like this now this is really deep that certainly every man should call saintil energy every person has a certain amount of intelligence but there's a limit for each person whatever he's able to accomplish and he's not able to accomplish anything more than that according to this opinion so basically Rebbe boon reached that in that 28 years he reached all he could and therefore was not able to reach anything more than that if that's the case then it would have helped him to live another day or years or whatever and this is what it means now when we read the words the Rebbe Nachman said that everyone is destined to die and that's what their standing that's what their standing for a call Amita everyone's gonna die that's what they're standing means like this the intent of this answer is that we still said if he would have lived more he could have reached further know that everyone is for Misa that everything is from me so that's what they're standing for and now what are angels angels angels are ohm Dean look in Isaiah chapter 6 verse 2 it's talking about Sarafine we're standing above at his service that's angels our own Deen angels never go up or down in terms of their own level they don't ascend or descend in terms of their own level okay they exactly the way God made them and I think this is we talked about this before about the s'time in Judaism some time is not a full and angel that doesn't do God's will he does exactly what he's told and that we can learn in book a job but anyway sir our theme the angels are standing but what about man man is not standing and this brings us back to the original question how can we speak about a Tzadik being so there do you mean how can he be satisfied so in look in Zakaria Zachariah chapter three verse seven righteous people are called halting righteous people are I don't know how to translate this good other than Walker's but they're not just walkers as opposed to standing there traveling they're on a journey and this is what I love about these these know highs that I meet everyone is on an individual journey you cannot I mean you can't compare whatever you're going through with other people and you should find fellowship with other people but your journey is unique to you okay and you're exactly where you're supposed to be hopefully on this journey mo moving whole team is moving so it says in Safari er the set a sham master of legions if you go in my ways right he's talking that's a deacon you're going to walk in my ways then I will grant you shrines strides are large steps among the Angels that stand here so if you get the difference between a sigh because someone who's on a journey who's moving and the angels are standing not moving per se so now we understand because of this basically the angels remain in their level wherever they are the whole time they're created they're never going up or down in terms of their own levels but it's sadiq each and every day through his masam toe being the AIESEC batura through his kind acts or doing mitzvahs and his involvement in Torah he's able to reach his own perfection more and more every single day omaha lake the oil in madrid on madruga so then he's going and ascending from one level to other old days of his life that we did see in the Jerusalem Talmud that mentioned that each person has their their limit they can't go beyond their limits right so that was that was a problem so eh time to decommission my game the my dragon Moluccan there is a possibility for tsadikim to actually reach that level of the Angels Oh in other words that's what it's thought about everyone is right everyone is destined to be um Dean even those Siddiq and eventually to reach the level of the Angels Shh unbelievable I happy are dropping the H mumps Rd King Shem again with my drink at Malakand shame on Dean there is this possibility for attabi to reach the level of an angel who's just standing there PA guileless off my lash lay most of them because he finally reached that ghoul that limit and that as far as that man can go can only for him can only reach the level of angels Balaam owed la-la-la there's no space to go further the Oz costly Tommy Raqqa Mesa therefore the only goal for them is to die the true meets letter through that death that person will release or undress himself from his physical body and become pure in spirit and extremely holy just like the animal that reaches his perfection through being slaughtered and eaten through the mouth imagine at sonic's sitting here on TV on the video are sitting alive and abatement rush he's moving his mouth he's talking Torah how did he get that energy because he had meat so the the the purpose of that animal was to be eaten to be slaughtered and then eaten through the mouth of the Sadiq so to a person reaches his his goal through death then his spirit returns back to God and he then will benefit for receive the pleasure from the shine the Ziva Sheena that total communion and unification with the creator of the universe which is pure light and energy and that's where he goes in the end okay you understand why I didn't want to end last week's class going through that this is this is so juicy immensely beautiful stuff I want to skip one thing maybe we'll get back to it maybe maybe I know what I won't skip anything okay so the relief explains that the dim D muy meaning the similarity of this verse of the statement that was made by rebuking on that the end of man is to die and the end of the animal is to be slaughtered what is the similarity why are we comparing this to the book of Job or to drove himself did so - just like an animal they don't have a need to be considered fat before you slaughter it so you have a you have an animal and you know it's gonna be slaughtered in three months so today you not so concerned the fact that he's thin but however as a person who works with animals you know that before you slaughter him you want to feed them as much as possible because you want that meat but right now it could be a year away so you don't care that he's not fat but before the slaughtering but he was really just liked by an animal we're not really needing that he becomes that except before he slaughtered that we're not caring right now at all it right before if that he's thin okay so to a man even though he might be experiencing a lot of troubles and problems hardships like job did in his life the prime thing is really what's going to be said about him what's gonna be what's gonna happen at the end of his life will he have shalva and sheket really have peace and quiet at the end because it's end of man at the time that he dies so - we find my job even though that he experienced these hardships his whole life right that loan is correctors rishonim shallow chemist Shiva self see at the end almost like it never even happened right we don't mention the original hardships that he experienced at the end of his life because he lived a life so they are right he was old and satisfied that's how it ends we're not mentioning oh he had such a troubled life no and this is what it means how cold the Misa hey mom Dean all for death there standing meaning just as someone who has an animal right he has an animal and he's concerned the whole time that it should be fat and fit for slaughter so - a man needs to strengthen himself the whole time with me dote and ma seemed Toby I just want to explain another word didn't yawn and me dolt Jim young were actually it's also similar to be created in the image of God similar to God then need alter character so another it's just a reverse of letters but it's the same idea that we have to similarly characterize God in our own lives it's actually the same word me those are the words we're talking about for character traits and dim yawn is means similar to God okay anyway so the whole time we're working on our with the strengthen ourselves in character and in good acts because everything is standing everything for death is there standing so he says like this they need your daemon Tiger moves we don't know it like it says in the Pirkei avos you're supposed to do repentance and day before you die and since you don't know when that is and that's the everyday so - we're not gonna wait see when you're slaughtering an animal you know so it's gonna be a year you're gonna slaughter him so you don't care that he's not said you know an extra extra meals right now but when it comes to us we don't know when we're gonna die we have to work on our character and our micing tobe every day is if it's the last day okay in order that we should end up hopefully fulfilling the idea of dying eventually 120 years from now we a good name that ends with a whole book of job okay this is I think the best part okay maybe we already explained some of that outside but there's a Purusha KO tube that explains in the periodic splaine's that rubio cannot wanted to remove from the hearts of those that would make a mistake by saying like what would people say and I think people do say this that there's no difference between man and animal why are let me just do to use the phrase here atom guru a minute a man is actually worse than an animal and I've heard people saying this and you know what when you're not living with God you're not living with the seven laws I think they're hunterson right that man is worse than an animal but for those that don't get it so let's say they consider this idea that man is worse than an animal why keep bahama sake son Milo so Leo dogs eliminate dumb what happens to animals when they die they at least get put on the table of the human being what happens with a knife he goes into the grave and he's rotten right it rots and the Atman what they call the worms and all these I don't know means the insects I mean just think about if you're just thinking from that point of view at least an animal is gonna be elevated that's it that's a thought and useful like it's not a total loss what happens to man I mean today cremation is quite popular but let's say just to be buried in the ground and to be disintegrated by the forces of nature so perhaps that's what a person would say let me just that's right okay that's pretty good I'm pretty much okay and this is why Rokinon is saying what he says when he finishes the book of Joe that teach us about that that God's providence is on everything whether it's reward and punishment or what happens to the soul after death so - what happens to have bahama an animal after after it dies so - a man guess what there is something that happens to a man after he dies the aleus neshama the soul go and this is similar she says to Louie this is dependent on what a man does it's all going to be dependent on what a man does he has to be and this is the words of New York and I'm use god Alba Torah the AMA Loba Torah the Oise Mathis roughly wrote yo TRO that he is either great intereting creases in Torah were and he toils and Torah and he makes a satisfaction to his creator then and only then we have a listener shoma only then will his soul go up to a higher level after he dies now the label Yahoo explains that every man okay I'm talking to everybody listening not just a jeweler every mr. Khalid Ansari CLE show let's Ma'at smoke every person must ask but I say man I help all the women understand I mean mankind that every human being must ask themselves if you're talking other guru amid bahama how is it possible that a man is worse than an animal everyone's gonna ask themselves Sharia bahama locker mostly ation we met at Oh Ellis Ben Masha are clean as Pissarro that we all know that the animal after he dies people are gonna eat it there's a great advantage diminutive people are gonna eat the meat of our dumb motto Ellis yes me Metal Alchemist so every human being must ask this question what benefit is there for man and from here we can prove you know what she a tional Elam - Elam Harnish uh Mo's that there actually is another world after this there's a world of souls the Shaw name time how many teams showed them that's the true life that's the true world of life that's where living really takes place but keep this in mind Kidane Lascaux toto hola Sarika ella today Liz ahout Liotta alarm in order to merit this world that we're talking about the world to come Adam sorry harem Xie God or bitola a person has to become great in Torah this is not reserved just for the Jew we read this report in the list of 30 things that the the non-jews accept upon themselves this is in Gomorrah in Hulan 92 a the positive commandment to engage in the study of those parts of the Torah that are relevant to Noah Heights this is just one of those positive Commandments that no hives acceptor to find themselves so don't tell me you can't learn Torah the question is which part and don't get upset or if you can't read those things are not relevant because you have to study that's what is relevant to you rabbi can I just ask you to define the term great I mean somebody who's got to be great in Torah I mean is that just you know achieving your potential or is this you know excelling that potential I want to skip the question for now because I'm going to refer to it in about three minutes okay so if I forget mind me because there's a people here ahead of me in your notes and you can just see how it provokes in the student okay so he says as GOG me and mr. be shamed off only through again through becoming great and toiling in Torah he will end up having a shame toe shame toe he's a good name the low yo moral of and then people won't say about him what benefit is there to man in other words what what would we discussing this whole idea that people will think that animals have it much better there's a purpose at least it's not a total loss look at man know when you die when someone comes with a shame Tove though people who are remaining will say look at what he did for the world look at the the things that he added the love the concern for the poor or he put his name on I don't know one thing that he really liked and people remember him for that right something to improve the world he leaves behind a shame Tove and that shame toe is where people will always remember the answer to this Goran question what benefit there too man / animal Adam was least going the table man goes and rots in the ground no the others they use Cutlass Eola man - um boat this man will merit to live in the eternal world of souls which is the purpose of its creation ok so I want to skip this one part that asks the question what does it mean when we said that great or praiseworthy fortunate is the man who is God though the Torah vom Elbert are great in Turin toiling in time I will kind of shorten it up a little bit so the word God oh great could have two meanings one is that you yourself people recognize that he is great in Torah he has amassed a certain amount of knowledge and as a teacher or we're talking about just growing in other words it means to constantly be in a stage of growth not that you have accomplished but that you're in the process of constantly of making it real making the toe that you've learned that real to you and moving on the problem he wants to mentioned is what about those people that are great already in Torah so that's where this other idea comes in that you're constantly growing even if you're great you'll never give up learning imagine no I guess it's called resting on your laurels someone who has really you know got you know certain Smith a certain level of proficiency and then he I don't know goes on vacation to rest of his life I don't know I mean what's the point of that but if someone is has actually reached that point and continues to learn that's that's greatness and I want to read the word I want to read the words because it makes more sense when someone else does it so there's two ideas the base Joseph explains from based on a safer called beam elite team a praiseworthy is he even if he's already great in torah meaning the torah has brought him to greatness now he has a title rabbi now he's a title of teacher nevertheless he doesn't stop from learning he doesn't say i have already reached all that I can but rather notice AIESEC he still is involved and willing in Torah whereas the ACO Civ explains when since should God Abba Torah it means that he is Sheikh Abdullah Hiab padartha shal Torah that he's growing in the way of Torah just like it says in Mishnah avos so I have to look it up exactly but it's in chapters 6 Mishnah for this is the way of Torah we've looking so those that are familiar that with bread dipped in salt you eat and water in measure you drink and on the ground you will sleep and with lots of pains you will live your life so even though he is what's the word I'm totally in torah meaning that he's continuing his learning and the Torah he is making a toy legs working hard that's what it means to grow or greatness in Torah and the Evan says who is praiseworthy praiseworthy is the one who's God no matter what does that mean that he's also toiling in this world for the sake of pernessa this is what rabbi Kaufman mentioned so he is working for a living but it's only the reason he's working every moment that he spends at work is only so that he could involve himself in Torah ok so there are people that have to work it's a form it's a four-letter word we don't mentioned in my home I'm kidding rabbi rabbi I heard during them in upstate New York here during the Depression there was a rabbi that was in charge of a good sized synagogue and the depression was so bad everybody was out of work and he went walked five miles out of town or 15 miles out of town to work at a a tomato farm and he only did it so he could bring back tomatoes for the synagogue the people of the synagogue so that they could eat and they were hungry and he did that any toil and it was all about what you're just saying that toil for Torah and he would work in the field and you know he carried this on for for years and years and years until the congee he was getting older congregation had to apparently pull him back and give him a grade and I think what you're touching on I think in the 48 ways you and I had mentioned before this class today isn't that where the crown comes you know where we're you know like I understand if somebody's a musician but if they're crowned a musician everybody notices it everybody recognizes it there's something to be said about somebody who's just wow got that extra I don't know if we can ever attain them if you're saying it's there if we just spend our time it's always good to do a job that you enjoy you fulfill fulfilled and if it's making the world a better place like being a scientist or a doctor or even a lawyer the being defense lawyer or prosecuting criminals whatever it is for being a cop whatever it is that you feel you're making an impression along lasting impression to make the world a better place that's great sometimes it's not so you can meditate while you're doing the work that you're doing this so that you can learn thar and you can make the world a better place by learning Torah when you're off time of work okay I just want to finish one more idea and that is in parshat seat seat so I mentioned I would mention I mentioned earlier that I would bring it up that when and this idea of learning or let's say like this the idea of performing doing massing Toby before you can be holy before you can be this classy so if you look in chapter 16 I'm sorry chapter 15 of numbers so that you remember and perform all my Commandments and be holy to your God so the idea is lamont to screw by sita doing doing the misses and then okay I'm sorry it's number 40 it's chapter 15 verse 40 but do you have to say Negro but we'll read English so you should remember perform the word perform the action vicita so doing Naseem Tobey doing actions being involved in mashing told him is a Sita doing all my mitzvahs and only then my eats and only then will you be cadeau Shimla location only then will you be holding to your God now that's nice that God said that to us but what about him we've been talking all along that we're a image of God seal em sell em dim young guess what look at the next I am ashamed near God who's taking you out land of Egypt be your God I am Michelle your God so - he acts he took us out of Egypt first leo to see the same idea to be to be only after he acts again tested so when we think about the test we have to have such gratitude and want to please Hashem because he doesn't owe us anything we we can never pay him we owe him but we can least try right again not that we could ever do it but it's the imagination how much gratitude that's what a Jew is so full of gratitude okay how can we ever repay Hashem for all the hats that he ever did for us from time we were in the womb until the moment a mout and the entire however many years we've lived the Hesed the kindness they shown us how could we ever pay him back but we can try we can at least start with an attitude of gratitude and do we're supposed to do minimally minimally and hopefully bring on this idea of Cassie dude of trying to satisfy the will of our creator so that with that I think that ends part eight Wow rabbi that is so touching there in the end and so real and so true and I just want to thank you and you know give a shout out to a friend of mine down there in California who goes by the handle gee al she made a statement earlier I just wanted you to know she says she so appreciates the rabbi postings crystal-clear clarity of examples of what it looks like and what it does not look like and I want to thank you what a touching end to that lesson and we know you've got ideas rolling around in your your mind for even more you want to share and I look forward to whether you want to share more maybe you're talking about possibly adding in some of the book of Job now possibly the 40 anyways this is some exciting stuff live I can't open it we have three choices I mean we probably have more four or five but and maybe we'll do the six constant mitzvahs next cuz that's shorter then maybe we'll do the 48 ways to wisdom beautiful stuff we can't forget it continue somehow in this I don't know how that we're gonna fit in and such a way to learn to Dyson that's there he did a he did a series on job so it could be maybe I'll just upload them I have to find something good because this is just an unbelievable subject to talk to Pitino about thank you so much for sharing and I just pray Hashem takes it like living seeds in the wind and that it fertilized everywhere and but I know I say hey here's a good message catch this there's something great in here you're gonna learn Tori you're gonna draw closer to Hashem and I hope it goes in that direction so rabbi are we are we good for next week a tentative Hashem willing all everything goes okay and riots don't break out everywhere I mean and down in Seattle just not too far for me they've taken over part of the city and stuff no I'm way up in the Rockies out the middle of nowhere yeah so Hashem willing I should be available are you available thanks we're gonna aim for it sir it's right to chef we're on for next week well thank you rabbi so folks thanks for joining to feel free to always catch him on his his website you can find him on you burn a dot-com he said some powerful messages there you can find him on Facebook you can find him on YouTube feel free to put down some questions for rabbi post and I think you'll find he will work the me in or he'll address them directly to you he cares and it's always beautiful to hear Torah coming out of Jerusalem to the rest of the world it means so much to me to hear it and I hope it does to you as well so till next week folks have a wonderful wonderful week [Music]