Episode 9 BEYOND THE 7 (Introduction and Know there is a G-d) ) with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] oh hey good day folks welcome back to beyond the seven live from jerusalem with rabbi aaron david poston now this is a bit of a shift in this class rabbi poston has been sharing a lot of depth with us but he's taking a little bit of a shift in this beyond the seventh class he's going to start to share with us six constant mitzvots so these things i think are when he says constant he's going to share but i think it has to do with universal rules and if they're constant i'm sure it's going to be exciting and something we can all integrate into our lives so uh let's tune in and see what the rabbi's got to say rabbi posted how you doing this evening i know it's very late in israel and we are so thankful you take the time out of your busy schedule to share with us and prepare a great lesson so rabbi you got the stage sir thank you dan i'm actually very happy to be here and i'm happy i'm really glad to i mean i can't see anybody but i know that there are people that are watching i know that people appreciate it and that helps me i guess to stay up you know this lake um but we do know that hundreds of people do watch even afterwards so welcome to all those who are watching afterwards welcome to all those who have joined us now live and i'm just happy to be here it's it's our joy it's our joy to learn torah especially torah coming out of israel coming out of jerusalem from a learned rabbi such as yourself and who speaks such clear english for us here in the west it's very very useful okay that's good because i've been in israel for like over 30 years and every day my english gets worse and worse it doesn't improve although you know i i speak in english i try so anything that um and anything's not clear it's my fault okay so bezrat hashem yes barack shimon will be able to get across another clear message now this is going to take a few weeks um i think i'll spend one week on each one of the six of the constant mixes however the introduction may take more than one session so let me begin may i um by explaining an earlier on in this in the beyond the seven series we spoke about a gemara and i think it was in hule in 92 b and um it spoke about this concept that the noah actually accepted upon themselves 30 mitzvahs we're going to discuss this idea even the 613 that a jew must keep are not 613 their principles like the 10 commandments are really principles subcategory into 613 and each one of the also has sub principles or let's say subcategories under these underneath the overarching principles so too by the seven okay then what i'm about to say is gonna probably i don't know maybe freak some people out so the seven are yes they're overreaching principles but they're part of what god spoke at mount sinai okay now what do i mean they're part of the 613 or to a certain extent there were mitzvahs that were let's just say there were directives by god to mankind before the revelation at mount sinai and those particular directives whatever was given by god to them to the nation i mean to the nations israel had not yet been created let's say are not really obligated for the nations okay no what do i mean it was only those that were repeated at mount sinai so those seven directives that had been given from adam onward to noah and then onward until abraham and isaac jacob only those directors will call them seven overreaching principles that were reiterated retold at mount sinai those are the ones that the munochies have to keep and that's why this revelation at mount sinai or knowing that the torah is from heaven knowing it's from god is going to play an important role in any no height who wants to be a hasid who wants to be not just go to heaven okay but to truly live a pious life and we spoke about the moral imperatives i know you speak about it a lot you know muslim and all that all the mitzvahs that are logical or are um not just logical and i think that's the best term i mean when i told you i lose my english that one could derive that it makes sense i'm just defining what logic means um would be i'm not i don't know how obligated they are the principle is yes how they're played out so that could be um a dispute exactly how they play out but in terms of the principle that should be an obligation on on an i mentioned about those 30 mitzvoth that was accepted by the noah hyde and i'm only going to talk about the first two of those 30 that was listed there were two lists one was in the art scroll gomorrah on sanhedrin the other one was by a rabbi aaron lichtenstein it was cited in a page that was under the city university of new york and i'll just show you what the page looks like again there's 30 mitzvahs we've discussed it i don't i think could be the first or second of the beyond the seven series the first one is singularity of god it's a positive mitzvah right many people say well most of these seven when you look at just the seven it seems like six of them are we call lotase don't do's just for practical purpose we call them negatives there's no such thing as a negative mitzvah but it's to refrain it's to sit and do nothing right like don't worship idols or don't steal don't murder one of them seems to be a positive mitzvah which is to set up the courts a system of justice however in this list and on the other list in the art scroll i'm not going to say many but there's a significant few that are positive mixes so i want to just quote the first two on the list and skip over to number 20 but the first one is the singularity of god which means it's a command to believe in god and the second one is no idolatry so that would be a negative and then number 20 is don't don't be a thief no teeth no theft okay obviously justice is i think that's number 18 18 is to set up a system of justice which is a positive so why am i mentioning this because when we go to this it's called the six constant misses we're going to find that what they really are are attitudes awareness of what it means to have a an awareness of god or a belief in god or knowledge of god i'm going to use those terms um what do you call it i'm going to jumble around those terms enter i'm going to use those terms okay um one for another they are different right belief versus knowledge okay there are we're gonna discuss them in the midst in the book in the through this series to a certain extent i want to just skip to another idea which we'll discuss much more in depth but which mixes did we hear at mount sinai and what we heard at mount sinai or what we experienced in mount sinai really i mentioned earlier it's really for the world okay because to be a true knockhide you have to believe i should say i shouldn't say that there's a difference between two types of noahides one is a wise person amongst the nations who came to this seven north high laws based on just logic alone as opposed to someone who also uses his brain and you you know thinks about these things but also has i'm not going to call it a leap of faith but i think it's logical okay that there was a revelation that the jews do have a mission and that they did hear everything that we're claiming we heard and they buy hook line and sinker i don't know if that's the terminology still used but they're basically i'm going to use the word jewish they're not jews they're not israelites but they have attached themselves to this i'm not even called a religion okay attach themselves to this nation who holds dearly this experience that we had experienced at mount sinai after leaving egypt that's why it's so integral like it's such a part and parcel of what we're going to claim the 613 again the 613 mitzvahs included in that according to some opinions we're talking about that the seven and the seven were reiterated but what i'm trying to say is that out of the i'm going to call them ten commandments one of them the first one according to some opinions is not even a mitzvah it in other words do i have to tell you to breathe right don't forget to breathe no i don't have to tell you so there are we're going to see different opinions why that first mitzvah i'm the lord your god is not even a command it's an introduction and therefore this is an introduction to everybody because if you have a mitzvah not to have idol worship that's number two on this list but the singularity of god which how do you know what not to do unless you know what is okay that may be a very deep philosophical concept but in other words even the first two they say this is actually what we heard from hashem himself i moved your god you shall have no other gods before me and again maybe it's broken into another part of do not prostrate or worship them so this is we know one of the most important of the seven mitzvahs right like how can you even begin to practice the other six uh if you didn't really cop if you didn't grasp what god is okay so that's why the sixth kind of production is going to be very important now let me just i'm i don't even know where to begin let me just tell you whenever i give this a call to class whenever i give this subject over to my students and i teach jews balaychuva people who are from their whole life religious our whole life to people who just want to be a benoit all the way to people who want to convert so i i have discussed this idea with many of them and i think it's applicable to every single human being on the planet you'll find it now believe it or not it's like a really crazy idea this is what we call it's basically the shogun arrow it's written by rob yosef cairo cairo and remote israelis 500 years ago however this new edition has notes or editions by the mishnah brewer this is kind of the famous prophet um and i'll just show you what the page looks in hebrew this is the very first page it's one one one one right it's like you couldn't become you couldn't really live your life as a jew without knowing the at least the first page of what we call the shokanaro so just the top part is the 500 year old part which is based on gemara's and all the sages of old then down here is the mission of brewer on that page he not me not rip north weinberg not ruberkowitz not any modern rabbi the whole fitzhaim is quoting the safer who goes back we're talking about 800 years ago okay and he's not the only one but he quotes him specifically and he says and i'm going to read it this is what i'm going to do i'm going i'm going to just explain what i plan to do hopefully well the plan will come out will play itself out i plan to read the beer halacha which is the the kaim's notes on his own book the mishna brewer we're going to go through those six constant mixes and you'll realize wow how come i didn't know that and what they are and why they are and then we're going to use this book to go through all six but there's an amazing introduction and in the introduction he brings a gemara gamora marcotte at 23 b and then 24a that describes king david isaiah amos and habakkuk how they would take all 16 mixes for the jew and break them down into certain principles overriding principles for man to have faith so now that we know that a non-jew i'm going to say the word should a should have faith okay you know what i mean by should if you aspire to be a righteous nochide you should know who it is that spoke right who created the world with his speech right you believed the torah's from heaven you believed in god so you could fulfill i believe based on what i described to you that the seven overall overreaching principles have many subcategories and the singularity of god or not worshiping idols is something you as a nochi could live with and i you know we talked about job he's like the prophet of the non-jews well guess what these people king david isaiah right amos habakkuk they were speaking to the world they were speaking yet maybe specifically to the jew but the jew is there to teach you to teach the world what god is and our relationship with him so as i said we're just going to start with reading from the commissioner brewer very briefly he's just basically going to describe them in brief i'm going to go to the gomorrah marcos which is going to describe everything that king david and all these other prophets had spoken about about how to bring these things down into general principles and then we're going to go through each one of them each one of the six constant misses okay so let me start by saying like this the very first cairo and the rama writes in other words in the ark itself it said i'll i'll quote that first and then i'll go into the mishnah brewer that when you get up in the morning you should strengthen yourself like a lion to awaken the morning to serve your creator and you should be the one that wake awakens the morning don't let this my words now don't let the morning awaken you you take the bull by the horn you you should get up with gusto to serve hashem the remark set an alarm and get at it uh wait wake up before your alarm goes off that's what i think that's how i look at it but okay you want to interpret it differently this is ravios of cairo who lived in slot who lived in eretz israel which is a warmer climate than the ramall who lived in eastern northern eastern europe and he says at least don't be late for sure don't be late for synagogue when everyone else because we dive in we pray as a community three times a day and so we all go to the synagogue so he says at least don't be late because look it's very cold you put your feet on the ground in poland and in december january february and your feet might not be you know you might what do you call it to rip off some skin when you try to move your feet around in such a environment anyway that's the first thing he says then he goes on and he says one of the most imp important principles the way of um of righteous people that's right we right i know that you i'm talking to the whole audience not just you then you want to call yourselves righteous gentiles right righteous human beings so king david said i place hashem before me always shvii hashem i put god before me always and those words the ramallah says is claude torah it's the greatest principle in the torah so he's already like narrowing it down to a principle an attitude and he says that this is the attribute of the righteous who walk before hashem and he goes on i'm not going to read the rest he goes on to describe how when you are in a room with your own relatives or your own people your people you're familiar with you act a certain way but when you're in front of a king someone who's very important all of a sudden your behavior changes i mean we can all be honest with ourselves right so well guess what hashem is always there so why would we act differently when we're just around our relatives i don't want to be crude but sometimes we speak a little bit uh crude or we act in a certain way you know we feel comfortable letting forth the bodily function we're really relaxed right that's fine but we we have to be aware of our thoughts and our actions how they are all the time because god is always in existence of course and he can see even the the darkest inner rooms where we think nobody can see us well guess what he is there as the prophet said if you hide if a man hides in the most in innermost rooms you don't think i am there to see okay okay so basically let's go on now based on that phrase that says this is the greatest principle in the torah the the kind then begins and that's where i'm going to start from so somebody who wants to fulfill these words of shaviti sriti means i place hashem before me always properly fittingly he should exert himself to fulfill what's written in the safer which i mentioned was written a long time ago and he says because of the greatness of the love for this idea that this idea has been copied over into many books throughout history and now he quotes the language of the now the hinok divides the each one of the 613 mixes into numbers i'll just tell you the numbers if you have a copy or you want to look it up on the internet according to the say for hinok mitzvah number 25 amidst the number 26 mids plus 417 418 432 and 487. these are going to be the six mitzvahs that we call the six constant mixes and he says these are six mitzvahs that have a van to me the constant no when i say constant i mean when you're awake obviously when you're sleeping you cannot fulfill them however i want to say that if you fulfill them the 18 hours or whatever you're awake i think that you're going to somehow infiltrate your your consciousness even when you're asleep but okay that's just me saying it if i ever make anything up i'll tell you i made it up okay so um that's what i think so he says because of their gr okay i already read that and this is the language of the fine here they are they don't stop these six will come constant they're continuous there's no break on a man even for one moment his entire life the whole all the time and all the moments meaning every moment he actually is higher means obligated in them to fulfill them in a positive way these are positive mixes and he says there's no limit there's no end or limit to the amount of reward you can get for these mitzvahs and here they are number one to believe that there is one god in this world she himself who causes all existence everything that exists all the stars all the powers whatever there are everything in this world is because he causes it to to be and it's his will and his desire for anything that actually is right now that was and that will be forever it's all because of him can you imagine living with this consciousness can you imagine what life would be like i know that in your introduction to this beyond the seven you write you've written there it shows on the screen are you feeling down you want to have some some peace of mind you want to improve yourself this is going to be it without these principles i know they're called six mitzvahs and they don't seem to be written in the seven but they all are and you'll see because we just read right that the first one is the singularity of god meaning the command to believe in god here you have the command to believe in god which exactly we said the seven mitzvahs were told over at sinai guess what the very first mitzvah was i and the lord your god yeah you have a question or a statement um is it okay rabbi because people have asked how to spell this i sent them a link on safaria can i read just that one in 25 that you'd mention is in the list can i can i just read it to the audience one paragraph to the audience that is from the one of the ones that you first suggested yeah okay go ahead and go ahead okay it says the commandment of belief in god to believe that the world has one god that caused all that exists and that all that is and was and will be forever and ever is from his power and his will and that he took us out of egypt and gave us the torah as it is stated in exodus 22 i am the lord your god who took you out of the land of egypt and its understanding is as if it said know and believe that there is one god since the word i indicates existence and that which is stated who took you out etc is to say that your hearts not seduce say that your hearts not seduce you to take that the matter of your leaving the slavery of egypt and the plagues of egypt as the way of happenstance but rather you should know that i am the one who took you out with your with will and providence as he promised to the the forefathers abraham isaac and and jacob right so let me just add i'm glad that you read that because there was a question that i had myself why would a non-jew have to believe in god that took us right you you the non-jew didn't leave egypt however this whole revelation happened 50 days exactly after the jews had left egypt so the belief in who who are you believing in you're believing in the god i'm just going to say i hope it doesn't sound bad you're believing in the god of israel of course he is the god who created the entire universe but you do believe right as we discussed in the rambam in the earlier sessions in the revelation of mount sinai the revelation at mount sinai took place in a place in a location geographical location just outside of egypt as the jews had just left and yes god offered the torah to everybody it was only the jewish nation that said yes and that is okay not your fault because you may not have been alive then okay but it's a fact okay so when it says that i took you out and you left egypt and the whole the miracles that's for the whole world to see it wasn't just for us i mean it wasn't just for us right so that you recognize the god who took the jews out of it out of egypt so don't get dismayed i'm begging you when it says i am the lord your god who took the land of egypt oh so since i was never in egypt i don't have to believe no not at all okay so i'm so glad because as i was about to read it discusses this idea of which god is this it says i get myself excited i lose my place here we are and shuhu hotziana meemetz ryan he's the one who took us out of egypt he gave us the torah and this is a positive mitzvah as it's written in the very first of the we'll call the ten commandments i am the lord your god who took you out of the land of egypt now what does all that mean according to that you should know i think you pretty much read this but that's why we we're not saying even though we're saying it's a mitzvah to believe in god the word means you shall know knowledge but the next word is and believe so we're kind of dividing this up into two parts it's one mitzvah to what to know and to believe that there is that there is a god who is means to observe and be involved right as opposed to the greek philosophers or maybe other maybe even christianity believes this that god the father is just way too big and therefore he had to send like some intermediary no that god is totally involved as you mentioned as he now mentions who took you out of egypt it's all to teach the world a lesson it's not just for us meaning the jews the second of the six shalom elohim not to believe in any power aside from him i'll use the word god not to believe in any other gods aside for him now before we read on you might say well if he's the only god what do you mean not to believe in any other gods why would he tell us there are other gods as it says there shall not be for you this is second commandment elohim there should not be for you other gods in front of me or um right in my face which means that even if you admit you agree and admit that a kurdish barack who is show late he actually controls everything you know there's one god that controls everything but you imagine for a moment in your mind but you imagine your mind that he gave over some of his maybe hit all of his power whenever he gave over the the ability to direct the world to either an angel or a star i guess certain parts of christianity would fall into this category for sure right this is an admission to idol worship [Music] and one transgresses the second of the two ten commandments not having before you other gods before me but rather what you should do is believe that it was god himself because the holy one blessed be and in his glory even though there are lower worlds multiple universes whatever if you want to call like that they're a different world he is the sole ultimate director over everything there is no other created abilities or powers to do anything with that is not in his will so i know this is one of the things that many christians who leave christianity now that they know deal with is what exactly is the satan what is this i call it english satan what is this power because there is some quite a lot of confusion i think in christianity is he a fallen angel is he in battle with god he is according to judaism whatever it is this power is a creation of god god created it and it is not a rebellious it is doesn't have any power on its own to do anything that god doesn't want him to do okay so hopefully we'll deal with that again later on in detail um especially when we get to the book of job and that's why god is called eloheia elohim he is called the god of all gods right whether it was jethro whether other people in history have said it we'll say it he's the the almighty the god of all gods okay the third of the sixth is to unify him so it's not far off already we're already discussed right number one the singularity of god be divided up and said this is the command to believe in god so now we're going to talk about the singularity of god because how do you can believe in god who is god what is this god he is one what does that mean to unify him what does that mean to pronounce him one so the first thing he mentions is what we know as the shema is the right hero israel the lord is our god the lord is one that is a proclamation okay so i don't know i i i know some no hides and they tell me they say the shema i'm very nice why not so what do those words mean it's my israel listen o israel i'm gonna i'm gonna say this i hope i don't get in trouble anybody who is a nochi non-jew a gentile right who has already believed in the revelation of mount sinai that god spoke to the world they gave the gave at sinai 613 to the jews and seven to the no heights i'm going to say that he is connected to the israelite nation so far to say that just as we saw in gomorrah sanhedrin in the first mission where it says israel yesterday that every why do we why do we translate this as jew every israelite has a portion in the world to come i'm just reiterating what i said before this mishna later mentions bilum is not getting a part we all know that bill wasn't jewish so who's an israelite or who's connected so a non-jew is going to go to the world to come because he has i'm going to call it the status of being connected to the jewish nation i don't know how better to say it so basically when you say my israel you're also talking to yourself you know this is what was told at sinai hero israel you should know hashem it is the uk volcano the the god himself he created it's a reiteration of the same concepts that he is the god our god our god who is involved with all the worlds and he is one i'm going to read this in hebrew so you can be familiar with the hebrew hashem he is one god without any partner without any division okay it's very important and i think that especially for those who have left christianity can really understand this is so important for those i guess muslims who come around i think they always believed in one god but anyway the third i'm sorry now the fourth and the sixth is to love god i mean come on you believe in god but you don't love him how can that be right but guess what this is a great question is love and emotion not not just because if it is how can our god how can this almighty direct somebody to have an emotion so you're right it's not just so it's if we say it's a mitzvah that means it's a command that you must have this emotion ravenous weinberg taught us that let's just say in a relationship any relationship doesn't have to be a wife a husband relationship when you're in a relationship somebody how is it you can make yourself love that person so he said that love to define love it's the ability to focus and see the good in the other person then you will love in other words it's it's more of an intellectual exercise than an emotion but it's it's an emotion that is comes as a reaction to the thought process so when you realize who this god is that he gave you everything he's involved with your life and how much gratitude you have for this entity how much goodness he's bestowing upon you how could you not love him so just some basic judaism what is love let's say you have two people one is the giver the provider one is the receiver does a person who's receiving have an equal amount of love is the one giving in other words i love him because i love her because she's giving me these things what about the person giving so in aramaic the hebrew the heat the aramaic word for love is have have means to give that the root of love is the giving okay so uh why am i going on to that first of all the word in hebrew i give so ah the one giving is the one who really loves more and you can you know you take a group uh you know a newlywed couple at least in judaism the assumption is that they weren't living together they weren't sleeping together they they had very little to do with each other except a bunch of dates and maybe they had some fun but where's the real love going to start only once they entered the same house and he or she they begin to give to each other that's the building blocks for love right and ahava 13 which is the same gamachi as echad one okay so why are we going to that because we're talking about unifying god how does he say it i'm sorry loving god we're talking about loving god but it's tied in with unifying god why listen to this so we have a mitzvah to love god as it says it says in the torah and you shall love the lord your god hashem how is a person supposed to reach love how does he accomplish this and the answer he gives drum roll please fireworks is through the torah it's through the torah so i don't get it why would anybody say non-jews shouldn't learn torah there's so much torah that they are supposed to learn we've already read that last week right that what it's a positive myth according to the art school that whatever torah is shayach is relating to them they should study and here what we're learning now is obviously a very important part right because if you have to uh on let's say on the most strictest grounds you're not allowed to worship idols and you don't have a command to believe in god well guess what there's many rabbinic authorities who also doubt don't do not count that first mitzvah as a mitzvah command because they hold that it's just like breathing it's a torah principle but it's not listed amongst the 613 right and that we're going to get into with this whole idea in gamora marcos with all of the different principles from david and isaiah and michael and amos how they broke all 613 down into these principles okay before we get there we're still in the mitzvah to love he asked how does a man reach this through torah and it's brought down in the sith free in the majority of books since it says and you shall love the ani yodaya keith i love that but i don't know how to love god the torah itself says right after it says you shall love the lord your god it says and you shall place these words which i command you upon your heart right after it says you shall love so we just ask how do you reach the how do you reach love through the torah because the actual torah itself says right after you shall love the lord your god you shall place these words which i command you upon your heart that's the answer the torah now i want to mention there are some people very fortunate people i should say like abraham who may not have had right didn't have the written torah that we have today or didn't have art scroll or didn't have internet but he was able to look at nature he using his mind and his spirit to come to a clear understanding of the almighty very few select individuals could do that but how far are you going to go he understood even all 6 13 mitzvahs and he understood the principles or even the rabbinics that weren't even invented yet okay for us we need i'm saying okay we maybe there are a few individuals that could do it through nature like abraham and blessed are you but for most of us he gave us a manual right he didn't just create the world and leave it right i like the example i don't know what year the computer came out but let's just say in the late 60s you heard that in japan or china they invented a computer so you ordered one and you opened the box and there was no magnum okay but you you got the box you undid it you you know you opened it up you plugged it in you found the power switch now what i mean i hope at least you stuck you connected the the keyboard but you wouldn't really even know how to what enter cut maybe enter and type because typewriters were around and maybe you'd eventually figure certain things out but a vast majority of the i'll call them applications right like cut and paste or delete you may not have figured out it could have taken you 100 years how what does a manual do it helps you reach your potential so the torah is the manual god didn't just create this world and leave it he gave us a manual okay so the torah itself is what you should put on your heart within this you will be able to come to recognize who spoke and the world came into being colombia as if to say that through hitbone no torah through meditating on the torah through thinking deeply on torah concepts or the words you will come to recognize the greatness of hashem meaning the love he has for you you'll love him back she's locates that you couldn't even put a value or you couldn't put you know there's no end to this love and you will this this love will rest on your heart no doubt undoubtedly for sure the indiana mitzvah the idea behind this particular mitzvah shira adam ko nigamatov that a person will see everything that he does he'll play he'll pay more attention to all of his actions to all of his movements to what he says and everything will chase after the love of god because god loves you so much it's just i'm not going to say it's payback what could you ever do to pay back all the all the kindness that he bestowed upon you you just want to uh i guess it's called payback you just want to return it the iraq labolibo and you know what you're going to do in the end you are going to arrange in your heart all that there is in this world whether it's wealth whether it's children whether it's honor you'll you'll evaluate it and everything will be like nothing zero f is zilch i i don't know i mean how many other words one can come up with you can put in the comments uh different languages for the word zero against or parallel you could not put that against the love of god and then you will strive constantly in searching or desire for the wisdom of the torah in order to yasik yadiya bashem in order to try out i use the word tried as the word try in order to reach the understanding of god there's no doubt ako there at maksha but if somebody is setting up all of these thoughts and anything to do with the physical world and all of the nonsense of this world not for the sake of heaven in other words it could be used for the sake of heaven right you can buy a yacht and make a yeshiva out of it or whatever right but all you're doing is trying to get pleasures in this world or to reach honor for yourself you are negating this positive mitzvah of loving god because you're loving who'd i hear say this loving mammal and loving money right the godo and the the penalty or the punishment is very great so far so good we have believe in god don't have any other gods unify god love god so what's the next to fear god we've discussed this also in the previous that fear is the the opening of wisdom right having a sobriety test having you know it's it's uh it's it's the catalyst thank you okay so that is number five to have jira hashem and then you will not sin if you have proper fear now we have discussed this before there's different types of fear fear is probably not a good translation let's call it all okay because the lower level fear that we're not talking about is fear of punishment fear of punishment if i sin i'm going to get punished we're talking about hate fear of sin means i would not want to do anything to harm the other person of course god can't be harmed we discuss this but we're supposed to look at it as if caviar as if okay that we wouldn't want to like we gave the example in the middle of the night like right now my wife is sleeping and if i wanted to get something out of the room i would tippy tippy-toe i would uh not turn the light on i tried to make as little you know disturbance noise as possible because i was afraid that she would wake up not because she's going to throw the shoe at me which she probably wouldn't okay but i wouldn't want her to to lose her sleep so the idea of this aw or fear is in order not to sin not it will keep me from sinning and this is what it means there's a passage in the torah the lord your god you shall fear um now god forbid something comes to your hand right the opportunity to sin comes to your hand so you're obligated this is what it says that you're obligated to awaken your spirit and to place on your heart at that moment that god is mashiach he's aware he's involved in everything that man does even if he's in the darkness of places and he should um he should um knock the idea is that that same verse i used before that if you're in the most darkest of places innermost rooms what do you think hashem doesn't see you so that's a verse in the tanakh okay the last of the sixth is you shall not follow after your thoughts of your heart and what your vision in the the sight of your eyes and always don't follow after your heart in your eyes as there's a verse in our torah that says we have in the creature don't follow after your hearts in your eyes so what are the torah what does the rabbi say that when it says after your hearts this is heresy don't follow after your heart for heresy for things that are just not true in hebrews oppi courses and after your eyes these are indeed indecent um sexual id you know uh ideas in hebrew it's called zenut now included in opi courses now he's going to define which one the um heresy is any foreign idea that's opposite of what the torah says okay that's what he's it's very simple called das torah anything that goes against what the torah is trying to convey and what's included in zlut which i translated as sexual perversions of sorts this is me shuro dave he expounds it it's not just sexual ideas it's anyone who chases after the desires of this world without proper intent at all to do good meaning to say yes anything that's not going to create a better healthy environment that's going to be able to help you reach proper service of god that is considered chasing after your heart and after your eyes in this case after your eyes the only intent one should have is i constantly to increase sorry rock kavanaugh the intent of this bad person the negative is all he's looking for is to increase his pleasures in this world and he says anybody that does this is considered very small and that's really where he ends now this is all very much just right out of the shokan arak as i mentioned the mission of brewer and this was all just part of the introduction i wanted to go into a piece of gemara that i think is very interesting it's ingamura marcotte it's page 23 it's really at the bottom of 23b and then it goes over onto 24. now it's absolutely fascinating so hopefully next week hopefully i can go i don't think i'm going to accomplish all that in the next i don't know half hour uh if we don't we will continue this and then we'll go into the um the first of the six in detail because all we did was really ran through them in a very superficial surface yeah scratching the surface so i'm going to do it mainly in english rabbi simlay taught that the 613 mitzvahs were related to moses at 365 we call lotase lavin negative commandments now he claims at this point we'll see the zohar that says something differently that they correspond to the 365 days of the year let me give you a little bit of an idea that a person each and every day should realize that he's being warned okay whereas the uh 248 positive commandments they correspond to the number of the parts of the human body and therefore each limb is screaming out do a mitzvah with me do a mitzvah with me and look non-jews are also going to be resurrected they get a piece of the world to come so let me just privy you to the idea that when this is the most fascinating part if there nobody listens to anything i said until now this is it remember i told you about the seven laws they're overreaching and we talked about the 613 they really have that these six important principles and what we're going to learn also with king david and isaiah and all these different prophets they tried to bring down these principles that you could fulfill if you concentrate on these you will be like penetrating all 613 or for you if you concentrate on what we're talking about here you will be able to like like it's like a turbo boost for the seven minutes those seven myths have so much more meaning okay in your life um so they so basically when it comes to the resurrection of the dead for a jew the 6 13 that looks like tomato 248 whatever misses you do are giving means energy and life light for that limb to be resurrected and if that's true that the catalysts are going to do that so too non-jews are going to be awoken from the dust of the earth in the resurrection of the dead and they have a peace in the world to come and therefore if you take these principles that we're talking about and instill them it doesn't matter whether you're doing seven or many of the subcategories of the seven which there are many too many to count this will give you huge this will give you real life okay as in the category of israel call israel yes all of israel has a portion of what to come and the word saddiq is synonymous with israel you want to be at sadiq you want to be righteous you have the status of what an israelite is of having a place in the world to come okay you're still gentile but you will be fulfilling your potential yes and i'm really glad that we went from what i considered a great introduction of beyond the seven and what we talked about to this this six constant mixes let's go on so comes rav hamnunna and he wants to know how do we know they're 6 13. now there's there's almost no dispute let me just tell you so there's a verse in deuteronomy chapter 33 verse 4 where it says torah siva lana moshe marusha that moses commanded us the torah as an inheritance so moses commanded us what the word torah torah is 611. well it wasn't the question how do we know the 6 13 and then rev luna comes and tells us from the word torah it's already 611. very nice so if we turn this off right now we don't listen anymore we're not going to sleep tonight know the truth that what did we say all along that when god spoke the first two commandments we heard from his mouth the rest we said moses is too much for us please tell us be an intermediary to tell us over what god said and therefore the other eight were put over by moses so 611 was given by moses tortilla motion right and the um and the other two which the whole world heard right those two are part of the seven commandments as we mentioned to believe in god or know god and not to have any other gods okay that is how the gemara begins then it talks about king david in psalm 15 go through it line by line he broke down that there are 11 principles you want to you want for every human being you want to incorporate the torah the concept of torah into your life into your being into your soul read this and understand it well this is what he did let me just give you a brief introduction so that's how we have david and we're going to discuss those 11. then we're going to go to um we're going to go to isaiah isaiah broke it down into 6. then after the generations go down down down because we're going further away from mount sinai and we're becoming i use the word more corrupt or more distant he breaks it down to two okay then we have mikha mikha breaks it down to three i should say then isaiah comes back and brings it down to two and then we have i'm just giving like a brief before we go into it so i said mikka brings it down to three and then we have a little bit of dispute after isaiah came back with the two and we have habakkuk who breaks it down to one okay actually amos brings it down to one there's a little bit of a discussion and then habakkuk breaks it down to one so hopefully you'll hang in there let's go through what king david had to say all right okay so chapter 15 of psalms a psalm by david hashem who may say so join in your tent right he's going to describe who's going to live in the tent of god who may dwell on your holy mountain who doesn't want to dwell on god's holy mountain ready number one he who walks in perfect innocent will describe what that is two works righteously number three speaks truth in his heart number four has no slander on his tongue number five has not done evil to his fellow number six he's not born disgrace because of his relative seven in whose eyes a contemptible person is repulsive eight who honors those who fear hashem nine can swear to his detriment without re retracting number ten lends not his money on interest meaning he doesn't lend money on interest and number 11 takes not a bribe against the innocent now how does it end this is like the drum roll please one who does thee shall not falter forever that's what king david brings down in um psalm 15 the recipe for righteousness from full mankind now i'm going to go through this quickly because i know we open too much time and we have so much to do still so the first statement one who walks in perfect in a sense this is referring to abraham because the same thing in hebrew is so that in chapter in genesis chapter 17 1 god says about abraham he walks before me um with innocence and walk before me and be perfect right uh one who works righteously um this is number two polo zeddik paul said this is referring to abba hilkia now abba hilkiah was a very righteous tana and i think it was the time it might have been an amara i have to look but it's not simply one who performs good deeds but who serves his employer honestly so even when he's working and there are other very honorable persons who were in his proximity and normally you would stop what you're doing and say hello he wouldn't do that he wouldn't steal it's called stealing he wouldn't use the time that he owes his employer to socialize or do things and you know to break your concentration even though it might be take one second say hi imagine if you're doing something that takes a lot of concentration it's going to be a lot more anyway even those two seconds to say hi he wouldn't do okay that's what it means who works righteously one who speaks truth in his heart so this is example of safra so what did rasafar do he was in the middle of saying the shema israel and when you say the shema israel you have to have a lot of concentration you're not allowed to blink your eyes you're not allowed to do hand signs what do you call sign language you don't involve yourself in other things you just concentrate so somebody came to him and wanted to buy a product and he made an offer to him and since rosafra did not respond the person thought that was not a high enough offer so as rasa was continuing reading the shema the person went up and up kept upping the annie so to speak offering more and what did rasafar do when he finished he says i accepted your first offer now that doesn't sound like a very jewish thing to do does it [Laughter] but that is the right thing to do right in his heart he resolved a certain price but he couldn't motion he couldn't let the person couldn't communicate anyway so one who speaks truth in his heart what about one who has no slander on his tongue this is referring to our patriarch jacob yaakov now his mother right rifka she had she had prophecy she knew that he had to go in there and receive this blessing but he felt funny because if i go in there with this coat and uh explain that i'm asav my father's blind it's lying it's deceiving now it sounds like he's just afraid he's gonna get caught but that's not yaakov yaakov is emis he's truth okay he doesn't um he's not going to speak any slander what does that mean because asap already sold his birthright to tell his father you're giving the birthright to this scoundrel he doesn't even care he sold it to me years ago or or he's out there doing whatever he's doing he didn't even tell his father infer to his father the real truth and so he doesn't have any slander on his tongue and he certainly wasn't going to let his brother be revealed to his father how how nasty a person he was so in genesis 27 12 he says to his mother perhaps my father will feel me and i shall seem to him as a deceiver now the truth is even when he went in he didn't deceive his father well he didn't lie he might have deceived him but he didn't lie it was called he used wisdom so he wants to know who this person is in front of him yitzhak wants to know and he says it is i kama asab your firstborn he doesn't say amesa he said who are you he says it's me comma pause asap is your first point anyway that's not for now okay you can look at all the commentaries even yaakov who's about truth did not lie okay number five one who has not done evil to his fellow meaning this is referring to at least in jewish law it would be called stealing but it's actually infringing on someone's border right so let's say the best case scenario is like this you have a pizza store in town and you have every everyone knows you need 100 families to support a pizza store because not everyone's going to order every single day um another person cannot open a pizza store in the same town that only has a hundred families or a hundred potential customers if it reaches 200 the population is 200 families so someone can open up another pizza store the truth is if it's a different um it's a different uh product right like someone's offering i don't know machine made pizza and the other one's making gourmet pizza that may be permissible not going into all the details so it's a different product it may be it's not a problem okay but if we're done with the same product and you only have enough people to support one store it would be forbidden according to jewish law um so there are certain things that are permissible so obviously when it says one who has not done evil to his fellow it's actually talking about even when it's permissible not to do it because it's gonna hurt someone else okay number six one who is not born disgraced because of his relative that is a little bit complicated because sometimes everyone has a black sheep in the family not i shouldn't say everybody many people do where they have somebody that just is um either you know not able financially to get on his own two feet or he has very bad character so what is the family going to family member going to do he's either going to help him so that he doesn't end up on skid row he's going to help him however with an education with um if he needs to correct certain manners to get a job because you know the certain people that they end up going for many job interviews but they just can't land that job because they don't have their act together so the family member who is going to help his family never reach skid row that's what it means one who is not born disgrace because of his relative or he's able to help him correct certain character traits if you you have the ability i think that's another word for it but um anyway and what's that when maybe you'll help me like when there's like a drug addict and the family gets together and they're gonna sit down with him and try to intervention that's it that's the word i was looking for so perhaps interventions are ways in which you can be in this position where you're not carrying the disgrace of the relative because you're heading it off hopefully at the pass meaning the intervention intervention comes early enough right okay before something drastic happens and number seven in one one in whose eyes a contemptible person is repulsive in other words you have to hate evil right so the example the gemura brings is king hezekiah dragged the bones of his father ahaz on a bed of ropes on his way to bury him so first of all his father was a idol worshiper but also according to the the holy swarm that he helped his father find a capara atonement because of this disgrace that he gave him before the final burial that helped the atonement because we know the death of tones okay someone's death on their own part will eventually atone and also the way it's done and here even after death and this was helpful and number eight who honors those who fear hashem so we also discussed this as being part of the 30 mitzvahs in the art scroll example of honoring torah scholars even for a non-jew so this refers to yehoshaphat king of yehuda so the truth is that a king should not stand up for anyone okay but in this case in private yahushua would stand up for any torah scholar that walked into his private room not in public and he would not scream out but he would call out my father my father my teacher my teacher my master my master because he respected the scholarship of the teacher that walked in um number nine one who can one who can swear to his detriment without retracting so this is an idea brought down to the gemara the red yokonan who was not obligated to fast but would fast anyway how would that be so if he was at someone's house and they wanted to i don't know they went out of their way maybe they couldn't afford it uh maybe he was uh the host was asking his wife to go out of her way so he would say no i'm fasting now to say that for not the purpose of fancy he was just saying it so the person wouldn't go to the effort so in order to be true to himself he would also fast you imagine he's using the excuse i'm fasting so they wouldn't go another way and then to be sure to be in sync with with his word said he would fast even though he's not obligated to fast but that's what he do so this is what king david is saying you want to be righteous you want to go you want to have proper awe of god whatever you want to be the right half the c starring right uh the tenth one one who lends not his money on interest now we did discuss this idea a um a jew is obligated when he gives a loan to another jew without interest for a non-jew some say he's obligate he's obligated to give an interest alone but here this is referring to let's just say a righteous gentile where you're not you have a choice you're not obligated or right you're not obligated to give them an interest loan yet you give them an interest-free loan so this is a little bit complicated i'm not going to go into that right now but basically and perhaps and this is really got me started with this idea beyond the seven that what what about a non-jew right and non-jew comes to another non-jew and says listen i needed a million dollars because i want to buy a yacht and i can't get the liquidity because all my money's held up and who knows what okay i think you can charge him interest i wouldn't even hesitate but what about when a guy is like my rent i can't pay my rent i lost my job and corona who knows if i'm ever going to get a new life again why would you give the guy a loan with interest i don't know i would assume the righteous thing to do for a non-jew the proper thing i'm not saying the obligatory thing but the proper thing to do would do what it says here one new lens not his money on interest fight and number 11 the last one of king david's list one who takes not a bribe against the innocent now this is a little complicated because it sounds like it's very it's very um uh straightforward the commentary here mentions that there was a shop a sharecropper who worked for this ruby ishmael and he would bring his rental payment um every friday but one day brought on a thursday so he brought it earlier so uh ruby ishmael asked why you bring it earlier he says well since i'm going to court today and you're going to be the judge so i just happened to bring it like it just happens to be a easy convenient so i bring it i brought it a day early so not only did did ruby ishmael not take it from him but he also recuse himself from judging this guy right isn't that the property like even if you're offered a bribe and you refuse it the very fact that he has a relationship with this guy so not only did he refuse to call the bribe as it says in number 11. one who takes not a bribe against the innocent perhaps he was innocent or not doesn't matter but he went out of his way not to take it and he re re accused that the word re-cues okay now remember how the psalm ends the last line one who does these shall not falter now there's a little discussion i'm just going to go through briefly that somebody asked what do you mean you have to do all these every one of these i have to do so i don't falter or can i just do any one of these do i have to do them all to be included or just one of them the answer the conclusion is one of them is enough and gives a a textual proof we're not going to go into that now but isn't that nice isn't that nice okay so now isaiah isaiah came now we're going to find this in isaiah 33 15. it's one line it's one one verse and we're going to conclude with 33 16. so 33 15 in isaiah one who walks with the righteous and speaks with fairness despises stealthful gain shakes his hands from grasping bribery i should i should i should number them as we're going remember he said they're down to six number one one who walks with righteousness number two speaks with fairness number three uh despises stealthful gain number four shakes his hand from grab grasping bribery number five closes his ear from hearing something that might lead to bloodshed and number six shuts his eyes from seeing evil we're going to go through each one of them but before we do i just want to read what it says in the end where does it say at the end it says do i have the whole verse 18 the whole verse in 33 16 says he will dwell on high rock-like fortresses will be his stronghold his bread will be given to him his waters will flow faithfully so we're talking about the world to come we're talking about resurrection of dead we're talking about you know if someone does these six things we'll have a very good place clears mud okay so let's go through the different six isaiah's well okay one who walks with right number one is referring to abraham as it says and what does it say verse 13 and in genesis 18 19 the whole verse says for i have known him that he will command his children and his household after him and they will keep the way of hashem to do righteousness and justice in order that hashem may bring upon abraham all that he had spoken regarding him so we're talking about these ideas of righteousness and judgment justice is indicating uh it's referring to abraham okay number two one who speaks with fairness this is referring to one who does not embarrass his friend in public right does if people don't feel these are ideas that a no height should aspire to you know write in the comment okay and number three yeah the one verse i'm reading from the the the version it uses the phrase and speaks uprightly so anybody know it should be striving for uprightness right yeah um we just read number two one who speaks with fairness this refers to one who does not embarrass his friend in public fine number three one who despises stealthful game this is referring to ruby ishmael ben alicia so even though he was a cohen he wouldn't take let's say you know the the person giving the gifts to the cohen has a choice which cone he wants to give it to so if a certain regular person would give to a kawaii not ruby ishmael on a regular basis and then one day he woke up and says you know i'm going to give to ruby ishmael surabe ishmael felt funny because he's getting it but the other guy is not getting it he usually gives to him so he felt that he could be guilty of stealing from other kohanim because this guy had always been given to someone else and now he's giving to him there's some okay if you know that it's not stealing okay we all know it's the choice of the giver but nevertheless he felt he was dissing somebody else by taking it okay number four one who shakes his hand from grasping bribery um okay that's let's just say that's uh clear and number five one who closes his ear from hearing things that might bring to bloodshed so this is referring to one who would not remain silent upon hearing a derogatory remark made against the rabbinical scholar but would protest and i'll tell you the truth this prompted me to speak a few weeks ago about a certain rabbi that people are all in this case i think i made my point i didn't hear anybody who come against me so i guess i'm in the clear maybe anyway and number six one who shuts his eyes from seeing evil so this is a little bit complicated but you can imagine when you see jews walking down the street especially these ultra-orthodox jews they're they're walking with a book in their face they're walking uh looking at the wall they're they're not like examining everybody walking around so i'll just read what he says require said this refers to one who does not gaze at women while they're standing and doing their wash so he describes how they would go down to the river and the women you know today we had washing machines but they would go down to the river and they would lift their skirts to not to get them wet and expose themselves and therefore men would maybe either walk out of their way to go by the river to just take a glance at these women this is a little bit complicated what you may look what you may not look um i will just share this with noah weinberg explain that um you have to understand his humor the first glance is free after that you're going to pay for it so of course what does a glance mean you're not looking for you're not going out of your way to look for it it came upon you and you don't turn your head back you know for a second glance you know you saw it you move on and get on life okay and do the best thing to get it out of your mind even but okay so how did we end and we already told you that verse 8 um the verse 16 33 16 right he who he will dwell on high rock like fortress would be a stronghold okay so now we have king david who said 11 he narrowed it down these 11 principles isaiah net landed it down to six now we're going to do with michael michael you'll find this where in michael i'll tell you he narrowed it down to three in chapter 6 verse 8 he says it says he has told you o man what is good and what hashem demands of you can you just imagine it says in the says what god wants anybody saying what does god want from me require to do justice to love kindness and to go discreetly with your god so mikhail narrowed it down to three things mishpat and to go discreetly with god now we're going to describe what these three things are so justice is dispensing justice which we all know that is one of the seven mitzvos benenoche the performance of deeds so one expresses his love of kindness by actually performing kind deeds right and go discreetly with your god this refers to taking out a deed for the dead for burial or bringing the bride to the nuptial canopy okay let's see what that means because there are comments on that so the reevan explains the morris choice of examples because that's the examples they give so we know that in ecclesiastes chapter 7 verse 2 it's better to go to a house of mourning than to a house of feasting that's why the word to go is used by both so at least you go um you do you put you you do both but you do it discreetly so the gomorrah asked isn't this a call of hammer khal bahar means logic isn't this a logical thing meaning if it matters that are generally not i'm sorry if in matters that are not generally performed discretely such as public events as funerals and weddings the torah instructed us to go discreetly so then in matters by their very nature should be performed discreetly such as giving charity and performing kindness how much more so should we do it discreetly without publicity and fanfare so if the tour tells you the tanakh tells you to go discreetly to public events such as funerals and weddings don't stand out there take them right do it modestly so those things that certainly require modesty you should certainly be modest about it okay you you and your friend are walking down the street you you both have a quarter or a dollar in your pocket you want to give it to this guy so you can take out your quarter dollar before you get there you see it and you don't want to embarrass him and you don't want anybody else to see you and as you go you slip it into the cup you want to make sure the guy who's giving it you know giving it to sees it but and the other guy is making sure the whole world sees him lifting out his wallet taking out whatever dollar denomination he's going to give looks around see who's looking at him but it's it's a totally different um act one is doing the midst of charity the other one is doing uh you know looking after his own honor and self-aggrandizement anyway so now isaiah came back and broke it down to two remember he had six now he's gonna break it down to two and you can find this in isaiah chapter 56 verse one where it says guard justice and do righteousness comes amos and he established one he says this is in almost chapter 5 verse 4 as it says so did hashem say of that say to the house of israel seek me and you shall live now regarding this statement of almost somebody rab nakhma varutak has a problem he says what do you mean seek me what to do all 6 13 is very important but do the whole torah only if i do all no that's why that's why habakkuk comes and he says no this is the one statement and this i think that every you know talk about the statement in job if a non-jew everybody jew and non-jew it says in habakkuk chapter 2 verse 4 a righteous person will live by his faith it's all going to come down narrow down to faith we discuss these very quickly the six constant misses it's based on the first of the ten commandments i am lord your god who is god how do i relate to him and that is now where we're going we're going to hopefully take maybe i don't know we'll see five or six or seven more sessions and we'll discuss them one by one i hope this was a good introduction i think i copy i think i took care of everything i didn't i know i didn't i have i have a bunch of more notes a lot of notes uh but it's okay this is do that material he has this profound material and i love how you're delivering it i like the way you broke all this down and showed us from the these uh torah verses or tanakh verses directly from the prophets you know exactly what they said it breaks it down in in a digestible fashion i think there's a lesson here that you know i hope we've caught it and captured it recorded it well because it's something that people can refer to from time and time again there's this useful material in here it's just it's deep it's it's it's it's a part of living beautiful stuff sir thank you so well yeah bezrat hashem will begin next week with some of the important notes that i didn't get in this week and we'll start with the first mitzvah which just to reiterate what it will be what it is the first of the six casa mitzvahs is i'm gonna find it oh gosh to believe have faith in hashem and um well yeah so that's the first we will discuss that and we'll get into what the difference is between knowledge and belief wow well i think that ties in well with your your last verse even you said with habakkuk uh uh chapter two verse four um you know the righteous shall live by faith and you know i'm sure you're gonna collect click that all together as you go forward but i think you got some beautiful stuff coming it's it's great material i want to thank you for taking the time to to prepare this to share with with the jews that are watching but also for us no hide around the around the earth that are really trying to open our ears and hear exactly the depth and the wisdom of torah and tanakh and and begin to walk in it i love the way you talked through those steps that king david mentioned in psalms it's just beautiful beautiful beautiful stuff and i want to thank you personally so next week uh same time hashem willing we're on and we're going to continue for the next several weeks on this this uh six bits vote uh it's exciting stuff so folks we hope you'll join us next week same time hashem willing have a great and wonderful wonderful week [Music] i