Halacha Series part#10 Home2Torah with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] good evening everybody we are in chapter 4 in the shop and arrow and halakhah number 14 so when one wakes up early in the morning it says before I'm gonna shop ah a little shocker is dawn which is approximately 72 minutes before the Sun rises if they get up that really they should wash their hands washing our hands we've discussed before for seven of different reasons okay I'll try to go through them one is why we are asleep our hands are cold Ascanio so they're very busy and they touch part of our body that's normally covered and has sweat and maybe other things and therefore in order to pray and to mention God's name we must have clean hands we cannot have hands they're dirty that's according to the rush put into the rosh ba that after we sleep we get up from the sleep we are born again we are a new creation of Rioja the shop Briana the shot a new creation and within that there's also an opinion that it's just like a coming a priest goes into the temple service eye shadow that's what this world is this world is our temple we are the priests we're serving a chef and when you go into that when eat when the priests goes into Tefo his hands and feet have to be washed before service so - that's what we do there's another idea it's called rock rock and it's a little bit complicated to explain timelines but I'm gonna try to condense it you can look at the previous videos to get a better idea but what will translate rock rock as a contaminated spirit we have five levels of ourselves when we go to sleep there's a portion of our soul that goes on high it detaches itself from this earthly sphere and connects with the Almighty during that moment any time that there's an absence of life a vacuum is created and it's either wholly or not only it's really it's like black and white right black and white seemingly so whenever there's on we're going to discuss this today in fact whenever there is this loss of life or life potential this tumor that's the word to the impurity or contaminated spirit would enter so when you wake up and your soul B times then that contaminates spirit leaves you and it leaves through the extremities and the extremities the most extreme places are published the hands on the feet so we must wash our hands three times alternatively to get rid of the residue that might have been left behind okay I know it's I really tried to send them anyway so we wake up before this moment go on you must wash your hands so therefore there is a doubt if you need to wash your hands another time when when the when the day actually arises in order to remove the rock rock from your hands so it's better to wash without a blessing in other words what causes the rock rock it's not just the fact that the soul the enters okay never it to this idea that it's a pivot it could be a period in time we're not sure this is the salt or even let's say you stayed up the whole night or let's say like this here the exact example is you woke up two hours early before the Sun rose and then and then you stayed awake and then the Sun rose do you need to wash your hands a second time and we would fall back to the principle we mentioned before that anything that is a a rabbinic command we always in doubt we go lean we push it aside if it's from the Torah we go to the restrict side and if there's a doubt you repeat or you have to do it again in whatever since we're talking about so also think about it that mentioning God's name in vain for no reason is is it as a biblical sin and making the blessing is your pinnacle command okay so weighing that out if you're in doubt about making the Rabbinical command you're not sure but you know that you can't violate God's Word by using his name and thing so the real simple mathematics tell you that you don't make the blessing take you made it already especially and in this case because there's a doubt you're not going to make the bush and 15 okay as you were doing really well today number 15 you shall be yeah what if you went to sleep through the day took a little either catnap okay we're not sure how long the nap is yet we didn't discuss that if you went to sleep during the day there is a doubt whether or not you need to have whether or not you need to pour your water over your hands three times or not again when we talk about waking up in the morning get rude ridding the room getting rid of the Ruach rah so take fill up the cup of water with our right hand meaning okay you're gonna take the cup and fill it or you're gonna pick it up with your right hand you pass it over to your left and you pour on your right okay so maybe these are new concepts I don't know but the idea that to the right the right side is mercy and the left side is judgment and I think it says a lot that means everything we do and I mean everything as we're gonna see later on but we talked about which hand to tie your shoe with which should applause first we get in the shower which side you start with you know and and so forth when you get dressed and when you get undressed all these things matter so we have a what's the word we have a motto it's it you can adopt it maybe bumper-sticker out of it and it's going to go like this all deeds matter right all these matter it's not the only thing that matters but but everything does matter okay so number 16 King David David was very careful not to sleep Kathy I hope you're listening to this Kathy still there no no no II lost her anyway Oh King David was careful not to sleep 60 breaths what does that mean so we have a tradition that means a half-hour David did sleep between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and midnight he got up at midnight every night there's a magical harp above his bed then blue and we assumed that he was actually awake when the alarm went off and he did not push the snooze button but he would he awakened the dawn and he was like a lion and he studied Torah for a midnight on earth so we have a tradition that says that every hour that you sleep between 8:00 until midnight it's like sleeping two hours for each hour which means the person who sleeps for hours is like he slept eight hours and anyway King David was to make sure that during that four hour period he actually took eight cat naps maybe he did not sleep through more than a half an hour continuously but he did sleep for those during those four hours in order not to taste the taste of death as we mentioned there's this little bit of death another when you're when your soul leaves you when a part of your soul easy there's no less death so we say sleeping is like one sixtieth of death in fact in rabbinical Chung's one sixtieth means almost negligible it's not even there that's why in cashews right in that in when a piece of non kosher food walls in I'm just giving the general ideas obviously they're very specifics with a slicker but solid with it's still visible whether it's taste with it's the same type or a different type okay so those all are gonna make a big difference in in hatha with being kosher but if what basically it according to total law if it's 5149 it's kosher majority is kosher and but when it comes in most cases but when it comes to rabbinic law so they made it one sixtieth because then it's called negligible just leave what someone goes and visit someone in the hospital they received one sixtieth of the person's illness to take it away from them so it's but it's negligible it's not there it's there it's it's there it's there but it's nothing our class deals with a lot of metaphysical ideas right as we're dealing with the world is full of not just physical reality which we all know but a minute I met a reality a very spiritual reality that we are trying to be conscious of okay so that's what EE 17 there is there are those that are custom to wash they're mapped out in the morning because you have nothing to say so like when I survived it but perhaps dryness or new kiss or something in your mouth and to other gods name with a crusty estelle mouth is not appropriate although there are fast dates and those fan states we mentioned before that one does not wash them out that with but if they have this overwhelming feeling of disgust and they just cannot even might get out of bed but they didn't watch their mouths then it would be permissible to wash your mouth only go swallow which means if you can do it to lean over this way whatever in other words if you try to guard ball with your head back it's likely that some will go down your throat but if you push yourself forward which is kind of difficult but anyway the trick is not to swallow in a fast day but anyway getting back to the lava these are the things that one is required to actually wash their hands with water so this Mason this list may surprise some of you and when you get up in them when you get up in the morning okay so that we are not surprised by that's we've been dealing with for the last several laws when someone goes out from a beta P say a beta P say in Hebrew the house of the throng that would be the bathroom okay now the house of the throne the meeting the bathroom we're talking about a real bathroom our bathrooms are not in real bathrooms okay but if you had just a toilet or just a hole not a sink and not a bathtub and not a vanity all the things that we normally keep in the bathroom because we spend a lot more time there than we should but let's say that's where you know you have a mirror and you come your hair and you do all the makeup so that's not really a beta key set especially because we have what we call at least a Persian point meaning the Persians in the old days they invented these ideas of a canal that rather underneath that hole and it basically swept away the feces so it doesn't remain the two mothers the contaminated Spears is not remain and remain there okay but anyways so real baby please say you don't have to wash your hands when you left which anyway we know that we wash anyway when we be a we're talking about just walking in not going to the bathroom obviously do you want and you use the facilities you actually use them you're obviously to watch answer just started walking in to one of these places baked on their cots that would be a not a spa but a I guess like a jacuzzi rule in place where people just do their washing probably a mikvah would apply to that cutting your fingernails cutting your fingernails right it would require now we cut our fingernails by the way in a way that just may again may sound very strange we don't cut in order because when we take care of the dead it's called a purification process baptism we take the dead body and we clean it clean the body up very well thing under the thinking else just like they're going to the mikveh when a woman goes to the mikveh she can't have any you know scabs and all the things like band-aids anything that's going to prevent the water from touching the skin talking about when a woman goes on a monthly cycle or whenever it's a mitzvah to go we can't knots in the hair there's different things that would the water has to penetrate the entire body 100% so a dead body we clean it up and we cut the fingernails and they're cut in order so because again we don't want to taste death or even make it look like a lot of things we do has to do the way things may appear the power of thought is extremely powerful and the power of other people's thoughts can have power over us anyway so one of the things we do when we cut our nails metaphysically not to have even the aura of death we cut every other nail and then go back and cut the other similarly looking past bread we don't pass bread in someone's hand we put on the table in front of them okay so they shouldn't be the bread of shame okay also we wash our hands when we remove our shoes when we're talking about touching our shoes if you if you're able to remove your shoes without touching your shoes that's not what it's talked about it's actually touching the leather shoe so if you wear converse sneakers you have know there's things called that crocks there's all kinds of the materials today that people use that are not leather but leather if you touch the leather then you have to wash your hands but no game go wrong if you touch your feet or if you scratch your head now scratching your head specifically in the place where your keeper or for a woman where she was her hat or head covering because again that's the the sweat builds up there just like according to Jewish law of modesty we really only have to wash our hands where we touch that is a place we cut in other words in America have many men where you know let's I don't want the cold but they're not like T's but nice dress shirt it might come up to here so any if you touch your arm your skin your arm not to wash your hands because this the sweat doesn't build up there but wherever you know it's inside so then we assume that your hands are dirty because of the scrolls of sweat or the balls of sweat or you may not even be aware of it but it's there because that's it just evaporates into the atmosphere but that's easy to evaporate as an atmosphere when it's not covered it's covered it's caught or trapped by the clothing these are things you never thought of right ok so some say even if you walk amongst today ok what does that mean it means to go to a cemetery or you're at a funeral and you're carrying the bit you know the pole bearer or you're close within a certain proximity of the dead body or if you actually touch that body so the custom of jus of when we leave a cemetery we leave the house where there was a dead body we wash our hands three times let me turn the cup upside down which is not the case by any other thing and not to walk into anyone else's house until we have washed ourselves so usually when you go to the house of mourning there is a usually every Jewish cemetery anyway there's a place to wash when you leave but if you did forget so before you walk into the house of mourning there's usually a bucket outside and at least in America here I think because all the cemeteries have the place to wash it's not a problem okay we're getting it's a really charted territory if you check your clothes for life's or or any type of Linens if you're checking them for life's just checking them alone you have to wash your hands okay this is what we're gonna end up dealing with a lot today believe it or not in parshas toss RIA is be he's here it says before which I'm sorry I miss Shan H me tato when you use the bed when you use the bed that is a nice way of saying when you are having intimate relations with your spouse okay you must wash your hands afterwards the truth is the custom is to wash your hands before as well because this is something whenever you wash your hands you enter a level or a consciousness of holiness and the intimate is it's not animalistic act is one of the most one of the most holiest experiences that we have it's like entering the Holy of Holies and we wash your hands in preparation for such an act and because I mentioned of the lost of life this has to do also with the fact that salmon is was excreted so there's another reason to wash at least afterwards okay it also applies to women okay if you actually touch a lice and I think they're cold what do they call the singular lie well that's plural okay I don't know when you touch a key not kina is a lice or a lie I'm not sure that's correct but anyway or if you touch your body with your hand as we mentioned that part of your body that's normally covered well Michel actually asked us we called Amy when anybody does any one of these things and he doesn't wash wait to unite us okay it says that a time the club he will lose his a a sage a wise scholar he will lose his learning and if he's not a wise scholar then he will go crazy he or she so and it really doesn't in there does okay there's another piece later on the kind of compliments this point I will tell you there's an idea I just heard this I mean it's something I was reminded of it says already in the table load that only a time the column meaning a wise person is allowed to eat meat if you're not wise you know how to eat me yeah so what does that mean so there's different levels of understanding you could say if there you're not wise you probably don't know how to do the slaughter properly you don't know how to deal with the salting process and you know how to deal with removal of the organs in which organs you can eat and which lives you can eat so I'm go so the forbidden some and go to the cony okay so it could be that so i heard another idea we there's four levels of my consciousness there's four levels to creation we call domain that's the inanimate material mineral mineral of the middle and then you have set off said locks is the plant and things that grow and know about that you have the animal world and above that you have man okay man can be broken up into two different categories Jew Gentile not okay I'm not really that I'm not really getting that much that what is man man is the animal that speaks I mean what's the difference between animal and human we speak God then he breathed him it does the soul are closed the things convert says what does it mean God breathed into the soul the soul that speaks that's what we are that's what we are we were in the creative image of God we're part animal part God okay okay we're gonna go with this so the idea of why is a common economist a scholar able to meet because what happens is that the plant out of the plant that's the second level up they nourish themselves from the minerals the animals nourish themselves from the man narratives himself from the animals so there's this gradation so only a time to thought from some of these wise understands this whole process and that's what we're here to do to elevate the world we're here to create a better world and to elevate and understand if you only if your long tour only if you learn scription you have a clue what's going on and you're able to actually you know metaphysically bring up the world to a higher level but something who doesn't learn Torah and is not involved in Scripture cannot eat meat because there's no purpose to this eating of the mean it's only murder and killing another thing I heard today not today but this week the night I was aware but I know that it's only the kosher animals that don't freak out when you have the knife the slaughter has the knife they want to go they want to be elevated they know that's their purpose the non kosher animals there's no there's no there's nothing you can do to elevate them anyway that's why the word a sore means tightly bound the sparse cannot go off and there's nothing's no in it is basically you are what you eat another idea but the the word a sword means tightly-bound mightier means release so the word for permissible is metier and the word for forbidden is a sword in other words it's forbidden because there's no purpose this is just no there's you it's a wasted energy and wasted calories it's not gonna help the world it's not gonna be is okay Jack that says that you look cause you your heart to develop a world Matata at the lathe in other words our heart we have to have certain size to the point where we are no barriers no barriers between us and God so if you eat non-kosher food it and this is by a Jew I don't know what happens by a non Jew but then he will call it the blood Klotz you're right I mean it's not good for the heart but I'm not talking about physically I'm talking truly on the spiritual level and it could be also spiritually it says my connection was lost you guys back there you guys back I know how much you missed how much did you guys miss you know this is videotape so yeah there's not the Shem I'll send you over the link afterwards I don't know what you missed [Music] I basically said that the laws of kashrut a Gentiles allowed and may but they're not obligated and what happens to a Jew when he eats kosher food uncut not kosher food it creates like what I'm talking purely metaphysically okay but I'm gonna use physical terms it causes like blood hot cholesterol and the hardening of the arteries and basically a covering over the heart which is what needs to be removed it's called the or law in Hebrew called the top ten at the lathe the the metate means a covering you let's say for example I don't know if you know this it's not just men and women in this world I know that you know might be seen black and white but there are things called Ana drug Ennis which means they have a person who's born with - Jenna - both species genitals maybe one works the other one doesn't but either way and then there's a team tension which means that there the skin is covering the genitals and until the skin has been removed on't know what they are where it's inside of the genitals are inside and see what they are and there are hollows that deal with these types of people are they a man or a woman which a lot applies to them and can you marry them you know how they live their lives so we were you know we're I played the role gave us the blueprint and we know how to deal with these things unfortunately things are just a little bit out of hand today so you don't have to do it to that so I think that's where we left off I hope that was clear that the idea is that if somebody does not eat kosher food they will develop a spiritual barrier and they become spiritually insensitive you are what you eat so why are adamantly last week we had Shmi me maybe in America they're still launched Meeny done with all the loss of cashews which animals which are kosher which are not so the animals that are of prey you know they're they pray or pounce upon their their their their edibles they are the ones that are not kosher they have bad character traits chewing the cud means that you are satisfied with what you have you're willing to have last night's dinner again tonight all right lot never having lunch again for dinner so there's this idea of his top coat God brought us into the desert for 40 years so we can learn to deal with the idea that when she should be satisfied the very little physical pleasures it's all about the spiritual world so when it comes to animals animals that have these traits we stay away from that but the animals that have good good traits those are the ones that we eat another idea why a split hoof the other animals are always running and pouncing but the ones with the split will stand still and eat so there's this idea of the get his Topcu to be satisfied with very little you're going to let a chef bring to you the food and you're not always running around crazily I guess in the rat race keeping up with the Joneses where are cases the Schwartz's okay we are on number 19 amok he's done they have to fight if one we talked about okay in the old days in the medical world to help people get cured healed they would attach leeches and these leeches would consume the blood and the body would react by creating new blood or you know the mana the marrow and the bones would help create better better blood antibodies that could help fight off any any types hopefully any types of diseases that we affect the body at the time so we talked about the idea of washing your hands there so he says if you if you did it on the shoulder not in the hands or the lower arms it says you don't have to wash your hand I'm sorry if you even sit on your shoulders of course you have to wash your hands so even if you didn't on your shoulders where you would think you wouldn't have to you would have to watch if you did wash your hands you should be afraid there should be a fear and maybe this is the natural result if you didn't wash your hands you may just have be walking around afraid of things not even know what I'm your afraid for seven days if you shave okay I'm the white who wasn't brought down earlier but if you cut your hair or shave you also have to wash your hands three times it's also part of the cutting off of life even though it's not alive doesn't have never bad things but it's still part of that process of growing so if you shave them you didn't wash your hands you should be afraid for three days and if you cut your fingernails you didn't wash your hands you will be afraid for one day and you won't even know from what you're afraid of okay that may be a hope that's in itself so if you one should wash their face if one wash their they were under 20 if one wash their face they didn't dry it well so then they may develop in their face and all types of maybe boils and the only way to heal it a certain way to heal it is through washing your your face with beet juice maybe what's that called borscht I don't know anyway so that is where we end today and I'm so glad we have some new people joining us and that's it for the whole office series [Music]