Is there Vicarious Atonement in Judaism? Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] good evening everyone welcome to the Urbana Beit Midrash in the battle neighborhood of Jerusalem I just want to thank you all who are here live in the audience and on the Skype call for participating now if you're watching this video like I beg you I suggest to subscribe to the YouTube channel that's the give on our youtube channel and make sure to hit the the bell so you can be notified when the newest videos come out also we don't mind getting emails or comments because it's right now it's open for comments I also I always like to get some feedback to know if you're enjoying them if I'm going too fast too slow if there's certain terms that you're not familiar with so comments are definitely appreciated now tonight's piece is going to be I think absolutely fascinating because knowing the klique arts background and where he came from having had a billion auction is BA captured by the Gentiles he had a he had the world-class education in sciences and in religion so having that in mind I think he addresses some fundamental issues that many people who are seekers true seekers are dealing with or searching for answers to so the verse we're going to be dealing with is in numbers chapter 20 verse 2 [Music] and it says like this let's start with what the children of Israel the entire Assembly arrived at the wilderness of sin in the first month and the people settled in Kadesh Miriam died there and she was buried there the Yafo bnei yisrael kool-aid amid Bart's in Dakota sherry shown the yay shave her arm the Kadesh the tomochka Miriam Latika there Shawn okay that's the first verse so what do we wanna focus on the fact that Miriam died there and she was buried there and then velour Miami ADA there was no water for the congregation we akahl Oh Elmo sure the our own and they gathered they gathered in the sense to quarrel against him as the next verse the rev Haram emotion the people quarreled with Moshe and we'll get to that hopefully so the clea car begins by telling us no I am I am elated odd yes it's true that's what the verse says there was no water for the congregation and this is telling us what what exactly is it telling us that this was a punishment that's right one of the 13 principles we Jews believe in is reward and Punishment our actions ready our actions cause punishment or Ezra the Shem our good acts would help us receive reward okay so what we do makes a difference and one of the bumper stickers we haven't made yet but we're going to make bumper stickers is that what was the bumper sticker again they have deeds matter deeds matter right they have black lives matter blue lives matter all lives matter we say deeds matter okay they make a difference so he says outside ha ona sh cross through my mind from the aspect from a certain point of view it was due to lack why was there a lack of water it's some type of an onus of punishment and why why were they punished the thishe elohist abdulhaq roy because the jewish people did not eulogize that they did not mourn the word has sped right his pingu ha they did not eulogize or mourn her as should have it they didn't do it fittingly she was a leader it was not just her i mean you're talking about one of the three pillars in the desert right you had Moshe a tower in a Miriam so she was a righteous lady and they did not mourn her properly now how do we know that right Kimo shovey our own amar when it comes to Moses and Aaron's death it mentioned specifically the youth clue Oh Tom B'nai Israel there are two verse there's two different people that had passed away in the desert and it mentions quite clearly that the Jewish people as a whole as a nation more into their loss the Khan Lona and Marv the youth quota now we don't see any we're certainly not here that the Jewish people mourned her loss the NEM are as we just saw in verse 1 the tamasha Miriam right that she died there we took her there Shawn when I said meaning the mahkum she met at the very place that she died shall take vitaly out her okay there she was buried Amelie the very place she passed away that's it they buried her the nish kakaka made me late and they forgot all about her as a dead person from their heart right what would they say out of sight out of mind well guess what that's not that's not the way it goes first of all when we pass on the only real thing is our ability to communicate okay we're the soul stays around the body for a week and even longer there's different periods where it eventually lets go of this world but the the soul will remain forever so here we have where they just forgot about her lo heere Guiche oh they had a rut flower especially my righteous woman they didn't feel her loss at all right the more right so did you think if she wasn't righteous okay no big deal right but she was righteous why wouldn't they feel the loss therefore ready as a result of their feelings just that their feelings of course and their deeds the fact that they did not eulogize her they didn't mourner how came necessarily hmmm I guess what the lack of water came to them as we said as a punishment kedai she a dilemma freya Shahab the area basket miriam in order that they should become aware of the fact they should know lima freya retro actively after she passed away there's no water they should come to this consciousness Wow the water we have been travelling with for the last 39 years it was all in her merit the day she dies is not a coincidence quickie dink believe in coincidences right so the day that she dies the water ends to teach us a lesson that we should have been more appreciative now we're going to get into a concept called scenic route Smith code is it's discussed the Gemara everyone agrees it works the question is how does it work it's called a juxtaposition of certain verses when a verse is next to immediately some say the following verses well but not maybe three verses away that there's no way to go back and say that there's a relationship once a few verses pass on according to some there's no relationship according to others and we see well we'll see it another time that there still is relationships so we're discussing the idea that in the Bible in the scripture in the five books of Moses and perhaps beyond that when you have a verse that is juxtaposed or even if there's one other verse in between there's a significant relationship so that's the word Smith good so we're gonna use that word a lot shanise Mikami salsa la parshat para so in the Gomorrah and mow it cotton it mentions that there is a juxtaposition of her death - what - the para a dooma para doom is the red heifer so all you have to do is go back and you'll see the whole chapter xix seems to be and not just 19 right okay so you'll see that that's dealing with the whole partial power and you can look at some of the videos that I spoke about this and I'll put this rant achamma put their links in the description box below so the more begins by asking he's quoting the Gemara why is there a smooth why is there this juxtaposition between the death of Miriam and the para doom of the red heifer okay you have to have your seatbelts on you have to be tight make sure you're in your seat you're sitting down so tell you just as carbon owes macaque dream just as carbon oath offerings first of all I want to clarify the word korban offerings sacrifices they're really not a good translation how and why but first of all talking Hebrew and many Hebrew words mostly words they all have various meanings offerings sacrifices not sure but the word korban liquor aid needs to come close to what the Corbin does is helps you it's an it's a medium which will help you enhance your relationship with the Almighty that's what it's there for ah we taught at tsadikim macaw parrot so - just like the offerings offer atonement the cubanos offer at omen so to the death of righteous people create or enhance or provide some type of atonement now the word make a parrot the write the word like yom kippur cough are actually literally means to cover over like the Kippur it on top of the ark so you had a box that's the gold box with our most precious jewels in the Holy of Holies and on top there's a cover it's called a cap Aaron it basically covers over does it erase your sin is that what atonement does not necessarily listen for any Corbin for anything to work even death of a righteous person there has to be Chuba Trula will not really it won't really affect your atonement without chuva the more true veedu the more effective it is okay so if one brought God says I don't want your crib on earth I want your broken heart I want your heart so if you brought a Corbin to this to the temple it wouldn't do anything okay it was a big waste of money a big waste of time and it's actually a sin on top of everything so you are required to do true though when you bring a sin offering okay and chuva by the way is a four-step process right you have to realize you did something wrong and then you have to have like that's the regret and then you do the confession which is not a public confession like other religions but it's between you and a sham and if you bring the Corbin so you're gonna you're gonna lean your hands with all your force on the Corbin and you're gonna confess to a sham of your your sins so what do we say so far you have the regret you have the confession you have this idea of not wanting to do it again right you have a conviction that you don't want to do it again and of course the way to find out if you really were sincere is if the opportunity ever arises and you pass that opportunity up then you know for sure that your atonement your your true that has been accepted so the question the Gomorrah and the weight of the car asked it is LA Municipal Code ask Allah para why was Mir why was Miriam's death in close proximity we called a semi quote specifically to the Peres Duma what's that what's the relationship between Miriam's death and the para a Duma to the red heifer ready first of all keep I met Anna Corbin in in the most classical sense the paradigm is not a Corbin it's not really a Corbin in the fact we're not supposed to do Corbin note outside of the temple area and this is SH acted on hard as a team on the Mount of Olives but if there is a connection there is a connection to the temple because when the Kohinoor actually anybody can do the slaughter but the person who was pure doing the slaughtering he has to have an eye view straight into the Holy of Holies okay right through the doorway of the the outer wall of the Temple Mount as well straight through so it's as if he's there as if so it's a very different type right you don't have the the normal blood that it's gonna be sprinkled but you're gonna have the ashes and they're gonna be sprinkled on the people now they don't have to be done on the Temple Mount either so in what way is it not equipment that's what I just described Rock machine mats inertia corocut roof Coty's however the verse itself calls it a contest a hotness means a sin-offering okay well it causes it calls it a contest in the sense that it is and it is an offering and it is in a certain sense a sin-offering because it's going to atone now I want you to look at the verse in chapter 19 verse 9 if you go to its number 24 on the source sheet and it's the very last two words in Hebrew Coty's he this this thing this ritually with some the Peres Duma is called the hottest but it's not a hottest in your regular sense because look at the English nobody translates it as a sin offering because the word hot hot does not necessarily mean a sin offering it has a double meaning let's read it in English and I don't care what I think I don't really know I don't think it matters what English translation nobody calls it a sin offering so I got this from Chabad originally clean person shall gather the cow's ashes and place them outside the camp in a clean place so far we saw the word cleaned twice and the word uses tahor okay Tahoe Tahoe is clean and it shall be as a keepsake for the congregation of the children of Israel for sprinkling water that's what it's used for you're gonna sprinkle one to three drops on every person all they need is one drop of this this mixture of ash and water and the person becomes cleansed from two men coming mate some tumors mate is the impurity caused by death they touched a dead person or they were in a tenth of a dead person or they carried a dead person okay so it says LeMay NIDA as for sprinkling water as a hot Tottie and everyone translates the word hot toss as cleaning cleansing that's that's a new one right you might find people that would tell the Jews you guys are a devil worshippers or something right we're what does it mean the Coty's is cleansing sin is cleansing no because it doesn't mean sin in the regular sense look at Rashi is you'll see it on the next page to the top Rashi says hot as he Russian keto akuto now it's an expression of cleansing keep toy is the simple meaning and that's Russian that's Russia's job is to give us shot well you notice that nobody translates it as a sin offering scripture calls anakata a sin offerings to tell us it is like a holy object using it for personal benefit is forbidden so you learn challah ho it's like it has the status of a sin offering that's what it has the status but it's not a sin offering and it is going to cleanse us from sin we'll see there for cleansing us from sin it's actually cleansing us creaming okay I know this is this might be above some people's heads but this is the way we're explaining it and like this this is a famous meddra SHhhh he's gonna just introduce one idea and then we're going to get into a little bit further just as the cow the cow the para Duma has to be in his third year of life what does it mean a third year it has to be a two year old cow it has to be beyond a second year birthday the two years in one day means it's a three year old cow it's it's in a third year of life which means it's capable of being a mother and it's coming to atone or cleanse what we call come in mate right what is that tumor of death so let me just clarify a few things I mentioned that it's when you touch a dead body where does this tumor come from this impurity tomb is impurity when we we fought when we when Adam Rishon before he ate from the the tree of knowledge of good and evil death had not yet come into the world so sin brings brought death fine when we stood at Mount Sinai right after traveling for 50 days in the desert after leaving Egypt we said NASA Venetia death left in other words many understand that we were going to live forever and then 40 days later when we worship the golden calf death came back into the world I'll tell you how the clear car explains it he doesn't say that we were gonna live forever just like perhaps Adam Murray shown may or may not have been able to live forever but basically what it means is this what we call the satan the shaitaan and what we call the angel of death the Malik amethyst and what we call the eight Sahara the evil inclination it's all one thing whatever that entity is God created it okay when someone passes on so there's a tug-of-war we are physical beings and that we're spiritual beings at the same time as we live our life if we're truly reaching for a spiritual way of life which we're going to be less and less physical and therefore when we pass on our righteous soul we'll be happy to leave the body and there's no tug-of-war when someone unfortunately may be in so physically inclined that they just love this world it'll be very difficult for their passing and therefore the soul clings says the death of righteous is like pulling a hair out of a glass of milk that's how easy it should be we discussed in partials hiya Sarah the name of car owners for names of Quran we talked about four types of death the word mom ray is related to the word moomer which is a rebel which means some people die because of their own sins and then the word s go everyone's called ESCO ESCO has to do with mourning and therefore there's someone else left behind meaning that somebody died because of someone else's sins I know that's going to be very troublesome to some people we're going to discuss that tonight in depth and that's why I'm ringing it up the word period Arbor is relating just to the fact that the body disintegrates and this is why Sara only the last two words were adjectives pronouns reused for have Rome Kiryat Arba Heath have wronged have grown is llaha bare it's called the kiss of death now that's how it was raunchy and nasty and mean but no the kiss of death means that just as a sham breathed into you your soul so to hee breathe he mouth-to-mouth so to speak right the kiss he drew it through your soul but there was no type of work there was no malakoma vase there was no angel of death involved the higher level you are the angel dead so the whole idea of the impurity comes only from the angel of death so going back to the mountain the sciatic experience we didn't according to the sleek car it wasn't we're going to live forever but we were no longer under the influence of the eighth Sahara the tsaatan or the Mahamaya vase we were free that's true freedom as the words say they were engraved on the Lu coast how root is K root right the true the word for engraving is the same word for freedom we found freedom from b8 Sahara from Angel of Death not that we were going to live forever but that we were never going to be killed or die in the in the lower senses of being under the influence of the Angel of Death and if it would only be through the kiss of death and that's how Aaron and Moses both died okay how did Miriam died the same way but it wasn't Sonora to mention a kiss of death when it comes to Miriam okay so she also died by the kiss of death but apparently it was not modest to to speak in those terms so going back now to what we've said then the point of everything we said about the Clurman and Miriam the the juxtaposition is just as the para the mother cow comes laconic so at Bona she comes the mother is going to clean up after her child like we still talk about a shifter a hand made in a palace of the king and she has her child home with her she's living in the palace and the kid is a little rambunctious and makes a mess who's gonna clean up the hand maid to clean up after our own kid so - just like the cow cleans up after its kid what's its kid the Engel like a go means the calf the golden calf the sin of the golden calf the the the remnants the stains so two hats a decade so - that's what a righteous woman will do aim call hi she is the mother of all life you hear that women the nice awesome mechanikat so I told Odetta told oh so hot so - we're talking about this righteous woman Miriam through her death she will clean up the Toa the feces the the dirt so to speak from her children when them get the word children it doesn't say choices told us out from her produce produce could mean also I said all deeds matter what we do what we do deeds that's our produce this is what we leave behind that's why partial odd Nowak speak some before before it before not right these are the totals of Noah what does it mean that goes on to speak about his his behavior right and or other partial right told us Yaakov it's not talking about the progeny it's talking about the behavior it's talking about the fruits of your labor the fruits of right the produce of what you have accomplished in this world Smith kudzu me being me joshing the arbor mccomus now before we go into this no okay I actually let's see where it is on the source she okay we didn't get there yet we're getting there soon I copy the piece from the Gomorrah and brought us your Zion you have it here we're gonna get to that Wow okay so this concept this me quote this proximity actually that the this idea of proximity the madras brings down in four different places so we're using what we would call standard text these are nothing unusual this is judaism 101 okay all these are legitimate texts the first spirit is the spirit the proximity of the death of our own sorry the death of the B'nai around children of our own to the day of Yom Kippur so if you go to the eager chapter 617 I believe 16 right look at look at 16 one but you can see the whole chapter and the Lord spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron's two sons we da da da da Noya Moshe after a most Schnee Bonet I wrote be carve-out Tom the flesh shall lay a mousou right after they drew near you see that after they junior that's what the word Carra Vuitton heroic or Bono's okay they died and all of a sudden you see all the words the whole chapters dealing with what yom kippur their death what does it have to when we know yom kippur itself is a day of atonement so you have right there the death of Ahrens two sons with an atonement process then you have here the smooth loose makuta miriam to the para we're gonna be discussing that as we have already discussed it and then there's the third sneaker to meet at our on the big deku who then the cop ring so now I just want you to go in the same chapter we're into verse 26 so it says strip out of his garments and dress Eliezer his son with them laugh right the half shape as our own SP cut off so take our parents clothes off we him busting as Eleazar bono and there you're gonna dress Eleazar in his place with the clothes the R&A are safe who makes Sean and Aaron was gathered to his right he boozes he died there and he died there so that's the point he died there we're gonna see the words died there wouldn't we see by Miriam it says the same words she died there okay so the main point here is that each part of the Cohens outfit there were eight garments that the coin god of war each one atones for a different sin instead of the people sent his own sins so for example we talked about that seats the teats was a plate then what ran across the forehead and it said holy to a Shem and that atoned for arrogance as we know that arrogant people push out their forehead a little bit too far right and so each one the madness I am I remember the the the pants they atoned for illicit sexual relations different different pieces of his outfit atone for different things and the fourth is impartial a kept some of Lisa's are on the sphere to Luke hooked now I want you to look here let's see it's a Deuteronomy Deuteronomy chapter 10 now it's mainly verse 6 but it's really you know I 2 through 6 let's go to n 6 and I shall inscribe on the tablets the words that were upon the first tablets which you shattered right Moses shattered them so the words over there a share Shibata which you had scattered shattered and she broke and then in the next part of the verse verse 6 the children of journeyed from the wells of Bnei akan to turn their ear and die again the word sharm may siren he died there so there's an idea of when what do you think God felt when Moses shattered those tablets that was quite a disappointment it's very difficult for us we fast and the fact over the next few weeks I hope it won't if Michelle comes and things change okay so we're not expecting to fast but if things the status quo things don't change then on the 17th of Tammuz is the day that the the first set of tablets were were received and then shattered shattered on the strength of towers the 17th of Tammuz I'm just seeing who's paying attention it says shikaka missus at Sadiq in cashier salukis went when righteous people died pants on it's hard it's hard it's difficult just as righteous people when they die it's the same the same feeling the fisherman called Sadiq yogi live nader o our bimini to allah o --t you know why it's hard for the people it's not hard for sham you know what actually hashem said when the the blue clothes were shattered he said yosher Kousaka he said good going mush now I mean come on does that make any sense this is our Oral Torah teaches us that yes that this was a point in time we were about to have a marriage right through the revelation at Mount Sinai was a marriage ceremony going on and we were about to marry a sham and instead unfortunately we were doing adultery and idolatry we were involved in this illicit relation with a foreign god so that was a no-no that was bad however God said you sure caught because what you did was by breaking the loo clause which was basically the marriage ring you caused the relationship not to yet become in the communion we only on Yom Kippur the Day of Atonement that's when we really had this communion with Hashem and we received the second set of tablets and that was the marriage when it the marriage was consummated okay so the last thing he said was when Andres Sadiq dies there are I'm sorry while atonic is alive Shimon cult Sadiq yogya when it's article is alive reaches to the people of that generation four types of benefits it's it's beneficial for us to have righteous people in this world sorry one second so we're gonna go through them Eckhart what's what's one of those benefits she called her hola nice rumba suit oh can you imagine such a statement being made by kazow the whole world is nourished in his merit one person is somehow allowing the whole world to survive and the good mornin brockless your design which I do want to read and I want to spend time but I feel maybe I should go through the rest of this piece in the clay car and then go back to it it's there sounds right I don't know : be shiny 'no Bini god is saying this right the whole world actually I'll read it I'll read the Gemara I think I think now is the time so it's part of the continued conversation could the Rav Yehudah are morrow as robbed yahuda said in the name of Roth the AMA review who dharmarao and here's the statement the call y'all the young each and every single day while Reb attend a debate dosa was alive about call Yates it means me haha horrid that a heavenly voice would come out from Mount Sinai we're talking about only you know fourteen fifteen hundred years ago his generation of heavenly voice would come out from Mount Sinai and save our merit cold ha-olam Kula nazuna be shield Kaneda beneath the entire world the whole world in its entirety is nourished on the a merit on the account of canina my son de luca neelaveni arts mode i lo you know what canina bonny my son it's enough for him how much carve Reuben near Shabbos Lehrer Chavez he nourishes from 24 egg were values worth a car of Karin's that's how he survives from when from moti Shabbos until Friday afternoon or maybe including Shabbos itself but that's the whole discussion and hopefully we will get into it so I want to go through this piece of the Gomorrah first of all what is it saying that the entire week he all he would eat are these carrots 24 vide egg volumes worth because he was MIT parson bits are bits ensue he survived by an extreme pain and fasting went very little lawyer mailed by a Dalek new lick note let me out let him he was very poor and he didn't have enough money to buy any bread this is how he survived now the clicker actually has explained how is it that the someone who is a righteous person atones how does it change one's life so the simple explanation is that when you go and eulogize somebody you go and you you here you'll have masses of people and they're hearing about someone's life and how righteous they blur and the their deeds are being mentioned how could you not feel wow I can't even live up to their toenail Wow I have to change right I have to change my ways so just going and hearing about someone's death not that their death necessarily magically covered and atoned but they arouse you to do Trueba by their death there's a eulogy this is the most simple explanation without getting to the hocus-pocus what we're going to actually get into some of the deep Kabbalistic thoughts that bring us up several levels but I want you understand how could you go to a Olivia a funeral and hear about someone who's as righteous as whoever they were and not be moved to want to be a better person you follow what I'm saying that that's like the ultimate in chuhwa right when you first realize how far you need to grow still or at least you have like a bar and all of a sudden the bar was raised right you're like living comfortable you think you're God's gift through the world right you got nothing to eat to work on unless you're married of course then you always have someone telling you what you need to work on well Hashem for marriage okay so that's like the most simplest understanding but the Gomorrah the rosh ba the rajma comments and he brings some different ideas so I want to go through with them with you I think at this point what we're doing will continue with the rest of the clea card get back to this there's just too much good stuff that I want to spend more time on this and not feel that I that I am that I skipped out on the Clea car so let's finish with the Clea car and then we'll get back to this okay so the last thing we've just mentioned about this righteous person somehow or another we're saying there's four major benefits that righteous people give you while they're alive so one of them we're gonna discuss surely is something like they nourish you they nourish you physically of course we know that they're going to nourish us spiritually because they're the teachers of the Torah [Music] so we have this idea that the mother cleans up after her child now where do we see that so go to Song of Songs chapter 4 to see here we are verse 5 okay it says your two breasts Shinae should diet are like fawns the twins of the Gazelle who graze among the roses so that's the verse cache nay a forum tour mates via harrowing be show Shani but literally that's how arts girl translate that but that's the analogy that's analogy but literally it's talking about Moses in our own who are your sustainers are like two fawns twins of the give al gazelle who graze their sheep in rows like bounty so Rashi says on this ok gotta find the right page now what does it mean your two breasts the two breasts is that which nourish you again referring to Moses and Aaron are like two fawns the twins of gazelle it's customary for des L to bear twins so that they're both identical this one and that one again symbolizing Moses and Aaron the two breasts which nourish you are symbolic of the tablets themselves now the next piece the twins of a gazelle this I mentioned before that the five Commandments on one side of the tablets were parallel to the other five in other words it's true there were ten statements and statement number one all through till five they're between you and God and the second set from 6:00 till 10:00 are between you and other people however even though they're like that one is parallel to six you see it it's parallel right parallel but how is it parallel that's we're gonna discuss so one and six two and seven I'll just go to the number literacy of an idea number okay one do not write you have to believe in God right believe I'm Lou I'm the guy that took you out of Egypt and number six is don't murder right do you have this idea that we're creating the image of God you have to believe in God you believe someone else you're creating the image of God well what about the other guy the other guys create the image of God just like you're creating the image guys you can't murder him because he's creating energy God I'm the Lord your God and do not murder because there's a relationship number two is also simple right what is number two don't take don't take the lord of your name of God in vain right don't worship other gods don't worship other gods and maybe have number 7s don't have a relationships outside of marriage right like we just described do not have do not commit adultery adultery and idolatry even sound alike if you say you know fast ten times I'm sure you'll get confused right adultery and idolatry so let's go 3 since exactly corresponding in one measure five Commandments on this one side of the tablet correspond to the five commandments on the other side each commandment corresponding to a commandment I'm Lord your God corresponds you shall not murder for murdering diminishes the semblance of the Holy One right you're taking out the image of God from the other guy you shall not have any other gods before me that's number two you should not commit adultery for one who commits adultery is like an adulterous woman idolatry is like an adulterous woman who takes strangers instead of her husband we're talking about a relationship of marriage between us and a sham if we're married to a sham so therefore anything that's idolatrous is really also committing adultery okay sees that you see the correspondence so far I spoke out the first two now let's go on to the rapture you guys are interested in hearing the rest you shall not bear the Lord the name of the Lord your God in vain and you shall not steal right number three is do not steal I'm sorry number three is do not take the Lord's name of God in vain and number on the other side eight you shall not steal because one who steals will ultimately have to swear falsely meaning if you're already stealing you might as well you know continue to sin right no don't do either one what about number four keep the Sabbath day and number nine don't bear false witness don't be a false witness when we make kaduche right we Sid we stand there with a with a cup in our hand we have people around us or ensure when you go to shore we make sure we say volusia Maya right we say the the the words out loud we're all trying to be a bear witness that today is Shabbat and when you unfortunate someone would break Shabbat so there the profane here what does it say for one who profanes the sabbath testifies falsely against his creator okay it's a false witness and okay and then number 10 don't covet something doesn't belong to you from one who covets is destined to beget a son who slights him and honors one who's not his father meaning the six can the commandant do not honor your honor your parents is between you and God it's on the the end it's number five it corresponds to number ten do not Hey so there you have that that piece okay so we're going back into the clea car the last thing he mentioned was Schnee should die off' about the two breasts that do the nourishing he says these are moses an hour on in other words when the righteous people that are alive this is what they day benefit you did they benefit the world just like Rashi says now we also find in Gomorrah Thainess Shibboleth Miriam Hale ahem Javier we called the bear mirror and we caught Miriam's well why do we call Miriam's well because it was in her merit that we had this rock that rolled around and followed us through the desert for 39 years okay now in Israel there are different places I think there's a place in the Canaries they say that's Miriam's well there's some kind of rock it's like a natural spring you go on the 443 Highway and where they cut cut through to make the route through the mountain there's water coming out of the out of the mountain and people stop on the side of the road and fill their bottles with water and they have a little science called bear Miriam like machen you know water comes out of rocks it's true right so and the truth is that this rock in the desert followed them around and produced the water in the merit of Miriam's Miriam's honor Miriam's deeds shyam a Stieglitz truck halts our Haiyan it actually provides mouth speak morale all of their needs now what did she do her shift from Kula there were these two hand or they call nursemaids wood they they they help give birth to the Jews while they are in Egypt what are they called in English is a word so we'll let it mud midwives okay so they were the midwives they provided food and cover and shelter and clothes for these babies because they were hiding them the boy babies right so in the merit of providing their needs this this rock provided the needs for all Jews for the 40 years we were in the desert deeds matter needs matter is me cotton is also a para so we see that Miriam's death is in close proximity to the cow the cow call it's a heifer but it's a it's a red cow aim high I go who is technically speaking the mother of the AYGO meaning that's what she is birth to a calf and eggo is the word for like we used for the golden calf above Lata can kill Cubana she's coming to fix what was ruined with her her child made a mess of okay so that's all together that's the first toe Ellis that's the first benefit so far that we see that tsadikim do for us sodding mallum de l'homme yo Derek Hashem mitzvah you know what else the righteous people do they guide they teach the Jewish people they teach others how to go and ascend in the way of God and doing mitzvahs our kingdom a PT Otto Kashmir salut hos that's why the death of the righteous person is compared to the breaking of the law the breaking of the myth the breaking of the Torah the breaking of the the leuco the tablets which contained all that the third benefit is crucial Magan could sale hookah beg it their merit saves us guards us protects us from like-like-like shade like a shadow and like clothing that's made mehat selma core of a home what they do for us saves us like I just described either clothing who were shade from either heat or cold who promote those artsy lame now when they pass on to the next world then this guarding this protection is removed IRA him a rooming be called Nixon and then we become whoever the generation becomes naked from any kind of clothing and covering as an example just look at verse 29 in our chapter when ira died do you know what happened a little confused here here we are so I have here verse 26 but I think if you open up you'll see several verses this is 26 it is 29 but anyway let's see 26 says late gates so the best out of his garments and dress Eliezer son okay we read that and iron shall be brought in and die there so now go to 29 the entire Assembly saw that iron it perished the year Accola ADA are you telling me that everyone saw him die how can that be possible it was a very private matter he went up to the mountain he was alone then except for eleazar eleazar the entire that assembly saw that iearnt perished that they wept for hour and 30 days the entire house of israel so what does it mean they saw him die [Music] so look at Rashi the entire someone they saw Moses and Aaron coming down and Aaron did not come down so they said where as iron you can see they didn't see him die they respond that he's dead is it possible that he stood opposite opposite the Angel of Death he was able to stop everyone else from dying and yet he would die himself how could he fall under the domination of the Angel of Death first of all he didn't he got the kiss of death by the way Moses Emilia sought mercy and prayed and the Ministry angels showed Aaron to them they saw they believed because how could he have died right he stopped a death from thousands of people so what happened was this the cloud of glory ceased just like when Miriam died the rock ceased from producing water when Aaron died the protecting clouds we're talking about what what the benefits do the righteous people give you protection they give you protection they're there right that's what righteous people do and Aaron was one of them and so when he died the clouds of glory which were protecting them along the way it killed all the scorpions right and it protected them from the heat and everything else okay now if you go to numbers 21 1 you'll see it a little bit more clearly it says the Canaanite king of Arad who lived in the south heard that Israel had come by ruler despised he waged war against Israel took them from them a captive so why am I saying a 21 one because there's also a juxtaposition 21:1 sorry that's the verse we just read look at the we just read verse 29 see that's why if you blue is we read 20 26 but if you go 2029 we just got finished writer saying the entire assembly saw that iron had perished and then right away the came night king heard what did he hear he also saw he also perceived that the cloud of glory that's why he knew he could attack this thing was protecting us this cloud this cloud of glory was protecting us so as soon as he realized also that Aaron had died how well it wasn't that he heard that our anodyne he realized there was no more protection because the clouds of glory had dissipated look at I think we didn't finish that Rashi if you look at the last Rashi from last week from chapter 20 verse 29 it says that iron had perished whoever has the targum onkelos renders because iron had died is an error that doctor thought but read they appeared as we just saw that Moses and Eleazar made Aaron appear so that they realized he had died a rabbis a blessed memory did not say that this instance the word key serves as the hobby cause except with respect to the midrashic interpretation that the clouds of glory did parted because after right they departed after Aaron's death this was a whole idea how this king of Arad knew to immediately come and wage war so look at Rashi on that verse he heard that Aaron had died and that the clouds of glory had departed okay so that's another benefit that righteous people provide in their lifetime as the verse says of the gay rahu with the youth that has it's a ray which means shanira that he appeared I know the certain non and nips Allah beggin what did they perceive means they perceived that they perceive the removal of the clouds that is similar to a garment and that's why you have the juxtaposition of the garment of the Kohanim in relating here in our in Aaron's death and what's the fourth this is gonna be where we're gonna go back into that Gomorrah the fourth thing is sure whom the copy relay in the mists also that the righteous people atone for them in their death it could be through their death but in their death you sneakily um keep or keep pouring that's why we have we saw that the force on the two sons of our own where they died and then you have all of the laws of Yom Kippur and the clear card ends by saying Colleen this is very easy to understand I'm not so sure it's easy to understand I believe that requires some meditation some real soul-searching but I want to go back to the Gomorrah where we spoke about am Kamina Bini is somehow nourishing the entire world or the world the entire world is being nourished on his account so if on the right side about 1/3 down it says the rash Bob he says Don bastard oiler Schmidt seen a beanie on email that the rash blood deals with a great contradiction that we find regarding these ideas shall cabal Kabbalat scar mock mosquito shell autumn regarding the receiving of reward on account of the missiles of a person right on the merit this contradicts things now what does that mean if God says I'm nourishing the whole world so what what about personal responsibility if I do sins so then I should I'm not gonna lose because of him does it make any sense I think there's a religion like that right this guy died for my sins I could do with everything the heck I want right I heard this such a religion anyway it doesn't make sense he says we have actually a great contradiction because we find the ideas of receiving the word on account of what we actually do the meaning deeds matter so there's a Gomorrah in mode cotton that rava mentions our mini high a and wasone elaborate Italian mill sarella bin Maas let's like Talia mill sir there's such a statement in the name of God that the people of the world right the life how many years they live and how if the rich or their poor is not dependent on their merits but strictly on the constellations strictly on faith alone so you have a problem here if you have a good word it says such a thing so what's this what's this idea that one person can change all that hey guys with me the kasha rape souk in the flesh it it's a very difficult thing to come up with because we have very clear verses I'll give you an example Deuteronomy 7 13 it says he will love you who bless you he's going to bless fruit of your woman on all these great blessings of having lots of grains and grapes but if you look right and what about verse 12 right before it if you listen if you do the right thing if you do this you'll be blessed we all know that anybody that read the scripture knows you do this you'll be blessed your deeds matter so what does it mean that it's all in the constellations and all its fate that's just the strengthen the question and I just read his words he says finds it very difficult because there are a lot of verses that are quite clear in the Torah that through your merits of a man the man can merit how long he'll live and how much how much welfare he'll receive so he brings several the verses I just mentioned two of them that show clearly that what you do makes a difference ceases if Cain Kashi eight new fresh hot dog wash are you look honey nucleotide good dollars logical olam isms clear Tov well a lots more aim low Ellicott her routine this makes the question even more difficult how is it that he canina is able to make the whole world survive sustain and yet he only survives on 24 egg volumes worth this really doesn't make any sense it's almost the same question we asked about our own if our own is able to withhold death from thousands of thousands of people how could he have died so the same question is really asked about Ireland I think it's quite clear we are that we have a dilemma how is it that canina is able to survive on just as such a small amount of food so let me just read this the the rajah answers and this is what he says coal have to hold khutulun Shamika be laden bhavish clear top that all the promises that you'll find in the torah that are written about a person receiving reward for his meth you know on account of his actions who's Aquila Klaus rel shimma shimma shimma Zarate hem ulysses the clear to him that's talking about the general category of Jews the Jews in general it's not personal okay it's really not personal of Allah Adam how prati but when it comes to the individual person ænima cabal beneath hi Amazonian ma Canseco Tov Elliot's Lamaze Lacroix and Wilson each person on his own level is receiving what fate has in store for him alkane Hakam Chicago stray 'innahu Nanette miss cleotasha Hanina therefore what we see is that the general group that the Jewish people Bennet benefited from the merits that Hanina provided who arts mellow hello but Haneen himself did not merit he was not included he went on on his own party level its own private level according to what fate had in store for him so we think about oh I know righteous people that suffer I know righteous people who died in the Holocaust oh I know right good people are bad people that are doing well there's nothing to do necessarily with the person it doesn't necessarily have to do with person himself let's do it the generation and what's meant in general for the generation and then this what we call her Chaka Chloe and a Shaka protein okay this is maybe we'll do a whole class on it but there's the general Providence that God provides and then there's the individual Providence and he's acting on both levels however I have a surprise for you in outside the Land of Israel it's more of a general and less of a specific on a personal level and only in the Land of Israel do you get to see both in a so those people who are conscious God conscious living outside the land so then you can get glimpses but you when you get here to the land it's gonna be like a magnifying glass it's like oh I thought I had a relationship with God I thought I do God but when you get to Eretz Israel it's like I like the Hubble telescope like I don't know a million trillion times better in terms of your relationship in here okay the next week's module coulomb newsroom Bastille Rebecca Nina Rebecca Nina yellow rock Kafka Ruthie so this is a similar question why would the whole world benefit on a contributor Nina while Rebecca Nina himself is surviving only on this small amount so the tourists I am asked a question sciutto schwannoma BA the main reward is always going to be in the world to come we're not really looking for on a personal level for our reward here ah in sciutto ho Ilhabela mozilla karim however at the same time we already mentioned that his merit is benefiting in the other people in this world coach attend high school a hollow so then would it make sense that he himself would benefit in this world she-she-she and nissan can at least he's at least part of the group right if the whole group is gonna benefit all the Jewish people gonna benefit from his that why is he excluded why isn't included he should be automatically included so he answers according to what is said in the Med ruch now it's got a little technical but if you go to Song of Songs chapter 1 verse 4 now there's obviously whenever we talk about song the songs interpreting there's going to be the literal interpretation and then the allegorical interpretation so anytime you look at arts grow on the top it's the allegorical now on the bottom it's the literal so the allegorical interpretation says like a cluster of henna in an Getty vineyards has my beloved multiplied his forgiving z' to me and in Hebrew s cold hot coat there what's ESCO ESCO is a cluster it's a cluster it's also talking about SQL the four names of cabrón it's the one you when someone dies for someone else's sins it also means a cluster so we're gonna see what kind of clusters someone who has a tremendous amount of good deeds he uses Makram Mishnah shots toast those that God knows all kinds of cluster groupings of Torah learning okay what would the to get there in a second but the rest of the verse says - Garlick ofer the word come fair what is come fair Co fair means atonement Dodi Li bakar meing Getti we said like a cluster of let's say atonement the vineyards which is again of the relating to cluster has my beloved multiplied his forgiveness okay so let's read what the tourist Haim has the same so he answers by telling us what it says in the Midrash on this verse DeMuth Shama Shama Jeroboam lead a of their Roy's omasum right if God forbid the Jewish people come to many sins and bad actions God sees who is going to be the greatest of that generation he chooses he sees who is the greatest she yuckle omar Lomita they didn't die and God is able to say member if there's a lot of sin so then the whole people should suffer right there should be a judgment so God says die enough judgment what he's gonna do he's gonna remove the judgment from the people and place it on this one person pretty spooky huh regeneration he's able to say to the minutes add in to the to this attribute of judgment die the note low Mishka no boredom and he removes it he takes it and it's like a guarantee and in their play puts this person as a guarantor in their place and this is what it means the verse we just said in Song of Songs like a cluster of atonement my vineyards have has my beloved multiplied his forgiveness to me sure cutters barkos note Ella ish occult alloy bow God removes this person he's its meanings through the death he removes the person that everything is dependent on him what is everything Nick remission of shots tells us the colors all the learning it's called H gone that's what it means s go the cluster learning she whom the coppler of Anna tan he is going to atone for their sins that's what it means by Co Fair the code fair that we saw the four henna she Yahalom armadyl Amita said then died he says he's able to say to Musa than enough and that's what it means Dodie Lee Mina's had in died and you see in the words came avoir but kama mcComish I got on MIT pass Bhuvana door we seen many places through shots throughout the the oral torah that a righteous person a very righteous person ceases collects ceases grabs the sins of the generation but you know what sorry could be your module sarcoma dial a meat acid in this is gonna get very capitalistic why would God feel the need to say enough to the meanness of dim to restrict administered in it kind of makes sense God's all about love so he doesn't want to see his people destroyed so let's see what the comment here is and this is from Taurus I am nearish college bar COO Boris Obama meals at dinner but Minister asked me if you notice chapter one of Genesis does not have the unit in the hand above and the hey God's name of mercy attributed mercy is not mentioned at all it's only the second chapter you have both names so in the first chapter it sounds like it's all Mina's had in its oil Oh King that's the character trader of judgment so the measure says God wanted to create the world with Mina sedan but he saw the world would not survive so he created with mercy as well now we've discussed this idea that really din is a subcategory of mercy in other words even when a parent is not cruel but but say needs to be Stern to his child it's because he is mercy it's when the the parent who has no sense of setting up boundaries and responsibilities really being cruel okay so the cruel that sin is cruel that the setting of the boundaries are being Stern is really a sense of raqqa me but anyway he says that in however it seems that God created the world with both characters as we notice in chapter 2 where as bar of ministered in LaHood Loya miss Kaiama field Machado cos if God would have created the world only with judgment the world would not be able to exist even for a moment whereas if he created the entire world with mercy then they would never have been a punishment ever they couldn't have I guess we were gonna spoil the rock well change it past Yahud therefore God sees together Shamus Cairo la guillotine local Akkad mint meters Taylor cut what he's trying to say is everybody's going to be everybody sharing it okay that's what it means by coleus RAL Arabians elisetta if anybody wants to convert I would seriously think twice when you become a Jew and we all share the responsibility of the sins of everyone else it kind of gets spread out evenly okay I'm kidding about not converting but anyway just I do you want you think about that though they're for dahye no petiole Amla meet acid ink at Sea Island Lomita Soraka me the truth is if it's split evenly right half of the world is going to get the rock amine part and half is going to be the the dim part which is interesting because I had a certain philosopher in Canada and he speaks about and talk about today about the the differences in society with the right and the left this is right in the left you know there's like crazy in America to the Democrats and the Republicans and even here you have almost like a split down fifty-fifty many societies have a 50/50 split anyway I when I read this that I thought about that statement that he made I'm is Jordan Peterson anyway I think there's something to it Kamin shotgun oh she is real code Megatron however what happens is whoever's the greatest of the Jewish people is always going to be parallel to the rest like we said about Moses Moses is equal to the whole Jewish people Moses says write me out God wanted to wipe out the Jewish people because of the sin of the golden camp and start over so I'm going to start over with you if he's starting over then it means that if you put them on the scale Moses is equal to all the whole Jewish people because God was willing to wipe them out and start over with him he's equal to the whole Jewish people is that clear okay so he's gonna go into that a little bit that's anybody in every generation whoever the greatest are you can see how they're equal nibsy cuz she yolk sac Atsuko shelters bar who you you see that I skip something so in Genesis sorry where's this first Exodus 32 verse 10 and now desist from me let my anger flare up against them can my in the right place yeah and I shall annihilate them and I shall make you a great nation so we see that Moses is shot cool- round that Moses parallel in weight right is equal to the whole Jewish people comes out that when he when God's anger went out it was Michalek it was like he divided the world - - as I Hey look at God who God o had or meaning wouldn't mean he divided the two he took the greatest person Moses put him on one side and all the Jewish people on the other and they were equal balance he was equal to the whole Jewish people I am in a roit so what would have been fitting the meanest hadn t - let's call yourself it really wouldn't fitting that the character trait of judgment would have just taken out the Jewish people because they sinned and where's the minute Soraka mean she was just taken care of Moses because he was the gutta loved or he was the greatest of the generation Shia nimza Chaka though huh door yeah and then only allow Moses to survive just like God says to Moses the time that the Jewish people sinned and I just read it in this Texas 1310 that he wanted to wipe out the Jewish people and started over and make him a great nation arkla call Hecht encourage barik last-minute soraka mean however god puts forward he wants he's merciful he wants to put forward this meter soraka mean she OT Tolec Elka at Chanukah yahushua israel right he wants that portion to remain in the portion that's the best part or the mail and Mina said did not tell us as a god Oshima door so what's the best part the biggest part is the Jewish people so that's why God takes the Gullah door that's why God removes the leader of the generation as an atonement saying enough judgment enough judgment I'm gonna take the greatest of you in fact I'll tell you another yeah when it says what fire goes out and attaches itself to thorns right a mesh bottom and then it goes on it takes the grains so it says the grains are consumed it attaches itself to thorns but the grains are consumed what do we learn over there very clearly that when evil decrees come into the world meaning God's judgment it comes because of the evil people creating the judgment but who gets burnt first who's the one who's gonna suffer the most the righteous however that's why God puts forth the meanest of raqqa mean he puts forth his his mercy he's interested in that and he'll take the portion that is that is the most beautiful the most the the nicest part of Israel which is the Jewish people themselves and then automatically the medicine did that part of the part of judgment is going to take the gunnel shabad or the greatest person is generation who who knit pass by voted or and he will be sorry yeah he will basically be seizing the the sin of the generation now what I just mentioned before and I'll say it again because I know that the microphones the the sound was off there's a few ideas here that we find by a mish parsha smash spotty when someone's not responsible for the fire that they have it's as if the fire goes out and and attaches itself to thorns and then it consumes the grains so we learn from there that evil or bad like karani owes judgment and harsh judgment only comes into the world because of evil people they're the thorns they're attached first to the fire but it doesn't say they're consumed what's consumed the grains and the grains are the righteous people meaning the food someone's edible that will be consumed first even though it's because of the evil that people and the evil deeds that this judgment came into the world but who seized first it's the righteous people who are seized first this reminds me of Isaiah 53 by the way because I think that it's one of those famous things that are quite miss leading and misunderstood and should be clarified for the record Isaiah 53 the suffering servant is the Jewish people okay no ifs ands or buts and anybody tells you differently they have to come and see me okay so I'm looking for comments all right so the the tour's client McCain be she'll meet us and in Yad ila the God ordered sorry she got on my own today she has Shaku name is wrong whoever this person is has to be very big very big we're not talking about you average sonic on the road okay a big bigger has to be quite a nice size righteous person to be parallel have all the Jews on the other side of the scale and only then if there isn't anyone like this there could be a grouping okay so if you don't have one person like this he mentions in luleå God okokok sorry flat sorry if comma God all Dean so unfortunately I don't think we have any one person in this generation but we have quite a few and therefore together the Hank adesh shemitah Thad in time are died so therefore in order for the character trait of of harsh judgment to be seized and to be stopped say enough yet die lab the Gundel Eckhart therefore you need on the other hand on the other side someone who's very big she s girl shot called that his package that his cluster is so big she is shocked Kootenai Akali Israel that he will be parallel in weight to the rest of the Jewish people so with that I wish everyone a shabbat shalom and we should all take the heart what we can from this lesson we can become better people kinder people and study more Torah and change the world one deed at a time [Music]