Kosher Astrology (Part 10 Cheshvan - Scorpio) Rabbi Robert Rhodes

[Music] so we're continuing our series talking about the months of the Jewish year in terms of what I'm broadly calling calm ballistic and Hasidic astrology is there such a word and is there such a term that's of course something for you to decide I think there is I think there is something that we know and understand as astrology and stuff to do with the constellations up in the sky that informs a lot of what we know as Judaism and Jewish practice Jewish history and that's what we're going to really start at you've got to go over the basic cardinal principles which are things that we start every time with every meeting begins with a statement of principles and whatever the stars are just started right you need to understand this and have this very very clearly I don't know how they thought of these things in antiquity we're not particularly interested in where this all came from the Sumerians are the first ones in those constellations but 3,000 years ago which is a time of Abraham and that fits very very nicely with with our sort of classical Bible based time line but the Stars have nothing to do with each other and if you see the constellation Leo in the sky the stars that make up that picture that we see a sort of looking like a lion they've nothing to do with each other there are millions and millions and millions of miles away from each other it's an image it's a way of looking at something it's a way of understanding something this astrology is not prescriptive will not tell you who to marry will not tell you what business to go into it may tell you certain things to avoid it may help you understand stuff but you're not going to get the reading that you would get from a contemporary astrology that you would go and plunk down a few dollars and say what is my future hold right and we are referring only to the Hebrew it's the the stars the constellations lineup for the 12 months off me humor calendar only okay so what do we talk about last time since this is not a credit course and you're not doing it degree in all this sort of stuff I'm led to the summary okay and expect you to have this habit all clear in your mind but what we did look at was some text from a book called a shame mission well write which is a very popular work of the very woman on Cassini grab irishman of orange Tyne 1855 to 1926 so relatively recent in in terms of in terms of all the sort of stuff and the advantage of option well in his book is that it's relatively easy to read it's one of the easier reads across the whole spectrum of receding Rama's Road writing and stuff other side of the coin is there is there's a great deal of information that you need to know before you can get into it and understand what is what he's talking about what I think we have seen from the piece of text that we learned and the text that we learn specifically was a talk that he gave on Rosh Hodesh Martha sure on the first day of the month of fish van in the year 56 72 which was October 23rd 1911 I I kind of like these sort of details you're welcome to run not write them down and not remember the but 1911 so he lives - he lives through the first world war and talking about a lot of different things but largely about the history and the stories of the Bible and how what we know as cabbalistic astrology is part of the foundation of those stories that's within real simple English there are stories in the Bible which we as believing Jews and otherwise hold to be true and we're looking at here the patriarchs we're looking at Abraham Isaac Jacob the sons of Jacob there are pieces of those stories where the astrology aspect is obvious you just have to know where to look and this is largely water of SHM oil is doing for us he is taking us into some capitalistic principles some serious analysis of the safer you see rot of the book of formation and he is telling you go back read your Bible stories and see that we are really dealing with the world where the constellation the time of the month means something that certain events could only have happened at certain times that when we look at our lives and we look at I'm coming in now to the month of gosh not or which is which is quite a while olfi I gotta get through Tishrei first so it's 8 9 7 8 weeks away at least or I was born in this month or I have a relationship my husband my wife my child I can tell you that I fully understand myself and my daughter now that I realigned our astrological signs according to the Hebrew calendar right it is impossible that we are both of those totally impossible my kid is a Leo 100% natural benevolent dictator my my astrological sign is cancer I am oh crap that's our friend is over here do it works it helps you to understand it doesn't necessarily predict everything about me but I can look at a lot of stuff in my life and say yeah this is cancer this is this is the crab this is the water sign and without going to a psychiatrist or to a therapist I can I can make this I can make um explanations I can have understanding of what I am how it how I naturally react to certain things and you know over a couple of the previous weeks and courses that we've done here we've talked about a lot of very complicated stuff verses in the Bible that associate with the month the group that we had here didn't particularly take to it but the last time I did this course which is about a year ago where we looked at the verse of the month people were literally shocked it's a take your breath away a moment if it works if it works and that's again a big part of this there's a lot of variety there's a lot of stuffs a lot of factors go into what a month is all about and some of them are gonna work for you some of them will speak to you some of them will not something you'll realize 10 years from now the best the best and most appreciated and valued letters emails that I get are from people who say you know 20 years ago you taught a class and now I get it that's like wow that's that's the way this stuff works this stuff is magical it is totally magical it can be incredibly dramatic and sometimes it can be painful because it can it can touch a button that you may not want to have touched right but here with rapprochement and the shame Ishmael were really looking at Bible stories and what we looked at last time was a story that is not here and that is Abraham and the Brit Bain habit areum the Covenant between the pieces of the sacrifices so Abraham complains to God I see in my astrological chart I can't have children and God says well I'm God I'm going to show you things from my point of view and how things are going to be in the future so it's right in the Rashi on the on the very in the very beginning in Genesis where we mean Abraham and God lifts Abraham up above the orbits of the planets out of the physical world if you wish and says from up here I pull the strings on the planets then I'm gonna hand this over to you to do it if you want and that's a general point where Jewish people were spiritually tuned people get access to the powers of the months of the year of time itself and we are given the ability to manipulate it for the good as everything has two sides to it along comes Jacob and Sons Jacob as 12 sons and each individual tribe has its own constellation this is not going to say for you see how this comes from though are from later stuff that the tribes and the constellations line up there's at least two ways of lighting up the tribes in the constellations but we don't need to worry about that too much but what the sons of Jacob do the daughter of Jacob I'm sorry ladies is out is out of the picture in this respect we're going to have to work very very hard to find women's roles and guiding and leading astrology but the 12 progenitors of the tribes the 12 men were the sons of Jacob each one continues on the work of Abraham fine-tunes the connection that each tribe will ultimately have with the month of the year right now the list is were is relatively straightforward we're looking at Tishrei and freshmen here the first of the second months of the year and the tribes are for those two months ephraim and manasseh now if you know well please switch switch sides frying is the second born son of Joseph right he is not as not a son of Jacob is a grandson if frying is the second more Menasha is the firstborn and for very specific reasons Jacob brings a frying forward and places him as the firstborn Menasha is the second one so Tishrei Heshbon is a frying the notch the second one first point and we talked about this this whole sort of thing it's to do with the meaning of the names of the men themselves and this is something we do get in a lot of the other writings on on this subject that it's not just the nature of the tribe it's not just the blessings that the tribes are given by both Jacob and Moses Jacob at the end of Genesis Moses at the end of Deuteronomy it is the actual names of the men who are the fathers of the tribes so Ephraim is to be fruitful to do good to see blessing and Happiness right away whereas Menasha is to forget and these are the names that Joseph gives his two sons God calls me to forget all of my different in getting to this point that has to be according to jacobs retooling of this whole astrological alignment of tribe and month that the first month of the year Tishrei has to be do good no matter how bad you've been in the past year no matter how much you're still stuck in the old ways in doing things that you don't want to do that you know you should not be doing just go ahead and do something good and then the next month which is - which appears to be an empty month it only appears to be an empty mouth in terms of holidays and exciting stuff in it then you have the space to sit back and say well I don't want to continue doing these negative things that are having doing and you can expand this to its vault two Commandments to ethical conduct to relationships right to your own personal development and all of us have things that we we can't stop doing because we like doing them or because we just can't stop doing them right whatever it happens to be right [Music] the issue of the Scorpion is again the safer Iran the book of formation with the creation the Scorpion we are told it does everything with coldness and the Scorpion is pictured as opposed to the snake the snake will confront you and frighten you was a scorpion just sits around and waits for you to come and then bites you and in his book does something good by killing you were hurting you very badly scorpion equals coldness and the good that we can get out of the coldness and sitting around waiting this apparently scorpions don't do very much in the course of the day except I have no idea what scorpions do and I'm sure there's a National Geographic special we can all watch and enjoy but you know go look at Wikipedia and see if this is actually true scorpions apparently don't do much they sit around under rocks and wait for people to come by and I guess they also reproduce scorpion babies and stuff way that only must eat but they're cold-blooded creatures who act with coldness towards other creatures so the point of coldness in this particular month the month of Kesh finally seems to the absence of its vote absent of holidays is you've got a habit that you don't like you've got something you want to cut out of your relationship which you know is harming the connection with someone you love something you really care about you've got a nivara you've got a sin that you do right we're in a religious environment we can we can talk about this sort of thing you've got a sin you've got something that something that you do that you know is really wrong applied to it coldness apply to it boredom I've done this so many times have it gotten out of it it's too much trouble to just go out and do this whatever it happens to be we try to stick to you know relatively safe examples non kosher food not so easy to find in kosher food in Jerusalem it's too much trouble to go out and they need to go find a cheeseburger or a restaurant that will serve me a cheeseburger on Shabbat right I'm sure there is one somewhere but this is the sort of aspect and this is the way of looking at things and this is Jacob our Father fine-tuning the whole alignment of the tribes the names of the tribes the constellations and what they represent and the Scorpion isn't up there in the sky there's no Scorpion and the Leah in the constellation of Scorpio the other thing that goes with this is of course again looking at the safer ETR that's the very first piece that I thought having produced with intestines you know stuff that goes on in your intestine is sort of yucky we don't want to think about it but the classic picture of what the intestine is about so then we didn't get into last time the intestine also is coldness and where I think I am quoting you by heart from the from the Shamy Shmuel I don't think I put this in the translation of it that the intestines are white and contain no blood therefore they must be a cold and heartless part of the body take it or leave it in terms of the the reality I mean they're there this blood those muscles as all sorts of things in us but the classical view that he is taking on is saying the Scorpion and the intestine represent coldness and a non attachment to what is going through the right and what we'll see as we go through one of the other months also has a different part of the intestine or a different word for intestine in it as well and the process is very very obviously very simply your gastrointestinal tract takes in food which contains good stuff and not so good sooo good stuff expels the bat keeps the good simplest most crude explanation of what what your innards do right you'll eat your lunch some of it just goes out and some of it is really retain and is put to good use inside you so again this is the the Tishrei fresh fun combination month number one month number two start off doing good month number two do do your best and to not get too excited about all the negative things and the things that you really do know our failings in your life I mean there are things that we do that we don't recognize as being bad and you need someone to point it out to you but I think most of the time we do know what we're doing wrong then we do know we're going wrong okay so that's pretty much what we were talking about last week or not the last day which was on yesterday I want to take us into Page number one on the on the English handout and about half way down I've got the key lines from the division of the kingdom we're here with schmoyer Osaka Java and he is focusing quite a bit of time on the events immediately following the division of the kingdom after the death of King Solomon right so if you have a Bible in front of you it is the Malakand hours the first book of Kings chapter 12 right and I put a few of the important verses here I want to take a little bit of time and just take a look at this because I think this is this is Rashmi listen the shame Ishmael has very very best and he's telling you that this is a story of the month of Heshbon that what goes on here in the first book of Kings chapter 12 is something that happened in me 20 book the teks equals the eighth month it's month number 8 but it is not in fact by our calculation number 8 it's the second month of the year starting with Tishri okay some of you folks are cold alright it's not actually a plus of noise when you realize it I see - and that's about and that's about it so we're in the early days of the nation of Israel living in its land and we've gone through three kings where the entire nation is united to some degree if you do read the the previous chapters you see of course it isn't all a wonderful time it's plenty of dissent we have King Saul we have David right and these two did not get along they were not father and son they were not very happy with each other Saul tried to kill David on numerous occasions but interesting interesting stories and they do need to read is very dramatic stories as well then comes King Solomon builds the temple built palaces builds up the city city of Jerusalem and we come now to a point where King Solomon has died and he has a son Rehoboam rehab um so the two characters are Rahab and Yara of Rahab is obviously to spread to be spread about or to spread out to be wide a mass of people Yara your drish bet is to argue or to fight the people so then the names are often quite significant but that's not really what we're focusing on Rahab in verse number one is the son of King Solomon and he is first in line to the throne is the Prince of Wales and he's ready to ascend the throne so he goes to sham for all Israel had gone to sham to making King this particular place he's going to be enthroned and it was when Jeroboam the son of Navarre heard of this when he was yet in Egypt we had fled from King Solomon and Jeroboam had settled in Egypt what happened to Jericho homework folks if you feel the urge of the interest in figuring out who Yara was and why he was in Egypt and we fled before King Solomon he's obviously not someone who appeared out of nowhere he's a he's an important political figure maybe he's related so what's going on there but he hears the snooze and he says I'm back it's not my time they sent and called him first number three and Jeroboam and all like all the people who nation in Israel and spoke to rehab um saying I don't think anybody calls their kid your rehab arm today either in English or in Hebrew right so real column is there and they've got a really big complaint your father made our yoke difficult now lighten your father's hard work and his heavy yoke which he placed upon us and we shall serve you right King Solomon great king enormous splendor the nation of Israel has tremendous prestige in the world at that time but it came at a price taxes right in taxes in those days often included and this is the tourist tells us here that the tax was physical labor you had to give one month a year as a labor and when they were built it's the description of building a building Solomon's Temple that they had laborers who were conscripted laborers and had to work in the forests cutting the cutting the cedar trees and had to work in the temple and houses themselves and then of course does the upkeep right you don't have a palace without servants right and an awful lot of servants right they didn't have all the machinery that we have today for cooking and cleaning and that sort of stuff was all done by hand and then obviously they had fishermen and farmers under contract as well and that they didn't get paid for it that was that was your extra tithe that was the price of having all of this and they couldn't say the seeking solving but to the Sun they could it's too much we can't take it so first number five he said to them go away for three days then return the people left and king Ravana took counsel with the elders who attended Solomon his father while he was yet alive and he said what counsel do you give me to reply to this table well at least he sought some advice didn't listen to it the elders Solomon's courtiers and advisors said if you will be a servant to this people today and you will minister to them the about the time you will serve them the word is not minister in the Hebrew then I need time and you will respond to them and you will say nice things to them then they will be your servants for all times got a deal with people right plasm but he disregarded the council the elders who advised him and took counsel the young man who had grown up with him and who were attending him and he said to them what do you advise etcetera etcetera and the young man that had grown up with him spoke to him saying so shall you say to this people your father has made our yoke heavy and you make it lighter for us thus shown you speak to them say to them my little finger is thicker than my father's loins doesn't sound like a nice response but my little finger is thicker and more muscular than the thighs of my father and bigger and tougher than the old man ever was don't mess with me alright here's the verse here's the that one of the key verses here and this is what Irish moil is showing us this is in a series of events that happened in the 8th month and that connects with the things of the 8th month which we were of course the French was the second month of the in Turkish bath my father burdened you with a heavy yoke I shall add to your yoke my father flogged you with whips but I will flog you with scorpions wonderful thing to say to people um Rashi says it's a gold or a sting because they sting like a scorpion right so in sort of real terms this is some sort of whip that had barbs on it I will whip you with barbed wire whereas my father was nice - he just whipped to the regular web it's imagery but the Scorpion is the important and here we are in the month of the scorpion with this series of events taking place Jeroboam and all the people came to recover on the third day and they said the king replied to the people harshly disregarded the Council of the elders and he spoke to them as the counsel of the young men my father made you yoke heavy I will add to your yoke my father flogged you with whips I shall flog even scorpions yet again King didn't listen to the people for it was something brought about by God in order to fulfill his word that God had spoken through the Prophet idea to Jeroboam the son of Nevada right so you gotta go home and read up the backstory of who your arm is and why he had to leave to Egypt and when he's coming back now all of Israel verse number 16 key verse that work that we're gonna pick up on here all of Israel's saw that the King had not listened to them and they said to the king what share do we have in David and we have no heritage in the son of you shine to your homes Oh Israel now see your house David with a Vater huh David look at your house sarcastically nasty saying to King David who's of course not there you made this house you made this dynasty of kings house being dynasty look at it and or else a temple Rashi says the house refers to the temple - it fits both the House of King David being the dynasty and the house of God that was built by David's son Solomon being being the temple the scorpion is taken to be made up of two words right your Hebrews wonderful at this point right if you at least know the alphabet folks right how do you spell scorpion in Hebrew I in cook riche that i craft the word of the day scorpion I am Co fresh bet if you separate this out into two words you have iron roof race a cart uproot to pull out a plot by the roots a car bet buy it house in the month of the Scorpion where they are mocked by their King I'm gonna sweep you with scorpions they come back and say you do this to us we are going to up linked the house your house your dynasty and your temple and this could only be in the month of the scorpion right so this stuff makes an awful lot of sense in terms of the story aspect if you're open to this being a layer that comes through in certain places and that's that's the whole point of this astrology stuff right I'm not going to call it astrology the science astrology the art it's stuff there are forces that we don't fully understand when God made time and space and things and places the times were given a certain amount of power and force not to do things by themselves the power of the scorpion is not to independently come and control the people and turn us into scorpions who sting others or anything like that the the scorpion power of the month is something called coldness and rejection and boredom and lack of heat and enthusiasm that we have a choice to either be above it metaphorically and pull its strings and say here's something I can do with boredom and coldness or just float along go with the flow time and say hmm I'll have a quiet month we had all those holidays in the month of Tishrei let's um let's not bother with anything for a few weeks here right so this is like a straightforward and simple application of it you can take this and then say what all the stuff in my life that I can do like this I'll set aside the month of Tishri for doing good looking to make happy in good connections I can say I'll set aside the month of freshmen for saying well I did all those good things and look how much I've got nothing from it look at how happy my husband is now right look how happy my kids are it's it's wonderful look how much blessing I see in my life and Heshbon well but still some stuff I need to clean out here my mind is not as pure and as good as it should be but I'm gonna do that by not beating myself up but by letting it withering by just getting bored was eating those cheeseburgers every day right whatever it whatever it happens to be right so there's more there's more this is Martin and we're gonna zip a little bit ahead obviously the kingdom of the north begins here that the ten northern tribes form their own their own FIM is the tribe it is the northern tribes it is the children of Joseph who take the lead and this is something we're gonna see as opposed to the two southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin who are under the control still of the house of David of King Solomon and the tribe of Judah right so there's all these problems if we just keep reading on here you can read a lot of this for you for yourselves Yara Yara vom is in a very difficult situation holidays are coming people go to Jerusalem for the holidays there was a temple these are pilgrimage festivals where people literally went to Jerusalem and there are all sorts of issues regarding the status of the king of the north it was not a king of the house of David and he would have had to go on the pilgrimage with the ordinary people and just be there with the ordinary people whereas the king was there in an exalted in high position at the king that they had rejected and also he wanted to keep his people home didn't want to let them see all the nice things in the temple all the wonderful good stuff in Jerusalem so he made a couple of idolatrous temples appointed himself a priest and pointed idolatrous priests as priests and the lines that we need to take a great deal of attention to at the very last two lines in this whole in this whole chapter verse 32 Jeroboam made a festival in the eighth month which is of course the second month which is gosh month on the fifteenth day of the month and he brought of offerings etc etc so he knew people would indeed go to Jerusalem not for a Shoshanna yom kippur but first occurred right the holiday of Sukkot is the big pilgrimage festival half a day yo masa up to an including our time and then the very last line is significant he brought offerings from the altar which he had made on the fifteenth day of the 8th month in the month that he had fabricated from his heart right the line here in the month in the Hodesh that he had invented and created from his own heart is superfluous in the tax you look at the English for a couple of seconds you'll say he did it on he made offerings on the altar on the fifteenth day of the 8th month in the month which he had fabricated from himself we know he did he didn't make he didn't fabricate the month okay to the holiday right so reb shmuel is gonna tell us that it's not Hodesh but a bush hat dollar chin renewal making things new and also kodesh the month in the sense of the month being parallel to israel itself because we are like the month means moon and also the house of David alright Chuck page number three in the handout we're gonna meet Renata Mendel of rim enough here it means another one of the great Hasidic rabbis and 1745 - 1815 so if you're looking in the Hebrew top side it's a check valve it's like the third third reprinted page and if you're looking at the English it should be about the second paragraph from the top okay contemporary vomit is written about Jeroboam that he made a festival the market on in this month of ashwin right it's not cold cash on the muhib room the months get their names much later after the exile in Babylon it's only into the later prophets acharya Haggai Malathi daniel that we have names for the monster Babylonian names they're not intrinsically Hebrew nonetheless be a doctor and we do find significant meaning if you stick with this program we're going to see that the names of the months even though they're not originally Hebrew do have meaning in the Hebrew language they came from Arabs they came from a related language anyway aho - I share ba da me Lee Bo in the month which he invented created from his own heart now we're going to expand the concept of month and month is in Hebrew Hodesh from ha - meaning new and also renewal it is well known that Maha Israel the kingship of Israel the Kings the dynasty the descendants of King David and the rest of us as well the entire Jewish nation is exactly like the month which renews itself every single mountain right the moon waxes and wanes so to do the Kings so to do the ordinary people of Israel we have our ups and downs the nation has its ups and downs if you look in biblical history if you look over the entire history of the Jewish people we've had times when we were really really down we've had times were pretty darn powerful right and just like the moon is called Hodesh because of hit had should right here's where Hebrew helps right dalek shin is to be knew you buy a new shirt it is a something it is car - right hit red shirt is self-renewal the moon renews itself we pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps similarly the Kingdom of Israel or the kings of Israel continually renewed themselves with new longing for connection to God and every day have vive la hem to shut our we show not he's talking about he's switching back and forward without actually switching back and forward between the macro and the micro one of the great things about a cedar - at the writings of the Sicilian allies is they they often tend to be talking about the whole nation of Israel the entire population of the world and the individual person at the same time right so this is like pretty dramatic stuff and a lot of the time they're analyzing and they're telling you things that you you didn't realize was there in the Bible story but it's always talking about you it always comes down to you as the believing thinking human being behold your every single day our relationship with God is just like the very first time we ever met God right however we want we want to put that into into our own lives and the kingdom of David the kingship of David here's it's a very fine analogy is gonna make here he bear my in hyeme it is a well of living water that always flows this was King David he's gonna make a distinction that is really quite fine here but it is quite significant what's the difference between the nation of Israel of Judah in the south which is ruled over by King David and the nation of Israel in the north which is ruled over by a descendant of Joseph or is represented by Joseph he's gonna say it tell you exactly what the difference is we are into a little bit of graphic x-rated terminology were we're all adults here right good now if you're watching this on YouTube and you're under 18 years old Tom please call your mom and dad in right we don't we don't want to get in trouble right seriously that's not a joke this was David King David was continually longing for God with love and she wrote to the Tish belt and he was writing songs and praises to God and in one of the the lesser-known books of the Zohar we are told that King David is every single day still up to including today singing songs and praises of God that no ear has yet heard King David as well is a well of fresh water as well that how a source that feeds it but you got a drop a bucket into the well to get the water out you've got to go to the well and you've got to want to drink the water from it and when the kingship was taken and given over from the siege from this children of King David and it was given to the children of Joseph then we get into a different picture all together what is Joseph famous for in this type of discussion of terminology Joseph is the assault I'm gonna say the word penis I'm sorry ladies but it is different from well it is a super magic at high I'm gonna skip over some of the more complicated terminology this is a well of living water right he's putting it in a bit more cleaner terminology as well King David and his kingdom the southern kingdom are well whereas Joseph and the northern kingdom our fountain a fountain of water and of life he's quoting the charelle rabbi yosef avenge Acadia a very very early cannibalistic source of Zellmer before Lazare was even known so David and the southern kingdom are well Joseph and the northern kingdom are a spring and a fountain the spring and the fountain renew themselves every day every moment you look at a spring you look at a spring of water and you see the water gushing out or trickling out whatever it does you look at the well you don't see the flow you only notice it that you keep taking water out of it the still water left in it it's a different attitude it's a different way of looking at things and if yarra of arm if Jeroboam and the northern kingdom had stuck with God and not done their idolatrous alters the cops'll actually go and see them tell down north is really really worth a visit you actually see the altars with which Jeroboam built then things would be fine and you've got to look at Midrash you can go to the commentaries that go into the next chapter or so Office of the Book of Kings when we're looking at Kings one twelve thirteen or so God has the conversation with Jeroboam and says stick with me everything will be fine it'll be good I want this this is part of God's plan right nonetheless what Jeroboam did was kill kill me dot hit and shoot Shabo he damaged he destroyed the factor of renewal that was intrinsic to his tribes origin the Northern Kingdom is Joseph's it is a fountain a sprained a source of life a source of new life and renewal but he made his hat shoot raaaah he made a bad new thing Zehra Hodesh a chef Adam Le Beau and that is what the verse means at the very end first Kings chapter 12 the month the Hodesh the renewal rather than the month which he created from his own heart he should have done things according to God's plans and God's instructions which God explicitly says to him certainly in Midrash awesome prophecy as well stick with me do mitzvahs be good and we can we can work something out here nonetheless he said no I want an adulterous temple I want to be the center and focus of it all and he started up his own religion or his own variation of Judaism and that is a particularly bad thing and this service ul is showing us and he's got a whole analysis of where he gets it from that I that I've actually left out on the translation and if you feel the urge we can we can't actually look this up we can read it but the next seven or eight lines that are here that I haven't translated for you that this is our story too and this is the story that is available for us in the month of ashwin be swept up in the events go with the new and the exciting or use the power of new and renewal and newness and freshness to do something good following the old ways and old paths that have been taught to us from the very beginning so what we can say here and again I'm just skipping about eight lines in the Hebrew that the sin of Jeroboam was he killed kale meat that I hit had should the factor the power of newness and renewal the spring the ever flowing spring of water of life he ruined this what was the effect the effect was very very significant what happened then is the nations of the world were able to come and take this power of renewal from us he's explaining absolutely everything that ever happened in the world which is that which is the amazing thing because when you sit back and you look at and you say yeah this does make sense he's explaining everything he's not just being dramatic or trying to say I know everything because but he really does have access to to the information and explains an awful lot of stuff in this world the nations of the world I'm not necessarily talking about just other countries like Switzerland Norway and whatever we're talking about the things that are represented entered by these nations because there are entities of the spiritual nature up there in heaven that represent these nations as well as the physical nations that surround us so here we go the nations of the world took this power of his country this power of renewal this creative power alright let's go up creation they took it away from Israel the he glulookat say no and they cause us to be exiled from our land because the power of renewal because the power that was offered on a plate to the nation of Joseph led by Jeroboam he threw it away he did something negative with it the nations of the world were then able to come and take it there are other nations in the world there are other people in the world and they do their best to feed off the spiritual energy that comes down into the world through the Jewish people through the kings through the spiritual leaders of the Jews so once we don't do the right thing and when we actually go and do the wrong thing with this energy then it becomes available for everyone else to take and they can do it and use it and they use it against us they use the power to overpower us exile us from our land because what ultimately happens the ten northern King ten northern tribes disappear their exile and eventually the the tribes of Judah and Benjamin to the Talmud Henkels Jamal a nigga's a wrote wrote and even more the nations of the world make and create very bad decrees against us that are totally new right look at the the broad brushstrokes of history where on earth do the nations of the world get the ideas that they used to beat us up with they get it according to this from the perversion of the power of doing new things of his head should that was given to Yara aunt Jeroboam to the ten northern tribes which are the tribes and the character of the Trident of Joseph and they didn't want them they didn't want him for God's schedule and list of of of purposes but they then did what they wanted for their own glory for their own power for jeroboams greatness and establishment as a king and then the nations of the world were able to grab onto this power and they used it against us they use it against us by making up all sorts of accusations by creating all sorts of mechanisms for squeezing our very blood out of us and this is what Renata Mendel of rim enough says it's a very very well-known quote that all the bad decrees that are created against the Jewish people may heaven preserve us from these things all the taxes wholly are no not says here are not of property taxes that suck the blood of Israel they all begin in the month of ashwin right freshman is of course this time of year coming up it's gonna be October November that's when your are known on your property taxes are increased which is of course not what we're talking about but we're talking about historically Jews were subject to extra taxation and incredible burdens of taxation because the nation's the local leaders Kings princes bishops whatever it may be had a need for money oh the Jews have money we'll just simply take it well issue a decree that every Jew has to pay X amount of gold whatever it is each Jewish family has to provide whatever it is for thee for the Royal coffers these come up if not in the month of cash one at least from the of the month of Crestron that is given over to that and now we understand I hope you understand he says that since with the month of freshmen it has said the renewal the newness that he brought out from his own heart Geralyn and through our continued sins this hit had should this power of renewal of making new things this power of creation is creative generating energy is given over to them it's given over to the dark side it's given over to the nations of the world who use it for their own negative purposes and for their own enrichment at our expense nonetheless there's a tikona you're familiar with the word tikkun the chicken is not the way it's generally used to say just setting things right and fixing things but it sequin is an operation that you do here on earth that has an effect in the spiritual realms as well as in the physical realms so we have this whole thing that was started by Jeroboam where he perverted an overturned and gave over this particular power of the month of Quran to the nations of the world to use against us how can we fix this through hip-height should she be Israel that the month of Heshbon is a time of renewal and creation in the nation of Israel how do we do this she called the ensuring to me dimke syndrome little mod illallah made that the month of ashwin is a very appropriate time to make fixed times for learning Torah and for teaching Torah those of us who have the ability to actually teach issue ish every single person who rather Habra through groups each group of people wherever they may live this hit cat should this renewal this invention this starting of Torah classes and lessons is what will ultimately take the power of renewal from the nations of the world and bring it back to us where it really belongs a main king yachts and so may it be thy will right so we vary quite a bit this is this is a deep one this is a tough one and it's not entirely simple to understand but it is very very solidly based in a pretty straightforward Bible story you have this gentleman called Yabba whoever he was and why ever he was exiled for whatever reason he comes back he takes over he brings the the Northern Kingdom the kingdom of Joseph to power over the kingdom of David in faith instead of a fountain he goes to well power of gushing forth the water of life and once he takes that power and uses it but that last verse says for stuff that he invents himself not from its vote not for it around based purposes then it's a free-for-all then we Jews are saying okay we don't want it anymore and the nations of the world were able to grab it and use it and they used it against us and the tikkun direction well tells us to use is ad torah classes start learning completely new stuff anytime but particularly the month of quran where this power of the tribe of Joseph is evident and foremost we can grab on to it and it not just works better but it affects that he could makes up and fixes and repair repairs that which was done fast now you understand absolutely everything right all right I think I do anyway if anyone ever tells you this you know they don't unknown interesting stuff crash phone next mother's kiss late right so next time we will look at his slave and Hanukkah and de fate and move on to thee through the 12 months of the year [Music]