May Hashem Grant Joy to Your Land and Gladness to Your City with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

Heat. [music] Heat. [singing] [music] [singing] My birthday [music and singing] [music and singing] shalom everybody. Welcome back to the midash. Welcome home to Torah. Warm welcome. We are in the middle of Reena. We've discussed this before. This is I don't remember which number series hopefully one day I will label them. Uh this is on the prayers of the yoyim rashy yam kipur but we praying for the whole year on those days. So of course those prayers are meaningful all year round and what we're doing freelander went in depth in depth hashkuffically in the world view what do our prayers mean and what are the meaning behind the words so we're on page 24 halfway through the page so we're asking Hashem grant Repent. Confident speech. Pis compe the ability to open our mouths to those who yearn for you. Who? Right. Confident speech. Grant confident speech to those who yearn. The word. Okay. So that is one word we're going to discuss. What does it mean to yearn versus tikvah? Tikvah means hope, right? So he brings down a safer called which explains the difference between these two words. Imagine a yearning a really deeper yearning and maybe I'm not going to call it superficial because he doesn't say it like that. He says that ready is the idea of hope is an immediate response to our yearning to our desires to our hope. It means immediate bismanov imminent that our hope is that what we're praying for should happen immediately. Whereas a yearning is that's some distant future. We're not expecting it to happen today. Maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day, maybe in the in the in the in the distant future that our request or desire will be fulfilled. Now he says at the time while we're in exile which unfortunately we still are Yeshua's Hashem that right during this long dark exile there going to be many situations where there's this yearning and anticipation towards the what Yeshua Hashem towards the salvations of God. And guess what happens when we're experiencing gullis? Yeshua is hashem. Can you imagine the Jewish people who are supposed to be the light to the nations? We are teachers and yet even though we're anticipating and yearning for the salvation, we're not able to open our mouths to speak and to convince others that they should have also a yearning for the salvations of God. Is that you can experience you've ever experienced that? They're going to be people are going to rebuff, who are going to counter claim. They're going to say, they're going to claim that in spite of this, ah, they're not believers. You ever met a Jew? I call him, he's in denial. The Jew is in denial. He doesn't believe. You're going to meet some people like this. Hopefully, no longer. But in the meantime, h there are people who don't believe and they're going to tell you, "What are you trying to convince me? That there's going to be a Messiah? That there's going to be world peace? That we should all move to Israel?" Right? They don't believe. Hello. They're going to tell you the world's upside down. It's not at all like you're saying. Your belief is worthless. They're going to tell you, right? They believe in the material world. Their belief is and whereas and this is their perception that I I always say that when I first became religious, good guys finish first, right? I think in the old country they used to say good guys finish last. So they're going to sayim they're humiliated and they they suffer. This is what I see. Whereas um and they see it. This is their perception, right? Might makes right. The people who are not following the rules, they seem to succeed. Therefore, at times like those However, those who yearn for salvation and they're believers and what do they believe? That all of the trials and tribulations and all of the pains and the the humiliation that we experience is actually for our good. Right? We true believers know that. But nevertheless, it's impossible to say it. It's impossible to open our mouth with confidence. Lose barab at least to say it publicly. Here we're have a small group. I'm saying it, but it will get on the internet. But when the future comes, when the time is ripe, when Messiah comes, when all the Jews have gathered back in Israel, when Hashem's kingdom will be revealed and known and recognized by everyone, then then that's what we're we're asking. asking that God grant confident speech who to those who yearn for you that we will be able to declare publicly with confidence that we were right. It was worth it was worth keeping the mitzvah. It was worth all of our belief. It was worth all of our troubles. Okay. Now, the next thing I'm not going to sing, but I I have to because when I ever I say these words, So we're going to discuss these words. We sing it, we mean it, but what do we really mean when we say it? So according to freelander bismanosar wow imagine 100 years ago he wrote this that at that time bisman the land of Israel was full of sorrow and suffering. Okay, you can go today to Mach Yehuda on a Thursday afternoon and there's people dancing in the streets and people doing and giving out uh fruits. Okay, but we do know we still have terror, right? We still have enemies all around us. So nowadays in there is somewhat suffering and sorrow when the salvation comes automatically there will be this true this true joy this true happiness. Why? Because ultimately this is the land of God. This is the holy land. The whole world understands that it's the holy land. I hope that our fellow brethren wake up and realize not not only is it the holy land, but that's where they should be living. and that the um ultimately will manifest the the prime uh revelation of the salvation of God and his kindness. That is something that we're looking for. Now before I turn the page I just want to mention according to the footnote the difference between uh and tikvah it not only did he mention above that one was immediate and one was let's say a long-term yearning right that tikvah is short-term immediate and mahel is a distant future request nevertheless there's a footnote that mentions That another difference is that is where that you're more sure that eventually it will come to fruition what it is that you're yearning for as opposed to the word yearning is more of a suffic if it even will be. Okay, that you're just hoping that you'll merit it. Okay, that was one um difference. Um footnote 11 when we spoke about this idea of being able to say in public that God, right, that God is our salvation and that people try to convince others. So there's a footnote here and uh it's in he brings it in um prophet Amos chapter 5 verse3 [clears throat and cough] and he says that he brings the verse right the prudent what does it mean mascul the ones who are enlightened the ones that know the truth the real true believers they are silent They're going to keep silent at that time when the people of Israel are having a hard time. The wise man knows that he must keep silent. Although deep in his heart his faith is strong and he knows that it is all for the best. He cannot say it out loud because he will be silenced for others will refute his statements by pinpointing by pointing to bitter reality. That is why it's better to keep silent. Okay. So we actually started the next paragraph. We're looking forward to this point where there will be gladness in the land of Israel. And the latter part of that phrase is so not only is there going to be sim in the land of Israel, but there's going to be another type of gladness in your city. This is a more inner joy. It's more on the heart. It's an internal joy [snorts] that when there's a sudden turnaround of this of the situation to good then there is this type of joy. Wow. It's almost like a shock. Now there is a um a a statement a famous statement we said the difference between is still a doubt whether it will come true but tikva is where you really believe it's going to come true so there's no greater sim for a Jew to be out of doubt right when when you're faced let's say for a question right what do I do I want to serve hashem properly and I don't know what to do. So you're what about life life choices? I don't know what to do as an occupation. It's greater. Right? You have a job. You know, you have a job 9 to5. That's right. You're out of the suffic. Anytime you're in a suffic, it actually opens up a can of worm for your faith. We are maim children of maim. We are believers, children of believers. And we shouldn't be in a state of suffic. So too even the word amale is the same gamachi a saf it opens up not just the can of worms for ourselves but god forbid even for amrael. So the better we are grounded in our belief that's better for the for the nation certainly better for ourselves. So what is so even though it's an internal joy, it surfaces. It's on your face. It's it's something that people can see, people can recognize, people can um perceive your joy. Even though it's on the inside, it's coming out onto the outside. This sim we're talking about it's a that is constant and enduring right it's and it's continual again which city is it talking about. So in Jerusalem there's going to be a a um revealed the joy and it's going to be constant right the manifestation of God's revelation will be constant there's a p in psalms 483 y in fact that's one of the in we have one of our students here who lives in y and it means the fairest of sights the the joy of all the earth that's and you can find this what we're about to say in the midm on per 48 it's speaking about but exactly what is this joyus arts when it says in the p of of psalms right that you shall is the fairest of all sights. It's the joy of all the earth. What exactly is it talking about? If God forbid somebody transgressed a transgression, it's going to have worry. Oh, how am I going to get atonement? How am I going to fix this? Of course, in the days of the temple, he would go up to he would offer the offering and it would atone for him. But not all, not all sins, not all mistakes do you bring a corbin. There's other type of corbans you can bring. There's other first of all, God wants you to do chuva. asham, maybe a sin offering or a a guilt offering or even a verb. In fact, most most sins do not require a an offering at all. And how do you atone for that? By the way, he doesn't bring it. Maybe not maybe he brings it later, but there's this idea just sleeping overnight in Shalayan atones for sins. You wake up and sadic will wake up already atoned for that's the power of we discussed that another other times perhaps aola burnt offering what happens then he's out of a suffic he's out of the guilt he's out of the worry and his heart is going to be happy about the fact that he was able to bring a corbin in you lion by the way. We don't have a temple today. We learn, we read the corbanos, right? Obviously, the chuva is the main part. But just reading about the carbonos is like bringing them, right? Our prayers, our lips are replacing the bullocks as it says in the Nviap that through the capora through our through the atonement process which we said we don't have the temple today but we have we have chuva through that process we achieve we reach a type of perfection or tranquility and His perfection brings us to a state of and that's why we say misosar that's why the verse is referring in amos I'm sorry in psalms 483 that is the fairest of all sights it's masar it is the joy of all the earth because it's only I shouldn't say only because we don't have temple but especially we have the added idea of sadikim sleeping overnight you shall lion will find their atonement already the time they wake up in the morning and it has nothing to do that's disassociating with the kbanas there's something unique and special about us but added to the fact that we have here in the the temple soon our days and we'll be able to bring even in the na'vi sin offerings are still brought in the times of Messiah question is why right in the na'vi sin offerings offerings. Even the Messiah brings a brings a sin offering because sin offerings are brought for when inadvertent sins. See, there is no blood sacrifice. There is no that you're when you do a a a premeditated uh evil act. God only wants you to do chuva. Okay? There's don't bring a corbin. The Corbin is not brought for premeditated sins. A lot of I don't know Christians tell me, "Oh, what do you do now that you don't have the sacrif sacrificial service?" I remind them that it's only for inadvertent sins and God kind of and this is my not my opinion but based on my knowledge because there's some negligence, right? There's some lack of knowledge. That's what it means inadvertent. You didn't do it p purposefully. fully there's some lack of knowledge that God wants you to become more knowledgeable and therefore there's like a penalty involved right God ultimately he says the the the the nim say God doesn't want your sacrifice he wants your heart right but in order to somehow bring the heart around we bring the sacrifices but the sacrifices are for the inadvertent sins so after Messiah comes when the when the the knowledge of God has filled the entire world like the water covers the sea. Nobody will being will be doing any sins on purpose. It will all be inadvertently accidentally. It's not exactly accidentally but it means that without purpose you had some little bit of lack. When I say little lack, you know the laws of Shabas. You keep Shabas but you woke up and you thought it was Tuesday. I know people my age, people older that they also get confused about days. How many times have I woken up and thank God I don't put my uh cell phone next to my bed on Shabas, but that I wake up and I'm like, where's my cell phone? Oh, my cell phone's not there. You know why? Cuz it's Shabas. [laughter] Okay, so there are times, right? It's called inadvertent. It's not evil. It's a mistake. Okay, so mistakes will still be made at the times of Messiah. Okay, we'll continue this next week. Everyone have a great week. [music] [singing] [music] [singing] You [music] see your [singing] >> [music and singing]