New Covenant - New Year, More Responsibility - Not Less with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] shalom alaikum everybody welcome back to the event of bate midrash welcome home to torah a very warm extremely warm it's in august it's right now september sorry we already started september it's so hot in jerusalem and when we get through this year wow it's going to be really hot but i just want to mention before we start i'm going to give like a three to four minute monologue and it's going to get a little political because the subject tonight is quite hot we're going to talk about some politics so before i do that i just want to mention we are at 90 percent of our campaign fundraising campaign to give out funds uh coupons for the osher odd supermarket to those in need and we've already reached 90 so we're just 10 short and we've already spent the money so we could use it back but the point is this that even if you give more if we surpass what we're looking for there's always people in need so don't hesitate to give reach deep down into your pockets okay now i want to mention about leadership we're going to be talking about leadership and the role it plays in judaism to a great extent and the fact is that we spoke last week about the jews being i almost have to like gulp when i say it supreme god says i will make you supreme over all the gentiles i just want to recap that meant that we have to be humble okay through being humble god raises the the people who are humble to a high level so don't think for your that you're chasing after uh root after authority or after rulership if you run away from it from it it will chase you if you run to it it will run away from you okay so that was the lesson last week keep this in mind because we're talking about leadership again and being that the jews are the priests of the world as we are i hope every jew who's listening understands it's a great responsibility and it means you have to learn torah i'm telling you now like i'm giving you my i call it rebuke if you want to call it rebuke i'm telling you every jew you think you have to learn torah no you have to teach torah you have to be a leader now we all know as a prerequisite to teaching you have to learn how can you teach torah if you don't learn so get on the bandwagon get with the program i'm telling you i'm looking right at you okay i'm looking at every one of you that's my tokah unfortunately i just want to mention what's going on in the world people are telling me oh my god it's never been like this it's so bad there's fake news everywhere you don't know what to believe there's censorship there's the stiffening of free speech i want you to know as king solomon said there's nothing new under the sun this has been around since adam harishon okay and it's been around ever since anti-semitism meaning since sinai since the revelation of mount sinai and i don't mean to point out the christians but they call it the gospel the good news but i have to tell you it's the fake news okay so we're going to talk about that a little bit i just want to give you just a small example before i came to israel a great rabbi in america i don't want to mention his name but he told me you have to read this book this book is called perfidy and this is my original copy it's a very old copy wow and it was uh published this one it was a copyrighted 1961 and this is the third printing in 1961 so it's an antique i can i don't know how much it's worth but guess what it went out of print you know why because the government of israel forbade this book from being published in israel yeah i'll just give you a quick synopsis just i mean i want to keep it down to one minute because i want to get on to the torah i want to get onto the torah but there was a individual a holocaust survivor an old hungarian jew who saw himself 53 members of his own family go to the gaz chambers in auschwitz and he always wondered why 500 000 half a million hungarian jews had to go to the gas chambers as well and to how come they weren't warned how come they weren't warned people knew in fact government officials knew and this went to court because it was a libel case what does it mean a libel case when someone seemingly speaks russian horror against somebody seemingly as i said then you can take them to court and say hey that's not true you're spreading false rumors well guess what it wasn't necessarily him but other people in the government people were saying that this guy by the name of dr israel kastner was responsible he was a government official basically before 48 he worked for um he worked for what they call the jewish rescue committee which is basically the joint uh distribution committee was basically today's um what do they call that government agency the jewish agency basically before all that took place okay and what happens is some other government officials are like hey this is a government official and you're speaking bad about him that he's responsible for the death of 500 000 hungarian jews that's preposterous so they took him to court but that's the problem these people have such they're so full of themselves they went to court to say the guy spoke libel and they found out in this trial that it was true that it was true that the government actually or government officials knew that this particular person was hiding certain facts at the time and could have saved or warned people could have survived people could have fought back anyway the truth is i have to tell you the truth it went back and forth the supreme court the court overturned the original trial that says yes it was not liable it was true then they went back and said no it wasn't true and then it went you know what till today nobody even knows but the whole system was on edge fake news how could jews do this to other jews or how could people do this to other human beings so for those who understand what i'm talking about without even talking about it okay what's going on in the world today wake up learn to read between the lines right and how do you do that you have to have your your head full of torah when your head is full of torah you'll be able to see clearly right as king solomon said there's nothing new under the sun and everything we need to know is right here and let's begin here we go we're in deuteronomy chapter 29 i would like to read 9 10 and 11 just so you know that the verses we're talking about and by the way i think everyone should read the book and how you get it you can go to google or any other server you you choose and you put in to the computer right perfidy by ben hecht and then put in pdf and it will come up you will get be able to read this book that is no longer in print for free and if it's for free i'll take two okay here we go again we're in deuteronomy chapter 29 verses 9 through 11. i want you to hear the english and then we'll deal with the hebrew you're all standing this day before the lord your god the leaders of your tribes the elder your elders and your officers every man of israel your young children your women your converts when in your camp both your wood cut both your wood cutters and your water drawers that you may enter the covenant of the lord your god with his oath which the lord your god is making with you this day now it's important to hear the words because all of you are standing here today hashem before the lord your god now listen to these words it says roshan shivtekhem your heads comma your tribes comma your elders your officers now we don't translate this as your heads your tribes rashi he says if you go down in the rashi where it says the leaders of your tribes it's three lines down in the rashi rashem shiftham it says your leaders your tribes referring to two separate entities like i said there was a comma which does not make sense here because your tribes includes your leaders rather this means the leaders of your tribes and that's how we translate it rashem but you have to know there is no llama there so why that's going to be one of the questions by the way for those who are not aware the clear car is what we're using and you can find this you can find this in the description box below there is a link to where you could go to get these sheets and i want you to keep your fingers on the place and while you're there there's also a link to the campaign which i mentioned earlier so you can also uh contribute okay so i want to look now at the um oh yeah we have another rashi there i wanted to show you and that is um the as we were reading right after that it says your elders and your officers rashi says we learn from the order in this verse the more distinguished ones were mentioned first and only afterwards you have every man of israel keep this in mind the clear card is going to open up rashi for us rashi seems to be a closed book right now look at the clear car he says this verse right you were standing here today all of you before hashem your god perish rashi what does rashi say there's an order whoever was listed first is most important as we saw the leaders of your tribes your elders and your officers and every man of israel israel and only afterwards you have every other male jew and then it says rashechem in rashi kamo as if as if it's the leaders of your tribes but there's alamid you know what the clear car says mikko mccomb there is no laminate the torah i'm going to say deletes it but it left it out for a reason and we want to know why and that's one of the questions we're going to deal with gum another question we're going to deal with is my ra moshe lasad rama al za open the mat yo to me call sharky hilo he gathered everyone together so many times in the torah where do we see such a a list of who's supposed to gather you know he says gathered all the jewish people several times but here what we want to know what exactly did moses see what was he pondering what was he wondering about what went through his mind that he organized the the um the way he gathered them in such a fashion now the clear car says the proper way to think about it is as follows shirozzo auto liquor membrane he wanted who's he hashem through moshe he wanted to enter the jewish people into what we call a brit khadas what is how do you translate that a new covenant but guess what this should not come as a surprise the torah itself says the covenant i gave you is forever from hashem's perspective it was forever however he entered us into a deeper commitment so when we say breath we're talking about a renewed a renewed commitment a deeper commitment he took an oath we made an oath when we went to uh mount grizim and mount evael we stood six tribes on one side six tribes on the other mountain with the lithium in the middle and we set over the blessings and the curses that's when believe it or not on the very first day we entered israel not as you read in joshua chapter one and onward we go into jericho no we first went near shechem to these mountains we took the oath and then we traveled back okay so the the the the war against jericho actually takes place even though it's in the beginning of joshua and the whole ceremonious orchestrated mountainous blessing and curses take place in chapter seven and eight whatever guess what it's not an order just like the torah is not in order neither is joshua so we entered the covenant the moment we walked into the land of israel if you remember back in partials for a god moses says i'm placing before you the blessing and the curse and he goes through basically the whole way they're going to deal with this mountain in sram again to give us the opportunity to enter this covenant to enter this newer deeper commitment it's the same torah but it's a much deeper level now what level are we talking about it's called arvoos arus means collective responsibility i know a lot of people that are watching this are want to be converts thinking about conversion some of the people in this room are also i want you to know that it's not to scare you off but there's something very unique about the way we look at the world that every jew is responsible for every other jew and now you understand why it's so hard to convert right because once you're in you're in forever and if you mess up we mess up if you mess up we are going to carry your sins and guess what works the other way around too and the clear car is going to say none of this really makes any sense on a logical level it's a huge commitment i'm not saying you have to be crazy but he almost says it without saying it this is not logical for anybody to enter this commitment and it wasn't so easy for us either so we entered this commitment it was a huge deal it was it was big in fact i'll use the word huge huge i like that word it was huge okay okay so basically at this point god or moshe god through moshe moshe through god he wanted uh to enter us into this agreement of a british in order to update not exchange right but to update the original commitment that we made at mount sinai which became ruined asher nitkal kale who really performed the avodah zara act do you know that only 3 000 jews were killed you're talking about 600 000 men between the age of 20 and 16 were there plus all the women and children and whatnot you're talking about like three million jews and only 3 000 were killed because they served this idol the golden calf we were responsible we're responsible to this day because we did not rebuke the other jews now we weren't as responsible before this commitment as we are after the commitment but nevertheless we were just we were responsible listen to what he says the reason why we were responsible i'm sorry the reason we ruined the or let's say we affected negatively that commitment we made a sinai right we damaged that commitment we made with god was because we were not yet responsible one for another while we were at cena there's a certain level of collective responsibility but not the full oath that we take once we entered the land of israel i'll give you an example when we said na seven ishmael everyone's familiar with those words it's collective we not we will do and we will hear that's the words we used which means we made a commitment together we like all signed on this on this on this um contract so if one person defaults we're all responsible but what god wanted us to really be aware that this is the reality when you land in the land of israel you're going to end up in that place that holy place that broke hashem we're sitting here right now this is a whole new level of commitment this is when it becomes real okay so before this commitment comes everybody would just do what is right in his own eyes and there's no reason to rebuke anyone else it's called live and let live you sin go in your merry way don't don't bother me yeah that's how it was before this commitment came up alkane therefore arvoos that's why god saw it fit at this point to bring them into what we call the obligation of the covenant of collective responsibility through the oath that was going to be taken still it was uh it wasn't that far it was about a month and a half from the time remember this is all taking place on the day moses is going to die and so it's not until like i think it's 33 days later that we entered the land of israel on the 10th of nisan so it was the 7th of adar this is taking place and it's going to be 33 days later when the nissan we go in to the land of israel so you talk about whatever it's like four and a half weeks i'm sorry i skipped something very important um robbie it's because of this collective responsibility that one would feel the right to rebuke someone else and i say rebuke but he doesn't say that word to return the masses from sin okay because when you know that people are sitting and if i don't try to straighten them out i'm going to pay i'm going to pay for that so i'm going to go out of my way to do whatever i can i teach them lead by example have a conversation right and whatever i can do what does he say love lest i become seized by their sin i will grab like the word nitpasses grab or sees that sin is now hanging on my shoulders now think about he gives a perfect example have you ever signed for a loan for somebody somebody needs a little bit of the cash whether it's because he just needs some flow or because he needs for an investment whatever reason he called our rave hiroshi momono somebody who's in our rafe he's a signing as a co-signer he's going to pay the loan back if the person doesn't pay up so if he sees the the borrower just throwing the money away throwing dollar bills out the window right or not making good investments what will you do he's going to have a couple words with him he's going to rebuke him because why because i'm going to pay if you just take the money that i just go sign and start throwing it away that's that's me losing the money meera penguins tarek leslie belvoro of course you're going to rebuke him unless you're you fear that you're going to end up paying on his account this is exactly the way the jewish jewish people are raving this is exactly the case when one jew is responsible for another azad hell so then anyone who has the ability to give rebuke when he sees an either an individual or the masses turning away from reason i just want to remind everybody the word sechel in maharali in terms means spirit in rambam maimonides terms it means intelligence and i like to combine the two as spiritual intellect call it reason but it's it's spiritual of nature so you see somebody going off the path and you want to return him to the good meaning you'll rebuke him but what happens when you hide from that new now if you ignore it it's just happening all around you you don't say a word you are in his place meaning you are a sinner you are the sinner you are in his place the emo meaning in his barrier whatever reality he set up for himself as a sinner you're enjoying his space and it's not just in this world god forbid it also could end up being and will end up being in the world to come as well and the harabo the sin of the nation or the others are going to be on your shoulders however me she ain't if you do not have the ability to rebuke now i know exactly what that means meaning maybe see if i don't have the ability i would try to find somebody who does that's what i would do but sometimes there isn't maybe he's hiding maybe he's doing it in private you don't know anyway so somebody who doesn't have the ability to rebuke a mustava or no tenet then it's not logical that shiite nitpos zulato it really doesn't make sense that the sin of the other person would cling to you for somehow you would not be held accountable and seizing or grabbing the other person's sin now that has to be the case deemed locain lo chavachte basically i'm going to say that's not easy to translate i have two ways one is figuratively it basically means live and let live you're not going to attach yourself to anybody that's one way to think about it in other words what would you just go to a mountain and not deal with anybody or really i think what it means basically is like this that only thing that kills is sin that's the only thing it's not this whatever i don't do it so i don't get cut off from the only thing that kills the sin and therefore think about it who would why would you want to enter the jewish people why would a jew take this covenant if i'm righteous i could just be righteous in my own right what do i have to attach myself to a community for and die basically that's what's going to happen that's why i you can translate live and let live or the truth is this is people would never enter this covenant it doesn't make sense that i would take this responsibility it doesn't make any sense with this kind of knowledge that you would enter such a covenant now the truth is sometimes we find the greats amongst our generation they are nit passing they somehow seize or grab even the sins of their generation that are nistar in other words we're not talking about the godolm that are in history but the sins that are in this star they have no way of rebuking and yet they're responsible for the sins of the nation you all know what happened with ahn in chapter seven right that again going back to jericho it says clearly don't steal anything don't take anything it's all to be burnt okay don't take any of the slal any of the spools of war and yet he took if you want to go just to give an example in joshua chapter six you see the number two and vert on page one only and only you keep yourselves from the devoted thing unless you make yourselves condemned when you take a devoted thing and make the camp of israel ruin and trouble it right and all the silver and the gold and the villages of copper and iron consecrates with the lord they shall come into the treasury of the lord do not steal anything basically now in um where are we yeah so basically it's like this 36 soldiers of israel died in the war in i and why because of one person one person that was um look in number three see and the children of israel committed a trespass what does it mean the children of israel sinned only achan stole something and the anger of the lord was kindled against all the jewish people i just want you to go also i think on the last page i think it's the last page and joshua 7-11 i heard 7-elevens coming to israel okay anyway joshua 7-11 it says israel has sinned and they've also trans against my covenant which i commanded them they've also taken a consecrated thing and have also stolen also dissembled and they it's all plural israel's sin they did all this thing what are you talking about on page five number three number fourteen it says in hebrew israel israel sin who sinned one individual sin and all of israel is considered to have sinned i hope i'm getting the message across okay remember i told you that the the schematics of standing on the mountains happened on day one when we came to the land of israel jericho happens right away as well that's when we're already responsible one for another okay back back in um back when we did with the golden calf that was prior to this commitment obviously that's what it means this was this golden calf was before there was any placement of any fear on everybody the limu miss saurim and therefore they hid their eyes from the rebels from the sinners they didn't do anything there was no rebuke and now jeremiah he this is nothing new right there's nothing new under the sun it happened then happened again in jeremiah and happens in our day as well what happens jeremiah that's number four in the english sheets so he's um giving rebuke to the people who are the priests the priests are of the the khaneem in the temple they're the ones that teach torah right it says in jeremiah 2 verse 8 the priest did not say where is the lord meaning they didn't teach the people where is god and those who hold onto the turret did not know me can you imagine your your leaders your teachers not knowing anything about god or the torah and the rulers rebelled against me is this new is this only happening now happened yesterday the day before the day before nothing new here and the prophets i should say false prophets the prophets prophesized by baal the false god and followed what does not avail now those i don't like the english translation but basically means in hebrew via logie after those who couldn't help them they followed you guys are following the fake news stop right you're following what you think is the science but it's not it's politicians follow the science not the politicians okay enough said about that okay so let's go back into the clea car lomar shalom because you know what these leaders would say you know what why should i rebuke them it's not going to help they're not going to listen now the truth is many people are stuck in what we call cognitive dissonance you could stick in front of their eyes right in their face the truth the facts and once they made an emotional decision this is true for me they'll look at the same facts you do and they'll come to different conclusions okay it's called cognitive dissonance it's an emotional response that you cannot admit you were wrong just can't you'd rather die first and admit you were wrong it's hard to say but this is what's going on until the point that each person who is a sinner a ko hote you know what rav mari means they're they're bitter they're bitter spirit they're very you know misery loves company don't fall for the misery put a smile on your face raise people up people want to drag you down don't get drugged down but you know what they do these sinners these bitter people they give a blessing to themselves it's all as long as they're okay and they're actually thinking they're doing mitzes they think they're doing the right thing they're so twisted right as you'll hear mardus they consider as if they've released any type of they're not doing a sin they're doing a mitzvah they released the whip or the the the cables the the k the the the ropes of rebelliousness al cain who is of theirs cavillos therefore they're doing so many sins at the same time they're not even aware of it sometimes they're doing it in public and sometimes they're only sitting in private but if the leadership would get up and actually rebuke these people on a constant basis then um the people were sinning as uranium so sofia betsina then these people would be afraid to sin even in private the truth is we are like an orphan generation right pen yuvada davar lets the thing become known so people have no fear anymore but the truth is if if we had good leadership siddiqui walking around and they are they're just not in this neighborhood if that's the case the real people the culprits are the leadership they're going to end up being judged first as we're going to discuss ki kal si bakoden the masuba because all reasons always precede the resultants whatever comes out of it the consequences whatever caused it is really most to blame al qaeda therefore it says now this is very hard to grasp swallow because in ezekiel chapter 9 verse 6 ezekiel is giving rebuke now if you look at rashi on this just for a second uh you know what let's read the verse first old man young man and made in young children and women you shall slay utterly so whether it's god or jessica they're talking to the angel of death so to speak in other words there's some kind of angelic energy that is going to slay and he's saying you shall utterly slay but any man upon whom there's a mark you shall not draw near so apparently those with a mark are going to be saved but you anyway you must commence with my sanctuary now those are the words we're going to focus on what does it mean you have to commence with my sanctuary so rashi says over there those who are standing before my sanctuary which means the leadership which means the true the true righteous ones but read on even though it says in the hebrew you start he's telling the angel to start with my sanctuary don't read it as my sanctuary but my sanctified ones you know when this thing began we saw a lot of rabbis maybe in america and they were wiped out you know a lot of rabbis got wiped out from uh and a lot of tragedies not just this one and people were like what's going on losing faith no not at all you have to understand piranhas is coming to the world there's going to be a lot of people out of work a lot of people isolated a lot of people going through depression and drinking right there's going to be a lot of close down and lockdowns and oppressive government stuff going on whatever there's gonna be a lot of bad things coming god's taking them out early he's taking his righteous ones first and that's what it means listen to the words in rashi don't read from my sanctuary but rather from my sanctified ones from those sanctified to me they're the ones marked with the sign whom he had warned not to hurt now hashem reneged and commanded the angels to destroy even them because the divine standard of justice contended before him and they would ask you know why are these different from those is it not is it not so that they did not protest in other words they're guilty on some level the bigger you are the higher you are spiritually the more microscopic your sins right even if they're small hashem looks at them as very big and they're going to be taken away not because they're guilty of the sin that everyone else is doing they're guilty of their own sin not protesting one of the 613 commandments is give rebuke again what are you going to say i don't have to because not to listen to me no you you're not excused you still have to give again rebuke can be done through inviting people shabbos rebuke can be done through setting up shireem inviting people for a dinner right all kinds of way you can you can bring people closer to torah okay i hope i'm getting this clear so going back to the clear car like it says you shall commence from my sanctuary khazal telus in gamora shabbos 55a from my sanctified ones now this is a very interesting command baba akama if this is in mishpatim where you are responsible if you light a fire right i'm not talking about arson i'm talking about a campfire you must protect it with stones right you have to right you're responsible you know even your own home you would put a gate in front of your fireplace right you would have a fire extinguisher nearby whatever it is you're responsible when you light a fire to protect other people's property especially your own but other peoples as well so the verse here says in exodus chapter 22 5 which you can find and number 7 on page 3. if a fire goes forth and finds thorns and a stack of grain or standing grain or the of the field be consumed now think about it a second what he's going to tell us is that on another level the fire goes forth and it finds thorns thorns are weeds waste like it's um worthless things right these represent sinners so perennials evil punishment will come into the world because of them but what gets consumed first a stack of grain or standing grain or the field be consumed what's consumed the good stuff unfortunately let's see how he explains it when the punishment comes in the world it's because of it's on account of the evil people they know but the first ones to go are going to be the righteous the talmud should over now why is that why is that the case the fee should be what's the word shevit it's not just a a it's not just a tribe it also means a rod a scepter because in their hands is the rod mostly a powerful rod a in order to bring the the the people back from sin however veripoi dayhem rafa's patora ubirkayam but their hands are weak these leaders are weaklings that's what it says they're soft in torah they're weak in torah and their knees are weak in faith that's why hazal tell us and this has to do with rosh hashanah they tell us in gamora rosh hashanah the melech that the king goes into judgment before the masses make sense we're going to see why i really want to go into the gemara but i want to skip over right now in other words he doesn't tell us the reasons but i want you guys to listen it's an amazing thing we're going to talk about the difference in jews and non-jews in the meantime because you know that everybody is judged on rosh hashanah every living being every living being is judged on roshana jew and non-jewish who else besides the king and i'm not on the capital k we're talking about the leadership who else is able who else is should be sensitive enough to to place this idea of your chimayam of fear of heaven on on humankind kibiyodo shave it now there's two words we're using shave it is a ruler like a i'm sorry it's a pole like a scepter multi believe it or not is a ruler but it means a it really also has to do with the law it's here so the ruler the king has both see there's two things one is to shave it that's the the the staff or the rod and the moche which means the rule of law to place enforcement in the land and that's why khazal tell us in huma in parshas amor on air of russia shana godolini to lacrosse tehilah that on er russia meaning on the the day of russia itself that's when the great the leaders they go out to be judged first afterwards meaning the ten days of chuva really it's seven the in the intermediate people and then akaka ko yisrael yom kippurim then the masses go on yom kippur to be judged back to the original thought we saw in rashi the most important ones go first and therefore the righteous are on the first day of roshana then the benonim throughout the 10 days of truva and finally kol ish israel the more important person is going given first judgment [Music] because the guilt of the people is hanging on their heads okay now we're into the last two paragraphs bear with me listen to this alkane syndrome motion but missouri this is exactly going back to the original question we said what did moses see to make this order ready he started out with the heads of your tribes and then your elders and then your officers and then all the men and the children and the women right and the and the the wood choppers and the water drawers right because from the aspect that you enter this covenant of let's say group responsibility collective responsibility the way that's done is that the elders or the leaders go first they always are given first judgment before those who are underneath them the harassing therefore we put first the heads again back to those two words rashem your leaders your tribes we're not going to understand it that way we're going to understand it as your leaders are your shavit the leaders are your rod the the job of the leaders to give rebuke to show the right way ki rashim koi nima zucchini the komakom you only saw the zucchini second the zucchini or the elders they should have a lot of credibility but they're not as important we're going to find out why from a psychological point of view okay let me give you a little bit of an insight the the shave it is a stick that will hit you the zucchini or the elders they speak so kind and nicely and they give you rebuke it's true but they do it with only words now who are you going to listen to the guy with the stick or the guy that speaks nicely so listen to what he says [Music] you always find that the heads come before the elders you're always going to listen to those who would force you by a strong hand whereas the shave at moosa keno that that rod of moussa you know it's going to affect you punish you you're going to distance yourself much more from that than someone who gives you rebuke by verbiage through you know using their mouth alone and we're going to have three verses that prove this point the first one is in proverbs 29 19. go to yeah a slave cannot be chastised with words right we're talking about a lowly person words are not going to do it he needs a little bit of uh let's say a motivator you know we're not we're not for slavery okay we're just saying this is the way it works keep this in mind that's what king solomon the wisest of all men said right this is the way a slave's gonna hear you he's not gonna hear you with words he's gonna hear you when he looks at that wit let's just read the whole verse because he will understand but without response he's not going to respond he's not going to respond he's going to do exactly what you say he'll understand it rashi says one must chastise him with blows and punishments but you know what he says he doesn't speak of an actual slave but about all who disobey the words of the sages and the judges okay the next thing is in i lost my place here it is in proverbs 26 3 a whip is for a horse a bridle is for the donkey and a rod is for the body of fools so if you're a fool you'll get you in other words think about it it would be so nice if we could just listen to god you know what happened nothing bad honestly this because the more understanding you are the less force you need this is what he says again we didn't get to that yet that's okay the next one is proverbs 17 10. the humility caused by the rebuke of an understanding person is more effective than 100 blows to a fool this is the point right if you're humble and you're you're you have understanding so then you'll the humility that causes you to improve your ways of an understanding person is much more effective than even 100 blows to a fool so what we need to do is wake up smell the coffee get with the program and all the promises that the torah gives us will come true but we have to get with the program i'm not saying it's easy but it's commitment and you need a community you can't do it on your own anyway let's continue me call malcolm nevertheless etzela kasilyn lokachi amida when it comes to the fools that doesn't work in other words by the understanding person then you don't need the blows i'll just tell you what rav weinberg always told us when the iraqis at the time believe it or not there was a country called iraq now it's going to be called iran too plus but anyway there was a country called iraq and they wanted to throw these lobby these scud missiles so we were all walking around with these boxes with gas masks now said hashem what does he want he wants us to be unified no more inner fighting he wants us to be unified of course so when every time we're not unified then these things come to us right the anti-semitism or whatnot and before you know it you should see every jews like hey i got room in my nick lot hey you know everyone's so nice to each other we're like under the threat of annihilation he said ravnoch weinberg said we can learn we can bypass all these negative things let's learn how to treat each other correctly love your neighbors yourself truly correctly right bring unity and we don't need because it's going to happen no matter what we are going to end up being unified the question is how right are we going to do it or are the non-jewish anti-semites going to do it for us it's going to be the end is all going to be good question is how are we going to get there okay so now we're going back to the clear car camo you always had with the jewish people two types of rulers rulership authority you had the shavit which is the rod and you had the mokhek which is the the rule of law as it says in genesis chapter 49 verse 10 the scepter shall not depart from yehudah nor the student of law between his feet and hebrew lo yasur shaveth miuda so the shavit the rod will not depart from the jewish people and guess what the mokhe won't either the mokhek won't depart from me bain rug love okay now what is the difference between the two the shavit is these were the like hillels this is what the we call in english exile arc the nasim the rulers in babylon sharodine they were able to rule the people with a rod uh with a scepter what about the mohaik the rule of law as it be translated here as the student of law elena sierra israel they were the princely class in irish israel malam named like rebbe kiva right these were the people that would teach torah in public now just going back to these two ideas khizesh soraro the from yehuda down to the uranus down into bubble that was what we call kingship and surah sanhedrin the the court system the pre the the judges that was the sanhedrin again zest shavit meaning the the leadership in babylon that was the rulership with power uh and there were the others the the the spirit of the lips which we call the torah teachers they have the spirit of the lips again the same rule applies that the sinner or the one who's bitter in spirit he's more likely to listen to the one who rules with the iron rod than one than liv than to listen to the one who only rebukes with his mouth lest he say kiyomarum ah the verse to the time it's just words going back to that idea that it's the king who has the shave it he's the one that people will listen to and therefore all the sins are holding on his shoulders and therefore remember this is nothing at all like christianity i mean i know they held their mashiach to whatever i don't even know if that's the case but this is judaism and it's it's the whole opposite right alkane american khan therefore we're going to say right here right now that the heads the leaders they are on the top of the list of we call an areth kablan is someone who takes total responsibility on account of the people vanatam tom lodova and the reason is as follows the leaders themselves are supposed to be the rod that's why we saw remember we said rashechem in rashi it should say how can that say you're heads of your tribes it doesn't it's saying your heads are your rods that's what it's saying to you at hanno they themselves are the rods that are there to pressure you commandant omar like it says in isaiah chapter 10 verse 5 woe that assyria is the rod of my wrath when we see the palestinians the hamas the hezbollah the taliban the pushtans the isis the al-qaeda doesn't matter this is the rod of god's wrath you understand and they're the shavit api right syria is the rod of my wrath and fury is my staff in their hands kara lasher shavit the first says that ashore assyria is the shavit carla rash the rasheem shave it the passage itself calls the leaders are shavit they're the rod to teach you kiheim they are your rod will be yo jimin as a canine they have more i know so ability power to rebuke than the elders that's why they entered this uh covenant of responsibility first the acharyan call yesterday then only later all the rest of the people who are righteous zika israel the elders the jewish people cake they're the students of law the the sanhedrin so to speak if totally him you meet to russia this is not too surprising but those on the sanhedrin those torah scholars have the ability to cause someone to die with their words yeah they're not carrying around a big stick but you better watch out not to get on their bad side they also have enforcers that rule and pressure the people amnam lokomo hiroshima however they're not like the other leaders rasheem yes remember the heads have more power than in rulership than the elders but they came first afterwards the elders israel and then the rest of the jewish people now this is important for gary i just want to mention kodam the nashville right so you have like you said the heads the leaders and the elders and the officers then you have every jewish male then you have the women and the children because the women and the children do listen till to the the the males and the ger mad the gear which means the newcomer right the stranger the one that didn't grow up jewish he doesn't know how to behave he doesn't know all about the misses until he's been already you know and basically naturalize so to speak all right you know uh with it so he's also under the authority of gom king cole uh el cole ich pratit nisra so he also or she also will have a feeling of being under the authority of every other jew okay now i want to turn to gamora roshana you can see on one side is the english and i really want to stick to the hebrew as much as i can but we'll do we'll try our best it was taught in a bryce a tatar abundant there's a famous we actually say it every thursday uh we're going to be saying it on rosh hashanah in psalms 81 verses 4 and 5. it's on page 5 in the english sound the chauffeur on the new moon on the appointed time for the day of our festival by the way just keep in mind it says which do we have that is considered a a new moon there's only one that's roshana in other words pesach is the new is the full moon sukkah is the full moon you have shavuous which is the sixth day of the month even yom kippur is the tenth day of the month the only hag that we have on a new moon and that we blow the shofar is roshana think about hebrew takabakhara because sound the chauffeur on the new moon on the appointed time of the day of our festival is king david no he never makes anything up he has a tradition all the way back to mount sinai to moshe remain himself okay he's telling us the secrets of life that the day of roshan is the day of judgment it's judgment day how do we know look at the next verse first the statue of israel for israel the judgment of the god of jacob rosh hashanah which we which happens to fall out on the first day of the seventh month since it has to be the jews are never considered stupid i've had christians come to me and say dude you're celebrating rosh hashanah on the wrong day it says in your own torah that a nissan is the first month of your calendar why are you celebrating in new year's on the seventh the first day of your seventh month well i answer him when do you sculpt your when do you start your school year uh september so you can have more than one roshana we happen to have at least four right we have four we have the new years of the fruits the new years of when we tied the animals right the new years of grains new year's for different things you even have it for a school year so we also have it it's for judgement it's on the seventh seventh month what's the big deal not a big deal okay this is king david it's not me right you ain't you you questioned king david wow okay anyway this verse is going to teach us that this is the judgment day for all mankind not just for the jews yes it's in our torah we celebrate it but you should also recognize that you non-jew you lovely person right you came into the world thank god so milame ain't based in sham nicholas guess what there's a heavenly court yes hashem is the ultimate judge but he has a heavenly court and they're going to judge us when only after the court here says it's rosh hashanah so it's the jewish people that established the new moons through their witnesses well today it doesn't work that way that way we're going to discuss that another time i don't want to get sidetracked okay but it's the jewish people who have sanctified and will sanctify the in the future also the new moon so in the meantime it's only once it's done here in this world which means we only sanctified during the day we don't sanctify at night it's very important to know this so in the morning we are judged who's judged so far we only know the jewish people it's a statute for israel what that we're going to establish the new moon in the morning and we're going to be judged in the morning let's assume at this moment you could say everybody but we're going to distinguish it shortly then tanya there's another brace that says it says it's a statute for the jewish people amy ella israel well guess what from that verse i only know about the jewish people being judged lumos oil and nagin how do i know that even the non-jews are going to be judged thomas lomar it says mishpat lillo heyakov it's a judgment for the god of jacob the god of jacob is the god of everything that is only one god and he rules everything and he made everything he even made you the non-jews as well we're going to we're going to talk about some of the comments in a second the k montana loma if that's the case what does it mean the israel what is again we're going back to this other idea what does it mean it's a hoax for the jewish people ah the jewish people go in first like i said we're going to go in the morning like he's the the melekan at zebra you have a king and you have at seymour you have a congregation the king goes in first in we said that the king goes first as it says now this you have to go to first kings chapter 8 59. this is king solomon himself saying i'm going to be judged and the people are going to be judged so you have a text proof that the king goes first it says in may it's chapter 8 verse 59 and made these words of mine which i have made supplication before the lord this is king solomon praying to be close to the lord our god day and night and he sustains the cause of his servant now in hebrew you wouldn't in english you wouldn't know it uh because it says to do judgment i don't know why they translated as he sustained the cause but okay just keep in mind in hebrew it says la sot mishpot to do judgment avedo with his servant which is him the king um when and therefore judgment with his people keep that in mind now going back they want to know the reason my timer there's going to be two reasons given why the jews go in first and the non-jews come in afterwards for judgment the first reason is the love it's not proper for the king to wait outside it's just not derek harris it's just not the way it's done the king should be sitting around waiting for everybody you know let the king go in first and then go back to his palace and there's another reason evil seymour if you want to say you know what the most the judge hashem is going to sit around and see everyone's sins he's going to get quite angry and once he gets angry you don't want the king to go in there now the king is probably not as responsible whatever for the sin itself let him get his judgment over with and then god can then judge the rest of the people now there's some very interesting comments that i want to focus in on um and i don't know where to begin but i'm going to try and you know what i'll just go to the the good part how's that i'll just go there's this idea that the jewish people are judged during the day and the non-jews are judged at night so i'm going to read the comments here it's brought in a medrush you guys don't have this and the era of evoke right we know that verse it's in the beginning of genesis from here you see that rosh hashanah is two days how do you see that how can that be it says there was the evening and there was morning one day okay how do we see that it's a major plea in other words it's it's astounding to figure this out so he says right away that restaurant is two days so explains a book called binat navunim that even though our that israel goes in first to be judged somewhere else explained that the nations of the world are judged and night while they're sleeping now i just want to remind everybody that hashem is loving and kind and he wants a good outcome so the nations they're not so righteous unfortunately so while they're sleeping and they're not doing too many sins god will judge them what the jews are doing misses all day long so god will judge them during the day that is the truth so that's what he says the the nations are judged at night while they're sleeping and israel is judged in the day while they're involved in mitzvas it says now we all know in judaism that what that what follows what that the night follows sorry that if you want to say sha lailah if you want to say the opposite of what judaism says that the night follows the day so then it comes out well that need um now we have to explain it actually works out well that the the non-jews are judged on rosh hashanah that israel is judged during the day of rosh hashanah where as the nations will be judged the following night it's actually the beginning of day two they will know those jews are going to be judged during the day in the morning because that's when we makadesh the dish that's now then the the judgment above will happen and then the this what we call day two the fir the second night is when the non-jew is going to be judged a vow kevan since we actually said we already said the era of evoker according to judaism the night comes before day so what are we going to do there young if that's the case then we have a question here how are we able to say um the the the non-jews what are they going to be judged on the night before us no it has to be the second night he's going to prove it we already know we've already proven the jews have to be judged first that's a fact we're going to read that soon while we're considered the king in relation to the non-jews you have to say you have two days of restaurant and we do melanie israel it's a fact that non-jews are going to be judged the second night of roshana following the jews judgment on day one now this is astounding because it says israel nagabe umos when the jews are compared to the non-jews they're kamelik lagave sibor we're considered the king in relation to the masses in in this case the non-jews okay so here he goes with sieber magdemon america lutibe when you have both to judge the king and the seabor the sheba is the congregation the king always is judged first that's the way the jews are viewed in respect of the non-jews kemelik lagave and that's we are considered like the king in regard to them just like the king is compared to the jewish people the king comes first the jewish people come first and that's just the way it is we are the leaders and we have a great responsibility so don't think oh yeah yeah yeah yeah you're going to have all the privileges it doesn't work like that along with privileges come responsibilities and we have responsibility to mattaking the world and we're not doing such a great job are we so ravenous weinberg says we're the sleeping giant we have a what is a giant very powerful being we have a tremendous power the question is if we're not using it there's no such thing as stagnation in spirituality either going up or you're going down and it don't look so good sometimes but we have to know there really are a lot of righteous people and we have to say them we have to strengthen them and we have to stick with them and clean your glasses and see the truth read between the lines right don't get caught up don't get caught up with the fake news and the false news hang out with the right people keep learning torah and i'm going to just wish everybody right a rosh hashanah right a momish and inspiring time right to think about where you want to be right we're not only being judged on this past year we're being judged on this coming year where do you want to be what are your aspirations what do you want in life not just for yourself but for the world i heard a great person say recently be needed right give yourself to others right if you're needed you may not be saved so to see whatever that word means you may not be granted such a great year on your own merits but if you are needed by others you may be not just spared you may be granted a whole hell of a lot of of of bracha and because you made yourself needed by others so just keep in mind don't learn torah for your own sake learn torah to give away to others and with that i wish everyone a shanna everyone should be written and sealed in the book of life mizrat hashem immediately for good this is hashem so we'll see you next year call tube have a great life see you soon [Music] is [Music]