Parshat Haazinu: Insights to the Song of Moses - Rabbi David Kaplan

I you now take a look at yesterday we started posted on page 1100 hazard Tommy Paulo the rock his ways are perfect keyhole drunk of mishpat kellam una vaina votes Alec vo sure hood now this is brings us to a famous philosophical question you know God is perfect and and it's very difficult for us very difficult to understand if God is so perfect you know why do we see things that we perceive as not being perfect we've got it so perfect so they and I can tell you a lot of things that aren't perfect so for one thing be aware there's a concept in the core of sati Corallo righteous man suffers rush of the Toba and a wicked man a thing seeing things seem to be going well and that the guar says is one of the questions that Moshe obey know a scott when motor ave know the groin Brooklyn says he said to God why is it that the righteous suffered a wicked prosper so we rock artists rojo said to moshe rabbeinu Sadek Vitolo you have a righteous man and things are going well that's a static Ben's attic it's attic was the son of Atari sadek varallo is that Sadiq who suffering is its attic the son of a Russia then the opposite Russia the tov law is a Russia the son of its attic rush of air a low a rush of suffering is a rush of the son of a Russia that's a caddy and Subaru beta but the truth of the matter is that it doesn't really answer the question another question so my fault the guy says he's at sonic what's in his fault his father was a Russia this guy's its audience father's ought to go this guy's deciding his father's Russia to the contrary I've done better I pulled myself out of then I should I should be doing better what sense does that mean what sense does that make that doesn't really answer the question it's I really sidestep the question so the only gonna explains that what I caught his robe was talking to Melissa was is actually tapping into the kinds of the reincarnation sati commence otic means he's eights addict who was its attic in his previous lifetime as well he's it's attic been sanic he was once it's a tak'n I was exciting why did he come back it could be he came back just to correct some minor flaw he was at attic in his previous life there's one time he was in Sheol and he happened to turn to the guy next to him and say he failed to answer one a main eh miraba say comes back to this world in order to answer a main eh miraba and live an entire life but he's essentially it's attic that's why but we have a tradition that a Down syndrome child or a mentally impaired child has the neshamah of its attic in him now I don't know that it's every single child we like what I've said many times we live with the general principle not on the individual level we don't know enough to point any individual but on a general rule that level there's an idea that a Down Syndrome child was a static in a previous life was brought back to this world does not need to study Torah because he already studied her in his previous life he doesn't need to get Mary doesn't need to do various mrs. but it could be in a previous life he missed a couple of amines so he's brought back as a Down syndrome child who is trainable to a certain extent answers are made a few times and then he's got his teeth and he's completed that's it's the kinds of the reincarnation so it's sati commence attic is it's a Tico's it's attic in a previous life if it's out of here to say he deserves good sadiq men Russia he was no good as first time around became its attic this time around but listen we need an atonement for their first time around say lives this life with difficult the same thing that goes through a Russia been sadak in a rush of in Russia that's what the guar says that's what God answered motivate oh there's another idea rev Dessler says sometimes you see the righteous prospering you know why why should the righteous prattsburgh sorry why should the the wicked prosper sensitive Dessler because we have to maintain balance of bashira if every time we saw wicked person suffering and it was clear that he's suffering so then we'd have no free choice that's not worth being wicked what do you see a wicked guy guides McDonald's cheeseburgers and the guys in morale and you see that the guy has got a business in his life if everything is flourishing the fact that he's miserable inside we don't see that he is but we don't see that but the idea of him flourishing doing well living what looks superficially materialistically he seems to be doing well it helps us to maintain our bashira that sort of the success now I want to tell you I'm a Jewish I tell you a very powerful Midrash the Madras is on this concept where most sure beta goes up to speak that goes wrong you have to stay with the start to finish very powerful Madras and the sorts of the meanders not even known Reba Gottlieb told me that it's I saw it brought down in the name of the Ariza really Gottlieb told me he saw it brought down somewhere it's a famous marriage very different versions of it essentially the metrics goes like this God says the Most Rev anna says to God look it's my moans of grace is up there on the mountain getting the Torre says I like to answer your question why do the righteous sufferer in the wicked prosper so God says to motivate oh I will answer you in a way that is the maximum a human being could be answered you will never ever fathom the total depths of my wisdom but i'll give you at least an insight and inclination into how I run my world so God shows Moshe of anal a vision and in this vision mosher baina sees a soldier riding on a horse soldiers riding on the horse it's a very hot day he gets to a water hole gets in tomorrow if you heard the Zack you've heard this med rish huh no you never hear it's amazing memories amazing movie you guys the hot day he's riding on his horse he gets a water hole he bends down at the water hole and as he bends down to take a drink he's got a money pouch full of gold coins that falls out of his pocket and he doesn't notice takes a drink gets back out of our city rides away short time later a 12 year old boy walks past takes a drink and it sees a pouch opens up the pouch wow this is great grabs pouch full of gold coins Ian runs own tell his mother a short time later a little old man comes by goes over to the water hole takes a drink eat some dry bread crust goes to sleep and he lies how they falls asleep in the meantime of the soldiers riding on a source touches the pot oh oh where's my bunny pops yeah momentary the first moment of panic you get when you knows your wallets not when you all it's not there you only want to touch your other proud pockets because you'd rather live with hope then confirm the worst hey oh no right then you go home and you tell your parents your parents always the same conversation well where did you lose it you know if I know where I lost it oh wait don't get smart just answer your mother hey hey no always the same where you go and then you go and you do things like try every pair of pants that you've ever worn you check parents that I've been in the Attic since fourth grade you check where can I put my wall and it's gone so the soldier touches is Paquito can't find goes back to the boro oh gosh I'm the old man's there walks over the other men giving a hard kick he wakes them up he says look no one's been here because up you and me give me my money the old man looks like sins what are you talking about says listen I lost the pouch of money here I know you found it give me the money I'm gonna kill you Jonas is I really don't know you thought about told your sakes soldier takes a sword stabs the old man to death searches his pockets he doesn't fight anything he has vet can occur and the horse and he rides away okay the vision ends vision ends Moshe a penis is it cuz roses was ready see there's perfect justice in the world so much arena says huh exactly oh you heard the magician no sir it says i I don't I don't I don't see any perfect justice here so God says the bus rid okay let me give you a show you another vision let's see if that's good to help enlighten you he chose well sure made a very thick forest in the clearing in the forest there's a clearing in the middle and Moshe rata see the father is walking with his two year old toddler son they're walking through the forest and there's a soldier sitting on a horse back in the thickness of the forest he's got a perfect view of this cleary he's just watching the father in his son walk best suddenly from the other side of the forest a band that jumps out attacks the father they start going rolling around on the ground the soldier is watching this just watching what's happening the band that pulls out a dagger overpowers the father and he stabs him to death searches the father's pocket and he finds a pouch of gold pouch stuff with gold coins he grabs the pouch and he starts running off in his haste to get away he carelessly drops the pouch the soldier has been watching this entire seed unfold he sees the pouch fall comes riding in he picks up the pouch and he rides off in the vision fades he got says motivating seeders perfect justice in my world as I'm clueless tacos roses macho burrito okay i will explain it to you but just remember the explanation that i give you is only the tip of the iceberg and when you see the justice here you'll understand how I run my entire world says the motivator the vision that I showed you at the water hole actually took place 10 years after the second vision in the forest the soldier who lost the money at the water hole in the first vision 10 years earlier was a soldier who found that money in the forest he should have returned it it wasn't his the money was lost the 12 year old boy who found the money at the water hole 10 years earlier as a two year old toddler whose father was brutally murdered he should have inherited the money then it took 10 years and he found the money that was rightfully his at the water hole and the little old man who was brutally murdered at the water hole 10 years earlier was a young bandit he murdered and therefore he was killed and who was he killed by the very same soldier who should have intervened in the forest was brought about and he met him at the water hole and he killed him so God says to moshe rabbeinu god says too much right God says to moshe rabbeinu that's how I run my world a lot that you don't understand because you don't see the details you don't know everything that's going on if you saw the entire picture you see that's all perfect sometimes we you know the feeling you have it's like when you go to one of those so go to go to one of those movies one of those uh intrigue movies one of the type you know and I was always confused this kid but as it could be i never then there's that last scene where everything falls into play oh you mean Snape was a good guy all along oh I was so happy and I was just I was so confused yeah oh you mean uh oh you get that oh that's how of course rocker reruns his world and if we see the entire thing the feeling you had just now is the feeling you'll you will get in your session in the world of truth because in the world of truth all answered all questions are answered why was there a blade of grass why did their picture have to be there why did he have to annoy me all questions in the to come well in our world will be answered in to the degree that a person you see it even in this world with one midre SH you could sense that there's some sort of justice I ok in my wife her doin ain't the first time I told my wife through the storied years ago so if I've said to me and how did the little boy get home from the forest you know I lady yeah I'm sure there was away you know yeah you know you know yeah what what did the guy do originally that he had to get murdered ok these are all the questions are all the other ends you go we don't see the whole picture we don't see the whole picture that's the idea the way God runs the world is sometimes so sometimes in our life we get little snippets how did you get little snippets of a guy who was a poor man against uh Kuwait became rich said you find out the entire story mr. Reichman you've heard of mr. Wright went from Toronto the very wealthy right from in the family okay so we I him why him why mr. Reichman wow what we don't know is what we do know now is that when he was a boy in England there was he is Shiva in London rabbi schneider's you Shiva there were two boys one of his boys took care of bringing going to the bakery and schlepping bread for the entire yishuv every morning that boy was Moshe Richmond and her of Schneider gave him a bracha at the time he said you provided for the entire you Shiva one day you'll provide for the Jewish people okay LeBron uh I don't know about but as far as the as far as you know what goes around comes around you provided so you will provide that's the way it works in life a person who feels that a person sees his life unfolds some of the some of the questions are answered some of your questions are answered not all of them not all of them and we certainly don't even know if the answer that we see is the correct answer that's hot sewer tell people God's ways are perfect God's ways are perfect we don't know and there's a mission imperio that says aim dia they know lo me sir ian siddiqui filmation let me show us are showing me love me sir anthony we don't know why the righteous why the righteous prosper weather why the why this are the wicked prosper and the righteous sufferer that's what mr. Dupree guy what do you mean we don't know the bar says we do I think what the mission of means that at the end of the day we could know it intellectually we understand intellectually but when you see it it still doesn't under it any sense when you see it's addict who suffer you still look at it from a human emotional perspective eh I don't understand it yes I know all the flaws apagar Nations I don't under end of the day we're not capable of understanding and a human emotional level at an intellectual level yes because intellectual of we understand that God roses were a perfect okay what we don't have phone don't know how Z that's Russian on your shiny maybe it's something a nice location doesn't work you know that is that's what it says that there's time get this one of the reasons we're sure I'm are getting paid in this world because you know if you say to a Russia imagine you go to a rush a guy while Russia did am it so you once all the door open for a little old lady now what would you like with like a chain of department stores or will give you something good in the world to come what do you think the Russia would choose the world to come well you know I'll be okay over they'll take the chain as the farms are because in his currency in his currency that's how he wants to be paid ok I'll give it the air but you're not getting it over there because that's that's too far removed you know there's a there's a remarkable statement that the worm eggs which are but I'm sure love its acceleration Shiva the mirror Shiva explains like this he says the person who gets angry come he gets angry angry is a horrific trait angry is anger is a terrible trade somebody gets angry should be seen as if he's worshipping idols and then the guar says somebody who's were yummy who gets angry experiences all sorts of Gehenna mess all sorts of gannan waiting for him up there and not only that he gets hemorrhoids as it were says definitely worse as hemorrhoids yeah okay now i want answer a question I want a question as as unpleasant as hemorrhoids maybe which is worse hemorrhoids or all sorts of levels of gahanna hemorrhoids are painful sores in strategic places and and and it says hey he says and so the guar says a guy who gets angry is gonna go through all sorts of enim get different forms again and not only that he's getting a hemorrhoid I mean can you imagine saying to somebody listen I'm gonna give you a punishment not only you're gonna be not only you're grounded for two weeks your father says you not only you're grounded for two weeks but tonight you can't watch TV now which one would you think of the worst punishment and grounded for doing so we don't usually go from the worst to the minor we go from you know what first of all no TV tonight second of all you're grounded for two weeks that's how we usually talk so i would think logically say by the way you get angry you get hemorrhoids and not only that you're gonna get a whole lot of you hand them to that's north at lizet logically how we should say sir kajal of said so why does the guar reverse it remember everywhere to go more his precise why does he reverse it the answer is what really frightens you poor would you what really gets you more gannam yeah there's again it's an intangible right now so it's kind of far removed so I've told you right now you're gonna get some ghanem but just to keep you honest this to keep you guys just realized there's hemorrhoids right now hey you know yeah that's a that's on account right and that's bad but in your mind in your mind your will oh I'll work it out before that ok well now work it out this go to the pharmacy gets of grief right here you go now you're on your way that's what the work that's so a Russia if you'd say to the rushee did a mitzvah you're entitled to eternal reward or I'll give you a chain of department stores I'll take the department stores I'll give you eternal reward I'll give you I'll give you a Maserati I'll take demands Rathi right why because that's the lives the what he thought that that's tangent that's the cadets the currency therefore that's why the righteous sometimes prosper in this world I wouldn't mind a Mercedes you good shaders would be really good by the way guys my birthday is coming up you know psychos I I don't want to have to drop too many hints in August the start saving up I like Mercedes Michael Jordan Michael Jordan drove a black Mercedes he also kept a couple of basketballs in there because when he would drive to Chicago Stadium you were always driving there was traffic you would drive on the shoulder of the highway so any Chicago cops have stopped him you know he just got you know I kind of the other thing I got over-aggressive and I just thought aggressive that was funny because Michael Jordan I sure never got a ticket but what's is they do you remember the in nineteen if it was nineteen seventy-four they had the first the fur yeah how many for 21 in 1974 I think was like where they had the first key as a lead boycott I think was 74 and then the embargo the Edinburgh oh so the Dodgers of what he called in la along lines of traffic loan why he's a drevak so there was a player named Steve Garvey first baseman on the Dodgers so he had to get to the ballpark and he's in this long line he's filling up with the guests at the pump there's a long line of cars and he gets out of the car and he says everybody I got to get to the ballpark I'm Steve Garvey expecting you know everybody who ya Steve are so there Oh Elmo seniors are gonna sit out a waiting line like the rest of us yeah yeah we all studied yeah just sit out and get your car buddy hey you know you know this yeah respect respect and support loyalty only gets to the gas tank here at their point ok take a look at a puzzles I take a look imposing Zion I'm page 10 of 11 as a bottom of page of 1 1100 it sounds like the zaharia muscle um remember the days of yore be know schnoz darvid or understand the years and generations of Jeff generation shallow via via Gaeta ask your father and he will tell you they connect of the omer law so um the the capillaries point out over you know we're talking about ask your father asked your elders and the Raschi brings out that this referring to the profits that the prophets are the guides of the Jewish people and so on and so forth but the categories point out that this refers to interpretation of world events you know we see world events and you know what do we know about world events I mean ultimately how much do we know it takes somebody who's a tourist scholar in an elderly Torah scholar who has seen the running of the world he's been around he's seen how things have gone to try to even give us a slight interpretation of world events we always try to interpret world of NC a-- what does it mean so I like riff Schiller said yesterday you know the Iranians want to destroy Israel they claim they want to they want to destroy Israel so the Americans say well they don't really mean it well one thing that means is the Iranians are lying to somebody now they're easy lying to their own people or they're lying to the rest of the world either they do on a destroyers really they don't want it as far as though now they say they do and they mean they don't so they're lying to their own people they're lying to somebody how do you interpret that how do you interpret that anyway so it takes an elderly sage who's been through it to tell you what the world events how to interpret world events that's what ultimately the prophets were for that the prophets could look at world events and tell you what what they had bit what that means for the Jewish people okay that's idea no one idea number two here is that shall a via via gade cop we believe there's something called Torah wisdom the elders is a canaan as a cane stands for zee khana hakama as uh can mean that's why i even a young Talmud home is called a zucchini because he is acquired wisdom through his Torah learning he has the wisdom of an older person there are certain people in the world who by virtue of their age are wise if you ever want you know sometimes people have don't have patience to talk to older people I'm gonna tell you something you got to listen to older people listen to other people got what to say they've been through it they've seen it they could look when they've got they've got the wisdom to look back they could tell you a whole lot more than you could possibly imagine because they've been through it they've experienced it a Torah scholar can experience the same thing even at a younger age through the wisdom of Torah the wisdom of Torah gives them that life wisdom so the for example III indicated a couple of examples there was a there's a guy just show you the wisdom how sharp tell me to hell Camaro Torah scholars are there's a guy an older older guy an older fellow who was somewhat socially challenged and it was having trouble getting married shroom guy socially challenged is having trouble finding a wife on top of his difficulties as his own personality he had a condition he had no larly mother had made a precondition any girl marries them has to be willing to let the mother live with them from the get-go yeah aight aight time that's bad and that was that was that was a precondition that the mother-in-law has to live with them he said I can't I can't institutionalize her because I institutionalize her I will always have a resentment towards my wife how can seduce away my mother I'll resent my wife that might because of my wife I institutionally my mother I can't do that so his friend said to him listen Herschel you know you're no great catch yourself you know it now you're creating you're making a situation where difficult we suggest you drop it so her cyl says no no no this is my condition so I said why don't you go speaker of zalmen so they went to Roman's Amador about that song so suppose I want to here's the story he says yes I give you a bra you should find maintain your condition and find a girl who's willing to let your mother live with you great he leaves with shovels ominous front seat what do you say what'd he say he said ah he said I get to do it my way okay months later telephone call comes I suggested Herschel meets ago they get engaged and she's willing to have the mother live with them comes back to some of zombies his rebbe Mazel Tov Mazel Tov Mazel Tov found a girl she's got a golden arches when my mother let Lily says miles of that is wonderful news wonderful lose should be Mazel in Braha and now you have to institutionalize your mother this is what what's like a rebel you told me I said I know exactly what I told you I told you look for a girl who's willing to have your mother live with you you found such a girl and therefore if you institutionalize your mother you can't blame the girl because the girl is not the girls willing to have you but I'm the gondola door and I'm telling you you have to institutionalize your mother because it can't be a nitwit and let your mother live with you the first year of marriage and therefore you're gonna have to institutionalize you hear that you're the wisdom of a Torah scholar hear the whistle and even as you're hearing it you're thinking yourself what is he talking about what can you possibly be talk that's the wisdom and the inside of a Torah scholar I mean sometimes the Torah scholar could take a look at the guy said no matter what i tells I can help anyway he's not gonna listen to me so he's like he's not gonna drop it because I talk so I have to learn him up I have to under in where he's coming from and then based on him that's how you have to guide him that's the wisdom of the Torah scholar there was a in in tight two more stories we have to stop I'll tell you our stories and old yerushalayim around the turn of the century a couple got married it was a few days before pesach I'm around returned in a century 1900 got married the week of pesach they go to the pesach seder hustling comes in and they're at the pesach seder the Hudson looks down and he sees that there's a grain of wheat floating around in his soup Hudson storms out of the room he says I thought this was a god-fearing family you're trying to feed me comments I'm mb I want to get divorced and he storms out makes a ruckus kyle is crying the parents are upset they don't know to there they go with the HUS and they all go to rochewell salon social salon was leader to Jews around the turn of the century Tego dirigibles went home the story says they're not god-fearing I can't have this I got to get divorced I was deceived carrying on and the college crying for him others like clean the house for basic I don't know what could happen so she will salon looks at the puzzles give me your stream oh they're like I'm sitting where his dremel she takes his shrine Mille it goes like this shakes the shrine whole wheat falls out of this tribal house is looking to you fool there's a week from your strombel to fell in the soup you're blaming everybody else was your own your own wheat fell he said you ever really had it how does that we get my strength you fool you fool you just got married last week you know that there's a custom in your Schleim that when the hustling and the collar walk down to the hook or walk away from the Hopa so everybody throws we did them so the wheat got stuck in your stream oh you know good Nick and so you're blaming the world it's your own fault haha mother Pecos the peak loose of a gutta bistro there's a guy comes to a row he says to this drove I want to get divorced saurabh says to why do I guess my wife is always cranky and she's always crutching and complaining and I can't say it's not for me I just want to get divorced so it says listen getting divorce is a big step I suggest you know we have a tradition in Judaism that before you do something we should pray Davin and before we die but we change a person's name you know sometimes you add a name let's try this verse if we have to get the words you get the virtual it's transference what's your wife's name he says brock this is okay i want you to I want you two to add a name will call her Sarah make her name sir abraha okay let's see what happens 2000 for two weeks i'll see if in two weeks if there's no chaser we'll talk guys look at zero says one second but you know if you're adding a name it's gonna take you a while to get used to the name so what I want you to do is I want to get you seen them are you in the morning when you wake up I want you to say good morning sir abraha and after you eat lunch I want you to say thank you for the lunch sir abraka before you go to sleep at night I want you say goodnight sir Abraha and wait till there for two weeks and we'll see if after two weeks maybe the name change will help but you love it two weeks later the guy comes he says Rebbe the school oh the name change it uncle she's in a good mood now all the time and she's always a sure the I was treating his life my wife like a bore all of a sudden he's smiling he's saying good morning saying thank you he's treating her like a mention also the wife said a good boo that's all day as all takes to put away for good with one thank you one good morning takes you like to put that to put you put your wife in a good mood that's the wisdom of hakama of a gonna be so oh my god shall be in sight the foresight to see that's a hook with it so they go shower BTW i gave her zakiya haveeru elderly tom atomic off i'm in general is a great person to ask the older the tom mclaughlin the better off you are he's got life experiences got the horse a tour that's the idea i had a guy ask you right before before yom kippur east rd SE some philosophical question about cuba he said how do you chew of amira and Shuba met you've out of fear and Juba I loved you others how do you work on it I said to my have no idea sit through what do you mean it said listen I'm still trying to work on saying good morning to my wife with a smile when i get past that then i'll talk about you buy me you're at chipper me iva let me take one thing at a time I haven't buried that when I only married 35 years 33 years you know after i get that down then we'll worry about you honey you're at alright Marcus iwatobi gentlemen you