Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: Abraham Gave all that He Possessed to Yitzchak

[Music] welcome home to torah a very warm welcome of course that's what we always say and that's what we always mean here we go we're in chapter 25 of genesis we are partial it's towards the end so i implore you go to the website either you can go onto the given website and check out the other vid videos or on um maybe i'll put some links to some previous videos in the description box below native is rather shem so we are near the end of the parsha and it says in english that avraham proceeded and took another wife not everyone translates it as preceded but the word the yosef what does that mean the yosef avraham so we're going to see that it means another time and it's a very awkward word for taking a wife to tell us that he took an additional wife so abram took another wife isha okay he took the wife and her name is katura and as we will see rashi says this is the very same hagar that he had been married to earlier sarah's handmade that he picked up from egypt that she picked up from egypt and that when she had no children she said take my handmaid as a wife and she had given birth to none other than yesh mahel so we're going to deal with not only ishmael as a child of avraham but also the six additional children that qatar had as well of course it's not let's not forget yitzhak okay so here we go rashi mentions right away and we'll just read from the clear car because he says exactly quotes rashi has he returned and he married hagar which means the katara really is hagar but why is her name here katura we know her as hagar and the torah changes her name avraham changes her name why she called keturah al-shame now this is the only um this is the only reason that the car brings down but rashi brings down two reasons let's just deal with this reason but let's make sure we understand what rashi's saying rashi says because her deeds were as beautiful as incense all right incense has this beautiful or uh really pleasant aroma that's what incense has and that's all he says well i shouldn't say that that's the first incident that's the first statement then the second statement is that in aramaic the word katura means restrained tied because the whole time that she was away from avraham she was chased she was not with another man meaning she maybe believed that she would go back to abraham and she remained pure from not intimate with any other man from the time she had separated from abraham so we're not going to deal with the second point okay we're going to just stick to the first point because all her deeds it implies that all her deeds were as beautiful as incense now this is a little bit strange as we will see why because we're going to link her to the possibility to the alleged right the alleged um sin of idol worship when she was away from avraham so we're going to have a problem with rashi but in the meantime the clear car says the yosef even the word yosef implies a second time and she married her that he married her a second time now once we understand that the islamic lite llama korok it's very nice right we gave a very good solid reason because all of her actions were nice beautiful naim pleasant well were they right away the cleo car says this contradicts something else that rashi says somewhere else the soy tere la masa parish rashi parshas vaira last week's park should go to chapter 21 verse 14 and it says when abraham sent hagar ishmael away it says at the end of the verse and she went and wandered i'll read the whole verse and avarama rose early in the morning and he took bread in a leather pouch of water and he gave them to hagar he placed them on her shoulder and the ch and the child and sent her away and she went and wandered in the desert of bear shadow but in hebrew the word for wandered she went and she wandered is the word the straight get the word wandered strayed what if it's talking in spiritual terms she worshipped idols let's see rashi rashi says right away she went and wandered she reverted to the idols of her father's house okay that's a strange thing because rashi says here in our parsha that she's named katura because of her beautiful actions because of her deeds so this is going to be a fundamental class in chuva what repentance returning to hashem having an intimate relationship with god how that will in have you saying like it's like setting back the clock it's as if those things never happened is that true what i'm saying could it be wait to hear this it's not only as if it never happened but it happened and it's counted as merits it's counted as mitzvahs it's going to have a nice smell like mitzvahs have a nice smell this is incredible i don't want to give too much away let's follow the outline as we always do in this class of the clia car so i'll just go back to read what um the clear car says regarding these words and she went and wandered just as rashi mentioned she returned to the idols of her father's house now the clear car says this is his insight do you remember when he originally sent her away it was because sarah was the one who said get rid of her cause her to leave. it means secondary just like that word is used in kashrut right you have ikar which is the main or the primary or the majority and car is usually what we call secondary or not so important here it means he was secondary in respect to the prophecy of sarah he was not on her level she was the prophet of the family okay she was the main she was the main the main she was she had it she had it right she was it she had the direct communication the yoda sarah ben nevua what did sarah know through this prophecy that through her prophecy was that sofa she knew that this woman hagar would return back to the the idols of her forefathers and so this was one of the reasons that she said to get rid of her the gum rasabi is but you know what sarah also saw that ishmael also was what um right in the hebrew in the english it calls it here i have mary well we'll talk about in a second but that he was um reveling that he was like a jokester he was a jester he was doing things that were what we call mitzah the problem is that word infers idol worshipping when the jews stood at the mount sinai when israel was still at mount sinai we supposed to receive the the ten commandments on the 17th of tammuz we instead we were involved with the sin of the golden calf right before moses comes down because he was delayed and what is the what does the verse say over there in exodus 13 sorry 32 6. on the next day they rose early offered up burnt offerings and brought peace offerings and the people sat down to eat and drink and they got up to make merry in in the art school says revel me to make mary the yakumu li so look at rashi this word that's connotes or implies not just one sin of avodah zara vital worship but also sexual relations sexual immorality as well as murder we all know that was killed so too there was also sexual immorality going on uh if you saw the movie you know that anyway getting back to our point here that the word mitzah which is used by by ishmael is the same word used by the sin of the golden calf which implies idol worship okay so if that's the case back to the clear card when it's used by ishmael it also implies that voting mar as we just read in our verse in exodus 32 6 via kumu litake fine so too it also says in um 2110 in our genesis 21 10 that when it was sarah that said to drive out this handmaid but whom and her son there's an equation or that that's what you call it there's shove that there's a the making it equal just like she's to be driven out so too her son is to be driven out because she had this idea this prophecy that they're they both will end up worshiping idols and let's see let's see the the hebrew vitamin abram right send out the the handmaid and her son and her son we're going to deal with the rest of the verse later so i don't want to give too much away at this point the reason that they're equated is because they're both equal in this respect and then you go back to the rest of the verse what sarah said was for the son of this handmaiden should not inherit with my son yitzchak what does that mean that he ishmael will not has not inherited and will not inherit the positive actions of avraham in fact the torah itself when when ishmael was born he does mention that that abraham was involved in the birthing process but it was yolda mee hagar hagar is the one who gave birth to him as opposed to yitzhak where it says that avraham gave birth to yitzhak so when we it's another class we talked about the difference between nurturing and nature and nurturing so there's an idea of the nate the nature part that in the dna in the character the ishmael had hagar's nature and therefore the nurturing doesn't really take that much effect it's harder but it can have an effect but it's the nature that's harder to conquer whereas yitzhak is attributed to avraham because the dna the nature is he's more like avraham okay that's a side point but he goes on to say that the the right the verse in the following verse verse 11. that this greatly distressed avraham right the word raw right evil in the this thing was not good in the eyes of abraham it greatly distressed him so that is um look at rashi because he had heard that he had fallen to his wicked ways so the distress was the fact that avraham was disturbed by ishmael's actions now that doesn't seem to be simple shot but rashid does bring it down first second thing he says according to a simple meaning it means he was distressed because sarah said send away your son that's pretty distressing and that may be the simple shot but if rashi brings in he heard he had fallen to his wicked ways either he had already started to fall into his wicked ways as opposed to what sarah is prophesizing that he will so that means he already has okay let's go on let me just see if i have something else here to share okay let's go on what distressed him was yes according to the first shot his evil actions but he didn't know through kodesh that they what was going on inside the heart only right a prophet would know or hashem would know right obviously hashem would know prophet would know but a normal human being doesn't know what goes on inside the heart of someone else and avodah zara is inside the heart so he wasn't fully aware of of everything so marlo that's why god had to urge him to listen to sarah she knows what she's talking about as the verse in the following verse 21 verse 12 said sorry all that with sarah had told you listen to her right as we all know the famous gamora that says if you have a short wife bend over and listen to her you have to listen to your wife right she's uh she has a higher level of ruach than the men and this is one of the places we surely learn that abraham was considered secondary in respect to prophecy and what did he do immediately the he sent her away as if he had divorced her but then what happened to her as we saw later vitalik with tata she went and she wandered what does that mean cashier amra just a sorry i predicted sarah saw that her end would be with idol worshipping if that's the case after he sent her away due to the sin or the evidence that she did worship idols then we're left with a very important question what's the kasha how could he have taken her back didn't rashi say not only did he take her back but he named her katora because of her beautiful deeds what kind of deeds were they if she was worshipping idols alcanbola tarades that's why we're coming to answer the very important question the llama to tell you what and that's the most beautiful thing she repented yeah anybody can repent from the most heinous sins from the most severe and horrible infractions and crimes kamal yishmael bonna just like ishmael her son shastagam kantruva we know the ishmael the triva ishmael was around for the akedah when isaac was brought up onto the altar to be offered up as an ola right eliezer and ishmael they were there later on ishmael shows up for the you know in the text for the burial of avraham and that's clear in the text so if he was there for that that means he detriment why would he be there so listen to this rabbi fran asked a good very good question how can we all talk about the proof that he did trouba from the funeral why isn't he regarded as having don chuba when he came back for the akedah much earlier so he gives a very great answer i really like it he says that when he came back when yeshua came back for the ikeda he just happened to pop in that day and that was the day of the cata and he was on his best behavior he's around his father so his behavior his actions might not have been the shema because if you have an alter ulterior motive such as being on your best behavior you can come after not seeing your father for so long i'd like some riches i could really use a new car i could use new shoes whatever it is if you expect a favor if you act nicely but at the funeral there's nothing you can get right it's finished he's dead he's gone and it's called it's the true act of generosity and kindness because you're there to bury somebody and there's nothing you can get in return there's no thank you right nobody's going to call out from the grave looking up and say thank you very much right it's done and over with so now we can attribute that he for surely the truth when it comes to the father's funeral it could be the truth already when he came back to avraham the day of the the uh the kid as well but to attribute that he did chuva anyway the truth is this and this is very important to know that ishmael will do truva in the end of days and perhaps we are either approaching them or far into them i don't know the measurement i believe we're already into them into the beginning of them i should say okay so ishmael will do true in the end of days we're going to see later if you hang in there for another maybe an hour we're going to see that asap also will do truva at the end or well let's see i don't want to get ahead of myself let's continue the thing on them our laws we just read the verse fine and then he sent her fine here we go to the last point so echo how could you have taken her back and we said this comes to answer that she did true just like ishmael's son the true fight and there's a gamora baba basra let's just read it real quick do i have it here on the sheep it's 16b it's really just the one line that i underline alternatively i i will tell you let's go back to the beginning i don't think it's really relevant for the class but i think it's very good to know because in our benching right when we bench we say right i call the call everything is good listen to this the tour says that hashem blessed avram with everything but ko this you can find in genesis 24 1. the avraham that god blessed him with what with the coal so some say grubby mayor said it means because he didn't have a daughter god blessed him with everything do you imagine having a daughter you have to marry them off what a pain okay so that's one idea rebutta says no on the contrary the very fact he did have a daughter in fact her name was bacall so what a beautiful name to name a daughter named bako anyway so the gomura mentions that aesop did not rebel in avram's lifetime in other words well we talked about this earlier in the week that avraham died at what age [Music] 175 and yitzhak died 180 if we go back to the beginning of time people are living a thousand years 900 years 800 years right by time in noah god says people will only live 120 and rapidly the um life expectancy rate had started to diminish so you would expect that the son would live less than the father but the father was taken away five years earlier so avraham died 175 his son died 180. god took abraham out around just a little bit shortly after the bar mitzvah of his grandchildren asap and ishigako and the very day that yaakov was making porridge or as we would say lentil soup what was that that was the day of avraham's funeral his death and what happened there unfortunately for ishmael anyway this guy had he sold his birthright to us which i guess that's good for us so it says here ishmael repented in avraham's lifetime um one second i'm sorry so we're going to go back to asa uh asap again fine so it says where do we know that aesop did not rebel during abram's lifetime so in genesis 25 29 and yaakov was cooking a stew and asap came in the field and he was faint what does that mean on that day abraham our father our forefather passed away and jacob our forefather prepared lentil stew to comfort isaac because that's comfort food he was making that for the mourner his father isaac as his customary things that are around the reason we give food that is round like hard-boiled eggs is because of the gilgal to remind people this is not the end the cycle is a cycle of life things go forward and onward and this is not the end and here what is the diff what is different about lentils it that they are in particular uh are the fair customer offered to mourners this is what they say in the west in the west is israel see when they we talk about the east we talk about babylon and the yeshiva is over there so in the name of rob mari just as this lentil i mean it's not a pac-man that has a mouth right it's totally round has no mouth doesn't have a crack like other legumes so to the mourner is sitting in quiet he has no mouth because his anguish prevents him from speaking another idea is lent was completely round so too mourning comes around to the inhabited inhabitants of the world the gomorrah asks what's the difference between the two explanations um we might as well read this because it's very interesting and the gomorrah answers there's a practical difference between them with regard to whether it is appropriate to consult a mourner with eggs which have no openings but are completely round ravioli said the wicked asof committed five transgressions on the day that avron died he engaged in sexual intercourse with the patron maiden he killed a person he denied the principle of god's existence he denied resurrection the dead and of course we know this he despised his own birthright okay so the main point of this whole thing was that ishmael ishmael did repent in avraham's lifetime as we said already by the time of the ikeda even though we don't attribute it fully until the day of avraham's death let's go back now into the clear car and we said like this okay in order to publicize this idea that that this woman hagar had don chuva from the idol worship he named her by the name katares kade la farseem the kosher asked so everyone should know that she did true this is how important shuva is the kobale chuva and this is a very important lesson anyone who repents anyone who's a master of repentance he's not simlo this needs a little bit of an explanation and we're going to see more yuma shortly but let me just try to explain in judaism the way we see it is okay i don't know what the other religions say but if you would repent what would you think you did a sin you repent it gets wiped clean that's what you would think but that's not what happens in judaism something much more profound and beautiful so it depends if you do this repentance out of love or after you do it out of fear so there are things called intentional sins which are much worse by the way than unintentional sins as you can imagine so what's what's the problem if you do an intentional sin god's not even interested in your carbonate there are no uh sacrifices there's no blood sacrifice no sacrifice is described for i think like 99 of the intentional sins there's a few exceptions but out of all the intentional sins the basic ideas god wants you to do to do chuva he wants you to repent he wants you to change your ways you did it intentionally you know full well what you did and now change your ways that's it no sacrifice at all is recommended or prescribed or even accepted if one brought it would not be accepted not by the cranium and certainly not by god it's just not prescribed you don't bring an offering like that that's not required okay so if you did an intentional that's an intentional sin what about unintentional sin so then a for most of them only the most severe ones obviously even the unintentional sins there's many many that do not require any kind of corbin right also it's god wants you to repent that if you did repentance out of fear from an intentional sin from fear it gets like chalked up as if it was an unintentional sin right that's like it's upgraded wow it's like i did it unintentionally in god's eyes but if you did truva out of love it doesn't get wiped out like the previous one basically gets wiped out because that's really it's basically being wiped out guess what happens it turns into a positive the actions the sweat or whatever you did your thought processes are so cleansed that it becomes like incense that arises and goes up to hashem like a sweep i mean this sounds incredible how can this be this is the metaphysics of judaism okay so we hope and pray that we all do true god of love because if we ever did intentional sins just to get them wiped out like unintentional sins who needs it you got the best program it's like a great program you know what i mean go for it all the uh thousands of years of jews and you know passing this information down was not for naught it was all for you to you to know this most important information do truva out of love and all that energy and the negative stuff doesn't just get wiped away it becomes like an offering to hashem it's so beautiful so let's read the words as he says the kolpata shuvan nasim low has done and let's go and read the gemura in in yuma 86 a that's number eight on the english store sheets ray schlecker said great is repentance as the petitioner's intentional sins are counted for him as unwitting transgressions we're going to see this is one statement as based on a verse return israel to the lord your god for you have stumbled you have stumbled in your iniquity now the good morning asks one second doesn't iniquity mean intentional sins yet the prophet calls it it's stumbling implying that one who repents is considered as though he only stumbled accidentally in his transgression the gomorrah is that really true didn't rush lucky say great is repentance as one intentional sins are counted for him as actual merits as if he did mixes and the verse is based on ezekiel 33 19 and the wick and when the wicked turns from his wickedness and does that which is lawful and right he shall live thereby so what does that mean let's just read in hebrew regarding him he's considered alive meaning all his deeds even his transgressions will become praiseworthy how does that work if we have the other statement saying it doesn't work like that and this one seems to say it does ah it's not a difficulty that the gomorrah says here when one repents out of love then his sins become like merits right they were in the black now they're in the red is that how you do it the other way around i think they were in the red and now they're in the black is that how anyway you know what i mean from the negative to the positive but when he repents out of fear then his sins are only counted as unwitting transgressions so if israel like i mentioned earlier that we show up as rat hashem do repentance out of love it's just worth it it's like it's a win-win win win win right okay let's try to all get on the same page so here we go what happens is those intentional sin goes up like a sweet aroma just like the mitzvahs just like the merits that we do al that's why she was compared to the incense yes she went off and did it worship and now we have no no contradiction it's true that she did that and raj she still said earlier on that her her actions were what actions were beautiful not the avodah zara part but guess what if she's the true vote of love then yes all those actions all those efforts actually turned into positive things and where do we also learn this from there are 11 different ingredients in the incense itself there's one called and it has the most fail odor it has a i can use other words to describe it okay worse than a skunk okay worse than a skunk and yet the other 10 ingredients when they're all by themselves they have an okay perhaps even a very nice aroma but when you add that one thing they'll call the hellbonna that horribly foul odor item into the other ten it enhances the other tent actually the whole thing is unbelievable you couldn't even stand it if you were pregnant you walked by you'd be ready to give birth it was unbelievably positive right it was unbelievably great when it was all combined together and that's what he says once you um once it was mixed in it made everything very nice the zadinyo knows and this is a very good comparison a really beautiful comparison on the khate habali truva regarding the sins of someone who's in the process of repenting they will go up they will be elevated as a sweet savior or a pleasant aroma just like it says now go to isaiah chapter 40 verse 2 think about this isaiah coming to rebuke the people speak to the heart of jerusalem and call to her for she has become full from her host for her iniquity has been a piece now it could be we're talking about already the concept of being in exile but because of the punishments and the suffering that's called repentance part of the repentance process for her iniquity has been appeased for the for she has taken from the hand of the lord double for all her sins means she suffered enough so what does it say in hebrew nerds is accepting and appeased basically it means pardoned right it's not just pleasing and appeased it's forgiven it's accepted by hashem the sin itself is accepted by hashem in the most positive way right as a sweet aroma as a beautiful aroma that after one has repented then the sin is also the sin itself is actually a pleasure it's a pleasure and it's pleasing and accepted by hashem we're talking about with someone to chew that of love right otherwise it just gets wiped out which is fine i mean how why we should all do truva on the minimum minimum level but that's not just the starting point right wouldn't it be great if we uh we detrove it from the highest level and that's why she's called kataurus okay so now we're going to continue okay now we're going to verse 5 and verse 5 says avraham gave all that he had to isaac so the truth is it's going to go deep into a um into a rabbit hole okay that i'm going to make sure i get out of you know judaism is not racist anybody can join right and we are of all races and kinds right so there is a difference though there are two types of people in this world there are jews and there's non-jews however even within the jews there's different levels and even within non-jews there's different levels so we're going to talk about a who's not a a um who's not keeping the seven no god loyals or didn't accept them because they came from harsinai okay so we're going to use the word in the sense of a non-jew who has not come and accepted the mission of the jewish people who's not necessarily admitted to the one god of israel and does not support as i mentioned the mission of israel so we will get to it shortly but we're going to talk about both ishmael i shouldn't say we already talked about him we're going to talk about the six sons of qataris of kotora we went to the east and we're going to talk about asaf and i think i think we probably will talk about ishmael again i don't remember but let's go on so verse 5 says abram gave all that he had possessed to isaac everything that he had everything that belonged to avraham he passed on to isaac which means he did not pass them on to the other nations meaning yeshumera asaf and for this matter at the six sons of katura havier nakalam mikopanov he actually transferred right passed over all the other children and gave everything to isaac that's what the verse says remember what sarah said what did sarah want when she said these words when she said to avraham to get rid of hagar originally because she did not want the son of hagar to inherit and that's what it says for the son of this handmaiden shall not inherit with my son remember god actually agreed with sarah and told abraham what did he say kola share tomorrow everything that she says to you sorry your wife listen to her voice because it's yitzhak he is going to be called your seed and what does it mean now when it says kalashella everything that belonged to him everything that belonged to avraham hainu komashishta everything that avraham worked for you know he was a real pioneer in monotheism right in in spiritual truths so everything that he achieved everything that he worked for everything all his efforts all his labor all his toy personal toil that is what uh belonged to him meaning literally everything by the sweat of his brow and by the labor of his hands that would be something that is unique and special hit it belongs to him everything that came from his own hands because who else would he want to give this to other than yitzhak who could actually appreciate what avraham i'm going to say created or discovered these spiritual truths uh who would be able to appreciate other than yitzhak at the ko natan he gave everything over to isaac avalivne but to the six sons of hagar now this is very interesting because rashi had i assumed based on this and other comments have been made that swarashi's safer torah was missing a letter yud in letter in the word pilagshim palakshin without a yud would mean singular not the concubines but the one concubine and we already know that avraham had this one concubine named hagar we can deal with that another time why did rashid not have the same masoretic text that we have i don't have an answer but it seems as though he does okay this is very interesting because so what did avraham give he says he gave gifts to those six children and sent them eastward which gifts if it says right before right because you look in the verse we were dealing with verse five where it says avraham gave all that he had to isaac and then the next says he gave he but to the concubine children who were abraham's abraham gave gifts so what could he have given them if he already gave isaac everything what did he give to them so he gave to them what he received from pharaoh do you remember when there was a famine in the land and him and sarah walked out and went down to egypt and he said tell them you're my sister so don't kill me right and pharaoh found out and he's all upset you should have told me that she was your sister but they did give him gifts pharaoh granted him all kinds of gifts you can see that i'll tell you that's genesis 12 verse 16. and he benefited avraham for her sake and he had flocks and cattle and donkeys and manservants and maidservants she that she donkeys and camels it was these gifts so we're going to see the difference between the gifts that you didn't work for and the gifts that you really worked for so the things that he personally worked for and acquired that he gave to yitzchak but that which was external and could be we're going to see shortly the idea of transferable goods that go from hand to hand that he gave those matanos as gifts to the egyptian children that he fathered through hagar as the clear card goes on it was those gifts that he got because of sarah when in verse like we just read but there's another verse where he told them he had told faro that because pharaoh basically said to him why did you say she is my sister vaznes so he gave avraham gifts voice matanos miseries it was those very same gifts that he received from pharaoh that he gave over to the children and this is a very important concept in metaphysics you call it karma you call anything you want but it's torrent and it says like this ki dinhu shimi makkam shabu the idea is why did he give those gifts to the egyptian children because logic dictates or the consequences of the world are that wherever something comes from it eventually makes it way its way back to that place it re it's being returned to its giver as some of the texts say or it returns to its place of planting the very place that it was that it sprouted from which is very very interesting this is the reason why all jews should come home to israel because this is the place from where you were hewn this is the place where you sprouted this is the place where you were born from your soul is automatically connected you just gotta let your body you know flow so buy your tickets and come home okay alternatively this is going to be very mystical that what did avraham give yitzhak he gave him now it doesn't mean he gave him his portion although that's what it says here he gave him the whole concept of a portion in the world to come he gave it through his dna as we know that uh it says in right every jew has three characteristics of being a rahman being merciful being a baishon being bashful and of course goemel gomer and that we received from abraham who was a gomer he was full of kindness that was his character trey but also the concept of the torah the ka and that's why i say there's gonna we're gonna talk about the difference between different so they're going that except the torah are not going to be included in this earlier category which we'll see soon but basically so what did he give to yitzhak and we already know right since that every jew every all of israel has a portion of the world to come and then it lists different principles and characteristics and then it also mentions uh some certain people again probably as principles of evil people who will not get the world to come and bila is mentioned there now everyone's there's jewish except billam so what's bill doing there everyone explains that this is the opening to let you know that non-jews righteous non-jews to keep the seven laws do go to heaven otherwise why would you need to list the guy that didn't get in because also the difference is like this and i i don't wanna nobody should shoot me basically when it comes to the jewish people it it's like you have to work against the grain to lose your place in the world to come and when it comes to the non-jew you have to work hard to get there okay so i don't want to discourage anyone but i want to encourage everyone right that the jews should know you got to get with the program keep with the torah otherwise you will find a way to forfeit your world your place in the world to come and then non-jews is plenty and we're going to talk about one very shortly a famous non-jew a king that converted to judaism but before he converted he was already a righteous non-jew okay so let's go on so we're now discussing this idea that what did avraham he gave him what we called let's call et cola cherilo because we said he gave them everything that was his what is what is the real acquisition in this world do we die with our mercedes-benz with our lamborghini with our i don't know diamonds and our i don't know what kind of boots are our sneakers are very popular today none of that means anything but whatever belonged to him that's what he gave him kimashibak or abraham this is what avraham would choose if you say what portion do you want i would say that's the portion the the heavenly portion the world to come eternity that this intimate relationship with hashem forever basking in this light of of of god of the divine presence and that's the reward that's the scar that's the real reward the one that's waiting for the world to come as it was already promised avraham in chapter 15 verse 1. so i have that number 12 on the sorshi after these incidences the word of the lord came to abraham in a vision saying fear not abraham i am your shield we'll see the hebrew in a second your reward is exceedingly great i heard the voice in that vision lay more saying do not fear avraham i am what does it mean your reward is exceedingly great this is it the the the reward for abraham is the jew has to know the reward is not in this world and that's what it means at kola shalom all that he gave to him with absolute certainty they lazaro nito not to be shared with others this has nothing to do with anybody outside of this promise yes this actually comes to exclude something that is called movable goods transferable goods money things that move from one hand to another ainosha that's not considered yours what's yours is embedded in who you are these are all external superficial uh movable objects that goes from one person to another because it's very possible that if these are movable goods or things that are external from you then anybody can come and plunder them or take advantage of them but that which is inside you can never be lost or stolen right as long as you have a sense of um you know self-worth and self-esteem right people have been put to many tests right we know this when you have values they can never be stolen from you right we want truth and justice and you'll stand up for it you're not going to bend for the as the wind blows as they say now we're going to talk about a famous king king moonbots king moon baz who was he so it's a big macholo because i have to tell you that rashi holds that he was a hasmonean king a son of queen helena and toast those agrees and this is a big problem because later on many before she explained now that he was a righteous gentile who did later convert okay he later converted so basically i have here i don't know what website i took this from it was the ou it mentions moonbobs is the king of aberdeen at dabbing at the end of the second temple period which was a small kingdom in north of syria on the banks of the euphrates but they came from kings of persia of iran and then in the generation prior to the destruction of the second temple at queen helena together with her sons mumbas and itsus they began to study torah with the jews who traveled to their kingdom and they eventually converted to judaism it appears that other members of the ruling elite did so as well but rashi mentions that they did so in private uh helene visited jerusalem a number of times and made donations to the temple and to the destitute people living there her children followed in her footsteps it's like amazing if you were yet a non-jew right and you were either interested in converting or being a righteous no height what would you do you would support the mission of the jewish people her children found in her footsteps and even sent troops to support the jewish uprising during the great revolt upon his mother's death mumbas declined the position of the monarch in other words he would have been the king the non-jewish king allowing his brother to become king but he took the but he took the throne upon his other brother's death he eventually did become king stories about this family including detailed accounts of their conversion appear in josephus it appears that after his death moon boss was buried in the graves of the kings in jerusalem together with other members of his family so now we're going to read the famous story of mumbas and hopefully we'll be able to incorporate these things into our own lives jews non-jews doesn't matter these are metaphysical truths the sages talk there was an incident involving king moonbuzz he liberally gave away all those treasures when when there was a horrible famine and a drought what are you supposed to do you have all this money in the storage and people are starving they're going to die and they went ahead and he started distributing it very liberally but guess what his brothers were a little bit uh i don't know upset they joined together against him and they protested his actions and they said how could you do this your ancestors like stored up all this money in their treasuries and even they added to it not only did they keep it from being used but they kept adding to it and what are you doing you're just giving it away to the poor you know he said to them my ancestors stored up all this below meaning in this world whereas i i'm storing it above meaning all the mitzes all the merits all the people i'm saving all the you imagine what i'm doing giving to dhaka as it says in psalms 85 12 this is his answer he knew the torah truth will spring up out of the earth and righteousness will look down from the heaven the truth is very deep stuff and i prepared a lot and i don't think right now i'm going to spend the time going through word for word but you know what maybe maybe maybe just maybe for that one i will you know what it's worth it it's really worth it so this is the benja nobody has it except me right now so what does it mean above or below so the word oatsair which has been used in the text ultra means a storage house it's a like a silos where you would store things it means a treasure let's use it like that it means a treasure so if you take the letters that are above meaning before actually so osiyos uh lamala above sorry so above means after so if you take the words sadiq the words that come after are baskash so let me just go back one second la mata means below so that means afterwards so the word bet zion is like a it's just thrown away kash kash is straw worthless hay and that refers to the properties that one acquires in this world that don't really have any existence there they blow the wind that's why property is called zuzim shazim in the commonwealth basically like the zoos means money they're moving from one place to another and they are what it's just keeping the world going it goes around and around it returns goes around and comes back but when he says but i am storing away what's above so now what's above meaning prior to the ocls the letters that come before the word the right oats of sodium the letters that come before are these following letters [Music] means a treasure or a cash box but the aleph is missing why is the off missing because there is no letter before olive okay so basically there's another verse regarding god's name god's name al-islam it represents and if you go to psalms 52 verse 3 it says the kindness of god is the entire day so it happens to be that aleph how do you do this one second when you take the fullness of aleph and lamid it actually comes out to the same letters as kuf which means a cash box a treasury a true treasury now just to um let's go for this so the this because we're really talking about the meat of acid the one that avraham had avraham is known for kasi so this is what he gave over to yitzhak i think it's just important to stress that so this idea of which extends from the heart of man which is from the aleph which is the kupa in other words the the coupons the treasury therefore the mitsubishi the concept of giving charity is stored away above within the meat of khasid which is really the same letters we just said aleph lamid malay is kuf hey and that hints to the again the letters oh it's here it's the letters that come before meaning above and now we understand what it says the puzzle says me are its tits that was the last verse that we actually just used in psalms 85 12. the word emmet remember we said where did the olive go so the aleph disappeared but really it was attached to the word met we know there's a concept called like this that sadaka tatsuyam you can find that in proverbs chapter 10 and verse 2 and chapter 11 verse 4 that giving charity saves from death so mothers or death is mem tough right but if you put an alif then it's emis it's m is sprouts from the ground meaning this acid that we do from this world it works bottom up we want to we want to change the world we have to change from the bottom up we start doing right deeds kind deeds and charity this will change from the word met which is death says god says i'm sorry charity saves from death because the aleph of khasid is attached to the word maves to the word death and it becomes emmet so the em it sprouts up from below and what's the result what was the rest of the verse and then righteousness will look down from heaven okay that's really there's a lot more to say i have this um we okay let's i'm going to stick with it so the olive we all know is actually of k right it's uk bufka because you have you came off case 26. the olef is one but it's above like this and two years spread out so that's 26. so i want to read on because there's a very important verse in isaiah 32 17. it says that it will be from the action of of tsudaka of charity brings peace that the action of charity brings peace and guess what the word vahaya is the same letters as you'd kev unbelievable meaning the uk buff k that's what it is so this is what he says it's well known that the name uk love k is a hint to the letter aleph which is the the form of above and two years that come up to the value of 26 which is uk fk which hints above the name of god uk in the letter aleph whose number is one which hints that hashem is one and his name is one therefore when you're performing it and you have intent that you are actually bringing uk into the world this hit by the hint of the aleph that is connected remember i said the word emmett because without the aleph you have met death okay so he ends up by saying it's the the the it's that when you connect the olive to emmaus you're getting getting rid of death and that's why another name for tsudaka is emes another name for this whole concept of giving charity is amis as it says amis tits mark it's from the that truth sprouts from the ground it means charity right the act of charity giving charities sprouts from the ground all the way up and brings hashem into this into this beautiful world of ours okay i hope you enjoyed that piece let's go back into the clear car by the way that was the benja hoda on the gemara and baba basra which we're still in the middle reading we actually started reading it so we got to that verse in 85 12 meaning what meaning that the righteous deeds that one has performed are stored up in heaven and then he says my ancestors steward places they stored the treasures in places where the human hand can reach where what am i doing i'm storing the treasures in a place that the human hand cannot reach and as it says in isaiah in psalms 89 15 righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne i'm not going to go in there's too much to talk about i want to get to the peace but you can imagine your throne is the place that a human being cannot reach he says to them my ancestors stored up something that does not generate profit it's just sitting in a vault it's sitting in a safe house where money is not increasing but what i'm doing it generates a tremendous amount of profit as it says in isaiah 3 10 say the righteous that it shall be be well with them for they shall eat the fruit of their doings like it's a deep we're talking about the oh help to eat the fruits of your deeds okay then he says my answer is stewed up treasures of money whereas i'm stirring up treasures of souls right how many lives did he save you save one soul you save a whole universe as it says in proverbs 11 30 the fruit of the righteous is of tree of life and he that wins souls is wise he was a soul saver my answer is my ancestors stood up for others meaning for their own children for their own sons and heirs after they would pass in the world where i'm saving it all up for myself meaning look in deuteronomy chapter 24 13 where it says and it shall be as righteousness to you to you will be considered righteous and it says in isaiah oh that's the last piece he says my ancestors stored up for this world but where i'm going i'm stirring up for the world to come as it says in isaiah 58 8 and your righteousness shall go before you the glory of the lord shall be your rear guard what i meant to say earlier was that we had russian torsos who held it he was descended from the but all the other mafushi basically say no he was as i described to you he was a non-jew that was righteous and he eventually converted now the point is that he could never say this everything we just read if he was not if he was jewish he would never have said this about his ancestors were righteous people at one point so you could never have said that my ancestors were not into this um into this spiritual world right because they were jews righteous jews so it had to be a non-jew speaking about his own non-jewish family goyin not like he's lovely he was he was unique and way beyond but so one of the questions you have to ask who are these later like the marshaw and so many other later ahroni are arguing on rashi and the toslos who we call them rishonim we usually don't have latter rabbis arguing with earlier rabbis to things like this the sources that the latter rabbis give are sources that rashii tosu didn't have they were medrish the right a tanaya source even and there were other like say for using and say feduros there were so many other earlier sources that they quote to prove that moon boss really was not from the kashmir nayim but a non-jew who later converted and it makes makes a lot of sense makes more sense that way so normally you cannot argue a later rabbi with an earlier rabbi unless you have earlier proof you're standing on the shoulders of giants okay let's now go to the we're in the middle of this paragraph where are we um here we go we're just like skipping over the whole part with the gamora we just quoted so basically we turned to cuff your bet and it basically they it basically mentions that so this what we call the world to come that's what he gave over to giza so means he gave over the spiritual gifts the true spiritual gifts the uh the basic character traits right the torah gave up whatever torah he knew which is the manual to acquire these um this world to come and of course the love for hesita we're going to skip the gamora but the gemara basically says there is no reward in this world we're talking about the main the caring the the prime of the reward is waiting for us in the world to come but there are fruits there are berries there are small uh crumbs that we can benefit from in this world but that's not what it's about when it came to the liv nei habilakshe when it came to the the children of hagar nassen matanos he gave them something that comes from one hand to another you know what that is whatever they receive in this world conduction mr as it says now this is very interesting in deuteronomy chapter 7 verse 10 this pretty much clarifies the idea god says he repays those who hate him meaning god will pay those who hate him in this world to their face to cause them to perish not that they perish from this world but that they perish from the world to come in other words he'll give the reward somebody like let's say in this case we're talking about a non-jew those who hate him so if they um they it's hard to describe but i'll try so let's say they have like 80 percent reward coming and 20 percent gahannam coming so god will pay them the reward in this world so to wipe them out and they won't have any place in the world to come as it says he will not delay the one who hates him but he will repay him to his face what does rashi say during his lifetime he pays him his good reward in order to cause him to be lost in the world to come but that's not true by righteous gentiles just like righteous jews they will not perish they may have gehenna but is short-lived okay so we read that verse so this is what the clear language you use if the does a certain mitzvah that god will pay him in the reward in this world in order to prevent him from benefiting from the world to come again this says the word not man noah not righteous gentile but a stomach boy okay so we're now going to go to the last paragraph okay the holy ghost very possible when sarah said in her prophecy she said she was not interested in ishmael the son of the handmaid to inherit with her son with yitzhak right this is not going to be the same why he says at first glance right at like an overview shahila loma you know what she should have just said it would have been more make more sense that she said that he will not inherit from you she didn't say that yoshima should not inherit from you she said that he should not inherit the same you know what he is your child he should receive something but the main thing is lo you rush in beneath shravan bashar this is what sarah was concerned he should not receive an equal portion with my son yeah he's your son he should deserve something but when i said i don't want him to to inherit with my son the word with my son meaning in equal portions no the the type of inherits inheritance should not be equal because this guy ishmael this son of yours you know what he should inherit this world as it says so this is in chapter 21 of genesis verse 13. it says but also the son of the handmaid i will make into a nation because he is your seed so even though god god is also going to make ishmael into something he's going to make him into something he will give him his reward in this world that you know what yeshua already received his portion in this world there's ammar as it says now ready listen to this unbelievable in chapter 25 verse 6 which is what we're in right after avraham gave all that he had given to isaac it says he sent them away from isaac his son while he was still alive eastward to the land of the east so in the hebrew it says he sent them from yitzhak eastward now what's the word cadema kadam means eastward but it also means first or it were priority should they would receive their reward first where does one receive their reward first that would be in this world that yes just like ishmael also got some this world but his reward is this world so too those six sons sent to the east would also receive first meaning while they're still alive in this world conduction now we're going to get into asav and christianity and eastern sorry western civilization it says in our chapter actually it's chapter 21 25 verse 26. it actually says like this and afterwards his brother emerged right they were both twins inside the womb jason was coming out first and his hand was grasping asap's heel and he named him yaakov now isaac was 60 years old now what's the point here the point is that in hebrew villano his hand grasped the heel of aesop where is the heel the heel is on the lowest lowest extremity it's it's right it's the part of the leg that's the end of the leg that his hand would rule yaakov will rule that's what the hand represents it will seize his rulership when at the end of the borders of aesop when asav is finished with the near must be erica this hints to the idea that the heel which is at the very end of the foot meaning to say is coming up when do we light the hanukkah candles we say when there's no more rhaegal bishop there's no more people walking around in the marketplace so imagine what we're saying here when will yaakov reign after the arrogant foot of aesop is finished walking through the marketplace in this world now i don't know if you can relate this to anything that's happening today but um i don't want to go into that right now we'll talk about afterwards so when yaakov goes up aesop goes down okay if yaakov comes down asap goes up we cannot be chavez we will not be equal and he says like this so too asap would be would receive priority he would be the first he would receive his reward in this world so to the maneha so you see it by ishmael you see it all the gentiles they're going to get their reward in this world and that's what the rambam says who believes in the revelation you will receive your world your reward in the world to come if you're on the lower level you keep the laws but not because of the mission or the revelation then you will get rewarded in this world and you will not have a reward in the world to come so he says like this and the reason they're going to let them be called scar on balance they're going to get there they're going to be first to receive their reward in this world as a dover hannitan they're just going to receive the things we spoke about earlier that are not intrinsic they're external they're movables and that excludes the reward for the world to come which is really intrinsic and the loot the effort the sweat of the brow the efforts that people make to change and become better people to make a correction in this world what is the reward to really bask in the the the radiance of the divine presidents aim lush and tinabal you cannot use the language of handing off one thing to another when it comes to these externals these superficial ideas okay so with that i want to just mention one more thing and that is look deeply into this week's torah this week's torah is first kings first kings chapter one and it talks about avishad right it talks about the fact that david was really getting up there in age right he just turned he's in his 70th year of life and guess what happens he has a son who rebels and makes himself he declares himself king adenyahu he declared himself king and he had trumpets and he had fireworks and he declared himself and david had never declared himself as king okay so you have who's wondering about this now you have um who he promised that the would be king after him and shalom himself is wondering what's going on and then you have natan the prophet what's going on everyone is wondering what's going on and in the end what happens he calls the bluff right now basically has to beg for his own life he jumped the gun he called himself king and it was a false it was a false flag i don't know if you see that what's going on in the world today okay well guess what the gematria avatar yahoo is 76 and biden is the same gematria 76. okay so did i send that to you on the sword sheet i think i did anyway so mizrat hashem and we shall see clarity right we're here this is a temporary world we're hoping that there would be absolute clarity and this coming into the world and we can help we can help by continuously sharing that which we learn living the torah as best we can being a shining light an example to everyone around us and i welcome everyone home to torah and a shabbat shalom so with all that have a great life and we'll see you next week [Music] is