Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: Abraham's Search for Wisdom of Godly Matters

[Music] welcome to the event of batman rush welcome home to torah a very warm welcome tonight we will be discussing some very fundamental ideas we use the text the text of the the torah the tanakh and we're impartial we're going to be dealing with some very fundamental issues as i mentioned i'll give you like a brief i guess synopsis we can call it just keep in mind we're going to be speaking lashan hakodesh the original language that that hashem used to create the world that he had the torah written in that is very different than any other language and in one day in the future of his rather shem hair remain very soon right as it says in sophanya that the whole world will speak the whole world all the nations will come back to that one true language which is lashena kodesh the holy tongue and where we will all be investigating the the text of the torah you will all know the torah in our hearts right and basically that we all know the true one of god um just to i'm going to go over the place let me just stick to my notes here we're going to talk about the nature of prophecy okay what exactly is and when and how and we're going to talk about the blessings and the curses a little bit because it comes up we're going to talk about prayer should one pray for wisdom or one should one pray for wealth and also the elections are coming up so at the very end i'm going to give you my uh my suggestion and um based on torah how one should vote they definitely should vote if they can and without further ado we are chapter 12 of genesis and we're going straight to verse 6. verse 6 says like this and abraham passed through the land until the place of shram and i'm reading in english but then we're going to translate we're going to do the hebrew we're going to see the hebrew and you'll see something you won't you would never have seen in the english now let's see the hebrew lash the avor avram he passed through the land what land the holy land of course but the word odd what is the word odd the word odd is not such an odd word odd no it means up until now there's a whole discussion the different times that it's used does it mean including or not including up until but not including in this case we're gonna see that it means up until but not including and there's going to be a reason why and what does the word ad alone moret if you're reaching until the place called shem is in shechem the exact same place as the alone more the planes of mora the answer is yes therefore it's superfluous but you don't know that yet osborns and the canaanites were then in the land is there anything here in the rashi a little bit just to get an idea it says here in rashi until the plane of more you know let's go back the beginning and abram passed through the land he entered he went into the land barack hashem he has arrived home until the place of shechem in order to pray for jacob's sons when they would come to wage war in shechem so this is obviously two generations a heavyweight accountant right fortune three three and a half generations whatever it is beforehand and yet avraham had a sense of either he was cognizant of the fact that he was praying or he was just praying in general and hashem had him there specifically because of a uh a fight or war remember dina got raped and the brothers specifically schuman and levy but the brothers took vengeance out on this candidate nation now why would he come and pray there we i think rashi's alluding to the fact there's a lot of prophecy going on until the plane of mora and that is in other words once you know that it's shem and we already know that from before guess what it's redundant there's no reason for it and we're going to find out why there is obviously every letter every word is necessary so why is it there we'll find out shortly so it says in rashi he showed him these mountains the mountains of griezmann avail where israel accepted the oath of the torah this is very key to our discussion tonight okay why is it so important because let's open up the clear car and he says that hashem showed avraham what does it mean compulsor tara kabal satora didn't that happen on mount sinai uh because six generations later this degeneration of moshe right what do you mean or where alone have to do with kabbalah satoru and it says and the oath so that i get right i understand where shambahar grizzy and bihar eva guess what i've talked about this before what we call the brit kadasha what we refer to as the new covenant when we went when we entered the land we didn't go first to jericho it's in chapter one of joshua you're not chapter one chapter three chapter four but rather all the way to chapter eight it's the torah's not in order the tanakh is not in order we first went to these mountains and made this oath and we entered a covenant with hashem a it's the same torah it's the that's that's what the new covenant means the new covenant means right brit that it's the same torah but a deeper commitment and that commitment we took on was called arvoot absolute communal responsibility one for the other okay you've heard me speak about this before it's not me it's the clear car and now we understand the clear car we understand rashi that he showed him the cabela's satora of what of the oath at hargreasy and eva now herolo kabala satora i just want to show you one more thing the word alone and the word more are actually symbolic they give you a hint because not that the word alone which means tree but the root aleph lamin hey means an oath it also has a connotation of a curse but it's an oath so when it says alone mora there's already a hint to the great oath of the curses that with the blessings and the curses that took place on that mountain on those mountains if you want to know uh you can look in deuteronomy chapter 11 and chapter 27 and then you'll understand what i'm talking about the oaths the blessings and the curses that took place on these mountains so number one it says kabal satora to show him to instruct him that in the merit of receiving the torah meaning of his children accepting the torah zachary that they would merit to the destiny of what as in chapter 12 verse 7 it's just we're in verse 6. so it's just the following verse right away attain as arts to your children i will give the land right there's a connection between keeping the torah i shared with you my story when i first became religious and i was on broad street i was going down into the subway and there's this interesting fellow with a red bow tie standing at the entrance handing out letters and it was addressed to me i couldn't believe it i was brand new i was just wearing my black hat for the first time the first time i'm wearing my black hat and this it says dear rabbi i wasn't even a rabbi right but except laymen and federation synagogue members laymen whatever god gave you the land of israel it says but there was a condition did you keep the torah and since you don't keep the torah get out give it to the palestinians this is basically the letter was a guy from louis farrakhan the nation of islam trying to intimidate the jews to intimidate us right that we're going to leave no chance know how anyway it is connected in other words even the most anti-semitic propaganda is usually based i know there's really hard to swallow a lot of people are not going to like what i'm about to tell you a lot of it not all of it a lot of it is based on certain aspects of truth right in mind cuff i'm not i'm not that i'm quoting it i'd even read it but i read one paragraph where hitler yamak shamova zikro says why do we hate the jews because we the germans were barbarians and we have no morality but they brought morality into the world you have to find out what it is in the mind of the anti-semite ask them a lot of times they're going to be right up front you know they say we run the world i mean they have all kinds of crazy ideas maybe just maybe there's a little bit of truth not that we run the world the way they think but what we do has an effect in this world understand the power of one person doing mitzvos serving hashem or god for being going the other direction it has an effect on the world yes ultimately what we do will bring uh either redemption or god forbid the opposite okay let's go on the the clear car brings a source for this in other words what everything i just said i mentioned before that what you find in tanakh is a what it's a revelation of what already was there's no such thing as new revelation in what we call the scripture it is the the prophet's job is to give rebuke to get us back there there are guides to get us back and on the right path and that means we already knew what path we were supposed to be on we could have deviated or forgot or thought it wasn't that important and there to remind us that's why they're there to remind us of what's important of what we're supposed to know what we're supposed to do so too with the writings so what did king david say in psalms 105 verses 44 through 45. he hear both of these verses together and he gave them lands of the nations which land and who's them this is the jewish people i'm israel he gave us that coveted land the most coveted land of the nations which was the seven nations but that's israel or its kanan and they inherited the toil of kingdoms right the the riches the wealth and whatnot and what is the next verse saying hallelujah in order that they keep his statutes and observe his laws why do so all those zionists out there and i have nothing against zionists at all right there's 30 different types so you guess which one i love the most the ones who are true to the torah that's all it says here right you want the land of israel you want to make sure you have a grasp a hold on it it's in order that you keep the statutes and observe his laws so says king david i'm the type of zionist the king david is okay i ascribe to his kind of zionism okay so that is so beautiful and let's go on now we're in the second paragraph of the cleo car well the uh mala what it had said previously meaning in verse three so we're still in chapter 12 but it says like this that god says i will bless those who bless you and those who curse you i will grievously curse it's very interesting that i mentioned the word grievously cursed because when it comes to blessing the the root of the word for blessing is beth which believe it or not the gematria of all of them have a two meaning bet is the letter is the number two the value two raish is 200 so there's a two two zero and then kaf which is 20. the word itself for blessing is reboy is a concept of expansion of adding of increase that's what bracha is that's what blessing is on the other hand in the in the verse in the latter part of the same verse it says and those who curse you i will grievously curse i added the word grievously because there are actually several words for for cursing and the first word uses with kuflamidlamin and the second word is our aleph aleph but if you looked in the english you wouldn't know this you would just say and those who curse you i will curse fine the truth is it's this god will pay back harsher curse to those who curse the jewish people that's not the point here i just wanted to point that out though he says that when god says back in verse 3 that those who bless you i will bless and i will bless those who bless you and those who curse you i will curse he was trying to teach us then that what the word odd odd we said is not inclusive because that's what it says in our verse and i said that there's a whole concept whether odd means including or not included and here it means not including because what actually took place read chapters 11 verse 20 chapters 11 and chapter 27 in deuteronomy and you'll see that there was a split between the two tri between six tribes on one mountain six tribes in the other i know it may not seem like what i'm about to tell you but six of them got up there the six tribes mentioned the exact same words that appear in the curses but they use them in the positive and they bless the people who whoever does this will be blessed and the other six everyone answered on that after each one uh after each one so you have the blessing and then the curse then the blessing the curse the blessing curse and there were six curses and they were not included in that original statement in verse three when god says those who curse you i will curse that would be true all except for the uh i'll hold a ceremony a texas right this great texas this great sermon that took place the day we entered the land of israel that cursing and use the words because that's what it was not included in god's curse in other words those who curse the jewish people are going to be cursed but not those six tribes that uttered the words that god told them to say that's not included in god right and god forbid anybody being cursed because so the league might pronounce the curses when and the quran and were not cursed themselves correct right exactly thank you larry perfect that's what i'm trying to say so he says but not including so because all of those who were cursing were a blessing they were on these mountains that was god's will that was god's intent god not only he agreed he told them what to say the lawyer or ethnically name and therefore those who cursed right said when whoever doesn't do these things will be cursed whoever acts uh wrongly will be cursed those people were not included in the curse and i guess moses also was not cursed when he pronounced the curses at the end of the development because their curses served a purpose it was for the sake of a tactless there was a point what was the point it was in order that they would be blessed ultimately be blessed because it was like not scare tactics but it was rebuke it was moosa it was if you do this you will be cursed not that they actually were cursed but there was a tacos it was a purpose and therefore anybody like you mentioned even moshe towards the end of deuteronomy would not be cursed very good but that's what we learned from the word odd now let's go to verse seven hashem el avram it said it said that god appeared hashem appeared to avraham where does this take place takes place inside there is a straw is this the first instance that that avraham has a conversation with god no we already saw in the beginning of god has a conversation he tells him to leave aaron and eric's uh what do you call uh or kazdi right mesopotamia over there to leave to leave so he has a conversation but he appears to him in verse seven martial nero love hashem isn't it interesting why did god not appear to avraham back in chapter 12 verse one you know just uh six verses earlier uh go for yourself from your land why okay everyone holding their uh chairs got seat belts on for all those false prophets out there avraham was not yet in the land of israel what i'm about to tell you i mean ezra says it but many other there is no prophecy outside of the land of israel i know we're going to have a few questions regarding this no question about it but this is the club that there was right there was not any and there is not any uh prophecy outside the land of israel that's going to rub into ezra now but it's why why because outside the land of israel aims barack because the divine presence of god is not revealed it's not revealed like i'm waiting for the questions to come but okay and the proof is from jonah why is it from yonah because we see over there that he got up and left he wanted to leave the land he didn't want to hear any more of what he had to do to prophesy uh against or for the people of ninja so he got up and left for hutzler of course the whole story with the whale and the boat and everything else but that's what it says over there in in chapter one verse three he got up and he left lim kane lo nira allah ah sham hashem bimara therefore while avraham was still in or kasdeen hashem had not appeared him in a vision in a vision but kim called the variable man it was just words so outside the land of israel we're called a lower level prophecy it doesn't mean there's no prophecy it means there's many different levels of prophecy you even have what we call ruach hakodesh rulish is a low level of prophecy that does exist outside the land of israel and so does hearing god speak but not a vision of god that so far is what i've concluded here because everyone and everything is surrounding the vision and wait till we hear about what about moses wait till we get to that didn't moses experience both perhaps visions perhaps the people also experience visions as well as prophecy let's find out hold your horses but this is why avraham did not build the mizbayach outside the land of israel why did he build it he only built it because god appeared to him as the verse clearly states he built the altar because hashem only because hashem had appeared to him but the whole time that hashem had not appeared to him lord lymnos ms back the malcolm he didn't desire he didn't want to he did not want avraham did not want to build this altar in a place where the sheena does not reside now this is what if you go to exodus chapter 4 verse 1 and we're talking about a conversation that moses had at the snack at the burning bush okay what does it say over there it says moses answered and said behold they will not believe me and they will not heed my voice but they will say assuming that the jewish people the israelites would say the lord has not appeared to why do you think they would say that oh because all this took place in ghuzlaris perhaps it's not the way of hashem to appear so even moses said that in response what are they going to they're not going to believe me that you appear to me so if they're going to say he didn't appear to you he didn't talk to you either that's how they would have concluded okay let's go to verse nine this is going to be very very interesting because why do we need to know that that avraham was moving in the southernly direction right okay we get it they say that we call uh above hell wherever he came from mesopotamia is basically east but it's also to the north so if he's coming into earth israel he's coming down from the north but the verse says hello actually the whole verse goes like this because um you look at number seven on the surji it says traveled that's the first part avraham traveled a word for movement he walked he moved then no soa and he traveled negba south look at rashi so the fact that it says three languages right the isa hello he traveled at intervals he was going and he was traveling staying a little bit of time here a little bit of time there but this is interesting and all his travels were southward avraham's movements were all basically in the southern direction in order to go to the south of the land of israel which is in jerusalem okay now what's so important about this let's see let's go to the clear car it's on the the last paragraph on iron olive that perhaps what he wanted to do was to become wise in godly or spiritual matters he wanted to know about god the nature of god that was his intent that's why he traveled south does that make sense to you i mean it makes sense if you think of you shallam but we're just talking about south so there's a gemura in baba basra that says anybody that wants to become wise what is your team it's talking about prayer we always i shouldn't say we always depends where you are in the world if you're in moscow i imagine you pray south if you're in india or china you would pray in the direction of the west but let's just say you're in jerusalem right or you're in the western hemisphere but if you're even in jerusalem the temple was as far east as the city basically went people didn't really live out that much in the desert like i understood people live in the north and south but if you're a neutral lion you're basically by the what we call the western wall you're west of the temple so therefore you face the temple you're facing east okay now it happens to be in the south meaning of the temple courtyard you had the candelabra the menorah was in the south and in the north when i say i'm talking about like right in front of the parochite you had the arnico dish you had the holy ark then you had the curtain and right beyond the curtain you had in the ulam you had the candelabra to the south meaning to your right and you had the table the showbreads to the left which was to the north why is that so important let's look at the gemara itself and then we're going to read an absolutely mind-boggling ben yoda so the good morning bababasher 25b says the rebutak said one who wishes to become wise should face where the south and if you want to become wealthy you should face the north so we're going to get into the next line that avraham did not desire to become wealthy he became wealthy but that wasn't his main desire and you're mnemonic in other words the way to remember this is that in the temple the table the shoghan where the showbreads were which symbolizes mahut by the way it symbolizes uh kingship but it symbolizes blessing and abundance that was in the north but what about the menorah the candelabrum which symbolized the light of wisdom you're talking about olive oil right olive oil is being burnt and the light though even the word torah means light right so wisdom is in uh the south it was in the south of the sanctuary just to go on just to read the rest of the gemura be sure ben levy says one should always stay south in other words that's the most desirable direction and why because one if once you become wise if you face south and you will become wise then you will subsequently also become rich right right if you have the brains the business the whatever and perhaps just the blessing alone you'll become rich and the source you'll know how to make money there you go as it says in proverbs 3 16 length of days is in her right hand so that means longevity and in her left hand the riches in honor remember i told you in the beginning there's nothing new there's no new revelations at all in the rest of the knock it's an explanation it's a comment it's a running commentary on the original revelation at mount sinai amina length of days of the right bismola as to her left is i share the kavod okay i want to show you something absolutely amazing because lushna kodesh includes gamatrius notre konim and we discussed this already in a few weeks ago look at the ben yohoda okay you all have it on your page it's right here okay so the first three words are a quote from my gamora heroic wrote says if someone wants to become smart wise then what should they do they should as i said it means to pray do we see rashi on that by the way oh there was a rashi somewhere but we're going to skip that for now let's go on and neroli we're now entering into ethical teachings remember the torah hora ah is a manual for living it's not just do's and don'ts it's how to breathe how to sit how to walk how to think how to behave how how to behave right uh working on your character traits that's what moosa is so ready so we know that there are spiritual aspects of our lives and there are physical aspects of our lives so we think of the like we just said if you want to become wise that's called a spiritual desire if you want to become rich we're going to call that a physical desire so here you start the second line now regarding a person should look at people who are greater than him right and what's that going to do to make yourself feel smaller you see these people with such i'm gonna say perfect but let's say near perfect um behavior right the refined right so kadeshi when you're looking at them and how refined their character is you look at yourself and say well i have a long way to go okay but it's not possible there's a outstanding testimony right in front of me right a witness it could be done it might be more work for me i don't know but at least i know where i'm holding and that is offer of ava right we spoke already like a little bit a little less you know i'm missing something what about with your rich if you're rich it doesn't even matter if you're rich no matter where you are on the spread spectrum of wealth you would always look at people less than you not to make fun of them but just to have your own sense of gratitude wow i have more than him i i'm so blessed that's that's all it is when you're talking about physical it doesn't hurt right for your own the call self esteem perhaps so kadeshi or asthma of the ism because it's very important you should be happy with your lot if you're always looking at someone who's richer than you so then your desires to have more but if you say oh my god he is less than me and i'm just so happy with what i have that that's a really big mile it's a good place to be similar davar ah so the as a sign to this matter and the verse is the verse is right that which is in the heaven above and that which is in in the earth below so keeping this in mind that which is in heaven above the word heaven usually implies spiritual matters that's above and where it says which is in the earth below that implies physical matters and that's below we're going to see soon what we're talking about because we're going to be talking about the aleph bet the lush kodish okay because there's there's letters there's 22 letters there's letters that come before those letters come after each letter right the string of letters so listen to the words when it comes to holy matters spiritual matters shaheem lamala whatever lama doesn't mean above if i'm reading a paragraph so lamala means whatever came previous right sorry so a person needs to minimize himself right we said look at the gedoli people bigger than you so you minimize yourself your rats will cost your heartbeat so you know that you have work yet to do when it comes to physical matter shame la mata we said la mata but if you're reading a paragraph or you're dealing with the alphabet means comes afterwards sorry i'm giving you a little bit of a hint already so sorry so when it comes to um physical matters so you look down so a person needs to build himself up to feel somehow shira otsuma oshir you look at yourself as wealthy um douche as if you have an overflowing cup even if you don't but compared to the other guy you do zenima's lamala now we're going to get into the string of the alphabet so this all hints to what is above you know lathe where does wisdom reside in the heart it's in the heart so the word laive lamin there are osios to come above so the word the letter that comes before the bet of lamin bed of heart is an olive and the letter that comes before the lament is a cuff is exclusionary it's minimized it's called mute it's an exclusion it's a minimum it minimizes so we see the word ah if you go to the right in other words theologist to the right of the bet and the cuff is to the right of the lyman so you go to the right you see the word basically the concept of minimizing making yourself small the a leu d and b and me not only that they're actually standing to what to the right right when i said they're to the to the the one before but it also means to the right because we read from right to left so whatever's to the right then right that where is the of the lathe to the right and the word that comes out to the right of the word lathe is to minimize yourself the s that's what it means those who want to become who want to become wise go to the south what's the south i'm going to explain it another way i think i already did you're you're because you're standing at on the western wall meaning you're standing to the west of the temple and you're facing east therefore the south is to the right of as if to say that regarding concepts of wisdom which are spiritual concepts you minimize yourself to see yourself as if you are you're you're lacking whereas the oceans are we already mentioned to the right the right of the word which um which you see heroic allah what about if you wanted to become rich you you should bend you should lean a little bit to the left which i'm sorry to the to the north which is to the left keep this small because to the left what is the other side of lava bet you have the word gimbal right so in other words what comes to the left of bet you have the gimmel and to the left meaning the letter that comes right after memphis implies what reboy god means all more so all the more so right that's basically what god means so much so much so lush and reboy it's increased as we already mentioned that's what but you know the fact that but so is uh the concept of of gasmus colombar when it comes to the ideas of wealth you remember you're supposed to feel yourself as if you're holding a lot of wealth even if you're not but at least to the next guy in order to make yourself feel that you are somehow not to see yourself as lacking but to see yourself as if you have an overflowing cup okay i i thought you would enjoy that concept there we go let's go on and we are in the very last paragraph uh two lines down we just read baba basra 25 of allah avraham went to the south because he wanted wisdom he didn't he wasn't interested in wealth how do we know he wasn't interested in wealth when there was a war between the four kings and the five kings and they wanted to give him spoils of war they wanted to make him rich and he said i wouldn't even take what a thread or a shoe strap look in chapter remember in genesis chapter 14 verse 23 meaning if i would take as much as a thread or a shoe string a sandal strap i wouldn't be interested avron was not interested in wealth wait wait we have questions so didn't he become wealthy and didn't the pharaoh and avi malek offer him lots of gifts and he did take them so we're going to say that he did it to save his life okay the ocean matano shikhibel but one second we have a question didn't he receive gifts from pharaoh and abimelech on account of sarah the but we're going to say that he was forced he was somehow up against the wall so to speak in order to take them what in order to love in order they don't kill him when they gave him the gifts they gave it in order to flatter him in other words they said we'll make you rich and whatever we'll give you these gifts and you'll give us your sister at least that's what they thought to be to be with us so it was called flattery they gave it in order to flatter him so that he would then give his sister his wife well okay let's just say we're going to get into this idea of who was sarah she was actually both because she was a niece and she in which is like a sister and she was his wife for sure i once heard somewhere that said that that when the fight broke out between abraham and loved avraham realized that maybe he made a mistake by accepting those gifts because it was those gifts which caused before he had the gifts he and luke got along well as soon as he got wealthy he and lord started to fight okay that's a good point because we're going to see that he give he gave the gifts away so maybe this fits in well what you said yet alicia right we're talking about the flattery perhaps that they would be able to sway persuade him to give his sister away to them to be their wives the lawyer now i guess what abraham was thinking was what if i don't accept them so of course that's of course they want her so they're giving him the gifts to flatter him so that he would in turn give her so that if he doesn't give her they're going to think he doesn't want to give her which is obvious but guess what the result would be they would kill him so therefore you see how he was forced to ex in other words his main goal was not to become rich it was to become wise as a result we sort of showed that lady as a result of becoming wise you'll also become rich think about what king solomon was offered right he was offered to basically take anything you want and he chose wisdom because that really included everything okay so we're continuing on becoming see as larry mentioned think about it you know whether he saw the idea of having problems with family members right most people that you hear this when they win the lottery who knows you know problems all kinds of problems but especially family problems especially but here we're going to see a different problem it's not we shouldn't be wanting to take gifts right that's not interested in matanos okay we're not going to get into that much into that but avraham did not want to benefit from those gifts who did he give them away to if you all know the story later on in um in chapter 25 verse 6 okay katora right this is really hagar why she called katara because when she left avraham as hagar she was now with another man she remained faithful or let's just say she kept her her modesty to whatever extent she could and therefore when she came back and reunited with avraham she smelled like uh like beautiful incense and therefore this name was given to her but she had six more children and these six children believe it or not were sent to the east with gifts this is around the same time our own this is around the same time as the beginning of many of the far eastern religions okay and rashi says there that the gifts were spiritual of nature okay but here we're talking about a physical a physical gift of matanos and uh hainu let's read on uh should i just read the verse i think i read it but anyway it's uh genesis 25 verse 6 happy right to the children of the concubine avraham gave gifts hainu oisumatanos shikhabar kibo minha mitsurim not nam live nepali it's the very same gifts that avraham received from the egyptians who is who is this woman hagar or katara it's the same woman because she is the egyptian she herself is an egyptian princess and that sarah gave over to her to be into avraham to be a wife and who are the children i mean they're avraham's children but not really they're her children as well who are really egyptians so he gave he amazing he gave the gifts that he received from egypt back to where to the egyptian children get it who are the children of the concubine the children of katora which is hagwar hamid street the katora was really the same as hagar who's egyptian just like rashi explains over there kim hamidsrim look of matanos because it was from the egyptians that he received these gifts therefore he returned them specifically to the source they came from and he basically gave them back to the children of hagar the egyptian is that beautiful okay now we are going to deal with something absolutely fascinating in the oral torah right now we're on verse 17 and let's go to see the whole verse the whole verse goes like this and the lord plagued pharaoh with great plagues as well as his household now in english it says on account of sorrow abram's abram's wife what does it mean on account of let's go back to the hebrew let's go back to the latin kodesh the inaugural hashem at parrot right god afflicted pharaoh with his great plague this baso not only him but his whole household al davar that alone al davar that doesn't really mean on the count of i know we just translated that way but it means on the word of regarding the word of sarai asia's avraham regarding the word that's we're going to deal with right now what does it mean al davar let's look at rashi real quick so it talks about the first rashi that he had this plague that would prevent him from having intercourse with her and his household that's not that what i want to show you but the next one is on account of sarai on account of sarah sarah's name was sarai at the time so the words al davar sarai mean literally according to her words according to the words of sarah he was he received the plague what what does that mean and then it even becomes even more mind-boggling she would say to the angel strike and he would strike he the angel amazing what is going on here are you guys pulling your hair out what's going on what are you going to coin through what did she do she said strike so i want to mention about just in general about punishment right punishment is a bad translation of anything it doesn't sound good when we receive something friendships measure for measure right it's something we've already had to have known about i already spoke about the prophets the same thing when we receive a call of punishment from hashem it's actually a level of prophecy a low level but it's a level of prophecy and hopefully we can pick it up god is sending us a message this is what you're doing and you're not learning so i'm going to send you a message to somehow wake you up to what you're doing so that you'll become cognizant of what you're doing and you'll change your behavior otherwise you're not going to change right so the punishments i don't like that word let's say the message the message it's punishment's a message it's a love message it's a love note it really is he's telling you you're off the path you've made a mistake i'm sending you a message to help correct you okay sometimes it's less painful okay just sticking your hand in your pocket and coming out with the wrong change according to the rambo is a message from hashem right you're looking at the wrong thing and then you stub your toe broke hashem i stubbed my toe you imagine you know it could be worse right okay so let's go into now the cleo card al davar sarai according to the word of sarah ashus avra who's this who's the who's the then we asked the question before don't we already know that she's avraham's wife and now again we have to know that she's avraham's wife what up until now we didn't know that we already know that so many times we've been told that already and not only that waiting for this question ma pashu shoparo is taro he's a guy right he's a ben knight right why should he be punished what did he do wrong didn't she say didn't avraham sorry didn't abram say she's my sister so what's wrong with having uh let's say sexual relations with someone who's not married right i'm talking about pharaoh from his point of view it's not adultery right so why should he be plagued right you just think about the seven no high laws the truth is that the whole world has already been warned but there's some lacking information he didn't know that she was married maybe he knew that taking someone else's wife was wrong that would be against the seven of high laws but why should be punished she he i'm sad she's my sister of color free game i mean uh the options are you know open as they say so here horizon right pharaoh thought that it was just avraham's sister okay so we just read rashi he says look at rashi agavar sarai that she would say to a mala she would say to an angel strike the humaca and he would strike what is going on lo we don't see in the verse at all the word strike so where is the oral torah coming and telling us the whole backstory that she said strike it was in other words it said that pharaoh was hit by hashem hashem gave them this horrible plague according to her word according to sarah's word very strange we don't see the word hak we don't see the word strike at all near the fire the clear card is not going to explain it like this even though in front of the rest of the egyptians or the people that were there amrasara akhoto ani she actually did say her words were i'm his sister because he even said make sure that we're going to tell the whole story you tell him you're my sister so in front of people that's what she said the comic com the parrot ms but in private she had to tell her she told him i'm married to avraham and rightfully so because she thought as it says in michelle by the way proverbs 20 verse 8 where it refers to the a king she thought that if a king is sitting in judgment he should be righteous and not do evil she thought that he was like a righteous kind of guy i said it's in 20 verse 8 this is what it says over there by king solomon's words he says when a king sits on the seat of judgment he scatters all those he scatters all who are evil in his eyes so of course he himself is not he's going to follow the rules as well that's what she thought well guess what paro lo hishiki akbar you know why pharaoh didn't listen to her at least she told him she had to have told him or had why else would hashem have given her the plague and he not only did it he gave her the play he gave that god gave pharaoh the plague based on sarah's words what were her words i'm really his wife i'm not his sister well i don't know she denied that she was a sister but originally she said i'm i'm his sister so pharaoh says he didn't listen to her meaning when she told him the truth what was pharaoh saying when you first said i'm that you're his sister that i believed when you later told me that you're his wife i didn't believe al cain nago hashem that's why god afflicted him al davar sarai because of sarah's own words that's why meaning bishfield on account of what sarah said he was guilty he didn't believe her that's his problem but she told him um what were the words look in the verse asia sabram al davar sarai asia sabram according to the word of sarah again what do we need to know she's the daughter of the the the wife of avraham that's the word she said she said ah asia brahmani that's who i am that's what she said and pharaoh says back to abraham when pharaoh is pointing out to avraham why did you tell me that she's your sister because your words i believe but i didn't believe her and then over emphasis i believed you avraham this is what pharaoh saying i believed you over her she told me the truth in private but i didn't believe her you i believed and you told me a lie well it's not really a lie but that's what i believed for you i would have believed if you would have told me the truth i would have believed you not her here because i would have thought if this woman i'm alone with this woman and she tells me that she's really married then i would have thought she only said that in order to save herself from relations with someone who wasn't her husband well i owe maris kane which is which is uh i think the proper thing if a woman wants to re you know try her best to reserve herself she would say i'm waiting to be married right that that's the proper thing not with just anybody therefore she could say i'm married to this guy this hoping this guy wouldn't violate such a thing as well okay we'll just end with the last piece devara hair and it's just an alternative explanation to what we already spoke about anxious abraham on account of or because of the matter of sarai avram's wife the official right and that there is this concept of getting a punishment such as an affliction of the skin whatever the nagoyan was that would be a fitting punishment for this type of sex relations with someone else's wife now i want to end by mentioning about the elections i told you i would speak just very briefly i mentioned several of the other classes uh just to end with it's it's huge right because you're talking about the the most powerful man you know in terms of politics and and policy and power in this world today uh there's a vault in america anyway and they say that he is the leader of the free world the free world right has a lot of influence so i want to make a mention but not just for jews but also for for non-jews gentiles right seven or khalos one of them is justice and when we think of the government there has to be justice right and i will say it's got to be crystal clear to me it is that one of these two candidates is more corrupt than the other and you must not vote for the most corrupt you have to vote for the lease corrupt so i'm not even going to tell you who it is i take the principles you choose that's the first thing the second thing is try to imagine this is how i imagined the the topshop right the the best of the worst right who's going to say i'm a builder right which one of these two candidates can say i'm a builder and i'm going to build the temple and i'm going to have the palestinians and the arabs pay for it i'm telling you if you can imagine one of those two candidates saying such a thing he's the person you should vote for that's who i think that's my that's my suggestion i'm not going to tell you who it is but you choose the least of the criminal right someone who's not in the swamp someone is willing to pull pull the plug from the swamp you choose whoever you think is the best candidate to pull the swab plug right get rid of corruption because that's a ben noah think about it how are you supposed to create a society i mean you could run for office or you could choose at least the the who's the best candidate the least corrupt that's it until mashiach comes where we have a true torah leadership uh and the rebuilding the temple and who knows maybe cyrus is already on his way who knows no matter what the outcome will ultimately be good it may be a little rocky on the way but let's just pray for the welfare of the governments especially the government of america and we'll see you next week shabbat shalom call too welcome home to torah don't forget to subscribe and push that bell so you will be notified when new videos are uploaded call to have a great life [Music] is