Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: Metaphysical Insights to the Blessing and Curse

[Music] welcome everyone to the youtube midrash welcome home to torah now tonight is a very special night because we're going to break it into two parts and the second part is really going to be that's what i'm going to entitle this this class the mystical or the metaphysical aspects behind a blessing and a curse so what i'm actually asking is to stick stick through stick around stick around to part two however i want to tell you part one in itself is quite juicy in in its own so before i start i do want to make a shout out i want to make a special thanks for those who have supported and continue to support give my net because without your help i don't know how we could function because there's so many people that need our help and we actually distribute money and then and need it and you know things that people need um whether as we did on the holidays and the holidays are coming up guys the holidays are coming up so in the meantime we have not made any type of fundraising and we're not going hopefully we won't need to because you guys are there for us and we're here for you so we're a partner okay we're your hands on in jerusalem and with that i just want to make a special shout out to those specifically you know who you are some of those are on the skype call right now that you can't see but they're here and um there are people who give regularly and we want to thank you okay so we're in partisay this you'll find in chapter 11 of deuteronomy if i'm not mistaken let's see yeah and it's verse 26. let me point out now already even though we're going to deal in part one with just one aspect of it the fact that it says see today i sorry c that i no tan lift i am placing before you hayom today bracha a blessing and a curse so one of the main issues we're going to deal with in the beginning is the very fact that it says in a singular fashion as if god is talking to you each and every individual you however it says be see behold i am placing before you plural so in the english you would never pick that up obviously right is not you can't use that when i'm talking to one person it's that's plural it's all of you so we're going to deal with that in the beginning but i want to point out just to grab your attention some of the other issues the very fact that it says hyung now as you read on you see that this will be taking place in approximately two three months from now right this is let's say around 70 days or shorter somewhere between 70 days and 30 days 40 days before they come into the land of israel right that's when deuteronomy begins and that's when dunarad the whole book is basically taking place moses's last speech anywhere from the first of what's that month called shbot yes until the seventh of adar that's when he passes away so that's six that's five weeks and that takes place 33 days before we let we come into the land of israel so anywhere between 70 to 30 days before we come into israel this is when the speech takes place but it says today hayyom what's the word haiyom doing there it's very awkward but let's say he well we're going to find out why um and then the word brahuclala he's going to mention that there's a proximity to the broken cloth of the word hayum because it could have said see today right when you start any type of story you want to tell a date like we start stories by saying once upon a time right that's how we tell our children or you begin i think the gettysburg address uh four score and 20 years whatever it is you begin with a date here that the word hayyom does not appear until much later also when it comes to the blessing you see the words etabracha which you will listen to but when it comes to the klala it says the blessing will be if you don't listen i'm sorry the curse will be if you don't listen so what we're showing is that when it comes to the bracha it's a it's binding it sounds like it's going to happen one way or another there's no doubt there will be a bracha if you when you listen when you look because you will be listening whereas the curse seems to be a doubt only if you don't listen i'm just using the words the breath is coming because you're listening the claw is coming perhaps if you're not going to listen okay also when it comes to the bracha it doesn't mention any action that you're taking to receive the bracha read the verses and you'll see when it comes to the curses it's because you did an action you were hasarte minahadarikh the sartan minadarik you you left the path you removed yourself from the way and you were elohim you actually followed other gods there is this curse so there's an action whereas in the bracha there doesn't seem to be an action and with that we will start the first paragraph so he the clear car we use the clear car for those who have never uh witnessed this class before never participated i'm not going to go into the clear car right now and who he is but it was over 400 years ago i will just mention because we will be talking about it today he was the one of the talmud he was one of the star pupils of the maharal of prague okay so many of his teachings come in this direction but he also learned by the shlo kodesh a great talmud this and kabbalist and let's begin he says the clear card says the word is definitely speaking as if it's speaking to an individual whereas right before you is kim dabe larabee as if he's speaking to the many so what's going on here you have to know there's an issue that has to be discussed and resolved so hazal tell us in general conducion that would be chapter um page 40 b i will read the gamora first so that you understand what we're talking about so a person should always view himself this is how one should look at themselves as if you were exactly 50 50 you're standing on you're in a you're in a scales you're standing on scales what what's happening to you half of your life is full of good deeds mitzvahs merits we call them and the other half is maybe that's how you're supposed to look at it full of misdeeds mistakes sins this is how you're supposed to view yourself and all that's going to make a difference is what you do next what you do next is going to tip the scales one way or the other but wait that's how it begins let me just read always a person should view himself as if he were exactly half liable and half meritorious in other words he should act as though the plates of his scale are balanced so that if he performs one mitzvah he is fortunate as he tilts his balance the scale of merit if he transgress god forbid one prohibition wrote to him as he tilts his balance to the scale of liability as it actually says in ecclesiastes 9 18 wisdom is better than weapons that's clay clay clav sorry clay krav that's so wisdom is better than weapons and one sin i think translated sinner but well let's say it doesn't matter one sin one sinners he destroys much good so one sin will destroy so much and this is how to look at it which means that due to one sin that a person transgresses he squanders much good now that's how it begins but wait till you hear how it finishes rebbi al-azhar the son of rabbi shimon that's the son of the rashby he says the world is judged the same way since the world is judged by its majority depending on whether people have performed the majority of mitzvoth or a majority of sins and an individual is likewise to be judged by his majority each person must consider that if he performs just one mitzvah he is praiseworthy as he tilts the balance not only of himself but the entire world as well to the scale of merit however conversely if he transgresses just one prohibition woe to him as he tilts the balance for himself and the entire world to the scale of liability as it says it's the same verse as but one sin destroys much good meaning due to one sin that this individual commits he squanders much goodness for himself and for the entire world now that's a heavy trip man you hear that's a heavy trip so this is what the clear car says he just quotes the gamora he determines the scales for himself and the entire world to the positive obviously look with your spiritual eye now i'm using the word spiritual light because that's what seikel is according to the maharao the rambam translates it as intelligence so i will then mix the two and call it a the spiritual intellect i the okay because every action that you do gets recycled in front of everybody now that could be taken in two ways but let's use his definition it affects everybody everything that you do affects the world that's a heavy trip with his curiosity zoo and the reason that this idea right and lift him see the individual everything you do is going to affect everyone else is because the whole i should say the whole one of the main principles of what's taking place at har griezm in heart avail in another 70 some days is what is called a brit kadasha is the new covenant when we come when we come into israel we are actually reaffirming reaffirming the torah and taking a higher level of commitment that's what the new covenant means we are that's what it's called we are taking the torah to a higher level to a higher level of commitment can you imagine as he's about to say whoa it's called arvoos it's called collective responsibility what you do makes a difference in my life what i do is going to affect you and make a difference in your life so it says here these two mountains right mount evael and montgomery that's when israel became collectively responsible one for another and now i'm going to have a very hard time translating these next two words especially to a jewish audience but i think we all know it because we all had jewish mothers right who made us feel very responsible for the world and for those who are converted or converted in the process they know that they are going to be taking a lot of responsibility to come by by becoming jewish well meets what happens this arvus this arbus means this collective responsibility is robbing nitpassing that what's happening with the mass with the group the kahila the congregation are being affected by the sin of the individual there is this word nitpaseem to to fast to face to grab it could be translated as even not just affected or being seized because that's what like grabbing but trapped we're trapped what you do affects me i'm trapped by your sins okay i'm carrying your sins that's what it means now i want to tell you about a guy named if you're aware and this is going to play a lot into what we're going to talk about tonight joshua 7 chapter 7 verse 11 i just want you to know that many of the chapters that come before eight they're not in order which we will show we will soon see i mean if you want to look now joshua 830 which we'll talk about when they built the altar at this mountain where the blessings and curses took place look at rashi there it says ah well the verse says this is joshua chapter 8 verse 30. joshua built an orto there la hashem okay israel to shem the god of israel bahari val now what does rashi say this section is written in the manner of early and later for on the day they crossed the jordan river he did so okay now by the time we get to chapter eight we go back to like whatever it says in chapter one and two of joshua the whole story of them crossing the jordan river there was a whole bunch that happened after right you had the conquest of jericho you had the war with i right and then you had the worst story with achan who stole things okay this is the focus right now i just wanted to bring in the idea that we're now talking about when we are standing in mount aval and hargreaves is actually the same day that we crossed the jordan river 40 days 40 years after we left egypt okay this is just amazing because many people read joshua never picked that up okay but that's what the verse says and we'll talk about another time but going back now to achan what does it say by the story of achan it says that this is joshua seven verse 11 israel everyone knows it was one person how do we know as one person because that's what the story tells us they even took lots right they were wanting the guy to confess it would be great if you confessed but he didn't confess and they took lots and they narrowed it down from the tribe the the main tribe to the families until the the ultimate family until the ultimate person who committed this crime of i don't know what you call it treachery i mean that's basically what it is they were told not to take any of the schlal any of the spoils of war and little did they know in this in the war of eye unfortunately we had some fallen soldiers we we didn't have any fallen soldiers in jericho something's up somebody must have and this is what it says israel sinned for they have also transgressed my covenant which i commanded them and they have also taken of the consecrated thing and have also stolen and also disassembled and they have also put into their vessels do you understand what's happening here one person sinned and the torah says all of israel sin all of israel sin they all transgress my covenant and remember so number 7 chapter 7 verse comes when after this covenant of mutual responsibility which happens to be in order right it's now chapter eight you're talking about the whole um new covenant this deeper covenant this deeper brit that's what a covenant is and but the truth is that that took place right before meaning not just before it came chapter eight comes before way before chapter seven okay one of uh the things that we do teach here is people who are interested in converting and joining the jewish people and the truth is even for nochides who want to remain righteous they're also joining the jewish people just on a different level so i think this is just pertinent information that someone should know okay the number ten well there's a shout out to one of my students and friends yehuda blumenthal who asked me about the number 10 and why is it so important we have a minion like where is this number 10 it's very nice that we learned the word ether a the the word ada it was used by the spies um by chance and from there we know that you need 10 because we had 10 evil spies why would we learn about the var kadusha things that have to do with holiness and you need 10 from the word eida which is fine itself but the word aid are using comes from seemingly a negative source so one of the ideas of this collective responsibility i believe lies in this secret of the number 10. and the truth is for especially for knockouts we're going to see also there's a secret to the number seven as well so number 10 and number seven have deep value and deep meaning and just the number 10 is represented by the jud and the yud is actually also used for a nickname for us jews israel are called yiddin so what is actually the yud okay so the yud is actually a macha bear mahabhara means a connector between what is individual numbers like the word the numbers one through nine that would be called individual numbers and then you have 11 on up right these are multiple these are i don't know how you call them but we're talking about reboy we're talking about the increase of multiple numbers so from individual digits to double digits the unit interestingly enough in hebrew in in english or i guess what do you call western countries i'm not sure how far it goes but you have two digits to express ten it's one and then zero right but we're using one digit good but ut is a hook it's a hook it's a connector what does a hook do it connects so it's connecting between anything everything below which is up until nine and then everything above which is double digits so even though 10 is i guess in our language it's a single digit that's connecting to the double digits it itself would be considered basically a double digit but it's a single digit so what do we have here that the hud the number 10 is actually connector and that's going to play a great part in what we're going to discuss and so basically let me just narrow this down a little bit what 10 does it's actually called a reboy it's the beginning to increase between the single digits and the double digits right now it's even though it's plural because 10 is plural meaning it's it's it's not only a reboy it's an increase from number one right it's now 10 it's an increase it's still considered one so in itself the number 10 remember it's a yud has both aspects it is part of the because it's working in two ways it's working as part of the single digits but it also is the connector to the plurality and that's going to play an important part as we go along you'll see now when god spoke to the jewish people at mount sinai that the ten commandment we call the acereta dibros the ten commandments just get this back up [Music] what do we know about the first two some say and that's valid that when he spoke all the misses to us he spoke the first two and we said well that's too much let moses because we're going to die let moses be the uh the the transmitter of the rest in fact the word to ra itself what's the gemachi of torah guys 6 11 6 11. so moses gave us the torah that's 6 11 and what about the other two mitzvahs god gave us directly that's one way so that's one way to look at the other way also we say that god spoke all the ten commandments in the dibor echad in one statement so this number 10 we look at it now that number 10 actually plays a role in the fact that it's really one remember how we described ten as really one there's also a thing called mispar katan when you're dealing with gama triot there's many types one type is that every letter actually has a number right in other words like this if it's cuff which is 20 it's reduced to 2 if it's 23 it's reduced to 5 because you take the two and the three and becomes a five that's called devar it's called a mispar katan so interestingly enough the word aleph which really represents one it represents one correct aleph what is the gematria what's the katan it's before we go to that what's the miloy al-islamic pay aleph is one llamad is 30 and pay is 80. so all together the truth is it's 111 111 but it's one one one it's one it's a hundred eleven one one one one one one is actually three now three there's a there's a famous statement now that's a great i don't want to get too controversial but there's a famous statement that many attribute to the zohar the truth is it's not really from the tsar he does use similar language but many other um i have to find it many other um before she use it so the one one one which we say is three and don't get mixed up this is not the trinity at all god forbid this is that one should know that god israel and the torah are one now what does it mean they're one there are three things that are one that's one way to look at it we'll talk about it in that way but that they're all one they all have something that is so unifying about them and that's what we're talking about tonight that the jewish people are one okay the jewish people are one now in in in i guess it's aramaic kuch that's the holy one blessed be the writer the word for torah in aramaic is light that's what we call it it's light or raita the israel they are one that means each one is eternal they all have something unique about them that's what one means they're all unique they're all eternal they all have hidden and revealed parts and all of them are ones so the jewish people are one there's one god and there's one torah right they're also eternal as i said okay so we spoke about the fact that aleph is really 111 which is really three fine i'm going to go back now when we stood at mount sinai when when we came to mount sinai it says that the yusuf mirafidim the midbars that they encamped and that word the encounters were it's used all over the place because they is around camp except here it says israel when we received the torah which is one from one god we were one we became unified there's no other place where israel was so unified okay so just by receiving the torah the question is well rashi says right there that the very fact that the yikan is singular that shows you that as one man with one heart we accepted the torah but with all the other encampments we were somewhat divided with different complaints and strife also where did we come from we came from refugee refuge means weakness of hand so the urachaem mentions we overcame a trait of weakness and we strengthened ourselves so we did chuva we did repentance and um rashi mentions also that we did repentance fine but specifically in the mid bar because the midbar is a place of lowliness and humility and then that is where we were we were it was necessary for us to be in that state in order to receive the torah so only all of israel can completely do the torah think about this only israel can completely do the torah many of the commandments are for just a certain part of amistral okay this is something that those people try to convert us to other religions they'd say ah the torah is not for you it was never for you it's a test you know it's how do they even say it i don't want to say the disgusting things they say but basically that god knows you can't keep the torah therefore it was like a dead end and you can only be saved through whatever they're trying to sell you on you understand what i'm saying well guess what guys if you're not a cohen there are many misses that never apply to you ever and if you're not a woman there are many misses that never apply to you ever and if you're not a landowner or a farmer there's many misses that just would never even be applicable to you right come on so the whole premise is totally wrong so what does it mean that when israel stood at mount sinai we said na seven ishma that was the brit that was the covenant we were willing to do it na said the nun in front we will do it nishma we will hear we will understand only collectively as a collective and i'm just giving you like this little idea here right um just as every jew is connected when we left egypt well sorry when we went down to egypt it says there were 70 nephesh 70 soul you hear how i'm pronouncing the word soul all other places like let's say asaf however many souls there were six twelve it used the word nafashot right there were twelve nephashot over here there were seventy soul because the word soul was singular those seventy were actually interconnected interwoven into one concept one soul so we're just as we are only connected believe it or not the torah itself the entire torah if one letter is missing it's paso right where do you have such a book like that i don't know you have a shakespeare you have a encyclopedia britannica so if the printer messed up and there's one letter missing you think he's not going to sell it even at hope at the same price what's one letter what's it worth to him big deal guess what one letter the whole thing is i don't want to say it's it's puzzle right it needs to be fixed hopefully uh to be used again and if it can't be it has to be buried but these things can be fixed who was the torah given to binet israel israel what's the gematria of israel i'm going to help you it's actually 603. interestingly enough when the jews are counted we just use the number 600 000 right they were oh it's such a such a special number six hundred thousand look closely were we ever exactly six hundred thousand you know how many we were six hundred and three 000 wait that's 603 and there's 550 but the 603 was for a reason and that's because every jew every jew has a thousand mitzvahs and thousand means it's a code word for those who know what i'm talking about the word alif is for a thousand and what does alif really mean to learn auppan the word oppan is based on the word aleph elf means to learn yes it has other meanings as well so every jew alif every jew must learn that's what it means okay so you have 603 000. if you want to know where it says that in the torah you just have to go to the counting numbers 146 you'll find and all their countings were 603 hundred and fifty so we see that one thousand misses for each of the six hundred thousand uh or six hundred three thousand jews because six hundred and three thousand when was the torah actually given i i mentioned about shibuya that's we said ishmael we will accept right that's when we accepted the torah but we didn't receive it until when yom kippur the very day which is yom kippur that received it that night or the next day that's when moses commands us to make for god a mikdash now god can dwell so in other words it comes with the torah we had to be start off by telling you the kuchibriko that the holy one blessed be the torah and israel are one this is very because we are one in other words we're ultimately one not only are we individually one but we're interlocked and interconnected i have so much here i want to share with you but what does the mikdash represent that's where heaven meets earth that's the hook that's the hook and the other many hooks above him all over the top of the mishkan that connects everything together okay we're not going to get into that right now but but the connecting point so right after yom kippur is when we're told to build this mikdash and what's the focal point of the mikdash itself the brit the covenant what do i mean i mean that they have a thing called lucha brit the tablets of the come they're called the tablets of the covenant luchota the brit requires a giver and a receiver that requires two parties who make an agreement so god is the giver and he gave the torah in 10 and we received that 603. meaning we received the 603 like literally the rest of the mitzvahs but then we received the 10 directly from hashem as the hook as his dwelling with us so he represents somewhat somewhat like 10 we represent 10. remember how we're the uh the yiddin so what else so let me just go back to this you have the luchos of bris you also have the safer bris the torah is actually called a save for a risk this the book of the covenant okay and where are they placed into the ark it's called the ark of the covenant okay again the word brit means covenant and these are the objects and that's the focal point the lucha brits which are put into the ark the safer our breath which is put into the ark and the ark itself is called the the ark of the covenant okay the iron habrit now how high how high was this aaron there's a concept that says god does not descend to this earth less than ten to a tether is a hand breath so he's he's above ten to him so i put my hands like this guess what the ark itself was nine tephach nine from the ground and it sat on the ground ninth and then there was a lid the lid was at the caparat was a tafak and this is what we spoke about in in previous classes but the idea that god does not descend less than 10. so where does this number this 10 is the jewish people you want to know why we have to join a minion this is this 10 that's the hook that's going to be the connecting between us and hashem so as i just mentioned you know you have the tenth that god will not descend less than ten to fakhim so too that the devre kedusa things of holiness you don't we don't do barakumu we don't do kaddish kadusa we don't do um beer cut kohanim there's so many things we don't do in our holiness if we have less than 10 people so we need the 10 people to make that to jump the gap so to speak between the 603 that's missing the 10 binet israel is missing the 10 and that 10 comes directly from hashem so he's as if he's holding the 10 and we're holding the 603 and to combine it now there's another idea that's perky avoid in the ethics of our fathers it says a mitzvah is goraret mitzvah the mitzvah drags another mitzvah now you could say amidst the if you do a mitzvah the reward is a mitzvah but that's not the language there is a there is a perchava there is khazal to talk about the reward for mitzvahs and mitzvah um i'm not referring to that i'm talking about mitzvah guerrero mitzvah what does it mean and i think you can plug in also the reward as well but gore it means it drags every time you do one mitzvah it drags another mitzvah with it because they're all connected every mitzvah is connected in fact just to give you a deeper idea that the 600 how many letters are there on the lucho sabrit on the tablets they're actually 620 letters and the reversal gone explains he lived over a thousand years ago and he was ago and he was an absolute genius he says that each one of the letters on the lucho tabrit represents one of the 613 mitzvahs now the truth is in 620 now the word 620 is the word ketter means crown the crown of torah because it includes the 613 for the jews and the seven for the non-jews there's another opinion that it represents the seven rabbinical concepts which we're not going to get into but there's an opinion that represents the seven noah laws i mentioned in the beginning we're going to talk about both number seven as well as well as the number 10 because 10 is a reboy 10 is an increase it's that hook between singular and plural we're gonna see quite a few verses where the number seven does exactly the same thing i just want to make sure i didn't miss anything before we go before we go to part two and as i mentioned that all ten commandments were set at the same time just as a proof for that if you go to exodus chapter 20 verse one it says god spoke all these statements and that introduces the ten commandments so thanks to larry for pointing that out um okay so back to the idea when we when we did receive the torah was it the unity of the people that brought us the unity of the torah that we were able to accept the torah which is one or is it the unity of the torah that brings the people to become one so on a certain level we did receive there's an opinion like when we were in egypt already we were willing to receive the torah that's why we made it out i want everyone to know this unfortunately four-fifths of the jewish people of the israelites died in egypt they were not willing to leave they wanted to stay in egypt and for those in wherever you are you know who i'm talking to in america right especially but everywhere in the world outside the land you have the opportunity or maybe you had it and maybe you'll have it for a short window again right they didn't want to leave and they passed on in fact when it says when the jews left egypt says they went up armed what's the word for armed right hill ammunition armed is the i mean the is the same word they went up because i'll tell us they went up one-fifth one-fifth of the jewish people made it out why am i telling you this because whoever was willing to leave egypt was willing to go because that's where moses were going to serve god right everyone knows the verse from the movie let my people go but what's the rest of the verse let my people go so they may serve me right it's all about serving hashem right so uh you know this is what it's about so on a certain level they were primed and ripe to receive the torah because they were unified but on the other hand they were unified because they already were willing to accept the torah okay so we have to understand that it's these these are so important to the jewish people without the torah we are really not a people we have nothing and without unity we're also with nothing we need both and this is a part of why i stress the number 10 is we come together to pray we come together to bring god into our lives we come together to do things of holiness so we talk about the the aaron akodesh was tend to him off the ground with with the cover that this is where hashem comes down to and we'll talk about on hanukkah why the hanakia should be what should be less intense because on chanukah which is the time of darkness when we're very low okay it's going to be the holiday of light that the light will even descend less than 10 to but that's a whole story on its own in the meantime i want to bring us to the number seven oh before i do that so i mentioned in the past there's a movie called avatar and i don't really remember the whole movie but i remember the last scene and the last scene is when all the roots of all the trees on planet earth are actually all interconnected and interwoven and this is how we have to view our souls the jewish people souls okay we're we're interwoven and now we understand that the the arvoot this collective responsibility and how when i do one mitzvah i'm actually igniting other mitzvahs and not only am i igniting or somehow dragging along the other mitzes i'm actually igniting and dragging along other jews i'm lighting up your life and you're lighting up my life in fact it was most amazing teaching i heard and i can't remember where i heard it no i remember where i heard it but i remember i think it was rubbed by daniel gladstein pretty sure but i remember who he quoted it was a it was a hasidic master and he said like this if i have intent because we're going to talk about this next i have intent i have makshabatova to do but i don't have the wherewithal to do it and there's another jew who is doing a mitzvah but has no intent let's say a secular jew he knows he's doing a good deed but he doesn't have the highest cavanas he's giving to yeshiva he's giving to a hospital he's giving to something that's going to save a lot of people's lives or whatever it is giving for torah and maybe for the wrong reasons maybe right in other words he's given because all his friends are giving or he's giving because someone said i'll put your name up in lights the whole building the whole campus will be named after you so all of a sudden but he's giving he's doing the act with maybe not the highest intent and the other guy has all the will and interest to do the mitzvah but can't afford it can't do it and guess what god will combine the action with the thought and therefore together with your action and my kavanah we're actually both doing it on the highest level because i was missing the action and he's doing the action without the kavanagh but hashem will combine the two together and we're going to talk about that in part two i want to mention about the oh there's so much there's so much information here and someone brought up about the 36 righteous people you should know that whenever there's positive there's also a negative there's 36 times karit a um one of the most horrible punishments and we're not talking about a death penalty but it's similar to that it's being cut off from the jewish people there are 36 commands that carry with it a negative command a negative punishment such as carret we also know they're 36 sadiq and they're carrying the world so whenever we have 10 there's always a 10 that's parallel so we always have we had the 10 mark out which were horrible and devastating we had avraham had 10 had 10 tests also so there's always uh there's always a balance somewhere also in kabbalah there are 10 spherot there are three above and seven below that's also interesting because that's going to segue from the 10 and the seven so basically every one of the sphero has another 10 it's like a mirror that goes on seemingly in infinitively so every one of the tents you're out has subcategories another 10 sphere out and every one of them has a subcategory of 10 surot and on and on and on okay that was the introduction for number 10. in terms of seven you can write these verses down and look at them in your own but it's also a reboy it also increases when you have i mean this is i don't know what you call the sixth dimension but basically you have in our world you have we call fourth dimension we have six sides right you have up and down and then the four sides east west north and south but there's a point in the middle so that point in the middle is basically a reboy it's an expansion of everything it's a center point it kind of affects all the other sides so number seven is actually perfection in this world besides the seven seas and the seven continents and the seven colors of the rainbow right you have so many seven seven days in a week seven is a perfection in this world so i'm gonna quote the verses i'm only gonna go through a few of them deuteronomy chapter 28 7. i'll read it now hashem will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck down before you on one road they're going to go out to you but on seven roads they're going to flee from before you there's an increase proverbs 24 16 even though the righteous one may fall seven times he will get up there's beyond the seven see i gave a whole seven seven is a reboy seven is also an increase so even though the righteous falls seven he will still come up he will still rise but the wicked ones the wicked ones will stumble through evil and leviticus 26 verse 21 if you behave casually with me you're you're you're not acting like we have a real relationship and you you refuse to heed me then i shall lay a further blow upon you seven ways like your sins okay i'm not going to quote anymore i'll just give you the verses do your own homework psalms 12 7. i just want to i want to quote them all but you have to do your own homework again psalms 12 7 proverbs 6 31 isaiah chapter 30 verse 26 psalms 119 verse i'll just say it seven times a day i have praised you for your righteous ordinances isaiah 11 chapter 11 verse 15. okay so with that we'll end this idea so i want to go into part two the metaphysical aspects of the blessing and the curse but just understand these numbers are holy 10 is obviously numb very holy to the jewish people and even the non-jews should understand where we're coming from support us in this and the seven is a reboy it has to do with everyone and all the nations and bazrat hashem that the world will come to truly know the god of israel and follow minimally we're talking about the the noahides the non-jews the seven noah had laws in a righteous fashion with real understanding and um okay with that i want to now go onward with part two okay so we're now going to begin part two which is as i mentioned i think very deep ideas behind what actually is what we consider a blessing and a curse so before we begin i mean what do you think blessing and accurses maybe stop this video write down what you think is a blessing and a curse and then we're going to see a whole new dimension so right away the cleo car says it mentions hyun right we're still in verse chapter 11 verse 26. where it says see today i place before you a blessing and a curse today it says today so the word hayyom what's it doing there after peace islam the really the time for receiving this oath was when it was on mount grizzy and mount ivel and you can find that in deuteronomy chapter 11 verse 29 it's just a few verses later and it will be when the lord your god will bring you to the land which you come to possess it that you will place those blessings upon mount greezium and those cursing upon mount abell and rashi says right there right the word al you're not you're not cursing the mountains it's the people who are doing the blessing and the curses are on the mountains and the uh they're facing the mountain the levites turned their faces toward the mountain and began with the blessing and this is how it says blessed is the man who does not make any graven or molten image but you notice that there are no blessings when you go to in the parsha it's all the curses right you go to deuteronomy chapter 27 15. all you see is each of the curses in that section it's the gemara that says there were blessings well the torah itself says there were blessings but later on in deuteronomy 27 27 15 you don't see them they were stated with an expression of a blessing and afterwards they return to the other mountain and then respond with the curse so in other words even though the torah are only lists the curses in that chapter 27 believe it or not they did exactly as the torah said they each gave the blessing first and then the curses and you find this in sota what the blessings were for example if the curse is cursed is each man who actually makes a graven image so the blessing was blessed is each man who does not make a graven image and we're going to discuss this later this route hashem but in the meantime we're actually talking about the word haiyom hayom is seems inappropriate unless it's just as we will see god's giving them enough time to think about taking this oath because any time you're told to take an oath you need time to think about it just like a confession right if god forbid someone ends up in a police station and they're trying to force them to make a confession you you know they have to reach your rights they have to ask if you want a lawyer there's certain procedures to get a confession right and when they rush it and they stumble and they they do let's say something negligent guess what that confession be vice president yeah you'd be vice president that confession would be thrown out right because you were pressured so hear this so the first paragraph cleo car mentions nevertheless it says today to tell you that from today which is at least you know 70 days before from this day onward you would have enough time to make up your mind in order that they won't say anusim hayinu that we were forced i skipped a lot in hebrew i'll read it for you i see you're lost the torah mentions the word today that me young from today until that time yes they would have enough time to make up their mind kadeshlo yomru you know the word anusi means forced kederic kosovo like any time shavu is shannon's when an issue is given they always allow time lest the person change their mind it's not at all in the interest of the based in of the court to have someone make an oath uh using god's name and lying right only if they're saying the positive the truth whatever it is so let's why do they have to uh usually the oath is made to get them not to confess right in other words they're actually saying i'm innocent right you're going to swear you're innocent otherwise you would confess so they give him enough time that he hopefully will come forward and confess that's the whole point you want to get the person not to take the oath that he's innocent but rather confess and here if god would have put us on the spot and only told us then do you realize what responsibility you're taking we're talking about collective responsibility is that would anybody want to do that would anybody on their free on their free will i'm going to join a pack with a bunch of people and then if you sin i'm responsible that's got to be the most ridiculous thing right and i'm sitting here as a rabbi here or because guess what this has to do with something metaphysical this is not a simple procedure and that's why converting to judaism is serious business here so we all converted at mount sinai it's true and there was a process 40 years went through and that generation had died there's a new generation are you ready to take on a newer and higher level of responsibility and god gave us time from this day this day see i'm placing before you this bracha and the klala okay so basically he gave us enough time to make up our minds so we don't say the bomb that we were agitated and confused that we were irri you know you didn't give us enough time we were pressured and we could claim where we could have claimed but we don't need to because we were given the time that if you would have given us enough time to think about it we never would have entered this covenant nope he gave us the time and therefore we are in it okay so the clear card goes on divar hair alternatively bamila tayom the actual word hayong is i'm going to use the word synonymous but he used the word ramaz it hints to the gal gael hayomi that means the disc of the sun or it could mean the orbit the way that the sun travels through the sky meaning day in other words when the sun comes up over the horizon until the sun dips down below the horizon that's called yom so day and sun are synonymous and guess what the word haiyom is pressed together with the words bracha and klola blessing and curse why i told you could have been the beginning see today a blessing and a curse why is hayom all the way at the end of the verse why is it next to the word blessing and curse it's one thing it's one item it's one entity in the sky and yet it acts it doesn't act but it affects and the results are going to be different on different items for example it's mati it can melt wax wax which is hard usually to start with and it will melt the wax right if you ever left the candle in your window you'll know it right or in your car and it's makbi habita and it won't harden an egg okay i'm not talking about the shell obviously the shell is hard but it will soften that which is hard and it will harden that which is soft it's mashed paneer coives um it could simultaneously create a tan a darkened face on the one who's down by the river for hours cleaning their clothes that's how they used to do it by the way and what happens when you put your clothes on the line beside the fact that they're stiff but they're also much cleaner they're beamed the sun has a bleaching effect right the heat and the sun together can have an effect on the baggage which will bleach bleaching it uh clean it so guess what ko hashinoy meilu halalu all these effects the right the results are in they're not coming because of the sun the sun is the sun and i'm going to just stress it's s-u-n okay the sun however how did all these changes take place cobbling it only changed right the the molecular structure because of the whatever it is that's receiving the heat or the light or the radiation or whatever it is that's affecting it so too this is how the blessings and the curse work everything emanates from hashem neither good nor bad then hebrew we call it parv parv means it's not milking it's not flashing it's i don't know what the words to explain it but hashem is pure hashem there's no good and there's no bad huh neutral so too the brachus and the clawless are coming even though this energy together the blessing and the curse is emanating from hashem it doesn't affect it's not creating a change it's not obligating any change there's no necessary change by god it's not that he's making his mind up and changing anything in fact in malachi malachi chapter 3 verse 6 it says i am hashem and i do not change okay um i have not changed lo shaniti ella she no i bought me some cobbling but the change is coming because of the molecular structure within the thing that's receiving the sunlight and we also know in echa that's lamentations chapter 3 verse 38 it says from the mouth of the almighty lotatov neither good nor evil come from that wait till you hear this there is no such thing as hell there is no such thing as gehennam wait till you hear what he's about to say so far neither good or bad comes from hashem and the last line he says is the magist backs me up on this the next paragraph the varacher we do according to what we find in in the ghazal you can find this in the daring page 8b ready there is no ghana there's no ganon you heard it i'm quoting a gemara there's no such thing as hell wait is that true in other words we're going to actually equate the blessings as heaven and the curses as hell or to a certain extent we're going to see another deeper explanation if you hang in there but there's no good or bad that comes from hashem in fact even what we call hell is not what you thought so i'll read the more in english said that's ray schlocker says there's no gehennom in the world to come that means dude the after world rather what does god do he's going to remove the sun from its sheath some kind of protective guard and the righteous will be healed by it meaning whatever energy light powers coming from that sun s-u-n is healing the righteous and the wicked will be punished by it what does it mean the righteous will be healed so it says but to to you that fear my name shall the son of righteousness arise with its healings wings you're going to find that if i'm not mistaken that is chapter 3 verse 20. yeah you'll see that number 12 on the source sheet but what about the the the not so righteous let's just continue so those who fear me that fear my name shall the son of righteous arise with healing in its wings s-u-n and moreover not only will they be healed but they will either be will even be rejuvenated by it okay we're not going to go through that verse right now but um what about the evil people and the evil the wicked will be punished by the same son s-u-n as it says in malachi 3 19 for behold the day is coming it burns as a furnace and all the proud and all the work wickedness shall be stumble stubble and the day that comes shall set them ablaze so what does he mean there's no gehenna meaning of course there's gehenna of course there's heaven but it's what you as the macabre what you do now is going to make all the difference that's how it affects you it's the same energy you created it you created it you understand that it's of course there's ghana but not whereas you thought it's coming from the kabuli means from me i created it okay look at rashi on the verse of malachi 3 which speaks about the sun that comes shall burn them up talking about the wicked so the word yom because it doesn't say the word son in english it says the word yom we already said that yom day and son are equated and the day will come what do you mean the day will come it means that the sun shall come to the instance yom was an expression of sun for so did the sages state there will be no gehenna in the future but the holy one blessed be he will take the sun out of its case the wicked will be punished thereby and the righteous will be healed thereby this it's like the wax and the egg it's like the face and the begging there's the wicked will suffer the righteous will be healed they're going to feel it's one of the greatest pleasures now you know especially with the be dude with the quarantine just to sit out on a bench in the sun and feel the vitamin d entering your bloodstream and knowing that it's giving you the immune immunity that you need to to go on it's just so pleasurable and okay where are we at we're back in the clear car and he says like this the word yom means the sun s-u-n whereas but when it comes to tsaddikin we already read verse 20 that the sun will shine on those who fear his name and there will be a son of righteousness and a healing in its wings and that's why it uses this is our verse hayyom the word yom is next to the words bracha klala the sun the word yom is sun just as the sun affects things differently so too what it's talking about as we mentioned in malachi malachi it means from the sun s-u-n will be extracted it comes out the broken the kala the blessing and the curse because why why is it the sun because there is no reward in this world all the reward the main part of the reward is left for the world to come there are fruits there are payrolls there are some benefits you may get in this world but hopefully you'll you won't expend that you won't be spending that you'll be saving that for the future we say in german conducion did i quote that no um it's 39b i don't think i quoted it properly [Music] okay it says over there there there is no reward from itself in this world but guess what in verse 30 there's actually a sign regarding that because if you look at verse 30 it says are they not on the other side of the jordan far in the direction of the sunset what do you mean the sunset this passage seems to be giving and you even see rashi it's so specific with um here i'm going to just make sure we're all the same maybe i didn't quote it here i quoted earlier deuteronomy 11 30. see number 13. see the first rashi so let's read the verse are they not on the other side the jordan way beyond the direction of the sunset in the land of the canaanites who dwell in the plain opposite gilgal near the plains of modern look at rashi moses gave geographical landmarks i mean come on how much landmarks do you want to know the clear car mentions it's like someone's trying to sell a piece of property how much how many details do you need it's even more than someone who's selling a property so he tells us the word devil derek marble shamish why do i need to know in the direction the sun has set just say the word west right they're on the other side of the jordan right bob they're on the other side of jordan and west is israel well guess what it's also where the mediterranean in other words uh derek marvel chamish say it's on the west bank of the jordan river exactly comes to teach you this very point that the main place of receiving reward is only after one's son has set this is an expression means they passed on to the next world when someone's son has set you there's eulogy time right morning okay that is what it means okay the next paragraph this is verse 27 the bracha which you will listen to as we mentioned earlier the blessing it says you will listen to it whereas the curse that says if you will not listen which is not symmetrical so we're bothered by that and if we stop here nobody's going to sleep tonight right okay so because every time the torah ever mentions you must listen or listening is effectuated you always have some action there's a doing there's a guarding or there's some kind of service action seems to be necessary listening is that enough smear well we all know that shemia does not mean listening it means something deeper than that it's a deeper understanding in fact we're actually going to say that it means it's an acceptance okay it's an acceptance so if we went back to chapter seven verse 12 we see right away in partial eikev of tishman right at the mishpatim right ushmartan those laws you will listen to guess what you will guard them and you will do them and also in our own chapter just in the past in the previous um parsha that would be chapter 13 um chapter 11 verse 13. it's part of the shema because she be surely if you listen and to serve him with all your heart so there's a disservice there's these actions guarding serving is always related to smear because shmea just acceptance doesn't seem to be enough according to where the car is explaining it thought process the oh it's just a it's an acceptance alone it's an acceptance in your thought process very nice and guess what what did he accept to do she kaabel allah of la soto he accepted to do something but nevertheless this is not enough ain died this is not enough am i right everybody just because you want to do the right thing that's enough and we'll see it seems to be actually the opposite let's see ella sorry gamma cmf out according to the cleo car it's true listening or accepting to do something is not enough it seems to be that you actually need to do something because that's what god requires you when it comes to the curse it says imlo tishmulmuth if if if you don't but then it added a action versa minideric if you don't listen and you actually do move away from the path you remove yourself from the truth if that's so then we have a question because it should have said by the blessing we should have had symmetry by the blessing which you will listen to because you go on the path you're physically or actively walking on the path and then but guess what it doesn't seem in our verse that kiesh die the smear lava below asia it seems like just thought alone without an action seems okay and that's not okay so we need to figure out what's going on here so the cleo car begins the next verb the next paragraph by saying lift up your eyes and see what we have written above and partial now in partials left which is brought down in genesis chapter 12 verse 3. i need you to pay very special attention it says i will bless those who bless you god says symmetry i will bless those who bless you so what would you would expect i will curse those who curse you but that's not what it says look carefully in in the hebrew anyway i will bless so god's already saying i'm going to bless whom those who bless you and the ones who curse you i will curse it's opposite [Music] so in miseka's conducion do we start with that now [Music] let me just read the clear card a little bit further [Music] in our verse in in durant in genesis chapter 12 verse 3 you see that the blessing already comes before they bless you why because mahshavatova this thing called a good thought is it's as if you did it so if i want to help an old lady across the street i see her and i'm running to do it guess what happens someone else gets there first i get the credit it's as if i did it god will combine my own thoughts to their actions as we spoke about earlier it's done it's a done deal what about i want to go rob a bank of america when it comes to evil thoughts hakadosh park who will not combine my thoughts with any action because there was no action taken so i want to rob a bank i i don't really want to rob a bank but let's say i plan to rob a bank and i made all and guess what the day the big day comes right ocean 12 whatever it is where it's a big heist and the car doesn't work am i guilty am i a criminal for robbing a bank no and god won't punish me for robbing the bank because no bank was ever out so in work by the way we talked about this in another class i'm giving on on the shari chuva this gamora actually says at the end of this little sugiya that that's all true the first time you sin but not when you re a repeat offender if you're constantly repeating the offense just thinking about it gives you so much pleasure it's as if you did it first time you don't have that same pleasure okay it's not the same but there is a makshava that will be considered as if you did it if you are a repeat offender okay so let's see the gomorrah because that's really at the end but [Music] um it's number 17 on the source sheet it's the gemara kadusan 40a the more further teaches the holy one blessed be he links a good thought to an action as it says then the then they that feared the lord spoke one with the other the lord listened and heard and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that fear the lord and that think upon his name that's in malachi 3 16 okay so we understand what's happening the lord heard listen and heard and this is for all those that fear him great and the good more asked what does it mean and that think upon his name revasti said even a purse even if a person intended to do a mitzvah but due to circumstances beyond his control he didn't perform it the ver the verse describes credit as if he did as if he performed the mitzvah as if he is among those that think upon his name so the word mitzvah by the way and this is something i meant to bring in the earlier version without the word mitzvah itself it means to connect right we talked about the idea of a jew is a connector guess what the word mitzvah means to connect and there are 613 mitzvahs or in this case 620 613 for the jew and seven for the norchids the word mitzvah means connect how do i know because the root is it means a group of people working together right at seven is a staff a group of employees a group working for common purpose so too that's exactly the mitzvah itself connects you to hashem and they're all intertwined and combined as it is so that really brings us to the whole idea that even within you when you have a good thought it's it's somehow linking up to someone doing the act even if it's not you you're going to get credit as if you did it okay that's the word mitzvah what about the uh the negative but the holy one blessed be he does not link an evil thought to an action it says in psalm 66 18 if i had regard this is king david if i had regarded iniquity in my heart means if i thought about doing something wrong the lord would not hear hello the lord would not consider what i had thought in my heart again this is only the first time don't think that a repeat offender is going to have the same rakhami but how do i realize the meaning of the verse behold this is in jeremiah 6 19. great question behold i will bring upon these evil people even the fruit of their thoughts ah this is where the evil thought produces fruit meaning it actually leads to an action the holy one blessed be he links it to an action and one is punished for the third as well but if it does if that thought does not produce fruit then god does not link it to an action now ullah is the one who is saying what i said earlier this should be explained in accordance with the statement of rahuna rahuna says when a person transgresses and repeats his trans transgression it becomes permitted he looks at it's like heter he looks as if it's permissible to him but that's not good so the quran asks what do you mean can it enter your mind that the transgression is actually permitted because he sinned twice no rather it becomes as if it was permitted okay so the truth is this is basically saying that when somebody has negative thoughts it actually will be ascribed to him the action if he's a repeat offender okay let's go back now into the clear car we stopped where we mentioned kadusan mem now according to this haddover ain't sargon we're not going to go much into this idea but the klala this curse it certainly does not become applicable it doesn't become effect effectuated until after the person doesn't listen meaning that he he really removed himself from the path i remember when i used to take all the guys on akshatora to tulim we used to go on these all these shvilim all these pads in some very deserted areas where if you went off the path you could get lost and you could die of of um dehydration so base and lions and tigers and bears no so i used to tell them you know you can also fall off a mountain you have to stay on the path you want to survive in this world you want to come home alive you have to stay on the path follow me follow me stay on the path i would repeat that was like my mantra right because anybody goes off the path you're putting your life in your own hands really just a rock can slip and fall and there have been people who died in the judean desert anyway so here this curse is only applicable after one does not listen and what does that mean that they actually physically remove themselves from the way but when it comes to the bracha that blessing comes immediately just by listening alone this goes against everything we thought until we read the gemara but anyway now what why is the coming why is this blessing coming in order that the bracha itself is the assistant to help the person activate his potential thoughts good potential thoughts into action by the removal of any hindrances anything that is coming in the way of his ability to perform the good act the blessing is god's removal the removal of obstacles and hindrances or things that hold you back from reaching the potential i'll just read the hebrew again in order to receive the bracha there will be to him a assistant some kind of assistance to bring out that he's able to bring forward the power the abilities of his thoughts of those positive thoughts are your day through hasarata moanim the removal of anything that gets in the way and what is one of the things that gets in the way of a lot of people doing mixes money you want to do mitzvahs hashem will bless you with enough resources to do mixes you know you want to do uh you want to have a house you want to have a house put up a mezuzah show will grant you anyway that's just an introduction we have two more paragraphs to go and i beg you to stay this is really interesting omash and mr from the very fact that it says which you will listen it's like almost a sure thing and it doesn't say imtismu by the bracha it doesn't say if you will listen why it was for the honor of the jewish people israel hashem gave honor to the jewish people that he said such a thing as if we are not even suspect in his eyes shalom that we would not listen below you allah's hashem affiliate that god forbid he didn't think that we wouldn't accept to do now this is going to be very interesting because it's so easy to accept to do right god was not worried that we would accept upon ourselves to do the misses or even a thought kulay hai lopakar that far we wouldn't go that this is a very important principle that this the general principle is that every jew really wants to do the right thing even in when we have the laws of divorce that okay this is just for uh academic purposes only according to the halacha right that if re reluctant husband will not give a get to his wife and the base then says he must there's such a thing as undue pressure is that the word excessive pressure to force the man even today in israel they will put someone in jail right but if without the ability to do that there were thugs that would go around and can let's say physically convince the person i say physically convince you know what i mean to uh to say i'm willing to do it the rambam says we all know that the husband has to give a willingly so what is he getting a bunch of hits a bunch of punches a bunch of pressure and he's basically saying enough already i don't want to be hit anymore i'll sign that doesn't seem enough right it should be that he's to say i want to divorce my wife because my heart says i want a divorcer we take his words i'll sign even though in his seemingly on the surface on the surface he's just saying i don't want to be hit anymore really in the depths of his heart he wants to do the right thing he really we know that he really wants to do the right thing because the basement said don't hold your wife a prisoner she should be freed right what kind of man would do such a thing right such a i don't know you know such a low life right such a i mean very very problematic personality to be to do such a thing he it deep inside even he once did the right thing therefore when he says i'll sign it stop hitting me already when he said those words i'll sign it we know he said he'll sign it because it's the right thing to do and therefore the divorce is actually granted okay okay so don't uh don't take this as halacha myself today you have to contact your local orthodox rabbi to find out what to do in practical situations okay uh just that's a disclaimer right a disclaimer [Music] okay so going back to this idea of abbas okay so he says that mastama every jew would want to do the right thing he wants to do the mitzvahs but makshava kalama but thought is very nice thought is easy but when it comes to actual doing there's actually a doubt whether that would actually come to play like maybe there would become a heaviness or a burden a burdensome you know attitude at the time of doing the actual work and there will be some negligent negligence in actually performing it so guess what hashem knows that and that's what it means what it says the brother you will listen i know you have it deep inside all the good intent but when it comes out i know for sure that you will listen and you will accept in your hearts to do them but then something but then isla hashem god will send the bracha a yada that through the bracha yasura mimkam god through the bracha through it the brach itself is removing from you all of those external obstacles that are keeping you from doing the tokul and it it will help you it'll they can enable you it's an enabler the bracket is an enabler to bring out from the makshava into reality man has to begin and hashem is hashem is the one that finishes the job there's a perky album that says it's not upon us to finish it but we're not free from beginning we must make that effort and here it says in psalms chapter 57 verse three la el goymere o love where do i have it i hope i copped it yet number 18 i will call upon the most high god upon the god who completes for me god will complete for me as he promised now we understand etabracha the word at the word does not appear by the klala by the curse it says but anyway by the by the prophet says what is always coming as a reboy it's always coming to include or expand some idea as the clear car says call at le roboswa it in other words you won't find this in your english translation so the word is a hebrew word that appears before the word and it's coming to expand hamas the bracha is coming to expand the action that is activated through through it through the bracha but the klola when it comes to the curse it says we're going to say by work can either mean on account of or i'm going to say i think we're going to read it as almanac i'm not sure if this paragraph for the next paragraph alma not means one condition so what do we mean but the clause comes but the klola comes with the language if baavor on account of or maybe on condition that you actually physically removed yourself from the derrick vasata minideric befoel in actuality as it says afterwards lo tishmau it actually says you're not going to listen right because you're not listening if you're not going to listen no it's if you're not going to listen if you're not going to listen there's a doubt maybe you will maybe you won't rush lube before maybe you will be even negligent in your negative thoughts right you say okay i'm going to go and set out to rob the bank but in the end you either got lazy or something came up you forgot to change your tire and it blew you forgot to put um uh gas in the car you did something negligent something that prevented you from doing it so who says 100 you're going to end up doing the negative in other words we're saying that the negative thought is not connected to the negative action because who says the negative action has to happen as it says of a sartim in the dark you actually physically removed yourself from the way that means lo tishmue that's going back on you didn't if you didn't listen if you didn't listen meaning you removed yourself shayna kavanagh therefore we're saying that the intent is not listening or i'm sorry it's not thinking you're listening which is thinking uh it's not the thoughts alone but it has to be action connected to the thought okay so now we're going to get into the idea of beauvoir and this is the question that the the next paragraph introduces how is it that there's a blessing without an action who says the action will ever happen in other words the blessing is all those who do not create an idol well right now i didn't create one but who says i will in the future okay so when does this blessing begin right now even though i didn't make one yet meaning of course it's a blessing so i should get it now or should only be when i feel that i have a a a desire to make a an idol and i don't do it okay like for example should i be getting credit for not murdering right now i don't even have the desire to murder so god's going to bless me i'm going to get a blessing for not murdering perhaps so let's see what the cleopatra has to say yeshua marine some say that there's a bracha code we already said that the barakah comes before any action right i will bless those who bless you because behold all brahmos like this for example says blessed is the man remember this is the morsotha it's not exactly written in the torah but we know that they said the blessings and they said the curses so in the in the blessings is his blessing is the man who doesn't make an idol or a molten image so what does it mean you're going to be blessed before the action there's no action there's no action so if that's the case kosha should come every moment that i fulfill do not make i'm going to receive a blessing if you want to say well maybe one day 10 years from now 20 years from now somebody will make it and yet they're blessed now does that make any sense england ourselves there's no end to it when does the bracha actually apply so mask this goes well according to what it says in kendusha conduction i'd like this this i think i skipped it it's in caducen uh chapter uh page 8a it says over there anyone who says almanac on condition there's a retroactive from now right marry me on condition that i am righteous even though maybe right now i'm not it means on condition that right now it's similar that which you will listen to with by the blessings that's going on condition which that which you will listen to it which basically comes down to this it's teaching you about that you will receive the reward before you even do the action that's the way it is and as proof for this he brings in psalms chapter 105 verse 44 and 45 and this shows you god says he gives you he already gave them the lands of the nations and they inherited what the the non-jews these kingdoms worked for and it says in order that they keep in other words the blessing is coming before the action yes it's coming as a to help prevent all the other possibilities of coming up uh the moaning that prevent you from doing the right thing in order that they keep the statues and observe his laws hallelujah the islam are so sigoim god is going to give you what belongs to other people we're talking about um freedom the land whatever it is the as well as all that they toiled for because you're not allowed to steal from the you're not allowed to steal but if god gives them to you as a yerusha some type of inheritance that's god giving it to you and then it becomes yours it's not stealing on account of that's in other words unconditioned but it's only on condition yeshua that you will keep his commandments with his torah and observe his laws hallelujah so that's how we're going to end i know this was very long i hope you get a chance to review it and enjoy the rest of the week have a great shabbos god bless you have a nice life for shalema all the blessings to you they should never end and i hope to see you all next week [Music] is