Spiritual Ascendancy Requires Physical Sacrifice with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] everybody welcome back to the yibbani beat midrash welcome home to torah a very very warm welcome now i'm telling you this is absolutely fascinating right as always the clear car has some very deep insights and i'm going to call them let's say fundamental to judaism but this is really lessons for all mankind of course the torah was specifically given to the jewish people with the khaneem the priests of the world and we have to live by higher standards and along with responsibilities do seem to come what we'll call privileges and one of the greatest privileges that we have is living in the land of israel wow wow can we really appreciate it can we really literally you know we're here and this is torah that comes out of zion torah that's coming out from you shalom so whatever we have to say here tonight according to the clay car should impact the world so believe it or not we're in chapter 26 verse two and three this is in genesis parties told us where god says to abraham i do not want you going down to the land of egypt okay actually i don't have a commission in front of me hold on one second i don't know why i keep doing this but let's get to coming should we have it here we go you think i'd be more prepared i uh it's a rough week okay here we go first of all it's khodeshtov khodeshtov kislev we're not going to talk about that tonight but it is a very deep subject on its own so chapter 26 begins with the first verse which we're not really dealing with but there was a famine in the land aside from the first famine that was in the days of abraham so now we're having a discussion a narrative dealing with isaac and isaac went to avimella king of the philistines to gaurier hashem appeared to him and said so now god is appearing there's new there's prophecy there's um an intimate engagement with the shrina with the divine presence and god says directly to him do not descend to egypt dwell in the land that i shall indicate to you now in hebrew it's fascinating he says like this in the hebrew the yera ela of hashem god appeared to him the yomir al-tayrad don't go down mitsurama egypt way but rather i want you to dwell in the land i will tell you in bahrain so we're going to focus on the word versus the word gore which is in the next verse so is to dwell i want you to dwell in the land which i will tell you now the very strange the first thing the clear card is going to point out is the very next verse tells us the answer already meaning god now tells them it's this land very strange because if i'm going to tell you then you would expect sometime later on maybe some verses maybe some time but not immediately okay so shocking dwell in the land that i'm going to tell you about and look at verse three gorba tazot but it's not interestingly enough you have the difference between shoghan and gore so we'll have to discuss that there's going to be two issues here number one issue is the difference between and gore and the issue that seems to be implied in the verse that i'm going to tell you not immediately and yet i god i'm telling you immediately so there has to be a lesson here okay so again the verse 3 says like this so join in this land and i will be with you and i will bless you for to you and and to your seat i will give all these lands and i will establish the oath that i swear to abraham your father right it's like in these lands great so we have here let's say the clear car begins and he says right away our verse right dwell it's almost like a command form right dwell in this in the land that i'm going to tell you but right away right away immediately he tells him gorbachev in verse 3 live in this land now in kane the clear car says if that's the case mao zes why does the ver the first verse that we brought up which is verse 2 say the one i'm going to tell you i just told him it certainly implies that it's some later date not immediately lockers man what's lockers man a later time i'm going to tell you which land you should dwell but guess what miyaadva takef those two words are i guess it's synonymous it means immediately and quickly he told him omarlo aza heresy which land it is that he should dwell in and the clear car ends that point by saying the hood of our term this is a very perplexing matter okay so so far the most perplexing thing to the clear car is the immediacy of the answer or let's say of the explanation of which land it is and now the clear car begins his answer by saying the karobe you know what makes the most sense to me and he's a big talmud he thought well about everything he's the morale student he's a big talmud he understood from this main point what is god trying to convey what's the message that he's the main thing you can pick up from this is as it began don't go down to egypt god does not want isaac to leave the land of israel he wants to prevent him from going to what we call outside the land of israel kutzler's why and he gives a reason according to the cleo car latisha sham what's going to happen over there if he goes to khutslaaritz if he goes outside the land there is now we know god is everywhere right hashem is everywhere but these words mean you do not have the revelation of the divine presence there what does that mean it means that there's not either there's no naval there or they're certainly not the same level of naval now we have this expression right that there is no prophecy outside the land of israel but every principle always has exceptions and as i was mentioning there really are exceptions to every rule but the general rule is that there is no prophecy outside the land of israel where in better terms as he puts it it's not the place for the revelation of the divine presence i mentioned there are exceptions we do have a major exception by the whole revelation of mount sinai okay but in general the general rule is now he brings down it's in the megilta however i think it's actually in the mark subis 101 b as well this idea uh we could stop here and just read that go more kasubis for a second so it says over there that it's a very interesting idea that our sages taught that a person should always reside in the land of israel in eretz israel even in a city meaning live in israel even if the city is mostly populated by non-jews and one should not reside a jew should not reside outside the land of israel even in a city that is mostly populated by jews now you think that's one thing wait to hear this you have to tell us take your hat off of this hold your hat on the reason is that anyone who resides in errors israel it's considered as if they have a god we're going to discuss this a little bit on the second page when we get to the ben but guess what it also says that one who resides outside of israel is considered as if one has no god now whoa one second first of all you have a proof text the proof text is in leviticus 25 38 god says to give you the land of canaan to be your god why is god giving us the land to be our god so we're in the land we have the god when we're outside the land as if we have no god now that's just a proof text now the gomorrah is actually surprised by this answer are you saying that if you live outside the land you have no god we know that god lives god is everywhere how can it be so then we're actually asked in a surprising fashion can it really be said that anyone who resides outside of the land of earth's israel has no god you know what rather it's coming to tell us and i would say this is even more fascinating that anyone who lives outside the land of israel is as if they are engaged in idol worship what idol worship now what are you doing you're doing mitzvahs you're eating kosher you're praying three times a day you're putting on to fill in you're learning torah and it's like you're worshiping idols wait till you hear what the benjamin has to say but the proof text the gemara gives is yes it was actually said in regard to king david samuel in the book of samuel first samuel 25 19 it says over there now david was afraid for his life he had the idea maybe if i run away to houston arts i can live to fight another day right i'll come back when i have an army or when whoever's against me will die out but you know what listen to what he says for they have driven me out this day that i should not cleave to the inheritance of the lord saying go and serve other gods it's an incredible idea i actually have here the art scroll comment on that particular verse and it's very interesting that david had concluded that he could no longer remain in eretz israel and he was about to leave the land until the danger was over right that's what he was thinking now it continues and says but in leaving the holy land he would not be suffering merely the anguish of homeless homelessness in exile but he would also be leaving then hashem the inheritance of god as he says himself the heritage of god the place where god's presence and holiness are manifest interestingly enough he goes on to say in the commentary here on the art scroll when it says go and dove it's saying i'm going to go and worship the gods of others meaning by going to khutsarts by leaving the land it's as if i'm work i say as if um go and worship the gods of others so yes the t the sages teach that to leave the holiness of the land is tantamount to worshiping idols as it's quoted in our gemara thus it was as if david's enemies were pushing him into the arms of idols now interestingly enough dovid if he left he would have left behind family friends familiar surroundings but david makes no mention of having to leave verits israel and missing his family no dovin makes no mention of the grief that would have caused him these considerations are paled in comparison before the one overwhelming fact of his exile and that would be that he was being forced out of aries cestral for every fiber of his being was linked to the shrina to the divine presence that resided in the land so amazingly that's the proof text that going outside the land for a jew is like serving idols okay now but who said to dovid who actually said to david go and serve other gods nobody did rather this comes to tell you that anyone who resides outside of aries israel is considered as though they are engaged in idol worship amazing you have to admit that's pretty powerful stuff so what was god originally telling isaac i want you here don't leave okay and what's the reason as the clear card then continues on the five lines down in kane allah that god would not be able to speak to him let's say prophetically aza dover defeats our hasha whenever god found it necessary to speak to isaac okay because there is a disconnect there's some aspect of a disconnect from the divine presence by going outside the land therefore the clear car continues israel i'm telling you i want you to live in the land of israel why sham that's where my divine presence is going to be revealed as i mentioned earlier on god is everywhere there's going to be a difference in a concept called hashtag and hashtag what's the difference the divine influence on a very personal and you know detailed level that we experience in the land of israel outside the land of israel there's general providence not personal okay so you want if you want have personal involvement the closest relationship you can possibly have with god it's right here and then therefore visham when when god is telling you you should live in the land of israel omar alecha that's i'm going to speak to you i'm going to come to you but then i'm going to speak to you i'm going to speak to you there in the land of israel whenever i want to speak to you any type of let's say prophetic vision or whatever i want to tell you now according to the clear car bizarre you shall mash up he's now going into these ideas of shaheen versus gore means to dwell and i'll just introduce it this way and in a permanent way whereas gore is more related to the word ger ger we all know means a convert a convert is a little bit of a stranger a little bit of a wanderer right they weren't born naturalized citizens from birth so what do we see the word shochen ba'aretz that's how it began and only second meaning that the the following verse says gurbharis why what's the difference between shaken and gore because the word shachon is gore there's more of a permanence like a permanent resident that's how they usually translate we're going to see later on avraham says when he was in the process of negotiating with the he tights right in the the marsa macpala he says both i am both so what what does god want us to know as jews and humans on this planet that you need both you need both in what fashion this drum roll please everybody all together drum roll guys come on come on drum roll no okay okay so the word shokhan is a real permanent dwelling whereas gore is lush in gerus it's let's call transitory uh temporary why life because god wants us to achieve spiritual perfection spirituality requires that's the permanent thing that's what god wants us to try to accomplish and in that fashion when it comes to spirituality we should not feel so transient but rather tishkon bakatoshav dwell in a permanent fashion spiritually but when it comes to the acquisition of the physical blessings yeah then you should be keger like a well not convert but as a transitory being a wanderer and that's what it means gurbaar tazot he tells you yes this is the land and as you notice if you read the next few verses it's talking about the physical blessings of the land itself the land is physical as i just mentioned the several verses following you know verse four and five basically is talking about the physical blessings of living in the land and that's where this little piece of the clear card ends we're going to go to the benue hold on a second he mentions even abraham avina was aware of this because he himself says gervatos you find that in chapter 23 verse 4. i wanted to mention that it's true that avraham himself understood both these points yaakov himself was i'm not so sure he understood it until the rogue and show yosef came upon it he wanted to dwell as we know in this world in a a peaceful serene way and hashem wanted to get this message across to him okay avraham perhaps understood it and in fact it was even told to avraham that for 400 years you will be wanderer in the land that is not yours you'll be strangers and so abram did move around from place to place yitzhak on the other hand pretty much he also moved around plate but within iris israel yaakov of course moved around all over the middle east right so this is a special lesson that god needed to tell yitzhak remaining in the land even though yitzhak remained in the land he had to be like aguero it was important for him not to make a permanent residence otherwise the 400 years of a debt that we had to pay as wanderers would not have been paid and we would have been in egypt longer than four hundred years in other words there's a cheshbondness an accounting that has to be made the promised abraham 400 years your seed will be wanderers meant 400 years as soon as yaakov wanted some permanent residency hashem upset that permanency and of course as like domino effect as we say shall shell it of the the happenings he ended up going down to egypt okay so that is the clear car what i want to do now is is focus on the ben yohoda [Applause] because it's absolutely fascinating and it's on the gemara kasubus that mention these words that anyone that lives in eric's israel it's as if he has a god and the same expression right anyone who does not live in the land of israel it's as if he has no god and um but what does it mean he has no god of course he is a god but rather it means living in everything in outside the land it's as if you're serving idols now that's the words that we saw in the gemara the uh the benyo yada i'll just i'll try to paraphrase his first paragraph he's explaining that when it says anyone who lives in the land of israel it's as if he has a god what is god in terms of the word elo kai hello hi that is like in the illumination of godliness and you can actually see it in job 29 verse 4. we'll see in a second and where do you see that on the yeah okay now he says it says in job 29 4 as i was in my early days when god's counsel was upon my tent in hebrew here is like like the winter early time okay besot elokai the council of god allah ali is upon me in my tent so it sounds like it's a covering there is the essence of god was upon me while in my tent it's like a covering and we're going to imagine it like a beggar a beggar is clothing it's a covering so the ven yoda explains remez this hints to the idea of living in the land of israel is this you have a god aleph lam advoca it's the same word here used in job the the it's like levus it's like this idea of our body our physical body is a clothing for the neshama the physical land of israel is a covering for the holiness of the land of israel so that's what he says here and he quotes the verse and the ari he quotes the arizona and saying that with absolute certainty the levush itself the covering illuminates the godliness that the person has and that's the advantage that the land of israel actually has over all their lands because it's its atmosphere is holy because the air itself you breathe is holy and the land we're in shemitah years we even know much more about holiness of the land itself but everything about the land is holy and i think that i think the word avira de kadusa it's not just talking about the atmos the the the air you breathe but the whole atmosphere of the land and it's not like eric like hutzlars it's not at all eric's child is not all like huzzle arts who's avira tama who's um how do you translate this uh it's the opposite of holy okay it's impure or or even polluted and that's what it means doing the commission that if you live in the land of israel it's as if you have a god because that's the illuminating factor i hope i did a good enough summary because now we're going to go detailed word for word in the rest so the gemara actually asked is it really true that anybody that lives outside the land of israel is if he has no god no it's rather telling you but rather it's like you are serving other gods now there's an interesting gemara that we should look at okay we'll get to it in three lines zimbabwasra page 110a we'll get to it shortly the mahasho s right the key introduced like a um um what kind of question so the word key is interesting introducing rhetorical question because it already knows it can't really be it has to be something else it really has an inkling of there's got to be a better answer is it really that if you live outside the land of israel you have no god no it's telling you that if you live outside the land it's as if you have what as if you're serving other other other gods really other gods you know what the marshall is explaining this answer is it's really mati zara you know what it's answering when it says you're act it's like you're serving other gods it doesn't mean that it means what the the dog it's faith it's a very good question according to the ben yoda he says this is what it means it's similar to what it's saying in the gemara of baba basra i want to you don't have it in front of you but it's a very interesting idea are you aware that i guess i'm sure you all are that the northern tribes of course separated themselves right and they built temples and they built idols and they even had their own priests and not they were not all most of the konim rebelled against the north most of the livium ran away from the north these are like pure jews you know they were very holy and learned and very committed to the jewish mission and most of them if not all of them pretty much left the north so how what would they do they want they have their own temples they have their own service so they believe it or not a lady what went for the job okay who this lady was we'll talk about in a second and he was serving the uh the people who came to worship uh in the mirrors idol so the gomorrah returns to the story of jonathan and mikhail's idol listen to this the verse is found where is it found number eight no you don't have oh yeah number eight oh you're in above that's true thank you i was looking at the art scroll but you have the okay so in in judges i have to read from here because it's uh i don't know why i don't have the whole verse here but um anyway let's use the let's use my sheet that i passed out to you okay so the gamora mentions jonathan who served as the priest from michael the gamora quotes additional statements of the sages concerning this episode so when the men from the tribe of dan pass through mikha's house now the verse says in judges 18 3. interestingly enough there are three words pointed out here that all have to do with moshe we're going to find out that this guy jonathan was actually moses's grandson so when they said to him and they turned aside there and said to him what brought you here the word here is halam and ma and what are you doing in this place and what do you do here po those three verses those three words are similar to words that was used by moshe i want to skip that part so basically they said to him do not do you not come from moses about what is written fine shall you a descendant of our teacher moses become a priest for idol worship so this guy was like a priest he was a lady he was where he was serving or helping them serve so yonatan responds back to them he that i received the teaching from my forefathers this is a jewish tradition perhaps from moshe himself that if a person should always hire themselves out to do idol worship and not require the help of other people by receiving charity now i have to ask you does this really make a lot of sense maybe he got something mixed up in the message and i find a lot of people get things mixed up in the message if it doesn't make sense ask somebody he thought okay i got a i got a a mesara a tradition that if you're really poor you really need money go hire yourself out to do i of worship right i received from the house of my father's father a person should always hire himseth out to idol worship and not require help from other people by receiving charity so i took the position in order to avoid receiving charity the gamora what comments and he yonathan yonatan thought that this referred to actual idol worship but that's not so what was the true intent of the tradition that he received rather the term idol worship remember idol worship means avodah zarah avodah means service could be worship zara strange you know what the real lesson is the word strange service is referring to service some kind of labor avodah that is strange for you that's unsuitable for you in other words if you're you have like a lot of numbers af letters after your your name right you're a doctor you have a kind of whatever it is you're do you're used to doing a certain kind of job guess what when it comes to the necessity for money drop it go pick up garbage go um clean the streets do something even though it's going to be below your dignity okay that's called avodah zarah that's called strange worships you're you're serving that in a way that's strange for you you're doing labor in a way that's strange for you so in other words one should be willing to perform labor that's difficulty and humiliating in his own eyes rather than become a recipient of charity and i just want to quote this one left last part of the gemara that rav said to rivkahana go ahead skin a carcass in the market and take payment in other words that's like hard labor or it's degrading but that's what you have to do do not say to yourself i'm such a great man and that matter is beneath me you need the money do an honest work do an honest day's work even though it's beneath you do it i just want to point out that um later on in first chronicles 26 24 there's this statement about this person the king david hires to be the treasurer and his name is shubhael son of gershom the son of moses was ruler over the treasuries it's the same guy as jonathan in our story in judges well guess what what is what isn't his name yonatan why is he called shuv el because he's shiva el because he repented he was and not only did repent but he actually even told people when people came to him in this in the north by the tribe of dan when people came to do worship he says i'm not we don't believe in this you can only worship hashem but anyway that was an interesting piece so in a certain sense we're getting this idea of what does it mean living in who's the arts it it's it's not fit for you you're living on a lower level okay i just wanted to get that point across now let's go back into the ben yada where we left off where he says it's the siata de shmaya up according to what it said in the gemara which we just read regarding yonatan ben gershom ben moshe that he said i have received a important lesson in life that one should always rent themselves out to strange well we think it means the vote of zara and so voters are meaning worship of idols and not rely on other people for charity the gemara says are you kidding me you think it really means the voters are can't be lo we're talking about work that was not befitting him something strange to him as it says and we just quoted it right strip the skin off the carcasses and the shook in the marketplace and take your uh your your your wages and don't say that you're such a holy person that is you know it's beneath you do it okay the hain khan this is the lesson here i'm rukola dharmakutsu any jew who lives outside the land of israel of azara it's as if he is what serving gods serving other gods no it's wrote a lomar it wants to tell you that you're it's a vote of zara low it's already a strange worship for you why is it a strange worship a strange way of serving god by living in hutzlarz you have to hear this guys you know what happens in khutsart you're takas mom shelletta every nation has administering angels and they act as intermediates to hashem and therefore it's very natural believe it or not for a non-jew to fall into this trap of believing in intermediaries in fact most of christianity believes that very fact the only way to get to the father is through some intermediary it's very natural for a non-jew to actually think like this because outside the land there are these administering angels over the nations and therefore all of your felot all of your prayers and the mitzvahs only lamala ayadam they push they push the mitzvahs and the the torah learning that we do outside the land they're the ones that are helping to raise it i wouldn't rely on them right you have to be independent go straight to hashem but nevertheless they're there doing it and this is avodah zarah this is a strange worship for a jew nymphs of vodasakotish bahutzlar zara leash israel therefore all the mitzvahs all the holy work all the involvement with doing god's torah when we're living outside the land of israel is considered strange for a jew and they know being hashem because the jew has no intermediary between us and god i mentioned this before which is fascinating when we declare israel what do we do we take our hand and we put it over our eyes right the four fingers are symbolic of the four kingdoms of exile that took us out of the land of israel supposedly you have babylon you have persia you have greece you have rome they go in one direction israel by the way the thumb is called the godel the great one the jew is the thumb the thumb goes in the opposite direction we are a nation that lives alone that is alone that is isolated so to speak to a certain extent we're we're going in the other direction what do these fingers all have in common these four fingers they all have three joints or three knuckles there's an intermediary between this and that every one of them these are the four nations they have intermediaries what is it about the jew what is it about the thumb there is no intermediary it goes straight to hashem so when you say the shema have this in mind okay so what does he say the last thing he said was that a jew living and doing holy work outside the land of israel it's strange for him because the natural way for a jew is to go straight to god in fact the name israel yashar ale the name itself means straight to god without any intermediary but what what happens in khuslar it's you're forced all your holy work that you're doing outside the land you're yeah it's only going to be elevated and raised through these emissaries called the administering angels of the non-jews so now we understand very well what this is coming to try to explain my murder statement it's as if you have no god if you right let me just turn this uh volume off i forgot to do that okay the either are you they empty empty because the work that we do is passing through the intermediaries of the administering angels of the non-jews she's right and then right away so we asked the gamora asked the question is it really true he has no god it's really like voters are it's like a strange worship so the ben yoda so how is it possible a holy jew living outside the land of israel he's serving god how is it possible to say that he has no god that we're going to label him that we're going to consider him as if he is a heretic as if right if you're worshiping idols you're a heretic you're a kosher baker you're a total denier in the faith it can't be this is to understand this the following way but by saying to you remember the gemura says kol hadar anyone who lives in hutzler it's our it's as if they are worshiping idols remember we don't translate that later like we don't understand it like that but rather it's as if he's avodah zarah low the female toe it's as if he's doing a strange worship for his level his level of being is a jew is going straight to hashem and he is dropped a level and he's using an intermediary and that is strange for him and that's why it's compared to avodah zarah nipnei because he's using the intermediary of the ministering angels of the non-jews aim nancy israel this is not honorable for the jewish people it's against the nature of the holiness of the jew of voters to serve hashem through any type of intermediary vinimsa bizet it comes out from this move on my mark misha ain't lo elo kylo daika so it comes out that we understand well the statement it's like someone who doesn't have a god since the raising of his service is coming through an intermediary ki you do it lecoque nicaragua keep in mind god our god is called the god of israel that's what everyone knows the god is right but the non-jews they call him the god of gods the power of all powers they understand that there's many powers and they use these in the in intermediate powers to get to god as i mentioned the christianity they claim that you have to go through some kind of a power to get to to hashem himself so he's called the god of israel why is he called the god of israel because that's what he is shall a coup tour that the very name of god uses the jewish people within the name of the god of israel which is not the case by the non-jews he's called god of gods so too regarding david and melech in sanhedrin this is a very interesting idea i think we discussed this also right that he was he want he was afraid to leave the land of israel and go end up worshiping idols so the quote over there is big love what the more over there says he wanted to worship idols meaning sharat so live rock looks like his intent was to leave the land of israel and once you're in khutsart it's like you're worshiping idols va shantia and this would be considered for right of voters this holy work would be considered strange to him specifically because he's going to end up serving hashem through the intermediaries now interestingly enough i wanted to bring out in gemara brachos this is uh i don't know if if everyone has this but the people here do number ten so shimboy okay mentions that there are three gifts there are three gifts that god gives three very nice things matanus tovos that hashem gives to jewish people that are only what that are only acquired through suffering and what are they we know what they are they're the torah itself eretz is surround the world to come now why am i bringing this up because originally in the clear car we mentioned that the word shochen is using your ability to dwell in a permanent way when it comes to spirituality gore implies what that you're in the physical world you're not going to make a permanent resonance but you're going to be transient so i think it answers up this question that we ask ourselves why would these three precious gifts be acquired through suffering what does suffering mean so suffering could mean what like let's talk about it torah how was torah acquired perkiava says through what through eating bread in your salt la you know sleeping on the floor that means giving up physical luxuries in order to acquire torah it doesn't literally mean suffering but when you're giving up a higher level in order to acquire because these things are distracting right and what about eretz israel we'll see also i want to tell you what the uh marshall says eric's shrill is not for the jaffa oranges it's not for the golan grapes right it's not for the and getty uh figs or dates right it's eric's israel is about conducion holiness and we're about the world to come of course we of course there's going to be things we give up in order to give up in order to enter the world to come so we see that there's a basically a simple concept of switcheroo right switching your priorities to the spiritual aspect making that a priority making that a permanence making that your priority making that the top you know like we talked about you shalom right it should be on my tongue it should be on my thoughts on my mind at all times so you're obviously going to give up if you spend your days at the beach you spend your days in the theaters you spend your days uh you know in luxury right you're going to forget about the lord your god now how do we know this look in deuteronomy chapter 8 verses five six and seven it's specifically this is the proof about the land of israel being what being um one of those things that are acquired through hardships so when you read verse five it speaks in hebrew about the word for hardships is here it's what is that that is chastisement so here it says you shall know in your heart that just as a just as a man a human man chastise his own son so too this is what the lord your god does he chastises you because he loves you that's what it means god loves you and of course you keep his commandments and do everything about what he says and then the following verse says fear the lord your god i'm sorry for the lord your god is bringing you to a good land you see there's a connection between chastisement now chastisement means doesn't actually have to mean right if you're not doing anything wrong that doesn't mean you have to suffer but it does mean that there's there are sacrifices there are things that you may have to give up you may right just the uh to wait out for yourself where you are at in the this is going to be the i don't know a very important point in deuteronomy chapter 8 verses 11 through right god warns us that if you take your physicality too seriously why why why horrible things gonna happen it says take care lest you forget hashem your god and then it goes on it says lest you eat and be satisfied and you build these good houses and settle settle the yashaf right while your wealth increases on and on and on and then what happens and your heart will become haughty and you will forget hashem your god who took you out to the land of egypt from the house of slavery your spirituality has to be the permanent your your spirituality has to be the permanent the physicality as you see there read it on your own over deuteronomy chapter 8 verses 11 through 14 when you take your physicality too seriously it is a recipe for disaster in your relationship with hashem you will forget him your heart will become party okay so i hope i made that clear so i hope that this is a very important message i hope we got across hope i didn't confuse anybody too much right we have this fantastic verse versus in the um in the parsha when god is telling isaac i don't want you to leave the land of israel it's very clear that he's trying to prevent him from leaving the land of israel and he uses these two words shocking and gore one verse after another he actually says i'm going to tell you and he tells him immediately you have to know that's that's very strange there has to be a bigger message the message is as as abraham understood you have to have both but you have to have your priorities you have to know what is what right when it comes to spirituality that should be your first priority right your your your your main focus i'm going to tell you miyaan he tells them gore the gore is transitory and that's the physical blessings come right afterwards about the land itself and therefore i hope that we have a clarity in our own lives and figure out how to make it happen in our own lives the way that god instructs and with that i wish everybody a fantastic shabbos a chodeshtov looking forward to next week and have a great life and we'll see you in the future [Music] is [Music]