The Book of Nechemia: Chapter 1 - Meet Nechemia, Restorer of Jerusalem

this Tower class is brought to you by torahanytime.com I mean before just in question we had instant for Ezra an individual by the name of hatir Shasta was somebody who literally had to Shasta means the one who permitted that is certainly one of the names that Nehemiah is given because he called because he mattered what did he permit he permitted the wine that was uh he permitted wine to drink if it was touched by a non-jew now how could he could permit such a thing it was uh to drink wine that's touched by nanju the answer is he didn't permit it for other people he permitted it for himself how did he permit it for himself the answer is because it was because he was the wine Bearer so if that's the case then why did he need a special heads or to permit it of course it's permitted to say he was he was the wine beer he was uh right King now if you take a look back in Ezra pack base um if you look back in Ezra Park base she says this is why is he called tershasa because and why because of the Quran so the question is you don't need the hakamam to permit that for you you're allowed to violate any myths in the time the answer is a very biggie sight and that is once you're in the situation it's mutter but you're not allowed to put yourself in a situation where you're gonna have to come rely on a Heather for example you know there are a lot of cetera and let's say for parnassa there's certain things you could do when you're in the workplace you can you can't whether you hold it ahead you don't but who told you to get that job in the first place yeah all right now I'm in the job I have a Hector I wasn't drafted you should have uh maybe looked for a different job so no no he he allowed himself to be yeah he volunteered in fact he actually came back to it because we're gonna see he went up and territory so in the times of Courage but when karish rescinded his decree he sort of put himself back into the position what right does he have to put himself back into the position even though if he thought he might have influence so uh that's what even though he thought about him he needed it let me see he needed a head there because to to take the job again because he would have to rely on this Kula okay now there's another name that nasemi had other than hatir shasa and that is the gemara says I believe in Sanhedrin and deflower he had another name zuru Babel why was he called he was conceived in Babylon that's what he was called he didn't he wasn't born not to the exclusion of being born and he was conceived and born now by the way this is the opinion of the good morning the malbum says that Not only was he is but had he been worthy he could have been mashiach it's very interesting the rambam disagrees now how the ramam could argue on a gemara it's uh difficult but the ramam writes he brings down here in his um he says that the that was not through mother and if you look back and say for Ezra parag Bays plastic Bays take a look back in Ezra base base obviously they're not the same person but you could say that was a difference so it's not necessarily A Clear Proof okay now we're gonna see that nehemia's main task is rebuilding the city of yusheline now why does he need to rebuild the city of Islam you would think that the basement is already built in fact the basement was we know kairish was the first one to get permission for the base to make this to be built but then they were did Sayre yehudo put a halt to it and then in the second year of the reign of daryavesh the Persian he gave permission for the the base time mikdash to be built foreign was it completed so you look in Ezra uh paragraph possible it says the shadesh was completed in the sixth year of dayavish and in what year did he give permission for it to be built I believe in the second year in year or two completed means that it became functional or the superstructure was something both it was completed and then they started the avoida okay so permission was granted in year two and it was complete in year six so it's basically this was complete in year six and the hemi's main job is to fortify the walls of yushalayim did Nehemiah come before the based on English was completed or after the base of exist was completed now when did Ezra come Ezra came a year after the base was completed how do we know that looking safer we just saw in Ezra paragovic this is giving you a little khazara of Ezra good for me maybe it's good for you as well but if you look in park Zion of safer Ezra says Ezra came in the seventh year okay so the permission was given in the second year of dayavesh it was completed in the sixth year Ezra comes in the seventh year so that's who came in now Ezra came after they said this was complete right now now when did the camera come that's the big question no in a second I just said that based on permission was granted in the second year right and but you know Sunny Lots me my presumption would have been that if nakami is going to come fortify you shall I am from the attackers and and the destitution and the privation and on Hunger you would presume he came before the base I make this was built once the base I think this was built you would think that they said was built your shalayan was also in good standing and that is the opinion that is presumption in base taister says let's read the first plastic first and then we'll see the simple meaning but probably not the way we're gonna learn okay these are the words slave it was the month of Kiss slave now note it doesn't say the third month of the year normally in Tanakh it tells you the number right but here it doesn't say Nissan right it doesn't say the ninth month here but instead it says why because we know that the midst of counting Nissan as the first month was a specific Mitzvah to remember itsya Smith trying but yermia said the ones God took us out above El you're not going to say any more The God Who took you out of the shrine but rather the goddess so now once God took his head above all the these Babylonian month names supplanted right the the numbers okay it was in the month of kisly in the 20th year is asking the million dollar question the 20th year but the 20th year of what the plastic does not identify that what what it is the 20th year of satisis thinks to himself the 20th year it's either of the last king gave permission in the second year it was complete in the sixth year Ezra came in the seventh year so it doesn't mean the 20th year of daryavesh 13 years after Ezra came first of all why wouldn't Ezra fortified the walls of you shall I am second of all why would the walls of Islam need fortification here you have a very very prestigious return to the point where the Jews are restored the avoida you would think you shall I am you know before you build uh your temple before you build a centerpiece for the city you'd think that it would be sufficiently fortified so their fritosis suggests that you have to say the 20th year here is not the 20th year of daryavesh but the 20th year from kairish if you make that question says that would come out this is the third year of daryavesh three years before the basement dish was completed so now we understand why the usual needed fortification the basically this wasn't even built yet says we've counting 20 years from a king that's not in power you count here is where the king's in power the king's not a power why are we counting 20 years you're right that's not necessarily what we would have said but because of this question we're forced to say it if uh said foreign in other words this is the 20th year of Darius the Persian but you can't say this is like it says in Ezra 6 15. dinner over some of myself you would think 14 years after the basement was built the Jews would be sitting pretty in arts Israel and their fratisis concludes Sarah you're forced to say okay to courage part icular stuff that came after Texas this is Texas we're talking about what this is saying and you have to say what character says but he obviously disagrees places feels that you cannot say that 14 years after base something this was built you shall I am needs to be uh fortified okay and this then took place in the third year of daryavish however which state office was this the second one the the other person okay but then as you come with a whole uh basically said you know there's a lot of money that's backing you up with carbonics and stuff like that and everything is more money left over there according to this thesis Ezra was this is four years before Ezra came it's the 20s here from karish which is the third year of dariavish and Ezra doesn't come till the seventh year of danielish so Ezra hadn't even come yet so in terms of the question why didn't Ezra re uh fortify the walls the answers he's not even there yet according to Texas okay we're now again we're saying according to this plan tysus Ezra had didn't make it there maybe he would have maybe he will he should have he he wasn't there by the way Rabbi said this is not the way most macfarsham learned right right I'm not up to there yet first of the same Texas tices says this is the 20th year from claresh Ezra didn't make it he's still learning from his rebbe who's his rebby baros right area but Rashi on safer Ezra and toast this in a second shot says what that this is the 20th year of who 20th year of who is how do I know this says the gemara in Rosh Hashanah enough gimmel Ahmad base makes xerosava if you look and say for Nehemiah parag Bays pasuk aleph first it says the 20th year so we're making just like in paragraph so too empiric aleph it's of King arthak Shasta now the only thing is which Kingston is like the word parai for Persian kings so many well the simple shot is that parag base is referring to dariovesh now why let me ask you why would the pasak explain the 20th year of Bayes and that explained the 20th year of Atasha in parekh aleph the answer is because we already spoke the South there are only 24 books in Tanakh Ezra is one safer so that's one safer it's all one continuous story that means it expects you to realize that this is not a new book this is just continuation of say for Ezra and say for Ezra at the end was talking about which king so presumably over here we're just picking off we're picking up where we left off okay now in that case if it's a continuation he did he did now the question is if this is the 20th year of dayavish the Persian then why were why was the city of yushalaim in shambles if you shall if the base of Magnus was built they did not build the walls and the gates except for the base and the city was and in great despair um disparagement they were only given permission to build the bias they were never given permission to fortify the walls they did not do that and that is why you have this miserable state of yushalayim now according to this planet Isis and according to the way Rashi learns that means you show that that the base of English was built in year six and the Wolves were not fortified until 14 years later when did Ezra come up in year seven that means Ezra is there 13 years and you shall I am is in shambles why didn't Ezra fortify the walls the walls are are breached the goyam are plundering the city the city was impoverished plundering the city correct for 13 years has the strong walls but the rest of the city is open there the the basement was guarded you had shyman the rest of the city was in shambles why didn't Ezra take care of this why didn't Ezra deal with this issue gave uh authority to rebuild and courage had given the original uh approval that they wouldn't provide whatever security would be necessary to they're going to build a base to do this to put a lot of money and effort into rebuilding it that they're going to let the city be chaotic that they wouldn't provide whatever they didn't they didn't and some sort of uh no because if you look look carefully in in Ezra parag Zion pasta Guild Bay is if you look exactly what was Ezra commissioned to do it says in other words he specifically commissioned him to collect money and restore the base of so he was given that very specific order and therefore he was afraid he would be stepping out of boundary in terms of what his responsibilities were he was never authorized again remember the accusations do you remember the accusations that were hurled against the base of magnificent times of courage what did Curry say they claimed they were exceedingly Authority and what they were supposed to be doing glad they complained they were also rebuilding yerushalayim that was really what was the Red Flag to karish when he heard not only were they building the Temple but they were building yerushalayim if you remember remember the translators they changed the the message right where was that this I was in Ezra at the beginning foreign so that was how they translated I mean the fact that we build homes and what they can see your established bank at a rebellious City no they the the the fact that they were um refortifying the walls of yushalayim that was something that was a red flag to courage so possibly Ezra was afraid again to fortify the walls of the city because he was afraid maybe dayavis would also put a halt that unauthorized building yeah beyond the green line I mean that was exactly that was exactly why um courage rescinded his decree so that is perhaps why Ezra did not get involved in uh fortifying the city okay so here um foreign one of my brothers and a bunch of men from Yehuda but I saw him and I asked them two questions number one is I asked him about the Jewish refugees that remained from captivity and I asked him about yerushalayim I asked him about the people and I asked him about this city now this is very important and um was not asking about the Jews who returned now with the olim he was not asking about that because these Jews were returning now were being protected by a special governor who was uh administered to them what they were asking about what Muhammad was asking about were the Jews who remained in arts Israel who never came who never left the Jews who survived the uh the the destruction of yushalayim they were unprotected they were the ones who were being harmed those were the Jews that nakami was asking about so he had two questions about the people and about the city and they said to me hanasharam Adina that the those who were left over from captivity they're in the Medina are in very big evil disparagement foreign gays are consumed in fire reacts and it was when I heard these words and I cried and I mourned for days and I was fasting God Of Heaven foreign the god the Great and the awesome which word did he leave out oh he left at the word hagibar the same way Danielle left out the word givar and it was the answer though that restored it why did Daniel leave out the word gibar because Daniel thought to himself where is God's gevura at a time that the uh when the when the goyam are subjugating us and presumably that is why McKenna left out the word gibar also the one who preserves the Covenant and the kindness to those who love him please allow your ear to be attentive in your eyes open in other words to hear the prayer of your servantage that I pray to you today day and night on behalf of the Jews who are your servants Israel and I say vidoy I confess for the sins of the Menace and I and my father's household have sinned because we know that if a person continues in the sins of their parents they're not only punished for their own sins or punished for the sins of their parents as well foreign now what does that mean whoa what does it means we have been destructive to you we have caused you devastation now it doesn't mean we destroyed we banish them it means we have been destructive to you what does that mean now how could a person be a cause destruction when a person sins he's messing himself up he's causing Devastation to himself so what does it mean it means we have sinned toward you our sins have been however the father sees his children he's also uh no no but there's nothing uh there's nothing no harm right um says to the person himself when a person doesn't have air it doesn't harm God it harms the person himself the malbim however learns in a very creative way in the same way as the medrish that could also mean security means like this we have given you a security God what security did we give them right we know the basement dish is called it's like a mashcon that God takes the base or the mishkan as a collateral to make sure we're gonna do what we need to do so says foreign in other words that the basic is a collateral that cloudy so are obligated to keep the Torah and when we don't fulfill our archive God takes back the mashcon until they pay back and only then does he give the base so in other words that could be referring to the tubate mcdashan ah the second Masonic dish was standing but this was sort of an ominous statement that not for long in other words that the Jews were understood that if they don't shape up then the basement will be shipped down either we have caused destruction to you or toward you or we have given you security we have not kept the mitzvahsbatim that you command and moisture your servant saying tomorrow you call you told Maisha that if you act treacherously any of it says I will scatter you among all the nations but then God says the shaft May lie but if you return to me saying you keep my midsole sauce then if those who are scattered will be toward the end of the heavens from there I will gather them and I will bring them to the place that I have chosen the shakina foreign with your great power oh no Hashem please God allow your ear to be attentive to the prayer of your servants on the prayer of your servants desire to fear you please Grant success to your servant today and please give him Mercy now is about he's saying God please give Mercy to me before this man who's this man who's this man referring to this man is referring to the king who he's about to bring his wine to see and I was giving drink to the king I was the King's Wine servant now here's the big question what does he mean I was a King's Wine servant is this part of the Teela or is this is it Fila end with the words and in the middle of this is a new thing it's just factual information you wouldn't think of the territory statement that I'm the King's Wine servant for the part of any kind so why why would his Fila in the middle of the pasak I daughter that says this is not a thriller so in the city of it says he's uh he's digressing to say about himself that he would bring wine to the king and this is the introduction to park Bays okay so that's very interesting that the end of peric olive would interrupt his Fila in middle of the plastic and put in introductory marks to a different parrot now you say Okay problem are not a Jewish invention yeah but there's a pay over here which indicates at the end of the puzzle even we believe it's a stop so other refers to learn that this means like this with this prayer I was able or the whole prayer is just an introduction to these last four words how was I able to successfully be the wine bear with this prayer of any in other words we're not interrupting everything in this park is a lead up to these final four words yeah because as magical we'll see he was successful in convincing the mouth to allow him to return to shalam to be able to restore the walls Nissan this is the month of Nissan the 20th month the 20th year of King artista Rashi learns that says the Persian touches in its first chat in the south right in the fun of I brought wine before him I carry the wine of and I was never bad before him goodness now what does that mean that wasn't bad before him a bad looking face that's something what does that mean I wasn't bad for him I was able to show off a happy face so the mountain says the king is always suspicious of anybody who had a bad look on his face less you know he has bad plans up his sleeves so the time is commenting I always was careful I was I uh carefully recognized this nature of The King and I was always careful too put on a happy face okay yeah they say with that I bless you you should keep a happy face till we meet next you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com