The Burnt Offering: Building A Roaring Holy G-dly Passionate Fire with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom Alim everybody welcome back to the M we are still in a war uh mode andem through the unity of the Jewish people we will be victorious through the chuva of the Jewish people we will be Victorious and through the Torah learning then the Mitzvah that we do theot will go towards the uh the men and the women who are serving uh with their blood okay okay so we are in par I just want to reme remind all those who watch us regularly that we are using the clear as the basis for the discussion number one number two we encourage you to use the Hebrew sheets which you will find a link Down Below in the YouTube description description box or on our website okay so we're in chapter 6 of Leviticus verse two and what we're dealing with with is the burnt offering now the burnt offering means it's entirely burnt it's called an Ola means it goes up the entire thing goes up we're going to really discuss this um philosophically in depth and one of the first things we're going to deal with is one of the first words which the par is called so in verse two it sayson bav at least that's the first part of it I gave about if you want the English sheets you have to email me and we'll put you on our list so the verse in it's entirety continues so God is commanding right that Moshe should command Aon and his son saying so in Hebrew what is I just want to give background is the root of the word Mitzvah so as we translate is command and what is a Mitzvah it's a commandment it's a law but we all know if you've been watching our station we know that the real root is really as Rashi explained several times in Chas that the word Mitzvah the root is which means to connect to to M unite and this is the this is the gift that God gave the Jewish people 613 Commandments the non-jewish world seven in which they we can connect to the almighty this is our method through the mitv now we're going to use the word sa a little bit differently tonight uh I shouldn't say differently another level another dimension and I think that it's really consistent because the first thing that Rashi mentions is that the word sa always denotes urging promptly meticulously to fulfill a particular commandment so sa is like urging you on and we're going to see the Hebrews called Z okay and that's what he explains um in Z Zer Z is passion is careful and concerned to do something to fill something and I think it really fits in well because which means to connect you don't want to connect to something that you're not passionate or or in love with I'm I'm talking for myself here I don't know if that's true by everybody so the wordon command him meaning urge him why would he need urging by the Ola that's going to be really the question there's so many commands there's so many things things that that Aon has to do or the K must perform that you don't have the word sa and yet sa is a special and unique word that denotes urging promptly meticulously why is it by here by but not by the other mitzah that's a great question right you would all agree that's a great question so that's really what we're going to deal with and if you go to the clear so he says right away quotes Rashi Top Line Z urging so it's not only now present in this uh present generation but for all generations as we will see that Aon and his children must urge on uh their grandchildren or let's say must have this Jus which we will see that they do have so he brings down from he brings Rashi rashi's quoting from gor somewhere shim we actually see Rashi got this from the med as well the rimon says that what the verse requires you even to be more zus which again means to urge I'm going to say being more fervent about something where there is a means literally let's just say means a lack of money or here we're going to say it's a loss of money what kind of money is being lost by the Ola so the Kim depends on the different um Corban sometimes they get to indulge with the meat um on a higher level meaning more and sometimes less but many of the coronos the Kim actually do participate in but the Ola none so the question really is what is unique and different about the Ola offering that they need urging on this particular offering the Coen does not participate in the eating in fact the entire thing when I entire I mean all the meat is going to go up in Flames until it turns into Ash and it is true that the Skins the Skins are worth money and they are kept by the coim in the case of many of the carbonos especially this one because that's all they really can benefit from but it's not o it's not food there's no question about the Skins being worth money but the idea is that there is a it is a lack of the food that they normally get from other cbas and the second line down saysa it's very strange what are we bringing in laziness for so you only need to urge somebody on in a place where there's a likelihood of being lazy so if there's no benefit you're not going to put as much into it if you know you're getting something out of it especially a nice barbecue piece of meat you may put more into it but since there's a total loss what kind of self motivation therefore there has to be an external motivation and therefore the word sa make sure they do this what they have to stay up all night let's take a look back you don't have it on your sheets but I'll read the first few verses of chapter 6 so after we said right command Aon and his sons saying this is the total of the burnt offering it is the burnt offering which should be burning upon the altar all night until morning okay so you have to stay up all night and tend to the fire continue to put fuel the wood on the fire and stoke the fire and make sure that the uh the coronos that are going to be that are supposed to be burnt are entirely burnt so it's work in the middle of the night I don't know how you feel but we don't do the night shift usually but if someone does the night shift on a regular basis they're probably used to staying up all night but for us I get like jet lag if I would like stay up all night let's say on sh right on certain nights of the Year where we stay up all night it could put me off kilter they say so it's not so easy to stay up all night eventually sleep takes over so imagine what the Cohen has to do when if he was looking forward to a nice uh uh barbecue breakfast I don't know how many people eat meat and for breakfast but um anyway so that's not happening he's not having any meat for any kind of barbecue okay so back into the clear the last thing he said was you really only need this urging on in a place where laziness exists and Mishay Proverbs brings two he brings two verses that relate to what to laziness and falling asleep what do we say sometimes we say at a boredom I can die of boredom or people can die of boredom now it is true I think uh there are people who actually do die of boredom but yeah it really is such a a disease but imagine staying up all night and not being motivated you will fall asleep and so in verse 1916 1915 as number two on the sore sheet laziness causes one to fall into a deep sleep and a deceitful Soul shall suffer hunger look at Rashi laziness cause on causes one to fall asleep now this is just figuratively but the I think I think it means this is like literal but the allegory is that it concerns one who neglects his studies it will ultimately come about that people will ask him words of wisdom and he will be sound asleep meaning if you don't pay atten during your studies okay it does you're not passionate about your learning I think what happens is you don't really retain as much if you know you're going to be asked like going to be tested if you know you're going to be tested like you know let's say you're in school you study and you retain but when it's not that meaningful to you so then you don't study that hard you don't retain it and then people ask you questions you don't really know the answers I think it's real I had a Reby in in Yeshiva and he always started a class with telling us or asking the question who was the most valuable player of n in the baseball in 1952 or some one of those stats and you know what he knew every one of them and I thought to myself this man he knows an incredible man of Torah and he remembers he what what actually gets somebody to retain and I thought to myself you and in love with it you're passionate about it it means something to you well guess what the Torah should mean something to all of us and therefore we hear something once we'll never forget it right well it's not true Hali it should be true but that's why we have to review and sometimes stand on our feet when we're falling asleep put our feet in cold water I remember when I was studying for to be a rabbi um I actually slept over in Yeshiva for the last three months it was a three-year program but whatever and uh I stood up I put my feet nice I do whatever I could to get through like staying awake making sure I really retained it and didn't fall asleep and uh maybe maybe it paid off I don't know but anyway so he brought two verses down the second verse is in Proverbs 69 oh lazy one how long will you lie there when will you get up from your sleep so we see that laziness and sleep there's something related okay and remember this particular urging on is for the Coen to stay up all night as we will see fourth line down he says see right here there's this command that the Coen should involve himself with keeping the flame alive the entire night until the morning now we're going to see some really mystical ideas is here that we should incorporate into our lives the continues there is to be concern we all know we're all lazy you're not lazy everywhere you go you're running you're running you're running you're running and his his body shows he doesn't gain any weight okay I don't make fun of you we all are lazy and we you know have a little bit of uh we have a little bit of uh we all lazy we're all lazy he says it's found in man it's commonly found in man and what happens yard it brings you to dozing off the Corbin and if you were Coen it could ruin the Corbin now this a little complicated because there's different stages of the Corbin there's different stages of the different corbano the offerings and most of the you know from the slaughter until the the blood is spilled that usually is where the kapara ends or begins let's say and uh if something happens to the Corbin afterwards is usually not a total loss but the clear says a little bit different so the Cohen doesn't doze off he does have a command to make sure that he stays awake and burns it all and uh it could be that if he doesn't do this there's going to be a total loss okay so he says that's the as an example to this RI brings an example something that has to do that relates to the loss of money that there this is an equation like this is a statement that he's makingi and I can give an example from my own life that perhaps it's true maybe it's not true by everybody that there's more pain in trying or you know effort and pain in trying to stay up the entire night than loss of money now if you can't relate to that I'll explain I lived on a Yu and we had uh what we call Night Guard Duty and so there were two shifts we had to do twice a month one at midnight till 3:00 in the morning and one from 3:00 in the morning until 6:00 a.m. so we did uh 6 hours each month but we split it up two weeks aart all the fat lazy Americans like me we paid the skinny Russian guys to go and walk around at midnight because it was worth sleeping and we didn't mind paying you get it so I think that's the exact translation that there's more pain involved keeping the fire lit the whole night more than the than the pain of the loss of the money that's why we were willing to pay and from here the rabbis learn in gor shabas number four in the sore sheet it was only part of the gamor so I brought down what I thought was uh it was it was kindled merely for the benefit of the priest we're talking about something that was done in the B mikash on chabis the fact there was no concern about lighting that bonfire on Shabbat Eve at night is because the priests are Vigilant in Hebrew is he saying here this is a concept that we say that people of the levitical class and upwards right the coim are Vigilant they they already have this natural urge to not only to do things to serve God in fact the word Ken actually means to serve a servant to serve to administer that's why they're the ministers the priests um but they want to do things correctly meticulously and he says that here the priest are Vigilant with regard to mitzvot they will certainly not come to stoke the CO's meaning on Shabbat okay it's a su that has to deal with shabas but this is the this is the um this is the quote that they're always full of fervor that the text itself is urging them on when it sayson the Moses is telling them right command Aon and his sons now what did we say Layar always means to teach over to say over Layar Lor to Future Generations that all of them as we know are Zar they Mish ferent is that a word ferent fervent to do the work to do the work inside the temple area and to remove the the sleep from their eyes and the crust from their eyelids and that is what the torah's command them encouraging them that they should get involved and be involved in the service the entire night until the morning so the next paragraph says this concept of a total loss or lack of money loss of money that's spoken about here there are many opinions so the CLE car is saying I'm going to add by taking some of the good ideas that I have my own ideas and sharing them with you remember the is the burnt offering where the animal the entire animal goes up what does it atone for it's Al it atones for the thoughts of the heart not for actions when someone sins on purpose they don't bring a Corbin all that God wants is the person to do trua God really wants you to do truva and he made it available it's a gift it's really a gift from Hashem that we have this concept of repentance sin offerings are brought for inadvertent sins inadvertent when you did something not fully meaningful you were lacking some information like you didn't know was a sin or you didn't realize that the punishment the severity of the punishment or you knew it was forbidden you knew the severity but you didn't know was shabas for some reason you woke up and you thought it was Tuesday there's there'sa there's something lacking and we call it negligence because you should have known okay but it's not premeditated intentional sin premeditate intentional sin let's say for example you have witnesses and people warning you and you said you're going to do it anyway the inadvertent sin if you had Witnesses and warning you would have said oh oh my gosh thank you very much you just saved me a Corbin you just saved me from doing a sin okay so here who are there is no action there's just a thought what's wrong with that let's hear what he has to say oh the truth is the very last page uh the medish is I really want to read it I know it's a lot of reading and I don't like to take that much time to read English but I think I'm going to have to what we'll do is number five on the sore sheet this is the Crux of the matter regarding the matter itself rimai said that this Ola the burnt offering comes only for the heror the rumination of the heart here who a well we're going to discuss all this this is absolutely beautiful ideas RB Le said it is a categorical verse the verse actually says in Ezekiel 20:32 what arises now even the word h it's also what arises in your thoughts will not be that which you say that we will be like the Nations to serve wood and stone I do think it's worthwhile it's unbelievable if you go to the last page in the sore sheet that whole page I I I I think it's so deep and fundamental that I will read it to you okay I will read it to you because it's necessary for those who don't have these sheets on the top left is where it begins right we just read in the englisha the textes that the sin this um Ola offering the burnt offering is only brought it's never brought for anything other than improper musings of the heart now number 52 it's just right below for sinful thoughts that did not involve any sinful actions the midus uses the word Ella right the Ola offering is never brought to indicate that this principle applies normally right for both communal and individual offerings when it comes to the Ola that's going to be only for individual offerings okay so for communal offerings you never bring an all okay in his comments on Leviticus 1:4 the ramban explains this Principle as follows since God Alone was aware who knows your thoughts and hearts of a man only God not another human human being since God Alone was aware of a person's sinful thoughts it is appropriate that they be atoned through the Ola offering which is given to God alone so the other coronos even the person bringing sometimes participates in the eating the coim participate in the eating but in the Ola no human being participates in It's Only God who consumes so to speak the offering so he's the only one right so he's the only one that knows what you did since God Alone was aware of the person's sinful thoughts appro it is appropriate that they be atoned to the Ola which is given to God Alone wholly consumed on the altars fire with neither the coim nor the owners sharing in any of its meat now the the latter part of what's up top remember we're dealing with what's on top R Ley said this concept is brought in an explicit you can find this an explicit verse in Ezekiel 20:32 it says now we were talking about Thea offering but in this case Thea means what that it is we're going to find out it's something hidden in your minds only you know and God we'll see in a second is your spirit but something you don't say so look in number 53 on the right side on the top the Ola tones for sins of the Mind meaning improper thoughts the literal translation of the verse is now the word enter also it enters your mind for that which enters your mind it shall not be however even though We're translating it is entering your mind the word Isa it can actually be read as the Ola offering it's the Ola offering is being offered up for the only that which enters your mind um at the very bottom of that suggest that R Shimon is interpreting the verse similarly so we when we read what we're saying is this is the law of the Ola offering it is for what enters your mind okay so therefore everything is consistent and good what is absolutely amazing I told you I don't really like to read this but these are insights that I think we that will change our view of the world of ourselves and the way we um relate to Hashem especially between our thoughts and our actions so on the left side it says insights thoughts and actions the SL rabi that'sa Shalom he asked a question why the old offering is brought to atone for improper thoughts we already established that whereas thetis that's the sin offering is brought to atone for improper action so Thea is for improper thoughts here and the is when you actually acted on something in inadvertently B where right whereas we already said oh the Ola is burned completely on the altar whereas parts of theas are consumed by the con now you would think that when we are uh about Deeds it's always about what you do right Judaism what do you do how do you do it and therefore actions play plays a really high role in this case we're going to look at it a little differently because the old is completely burnt whereas the they're consumed by the Kim so what might you think that improper actions are worse more egregious than improper thoughts um why then does One require an offering that is totally consumed by fire to atone for improper thoughts something not required for improper action so the Corbin is more severe because the whole thing is going up and we're not participating meaning the co are not participating whereas for improper actions the entire thing is not consumed by The Altar and the coim do benefit so we would look normally at Deeds being much worse but in this case the Ola seems to be a more severe a more type of offering clear so the N sh explains that it's far more difficult to eradicate improper thoughts okay so this is interesting to eradicate these negative thoughts is much harder to do so you do a sin and then you do chuva and it's finished and it's over with but he's going to claim that when we try to get rid of thoughts what happens is new thoughts come in I don't know if you can relate to this but you can work and get rid of these thoughts but the Satan is very tricky and it'll have new thoughts so what he's going to proposes you need to burn the entire thing you need to start over you need to get start from scratch as they say and this is the only way it's going to happen but let's hear his own words he explained in this even Shalom that it's far more difficult to eradicate one one's improper thoughts than it is to undo wrongful actions a person is not beset by an unending series of Temptation to wrong action if he has stumbled or sinned he can repent one action at a time but improper thoughts can bombard a person by the time he's able to remove one Wayward thought another one has already taken its place so how does one counter the the vagaries of the Mind the follow can serve as a model he uses the example you want to build a city right maybe the Amazon I don't know that's not a good example but you have a a forest and you need to cut down all the trees to build a city so what do you do you cut down one tree at a time by the time you cut down all the trees what's going to happen you're going to be exhausted you're going to forget the city already burn the whole Forest down if you want to build a city burn the whole Forest down assuming you're not using the wood to build the the city so a man has a large Forest that he wishes to clear to build the city if he cuts down and removes one tree at a time his time impatient will run out before he has made any significant progress the city will never be built what does he do he sets the forest a blaze The Roaring Flames the uh envelope envelope the entire Forest Burn It To The Ground nothing's left but be ground and then you can build the city a Jew who fights evil thoughts a Jew who fights evil thoughts in a similar quandry is in a similar quandry if he contends with one thought at a time his mind will never be cleansed what must he do then is build a roaring fire remember we're talking about the Ola offering which is a continuous fire in order to burn to a crisp right so you have to do the same thing to build a roaring fire a holy Godly fire composed of Torah study and passionate service to God which will consume any and all impure thoughts that might be lurking in his mind now there's another reason that impure thoughts are more difficult to remove than sins of action one cannot always act on a sinful impulse right you might be in a situation other people are there you're afraid to sin there right you there are reasons why we don't sin sometimes so one might be in a situation where he'll be embarrassed should people see or hear of his deeds or one might not have the wherewithal to commit this sinful act you might be busy with other things many conditions must be met before the actual act the sinful act can be carried out but what happens in the mind there's nothing holding your back but no one sees what goes on in the mind thoughts are free and hidden from the public and when you keep that in mind hidden one can act like an ostensibly observant Jew you can study and pray while your mind is consumed with evil thoughts no one's going to see or know for this reason as well one needs the power of a holy fire to fill his mind he needs to set the altar of his personality Ablaze with a flame that can destroy any impure thought in its path at any time at any pace this is the Ola the burnt offering which burns the entire night when no one sees and when there's a strengthening of the powers of Darkness at night especially at night that's why this Ola is burnt all night long then especially one needs a pure Holy Fire of Torah like ASA Torah and Mitzvah to burn incessant and keep the altar a glow now on the right side of this midash it explains something really really interesting we already talked about the idea that thoughts we have to tone atone for our negative thoughts through the Ola so the sh M cites his father the AER as explaining that this mic teaching that the Ola tones for improper musings of the hearts accounts for the Torah stipulation that the offering this Ola offering has to be specifically offered where in the north now the word safon that's when means North but coming up on pesak what is saone we know that's what we do with the that's what we do with the that's what we do with the aomin that's the word I'm looking for safon safon north and the way that the sun works at least in the northern hemisphere it starts off in the East and it does set in the west but it goes Southward you know the way that the Earth is tilted so it goes Southward that's why all the D chemes are facing south you know that if you ever get lost in the city we know if you get lost in the forest look for where the Moss is the Moss is growing in the North and the reason is cuz the sun doesn't bake and um what's the word um cause the water to absorb and evaporate so it grows mold so if you're stuck in a forest look for the moss growing at the base of the tree that is the north if you're in a city like Jerusalem or any City in Israel the dud shishes are facing south this way they can collect they can collect the Sun for the majority of the day okay important to know if you get lost in the city okay so why is the Ola specifically to be slaughtered and and in the north so he says like this that the word means hidden like Yehuda said indeed in the northern hemisphere above the Tropic of Cancer the sun is never in the north the north is in a sense always hidden from the Sun the offering then which atones for sinful thoughts which are hidden in the person's heart and mind must be offered in the hidden North in the person's heart and mind I just read that okay then he says but why then is there a requirement also for the sin offering the ktis which is specifically brought for the improper actions not thoughts also be offered in the North if the significance of the north is that the hidden is referring to Hidden why would that be the necessary condition for the offering that atones for overt actions and deeds which are not hidden so the shame MMO explains true atis is an offering brought for improper action now let me just say something from a metaphysical point of view there's a thing called The Law of Attraction what you have in your mind becomes a reality okay becomes a reality I don't think you inadvertently sinned on accident see if it was an accident you rubbed against the wall and the light turned on on chabas there's no there's no trua really you just have to be more careful there's no corbid that's not called an inadvertent that's not shog that's onus to be Shing means there's a there's some kind of negligence somewhere with in you that's kind of asking for this accident to happen it's not an accident but this inadvertent sin to happen and that's what's hidden and that's what's going to come out even in a there's something deep within that really wants to sin now I I don't want to tell my own stories but interesting I one day when I was very young I cut school I cut school and I was in the kitchen and I was drinking orange juice and I heard my mom come home and of course I ran out the back door but I tried to clean up and I left one drop of orange juice on the counter and when I got caught how did I get caught cuz my mother she cleaned every spot there was it was she knew I must have been home it didn't just appear so she said you know why you left that drop there cuz you wanted to get caught you wanted to reach out for help you wanted to get caught you know it's I don't know if you've ever experienced anything like that in your life but this was the love of my mother who reached out when you're in down and out and she says you really want help or this wouldn't have happened same too with these sins we're bringing the Corbin because of negligence but the negligence didn't just come out of nowhere there had to be something deep within hidden that caused this to eventually happen and I think that's what he's about to say true atis is an offering brought from an brought for an improper action but only one that was done unintentionally now if the Sim was completely alien to a person something utterly utterly Beyond his contemplation he would not have done it even unintentionally one is brought to unintentional transgression only because his mind at some point did feel an attraction to that sin even though for the most part he was able to be careful and avoid it his prescribed atonement then is the root of his transgression the original attraction he had for that forbidden action sounds like what they talk about that this the laws of attraction you you know what I'm talking about the book called The Secret and they have a movie called The Secret it's called about the laws of attraction anyway okay so thus Theus too comes to atone for the improper hidden uh the improper thought that was hidden the recesses of one's heart and must be offered like the Ola in the hidden North perhaps this is enough to read but it's really good stuff you can read on your own and let's get back into the CLE car where we left off was two lines that's it two lines down in the middle paragraph and he says that we just got done finished saying that the Ola atones for the thoughts of the heart and we find in the usami and I have to tell you I couldn't find it anywhere uh did I did I not find it one second yeah I couldn't find the source but I found a source that quotes thei So the source say says like this look at number six so there's a story about rean in the gar his AR that somebody a third party stole his wallet when his students asked him rebi we have some questions about T he didn't know not he did not know what to answer them because of the pain I don't know if you ever had this experience maybe you didn't lose an wallet but perhaps you misplaced your wallet if you misplace your wallet now today it's our phones it's like a wallet right it say maybe even more valuable than a wallet you can't think you can't concentrate I don't care how many my my wife wants to talk to me if I'm looking for my wallet honey not now right right now I I just have to think where I backtrack my steps whatever say the prayer may the god of Reby mayor answer me three times anyway asked his rebi his of the what rebi because you lost your wallet you lost your Torah you lost your mind what's the connection between your wallet and your mind because when you can't find your wallet you lost your mind so re says back to Ralia the truth is that my mind is dependent on my heart and my heart mean the settlement the Tranquility of my heart is dependent on my wallet or my money I've seen people do some crazy things over money but anyway getting back to the the Clear Car he brought that story down and this is a now that's in that's Ecclesiastes Cal 77 you'll find this in number eight on the swore sheet for oppression makes the wise foolish okay it's a very interesting Rashi on this what does it mean let to read the rest of it uh the at Matana it destroys or causes total loss of understanding which is a gift so this oek can make the wise people foolish so Rashi says the understanding which is a gift that's the heart of wisdom which is a gift to man I want you to look in Psalms that's Proverbs Psalms no Mish Mish 2 Verse 6 for the Lord gives wisdom the whole verse for the Lord gives wisdom from his mouth comes knowledge and discernment it's a gift from God to have to have wisdom okay let's go back into thear he says what is the gift of wisdom for God gave us this wisdom so we can learn his Torah so we can understand his world okay God gave it for us to consider and think and plow and make the produce come from the the is the tree of life which is the Torah itself now if you don't do that if you don't think about God what are you thinking about you're going to be misdirected your heart is misdirected to think about what to think about Sin now if the Coen is not going to do the Corbin properly because he's not zerus he's not zerus he's not meticulous he's falling asleep another one has to be brought in its place it's total loss the first one didn't accomplish anything and this is the explanation of the that now listen to this like adding insult to injury imagine the Coen who messed up because he wasn't really zorus and now he has to bring another one that will cause him to lose his mind and what makes you think he's going to be even more attentive the second time in fact as a rabbi people come to me all often I shouldn't say that often BR and they tell me I said a br I said but I just said the words I didn't have any intent do I have to say it again now the truth is there is depends where in the first three BR maybe in just the first BR different types of intent you would have to go back and make the the whole sh all over again but guess what you know what I tell them you didn't have the first time you ain't going to have the second time that's going to be like all these blessings in vain what are you going to gain okay we'll leave that for another time but basically this is what he's explaining that if the Coen messes up he's already going to have now more anguish over the fact that he's losing money because he had to pay for the second Corbin in fact he's going to even think about other things so the second Corbin well the first one was for of the other guy now the second one is not going to help even the the the K himself there in fact it's all coming to lead to more sin how is it supposed to tone for the because the second Corbin is adding even more thoughts of that's the question that's why the Torah goes out of its way to explain the word means to have even more intent and um awakeness and the all the words we used before passion and quickness whatever zerus means should have it to start with so you don't have this happen to you the clear continues alternatively we said in Rashi we saw in Rashi that this was M that you should urge on the present generation and they should also urge on future Generations in other words that theim should teach their children the toas the laws or what's necessarily behind this burnt offering and the Tores the laws of the sin offering but not only that the laws about all Theos now the word here means free God taught for free the Kim must teach for free the Liu obviously is not for payment like it says inal in garim 37a which you'll find on number nine I think it's important it's not that long we'll read it that the gamor teaches thus teaches us that even in a place where one does take payment for teaching so teachers you should not take payment however we'll see everything has a side view you shouldn't take payment for teaching but wait one second when you teach the Bible means scripture you're allowed to take payments so we'll call that for teaching mid we'll call that Torah the the O Torah it's not permitted to take payment but the ask what's the difference in what way is the mid the the oral Torah different than the written Torah that you're not allowed to take payment for the orar it's based on what's written it actually says in Deuteronomy 4:14 that the Lord commanded me that would be Moshe that time to teach you Moses did not charge God did not charge we should not charge just like the Torah was given to us for free therefore as the verse continues behold I have taught you the statutes and laws as the Lord my God commanded this is like the the chapter 4: 5 so that you should do so in the midst of the land where you possessed so you have an obligation to teach the Torah for free so God said just as I teach you for free without payment so too you shall teach for free and really the question the gor is asking so I don't get it what's the difference what is the difference between the oral Torah and the written Torah that you can charge for for the written but not for the AA when you teach it over so Rob said that the Bible the the written text is typically taught to children like we're adults but we're learning it and one who teaches the the the text is basically when he receives payment it's for babysitting okay it's babysitting money so you know how much babysitters get paid rokan actually adds and he says that the payment is for teaching the punctuation and the canellation not so the Trump and how to pronounce the words correctly the truth is what you prepare so we also pay we pay our teachers so the question is why we're actually paying them not to work right the people in Co are actually being paid not to work they're not being paid for learning Torah they're not being paid to learn Torah but every city if in St hedin it says a city has 10 ban 10 people who are sitting and ready to be involved in a Kor in in a minion to say kades whatever you need a Minion for you you have a Bas thing you need a minion whatever it is you'll have a minion so you're basically paying them not to work obviously you're not being paid for the learning of your Torah God gave it to you free and you should give it away for free but going back into the clear where we said just like I God taught you the Torah gave you the Torah for free so too you Jews when you teach the Torah especially the Kim because the Kim their job is to teach the Torah you have to give it away for free not only that he says now every Coen I know I shouldn't say everyone but most of the co that I know are quite wealthy and I think it's because God says in his Torah that I will bless those who bless you of re right I will bless those who bless you and the are blessing the Jews every single day I believe that's why the ones I know are wealthy but the reason it says here they're not is because they don't have a in the land when we were an agricultural Community um right so they were not allowed to farm and make money like everyone else rather what happened we gave them our truma and our Meer and they were able to participate on the holidays all of them in in the temple and twice a year for a week serve in the temple under the the Toran the reason they're not rich is because they don't have a portion in the land and so how did they eat their meals were given to them on a daily basis they actually lived being fed by the hand of God isn't that an amazing thing and that's what actually the the ramban brings down in h y and that anybody anybody who came into the world can Elevate themselves not literally physically become part of the tribe of Ley but in a certain sense act like Ley dedicate yourself to the service Hashem and hasem will provide okay so that's what's happening here and because they're not going to become rich because they're not Farmers or own owners of land so then we have even more concern for them since they're poor aren't they supposed to be the teachers how can they be teachers if they're so poor that's why the Torah is coming and giving them this extra you guys have to be um fervorous passionate meaning to teach your children make sure to teach them these laws T Tas remember it says several times these are the laws of in this it's all dealing with the laws of the con they have to teach and it says here just as a example in Mali the last prophet 2 verse 7 am I right yeah it's number 10 on the for a priest lips shall guard knowledge okay and teaching should be sought from his mouth so where do you go the tah says go to and speak to the Kim and the leim and the judges but the Kim are a main part of the St HED main part of the teaching uh apparatus and for he is a messenger of the Lord of hosts Rashi says it's incum upon them to guard the knowledge that's what the Cohen has to do he has to guard his knowledge how do you guard knowledge you have to do review first you have to show up in cheer you can't fall asleep and snore the year but you have to do the review also because the teaching should be sought from his mouth we've already explained that in it doesn't say the verse here but they shall teach your ordinance to yakob and your Torah to Israel and they shall Place incense before you this obviously talking about theim they're the teachers they're supposed to be the teachers okay all right then the CLE continues actually he brings another verse similar to that in ha but before we get there therefore the Torah is coming and saying urge them on and strengthen them strengthen their hearts in the Torah of God so they should teach it for Generations the rean and what happened to Reb yokan shouldn't happen to them when see the word the light which is really the Torah remember the the students as rokan questions in Torah and he didn't know because he had lost his wallet or his wallet got stolen whichever new you want but rather like it says in ha ha 2:1 when people come to ask Hashem so the Lord of host says now go and ask the priest now ask the priest you have an obligation to go and speak to the priests and more than that he ends off by saying it says in that the will not make a mistake s similar like when you go you have an obligation to go to a Baston listen today we're a little bit different we hope the Bon is not making a mistake but the higher the Bon let's say the San hedrin there's almost not a guarantee because even in the laws of the San hedrin if they make a mistake they could make a mistake but we go after the RO the mistake is if it's with a vot of Zara then there's a special cment if they cause you to sin but if they make a mistake it may not be a mistake the point is you have to follow them it says there's a warning in the Torah no matter what they say even if they say right is left and left is right you have to follow them okay and you will not be blamed so you're relying on them not to make a mistake I think this is a similar idea with the Coen I think that's like a similar concept anyway so next week we will still be meeting um I think this is listen we have to have the fire of Torah we have to have the fire of Torah in our in our hearts I think it's the only way we're going to get rid of that Forest to build that city right the way it was explained in the so too and I'll use these words and this is a Jewish concept we wash our hands every single morning the there's really four reasons why one of those reasons called We're called a briad we're given a new chance every morning to really God trust he trusted us enough to give our souls back he has trust in US Raba he really trusts us a lot and we should take advantage I really believe we we have an opportunity to take advant Vantage of God's love for us and I'm going to use this term I know it sounds Christian but it's actually Jewish Bri you are born again you are given a brand new chance you're a different person and batem through our own chuva and what the Jewish people are going through now through this National right uh circumstances I think that we're all being transformed into Bri I'll say born again we're not the same people we were were on October 6th as we are now there's so much I mean we already talked about this in the past what the Jewish people were like on October 6 with the uh the opposite of unity disunity disunity uh there's so much unity and we just have to figure out how we can continue and grow upon it and grow it so that it blossoms into the Sprout that we're all looking forward to coming which is Messiah and the rebuilding of the temple soon in our days and we'll see you next week in shabbat [Music] shalom oh