The Longest Hatred and The Burning Bush with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] welcome home to toro welcome to the yibbana bait midrash a warm a warm very warm welcome we are in parashat shemot and actually this is the first book of the book of shemot we do call it exodus the whole book but this is the first paragraph called shmot the first partial called shmot and we're going to skip all the way to chapter 3 verse 1 and we'll deal with verse 2 as well so we might as well read it let's start oh but by the way so i want to make a few announcements number one i encourage everybody everybody to use the hebrew sources that i passed out here and for those online are watching on our website there is a link down below you can find it in the description box on the youtube and it will give you a link and you just have to find the parsha right the book the parsha and the year and i encourage you to follow along number two since we are towards the end of what we call the fiscal year of 2021 we have a campaign a fundraising campaign and there's also a link how you're 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to also emphasize the fact that what the clear car will do for us today is unpack unravel rashis we may read rashi and say okay it's what we call closed it's a very concise uh curt it doesn't reveal so much information it's very compact and what we're going to try to do through the clear car by the way so you should know we're right we're using the clear car for the discussion he unravels he unpacks he goes deep into let's say some background so that we can understand rashi better now that does not mean that's the only shot even according to rashi there's other many people who explain rashi perhaps a little bit differently okay but this is all everyone who's a legitimate rabbi they're all quoting from their rabbis they're quoting from what makes sense to them based on their training and their learning okay so let's begin with that first rashi rashi says regarding the part of the going after the free pastor land which we'll call achar hamidbar right to distance himself from the possibility of theft so that they the flocks would not pasture in others fields okay now it's very important why was he called in the very beginning pastoring the flocks of bistro you could have just said he was pastoring flocks could be why did it have to tell us it was isro's flocks so i'm going to give you a background there's a gomorrah baba mitzi as well in conducion bub mitsub 5b kedushin 63b keep in mind what we're about to say is fundamental when somebody sins in general people sin we're not all tzaddique and we're not all completely righteous in this world that we don't make mistakes in sin so there is a clause a general rule that one does not sin if they don't derive any benefit from the actual act right you're not going to be altruistic when you come like what's altruistic mean i'm doing it for the sake of others right so perhaps misters yes i could be altruistic but when it comes to sin i'm the one that's going to suffer in in gehenna why would i be altruistic is that the word to to sin for someone else there must be some benefit from me so the very fact that it was the sheep's belonging to someone else is what the key here in the gemara is bringing down whether someone who's known to be a thief or a liar whether they can testify in court and basically they really can't be testifying so but we're going to talk about this idea that he was a shepherd it's such a great level to be on the shepherd and if that's the case how can that be it's a contradiction if you're such a great person to be a shepherd shepherds in general okay in general take their flocks out beyond the gates right they go into places that belong to other people and therefore they're i'm going to say they're all known as thieves but you have to be a little bit uh a little bit shot a little bit uh suspicious that perhaps that that's what a shepherd would do but there are going to be shepherds that don't do that and that's what the gemura is describing here in terms of who what kind of shepherd can testify in court so the gomorrah speaks about this idea that this is not a problem that this not all shepherds are going to be disqualified for example don't presume that he's a robber if the sheep that he's guarding belong to other people right and we have this cloud don't put a stumbling block before the blind okay that's in leviticus 19 14. so isn't that true isn't that true well guess what rather there is a presumption that a person only sins for his own benefit and would not commit robbery for the benefit of animals that are not his i just want to continue here um because we didn't even we didn't even begin to clear car so let's start with the clear car i'm ruma forsheen the commentators say leficia ko roi pasu there is this concept i didn't make it up that it says shakol shakal probably means a majority okay that uh a majority of uh shepherds are considered blemished or pasul they're not allowed to testify in court al-shammarim al-hager because of the very fact that they shepherd their their shepherd animals in fields of others and therefore they are suspected on thievery very interesting i just want everyone to know how important it is we have to resolve this issue because all of our greatest prophets were shepherds and if we're saying that majority are the majority of them are pasul or maybe even for ghazal it's a little bit of a problem so we have to we start off with this idea as he now claims al king amar that's exactly why the tour goes out of its way to tell us son elu that these particular flock of sheep hayusha yisro didn't belong to moshe but they were of somebody else's in fact they were yisros and here's the clown from the gomorrah in odom a person will not sin unless he's going to derive some kind of benefit from the actual sin itself and the clear car continues it's very important that togo is out of its way to inform us there's a need for the torah for god to inform us that moses was a roe etzon he was a shepherd and why is that he because all most of our prophets he says roe v nadeem i'll just say a majority of our prophets they came to this the level the state of prophecy because or from within their ability to be pastoring what does that mean they're out of civilization they're in the environment of nature but they also are free from quite a lot of responsibilities listen they are responsible to make sure that the head sheep is at least going in the right direction because all the other sheep are going to follow but there are strays there are strays and there are going to be strays that you the the shepherd is going to be uh responsible for and going out of his way to bring them back as i will point out in the measure shortly that i don't have on the store sheets but i want to bring it in but let's continue for a second kihan nevua srihar hit bodhidus everyone know what hit botoduce is if you didn't know what it was before this pandemic the pandemic then you would know what it is now because it's the the root is b dude b dude means isolation quarantine i mean that's what they use for quarantine but it really means isolation okay or solitude let's use the solitude okay so because prophecy itself requires or its need it needs some sort of solitude and isolation i want to bring you on the source sheet to number three uh psalms chapter eight verse four um imagine yourself in the in the um in the seat of nature right it's just amazing i mean i really feel bad for city people who never leave the city you gotta get out you gotta just get on a bus a greyhound bus or just you know ask somebody for a ride here in israel go up to the golan heights go up to the galil go to the jerusalem forest right just sit there for a few hours and if just 20 minutes minimum right the verse says as king david says when i see your heavens the work of your fingers the moon and stars that you have established right right when i i i i see them and i'm i'm i just praise you right this is what king david says and we know king david was or let's say he had kodesh he didn't um he didn't have the same level as prophecy as the other prophets that are let's say the same type of prophecy that the other prophets had i want to take you to a majorish that speaks about this idea that hashem himself tests the prophet he tests the um not just the prophets he tests the jewish people tells everybody but in order to become great in order to be responsible you're going to be tested and how does god test those people he's going to make it to profits by setting them up as a in a job as a rower so see if how you're going to handle the flock it's amazing because there's so many levels of leadership roles that one can take as we said making sure that the lead sheep is going in the right direction but also to chase after the flock who go off the path right now you have to find it exactly um this is part of the medrash that mentions about how god tests used example king david and moses as shepherds as far as moses the holy one too he also examined him only with sheep meaning examined him tested him our sages related once when moses our teacher peace be upon him we're shepherding the sheep of jethro in the wilderness a goat kid ran away from him and he chased after it until it reached a thicket when it reached the thicket it found the pool of water and the kid goat stopped to drink when moses reached that goat and saw that had stopped to drink what did moses say what would a leader say i didn't know that you were running because of thirst but he ran a long distance he says i didn't know that but you must actually be exhausted as well so he picked up that little sheep and brought him back so he did you know first of all he ran there's a lot of levels of responsibility here first of all he ran after that sheep he saw the needs of the sheep and he did what the sheep needed after that even after the needs were met meaning he was thirsty but at this point he was probably exhausted as well so it says he there upon carried it on his shoulder and walked it back the holy one blessed me he said just as you pro possess the requisite compassion to lead the sheep belonging to a human of flesh and blood so that's what you as a leader in this world as a human being so too by your life you will tend my sheep israel that hashem chose moses because he showed this responsibility the compassion the insight of what's necessary and the medris claims that this is exactly why the torah tells us moses was shepherding i just want to bring you back to the idea of what we call ghazo and making sure that this is part of the test the comment over here mentions about the grazing in other people's fields uh here too extra care is taken to pasture sheep in the wilderness you know it says it went out of its way to tell us he went to what call the free the hesker the privately owned was not owned as a private field to ensure that they would not graze in a private field constituted refraining from a minor sin since the turd does not obligate the shepherd to such a degree i'm not sure exactly what he means over there but why did god choose this particular test for both moses and david so the beer miriam the air miriam suggests that it's because in order to qualify as a leader and i had a call from a friend of mine who asked me how can i become mashiach how can i become a shia so i told them i have to have a conversation so why be you're listening you know what i'm talking about listen to what the bear miriam says so in order to qualify as a leader and we both know we all know that this this soul of moshe the soul of david was the soul of the meshiach in order to qualify as a leader once one must be willing and able to not only care and provide for the people but to also to restrain them from sin in other words matsutika the rabbi it doesn't just mean to justify for them and but it means to cause them to be righteous causing other people to refrain from sin a leader who turns a blind eye to the sins of the people is held accountable for their sins therefore god tested moses and david with regard to restraining the sheep under their care from grazing in fields that belong to others when they proved themselves in this regard they had passed the test okay i'm going to go back into the clear car um here we go so what did we read last we mentioned about this verse as it said in psalms chapter eight verse four ki dese by going out and looking at the heavens we just talked before the big class began about a new type of a telescope that will go beyond uh i don't go beyond the hubble but at least in quality or in uh quantity whatever that could um just amaze us with the the beauty the beauty i mean i don't even know what words to use the beauty of the universe you know and uh uh think about as he says now aye they said that through this tia komachov tobin that through this um we call it hitbotodus contemplation meditation you know beingness in in a place of solitude without nature your all your thoughts will be about hashem allah until which will be poured out upon you now the word yara is like being poured upon or showered upon the the spirit of god from above right you can imagine you have to get into that position so my friend why be that asked i would have said look you have to do lots of misses you have to refrain from sin but number one i think this is going to be the key to be like david and moses to be like a shepherd which means re helping other people to also strengthen them in their ammuna refrain from sin help them reframe some sin the key you cannot help other people refrain from sin if you don't do that yourself so that's going to be like key you have to work on your own character that's like step one right and after you work on your own character then you only then can you help others so um we're all as the jewish people are uh merit to see and and not just exemplified really in others we are a messianic people okay we ourselves are messiani okay so what does he say here masha eno matsuai ko kak the yoshi babeso so if you're out in the fields that's one thing this is not going to happen if you it's not common it's not likely to happen for someone who just sits around in their house or is let's say working in a factory or working in the fields and they're constantly thinking about how many seeds i put in this hole or how far apart i put the seeds or getting the plow ready just your your mind is more occupied when you're working than a shepherd who is i'm not saying he's not working okay but it's a different type of work it's not as much mental exercise in that sense so so truth be told we need to do this hit bodhidus which involves a a quieting of the mind zulat yoshi so as opposed to the person working this is uh the idea that the road is able to sit with i'm going to use the word free time at least most of the time his mind is not occupied with uh we'll call gosh miut we were also talking before the class started um the idea of riding over in fact that's the difference between number seven and number eight right number seven is actually representative of the perfection of the physical world shabbat is the seventh day of the week shabbat that's the seven days of creation this is not on your sheets guys i'm just speaking it up that you have um seven continents you have seven colors of the rainbow the number seven is clearly referring to the perfection of the physical world eight which is what the jew represents and remember every non-jew is is invited to join us whether as as um i'll use the word to shove and we don't have that today and it's full in its fullness but as let's say as a righteous gentile who wants to live in a jewish community even if you don't right just as a righteous gentile than living in jewish community or even as a full fled uh righteous converts to proselytize that that's the english uh a gert zedek who joins the jewish people either way you're all you're all invited to join the jewish people whatever level you want to join us on uh so number eight is one above one above seven right so that's uh i'm not going to get into that now i spoke about that i think oz um the aleph rides on the zion uh us then futuristic all right well let's let's move on okay so let's uh begin again now with exodus chapter chapter three verse two right where it says the yera hashem as the english says an angel of the lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from within the thorn bush i want to just continue in english so we understand what we're talking about here and behold the thorn bush was burning with fire but the thorn bush was not being consumed we are going to unravel unpack this i just hope you guys really realize we go back to that first rashi that we saw you'll see that what we did was we unpacked it right rashi mentioned about the free pasture land he says to distance himself from the possibility of theft so that the flocks would not pass through in others fields but we see it's much deeper than just that i'm going to use the word simple statement that simple statement of rashi is not so simple it's jam-packed with so much information correct now we see this verse and what does it mean i want to take you again on a little bit of a ride into rushing in the words in a flame of fire so in the hebrew it's so the word for a flame is shall heaven which you see the word lament you see the letter lamin and you see the lot the word bet the the letter bet but he goes on to say the heart liboh of fire so he's jumping around from the word bella which is related to where it shall have it which is not related to the word heart at all but guess what there are letters it's true the heart of fire and then he wants to prove he says like the heart of heaven as it says in deuteronomy 4 chapter 4 verse 11. and again another verse in samuel it says in the heart of the tabernacle now he wants to tell you about that last letter tough at the end do not wonder about the tough at the end for we have an instance similar to this and then he uses again he's trying to show you that it's related to the word heart because you have inhibrasco ezekiel chapter 16 30 where it says the word libat referring to the heart so what does it mean what is rashi trying to tell me an angel of the lord appeared to him in the flame of fire in the heart of the fire that's all we're reading in rashi does that mean anything to me yet i don't know but neigh wait a second wait to hear the next part of rashi he's what does that mean from within the thorn bush now you got to remember in the hebrew it says it says here from within now you could have said bis now without the word mitoch and it would have meant the same thing maybe maybe not let's see let's go into oh i want to read the rashi but not from any other tree what does that mean why not any other tree that's going to be very important because of you know why it wasn't in any other tree it was in a bush because i am with him in distress what is i am in with i am with him in distress referring to in psalms 91 15 it says over there he will call me and i shall answer him i am with him in distress i shall rescue him and he shall and i shall honor him very interesting this is like what i would call a closed rashi you can read it and ask yourself what is what message is rashi conveying to me that i would not have known if i read it on my own right without his explanation his explanation has something to do with shot somehow unraveling and unpackaging the verse well guess what we're going to have to unravel and unpackage rashi to understand what the clear car is trying to tell us here we go back to the verse it's the second paragraph on the first page bamara zoo rabu hadeos within this vision within this um illustration there are many opinions of what's going on here so just know there's more than one opinion okay and he's going to bring down a few kia shamrim there are some that explain she he al-shame this idea that rashid brought down that emo anohibitsara in psalms 91 15 that i am with him in distress this is the meaning behind this vision of the fire within the bush that is not consuming the bush god is telling us as king david says god saying i am with him who's him i am with the jewish people i am with moses let's see al qaeda this whatever lesson it is this god wanted to reveal to him this lesson from within the bush what kind of bush and ate's chef of the namuch i'll translate it like this as a simple lowly humble bush it is the lowest of the bushes you have other bushes that are bigger and you certainly have trees now we saw rashi mentioned but not from any other tree but he doesn't really mention why he doesn't say anything about it and there's a lot the medrush has to say notice what he says according to him if anybody here can tell me why rashi mentions specifically the snare he doesn't he doesn't really mention he doesn't resolve rashi doesn't resolve at all why it's specifically the snap okay the yay show me now i do want to stop here for a second um i want to read to you on that verse with the art scroll on uh on the psalms 90 we say 95 91 15. and i'm saying this for my audience right for my students and the people who are watching here because it says god says right he will call upon me and i will answer him in when he reshamed me in brackets 9 1 explains that if someone seeks the help of the human being he goes to the caretaker in order to get an audience right you have to get an appointment you have to ring the doorbell whatever it is you have to get through the butler you have to get to the guy you want to talk to but there are intermediates and there's no guarantee that an audience will be granted not so with those who seek protection from god go directly to god okay if you go directly to god you don't need intermediaries this is very important for our non uh jewish listeners right not so those who protect who seek protection from god god himself declares if misfortune should befall you do not cry out to the ministering angel gabriel or to the ministering angel michael but rather call out to me and i will answer you right so for all those people that call out in the name of other gods uh you're wasting your time sorry to tell you but i'm not sorry to tell you i'm telling you and i'm sorry that you that you fell you fell hook glide and sinker for what we call idol worship anyway this is the more important point as god says to king david right i am with him in distress when god is actually angered by israel which we're going to talk a lot now about israel not behaving so properly what does god do he withdrew himself to heaven right he even said right i will hide my face from you on that day when he destroyed the temple however he heard israel israel's anguishing anguished cries then he cried with them when when we're when we sin and we are either in exile or we are in pained hashem is in pain like a loving father and you know what he told his ministering angels my children are suffering and i am suffering with them and this is a madrish but we understand this is very true okay he mentions the shari khayim adds that the righteous man calls out to hashem because he knows that god is in pain right why do we want redemption why do we want the meshiach to bring hashem so to speak out of exile we should be mourning right in pain because of the shrina that is not that is not dwelling where it's supposed to dwell with us in our hearts and the goal of his prayer is to relieve hashem's distresses as it were because of this his prayers are answered if we really truly believe that and understand that it's very important to do so okay now i want to go on because this is going to be like the theme here yeshua marine there are some that say another level of this that the hints le shift luton israel usually means the lowliness but i'm going to translate it as the suffering of the jewish people that the snare itself this this bush this burning bush hints to the idea of the jewish people through their lowliness of suffering what happened is that the fiery flame is blazing all around them and yet it doesn't consume them right when the jewish people sin we are going to suffer it's emanating from hashem so to speak right this punishment and yet we are not being destroyed this is a promise god said it won't destroy you and the burning bush was being cons was not being consumed and yet the fiery flame was within it so this hints to the idea of the the pains and troubles that israel have to go through and yet will not be destroyed understand this there's a promise al derek now this is way of explaining now if you look in deuteronomy 23 20 through at 20 sorry 32 23. you'll find this on the number seven so god says i will link evils upon them i will use up my arrows on them now think about it when you think about shot god says i'm going to use up my arrows on them you would think that's a disaster that's but now i want you to read it differently i will use up my arrows meaning i'm going to look and my quiver is empty but they're still there isn't that like you you you i hope you have goosebumps this is the mercy of hashem i want to show you rashi on that because the language is my own arrows i totally used up i got nothing left i'm empty of ammunition basically so rashi says i will use up my arrows on them i will finish up all my arrows on them until there's no arabs arrows left as it were this curse which you would think is a curse according to the usual way of retribution is expressed as really an implied blessing it's really a blessing namely god says my arrows will come to an end i will have no arrows left but israel will not come into an end they will never be annihilated they understand now i want to take you on a little journey to gamora sota 9a it's very short but it's uh it's it's deep ammer teaches that statement of rebbi hanina papa with regard to this what does it mean in malachi chapter 3 verse 6 for i the lord change not and you son sons of jacob are not consumed you're not destroyed so when it says for i the lord change not it means i did not strike a nation and repeat striking it because what is a stricken nation never recovers from the initial strike but you the sons of jacob are not consumed meaning that i'm going to continuously strike you as long as i have my arrows and you will not be consumed okay despite the fact that i strike you many times in other words when it comes to the other nations god strikes them finished finito gone but when it comes to jewish people unfortunately unfortunately however you want to look at it when we sin we will be strike continuously and yet as the verse says in deuteronomy 32 23 i will heap evils upon them i will consume my arrows upon them which is interpreted to mean my arrows are consumed and used up and they the jewish people are not consumed but will continue to endure despite the many calamities that we befall them i mean we see this with our own eyes this is why the jew has this endurance they believe in the torah they know the torah is true unfortunately we know you know firsthand the calamities that befallen us because hashem wielded because of our sins okay and we know that this is a loving wake-up call and hopefully we will smell the coffee real soon anyway the medrush rabbit brings many other examples and even the cleocar spoke about this in earlier in chapter one verse 12 where the verse over there says i have it here number nine this is regarding the egyptians and the israelites um it's number nine on page three but as much as they would inflict afflict them in other words the egyptians afflict the jewish people so did they multiply and so did they gain strength in other words the more we were beaten the more we were afflicted the the stronger we were and the more the more numerous we were and then it says and they were disgusted because of the children of israel now there's a few different ways to read this we're just going to try just one of them which you'll see rashi brings down a few the yakuza means they were disgusted with their lives okay what does that mean it means that the egyptians were disgusted with themselves i think we spoke about this um basically they themselves saw themselves as thorns and knew that similar to the way what do you call it we'll talk about the uh the seven canine nations during the uh the the spies they also saw themselves as um as thorns knowing that they were going to be uprooted like you you clear a field of the thorns before you plant the carom the vineyard but this is basically a psychological idea that they were disgusted with their own lives they had very low self-esteem and not high regard for themselves other explains that the egyptians were discussing with themselves that's easy to understand however the rabbis interpreted to mean that the israelites were like thorns in their eyes now what does that mean let's see the the clear car continues the mitsurim nimsh lulu coaching that the egyptians compared the jews to the thorns that they the the jews were thorns in the egyptians eyes so to speak okay kiheim israel the coats makif um kiheim ayuli israel because they were to the jewish people as a let's say um a painful thorn alkane and that is exactly why god showed moses the snazz like a thorn bush the bud the bush itself is not being consumed these thorns are not going to go away so fast but they're not going to destroy you either and this would hint to pharaoh pharaoh lasted through all 10 plagues in fact our measures tells us that pharaoh actually was later on he didn't even die he was he actually survived in other words in the in the story itself until one was survived meaning don't read it as no survived but even just one survived that was pharaoh and he later became the king of ninja and that's why when yona came and said guys shape up or ship out with however he said it right the sky is falling you're all gonna die pharaoh who was the king said this guy means business i've been there before been there done it you better take it seriously and he encouraged everybody to do chuva quiermos al paro how is it in any sense hinting about parallel sorrows that even though the fire is all around him meaning those ten plagues we're all around pharaoh avraham with sorrow all kinds of anger pass through and pains pass through the egyptians the especially pharaoh himself even on the especially all the plagues macomb nevertheless pharaoh was not consumed pharaoh didn't die remember hashem made sure that pharaoh was where he says he hardened his heart but that that he would be able to tolerate on a personal level maybe a national level whatever it was they would be able to tolerate all of the plagues as it says in chapter 9 verse 16. this is god himself i didn't make this up but for this reason i have allowed you to stand this is the talking to pharaoh i mean there's moses don't whatever in order to show you my strength in order to declare my name all over the earth moses is declaring this message in the name of god to pharaoh right this is very important to understand that god is the one who allowed him to con to be not consumed to not be to not to be um obliterated okay so there you have it now alternatively now there's another level a totally different way to look at it look in chapter 2 verse 14. so the last few words of this verse but let's read the whole thing and he retorted who made you a man a prince and a judge over us do you plan to slay me as you slain the egyptian now i don't know why it's in singular but let's just leave it like this that basically uh moses saw an egyptian man hitting a jew and he comes he saves them and there were other there were witnesses as far as we know right dustin vaviram and um and basically they're the ones who have become turncoats basically they didn't even realize they didn't look at moses nationally as a jew as we heard in rabbi brady was his class and they turned them in obviously turned them in because now moses right they well first of all he realizes somebody saw him do it he was actually witnessed uh slaying this man by the way he never picked up his hand to the guy he used the the four-letter name of god now again i'm just quoting the medrish right he looked but anyway he he used and it means basically god had him what he called dist right hashem had him 86 right okay so what does he say moses became frightened and said indeed the matter has become known now what does that mean the matter has become known let's look at rashi right so i want to skip to the to the latter part well let's see in the middle let's go to the middle well let's you know what let's read the whole thing okay uh beginning do you plan to slay me so what was the person saying do you slay do you do you say to slay me for here we learn what does it mean do you say to slay me we know from here that he slew him with the ineffable name in other words it's a madrish we understand that as prashad quintarashi okay moses became frightened why according to in simple meeting moses meaning meaning moses was afraid pharaoh would kill him obviously midrashically it's interpreted to mean that he was worried because he saw within israel wicked men remember the words are the indeed the matter has become known what does it mean he saw how wicked certain jews were okay now this is what i was always thinking about this is going to ready i want everyone to listen to this why the israelites are considered more sinful than all the 70 nations of the world do you understand what i just said the jew let me let me rephrase it maybe he's asking why are the jews punished more because we're more sinful so again why why are the jews considered more sinful than all the other nations the other 70 nations of the world in order to be subjugated to such heartbreaking backlash right backbreaking labor that has become known to me it's now known to me that what that they deserve it now that's not a very nice thing for any jew level and moses who we just said is very compassionate but he's wondering to himself right he knows about god god's compassionate why are the jews suffering so much and now he says now i understand why the jews suffer more than any other people on the planet okay let's go into the clear car as the words are aching therefore i know this matter named my israel shiroi but sorry me called he knew why because why would israel be more fitting to receive a harsher punishments than any other of the seventy nations and you know why the the shield de la de la torin because they have now either that word means informers or it means speaking lash and horror now we understand they probably did not speak lash and hara but they were informers they were informers we see that right here they informed by moshe it could be they didn't realize that moses was like them actually a brother maya some say they did know but anyway mash meem now this is a hard statement to translate but basically he's understanding why the jews should be punished more than anybody else because they're more guilty than anybody else because they speak out they i'm going to say provoke hashem in such negative and shameful way but the last three words i think are very important on those who are sleeping and those who are awake i want you to know and we speak about this all the time with my benenoak friends they understand that the jews look at themselves as one god looks looks at us as one right we say israel and he he says who are like you a unique singular nation when we speak lash and hara against one jew we're speaking lush and har about against all jews whether in this lifetime or in a previous lifetime meaning even if they're dead that's how i understand that statement that it's not just having an effect right now right here on the people in this room but it's having an effect on all jews everywhere who ever lived unbelievable statement halalu just like the burning bush just like the thorn bush hamas okay now if you actually have a fireplace or if you ever would a um what they call you know a barbecue or like a campsite where you put kindling you i mean these the logs pop every now and then you hear crackles but when you put the kindling in the thorn bushes you hear a gr even more sometimes it whistles sometimes it just cracks but it's a constant this is this is a this is what the lash and horror does it just doesn't it doesn't just disappear israel so too with the jewish people a filo bisman oh i'm sorry did i skip something no so too with the jewish people affiliate manchester us when the fiery flames i'm going to use the word a punishment but basically of troubles are surrounding us nevertheless each one of the jewish people to his to his friend to his other to his fellow is acting obviously we're talking about when you're speaking lash and hara it's like a painful thorn or a prickly briar like the thorn bush like the the snat cell kaminak duros halalu like as was done in those generations other generations the tamid mash meme called kolhasir and this is interesting because if anybody does any cooking i say even if you don't do cooking if you just put on a teapot everyone knows the teapot that has a whistle eventually it's going to whistle but even as it's coming to a boil you can hear if you listen carefully you hear the bubbles you hear what's going on in the pot and if you're cooking like a good soup or choline for hours so then you know the pots do make noise and the pot itself makes noise but if you have wood underneath of course of course the wood itself is making noise so that's what he's referring to that it has it makes a sound and now listen to this verse in ecclesiastes 7 verse 6. and do i have it here on the sheet yeah number 13 for as the sound of the thorns under the pot so is the laughter of the fool as this too is vanity now again take a look at rashi the sound of the thorns it's the wood the wood that's burning underneath under the pot under a copper pot turned over a fire of thorns and they rattle it not on that means a cheaper pot i mean the really sturdy heavy pots make let maybe they maybe they make less noise in the pot itself but anyway and the son of said rob yeshua son of lady when all other woods are kindled their wood does not travel for their sound so i guess this is again referring to the difference when rashi said as opposed to other trees but this tree in particular right but when the thorns are kindled their sand their sound travels far as if to say we too are wood i mean can you imagine i guess the uh this uh the uh the self-worth the low esteem of these lowly thorns they was we're like cedar trees listen listen to me you know crackle i'm wood i'm wood right anyway so we too are wood and we are needed so to so are the fools very talkative saying we too are important you ever notice those people with very low self-esteem i'm gonna call them fools because there's no reason to have low self-esteem okay i don't want to get on obviously people of trauma and whatnot they have to work through it but do you realize you're creating the image of god if you really understood that there would be no reason to have so such low self-esteem but we all need healing we're all in different levels in our journey and i don't want to cut to shalom you know what i mean give anybody the impression there's no hope there's always hope okay but you imagine you see people who are let's say show-offs they come into the room and they they try to impress everybody but you can read right through it you can see right through it it's it's just uh i don't know smoking what they call screens smoke screen mirror mirrors and screens smoke smoke and mirrors there we go from a professional professional magician there you go okay but listen to what the clear car says zoo icar this is the main reason the israeli author this is the main reason we are in exile this is the main reason we're in exile meet san hasina the king am because of the hatred and the jealousy that we have amongst us ready for this this is a harsh pill to swallow that there's more hatred there's more jealousy within the within the jewish people than the non-jewish nations have within their nations thank god i have to say i'm really sorry to say this but thank god that they have this unity and they can't get together as nation to nation because if they did and they were unified against us we'd be in big trouble that's why they're like 70 wolves they're scattered but don't get many ideas um but this is a great tohaka a great rebuke that we have to work on this is why we are still in exile we all know that because of what we call sinatrina the second temple was destroyed because of let's just say whatever the measure says because of one particular sin which sounds like it's even greater than the previous temple the first 10 was destroyed because of the three cardinal sins adultery idolatry and murder and so you say what are you talking about that was only 70 years we were in exile and yet we're still in exile for 2000 years because of sinatrina because it causes hatred the equation looks like this is a much worse sin so yes this is pretty bad so those people who are bali lash and hara right people who speak ill of others they cause their own basically they proclaim to all of israel that it's like without exception even the word aimnaki means that we are not innocent if one jew speaks ill we're all guilty but i want to mention the word enoch means without exception so that's what's happening here now locus this idea that when the fire goes out remember we're all we're describing the fire within the within the bush okay we're not finished we're getting close to it but when the fire erupts the fire is going out it's a fire of mach locus maclocus means division it's a right it's a fire that causes fights and there's a verse in first samuel 23 28 just to give you an idea of the language he uses and on page four i think am right um 15. when saul returned from pursuing david he went toward the philistines therefore they called the place that place the rock of divisions it's called selah locus now rashi says over there that saul's heart was divided right there's a division now i thought about this a little bit what happens here he had two thoughts number one whether return to save his country from the philistines or to pursue david i mean think about it if you go to pursue david if that was even an option it means you're willing to sacrifice your nation and i know like i don't mean to compare in any sense uh king saul to yamashima the name that shall not be uttered of germany 78 years ago but we know that hitler lost the war well obviously because of hashem wanted him to but one of the strategies that he failed he was more interested in using the trains to gas and to kill jews than to bring soldiers to the front line in in the east in germany in uh in russia so his that's right to send them to the front lines right so basically you see saw how let's just say every human being can have this and the question is what are you going to do about it but that's mock locus are you going to think about your own passions or you think uh altruistically let's say about others or about the nation as we said that a true leader should so that brings that home a little bit so back into the cleo car he mentioned this idea of and this is from jeremiah chapter 7 verse 18. now i just want you to notice it's in different order the way the cleo car brings it down he says the fathers are kindling fire and the sons are gathering wood even though the verse in jeremiah 7 18 says the other way around so what did we just say look at the actual verse that the clear car he brings it down the opposite order it says the fathers are keeping it burning and the sons of habbanim eight seem and it's the suns they're gathering wood so try to understand i think what why he reversed the order was that to show us that unfortunately we're following in the same footsteps as our parents they might have started the fire right the alvos kindled the fire but the children are coming and adding fuel to the fire meaning we're keeping the fire going guys let's put the fire out already yeah it's time to put the fire out and that is what another role of meshiach a real true leader it's matstika sarabin preventing them from sin and this is one of the greatest sins okay that's keeping us from reaching our potential al kane barbam eisha shem again now referring back to the the the burning bush that's why that what burns within them within them is this is the fire of god i.e not a good thing and therefore it says this yet the um the the bush is not consumed the bush is not consumed even though the fire is of troubles are burning within the seat of israel within jacob which we know today this is still in existence nevertheless the essence of the bush itself which is represented of the jewish people remains cold door every single generation the aina uka and is not consumed it doesn't get destroyed kilo yakulu hakaitseem and karam hashem savold base israel because there will be no diminishing or destruction of the thorns from what we call the vineyard of god not just any god the god of hosts which we will call the house of israel okay now let's continue with the last paragraph now this is supposed to help us resolve what has been bothering us all along which i didn't even reveal to you but only now it says again we dissected the word bilibat had something to do with the word shall have it and also the word lathe and i want you to keep that in mind but in the meantime it says me tokasna why didn't it say billabat aish bisna meaning the fire was in the bush why does it have to say from within the bush what is the word or mitoch have said so that's what the clear car points out kihabi leila maymar that the fire was blazing within the within the bush without the word or just say but talk instead of mitoch so he asked the question what is it what is the mitoch why does it say mitoch remember every letter is a world in itself the fact that it says me token you have to ask the question but you can only ask the question if you know hebrew so again i encourage you if you watch to this point and you didn't look at the original source sheets go back and read it again with the original source sheets learn hebrew a little bit just try i'm i'm trying okay i'm not a native hebrew speaker i didn't grow up religious i didn't grow up with hebrew i think you know like three hebrew words that was it right like most uh secular reformed jews okay so think about it what does mitochondria mean so here he goes on to say and if you actually look at this now we're going to learn a little bit of hebrew behold the bush is burning with fire now it says the bush is burning with fire he hasn't it's the snatch the bush itself even though it's not being consumed it's the bush itself that is cons is burning with fire now we've said all along that the the net itself is compared to the jewish people okay so iqbal memberley what it should have said if you were speaking english if you were speaking a normative hebrew it should have said hine boheir bisnat that the fire is burning within the bush it doesn't say that it does not say behold the fire is burning within the bush it says that the bush is burning with fire so behold ha'ish is powell the h is that which is active the fire is what's burning it's what's active and this is which is passive the the is not doing anything it's passive el emmet who kid the bareno but rather the truth is as we said that the net self is mother eschatzaras i should just say i think what he just said was if you read it the the wrong way that the h is bowier that the h is being active and this is is being passive but that's not what it says so rather this is sorrows it's the bush itself which is the jewish people is igniting the fire we are the cause of the fire that is causing all the suffering kimi tok shi israel nem since from the very fact that it's the jewish people that are compared that are analogous to this bush quotes market as we said before every single jew is like a pointy painful thorn to his friend um and is causing or proclaiming the voice to go out of such negativity and shamefulness alkane that's why the fire of god is burning within them that's exactly why the snare is the active one not the passive one and the h is the which is the passive one the h is passive the snare the bush is the active one it actually says it's the snare that's burning it's the the bush is burning with fire snake because it's the snat south it is the the bush itself that's causing the fire and that's why it says bilabat aish from within not just within but from within it's the it's the bush right it's beloved aish in a blazing fire because of the bush it's because of the bush it's the flaming fire that's results it's a result of the snat self it's the snare that causes the fire okay so i want to just wrap this up hear me out if we can get over this if we can make a campaign against lashanara oh it was already done what happened right there is um the hofstra foundation right the khofitzkayan right he wrote so many books so many people have written books about his books we have to get over this very unfortunate the sin of lash and hara and sinas keenum right so many of the khasirisha masters of the mystics talk about this i'll put into the links down below several other classes we gave so you can become more familiar of how to matsudik the robbing how to fix yourself from this sin and how to help correct others first you have to fix yourself and then correct others and mizrat hashem will see the coming mashiach very soon in our days and with that i wish everyone not only a shabbat shalom a great life stay warm stay healthy and we'll see you next week [Music] me