The Music of Intoxication - Parsha Matos - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

[Music] yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah oh yeah yeah yeah good evening and welcome to all tonight's classes dedicated by David and EDA Schottenstein in honor and tribute to their beloved children Ari and Nina Schottenstein thank you very much they tell the story about a Jew who used to walk in every evening to the bar and he would order two glasses of Jack Daniel's make a toast and drink them both this was his ritual every single night of the week one time the bartender asked Sammy says why don't you diversify your menu there are so many good drinks why is it always the same two large glasses of Jack Daniels and the man responds you he says I'll tell you I was in the war with my best friend back in Vietnam and each night we would take a drink of Jack Daniels I would have a cup he would have a cup and we would make a toast to life and to our survival unfortunately my best friend was killed in the war and I want to immortalize our friendship forever I want to carry the torch of our affection towards each other till the end of my life so each night I come into the bar and I drink two cups of Jack Daniels one glass I drink from my friend and one glass I drink for myself a moving tradition the bartender does not ask him the question any longer and so years go by decades decades go by and this man continues to enter the bar every night to drink his two cups of Jack Daniels one night 3035 years later he walks into the bar lo and behold he orders one glass of Jack Daniels the bartender is astonished he looks at him and he says what happened why one glass and the man says I'll tell you I quit drinking now here we have a classical case of Jewish denial denial is not only a river in Egypt as they say but it's also part of people's lives and tonight we want to explore the music of intoxication not only from a physical and practical point of view but also from a psychological emotional spiritual and even mystical point of view this evening's class we do not discuss a portion in the Torah not a law a commandment historia episode not a verse not a word there not even a letter tonight we explore a single musical note to be sure a rear musical note which is found in this week's portion the portion of mattes as you know when the Torah is read it is read with Timon drop musical notes can't elations which is what makes it so skillful and difficult for the valkyrie for the person reading the Torah to read it appropriately because in the Torah scroll you do not have the notes hence he must remember by heart the appropriate musical notes suitable to each word in that portion and read it accordingly and so there is a list of notes and in this portion we have a note that comes around only a few times a year it's called Merhi a fool if you look in your curriculums curriculum source number one you have the image the symbols of all of the can't elations of all of the musical notes with which we read the Torah the second-to-the-last right before Jarek mignon my is merica fethullah which looks like two comma it is to be found only five times in the five books of Moses in the Commission home satire in the comers only five times and one of these times is in the portion of mattes if you'll open your curriculum under the video you have the curriculum to source number two let us read this passage this verse where we have this note of Marisa fula in fact it's the concluding verse of the portion of Montes discussing how two and a half tribes settled the Transjordan the eastern side of the jordanian river not entering into the western side of the jordanian river into the promised land with the remainder of the jewish nation but rather the members of the tribe of reuben god and half of Menasha settled parts of the Transjordan of the eastern side of the jordanian river and thus the portion of Motta's concludes and i'm going to read it with the notes as you have it in your curriculums and source number two we put it with denotes you'll see on the bottom or on top of each word there is a symbol which represents the truck the Tom the musical cantillation for that word VIN a waha la vie LK desk nursery as benissa vara la [Applause] naive our fish my which means Nova a man named Nova went and conquered canis the city called chaos and its daughters its environment its surroundings and he called her with the name Nova which was his name he gave these cities his own name Nova on the word law he called her the city can us and the surrounding cities he called her Nova the word law has under it the note called Marrakesh full as you'll see it's two commas a double merica because there is another musical note which is extremely common in every portion and we read it and we sing it frequently which is a single merica mayor her tip Carmen Akasaka so its mayor huh this is America Kula it's not a single comma it's a double cam America Kula which gives it a whole other type of musical structure mayor huh fearful uh and that's the law he called her Novak on his name this is the mayor fula in the portion of Mathis by the way in some traditions this note is not called Marisa fula or Marcus fuller which means a double America but rather it's called trait ami which means a double note to notes because most of the musical notes are a single symbol rarely do you have two symbols every note is a single symbol there are only three exceptions the gave shyam which has to sum a double symbol the carne fara which has a double symbol and the mayor fuller which has a double symbol and hence it's called tre Tom made two symbols what is the significance of this rare musical note and why does this law her receive this dramatic extraordinary note there are the reasons from a grammatical perspective from a took point of view why there are five words in the hummers that get american hula discussed in the books of Hebrew grammar and reading of the Torah by Rabbinate Amara dr. Banno David Kim he and others but that requires a thorough discussion of the structure and syntax of Hebrew grammar and the way the Torah was written beyond the scope of today's class of tonight's class tonight we want to explore it from the Kabbalistic mystical Hasidic and spiritual point of view as I mentioned this note comes around five times in the himesh the first one is at the end of matters which we does just discussed there is another one and if you open up your curriculum to source number three it's in the portion of tyldus tyldus in Genesis chapter 27 verse 25 it discusses the fact how Yitzchak is aging and he calls in his oldest son a sub and he says go and hunt from me and bring me a meal I say Lee my time and bring me a delicious meal and I want to bless you for this meal instead as we know Yaakov his brothers twin brother dresses up with the clothes with the garments of a sub and he brings in food to his father and receives the blessings in lieu of Asaph in this verse in source number three tall disc of science of a Yitzhak speaks to Yaakov here again we have America Kula and let me read this passage via America shall leave Islam it's a danila Monteverde Connolly by Yogesh live is Allah by of a love yeah envious Isaac tells Jacob he says bring me the food let me eat from the food which you have hunted in order that my soul shall bless you Yaakov brings the food to Hitchcock and he eats it Yaakov brings him wine and he eats Huck drinks the wine on the word live eye of a lion Yaakov brings him wine the hem the lie receives America fula next source number four in your curriculum we have American full inch mini Pontius mini Leviticus chapter 10 verse 1 this is a dramatic story of the day that the tabernacle the Michigan is dedicated it's the first day of Nissen Aaron is appointed to become the high priest together with his four sons who serve as Kohanim priests nod of avi who Eleazar and Itamar on this great day when the divine presence comes back to dwell among the Jewish people the new tabernacle and sanctuary has been dedicated tragedy strikes Aaron his family and the Jewish nation as a whole we read here in SH mini-you Dolloff Valley cuvee our Nadav avi you ich mchte oh sorry buy it Nova hain age by a similarity thes by Akiva LIF nayad annoy a surah ash it's evil some the children of Aaron not of anivia each of them take a shovel they place within the shovel fire they place on it incense and they bring close to God an alien strange fire which he did not instruct them to do on the word LOI not which he did not command them that lawyer receives America Kula LA next source number five in your curriculum SHM ice the book of Exodus chapter 5 verse 15 this describes then slave mminton of the Hebrews in the land of Egypt under the King Pharaoh and at some point after mission Aaron Moses and Aaron approached Bera and asked him to set free the children of Israel he only increases the burden of their work by increasing the quote of what they have to do before the Jews were given straw which they could then burn into bricks and build structures for Pharaoh now they have to go and collect and assemble the straw on their own and the policeman in charge the Jewish policeman in charge on the slave workers approach papyri with a complaint source number five smiles a test valve valve you Satan a B'nai Israel by it's a qu l para la may la Sarthe la vadhaka the policemen of the children of Israel come and they scream they cry out the fiery why shall you do thus to your servants why shall you do sassa receives America fool next number six in your curriculum this is in the Book of Numbers chapter 14 verse 3 slack here we discuss the story of the scouts of the spice which come back from the land of Israel and give a report to the Jewish people which dissuades them from entering into the land drains them from their willingness to go and take on their new mission of entering conquering and settling the holy land Eretz Israel and the nation breaks down into mass hysteria they come screaming tamesha and what do they say slack adalah dude gimel vilem avi Sano LRS has a slim pile in pile bocharov mache nova top a new yy-you'll of ours holla la mouche of mitzraim ah why the Jewish people asks is God bringing us to this land just to be defeated by the sword just that our wives and children should be robbed Hawaii toy one who shows meets Naima would have been much better for us to come back to Egypt to go back to Egypt the word tithe it would have been better for us better good gets America fool and thus we have the five merica clueless and himesh according to the order the first one is in peristyle dice when jacob brings wine to his father isaac yak of the it's cookin he drinks the wine the second time is inch moist when the policemen are asking Pharaoh why would you do this to your servants the third time we have it in SH meanie when other than Ivo offer an alien fire which God has not commanded them to do and then you have the fourth time in schlock when the jewish people cry a de would have been good for us to return to Egypt and the fifth and final time is in Paris motto is when a man named Nava titles calls the city which he conquers can no sin the Transjordan he calls her with the name Nova his own name that's it only these five times in the Amish now two of them we can use our own imagination and sense some meaning here the note the musical note of maracas fula represents most people would say an intense dramatic sense of yearning of lamentation of aspiring that a in two of the cases we understand the Association very clearly impartial smize the police come to Pharaoh and say these are slave laborers you deprive them from everything they have no freedom they have no Liberty they are virtually in a concentration camp completely deprived of all their dignity and freedom and now you simply make it unbearable why would you do this la massage Sasha why would you do this to your servants we can understand it in Schlacht the Jewish people feel that their future is hopeless they enter into a state of the spear and they ask Marshall why did you take us out of Egypt to bring this to a land we will be killed by the sword better to be a living slave than a free man dead tithe huh it would have been better to be in Egypt I can understand that I can get it but the other three via Vela I invited a sure lights avoid some by ikura la nieve a fish my what is their connection to America fula but here we see something extraordinary and astonishing in the three other places where there is a male hooker fula the three other places besides the first two the other two which we just discussed choice and slash where we can sense the context in both cases there is intense crying lamentation yearning missing something some form of nostalgia what did somebody once a nostalgia today is not even what it used to be like we can get their association but in the other three we see something remarkable namely all of them are each given two words which have two letters and each of these three places the words begin with a lammott but the conclusion of the words is a little different in the first case entitled ice value of a lie I invited LOI he brings him llama drove in the second case meanie not even avi you are sure Lloyd see Verizon which he did not command them LOI lammott Aleph in the third case in Matos vehicular law neva Bishnoi the mayor fool is on the law lawmen hey so in one case it's lama dwarf in another case it's la man Alif in a third case it's lammott hey this itself tells us that there's something deeper being conveyed here there is a story behind this musical note desire one of the foundational of the foundational book of Kabbalah of Jewish mysticism in the portion of bollock page 189 cook pay tests gives us a perspective and you can open up your curriculum source number 7 in your curriculum right under the video Zoe are parshas bollock desire discusses here the first Marisa fula entitled Isis I know it's Metatron Omar the angel called kanai's Metatron desire is quoting here an angel says value of a lion Yaakov brought wine - you suck the arm a Maya bahu Yan Yaakov diluted the wine with water he mixed in water into the wine wheel of the iron maybe my my uncle a miserable if Yakov would have not diluted the wine with water he could have not contained it that's how strong the wine was for shopping Americanos Matata the Zohar says were the one who's narrating this was a child says connect Matata inspect or begin cash for this reason I'm sick lie betray Tommy the Torah extends the word law into two musical notes not a single measure but a double Merrick America fula the Hobby train Citroen Akkad because Yaakov was synthesizing two polarities two sides wine and water and hence the law he brought him wine as an extended note it's not just buy of a lion swiftly it's a long extended loi with America cool or double one to represent the fact that he mixed into the wine what is the meaning of desire how are we to understand this and what would be the connection with the other maker fool us in the LOI with on Aleph and the law with a hey there is a fascinating work called lacunae la vie it's hook a commentary on the Zohar which was authored by a man named rabbi levi yitzhak shnayerson he was the chief rabbi of the ukrainian city yekaterinoslav which later after the revolution in 1917 was changed to the new pure Petrovsky he was the father of the lubavitcher rebbe reb olivia shnayerson passed away in middle of the war 1944 he was arrested by the communists exiled died in exile in kazakhstan actually his yard site is soon coming up on the 20th day of of and in his commentary to desire in parish Meany Lakota Olivia took marshal Sweeney he elaborates he gives it perspective it's his commentary which serves as the source of the following explanation together with some other references from other sources and some elaboration and explanation according to the way that I understood at least part of his message by no means will our presentation this evening even exhaust the topic somewhat what we will do hopefully is at least scratch the surface and discover a tip of the iceberg of the layers upon layers of significance of even a single musical note in the Torah there are two forces there's wine and there is water yayan and maíam what does aura is telling us here is yin and my in wine and what are not only just two different liquids and they obviously don't only have two different effects on the person drinking them they actually represent two paradoxical two very different forces and the way rabbi schneider's almond of lee adi the alter rebbe explains this zoya entire in his magnum opus terror and the portion of a leash law is thus Yitzchak is very much associated with wine i've Rama's father is very much associated with water there is another difference between our Rama and it's hook well knowin in the works of Kabbalah and Hasidic Jewish mysticism of Rome is associated with water it's hook is associated with fire my M&H what is so unique about fire is fire is never complacent fire never relapses fire is always soaring rising trying to detach from the wick licking the ear dancing swaying the tempting to kiss heaven fire represents psychologically and spiritually a lack of complacency a sense of inner a yearning aspiring pining to something higher to something transcendent fire never relaxed this represents a type of person you may know such people who are very tense who are always experiencing a certain tension and don't know how to find resolution their yearning to go higher and higher fire oh so breaks down it decomposes it destroys everything that comes into its midst it challenges everything to its core it deconstructs fire like people challenge everything everybody beginning with themselves it's a sense of tension water on the other hand can also be very wild and chaotic unfortunately we know about tsunamis and hurricanes and a water can of course go wild and become extremely turbulent but water can also be contained water can be contained in a cup in a glass in a bowl in a pool water can become tranquil serene flow with a sense of serenity and tranquility and thus water represents the contrasts of fire not tension but resolution acceptance of what is rather than challenging what is to go beyond the construct to go beyond any limitation fire goes upwards water can go downwards avraham avinu we say in the prayers for rain scoid of nimshi heretical maíam remember the father who was drawn to you like water each hook is defined as pakka Dietz hook in commemoration the or the fear the intensity of you talk it's hook went deeper and deeper he challenged himself he dug Wells continuously he didn't know me dug dig wells outside of him he dug Wells within within his own system within his own psyche always striving and yearning to rise to transcend you took himself almost transcended as an offering in the famous story of that kada on the altar when his father bond that bounded him on that Caden fire and water acid Guevara yes it is grace love kindness the flow of kindness glorious strength tension yearning aspiring two very different personalities within the world of liquids itself yayan wine is associated with you talk while water is associated with of Rome you see the difference between water and wine everybody knows you're thirsty it's a hot summer day it's hot right here in this room you take a drink of water to quench your thirst to calm you down to relax you what the wine does wine triggers very intense emotions in people and wine sometimes allows people to go outside to go beyond their system their structure not always to their benefit the intoxicated a fact of wine is as the rabbi say in the Talmud NIC Messiaen yachts aside wine enters and secrets come out in fact the word the ioan and the word side share the same gamut area the same numerology the iana 70 and side is 70 when a person drinks becomes a nib reiated intoxicated they often go out of their regular self every person has certain vessels certain container certain constructs in which we operate in which we communicate to other people from which we do not leave and yet what wine often does to people it takes them out of those limitations and thus wine is very much associated with that force in life with challenges and motivates and inspires people to go beyond their limited constructs Yakov Aveeno brings wine the job the uniqueness the function of Yakov was to create a synthesis between the water of aram and the wine of Yitzhak hence desire says Yitzhak Aveeno by definition was all guevara tremendous tremendously tense and his son ace of in that way resembled his father more than Yaakov because Asaph had the tension of his father the difference of course was for you to hug the tension the strength the tremendous angst was directed towards himself towards challenging himself towards greater and deeper Heights endlessly by ace of his son the tension was directed outwards towards other people and often developed in to cruelty and selfishness and toughness yakov's function was to synthesize the wine of Yitzhak wood the water of wrong the reason why the blessings could not go to ace of his because a sub although Asaph had a soul which in many ways was deeper than Yaakov soul which is the reason that you took loved a sub an appreciated ation because he knew at Ace of spittle as as ace of soul was rooted in the world of chaos rather than in the world of structure and integration ace of soul was rooted in the world of Tahu in cabbalistic lingo rather than in the world of T : of structure in Yaakov nonetheless because of his chaos it went wild his chaos became dysfunctional instead of elevating his chaos utilizing his tension to grow his tension became a source of disintegration of dysfunction and even of destructive and negative behavior and thus Yaakov had to receive the blessings and then ultimately one day would shear them with a saw and this is what the verse is saying here Kappa listicle II he brought wine T it sucked but he had to dilute the why not to be diluted with water this is the uniqueness of why Yaakov could contain and actualize and internalize the blessings of you took and this is the first law man who fula is the note which represents that insatiable tension you're not satiated you're not satisfied you're not complacent the it's that constant yearning aspiration pining some ala nafsi Kemal acaba sorry Barret see if I if believe my my thirst for you my soul pines for you in a barren desert bloom I am without water this fire there's no water this rots I your yearning tension there's no shoe again cabbalistic Lingle there's no retreat there's tension there's no resolution that's the miracle hula Yaakov's job then is to take that meri level put in water into the into the wine and then get sucked drinks it and now it's Huck's blessings can be shared with Yaakov because they have the water element and this also explains why they have to be shared with Yaakov now come to the next Merrillville parshas meanie not even a vo open up your curriculums number eight Rashi in SH meanie chapter 10 verse 2 asks the question why did not even have you die and Rashi quotes in number 8 Rabbi Shmuel lamer every small says sooo the AI in in Islamic - they entered into the sanctuary intoxicated with wine paid the proof shocker missus and his attend a solemn slay concert so yah yah Allah mikdash after their death God warned warns the remainder Cohanim that they should not enter the sanctuary while under the influence of why the lie entitled eyes v availa is associated with yayan wine so the next lie in sh meenie with our Aleph it's also associated with wine God did not command them what is the meaning that neither than avi who when in drunken abri added to the McNish another whenever you were in simple alcoholics who were addicted to alcohol and could not contain themselves even in the day when the sanctuary is being dedicated and for heaven's sake they were chosen to be priests to begin it you would think don't drink no they have to go and say look I am that's a very impoverished interpretation another that whenever you were no simple addicts who could not hold back and as we know unfortunately the curse of addiction is that people who are addicted sometimes lose complete control I know as some of you know addict's addict alcohol addicts - other horrible addictions who have neglected the most sacred and special moments of their lives because of the addiction I recently met a recovery alcoholic and I asked him what caused you to recover and here is a Jew who grew up in a very religious community religious home a very fine family married with lots of children but became addicted to alcohol became addicted to cocaine became addicted to gambling sadly unfortunately and he found himself one Yom Kippur in the midst of the time of Neela drinking and he said at that moment he realized that he hit rock bottom and from there his process of recovery began so on a very external level we may associate this story with that but that's not the case how do I know because Moses tells Aaron after they die B cry by a car - these were the holiest Jews besides in the PAS circuit says the reason they died is because they offered God a czar and alien fire Herbies wall says they were drunk but now we will understand the meaning the nature of the fire which they offer it is associated with the fire of Yitzhak and with the wine of you talk not of a navvy you seek and yearn for transcendence once they sense the divine presence came into the world they did not they were annoyed they were frustrated with the veil of our world which conceals the presence of God they craved to quote the Ira Higham in schmitty and anatomize they craved to kiss God they craved to experience complete intimacy with God Derek I am says that neither of anivia did not abstain from reaching the closest level of oneness of intimacy of closeness with God they wanted to touch infinity they wanted to embrace the divine to cleanse the doors of perception and allow everything to appear as is infinite and in that process they offered an alien fire as cher Lloyd C voyeurism which he did not command them they could not deal and tolerate with the concept of Commandments which represent limited constructs this is the way you do it and this is the way you don't do it this is how you live and this is how you do not live they had the source of the core of what you might call a free spirit which wanted to liberate itself from all constraints from all limitations go beyond all status quo go beyond the place of mitzvos of Siva of Commandments which represent limitations directives this is Provident this is permissible in that sense they were drunk it's not just they were physically drunk it's the wine brought out in them the passion which is what fire represents passion the yearning the tension to go beyond the defying parameters of our life of day-to-day responsibilities schedules limitations and embrace and kiss infinity they may have physically drunk then they may have physically drank wine but this was an expression of an intense spiritual transcendental experience a shallow which he did not command and Beyond Commandments this is what they were yearning for this type of passion they experienced it but they could not remain within the containers they died their souls expired their souls transcended their bodies the electrical current the voltage was too intense for the wires for the containers to be able to contain it so you have America fool in both in both cases there is wine but there's a difference in the first case we have Loy with a wolf here we have leh with an Aleph lawyer with of of his affirmation leh with an Aleph is negation lie with the v' of means to him he brought the wine to him lay with an Aleph means not know absent this was the difference Yaakov was confronting the mayor full of Yitzchak and lie he communicated he brought he introduced into that the water to calm it to bring resolution with his tension to cool off the passion to create shoe retreat where there was an endless limitless yearning by another than a vo it remained a Loy and that's why it says they never got married they did not have children all of these factors represent the calming factors when a person gets married they must acknowledge the other person therefore they have to limit their own expression you cannot express yourself without any limitations of a schedule when you're in a relationship with somebody else because you have to respect other person space which is what frustrates so many people especially artists creative people Bohemians free spirits and sometimes it's not just narcissism and selfishness although it could be that sometimes that comes from a genuine spirit of creativity and wanting to break out of all the molds and all the modes and all the constructs but yes that is a form of selfishness it is a form of narcissism because it's about expressing your own creativity rather than sometimes accomplishing what God wants you to accomplish the same is true with having children so the rabbi's say what did not even avi you do they brought an alien fire they drank they were inebriated they didn't get married they didn't want to have children it all represents the same point there was a mayor who fuller without the calming factor there was a lawyer with an olive not alloy worth of love now we come to the third one the third America fula is also a law this is a lawmen Hey Marcus Marcus what does the verse say the verse tells us that know even when and Concord cannot cannot send the other cities by Iker Allah neither Bhishma he called her witch named neither what does naive I mean novice means barking barking its associated usually with a dog a dog which barks calif Nevaeh the verse tells us representing of course very intense emotions barking yearning pining asking for something the Kabbalists a caliph makes up two words cool I lave it's all emotion it's all intensity it's all passion the lave is associated with fire versus the mind which is associated with water that Tania says in Chapter three the heart yearns the heart pines the heart craves and the minds job is to pour some water on the fire dilute the wine with water in Talmudic days we know that the wine was very very intense the Talmud speaks in numerous places in halakhah about diluting the wine with water and sometimes the wine was so intense and so strong it had to be diluted with water you couldn't drink it without it and that's what Yaakov did to its hook and that's what the MA and the mind does is supposed to do for the heart and it's in that balance in that equilibrium where man actually achieves the purpose of creation ruts are Eva sure if the posix says in Ezekiel chapter 1 half is rubbish life then gellick beings run and they return they urine and they settle down they have tension but they have resolution because it's in this polarity with which we fulfill the objective of our existence because paradoxically tension without resolution is a form of spiritual narcissism as I said earlier because it becomes about self expression and self fulfillment and coming back represents our humility to embrace our divine calling not what I ask of life but what life asks of me not what I need from God but what God needs for me on the other hand Reza without tension is a form of smugness complacency death it can also lead to pompous and as arrogance people who just don't want to be moved they don't want to be touched they want to sleep there's a show called cherish a mind the gates of heaven in New York so somebody said told me there's a sign that goes up to lie forth the gates of heaven are closed from July 4th to Labor Day just leave me alone now time to calm down there's an interesting he'd uh this is on another level parenthetically that he'd uh brings that vehicle on Eva laws acronym loshon Hara and neither is a barking dog that I realized that one of the punishments for one of the results of gossip of people who speak gossip is that their souls are sometimes reincarnated into dogs because by a dog the bark is often bigger than the bite and that's what gossip is all about the problem of lush and her of gossip is not that by talking negatively about somebody else you may destroy his life or her life they may lose their job of course that's a problem but there's something more subtle and more deep it's the bark more than the bites it's the negative energy that's created by speaking negatively about people negative energy for yourself for the people who hear it for that person for the people around him or her with many practical ramifications it's the bark more than the bite so the result of law is neither there's an old interesting saying it says like this the pus success the verse tells us and parsha smash spot them that when you have the corpse of an animal which is not kosher it was not slaughtered in a kosher way so what should you do with it like Elif touched Alicia knows you have to throw it to the dogs have to give it to the dogs why the dog from all animals so Raschi tells us from the rabbis that God does not deprive any creature from the rewarded deserves the dogs God owns something because in Egypt when the Jews were leaving it says la Habana is surely accurate sky level is shining no dog uttered a Pips none of them gave a bark as the jews were leaving Egypt after 210 years God remembers remembers the role of the dogs and one day tells the Jews you have extra meat you can't use it for yourself like Elif - listen I said give it to the dog so a rabbi once asked to give all the key question what about the frogs the frogs ran into the ovens of Pharaoh to fulfill the second plague smart daya they saturated as home they went into his bedroom but they also went into his ovens which means they sacrifice their life to go into hot ovens just to fulfill God's will we don't see that the frogs were rewarded and he answered and he said here we see as our mole is getting it so our line spinning in a fire if it's a Hulton the moil for my heart sometimes it's easier to jump into fire than to hold your mouth shut them to close your mouth the dogs close their mouths they get a special reward for that so that's on a more practical level that he died righteous rabbits I'm relieved of it as a lie about the long life but here on a more mystical level naivet represents the same mayor full of the same intense passion of emotions it's connected to guevara connected to its how connected to another than rvo connected to wine and here we see an interesting thing the at the the geometry of the numerology of Nava is 60 known as 50 vases two houses 860 so we have the verse and share Hashem in the song of songs he named me Tosca shalosh lie my sashimi Byram sabe la megabyte he saw a column on who's a hair of malumed a malcolm ich hier by earlier a Jaime possible a Lee's the bed of King Solomon was surrounded by 60 mighty men of the mighty of Israel all of them trained with the sword trained to war each of them holding the sword from the fear at night we see there was 62 bottom 60 people associated with cavora with strength Nova which has 60s associated with the sashimi Boreum it's the strength it's the tension represented by Guevara and contrast assassin and then there is of course the acronym the nun of naive a represents known represents the noon Shari be know we know that there are 32 pathways hokhmah fifty gates to bina the safer yet syria the book of formation tells us one of the foundational books of kabbalah llama business service Hoffman and Jerry Benham the bays of Nava stands for being other classes been as the eighth attribute when you begin with malice and you go upwards of course beena is the eighth attribute you're going to ask me be known as the knife the answer is when you count Cassie you don't count us shock Esther named Nina - Nina so when you go up from Malthus you go Malthus and then you cite and then hide and then Metsa and then if heiress and then Guevara and then facet and number eight is veena and number nine is Hoffman I'm a tennis guesser so we have the noon the fifty gates to bina bases being a yes is the eighth base class is also base hokhmah being as a house it's a container for Kaufman Kaufman is the seminal flash of inspiration you see this if erotic tree the ten divine attributes which are represented in the ten faculties of a person have three columns the right center and left column on the right column you have hokhmah or by you would be hokhmah and facet and Nessa on the left column you have beena and guevara and height beam is associated with the left column which is associated with Guevara therefore what Gura does emotionally bina does intellectually now the elaboration of this concept is beyond the scope of tonight's class suffice it to say that Nava represents this level of bina of intense understanding of decomposition and hence Nova is associated with the energy of gora which is 60 and here we'll see a fascinating thing Rashi points this out on the word law and now you open up your last source source number nine in your curriculum they were at last Rashi Rashi says law a name afaik hey na ma became this is the only law in the humus which doesn't have a point in the middle usually when you have law in the middle of the hey there's a little point a little Nikodim which emphasizes the hey it makes it more emphatic more emphasized it's called the doggish this is called a roughing which means a very weak hey this is the only law which doesn't have a which doesn't have a point in the hey why so trashy for the ECB's edition of my AHA dharshan the official line is sky M law shames L official kou ruff a sham a Sh'ma midrashic a myeloid this name Nova did not last and because it didn't last therefore the hay is weak as though we would say lie it sounds like LOI lorry means not law doesn't mean not what means to her but we do a week a without a point to represent that he called her an IVA but the calling her Nova was weak it was unstable it did not last and did not have the power of endurance of consistency ultimately the name neither died and that's why the law is missing the point which makes it weak as though it would say LOI although it doesn't say LOI but it's similar to law in the sense that it's a weak law it's a weak name it does not endure because this is the truth about the mayor fula the tension of Gura the lack of complacency that exists within the person who becomes intoxicated with life and yearns to transcend all of the limitations and all of the constructs this is true physically and it's also true spiritually and emotionally and psychologically on all levels sometimes people want to escape the responsibilities of life they want to escape their own identity they want to escape what they're dealing with on a day-to-day level the best way to escape is go to the bar and take a drink or you don't have to go to the bar take a drink and get intoxicated you'll feel better you'll be more loose you'll be more free the problem is it does not last long the sky in lush aims it does not laugh because once the alcohol wears off the person is back to himself back to herself back to their good old regular self and often much more miserable than before so they have to get drunk again and then again and then again and it becomes their way of dealing with life but that's not a way of dealing with life it's escapism an alcoholic once told me he said we drink alcohol in order to drown our sorrow we fail to realize that sorrow floats this is also true about psychological and spiritual alcoholism on a much more refined and transcendental level the problem with spiritual transcendence with yearning with pining with jumping with climbing higher and higher and higher its fooled with ecstasy and it's great in this powerful it's overwhelming but then when you land what are you left with and that's why it's critical that every experience of ecstasy should be internalized and brought back into the human vessel and into the human container every time you drink wine you have to put in a little spiritual water there the ironman my elohim of yaacov poured wine into the water into the wine so the first measure of fool islam evolved loi the second is law absence the third is law law which is the weak law without the point because it did not last it did not in there it's only in the synthesis it's only in the integration between tension and resolution between energy and container between chaos and structure between running and returning between transcending and internalizing where the human being actually can touch the divine go beyond their own creativity and touch the truth of godliness which is defined neither by wine or by water but it's the center point it's the cough hem sorry and here we have the three letters llama drove is with of off lammott Aleph with on a la flama da with the hay The Aleph represents EEMA the mother bina representing the energy of Guevara of strength the Left column that's one mare fula lammott hey represents the energy of Marlowe's femininity which is associated with Guevara llama dois represents the energy of six it's the middle column love including TIFF eres the center column associated with Yaakov who creates the integration between lights and vessels have a wonderful night [Music] yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah oh yeah yeah yeah [Music] yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah [Music]