The Omer Part 2 - Becoming Human and Aquiring the World to Come with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] this is actually part two of counting the omer not just counting the homework we're talking about making time count so i implore you to go back and watch part one there will be a link below in the description box or you can find on our website two weeks ago we spoke i don't want to go through it now because i know this is very limited time and i want to tell you we have so much claim there so much material i don't think we're gonna even finish we'll put it this way there's going to be probably a part 3 and part 4 of this idea now we're not basing it on the clear car the safer clear car per se but the author of the cleo car fry meal insurance wrote another safer called holistic frying and what we are reading and going through and discussing about the overair is his words right the own own words in the olisa fry so we're now on my mark zion it's on page cough iron dollar that's and he's quoting right away a verse that you can find in deuteronomy chapter 16 9. maybe i will spend i'm going to say a minute and a half to just describe where we got up to the point of making time count is that a person's life as we saw king david in chapter 90 of psalms verse 10 says that the average man lives the age of 70 but yet we're counting 50. if we're counting 50 what is it all about because it's about your life your life really begins at the age 20 after you pass through puberty and now you really found yourself and you become an outstanding member or let's say a uh a qualified member of society right hopefully you're married you've joined the army right you joined the army at age 20 according to the torah so you're now responsible and so far you're at bar onshin meaning now you are really responsible for your consequences in heaven and so therefore the 50 that we're counting is like remember the marauding when the spies went into hearts israel came back with an evil report what was the punishment the punishment was 40 years in the desert why because the verse says one day for each year one year for each day the fact that you spent 40 days going towards trail and coming back with an evil report god is going to use the word punishment we have to understand what the punishment is we need a teacum we need a fixing it would take a whole year for each day we're counting 50 days during the element period those 50 days parallel to 50 years of our life that are supposed to be meaningful because the only thing that we count are things that are meaningful something is not valuable we don't really count but things that are valuable those are what those are the things you count so i just implore you to go back and watch i think i captured hopefully the meaning behind what we did in just a few short minutes but now we're going to go slower and we're going to go in depth into the verses now once we understand that the age 20 you're like a standing and i'm using that word literally standing member of the community so then your life has really truly begun in terms of your your liability your responsibility as a bar ownchim meaning you've now entered the possibility of facing consequences of your actions that's what it means by bar once you're in the category of punishment but let's see what he says go to deuteronomy chapter 16 9. it's number 18 on the english source sheet you shall count seven weeks for yourself from the time the sickle is first put to the standing corn try to use the imagery the standing corn is you at the age of 20 before 20 what were you you were a sprout you were a sapling you were a weak and um you know very uh wavering young tree or p or grass but yet once you reach that age where you have to stand firm for something so that's called the standing crop and the sickle is a i guess it's a little bit of a round it's like a machete but it's more rounded that's where it could be cut that's where you know you think of the uh you think of the angel of death right that's because that's there is a good imagery here you're talking about being cut off the possibility of being cut down then exists but it only exists once you're standing tall so keep this in mind so the hebrew is from the time this sickle is first put to the standing crowd now he begins by telling us this is when a man begins to count a human begins to count their life at the age of 20. that's when he enters the category so for those who are not clear let me just make another statement to clarify when a child becomes 12 13 a girl and a boy they are obligated to do mitzvahs and they will only be punished in this world for that which they did in this world but for that which is between them and hashem hashem has such mercy he's patient he created us he knows we go through a stage called puberty i don't know if that's even the word let's just say we're going through a stage of life where we're finding ourselves where we're accepting communal responsibility little by little and hopefully in seven full years from then you reach the age of 20 then you should have reached that point of maturity okay himself and the idea of it's analogous there's an analogy put forth of the ownership we're going to use translate as punishment to the sickle comma which is used for cutting down the standing corn kumo umar now there are these two verses one is jeremiah 9 21 and the other one is job 2424 just to get a picture of the idea of let's say the responsibilities of man the idea of time fleeting by not using the time wisely okay jeremiah 9 21 says speak thus says the lord indeed the carcasses of man a carcass is a corpse it's a dead man shall fall like dung on an open field on the open field and like sheaves sheaves is the standing corn after the reaper right great translation great translation the hakoitzer the one who cuts it down with none to gather them that's the first verse you get the imagery of a standing corn being cut down but it compares man it's comparing man to this idea job 24 24 says they are taken away in a second life goes very quickly sometimes and he is no war and they are crushed like all they are gathered in and like the tip of an ear of grain they will be cut off again an imagery of man being cut off this is life it's valuable but it does end at some point what are you going to do about it so let's see tell us it's a mashal it's an analogy to a man who enters a field to cut down his grains which one does he cut down first okay so we're not farmers we may not be aware of this but and today they have machines like onsen so maybe it doesn't matter but if you're walking in there with a machete or a sickle you go after the tall ones first and then you can gather the short ones later so the hebrew says masha likane gevoa gevoa milocate the person who goes in to collect with the harvest the first thing he does is cut the highest ones first this is why the verse is referring to the comma the commons the large tall standing grains they're going to go first keep on the cloud stream so once you enter the category of the age of 20 who nimshow the kama medes that you are now compared to a good standing full stature human being or in the case of the imagery a fully well-ripened stock right that's how we're using our imagination to think of somebody who has reached this age of maturity similar in genesis chapter i don't know if i brought it down and okay you'll find it number 22 on the next sheet you'll find it over here it says in genesis 28 13 and behold the lord was standing over him he may hashem allah now we're going to use the imagery of netsab means standing that hashem stood over him that was yaakov during the dream of the latter that's the exact words but the imagery of standing standing over a messiah or the nietzsche when does a man stand on his field when he reaches a certain height when he reaches this you know not this flimsy little sprout once he reaches a certain age of maturity and what is that this is similar to we talked about before in the other right there's a where nas dally there's a guy who's a youtuber and he talks about how much life he has based on the battery he made t-shirts and his whole you know one of his logos is about the value of of the life you have lived and the value of the life you have yet to live so too here we're going to reiterate the idea that when this is the time that a person begins to count and that he once you begin to count you don't think one should not think or consider his days as if they're just lost and never to return like that is not ever going to return that's not good you it's low cadaver your karma but rather what should he think that it's something that's so valuable and precious and that's hopefully the way we view time the entire and he should be pained the person would be distressed about the fact that any single day and i'm just using the word day because he says the word day but i would say a period of time would pass shameless see you but where you did not involve yourself where you were not trying to capture or produce anything good like torah or mitzvahs because you really truly understand that those those things you waste your time you'll never get them back hooray after eating sim card but rather one should place joy in their hearts if you see your life passing by you and you know that you're using the time wisely and you're involved in torah and mitzvahs then you should be very happy and satisfied with your life viset thomasvira and this is the reason for the counting of the armor as it says you shall count 50 days right that's in leviticus 23 verse 16 you shall count until the day after the seventh week namely the 50th day haren again this idea i mentioned about the moroccan before but here's the source just like in numbers 14 34 that's number 24 in the sushi according to the number of days which you toured the land 40 days a day for each year but that's what it says in the hebrew in the english but in the hebrew it's much more there's a certain beauty to the language a day for a year a day for a year each and every day is equal to a whole year so when we count 50 days we're thinking about our whole life we're thinking about the years that a man a woman is acquiring things in this world the first 20 years don't really count in the sense of acquisition you're not even a member of society so to speak i mean you're beginning to enter society but as a standing member right an outstanding member of society that begins at 20. so for the following 50 years you should really consider time is valuable as because i'll say this is another idea i'll tick rate but kama ella bakuma now i know if i have this here yeah and um just know that there's a concept that one should actually stand when they make a bracha what kind of broth especially nothing to do with food if you're eating you should be sitting and that stands for kiddush too i mean that that applies to kiddush as well but everyone should follow their own custom right if you have a customer to stand i'm not going to try to convince you to do otherwise but and when it comes to food lay shaped basooka right kiddish other other broccolis but when the broccolis those brothers especially you should be standing i know that smart opponents film while they're sitting i don't know exactly the reason why but here you have the the word lechem and look in number the idea of lechem okay first let's say this r verse says coma i'm sorry comma means standing and we're not going to read this comment but as kuma mama standing literally standing and that has to do with the counting of the armor very nice but has to do with since right the word also appears over there so there's a gazera shovel one of 13 harmonical principles right and we say every morning before we get up in bazooka one of them is called a gazer shabba so you have legend and two so too there's a gazer shava over here by um by the spheres over the hem is also used so let me just read what the tour says it brings it down the tour but writes immediately after you wash your hands in the morning you should enrap yourself in situations while standing why does the shokan arrow why is the locker that you have to be standing when you put on your ttc so the the the base joseph understands it and gives a reason because of the word as i mentioned the gazeroshava right from the spheres of omer so you have the gazer shove one word is used by since this the same word is used over there in sirius omer and therefore but we already know by spiritual we have to stand so too bad since you have to stand and then he says whenever you bless like we were standing in our sinai when god commanded us that is the deeper understanding and then we had our own verse become a tachel is poor and in the beginning right you should be standing you begin to count but don't read become a but rather bikuma kuma zakufa and therefore you should be standing straight up and many of the uh uh rishoni wrote based on this idea right here from our verse i'll just read you what the urhos khaim writes in hilton stitches in the name of yushami the tamil yushami he ends off and says the col habrajos okay stand up stand up you have to stand up for something stand up for breakfast okay let's go back into the olos ephraim the last thing we read was not mistaken we read about the uh marauding and that don't read the coma comma but rather the kuma and this hints it's a reminisce this hints to the ideas of the amount of time the temporary time we spend on this planet earth in this world shall adam should come cold we have a different stature than all the animals that exist on this planet now i want to mention that if you are a benign and you are righteous gentile you will have an easier time understanding the rest of this because we're going to talk about the different jews and gentiles so not all gentiles are alike okay there are pagans and there are righteous gentiles now the definition of what we call righteousness there are things in between as well there's wise gentiles who keep the seven no high laws but they keep them out of logic they keep them out of decency but not necessarily because god commanded them the righteous ones amongst you you believe that it's a law from hashem and that god revealed them at mount sinai along with the jewish nation remember the 10 commandments it's not a really good translation the 10 statements we don't call them 10 commandments in hebrew but we do translate that way in english the 10 statements have the first set 620 letters 620 letters that's 613 for the jews and seven for the gentiles okay the letters represent ket torah the crown of torah so it's interesting and important to note that the difference between a wise gentile he'll get blessed in this world but it's the righteous gentile who's accepted the jewish mission the mission of that was given over mount sinai specifically to the jews and specifically meaning they support the mission and they're involved in their in in keeping the seven principles seven no laws they actually can become garet gyartosha means they can live in the land amongst jews amongst us and we're not going to be afraid to learn from them and then learning from us because they're totally righteous given up they have given up paganism and at least for the practical purposes they accepted certain laws they live like like jews in public to a certain extent in terms of shabbat in terms of kashu they're not outright violating it uh at least in public and they're not uh opening pork stores or you know to sell forbidden foods to jews right they support the jewish nation okay with that introduction here we go this sphere to omer this idea of counting is redeem who are the surrendering the remnants the remnants of hashem korah who god calls upon the islam that's lamkativ i want you to go to psalms chapter 20 verse 9. it says at the end of that verse but not new communion right they kneel and fall that's talking about the not so righteous people but we rise and gain strength the today and also another verse it also in psalms chapter 26 verse 12. my foot stood on a straight path by the way there are people of the muslim faith they follow a set of rules called anybody know what they're most peelers no go ahead sharia sharia law sharia comes from this word here raglionda be sure me sure means straight right they um you're sharing straight and that's the straight path those many many muslims are righteous no heights okay so what do we learn so far that there's so many verses like that this is about the remnants who hashem calls upon but the shrine were different hashem will not raise them up he will not consider them now look at um in proverbs 24 16 i believe for the righteous man can fall and will fall seven times but we'll get up again whereas the wicked will stumble upon evil you understand we're on number 29 on page eight the righteous man will fall seven times said okay even though the righteous person jew or non-jew i want you to hear what i'm saying that they will fall to their death i.e not in an accident but they will eventually die after seven times ten madame that is generally allotted to man how long king david said we saw that in again chapter 90 verse 10. the days of our years because of them are 70 and if we increase 80. so the average person lives 70 years seven times ten they call the calm the kind of above but nevertheless they will get up and go to the world to come yes righteous gentiles will have a share in the world to come the pagans know and the wise amongst the nations no they'll be blessed in this world to have a nice life have a nice life but the world to come is reserved for all the righteous people who are non-jews and also for jews as well obviously now where do we learn the gemara actually asks how do we know there is even resurrection of the dead how do we know it's interesting verse it all depends on where you put the comma and i'm i'm i'm telling you a comma looks like this a little little thing but we're actually going to use the word in english it's a commas in english but common hebrew means to get up so listen to this listen to this verse it says in deuteronomy chapter 31 verse 16 and the lord said to moses behold you are about to lie with your forefathers come and this nation israel obviously will rise up and they're going to stray after the deities of the nations of the land in which they're coming and they're going to forsake me and violate the covenant that i made with them but look at the hebrew the what does that mean god says to moses behold you're going to lie with your forefathers and you're gonna get up and you're gonna get up come whereas this nation behold they are going to follow the other uh the traits of the other nations that are here and the other nations of the world so er that's that's by a righteous person they will die in this world but they will rise in the world to come what about russia ye pull barab again and they will fall into their evil into a place called gehenna if you need to know what that is we'll have to have a whole discussion i don't want to spend that much time on it i share shachav lo yosef lakum where that person will lay and will not rise again zesha ammar bakum and now we understand kuma is talking about getting up this is for the righteous people bishla mean people who are complete and perfect they will what does it mean to be perfect it means to strive for perfection nobody's so perfect they don't sin but striving for perfection doing chuva suffering suffering out of love and not complaining about it the him show yahvin said those who are mosque what's that mean enlightened they will truly understand what they said so far now i want you to see he says the wisdom that akanashima who has god set up what is it see on zion what is zion zion are landmarks that's what the word means god has set up through his wisdom he has shown us landmarks to jewish people there's they're very honorable landmarks where how do we know where right after their pesach when did we start counting the owner that day right we bring we'll talk about the barley offering but we begin counting this is the first day of our redemption the very but we're not fully redeemed yet there's a state we're in wait till you hear this immediately after the first day of pesach shaboo how to use that's when we begin begin it's the very beginning of our redemption towards a physical and spiritual redemption ki paska may have zuhuma is a zara you know what happened immediately already because we killed and slaughtered and roasted and ate right we got rid of the avodah czar that we were so involved with for 210 years okay so we were cleansed stopped was the pollution or the impurities of the idols uh which we had chased after ashirzanacharam the funny the but we were not yet fully cleaned from the uh the sin in this world you know what we needed we needed to be cleansed how will we cleanse the guerros tests shawna uh sorry tough tough shot so we had to go through slavery subjugation and wandering that's what a gear is the gay root this non-permanence this subjugating and wandering for how many years 400 years right from the time of the birth of isaac can negative 400 right behind me we have shas there's only a handful of chapters in in our gomorrah of avodahzara but abraham before he came to full enlightenment status he checked out and he wandered about and you know and it's hard time saying it but we do say it that our forefathers were ida worshippers he obviously was something before he came to believe in the one true god of israel so he studied 400 chapters of idol worship and in order to make a tikkun in order to make a fixing his children had to go through 400 years of slavery or subjugation and gay root of wandering around to make a tikkun to fix the akasha so then it was only after we were pained and we were cleansed and had been removed from us all of these pagan ideas from the jewish people then and only then the kabbalah we were actually fitting fitting to receive the torah the day after pesach but we didn't why not we had to wait 50 days it was necessary for some reason to be delayed 50 years min for the reasons we're about to explain now i have to admit to you we are not going to finish all these reasons tonight we're going to have to do part three in part four but we should begin okay now the omer offering what is an omer the omer is a measure the actual content was barley barley is mainly animal food but we all know anybody has a good challenge knows that it's also human food but so we'll call barley animal and human food and there's a measure the measure is an omer and omer is one tenth of an afa and the omer measurement is one-tenth of an a-fa keep this in mind one-tenth it's going to play an important part and it's the same measurement that the mon right the manner we received from heaven was the same measurement as the omen the armory is the name of the measurement okay that the barley was for the first day of pesach later on 50 days later what are we going to eat what the name of the baby but what is the main avodah seemingly corbin it's called it's these two loaves of bread it happens to be hermets as opposed to pesach which is comets free but this is khamenez but that's not the main point the main point is that it's made of wheat it's made of is mainly humid food mankind eats wheat animals and man could eat barley but now also when it came to these large loaves there was no measurement so just keep in mind we're going from a place we're going to discuss the idea from an animal level to a human level the difference between barley with the measure to wheat which is representing torah on chavuz when there is no measure as we all know uh in perch actually it's in the mission we read in the morning in pant and we'll talk about that too when it comes to tamatora esther there is no measure there is tells you there's no measure it means go all you can study as much as you can because there's no limit okay so here we go one important idea to stress during this introduction here one more sentence of introduction before we begin that the barley was crushed and sifted 13 times why 13 times let's find out and how that leads us into this discussion nevertheless hashem set up these honorable signposts that's zion sioni from the very first day of allah and onwards all of it is reflecting all of it is teaching about the receiving of the torah which is in other words we're leaving egypt where we just left egypt the day after we're starting to count already and it's all going in one direction the direction is to acquire wisdom is to receive the torah and it's reflected in the omer itself in this barley offering that is a certain measure that is brought today after pesach as khazal mentioned in gomorrah that what do you do that new you place the barley into the mill where it's going to get ground up the hotimi menu is you're going to take out of it a tenth a tenth of an acre minute that had been sifted through a sifter thirteen times zero or lesser debris this relates or gives over the message that is so important as serious had dibros again i'm going to translate it so we know we're the ten commandments or let's just say the ten statements they have called kolhatora the ten statements include the whole torah the whole torah that 613 mitzvahs for the for the jews and seven for the non-jews there are six hundred and twenty letters commotion mitsinu like we find safe for me there's this unique book it's from by the way it's not the only one of the eggs mitzvahs near mars but seriously explaining he wrote a poem he can explain each one of the 6 13 mixes how they fall to 10 different categories because there's a letter that's connected to each one of the 6 13 commandments that appears in this verse the next group appears in the next verse the next group appears so each verse has subcategories very similar exactly similar to the way the seven nagai laws were there are seven categories seven overreaching categories and some say it's not seven at all everyone agrees it's not seven question is it 33 is it 66 is it 100 plus right there's there's a lot to learn whether you're jew or gentile about how to how to behave in this world um did i give this down look look at number 34. this verse is exodus 34 24 12 and it says and the lord said to moses come up to me to the mountain and remain there and i will give you the stone tablets the law and the commandments which i have written to instruct them it's a very famous verse i'll just read in hebrew hashem a i don't have the whole rashi here but just this is interesting part of the rashi regarding the stone tablets law and the commandments which i have written to instruct them all 6 13 mitzvahs are included in the ten commandments in the asghar wrote which republish wrote that he composed for each commandment of the ten he explained the myth is dependent upon each commandment okay so you have a very early source a thousand years old explaining someone who wrote something three four five three four hundred years before rashi and of course this is based on targum yonatan this is even earlier sources and major shrama okay however only when you darshan out the torah how do we use i love the word right 13 harmonical principles we read them every day and what you have behind me this is how the talmud is all based on extracting laws understanding the torah through the 13 principles that moses received from god so we say the whole torah was received from god that's we mean that the details may not have been meaning many of the details may not have been uh of course many details were but even those details that weren't they were we were given 13 harmonical principles in which to derive anything we need to know everything we ever needed to know was given over in the torah itself through and we learn it through the 13 harmonical principles and i think in latin it's called exegesis so um here we go so however it's only when you darshan torah be you'd give me those remember we start off the idea that this omer had to be sifted 13 times this is exactly how we have to understand the torah to understand the tauren has to be sifted in 13 ways or 13 times through the harmonical principles right that way the torah will be sifted through just like we find in perky a vote look what it says in i have to find it now i think it's number 35 where it says it's per capita with 5 15. there are four types of students among those who sit before the sages they are a spook is a sponge also a funnel a mishpach merit which is a strainer and a sieve a nefer a sieve and the sieve is the best of them all the sieve rejects the coarse flour retains the fine flour so you really want to get the torah good you want to be like a sieve you want to be like the strainer of a sort and basically that's what it's referring to here but should be yoshin with one of the types the character traits of the students who sit before the sages mayhem and one of them is like the sieve it discards the the coarse flower the colette is so lettuce but it keeps the finest flower cache this is exactly how we who want to darshan torah we want to learn torah right we want to be able to expound upon it and incorporate into our lives and make it real for us so we're like we're making ourselves into a vessel into a container that will be able to handle one tenth meaning because it's the idea of the um the omer we're making a gnome is one tenth you want it to be able to hold one tenth sarik uh that you need to be able to sift through it 13 times in order to arrive to the thirteen harmonical principles in which the torah is understood is darshan down and only then then va's yamata shakola torahia then you will find that tutorial is that one tenth remember we said it's amazing we have we're talking about this number ten shakol mitzvot mr chabot nicholas that each one of the ten statements includes the whole torah each one includes and the heavier there's a specific statement shindible number 10 the 10th of the 10 commandments the 10 which is the 10th lo tak mode do not covet we all know when rebbe was in what's the most important uh mitzvah of the torah love your neighbors yourself right they shine my base everyone knows love your neighbors yourself but i want to tell you a secret that's the positive mitzvah love your neighbors yourself that includes everything everything else is commentary go learn you want to live the righteous life all you need to do is study that one mitzvah and all the other mixes are like subcategories of that one mitzvah but that's the positive what about a nothing called negative muslim we know we know the lota says don't do there's also a don't do a negative mitzvah that is a called a capital prime ecar principle and that is low talk mode the last of the ten commandments do not come out includes all the previous ten commandments so within one tenth you have everything now i have some sources here um look at what is it in in well we don't know i don't have it here but we know the afterlife is the positive command um he just says like this that the deborah that the command of lotark mode is cola call it torah just like the verse of the ahaka reject okay so that negative of don't covet your neighbor's house or wife is that includes everything just as love your neighbors yourself includes everything but he says so too with all of the commands he'll talk about it on shabbos i didn't read it yet so i don't know what he says but he quotes a gemara here that out of each time that god spoke one of the commandments the whole world was full of bosun uh perfume of fragrance so it comes out the bottom line of this paragraph is that through the counting of the omer the omar itself the whole process from the beginning the day after pace off sifting it 13 times and what what the the measurement it's all about making an impression in order to receive the torah okay this is the last paragraph for tonight which is quite long but uh keep in mind that the barley that this omer is coming from barley yes not only is it coming from barley but it's also coming as a sheep it's coming with a measurement we all know already i described it it's one tenth of an aphra it's exactly what we had when it came to the mana the electron but the two loaves that we bring 50 days later on ceras that's coming from the the rabbis never gave it any measure in fact it doesn't have a measurement at all so he's about to give us two reasons now we're going to start with reason number one after ah dying now i mentioned i'm warning anybody who is not a righteous gentile to try to understand what we're trying to say here and then i pray that you open your eyes and become a righteous gentile of course if you want to convert you can also do that too okay anyway so you know what i'll just read it in english and i'll i'll go to the hebrew when i have a hard time and i need to think twice so after the fact that we still have not reached had not received the torah from pesach until at cerris until sugarless if that's the case ready for this the jewish people are separate but we didn't become totally jewish yet a diet um low yatsoda mcfarland behemoth we didn't yet leave the lowest level of existence level le clause in order to reach the level of man so we were somewhere between the animal kingdom and the man kingdom but we we kind of um had to say we didn't yet leave this lower level to come to that higher level as it says we know that man is cl right you are called man and 38 oh that's a good one i'm not going to go into that right now however yocho mikhailov but we did leave we did leave the category of benenoch we were no longer we did leave the category of the umos we were not like the rest of the nations shalom which is compared to a lower level of existence but we didn't yet reach that higher level of israel yet karbala minnesota this is why the offering on the first day of pesach is the mixture between animal food and human food barley right it's not yet human food it's somewhere in between it's animal food and human food the yeast and it's also a measure that actually goes to lagogellus like the mod the mod was measured and therefore this um this animal food was also measured but once she lewis came around and we did accept the torah then we were elevated to a high level existence therefore the the offering that we offered up is made out of wheat which is unique and special from mankind and this hints to the torah the torah itself is bread series this is a type of a food that is unique and only to be eaten by the jewish people who are loved by god ain't ze or there is no measure beyond measure there's no limit you can put on it as it is said now this is believe it or not this is a thing we say every single day so we're going to get to it it's number right these are the things that have no definite quantity in other words ancient the corners of the field however much you want to donate to the poor the first fruits you can bring as much or as little as you want the offering is brought on appearing in the temple during the pilgrimage festivals as much as little as you want the performance of righteous deeds and the study of tara when it comes to torah it's also in that same category you can give as much as you want okay that's all the part i'm going to read for now and this is almost where he ends yeah he does answer that's the first reason so we see that there's a relationship to torah but he's now going to go even further and this is again hard to swallow for a non-jew but a righteous gentile should be able to understand this fully ready the second reason is that the the the misses that we were truly given that we were given on the festival of passover it's near mizzou israel they are full of different character traits good character traits that are well founded in both jew and gentile alike there are good character traits amongst the gentiles kamosha however so we see in this i'm going to give two verses one where we learn from the gentiles and one where we do not learn from the gentiles or shouldn't learn from gentiles we kind of talked about that in the previous year um on ahrimot but look in ezekiel chapter 5 7 and then look immediately into ezekiel chapter 11 12. one of these verses implies that we should learn and we did learn from them and the gentiles and the other one implies that we should not and therefore let's go to ezekiel 5 7 therefore so said the lord god because you have prepared yourself to go astray more than the nations that are around you you did not follow my statutes you did not perform my judgments and like the customs of the nations that were around you you did not do meaning perhaps you could have learned from them there were virtuous people among them but you chose to follow the most corrupt of them but there were virtuous gentiles among them and you didn't do that look at ezekiel chapter 11 verse 12 and you will know that i am the lord your god i'm the god in whose statutes you did not go and whose laws you did not perform but the like the laws of the nations who around you you did in other words you shouldn't have and you did the previous verse sounds like you sh you should have followed some of the righteous gentiles okay so now that we have a contradiction and how we're going to resolve that queso how is this possible two very contradictory ideas those who were corrupt amongst them you followed them and like the the the righteous ones among them you didn't do hurray um there certainly are nations right non-jews umos is a is a code word for the the gentiles some of them have some good character traits some of them are very righteous therefore on festival passover itself the torah had not yet been given a behavior israel the umass so we were in the stage where there was still a possibility of learning from certain righteous gentiles i'll just read it again lefica therefore on the festival of festival of passage we had not yet been given the torah and we didn't come to this hint of of being able to learn except regarding the character traits which are shared between man between jew and gentile gom also there are certain character traits there is a good partnership in both the physical world and the spiritual world meaning the the general idea that they're they're they're good character traits lift therefore carbonum their offerings are the measurement i'm sorry is uh is the barley so urine the the the barley which is a mushutaf which is a partnership between the lower man and the higher man between the physical and the spiritual between the animal and the and the human amnam however when it comes to saris and once we reach this point called shavuot the giving of the torah in the cold um once we reach louis and the gentiles do not have the same portion in the torah the jews have we already said one is six thirteen one is seven that right away gives you gives it away that it's not the same right they don't have the same portion and we also have a statement that had been no action and i want to explain that i'll translate it people who know what i'm talking about already know what i'm about to say that a non-jew who involves himself in learning torah does not get a place in the world to come right kaif mesa does not mean we kill him it means hashem will take care of the person in a different way however now this means that a non-jew has to understand that the term was given to the jewish people and we are the disseminators of it it was given to us as a gift god says you are supreme above all you are the teachers you are you are serving the nations you are the teachers and therefore if a non-jew decides on his own to go and open up a i don't know a holy book a tarboot a gemura right a mishnah a homish how in the world are going to understand what it means if they have to understand that it was given to the jews and to go to the jews to find out what it says and to learn not on your own that's what it means if you learn on your own you're for surely going to make a mistake and as the rabbi says it leads to making a whole religion and how many religions have we seen because gentiles decide to learn on their own i can name two right i can name a whole bunch i don't want to mention any names and get in trouble with the muslims but okay so you need to understand that it was given at mount sinai we are still there we are there from the time a memorial we have the tradition you like it you don't like it that's your tough luck right those who are righteous understood that it was given to us so number one it's a barashah murasha means in other words it's either our heritage and therefore by taking it on and saying it's your heritage you're a thief and you know what the punishment is for ben noah who's a thief that's the death penalty so we don't kill the person but hashem will take care of them okay so the thief he's saying it's mine it's not yours he is a thief and the punishment is lisa what about mu rasa in other words read the same word it's a heritage to yaakov that's what the verse says so don't read it as morosha so adultery what's the punishment for adultery for a ben misa also so either way you look at it if he accept he or she accepts the torah on their own wants to learn on their own and say it's mine doesn't bullet was never given to the jews they don't know what they're talking about well they have something coming to them and not from me but from hashem and that's what it means so too within man we have a little bit of a you know animal soul within us that also doesn't really have a helix therefore corbana makita therefore on shabbos the day of the acceptance of the torah that's when a offering of wheat is brought that's unique as a food for man alone and there is no she or there is no measurement that we said there's no measurement for tar you can learn as much as you want and this is an amazing idea so far this is only i'm going to call this part two and i'll put in the link below other as other uh other videos as they come out in the meantime link one will be on top as well as the sheet where we gave in ah most about don't learn from the when you come into the land of israel or as you had prevented yourself from learning while you were in egypt and not learning from the going in general but again that's talking about the pagans that's talking about not talking about the the righteous gentiles um so i i welcome of course all jews to strengthen themselves in torah and mitzvahs and for non-jews also i welcome them to learn as much tours they possibly can so they can fulfill the seven principles of noah in the highest regard and share them with others and of course you're always welcome to take on additional mitzvahs as long as you have the basis the foundation uh firm with the seven and become eventually hopefully in the next few short weeks or months we'll have a majority of jews in israel and we'll have the same hedging we'll have the temple we'll start celebrating the jubilee year and the concept of the ghiratoshav will then be applicable in its fullest and i welcome you to be my neighbor won't you be my neighbor call to see you on place hashem for next week [Music] here