The Power of Saying BARUCH HASHEM and the Wisdom of the Convert with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom everybody Welcome Home to Torah warm welcome home to Tor we're in the y m and what we do we deal with fundamentals okay the fundamentals of Judaism come up in the discussion that we're using the clear for and we're parous Isel I just want to mention that we encourage people to learn Hebrew and on our website you'll find the link down below that you could find the original black and white not the colored version the black and white Hebrew sheets and if you want to be added to to the um the email list where we send out the English not a translation but the English sore sheets then send me an email okay in the meantime you might be asking why am I wearing white because it's not tub bishvat anymore but it was today and I didn't really get a chance to get home and change but um it says one should wear shabas clothes and part of shabas I wear these uh clean white shiny clothes okay so let's begin I I want to give a little brief introduction the first part of the CLE car which we're not going to be dealing with talks about what motivated yro to come and join the Jewish people or at least bring the truth is to bring Tora Mosa's wife and children to him I would encourage you to listen to those other classes that deal with Mo isro's motivation at some point now we're going to discuss what happened between verse one of chapter 18 so we're in Exodus chapter 18 verse one eight verses later verse 8 what's what's the difference what's going on here look at verse one right it's in uh Source sheet number five number 12 compare to verse 18 so those who are listening I don't think I sent you the English we're mainly going to be comparing chapter 18 verse1 to verse 8 it says now Moses's father-in-law yra the chief of Midian heard he actually heard right K he heard all that God had done for Moses and Israel his people that the Lord had taken Israel out of Egypt also elim is it's true is is heard and he's the Moshe he's the father-in-law of Moshe but what did he hear called everything that Hashem well here it's Elohim the character trait of Elohim did for mosan for yra now if you look at verse eight Moses tells his father-in-law right he told his father-in-law we what did he tell him I don't understand one second he heard everything and Moses you know wants to get him up to up to date for the last I don't know last few things that happened since he heard but it says all so he heard everything and yet Moses what he's telling him everything sounds either I don't know there's like a what do you call it a scratch record is an anomaly like you have to ask the question what did he what was being added by Moses telling him something that he didn't already know sounds like he knew everything I'm going to just cut to the chase basically if you look in the Hebrew you see even though in English it says God and the Lord but in Hebrew the character trait the name of God that's being used to describe God's character speaking about what he did to Moses and Israel is the name Elohim now this is a little bit count counterintuitive because that is the character trait of den of Judgment of harshness did to the Jewish people in Moshe that he took well the latter part of that same verse it actually just uses ukbk and what he did to the Jewish people okay but we're not going to focus on that right now then in verse eight it says right he told everything that Moses told everything that yud K did to Pharaoh in Egypt and it's counterintuitive because you would have expected that the the the name the character of God of judgment taking out cuz that is pretty much what happened to pharaoh and Egypt there was a great judgment it's interesting to note that the clear and I want to kind of skip over this don't go too deep because you can look at some of the other classes we did in the past he was probably not just a um a priest but he was a Searcher and I'm assuming for truth and he searched all the different uh religions and one particular the time religion that was quite popular and it's probably still popular in theory maybe not by name is zor asterism where you believe the person believes that there is you know ying-yang there's like a good God and a bad God there somehow two deities fighting each other I think even within Christianity there's a certain aspect of that where you need to help God fight the devil like there's some aspect and the CLE car proves that if you believe such a thing thing that means whichever one you choose is weak cuz he's not the allmighty he's just if he's a good God he can only basically do good he can't even punish those who Pro persecute you because he doesn't know anything about evil and if he's evil the or you know red Satan type uh right he's the god of evil he can't do any good cuz that's not within his scope of power so he basically in in a a nice way says you have to be pretty foolish to believe in these types of powers so what I'd like to do is I want to go through that quickly because I really want to get to the next idea and look in verse n we're going to do this just to as an overview so if you look in chapter 18 verse 8 I'm sorry verse 9 it says yra was happy about all the good the Lord had done for Israel so in Hebrew the how is this pronounced jetra was happy about all the good that yud had done for Israel okay now that was part of the second part of verse one if you notice that it was the udk V that character tra of Mercy that had taken Israel out of Egypt so we're going to deal with that so before we deal with it I want to go into the clear car and kind of run through the ideas and then we're going to get to what does it mean that's going to be the topic what does that word mean so let's go in the second page of the CLE car and I'm going to go through it a little bit quicker than normal but I want you to hang in there because we're going to get to this whole idea of what what does that mean V so in the middle of page two and which is 3 17 Shin in the Hebrew also elim right we mentioned that it's eloh the nature of Elohim to M to is his people you have several questions when he says he means there's some real questions here because in verse eight we're just dealt with verse one in verse eight it says that Moes actually Tells over to his father-in-law okay so what does that mean he says what would he need to tell over to him hell right didn't we just say in verse one that isra Hur everything that God did to the Jewish people hako bitl meaning all inclusive there was nothing left out he heard all the details that's question one the another great question why does it say in our verse one to Moses Andra and then in verse eight it says to par to like there's a different part of the story that he didn't hear yeah he only heard and I'm going to kind of give it away he only heard about the good things that happened to the Jewish people in to mosha he didn't yet hear about the bad things that happened to pharaoh and Egypt because remember he's looking for the almighty and that was enough to moate him maybe to come or to be interested but not to really adopt convert whatever it is that he actually did there's a big argument did he actually convert and join the Jewish people and he went away and he came back or he went and converted his family and then he came back or did he actually remain a righteous Gentile I'm not going to answer that for you but just know that not everyone agrees that that he converted okay so the first I said the second question now is what's the difference or one of the difference we're already noticing between verse one and verse eight verse one is dealing with MOS with Moshe and Israel and verse eight is clearly talking about Egypt and pharaoh and also notice in verse one the name which we've already described as judgment or harshness and yet in verse 8 it's the shame meaning the UK and also in the first verse in the beginning of the verse it mentions both Moses and Israel and it does mention the name Elohim but towards the end of verse one it mentions Moses name is not mentioned when Israel is mentioned alone that name is mentioned is used and not only here but in verse n and that's going to be the the verse we're going to deal with it says that Israel was isra was happy for all the goodness which y did to Israel and another question Lam Moshe so why is Moshe not mentioned in that second part right with um whether it's the second part of verse one or verse 9 moses' name is not mentioned he does mention a reason and we're going to have to deal with it because this is what the topic of tonight is perhaps the reason Shas perhaps his his flesh became blank be blank we don't know what is we're going to be either translated with his Rashi as Goosebumps something prickly on his like he felt some something on his skin like prickles or Goosebumps or it could be I don't want to give too much away that he converted this is alluding to an idea of conversion how hang in there we're going to see it's going to unravel before your eyes but he didn't feel these prickly regarding Moshe it had nothing to do with Moshe but because he was his father-in-law that is a deep question which we're not going to get into this second until I finish the paragraph and then we're going to get into it and a further question like if you look at then we started with verse 9 and then all of a sudden in verse 11 after Moses Mo Tells over in verse 8 and 9 and 10 all of a sudden in verse 11 he says now I know how great Almighty Hashem is how come he only realizes it now again I'm going to just tell you in the beginning he only heard about the good things and then in ver right that was verse one then in verse 80 he hears about that this powerful God can also do do damage to the enemy so keep in mind now he's now he's realizing ah I found the almighty that one entity it's not yingyang it's not good bad it's not dual personalities it's not a a Duo of God there's no like you know more than one deity it's all encompassing it's all emanating from one God in fact we ourselves say that's what we mean when we say isem we're actually saying Hashem is El he is Elohim the which is full of Mercy acts in ways that are contradictory to the Y it's right that it's all emanating from one place so he says so exactly what happened that he realizes this only now how come he didn't know it immediately how come he didn't know in verse one why did it take Moses to tell this over for him to realize this so I kind of alluded to the answer and furthermore the last two lines after the fact in verse one it says heard also elim clearly yro heard everything that Elohim did to obviously leaving Egypt was part of it so why did it get singled out and then return at the end of verse one by the way just you should know this is really the answer Moses was never enslaved in Egypt so Moses never left Egypt I know when he went and he was taking care of the you know jetos daughters and helping them they called him the Egyptian and that's because of his clothes but that was just external right he he he was an i he he was not what's the word uh like a like a captured you know tin shba we are influenced by Society right that's why we have we we most likely have the title or the status of AO shenisha someone who's captured influenced heavily by Gentile society mosha never was mosha he never was enslaved so there was no y there was no leaving so that's one of the reasons he's not included in in that in that concept so the clear wants to unravel so in order to answer to unravel the questions that he he proposed he wants to give two introductory Concepts one isik that what do righteous people do they're able to I'm going to use the word overpower re can turn over negativity or judgment towards mercy and what do R do the complete opposite they could take a good situation and make it worse you know they they could bring some heavy judgment where it's unnecessary theia the second introduction or introductory concept is at that time that the world was full of now I'm not so sure it means ignorant people but usually means that but it could just mean not highly educated it could be in religion and they were to they were basically um zorm into zorer ISM which basic basically means they believed in a duality uh two two two deities two gods that they basically believed in two Gods was one God was controlling or had the power over good the and the other was controlling or had power over evil he so to according to their own reasoning who believe this and there are probably people today that are really just confused and may buy into this concept um they're basically what he calls foolish and dumb because both are weak why would you believe in something that's weak because the if you believe that one of these deities contr controls evil he's he actually is quite smart you right this this deity is quite intelligent when it comes to performing evil but to do good he doesn't have the ability right when we talk about accepting God as our Our God so we're we're under the wings of the sh so he's using the same U poetic word here that if that's the case if you're going to choose one of these weak Gods it's not fitting to enter under the wings kav to accept him as a God who would be so foolish to enter and turn in that direction and if you believed in a god that is only controlling over good and it's just they know just reminds me there are I think there are Christians they they take the Old Testament and say well that's like that God is ancient like guess I don't know it's primitive and but we believe in the god of love right it's only love you know and so they're missing right that's why they have more power to the devil right they give more they so much power to the devil you go like Mish God needs your help to fight the devil I mean really right I mean that's so I think that even though he described it as something that they believed in then it is primitive that unfortunately even very sophisticated intelligent people still have a very primitive idea of God so he says who is so foolish to go in that direction the ones that's right he controls good and could be I I'll just say this I don't usually like to speak in political terms it could be there's certain secular leaders in Israel who believe this that's why they're uh they're weak when it comes to our own enemies right we're supposed to imit take God so if they don't believe God can do it they're not going to do it but anyway so he says like this so they there's some people they only believe that God can do good and they don't have any power within them right to do let's say negative consequences even to those who hate those who believe in it unbelievable that's really right what do we say about the uh people who are uh Heretics basically they created a God in their own image right where we we don't Define ourselves we know we're creating Gods image so we just really have to study about him and then imitate him as opposed to creating a God in you know from our image anyway so think about that in terms of certain secular leaders in Israel who are afraid or don't believe they have the capacity to defeat or cause a serious harm to the enemy okay and if that's the case if you believed in any one of these Gods it would be shave it would be a vanity it would be a waste to serve him or it because the truth is he's treating everyone the same what do they call that de right I think that's right everybody's treated the same right whether you're good or you're bad right I think that's even the whole system with they're getting rid of the in America the educational uh board or whatever you call the administration is needs a makeover as far as I remember uh you take a test you get graded about think what you did what you didn't do whether you pass you didn't pass and they're so afraid to okay I'm not going to go into it but it's going to be re uh evaluated but put it that way uh okay so if you believe in one of these Gods so it doesn't matter right there's really no difference whether you serve him or not because it wouldn't be fitting to receive that entity as your as your God or even let's say I'll just take both because I know one doesn't have the power and the other one's weak I'll just take them both and combine their energies G came because they're actually at war with each other they're they're contradicting each other they don't mesh together because one is the other one blesses now what I want to do is go into some of the depth of this concept of and we're going to um put this side for just a minute in I put together the gamorra uh here here a copy for you you have it um sadic ahed Al in San hedri now this is a little bit seemingly off the topic before we do that I think it's worthwhile looking actually at Rashi let's look on page five right it says Exodus chapter 189 what what does it mean that yro was happy so Rashi says the word jetra Rejoice that's going to be its simple meaning right we're not going to be satisfied with the simple meaning the the medish explains that his flesh became prickly so remember this is Aramaic it's Hebrew what does it what does it mean the Rashi says he was upset about the destruction of the Egyptians now keep that in mind so it's also because of the good that was done to Israel by that point verse 9 he's already accepted that there's one God that's going to destroy uh the enemy of the Jews but something about him now if he's a convert which it doesn't matter whether he converted to Judaism fully or whether he converted to Noah iism and accepted the god of Israel right it's same thing in terms of Judaism like he's Jewish right he's no longer an idol worshipper or heretic but the idea is that he himself was an Egyptian I couldn't make this up I always thought he was a midianite and he is a midianite because qara who had him she gave birth to the midianites and who was qara according to our tradition she was none other than Hagar and that we know she was an Egyptian princess okay so he's got some he's got some flesh in the game and I don't mean it in a what do you call a pun I mean it was meant to be a pun okay um Rashi goes on this is the source of the popular saying do not disgrace a gentile in the presence of a convert even up to the 10th Generation after the conversion okay now this is going to be very interesting because if he is a convert where do we get the idea of a 10 generation in other words okay so he's a convert he has some Egyptian blood in him and you're disgracing you're talking about what happened to the Egyptians they're all drowned in the sea and you have to be sensitive there's something in his either DNA in his memory the subconscious there's something going on he's relating to the idea that he's Egyptian and something bad happened to the Egyptians so he's going to have this some kind of um let's say a reaction on his flesh now it doesn't mean that it was physically bumps but it could mean that he felt like you know there was something like little Thorns going into his flesh uh it was it was it hurt him it hurt him um Rashi goes on so he heard about all the good so there's different opinions about what good he heard of the good of the Mana he heard about the good of the wall the water that came out of the well that went with them that's the be Miriam about the Torah above all and that he rescued them from the Egyptians so in other words at the same time that Israel was rescued from the Egyptians and the Egyptians had Egyptians had their downfall the is now coming into play we still don't know yet because we didn't finish Rashi okay what is this so far we saw within Rashi that it means that he was uncomfortable because was an he was an Egyptian but let's say he even if he wasn't they are as nature a convert was a non-jew so anything disparaging about a non-jew there's something sensitive to the convert we have to be we have to be aware of thisa um by the way so Rashi continues until now no slave had been able to escape from Egypt escape from Egypt because the border of the land was locked and just keep in mind the word MIT raim matar is a tight constricting place where you cannot escape from or it's very difficult to escape but right now he just talk about 600,000 people like a massive wave of people leaving Egypt so this is just for starters what I want to do is take you on a small journey we'll do the English first and then we'll do the Hebrew okay so what you have here is the exact translation of the gamorra but I want to do it in the let's do the Hebrew let's just do the Hebrew but you have if you know if you want to follow the English along follow the English the gor is bringing a brigh a ton statement regarding Hezekiah because Hezekiah did not sing Shir when they were saved from s and this is considered not a good thing maybe he even would have been Messiah had he sung Shir the whole world the whole Heavens might have opened up it would have been a different reality had him as the leader and the Jewish people sung Shir when they were saved 185,000 enemy was decimated by God through a plague in the middle of the night they woke up remember this is amazing s came against the southern Kingdom and Hezekiah this is no political puns intended here he actually said anybody leaves the basement jush and takes their sword with them to kill the enemy is um a traiter and will be killed you must sit and learn and they did that all night long and a miracle did occur the next morning they looked out and 185,000 of the enemy was gone just not alive or gone and that was a a miracle that took place so Shir could have should have would have been said but it wasn't so the gorah actually says this was a gai a gai is a disgrace of some kind of Shame involved to Hezekiah the and to his associates okay that's in the name of RA papus now so it's a d maguna some kind of shameful or disgraceful thing that Hezekiah and the Jewish people did that they did not sing right when Hashem destroyed uh the army of sov but apparently in Isaiah chapter 24 verse 16 um Isaiah describes how the Earth itself sang Shir so you you take let's say the Jewish people and Hezekiah they should have sung Shir didn't but at least something I'm going to say on MRE below did so that's why it's a shameful thing because it took the land to do it but they themselves didn't do it and the PK in Isaiah 2456 from the ends of the Earth MOS they sang right there was song that was shanu that we heard the verse goes on basically that the Glory what was the earth singing the glory to the righteous referring to the generation of Hezekiah and his Associates at that moment okay now very similar it was said about see the Jewish people sung Shir and Y said and the gamorra is going to compare that Israel should have said brashem why did they wait until he said it now they said amen for sure and therefore if you hear someone make a br and you say amen that's great but you could have initiated you could have said or should have said the BR yourself and not waited until I'm not saying he was on a lower level but it happened at a later time by an individual okay so you talking about the whole Jewish people experienced the splitting of the sea and all they did was s Shir they didn't use the word something I'm going to think I'm going to title The Secret of saying okay and we make blessings all day long 100 blessings a day so we should know what we mean when we say is said and he was praised and by him doing the right thing of saying there's somehow a gai something disgraceful or shameful that the Jewish people didn't do it from within themselves on their own at their own initiative they only answered Amen to his and I'll just tell you that name that word you hear a lot of religious people these so I saw once a u an interview withan I don't know if she's still alive but this was mosha dian's daughter and mosha Dian by the way would not um allow his children to have Bar Mitzvah to be involved in anything with Judaism this is what I heard if I'm wrong I'm wrong someone correct me in the comments and that um it was a very anti-religious family and Y dian's daughter is About Cha so Diane was being interviewed and they were asking her how do you feel about your daughter being about About Cha so I think she came a long way she said look when she became religious I went out of my mind everything was it just never ended I thought she was involved in a cult like can't you say something else and then she realized after seeing CH grandchildren and how beautifully the sh bias the peace in the home and how well adjusted but I'm just using her words you know that she was actually normal she knows her own daughter and she's really a part of her life and she says now I understand and she said it on live on TV Brash okay she says it's totally normal now she doesn't get at all Goosebumps let's say okay so where do we leave off we left off um by mentioning well a very similar idea not just by hisu and the Earth um but also it was said in the verse um verse 10 verse 10 I read the Hebrew the midbar and so when Isel came and joined the Jewish people in the desert MOS it was when he heard from mosha at so he finally got the full picture it wasn't just a good God doing good things for good people but it was also the character trait of the almighty taking out his Vengeance on on um on Pharaoh in Egypt that he understood what it meant these Miracles he heard about the Miracles of leaving Egypt he says blessed is the the the name that kind of represents the the emanation of God in the highest form a who saved the Jews from the hands of the Egyptians and from the hand of pharaoh so going back to r papus t m re was taught in the name of reip papus Moshe this is actually what we're going to call a a a what's the word gai a shameful thing to Moshe it's actually a shameful thing it's some kind of a disgrace to Moses and to the Jewish people because he said it no because he said it first not because he said it you guys should have said it right the 600,000 Jews that came out on the very fact that God saved them from Egypt until comes and says himself he says the words that they should have said right thanking Hashem or let's say the word b we're going to discuss that what does it mean bar blessing blessed is The God Who saved you from the hand of Egypt hand of pharaoh and um so before we get into the word so let's just talk about the word a second bar is made of three letters right bet bet is a two re is 200 K is 20 anything it's two two two right you got two represent an increase I'm going to just cut this off because we're not connected call me this it's not part of the root right so he asked about the V the V is not part of the root best so is knees the knees bow right there's a bowing down it also means like a pool like a source of flowing water and that's going to play an important part the source of flowing water a right okay but more than that it also means to draw down and we're going to see some interesting comments what does it mean to draw down maybe I'll tell you right now without saying the word in the beginning of a br there's something that's closed there something that's not going to be draw down and once you say B what you're actually saying is blessed are you you're not you don't bless God that's not what's happening when we say blessed are you hasem we're not blessing God God doesn't need anything from us what we're doing is we're recognizing he is the source that's it that's a big deal because that opens the faucet that you know there's a concept in Judaism it's brought up in the gamor in the discussion the there's a PK that says the entire world belongs to God and that's true then there's another verse that says God gave the world to man well that could be true too but who does it belong to does it belong to God or does it belong to man how do you answer the contradiction so there is no contradiction the gor says before you make the BR it belongs to God and if you use it without making a braa so when you make the BR he trans for his ownership to you so if you use it without making AA you benefit from this world without a br again what does AA mean recognizing who owns it if you do that you're stealing because through the BR the trans the ownership is transferred to you it's it's like very strange as soon as I recognize it's yours then all of a sudden it becomes mine but that's what's happening because the word b actually means doesn't mean transfer worship it means to be brought down it's to be brought down I have here so I brought this uh thing down from kabad website what does the word Bor mean it means drawing down the zo explains that blessing God is not simply praising God as the source of blessings as I mentioned rather it's related to the word found in the mission which literally means to draw down in this sense the word bar means to draw blessings from their Source I'm going to show you some very interesting commentary shortly thus when we bless God we're asking that he draw down his Godly Revelation into this world for example we say blessed are you God who heals the sick we are requesting that God Express his Revelation by breaking the nature of this physical world and healing the sick when we say bless are you God who blesses the years so in the blessing for livelihood and produce we request that godliness become revealed causing rain to fall and vegetation to grow the website goes on what does it mean increasing blessing according to the talid when one person blesses another the term or bra denotes an increase as I mentioned about the number two it's a multiple increase in the context of blessing God it can mean that we wish to draw down his manif manifestation with abundance what I'd like to do is there's a very interesting comment I'm just not sure if we got to it yet but I don't want to miss it uh so like I mentioned we're going to go on in the gamorra but I just want to stop here to read one very important comment in the back of the gamorra of the MAA that asked the question what does it actually mean that it was a gai it was somehow a shameful thing for Moses in Israel that they didn't say so it's brought down that the commentators they askos the Israel what kind of shameful thing is it you know look they sang the song at the sea it's a big deal it's not such a little thing just because they didn't use the exact wording that this is a gai so the answer one of the answers that the the the base y explains that the very word that we say in the BR that we say it's not just Praises that we're doing but there is within the word an inference of willing um flow a positive willing flow from hasem just like it's the explains and by the way the is very well read and accepted safer that Isel that God wants he actually wants the Jewish people to receive he wants us to receive I'll read it again he wants us to be in a position to Merit to receive the good stuff that he wants to flow upon us that he wants to provide to us therefore he fixed it he arranged it that we should Merit through our actions remember the noahides have seven let's say rules principles laws they have to keep God added 606 to us and again every non-jew can convert if they want right there's nothing preventing them and if they want to remain a Ben they can do more misses than seven I know some people don't like when I say that but they can okay we're not going to get into which ones should take priority and which one should be left on the back burner but they are allowed to in fact the ramam says that if they do it they have to do them right if you're already going to do the other Mitzvah do them right so first of all start with the seven get them right and then we could talk about the other ones but anyway so he says that God want Ed the Jewish people to Merit to receive the good that he wants to uh bestow upon us therefore he made all these Mitzvah he created these things where we could fix things when we do certain actions and therefore he says the word that it's all inclusive of all the goodness it's all the goodness the that you're causing an additional power above you're adding you you know there's a whole mlus between rosii and RAB man Freeman does God we all know God doesn't need anything but Rabbi Freeman says God needs you there's like this you could do something and the truth is inim of and other in other Psalms King David's clearly says when we do certain things we add strength to God okay it's not be taken literally but there is a concept there but anyway he says here by making the BR you're causing Mala you're causing additional power above that's that basically going to then rain down goodness on you like you're affecting heaven and in a good way and then Heaven is then reacting and coming down by providing more good the is this resolves the idea that you know what in the beginning Moses and Israel they did sing sh greata but what they didn't know they hadn't realized maybe because they took it for granted maybe because they really didn't know I mean we know a lot of people who are religious sometimes they don't think of this thing they just say 100 bras a day but they don't realize maybe I'm just talking about a few right most of them do that the Mitzvah they do changes reality but the broas they make change reality it brings the flow right this commentator which is the is saying apparently Moses and the Jewish people didn't know the power that they had the power to influence the heavens above that's why they didn't say but this is a that came out with I'll just read the words somehow it took a non-jew coming in from the outside becoming Jewish let's just assume that he converted even if he didn't but to understand something the Jewish people themselves didn't understand he understood that this allow he understood on his own that this allows man to add to the power of the Heavens to increase the shef of the BR through the Kum Mitzvah remember he added 600 more Mitzvah to his life right if if he converted something that a a Jew may take for granted that's why he used the word according to the now I want to finish the G because now we're talking about the word okay so it's on the bottom right that yra Rejoice all over all the good that hasem did to Israel there's a makus an argument in the gor between ra and Shu and on this verse R says what's the intent of the verse what does the mean okay so we're going to use the word could mean sharp okay that he passed a very sharp sword on his flesh literally he gave gave himself circumcision okay is he rejoiced so much that he decided to go overboard and become a Jew right that's that's what he did he wasn't just rejoicing he rejoiced over the fact that he circumcised himself he became a Jew 100% with a sword it's just okay it's a piece of metal that's very sharp okay that's what it means as if to saymo he fulfilled on his own the Mitzvah of bris mil and he converted what does say this is the prickly stuff right all over his flesh he felt as if they were you know Thorns prickly things or maybe Goosebumps m s because of the great amount of pain that he was in remember what do he hear he heard about the fall of Egypt says RV this is what people say there's a you know we want to know what things mean sometimes we go out to the populus and find out what they mean when they say these things and we're talk we're not talking about the Gentiles we're talking about the Jews what do they say on the Jewish Street there's a lot of wisdom right the Jews have been accused of a lot of things of being communists and being capitalist of being lefties and being righties being this and that but they never been accused of being dumb right so you want to know what's going what the truth is going on listen to the Jewish Street and it says over there right this is what people were accustomed to say that a convert until the 10th Generation K don't uh disgrace or cause shame right about a non-jew even in front of a particular convert who may not even be from that particular country the fact that he's a gentile and you're M you're shaming a gentile has an effect whether it's the DNA even more so if he's from that particular country so I want to go through some of the commentaries on this so the truth is you might ask like the mar ask he's he wants to clarify something you know he adds these ideas that if you really look at the Tanakh which we should know right that the intent of this gamar is not to say that nobody ever said hasem before isra because if you look Noah Noah in Genesis chter 9 verse 26 he says barem he himself says it and elezar who goes and finds a wife for y for right so he's the EV Abraham he also said in Genesis 24: 27 he said the words but the the mar is saying not about yet not after the 10 plagues and the splitting of the sea that's worthy right what they saidash was very nice over something but not over something as Grand as worthy of saying barash or Shir over okay so that's going to be the first answer also the he says gai Kia even though we started with hisia he could have been Messiah and there's some kind of gai because the Earth itself praise God and then we're saying you know theor says it's similar very similar it brought down Israel being shameful in respect to Israel and so the that's the benishai he says no you can't really compare the two see didn't even sing sh at least the Jewish people sng Shir right got to really criticize the Moses and the Jewish people they sang Shir his K didn't Hezekiah didn't sing Shir all whereas it sounds like the criticism is and I hope we all take this to Heart 100 times a day we're using the word bar we should have a better understanding of what we're saying that Israel Su Shir but they didn't use the word bar therefore according to um theod it shouldn't say k there okay because it's really not compared comparative um in sub note 26 T writes that even though Moses and Israel sang Shir on their Redemption right the gulam but it was only after they heard the BR from and they answered that they actually do fulfill their obligation so it was kind of like we call b or after the fact they didn't take the initiative as I mentioned earlier until came that was the language of the G which implies it was only after shro that only after yro came gai that the gai actually was not because it was up until once he came and said so then they answered amen they when you answer a let's say that you're obligated in say everyone says Whoever has in mind as soon as you're M and you say A you fulfill like it's called someone who is listening as if there answering that's also true but even answering is even greater it's almost the same as the one who said it and sometimes even greater than the one who said it so you fulfill your obligation by saying amen okay you don't have to make a br again if you did it could be in certain cases okay so when it's the he's just clarifying it says until yro came so it was gai until he came so he comes says and they answer so they're no longer in that situation they actually fulfill their obligation of saying by answering amen just keep that in mind you have to make 100 bras a day so you make 88 and two of them you said amen to so that also in the whole list by the way the repetition of Theon I believe is also counted in that so that in other words amen is like saying Zion this is very interesting okay because we asked where did you learn the 10th Generation yro himself was a convert According to some so I get it in front of a convert or maybe even his children but where'd you get until 10 Generations that I shouldn't say anything disparaging against the Gentile in front of him so in K it says first of all he's from midan if you look in Genesis 25:2 clearly says one of her children is midan me which means that um um that yro is part of the the family but from Kor and any male okay it's big argument discussion who's obligated in Brisa right you got yes clearly they took upon themselves supposed to him is but what about is's kids so was it only is or also is's kids same applies to Kara was it just her kids or also their children and so forth so it's better to be M if you know you're from Isel and you know you're from the six Sons ofq go ahead make sure you're circumcised so they would be obligated in circumcision like we said above in a previous gar okay now if that's the case then remember the the the gamor is saying that at this stage he passed over a sharp razor okay a sharp piece of metal over his skin which means he G he gave himself circumcision if he is from this tribe of Midian which we know he is so wouldn't he have been circumcised already that's the question so the M answers so in Judaism I don't want to get too much in detail I don't want to get the what's the word uh blacklisted from YouTube but there are different parts of the member that needs to be cut and then um uh spread okay so by non-jews they do the first part but then there's additional part of of peeling the skin off and that's by the Jews so if he was from the benar as we said he was only circumcised partially meaning he hadn't had what Jews require to be done so that's kind of like an answer where in other words why wasn't he circumcised well he was but he wasn't fully jewishly circumcised so therefore he did it to himself continuing this comment the Marshall answers you see there was an additional part of the circum second part of the circumcision that he needed done so he was circumcised under no or Abraham right the yamos it actually says over there inur yav 71b Abu Al that AB was not commanded regarding this second part of the circumcision therefore you can conclude wasn't surely the the six Sons of Hagar oror were not obligated either and in a saer called he resolves at Rashi ear on sh there is an opinion that it was only yes himself and the six Sons but not the children that followed we're asking the question what about is wasn't he already circumcised not necessarily according to this opinion it could be that it was only an obligation on the original uh children of Abraham maybe not on the descendants of them okay okay so therefore perhaps yra was not obligated in the Mila prior to his be becoming Jewish so he did it himself that answers that okay so writes in the anak you know ra and were not arguing on the actual explanation of the verse both and each agree that the other person is correct they're not they're not arguing they both agree and they're both correct you know if the intent was only only right because we saw the M that he circumcised himself so then so according to one opinion if it is true that he circumcised himself then the Torah certainly would have said the Y is he would would have said that and if the intent was only that he was MIT she was n MIT somehow he was pained over the fact that Egypt drowned so then then the Torah would not have written that he rejoiced over all the good because that's certainly not shot according to the SAR he felt by hearing about the bad things that happened to Egypt but Torah says clearly that he would well use translate as Rejoice again was it that he circumcised himself or was that he was pained we're going to say it's both because the Torah clearly doesn't say one way or the other it leaves it ambiguous by saying that he was Yad which we don't know what that means over all that happened that did to Egypt since it's not one or the other we will conclude both of them are true and that's what I wanted that was the uh more technical we'll leave that for now okay the last two comments I think are important to read isn't it true that is explaining a little bit different than so how is it you're going to say that R is explaining the words of sh right isn't that's what's happening in the latter part I'll just tell you again R says basically he passed the metal over his flesh SCH says that he had all the prickley and then RV comes and explains what the prickley were all about because of his SAR over uh degrading Gentiles in front of is okay we'll skip to so what still bothers us is where did you learn 10 Generations I get it be sensitive but come on now I mean no nobody's going to be alive anyway for 10 Generations so how you going to remember I mean how you going to pass this down how you going to know so maybe you should just generally never say anything derogatory about anybody that's a possibility but we you can't you can't avoid it sometimes the truth is the truth right what are you going to do not speak derogatorily about the Hamas in front of Arabs you know there a limit right but okay how do you know when it's more innocent so um that's going to be the question like I would say drum roll please but I don't want anybody you know shaking the camera so I'm not it's not proven right how the idea comes about that you shouldn't shame and not you know by shaming a in front of the convert until the 10 generation behold yro as far as we're concerned he was the convert himself he's the first generation not the 10th Generation of converts the first generation so if he was the 10th I'd get it so now you can tell me don't you know it's not nice to do it in front of the 10th Generation but he's the first generation we just got done saying he converted himself right so that's rash says something amazing he writes the kav of the gamor what the gamor intends to do and explain is that Yi limits Ryan he really is the 10th Generation Egyptian remember Noah had a son named kham is where Africa Egypt last I checked it's in Africa so and Hagar um right sheq she's Egyptian so Jethro is 10th Generation from no hear it out and that's what the re says BOS so basically knowing that yro himself even though he's the first generation to convert but he still he himself is the 10th Generation from Noah okay he would still have what they call sh some connection or relationship amongst the generations um till the 10th Generation after that perhaps there is no sh or relationship the Raa has some very interesting ideas that he's mentioned yra rejoiced over the goodness how do we know the word means to Rejoice we all know the word okay so means Joy so the the CLE says the word is the same as the word okay he uses from Chronicles 1 Chronicles chapter 16 27 where it says strength and joy in is in his place so it's clearly is Joy Rejoice Rejoice Joy uh we make also see the word in as intimately related to the word he United this meaning would reflect that isra had converted and accepted the AK the unity of God he blessed he blessed the name of the Lord as we hear in verse 10 right now the medish brought down in gor s HED 94 that views y's reaction as expressed by the word somewhat differently got it understanding the root of the word is accordingly isra had mixed feelings which expressed themselves in Goose flesh that's called Goosebumps but anyway Goose flesh at the news of what had overtaken the Egyptians at the Sea of reeds the T says that his reaction reflects the truth of a popular saying that a convert displays some sensitivity concerning what befalls his former co-religionist until the 10th Generation yro was a 10th Generation descendant of mitan the son of kham noak's youngest son the Egyptians of his time were his allies at the same time he himself was a midianite okay was and was also a descendant of Abraham Andor as already mentioned there had been 10 Generations between no and Abraham similarly there had been 10 Generations from kham son of Noah to midan son of Abraham it's not that far off it's 10 Generations one it's off by one on each end okay till till Midian and he's this is the background to the popular sayings TW in the talid that the Affinity to former associations by a convert is noticeable for 10 Generations that you can go back you have a good question like that and you can learn so much the question is hey the gor self says till the 10th Generation maybe it doesn't mean the 10th Generation after the conversion it means any Shas they have if they have any relationship to the type of or nation that you may put in into a a situation you know provocative situation should be much more sensitive doesn't mean that they are the first generation convert or the 10th Generation convert it's outside of conversion according to this that there's a relationship he actually is 10th Generation Egyptian and therefore be be more sensitive anyway with that I think we did learn a lot I hope that our prayers our bras are much more meaningful um there's so much more to say and can be said but we are over our time limit and so what I want to do is wish everyone not just a great shabas but a great lifeat we should see miracles in our day we should see our hostages be returned we should see our enemies decimated and um it's all going to be good it's all going to 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