The Tribes of Y-A-H Serve As Testimony about Israel and the Righteous Women with Rabbi Aaron Poston

Heat. Heat. [Music] Shalom everybody. Welcome back to the midash. Welcome home to Torah. And as we've always been traditionally for the last 10 years or more, we've been doing the clear car. We switch gears and we are using the ear a safer written by none other than the it's just a different safer and we're in paras. We always deal with fundamentals here. Did I say a warm welcome home to Torah? And I really mean a warm welcome, you know, and uh we deal with fundamentals here and we encourage you to use the original Hebrew sheets down below in in the link you could find number one past parot that we've given the sharim on and the source sheets. Okay. So it's very >> encouraging. We're encouraging you to do that. So the parha begins with in the kakar in the gi boreim with a gammor kaducian and it begins of course with the first verse but it really takes us to verse number four. So verse number one actually is verse 11 I should say uh Pinas the son of Elazar Elz the son of Aon the coain right Ben Elazar Ben Aen and it goes on describes what he did but more importantly what happens afterwards is God says to Moses therefore say I hereby give him my covenant of peace. By the way, the clear says that this is God telling Moses that you should tell him you're giving him a covenant of peace because it's forbidden to pos in front of your rabbi. It's forbidden. someone who's greater than you, the gut lador especially and in a certain sense did puskin in front of his rebi in this particular case it was necessary but aside from that aside from that Moshe was actually no gayar he actually had skin in the game and that's not a pun I mean pun intended because he himself was married to whom has a sister who married who? Elazar. Okay. So, they were making fun of Pinas. Who are you? Your own wife, right? I'm sorry. It was um your own wife who is basically forbidden to you and you shouldn't come out and do what you did because you're also involved in an illicit sexual relationship. Well, Moses also was married to a Medidianite, right? Woman. Anyway, that's not the point tonight. The point tonight is what it says here, assuming that God himself is giving, and you can see the capital my Y, right? I hereby give him my covenant of peace. So, Mosh, Moshe is being told to say this by God in God's name, so to speak, right? Satan knows saying low as greasy shalom. Now the VV of the word shalom is actually at least in my safer Torah. So apparently not in every safer Torah, but in Iris it is and everyone I've ever seen is but I've read the commentators and not everyone holds. But anyway, so it's as if the VV isn't there. Okay, if you have a break in the VV, it could be like a yud with a little dash underneath or it's as if it's not there. So the word shalom means peace, but without the v it could be shalm and shalem means complete and whole. And one of the main lessons here is that if a coen who is not complete, meaning he has a blemish, he's a m that means he's mash he's not complete. Therefore, he is not fit to serve in the temple. Okay? And there are other ramifications, but in the meantime, uh that's the verse. So, let's look for a second at what the med actually says. I'm sorry, the kaduc in the word shalom is split, is cut. This comes to teach you that this special covenant with the Cohen is only by a Cohen who does not have a blemish that's a m okay if he doesn't have a m but if he is with a moom if he's lacking something so then he is pul he's not able to serve in the temple service. So let's begin right away with the clear card. He says, "We've already explained in paras listen to this. We're going to talk about what qualities." I don't think we're going to get to the end because there's like a lot of pages. We're only dealing with one or two pages. But the introduction is the idea is that one of the points in this parha is that Moses knows he's not going in. and what he wants to make sure that there is a proper leader fitting who's going to take over for him and we're learning about the qualities of a leader. So it says we says we already learned in part the way in which the way that the leaders of the Jewish people should behave and not only that how they have to deal with the people and that's with let's either say patience calmness pleasant spirit Not with a heavy hand. Not with a heavy presence. Okay. Um heavy-handed, not heavy-handed. So too similarly in this para we're going to deal with additional behaviors that are that relate to the leaders of the generation and the precise behaviors in which they should go in the character traits how they should behave. Guess how many that's listed? Six. Right? Remember the the VV is split. The VV is split. What did it teach us? That if you're you have a mum, you can't serve. Guess what? There are going to be six character traits that in this in this para, it's going to explain in one of the verses what a leader should have, how he should incorporate into his behavior these six character traits. And it's based on the verse in Numbers 27:16. If you take a look, we're actually not going to get too far into this because we're going to be dealing with other issues, but know that later on the clear card discusses it. Look at 26 27:16 and 17. So Moses is praying that there should be a fit leader who's going to take over after him. And he says, ish alah that should be appointed over the congregation of Hashem who's hashem he's the god of all spirits and who should be appointed if you actually count them there actually six things you don't see it in much in the English who will go forth before them come before them who will lead them out and bring them in there's actually six things in order that what that the congregation we're going to think about as sheep The congregations, the sheep of the Lord will not be like sheep without a shepherd. Uh we shouldn't be leaderless. We shouldn't be in a generation where we have no leaders. So hash so Moses is praying that the right person with these certain character traits are going to be appointed which of course he wanted his own sons. God had other person in mind another person in mind which was Joshua. Look at the look at the uh rashi on that source number three. When Moses heard that the omniresent told him to give Salaf Khad's daughters the inheritance, right, they wanted a piece of which is actually going to be the main focus here. Soon we'll see why. So Salaf Khad's daughter, they demanded that a change be made that they should be able to have um an inheritance. So he said to himself, Moses says, "Well, since they're asking, you know, about a inheritance, so let's say legacy." So too, maybe I'll ask about my own legacy. It's time to ask for my own needs that my son should inherit my position. But Hashem said to him, "That's not my intention, but rather Joshua Yoshua deserves to be rewarded for his service." We know it says in Exodus 33:11 that why was why was Joshua appointed? Was he the smartest? Was he the most charismatic? No. You know what he was? He was the masmid. He was the one who never left Moses's presence. He was Mashamesh. He served his I'm going to call him his master. He served his rebi in such a uh a loyal way. He never left the tent as the verse says. And we see in Proverbs, King Solomon who was one of the wisest men who ever lived. If not, he who guards the fig tree eats of its fruits. Right? So this was Joshua constantly guarding his fig tree so to speak by being in the presence of Mosher Reno. What was it about Joshua? So God himself is called the God of spirits, right? El Kairo. So why is this said to him? Rashi says master the of the universe the character of each person is revealed to you only God knows right every one of us is so unique and different so how does a leader we're not cookie cutter we're not all robots we all have a personality we all have an ego we all have a anam and a soul Joshua was actually graced with actually being able to deal with each individual and Hashem knew this and and Moses was praying that this is what should be so this is what it says says in the in the midash according to Rashi that Moses said, "Master of the universe, the character of each person is revealed to you and no two people are alike. Appoint over them a leader who will tolerate each person according to his individual character." And that was Yahushua by the way. Okay, let's go into the clear card again. We read the first line two. We read the first several lines down where it says it's the one two three four five six seven. The eighth line says near. This idea that these six character traits are hinted in the vv. Vavv is equal to the number six in the kashis caru by the vv being split as we mentioned. Now, out of all the traits, there's got to be like one central trait, one trait that either covers them all and the rest are subdivisions or let's just say the most important because the clear says roamed the top, the head, the first, however you want to translate Ro, right? The main, right? The main uh character trait is that the person is royim also. The main character trait for anybody who wants to be a leader for the Jewish people is and I got in trouble last week. Someone wrote a comment that it sounds Christian. What I said last week was that the leader Moshe was willing to give his life for the Jewish people. Why? They got it from us. But it's not a Christian idea. How would you want to translate these words? That he's willing to give his life, his entire being for the Jewish people. Yeah, I could go with that. That he's willing to die for us. That's also okay because we're going to see that when Moses was, let's say, put in a corner, so to speak, he wanted God to forgive the Jewish people for the sin of the golden calf. Okay? What did he say? God, if you don't forgive them, wipe me out of your book. Right. It says in Exodus 32:32, erase me. So, we'll see rashi on that in a second. I think there is a rashi. Yeah. Very nice. Look at number four in the source sheet. Moses says, "And now if you forgive their sin, great. But if not, erase me now from your book which you have written." So Rashi says right if you forgive their sin good I'm not going to ask you to erase me but if not erase me. So he was willing to put his life on the line for the Jewish people. What we're going to see is someone who's taking so much responsibility for the Jewish people. Right? We were talking about this before a few days ago. The idea of a leader needs to have patience. We see but what is the word so patience is to carry a burden. The leader is going to carry the burden of the people right so is that's the root of savanut. So there's a lot of interesting character traits and the main character trait is the willingness to give their life for the Jewish people. When I say willingness because it doesn't mean it has ever has to happen but we'll see that it means taking responsibility. Okay. Moses himself is called at least in Aramaic and we could talk about in Hebrew as well a roman a faithful shepherd a loyal shepherd she imagine what we call him a shepherd that the shepherd is taking responsibility for all the sheep and he's willing to risk his life I'll use that he's willing to risk his life to make sure that the wolves don't attack right or that he doesn't lose a sheep. And we know about Mosher Rabenu in the Midash that he went out of his way. I mean, and he found that lost sheep. And that's one of the reasons why he was chosen to be the leader of the Jewish people just when he sees the wolf that wants to to snatch, right? We know that word to to take from the flock. He wants to take one of the sheep. Inan and regarding this idea, Moses says Moses says that famous verse we said already in Numbers 27:16 where he asked, "Let the God of spirits of all flesh appoint a man over the congregation." But look what it says at the end of 17. Provided that what? Provided that the Lord that the the congregation of the Lord will not be like uh a sheep without a where is it? So the congregation of the Lord will not be like sheep without a shepherd. Right? meaning to sayarim. One of the questions that's going to be asked and I want to hear it out. There's a census being taken. Why now? Why is a census being taken? Guys, are you listening? What's why a census? Didn't we lose people before by Korak? There was no census. What about the uh tavimot? Right, the the graveyard of desire. The question begs to be asked. You don't have a census by other times that Jews died in plagues or Hashem punished us with death. Here you do by the the um how do I I put it? By the sexual immor immoral act with the benos moav with the daughters of Moab. We have a census, but we don't have a census everywhere. Listen to what he says. What does the shepherd do when he takes his sheep out to walk, I don't know, miles? When he comes back, he has to make sure he's got the same amount of sheep or at least know what happened, right? Why there's miss one missing or why he has an extra one. You with me? That's the responsibility, as we said, of a leader of a to have Well, we're going to see why he should. So this is what he says, you're going to appoint over at least right as a shepherd over the Jewish people a loyal or a trustworthy shepherd who's willing just like I Moses did. I myself was responsible, right? I was willing to give my life for them. That's what I expect God to appoint in mystead when I when I'm not there anymore. Now, this is like the opposite because if you don't appoint someone who's willing to give their life for the Jewish people, then what you end up having is the congregation of Hashem, that's Israel, as sheep that have no shepherd. Now, I'm going to try to translate as best as I can. What he's trying to say is if you're not going to appoint a roman, someone who's willing to give their life for the Jewish people, then this type of leader is basically not the type who's willing to take responsibility for the Jewish people. then what's the point of having a leader? That's one way to read it. I when I when it says the wordnas, it literally means they enter into the beams or the the roof rafters of the house. Well, that is carrying the weight of the roof. It's protecting everybody that's in there. So, on a certain level, that's what it means. Taking responsibility. In other places, the clear car uses this expression and I've understood it as to make yourself insignificant. Meaning you enter the beams of the wall of the roof. It's like in in English they say a fly on the wall. What's a fly on the wall? It's like I wish I was there hearing the conversation. I wish I was close enough to hear but they wouldn't see me. I would be unseen. I would be unrecognized. I would be well in a certain sense the leader has to have a deflated ego. He by g by be willing to give your own life that means you're you're playing a game of be in other words you're willing to make yourself insignificant. So I see both sides but we'll take the idea of the responsibility. The one who takes full responsibility. Just like the shepherd when he directs his when he directs his sheep, he's directing them into the place that is most straight, right? As opposed to when you see these movies of the sheep uh what do you call it? The goats and the mountains, all these ridges and uh cliffs. Very hard. But you want to take them on the most direct route and something that's straight. And the in shalom. So you don't run into wolves. In other words, you have a clear view of everything, you know, around you, right? You don't have any ambush spots, right? Any place where the even even wolves are pretty smart and they know how to ambush. Camo manor. So too the leaders of the generation roe is those who are the shepherds of the Jewish people. Israelites the shepherd of Israel for every generation what they should try to do they should make every effort that's their job is to direct who the scattered sheep we are the seur the Jewish people are the scattered sheep in which way we said the straight and narrow the Torah through Torah mitzvah to teach us to direct us in Torah and mitzvah What's the point of keeping to of them guiding us in the way of Torah mitzvah? So that we shouldn't fall into sin. The sins that are very destructive for the people, right? The people shouldn't fall. And what the the words are this idea of a forest wolf or a wild wolf is compared to sin. So there's a similarity. It's maybe like a code word, right? That these wild wolves is like the like the satan. We actually find in the majan that these wild wolves or these forest wolves are compared to sins. And we see right away in the medish right where it says you should count the Jewish people at Ro Israel in numbers 26:E2. I'll show you where that is on the source sheet second. Look at number six. >> Number six on the sore sheet. >> Okay. So, um why does it say take a census? Every time they fell. Every time the Jews fell. Yeah. They were required to to be numbered. The matter is comparable to a wolf who went into the midst of the flock. The owner of the flock was obliged to count them to know how many were missing. That's the first idea. Another interpretation, why now? Why were they counted here? So the matter is the matter is comparable to a shepherd to whom the householder meaning the balabite delivered a flock. But of course you count them before you give them over. After he has fulfilled his guardianship, when he returns, it's necessary for them to be numbered. Just like you took out a certain amount, you will need to deliver and bring back the same amount. After he has fulfilled his guardianship, when he returns them, it is necessary for them to be numbered. So too, Israel went out of Egypt. The holy, right? Um God took us out and delivered them to Moses and he counted them when they were delivered to Moses as it begins in numbers numbers number one. It says over there to take a census. So also they went out. Fine. And there were other times where there were numbers there were they were they were counted. Okay. So that's the idea. The problem is we know how many Jews there were before the death of how many? 24,000. So what do you need to count? This is going to be like the drum roll question here. We know how many there were because of the census was taken. And then how many died? We know exactly how many died. 24,000. You want to see it? You look, it says it right there in number 7. It's numbers 25:9. Those that died in the plague, number 24,000. Just take the number we have and minus 24,000. Why counts in the beginning? And he's going to tell us why this number. Remember I told you after Korak there was no numbering after uh there was no numbering but here by sexual immorality there was numbering we're going to see why in a second but wouldn't it just be easier just to take whatever number we had and just minus 24,000 so what the clear card is going to tell us this is all in order that we should know how righteous the women the Jewish women are right. What do we say they're called? We have this phrase for them. All right, we're going to see a different phrase, but this is going to be the main reason why. And each name of the father's homes, households, you have a he attached to the beginning of the name and a yud attached to the end of the name. And the name yud and he that's one of God's names right it symbolizes masculine and feminine true but it's also the world was created with that name but on a certain level what I want to tell you what he's about to tell us we have the name ish and isha right male female ish is male it's alin but it happens to have a yud in it in the middle isha is also alshin but has a hey at the end the y and the hey When God is in the marriage, when God is present in the relationship, you have the yud of the male, you have the hay of the female, but literally God consciousness in the relationship, you're going to have peace. You're going to have success. >> When you don't have God in the relationship, you're left just with a just with olive shin without the yud, which is disastrous. >> It's disastrous. It is fire. Okay. So one of the reasons why a census was taken specifically after the fall of sexual in in in propriety specifically was to show us it was the men's fault not the women. The women are really our guardians in a certain sense and we'll see it inside. So the last thing in the clear that we read was when it says there was a census taken aim. So it's an analogous to a a shepherd and some wolves came into the corral and to the flock. So he needs to count in order to know how many are left over. What the med wants to do, it was because of how many fell or who fell based on what happened now because of the sin of sexual im immorality with the daughters of Moab and the concept of we already said it's compared to the Sara. It's compared to the Satan. He says it's even more compared to the itself is to a wolf that kills and tears apart as we're seeing here that regarding we said 24,000 people died that regarding this sin of sexual immorality many had fallen and all her slain were great or and strong. Okay. Now the next paragraph, it seems like we can explain since it was said, right? They're they're going to be counted in order to know how many are left over. You can actually ask and we should all be asking this question. What benefit is there for us to know how many are left over? But that's the first question. But the fact is in numbers chapter 21 25:9 you'll see that number seven on the source sheet it tells us 24,000 died in the plague. So you would automatically you would automatically know how many are left over. Would he need to start this count from the beginning? This is where I asked before for the drum roll, right? The prime intent that God wants us to know in this minion, in this counting hashim in order that we should know, we the Jewish men should know how righteous our women are. Okay? They are extremely righteous. In fact, it was in their merit that we left Egypt. If it was just simply counting for the sake of counting, not because it wanted to teach us how righteous the women were. Like I said, by we we know how many people died, but we we it's not there's no counting. By the tava, it doesn't we don't know how many people died, but there's still no counting. So why are we counting specifically here? So rather the answer is specifically because we fell because of sexual immorality. So the nations do not say whenever it says we're trying to see what why they would say it and make sure they don't say it. Okay? In other words, it's a mistake. Whatever they're saying is a mistake. Okay? So what mistake they might they make? We'll see that with the rest of that in a second. If the men were, let's say, what's the word I'm looking for? Um, uh, wrong, they were behaving wrong, then the women were surely behaving wrong, right? Because the men have a certain level of hashah influence over the women of their country. I mean, you just look around the world, right? Everything except in America. America, it's the women that have control over the men. But anyway, so here it says like this, in order that the nations will not say about the Jewish people, those men, they were uh extraordinarily promiscuous, right? So too, the women were even more because they had they're more vulnerable when it comes to the male influence. It says dot it says they were dot kot. We already know when we say the women have they're kalis ro right they it means that they they're basically they have strengths in beina and men have strengths in wisdom. So in other words the the women are greater than men in some ways and the men are greater than women in some ways. We're not equal in every way, right? Even the physical strength you could see in general, right? That men generally have a and I I'm not even so sure that's true cuz I don't think a man could ever give birth to a kid, whereas a woman Whoa. I mean, they they're they're strong, but maybe they're strong in different ways. But anyway, that's what it's saying that the women are more persuaded. Okay, that's the word minashim. they might be push pushed over by the men and just like the Egyptians the Egyptians they really um sub subjugated their women I mean you can look around the Arab world today there's a very interesting uh pattern that's that has been set so that's the assumption the go to say well we already know the men are corrupt the women must be just as corrupt and it's not true it's not True. Basically, I I mentioned already if you go to chapter 16, I'm sorry, 26. Almost the whole chapter 26. Look at the Hebrew before all the names of the fathers of each tribal unit. You have a he and you have a yud ruini. Here, look what he says here based on a verse that God placed his name. He actually placed his own name amongst theatim. Look in look in Psalms 122 verse4 it's number nine on the source sheet there ascended the tribes we went out of Egypt tribes of God testimony to Israel to give thanks to the name of the Lord shift yud that's the name of God that the the tribes of God actually serve as a testimony we serve as a testimony ony, we're giving witness that what? That back in Egypt, the women did not fool around. The men didn't either, but it's the women. It's the women. The women were very, let's just say, modest. That's the shot here. Okay. Um, look at Rashia. It's on the top of page three. What does it mean? The tribes of God. So the Yudhe, that's God's name, which is testimony to Israel. For the heathens, the um were talking about them when they left Egypt. And you know what they would say about these Jews? That they were the offspring of adulterous unions. Yeah. They're that's what they say today, right? They say, "We're not the real Jews. We're a bunch of uh what do you call it? Um caucus mountains, carites. We're not even Jew. We're not even the real Jews." You aware of that? Yes. There's all these conspiracy theories. So when we left Egypt, they said they're not even the real Jews, right? They're product, they're mums. They're, you know, from bastardous relationships from adulterous unions. So the answer is if the egyptians ruled over their own bodies. Okay, that's the what the go are going to say. They they were very nobody can even leave Egypt. They had a lot of rules. They probably ruled over the wives of the Jews. So you know what God says? I'm going to test myself personally. Only God knows. Only God knows that these Jews are thoroughbreds are pure breeds or what else what can we say? You know, they're they have a pristine lineage. I attest that they really are the sons of their fathers. And God put his own name, Ruveni, Haruveni, Hashimonyi on all. He added the letters of the name, one on each side and one on the other side of each name to show yud hey that he was involved in the relationship. God was involved in the relationship. There was no adultery relationship and it's nothing to worry about. However, keep this in mind. One of the questions we should all be asking, why the he in the beginning and the yud at the end? It shouldn't it be right? The name is yudhe. So, put the yud in the beginning. Well, grammatically it doesn't work out. That's an easy answer. But >> but because of the strength of the women, going back to the idea that it was the women who took the initiative, they really made the family unit holy by not being promiscuous. The men, I'm not saying we are promiscuous by nature, but the ideas that we are different just has to be clear, right? I don't want to go too much into it, but the likelihood of men's eyes wandering and men's desires wandering is much different than the women. So, it was the women who were the strength of the family. And that's why the hey comes in the beginning of the word and the yud at the end of the word. Let's go back into the kakar where we left off. And the last thing we quoted was Psalms 122:4. Israel. This is the very name of God that God placed his own name on the Jewish people on the namesi harui by the the the different names of the fathers of the tribes. So too with all them. Just look through chapter 26 from verses 5- 49 all the way through. You'll be amazed. So God placed the hey first the where's the is at the end to show you these were non mams. They were not from adulterous relationships or or even non-Jews. But there is a great question that we should all be asking. But mid is first of all the question is why that name? God has many names. Why specifically the name? And not only that. So that's the first question. What about the second question? Shouldn't it have been the other way around where the is in the beginning and the H is at the end, but it wasn't that the clear is trying to make it absolutely clear the intent of the verse, the event of this para, the intent of the medish is to do what? What the the whole concept of the counting here to drive home the idea of how righteous the Jewish women were that they were guarded against sexual immorality. Just like tell us in the medish in bida 2110. Listen to this. You got to be sitting down and have your seatelt on for this. It says over there, you see where it is? It's number 11. It says that the men hated the land, but the women loved the land. Wait till you hear this. Why did the women love the land so much? Why? I'm going to tell you outside. The springs, the water, remember we talked about this at dinner. The water in each place around the world gives off different traits to the people that drink it. Human beings live in different um locations, loces. They drink the water and the water affects them. The water that is springing up out of the land of Israel is so holy. It makes the women modest. It makes and the one the water in Egypt makes the women immodest. meaning makes the people I you are be careful of the water you drink no matter when you travel around the world. Okay. So maybe it's long term. But this is what he says and it's beautiful. It says over there that right? How do we know that the men hated the land? They're the ones in Numbers 14:4 who says, "Let's appoint ahead and go back. Let's go back to Egypt." What was there? The fish, the free fish. Wait till you see what fish means. So, some we're going to see some say fish means really fish. Some say it means the the sexual relations. And we'll see you in a second. But the women love the land of Israel. That's exactly why at this point in juncture in the para you have these women coming forth and say give us a section a portion right but we have to like investigate it's nice to say okay the women love the land and the men hate the land but why Why is it that the women love the land so much and the men, let's say, could care less? I was watching a video of Daniela Weiss. Wow. Does she love the land of Israel? You know who she is. Anyway, the mother of uh the settler movement, they call it, whatever it was, whatever it is today, she wants to uh return uh the Jewish sovereignty and uh settlement, you know, cities back to Gaza as soon as possible. She's got six different Garneim ready to go. And uh anyway, she's a big inspiration. Women love the land and men hate the land. Why? I'll just read the words where the and now we have to try to answer that. And here we go. This is where we get into the water. So the car begins his answer by saying I'm telling you what I think with the absolute truth. The absolute truth. You got to be sitting, you got to be plugged in for this. The truth is and it's well known that each country each land and the behavior of the people is based on the Mayanote based on the springs the wood the source of the water system in each whether it's outside the city or inside the city like it says in the medish remember where this all took place. It says in right numbers 25:1 you'll see that and I think it's in number 15 but we're going to get back to 14 says Israel settled inim. Nowim in Hebrew is right a shin and a tetim but rashi says it's a place and we just got done saying every place its waters you know cause different character traits which we'll see as well. So that the what's the word I'm looking for? The springs, the water system that was in this place called that caused the growth or an increase in adultery. By the way, wherever it is located, the the the runoff where it goes down into Saddam. And no question that Saddam had this character trait because of she of the waters that came down from Um at this point I just want to see if we skip something. If you look into number 14, the midish rabba, right? It says Israel was dwelling in Chetim and mentions there were four reasons why the Jewish people were redeemed. Famous because we didn't change what our names. We didn't change our language. We didn't tell Lashinhara, which really means we didn't reveal to the Egyptians we were leaving with all their wealth. And ready, drum roll please. Because they did not behave with lensiousness. Meaning the women were not uh loosey goosey so to speak. And there's a puss in Song of Songs. Song of Songs chapter 4:12. It says, "A locked garden is my sister." That's referring to the men. a locked fountain head, a sealed spring. That's referring to the females. This was in Egypt. So what are you saying? All these 40 years they didn't sin until they came to a place called shitim. And the answer is yes. They didn't sin in sexual uh relations until they got there. And it was because look at the the verse itself, right? Israel was dwelling in shitim and the people began to engage in lensiousness. Whyim we there's a concept says that people do not sin unless they're filled with ru here the wordim same root foolishness it's only through you know when you don't have when you enter the state of foolishness that's only when you will sin so we we enter this place of which is that's what it means because they preferred foolishness now I have Underline the next piece in it's like above number 15. The people began to engage in lentiousness. It's on top of page four. There are springs that produce mighty and some produce weak. In other words, the spring could cause people depends where to be strong or god forbid to be weak. Some to be pretty, some to be ugly, some to be chased. That's the senua, right? and some to be the opposite steeped in lwdness. The sheep team spring was one of harlotry and it provided water for Sedon. Right? We see that um they approached they approached uh uh Lot. Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us and we will be intimate with them. In Genesis chapter 19:5, because that spring was cursed, the holy one, blessed be he, destined, meaning in the future, that spring will no longer produce water. Do you get it? That's a positive. And guess what's going to happen? It's not only going to not produce water, it's going to be filled with a spring that emanates from you. It says in Joel Yoel 4:18, a spring will emerge from the house of the Lord that will irrigate the sheet ravine. Okay, it's very interesting to know that and already from the time of Ara from the time of not one of them behaved with harlotry. When they arrived at Sheepim, however, they drank the water and behaved with harlotry. I bet you never saw that one before. Okay, so that's where it comes from. It doesn't mean we don't have free will, but there are things that are predisposed likely to happen. So, be careful of the water you drink. So, let's continue where we left off. We're on the kufet on the left side. We're only a few lines down where we said mayim that the spring that was in this place called caused uh adultery to either increase or as people grew up with item. We mentioned already in the English that there are some springs that either cause cause people to be strong or people to be weak. either pretty or ugly or to be modest or the opposite and the the springim was of the harlotry variety and but in the future in the future God will heal it. And it says over there in Yelm that there will be a spring water that comes out from the house of God and it will water the valley ofim midrash up until here. That is the midrash. Um there's some really really good stuff. I don't think we're going to have that much time so I'm going to try to go through it a little bit. There's a there's a nun that's very large, right? Are you aware of that? When Moshe is asked by the daughters of Moab, the daughters of Salafad and he brings he brings to them he brings to God their claim their Mishbatan the nun is enlarged. The nun by the way is not just bina. It's the 50 gates of bina. Okay. So if you if you look at numbers 27 verse5 right number 29 the source sheet that after they request a part of the land and Moses really doesn't know exactly is this the right time to reveal the answer or does he even know the answer he brings the case to Hashem the moishan there's that large nun before hashem okay so nun is gamatria of 50. We know that Clear begins by telling us the following. We know now that the the springs are the ones that cause the um the likelihood of being modest or not. This is going to teach us why the men hated the land. Remember they said appoint us ahead so we go back to Egypt. They already knew. It was already known that the men were more likely to be involved in sexual uh sins. How do we know this? Listen to this. In Gmor Shabas 130A it says that from numbers 11:10 the that he saw the people Moses saw the people were crying about their families. What were they crying about? You see the rashi there that all of a sudden now we have new rules. We're not allowed to marry you know our first cousins or whatever it is. There were certain rules that came down and they were already married. So they were crying that maybe they had to get a divorce. But basically they were crying over this idea. The sexual relations which were permissible now became forbidden. And it was the men that were crying. It's relating to the family regarding sexual relations that now became forbidden to them. It also says in remember in numbers 11:5 the men were saying we remember the fish that free fish that we ate in Egypt the Gomorrah in Yuma 75a says dogamish it's really talking about fish but there's another opinion theot it's remembering those relations those intimate relationships that are now forbidden that weren't forbidden didn't then but nevertheless we're close let's say that's why they men said let's go back to Egypt they wanted that more intimate relationships just watch your elbow there the Egyptians themselves were steeped in illicit relations it says by them just look at Ezekiel 23:20 it's not very beautiful it's quite graphic thick. Where is it on the sheet? Ezekiel 23:20. You see it? It is number 22. And she lusted for their concubage, those whose flesh is the flesh of donkeys and whose issue is the issue of horses. In other words, we're talking about beastiality there. Okay? They were really deep down in the mud, so to speak. Okay. And that's what it means. Therefore, the men were constantly desiring to go back to Egypt. But the women they were extremely guarded when it came to sexual uh issues. And we know in Gmorra it says It was in the merit of those righteous women of that generation that we ended up being saved, redeemed from Egypt. Omar, it says in Song of Songs 4:12, which I think we read already somewhere else. Look in number 24. A locked up garden is my sister. We said that's referring to the men. a locked up spring. things. See the the the the um what's the word I'm looking for? The the word relationship a sealed fountain. That's talking about the women. They were very guarded in terms of sexual relations. That's why the women wanted to come up to Israel. What is it? the the the land itself with the springs produced such modest women. The women consciously or subconsciously, however it is, they wanted to leave Egypt. They wanted to come up to Aris Israel to drink those holy waters that would only increase their relationship with God or godliness by being modest. You follow? There was like a natural attraction to the to the waters because it it God will bring you in the direction you want to go in, right? You want to be modest. you want to be well there's no other place but Israel drinking the waters and that's what we just said um now interesting in Isaiah 12:3 we all are familiar with these wordshu right and you and you shall draw water with joy from the fountains of salvation and by the way just you should know right we say that stolen waters are sweet right this whole idea listen God says, "Drink from your own system. Don't drink from those broken wells." It's all about the relationship you have with your wife. Don't look outside the home. It's all right there. All your braha comes from your wife. And I think it's it's so embedded in this verse. And you shall draw water with joy from the fountains of your salvation. Not only that, he goes on to say, Yeshua, the very fountains or springs, the very are called the fountains of salvation. since because they themselves cause an increase in modesty or they grow up people in a modest way by the way it says in Deuteronomy chapter 33:29 fortunate are you oh Israel fortunate are you oh Israel I'm talking to you who is like you oh people whose salvation is through the Lord the shield who helps you your majestic sword. Your enemies will lie to you. L I E. But you will tread upon their heights. Always come back to always come back to the the wars we're in. Don't worry. Be happy. Have faith. But in Hashem is the salvation. This is similar to what it says in Cohelis. That's Ecclesiastes. Cohelis 7:26. Number 27. And I find mortar bitter than death. A woman whose heart is snares and nets. Her hands are bonds. Whoever is good in God's sight will escape from her and the sinner will be taken from her to the clear is trying to tell us something about a modest woman versus a non-modest woman. You should know as it says we already read right in in Yel that there's going to be this fountain that's going to come out of the temple itself out of the mountain of God out of the house of God and it's going to water or let's say the waters are going to overtake the waters of that area that area would already have been dried up from its own waters. Israel the very waters of Israel don't require any tikun any kind of healing the rabba they're the ones that are healing everything else it's the waters of aris that's going to fix and all the other bad waters all over the world for sure there's no about it. They cause modesty. That's why the women themselves were they were guarded against sexual immor immorality in order to grab a piece. Those daughters of they wanted the land. They loved the land. We already saw why the men didn't want it. They want to go back to Egypt where the the fish was free. Yeah. Get it? Wink wink. And the the women wanted to go where the the water gun, you know, what do you call it? What's the water called here? What's it say on the bottle? Turn around. >> Mayan. >> Mayan. $24. 24 shekels a bottle, right? Whatever it is, they're willing to pay for it, right? Okay. So, that's why the daughters of said give us a portion. Their main intent was to they desired the land of Israel because the land of Israel the waters that come forth from the land cause the increase of modesty and that's why right in order that they should be even more guarded against sexual illicit sexual relations. nun and this is why there's a large nun in the P which we said is in chapter 27 27 verse 5 of numbers where it says Moshe Mishan Moses brought forth their claim these women's claim that have extra bean as we said okay um We all know that if a man chases immodesty and we call prostitution, he will become impoverished, right? It says in Proverbs 29:3, I think we read that already. Where is it? Proverbs 29:3. It's number 30. A man who loves wisdom makes his father happy, but one who keeps the company of harlots wastess his wealth. Also, it says um that the man will uh look for bread and not find any. We're talking about extreme poverty here. So, the the one who is um chasing after immodesty, he's going to lose his wealth. And it mentions in Baba 116A that poverty okay it's equivalent or even worse than 50 plagues okay I'm not going to go into the gmorra right now I mean we have it here I want to kind of finish with the time though so you see already we we mentioned the idea of nun equals 50 nun So it represents women being a modesty and on some level that so in job by the way Job chapter 19 verse 21 uh his friends were telling him because you're sinning this is why all these bad things are happening to you. Uh he himself said have pity on me have pity on me my friends for god's hand has touched me. God's hand. Okay. Each etba is worth 10 plagues. We saw at the at the at during Egypt. So therefore, when it says God's hand touched me, he's saying I've been afflicted with such poverty. It's equal to 50 plagues. It's like right that was the comparison over there in the Gomorrah. So it says, "So his friend said to him, Right? Basically, don't go in the direction of sin. This is what you chose. You chose poverty. That would be in job 36:21. Therefore, the nun becomes enlarged because represents their case that is being brought to teach the very fact that these women were guarded against sexual immorality. They were not included at all in the poverty that is normally um well it's least more difficult than 50 plagues but the 50 plagues is referred to the nun. I really encourage you to go further in the ear. This was just a taste of what was yet to come. uh he really gets into the nun a lot and into the six traits of a Jewish leader. So I don't know what I'll title this but uh we did cover a lot of topics. I hope that we can all incorporate more because what is anyway if it doesn't begin with we all want to reach what the Rambam says this level of uh such great knowledge the word in in this is the he's the student of the Mariko means spiritually spirituality raam it's intellectual I put them together it's like being a spiritual intellectual Right? That's the level the Rambam says. In order to get there, that's the goal. You have to work on your character. According to the Gro, the purpose of life is working on your character. We all have work on our character to do. But ultimately, we will reach what we call the Jewish people uh the level of nva, right? The u the kuzi says we all know that there are four levels of existence. You have dom inanimate objects. You have growth plant growth sem you have you have animal life then you have human being which is midair human beings speak that's what separates the human race from the rest of the I don't know 80 billion different species but what separates the Jew from the non-Jew prophecy according to the Kuzari we are a prophetic nation and there's different levels of prophecy perhaps we can at least enter some of the lower levels because enter there and only move forward. These are the end of days, last of days and uh we'll see we'll see how how it develops. But let's at least begin with working on our character which will bring us into the lower levels and then we'll work the ladder from there. >> Okay, with that I wish everyone a Shabbat shalom and a great life and we'll see you next week. My birthday My my [Music] shing. [Music]