The Ultimate JIHAD and how to win the WAR with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston:

[Music] welcome everybody to the ibn abate midrash i have to apologize rabbi breidowitz was not able to make it this week so i am going to give this year instead so i'm apologizing for him for us but this rather shem we will all gain so much from tonight's year now we're in parashat's shelf team and what i usually do i i love i love the client car and i use the clear car as the basis for our discussion first of all he was a very prominent rabbi 400 years ago he became the chief rabbi of prague in place of the maharao so he's no small guy and he was an expert in dikduk he knew hebrews so well that svardi rabbis accused him of being sparty because his dictu because hebrew was impeccable so that's one of his strengths amongst many okay so he is so um spiritual many of his messages are yes may be textually you know structured in such a way which is pure logic but it's he gives he usually gives over an extremely metaphysical and spiritual message and tonight will definitely fit that bill everyone who is spiritually oriented will definitely be satisfied let's say as long as i'm able to give it over okay correctly so we're going to start and parches uh when we're in show team but chapter 20. now we're going to read the hebrew and the english and basically we're focusing on the words kites okay now when you go out to battle against your enemy it's singular your enemy the first thing he wants to point out i mean you have to read the rest of the verse and you see horse and chariot a people more numerous than you you you shall not fear them for hashem your god brought you off in the land of egypt what we're about to introduce there's a certain authoritative figure what did i tell you he was called the he's a cohen come on guys he's a mashiach right he is the appointed one to lead the jews in battle he's a co-aid and he's going to encourage the people to not have fear and he's also going to excuse certain people from the front lines right we'll talk about that as we go on so the main thing is to encourage fortitude and strength and courage yes you're about to go out to war hashem is with you you shall not fear the second verse it shall be that when you draw near to the war the cohen shall approach and speak to the people and then we're going to hear what he has to say so let's hear the whole two verses in hebrew hamas he's the one who took you out of egypt fine so we've read the verses so the client card begins by letting us know there are many times where you have singular and plural in the same word in the same verb in the same sentence and it can be quite confusing but there's always a message so be aware like if we knew how to speak hebrew properly we would have our tenses in order we would have our ducks in order and as olim prabhushim which most of us are the israelites can pick us off because we mess up our tense is in mid-sentence so we have to be a little bit listen to what he says we need to become aware of the there's a switch there's an exchange of the language from a singular language to something plural several times and we're going to discuss those times and what they mean as we said it says when you go out against your enemy singular right it says in the same verse soon you will see you would expect susan barachavim horses and chariots but it's singular you will see a horse and a chariot is that what you expect to see when you go against your enemy maybe if he's one enemy yeah but one second in the same verse the akaka it says it's a it's a nation much more numerous than you now we already know how many we are we're six hundred thousand fighting men between the ages of 20 and 60. so you're talking about three million people but if it's more numerous than you it's more than one it's more than two so the mafurshim explained right the commentator is saying hashem at least from hashem's perspective in the eyes of god hashem yes they the enemy is small it's like one horse and one rider the aim but you know what it does say that they're going to be more more numerous than you meaning more numerous than you that's in your eyes that's in your eyes the lobe and israel so remember what is this cohen saying do not fear do not fear in hashem's eyes it's going to be easy as pie you the fear fears only you because you're looking at them as a multitude a strong and mighty army so that's the first thing to point out not in hashem's eyes maybe in yours and the word that says say when you go out lash it's you singular but afterwards in verse 2 they're not mistaken it says it shall be that when you draw near to the war now that's what plural look what it says when you as a multitude draw close you as a singular person are going out but the closer you get the more numerous you become lush this is just really an introduction to what we're going to discuss because he doesn't really answer this yet but he says the kaf that's the letter cuff is hadimyeonshel [Music] it's as you draw near literally as you draw near sriharbi or it needs clarification because he says remember he's an expert in dickduck he says it should have written bikara in your drawing close why we don't really have we're not experts we'll trust him for now and you'll see later when it will understand the cuff in more than one way and why the torah wrote it that way in the meantime the clear car begins to say the omni i'm going to tell you the way i see it is like this when there is actually peace amongst the enemies the enemies like you can imagine right we lived through it here in israel you have seven arab nations they all hate each other but you know what there's something unifying about them they all hate us so when there's peace amongst them it's even more dangerous for us when there's peace amongst our enemies and thank god this is changing and it has broke hashem for the last 70 years proven to be the fact that they really do hate each other and other things fall you know slip in in between all of them they are like speaking with one mouth against hashem and his anointed whose is anointed we are a vow right that's when they're unified when they are divided when they're where their hearts are not unified einan they're not considered one unit it's not so dangerous and we're going to see how and why this is how it works the clear car continues this is the magnificent miracle magnificent miracle that hashem does with all the nations that we're going to fight against they seem to be united they seem to be unified as one that's when we go out to war we call macomb however you know what happens as we approach towards the battle baini baini means in the meanwhile hashem sends a massive amount of confusion and pandemonium and chaos amongst them the yifar do is and they separate from each other right the word if i do they are separated from each other from one from the other the tia in fact they will even pick up the sword against each other and we've seen it in our own lifetimes as the passage says there's an amazing pussac in 28 7. this is in deuteronomy 28 7. it says now listen carefully the lord will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be beaten before you they will come out against you in one direction meaning unified what's the rest of the verse but they will flee from you in seven directions in 1948 we had seven arab armies come against us and i mean getting goosebumps just saying it yeah listen to the hebrew message in one way they're coming but in seven different directions or ways they're running away from you okay so he says in the beginning they all had an agreement that's true they were all in agreement let's wipe out the jews throw them into the sea baini baby and then meanwhile isla hashem behemohuma by the meanwhile shem sends chaos and pandemonium total confusion lyot khalak libam in order to separate their hearts hashem does this this is the miracle that he does for us until those seven nations they're all running with their towels between the legs in a different direction just as it says in psalms chapter 21 13 it says for now this is interesting because one thing you have to learn you cannot really truly learn torah in any other language other than hebrew okay so i don't know what other language translates it however they translate differently but in the english it says for you shall place them as a portion with your bow strings well that is a weapon of war you shall set your arrows toward their faces now in hebrew it says shechem is a lot is a portion which in hebrew is khalak which is division so think of it like this for you shall place them as divisions they're going to come against you as one but in the end you will divide them they will be divided okay you only see that in the hebrew in fact if i'm not mistaken look at rashi rosh you on that verse when it says you shall place them as a portion he says for you shall place them as a portion that israel will divide their money it says in isaiah 23 18 and her commerce and her hire shall be holy to the lord and it shall not be steward now should nor shall be inherited but those who sit before the lord shall have her commerce to eat their fill and for stately clothing holy to the lord meaning the righteous are destined to plunder when the king messiah comes and it shall not be stored to be a treasure for our kings and it shall not be inherited they will not leave it over to as an inheritance to their children but it's going to come to us okay it's going to be divided up by us okay so this is what he says here the hainu to divide up their divisions that's what happens when we conquer the next paragraph this is what it means when it says when you go out to war against your enemy i'm pointing out it's singular and how do you know it's singular because it's really one unit this it would it would be plural be two years it would be like plural with two years would be but here it's without that extra unit it's only one it means your enemy your singular enemy as he points out below united so habit without that second good hamara it's reflecting its teaching we're talking about one enemy verita the verse says you see one horse one chariot or one writer but it says with the people more populist than you how can that be if it's all just one how are they more popular i'm telling you the they're more populous that's a word more populous it's not a word write in the comments let me know meaning to say am rav kazess such a numerous a great nation like this in number el emec they're all gathered they all gathered they're all representing some deep concept el emek chavez um they're sharing a common denominator in the very beginning as if they're all one person because they all hate the jew the koluma emeritus and each one of the nation is saying to the other nation my worst is like you're worse what i have is yours my tanks are your town you can use my nuclear weapons you could share right we i don't want to mention any nation's names whether it's north korea iran okay whatever right they all want to share the goods the ayades and when we fee when we hear this that they're sharing uh their weapons and they are in has come at their own agreement against us this causes a certain amount of not cowardliness but a weakness of heart right i guess cowardliness fits that's why what is the cohen that was the the the leader of the army is going to say al tira do not fear look in verse 3. these are just paraphrased lo mayhem you don't fear from them and not from their large numbers this should not affect you look at verse 3 he shall say to them hear o israel you are coming near to the battle against your enemies let your heart not be thanked do not be afraid do not panic do not be broken before them i'll just read four for the sake of it for hashem your god is the one who goes with you to fight for you with your enemies to save you so let's read the verse three in hebrew the umar lahaim shmy israel attempting okay so let's go on he wants to bring this up for a reason because he's telling us lee sequila self in the end this is god's promise man they will be broken up we've seen it so many times right there's seven nations that come against us but they all fight with each other in the end there's no shame between them and that's what it means when it says plural that you are approaching kredeem but it's also plural as you're approaching okay today to the battle against your enemies it says lush and robbie why listen to this hashem remember it says you then when they when you're first going out to battle they're like one but as you get closer and closer and closer there's many enemies don't be afraid they're not many that's the same enemy that's now broken up into smaller groups and those smaller groups mean that they are divided listen to the wisdom here i'm going to read that last second to the last line keep pateram it means before yikra the land before you even get close to them before the jewish people get close to them have that's like to disperse to be dispersed hashem hashem disperses them um and he covers them with a spirit of confusion and distortion and wait till you hear what you say next not the next few words but in the next paragraph and their hearts become divided okay now in spite of this gambia is god will create another miracle for the jewish people if you thought that was fantastic wait till what do they call that you know when you have a play it's the next scene wait till you hear the next scene if it's true that when you go out to war you have a small amount of number i want you to know we're going to read later what the cohen is actually going to say to the people right that if what if you had just gotten married right you're betrothed you didn't even consummate the marriage go home right if you what built a home and you didn't live in it yet go home if you have a vineyard and you didn't yet take the ties you didn't benefit yet from your own work hard work go home and if you're afraid go home so where are we going with this that who's left to fight who's left only siddique are you aware of this you have let's say a hundred thousand candidates for the war and by the time the cohen's finished there might be twenty thousand because people are afraid if you're afraid you go home we don't want you on the front lines so out of those twenty thousand up against who knows how many millions but guess what that's been our story that's how the word is to be fought by the yeshiva guys by the siddiqim okay the people who are strong in their we're going to talk about it strong in there we'll call it yiddish kite strong in their faith okay they have nothing to fear so let's go on so he says so that if it's such a small number we're unified we're going out as the verse began when you go out against your enemy it's singular so it's a small amount but what's happening here they looked at us as a small amount of number because that's how they saw us originally right you have 20 you had 100 000 people 81 home and you're left with 20 000 skinny yeshiva guys listen to what the enemies are like they're laughing they saw just a few amount of guys baby baby but what's going to happen in the meanwhile isla hashem hashem will send his assistant his help hashem will create illusions they will be in such a pandemonium because the illusions they'll see the what do you call it the shade the shadow of the sun setting on the mountains and it looks like an entire platoon of army coming down the mountains you just imagine right if you ever saw those movies where the old you know romans they come out of the forest and the whole field is just full of people when the further you are you can't make out the people so hashem will create these illusions whether with sounds i don't want to get too much into the the the it's called the davika you heard of the devica um canon there's the vitka square i don't remember which word it was i think it was 48 there was this i don't know what they call it uh a dud you know about this the davika cannon it's right on the vika square well they didn't expect it to make such a loud noise and they certainly expected a shell to drop somewhere but i don't think i don't think it was even close to being accurate and but it made such a loud noise that the army the enemies ran they thought it was nuclear okay only these things can happen with hashem's help it's not okay i mean with genius i mean maybe maybe they actually planned it that way i don't know but from all accounts that was not the plan russian russian speakers in the army and a lot of arab villagers that the russian army came yeah and yeah so they escaped without fighting because they did that but ugly the jewish russian speakers that did that soviet union drinking to help the troops okay and okay let's stick to the text okay and i know we're going with that but i i like what you're saying okay let's uh stick here so he says as it says in second kings chapter seven verse six it says like this this happened in our own history and now the lord caused the aramini our our remian camp to hear the sounds of chariots and the sounds of horses and the sounds of a great army and they said to one another the enemy behold the king of israel has hired us for the kings us for the kings of the hittites and the kings of the egyptians to attack us okay so basically the hebrew that he wanted us to see was right that god caused us to hear these these sounds so that's what god did he made this maybe an audio visual right where the shadow going down the mountains seemed like there was a a hole i don't know what they're called a platoon whatever this a whole group of army people coming or through the sounds as we just saw in um in in second kings okay and here you have proof that even if you have a small group of people hashem will make them appear as if they are many so the nations will be afraid so far so good and now we understand when it says it will be as you approach not in your approach but as you are approaching so the cuff the cuff is meaning it's a as if demio means as if a similarity is going on that is the word itself it's plural as you the plural the many the masses you're not the masses you're a small group but you will appear as many as you approach it's all in that one hebrew word to tell you sha tam nirim kerabim you will appear as many people came even though the truth is you are not many you're you're a few kia tem since you are really in truth very small number and he ends that paragraph with his statement famous signature zeh perush yakar this is a precious uh explanation and that's why he's called he called himself the clear car because he ends off many times by saying this is a parish a car and up until now you have to admit that is sweet now we're beginning verse three the explanation of verse three where this cohen he's a mashup he's the anointed one to lead the war and he says shema israel when you hear those words israel what does it remind you of but he doesn't doesn't if we don't have shema it just said you shall say to them hero israel you're coming near to the battle right don't be afraid so guess what the clear car is going to tell us he is reminding them of the shmei israel and most likely he's having everybody say altogether let's hear rashi says he's quoting rashi rashi says in other words when we spoke about being afraid we're talking about fear of sin if you know you did a lot of mitzvahs so you have less to be afraid of you did very few sins you have very you have nothing to be afraid of i want you to know the gamora actually says what kind of person is excused from the army what kind of sin should he be afraid of now you're going to be shocked for some of you he says if you talk between putting your arm your arm to fill in and your head to fill in i'm sorry he says even if you just wink your eye it's not even talking what kind of interruption is that it's like we say it's forbidden okay it's called a sin and it's big enough that one should be afraid that if he even winked his eye once while putting on his to fill in between his arm to fill in his head to fill in go home don't fight so you know who's left really just that sadiq right hopefully we'll all pick up the message that we shouldn't even wink when we put an art to fill in right we know that interrupting is forbidden sparta may make a second bracha if they do otherwise they only make one ashkenazi movies make two bracha and we say broke shane could vote looks like anyway but we don't talk but some people are not aware of this maybe they're aware but they wink they use hand signals even that's forbidden okay at least we can walk away knowing that but more than that we know how righteous the army was okay so he says that even if all you have you're not a major learner you're not a big ben torah you're not a atari and you may not have a lot of misses in your belt the only mitzvah you could put in your belt and say that you do regularly is shma that's what rashi seems to be saying um where is it we said it's um and so i don't have them okay i have the hebrew book okay so the cleo cardiacs right away what the krishma is such a small thing a big thing i'm not really sure what you're trying to say here so he explains that the eaker who is the the philadelphia we're talking about the filling of the head did you know that we went out to war we went out wearing our phylacteries whatever reflector is uh filling we were to fill in and we talked we met we weld it tight so the arm to fill in is probably not a big deal because that's wound very tight they had to fill in they must have wore helmets with a cut out for that's filling or they wore turbines somehow another that if they're going to run or ride horses or do whatever they do in a war throw around a sword hold a shield you you must it must be on very good right okay so apparently they were that we know we did that you're really actually we're actually supposed to where it's filling all day long the reason we don't because you need to have a clean body a clean mind and a clean environment and most of the time if we're not sitting and learning all day that's very difficult to accomplish okay so anyway the eaker of the to fill in sho rosh is what is this ma because when we do say the shema in the morning we're wearing our villain you're supposed to wear the film during davening and i'm talking to the men of course okay women are exempt because it's like they have to fill it on all the time they're so holy so dates filling the the kriya the reading of the shema comes about also because of the villain because we're not supposed to be what a dem sheker we're not supposed to testify falsely about ourselves we're saying the words that are in the filling the shema it's in the mezuzah it's in its filling and we're saying those words so you should have the filling on when you're saying it so you're not a um a false witness on yourself and that's brought down in gamora broncos 14b are you aware that when you see a jew riding on a horse carrying a sword and a shield and he's wearing stifling this you probably think they're crazy right you know they say when you're in a war in a fight with somebody if you really act crazy they'll probably run away so here you have these black boxes on your head the truth is that the black boxes should instill a certain i'm going to call it healthy fear but a must of a fakhad an absolute dread on our enemies and how do we know look in chapter 28 verse 10. see in 2810 it says that all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the lord is called upon you and they will fear you. by the way the gomorrah in brockhorn 6a goes through how to prove this i'm not going to go to that right now maybe maybe i'll read it you know this is good stuff so rabbi avin bar said in the name of rabbi yitzchak from where is it arrived that god wears to fill in so in isaiah 62 8 the lord has sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength since it's customary to swear when you make an oath on holy objects is understood because that's how the verse says he swore by his right hand that he's wearing the torah on his arm now specifically his right arm that refers to the torah as it says in deuteronomy chapter 33 verse 2 from his right hand a fiery law for his people so that's the torah what about the arm of his strength so that's his left hand and that is referring to the phylacteries and it says in psalms 29 11 the lord gave strength to his nation so the strength is now on us and that strength you know that is in psalms 29 11 the lord gave strength to his nation in the form of the mitzvah phylacteries the gomorrah asks and from where it is derived where do you know that the factories provide strength and that's the verse right here in verse chapter 28 10 and all the nations of the land shall see the name of the lord is called upon you and they will fear you now how do you know specifically of the head because that's the verse the verse actually spells it out that the name of the lord is called upon you it's on you okay so on you that'll be the head okay let's go back into the clear car so he now he says hey let's finish we've been speaking about phil and sharoche that is where that's upon you this is actually a necessity in a war mayhem that the the nations that hate you will see it upon you and they will fear from you you know what even the sama the shema we say at night saves us it saves us from what matsuyam just like it saves us from damagers like we're talking about shaving types of the demons and and anything that would damage us so too just like it saves us in a spiritual sense from damage it saves us also from the nations who actually derive all their energy anyway from the administering angels from above and now we understand i'm not going to read the whole thing but there's a majus rabbah in bamidba 2019 then krishma is related to this verse so we'll see that it's in the measure relates it but let's just talk about the verse the verse you can find in numbers 23 it says lo yishkav right it will not lie down we'll talk about the jewish people until it consumes its prey and drinks the blood of the slain in other words we won't go to sleep until we have conquered that's what the verse implies so too we're talking about the krishna night we won't go to sleep until we gain the strength enough to conquer those evil forces uh spiritual forces so far the truth is everything we talked about up until now is talking about an actual war against physical enemies up until now and however now gamora brachos in page 5a it says like this autumn yetzer tov a person needs to fight a battle he needs to anger he needs to get all riled up with his good nature over his evil nature and how do we know there's a verse the king david i just want to reiterate this idea there's nothing in the nach part the prophets in kasuvim that has not already been revealed in the five books of moses the prophet cannot reveal anything new he's there to rebuke and get us back on the path of what we were told at the revelation of mount sinai so if king david said it there's already hints to it in the five books of moses i'll read the whole verse i'll translate the verse and then we're going to break it into four parts it says in psalms chapter four verse five rigsu tremble and sin not imro bild khan reflect or say in your hearts upon your beds vidal seller and be silent utterly silent forever what does that verse mean according to our tradition it's telling you what you need to do to fight your yates to overcome and be victorious in this war i'm going to call it jihad i'm going to call it a personal jihad okay i like that term so he says first rig zoo get riled up against your your yetzeran don't sin the eos el moutav if that works great meaning the yetzer hara ran away and you're you're in good good shape the low if that doesn't work yikrat batora learn some torah and how do we know because the next part you should contemplate in your hearts the torah should be on your hearts if that works the it's hard runs away mutav excellent good you're good shape v low if not that's when you have to say you know what else you're going to do you got plan a didn't work plan b torah didn't work now plan c read the shema as it says al mishkav hem upon your beds that's what we do that's what it's referring to reading the shema night zeal if the the yates are right away mutate great ilo yisco yoma misa plan d right remember the day of your death hopefully that will be the last stop and the reason the truth is the yetzer is afraid of your death because you're like he's like a parasite he's hanging on he's clinging on if you're dead he's got to leave you and there's nothing left to to be energized with so as soon as you and we spoke about this earlier this week if you're faced with a dilemma you have two very good friends one is sitting shiva you want to visit him it's a house of mourning and the other friend is getting married right what do we say it's in king solomon says go to the house of mourning better to go there then logic wouldn't say that look who wants to be depressed who wants to guess what this is what life's about being sober having a clear mind we're we're in a battle we're in a personal jihad against hara and apparently going or reminding yourself about the day of your own death is instrumental in getting rid of the eight sahara which we will see as we continue reading the clear car okay so here we are the arb elude these four stages are niskaraba parshizu are also hinted at and spoken about and mentioned in our parsha as it says now this is in chapter 23 verse 10 23 verse 10 it says like this when a camp goes out to war against your enemies you should guard against anything evil what in the world are you talking about what does it mean guard against anything evil well the truth is if you look at the next the rest of that verse the next couple verses it's talking about nocturnal emissions which we all know we'll talk about has been to do with what a man thinks of during the day and during the night um having nocturnal emissions but also one of the 613 commandments is that an army you know every army soldier every soldier every fighter has to have amongst his weapons a shovel because he should not go to the bathroom within the camp goes to outside the camp and uses the shovel to take care of his needs okay so vanish martin be called rashi says something most fascinating he says that since the sutton the fish that what does the sutton do the sutton happens to be the it's hard by the way and we all have it within us it persecutes prosecutes prosecutes us especially in a time of danger right so if you have what to fear from the satan don't stand at the edge of a cliff don't stand beyond the yellow line next to the light rail or the subway right you don't put yourself in dangerous situation and that's why the cohen said anybody's afraid of what afraid of sin he shouldn't go and he shouldn't go to the war so you're putting yourself if okay let's go like this since the sudden actually per prosecutes at the time of danger the kit roger and who is this prosecutor it's the satan which is the yetza hara and it's mishtade lahatiyah it does everything it can to cause a person to sin in the war right whether it's murder obviously you know shooting somebody in the back who's running away or there's stories about people they don't want to keep prisoners because it's a big hassle so they kill prisoners there's so many things that can go wrong in war in from your side and do sins plus okay this is not a very pc subject but i'll talk about anyway many robberies take place right but there's also rape a lot of abuse a lot of abuse i want you to know one thing about the jewish people and as far as i know we have never been accused publicly through courts whatever of rape of the enemy and that is very unusual because every war that seems to happen from time immemorial are suffer the most in war not just from dead husbands and and devastation and hunger but a lot of times unfortunately from rape it's forbidden right there's a whole thing of the office torah we're not going to get into that right now but at the time when you're swinging a sword and there's blood all over the adrenaline is going and you can lose yourself okay so a lot of sin can take place and that's what he says especially in this makaska so you're doing sin in a makkam sukhana you're basically putting your own life on the line and this is all the sutton's um scheme so that you end up falling in front of your enemy so especially during a war a man a person must be especially careful against the itzhara kibamaka masukan because in any place that has danger zahu mitgarev it provokes a man even more in than any other place right when you're in war with the adrenaline going and the blood and the women and everything else lahatos ladavara to to lean and to fall and to sin with something evil is that and now we know why the verse says unisa guard against anything evil that you shouldn't even think shallow hair of them beyond a person a man shouldn't think during the day whatever it is the yavoli they carry balila and come to nocturnal emissions at night so here's the question what you mean just during war you have to be careful the lobe is not any other time and i rather he's saying you know what yet we already stated this that the italian really comes against you during the war sahih badav or irva whether it's illicit sexual relations or bashara veros or any other sins in order to have you drop in front of your enemies that's why the torah teaches this is the lesson the torah is teaching you all it's especially necessary when you're at war to gather your strength against your yates so it doesn't bring you to a sin but now i'm just going to sum up the next three lines he basically says that he has examined not just this partial but many of them are forcing to talk about this and they all the ones he's explaining many of them use this parsha as only an example of what you need to do to fight your yazara and they take it out of context meaning this shot that it's a real war and there's another shot that it's just the internal war so he has a problem that many of the mafurshim have taken it out of its real context or one level of context as a real war and they only discuss it on a metaphysical level and also the other way around he wants to say they both work perfectly well together that it's true you cannot take it out of its simple meaning it's got to be giving us really good advice about war and it's got to be telling us the inner war as well um i i'll read it anyway okay let me let me read what he says shapiro should call him the explanation of all these words that departure talks about is regarding the hamas adam imitro is discussing a war with a man in his heart in his his um evil incarnation the dover zero hulk machilioti but that explanation is so far from reason to what taken out from its simple explanation so he writes what has been written um they took it out from what's written that's so obvious from every from every angle to teach you derek hashem to remove it from just teaching you how to how to win against your enemies i'm going to tell you the lesson he's going to tell you i don't want to take anything away from you in order to win the war against your enemy you have to first fight the inner battle they go hand in hand do not think this is just a recipe of how to fight the external enemy don't think this is just a recipe how to fight the inner enemy they go hand in hand you don't stand the chance against your external enemy unless you win the battle first within yourself and they're both necessary lessons let's hear what he used to say i want to continue reading this word it's so beautiful the only way you're going to win against the nations is when you have your own actions in check below nifcad mayhem isla vera and you won't lose a single man because of sin okay that's why it says it will be as you draw near to the war with the nations so we're talking about the physical war what will happen you will fear from your own sin that you won't fall into it by the the strength of your insahara satan don't forget these words it's the it's the sutton that is coming against you at the time of danger what did we say there were four remember king david in chapter i think it was chapter five verse four he said four verse five let me just check it was chapter four verse five he gave us the though he gave us the outline four things go try to overcome yatar if that doesn't work learn torah if that doesn't work recreational if that doesn't work think of the day of your death he says our partial includes all those concepts listen so the first thing you should fear from sin but you don't fall fine so then if that doesn't work then learn torah and how do we know because it says the niga ko in the diver the cohen approaches them and speaks to the people the word dibear you know what a gezera shava is it's one of the thirteen harmonical principles deeper if if the he the cohen is gonna speak to the people the word deed there is a hint to the moshe moshe spoke what did moses speak he spoke torah now not only did he speak torah there's a special that there are many things in this world that you can communicate in any language there are certain things you can only do in hebrew this is going to be one of them when the kohen gets up there and speaks to the jewish people he must speak in hebrew and how do we know because of gezer just like moses spoke hebrew to the people the torah is in hebrew guys we've got to learn hebrew right so too it's called a gazer shava it's in an egg i forget the in english what they call it i think i wrote it down but i'll tell you what's in hebrew when you have one word in one section of the torah and the same word in another section of the torah that there will be a halal connection what applies over here applies over there this only works through tradition it doesn't work if you are fancied by a certain word here and you say wow i saw the same word over there i'll make all these connections you can make all the connections you want but in halacha it only makes a connection if it's through tradition and what he's about to say is that it works in both directions it also has to work a gazero shava has to go back in it can't just work one way whatever is true is over here is going to be true there and whatever is true here is going to be true there and let's hear what you have to say so we know in message sota 42a so let me just tell you what the the english term for that because that i have here 42a here it is i'll read i'll just read what he says with regard to the priest who was anointed for war at the time he would speak to the nation he would speak to them in the sacred tongue being hebrew as it says and it shall be when you draw near to the battle that the priest shall approach and speak to the people he's approaching and speaking to the people what language do the people speak hebrew so that you can find we just said deuteronomy chapter 20 verse two the priest identified in the verse is called what do we call him the mashiach okay and he's appointed for war the priest who is inaugurated specifically to serve this function and speak to the people he addresses them in the sacred tongue and there's the mishnah the mishnah tells us this the gomorrah later on says he wants to the wants to clarify an ambiguous point in the mishnah what is it saying when the mishnah derives from this verse that the priest must address the people in hebrew the word says this is what the mission is saying that the ruling is derived from here it is verbal analogy that's what the gezer that was what i was looking for the word gazeroshava means a verbal analogy this word is here that word is there works both ways as it says here in our verse and speak the cohain is going to speak and over there by the giving of the torah in exodus chapter 19 19 it says moses spoke so this is only through tradition you can't learn it out any other way i'm sure you would like to but that's the way it works okay so now we know that learning torah is somehow hinted at but it's not it's not a that's not alone that's not enough so he says in a kodesh just like over there by moshe it was in hebrew afkan so too of con kane it has to be in hebrew but i'm going to say the clear card says there is you can't use a gazer shava only halfway has to go the other way as well so mala holland thomas he's actually saying it's it's it's tour itself just like there's torah here's tara and you know what joshua was punished for what we call beetle torah you remember the scene where he wakes up and he's in a dream and he sees this angel and he has a discussion with this angel and the angel has a sword so listen to the conversation you can find this in joshua chapter 5 verse 14 where the angel says see now that i have come i have now come what does it mean now come he could have come earlier for a different sin the sin here was bitter torah so you can find this in aravind 63 and i'm going to read to you a little bit of it and i just have to find it here it is first of all joshua did not have any male sons we can find that out when you read second first chronicles 7 27 where it says none was the son and joshua his son we're talking about the descendants of ephraim there's a ending there's just an ending there's no more continuation after joshua he didn't have any sons which implies he had no children no sons and this tradition differs from the following statement that joshua was punished joshua was punished to remain childless because he prevented the jewish people from fulfilling the commandment of being fruitful multiply somehow another he prevented the jews from being fruitful multiply so he was punished that goes against this idea that he himself caused it i mean he did cause it in a secondary but the main point that i'm bringing this gemara in is because there's an argument that was one opinion that he um he didn't have children or he prevented the jewish people from having children and how do you know so it says in joshua 5 13 and it came to pass when joshua was by jericho he lifted his eyes and looked and behold a man stood over him against him with a sword drawn in his hand now it also says the next verse 5 14 he said no but i am a captain of the host of the lord i am now come what does it mean i am now come atta so the man an angel came to demand something of joshua to rebuke him the angel said last night due to your preparations for war so they were prepared for war the day before you neglected the evening offing on offering there's a daily offering one in the morning one in the evening and now tonight you're neglecting torah study you you neglect torah study to prepare for war never neglect torah study joshua's asked of him for which of these sins have you specifically come meaning he is aware of the fact he just had the conversation that you prevented the people from having uh um involved in in um i'm sorry uh the two sins are one is the um the the morning offering the the daily offering and the other is a neglecting torah study so the fact he says i now come so the gemara says the fact that i didn't come last night and wait until now show you shows you the sin of neglecting torah study is more severe it's more severe than not putting up the daily offering joshua immediately acted to rectify the matter by deciding that he must devote more time to learning as it says in joshua 8 13 and joshua walked that night in the midst of the valley and what's the name for valley emmick when you learn torah a mook deep okay you learn torah depth and this is what he says rav york said this teaches that he walked all night in the depth of halakha thereby atoning for his previously previous deck the neglect of torah study okay so that pretty much hits the point home that number one you fight your guitar number two you have to learn torah and we see here that the like zerashava the cohen is going to speak to the people and we see that in just in general torah study is a very severe neglecting torah study is a very severe uh crime the talmud shall dawah and this is the reason why shattamu torres magen bian haitsa that the the studying of torah guards you against hara and the sun is makatrix sakana and we all know that the sun is persecuting more at the time of danger now this is a very interesting question are all the jews bine torah are they all such tamil we know not everyone can sit and learn him cain also keeps if that's the case the big question is those groups that don't learn how are they ever going to be saved from their in an in inner enemy in a war that's why it says shema israel the cohen he's going to get up there into the israel meaning the shma self decrotto every jew knows how to read the shema you don't have to be a big tom mchawkem you don't have to know the whole torah you don't have to know how many mishnayas everyone knows the the the shema israel and through that you that everyone would be saved from the interference or the payback of the enemy what if you have someone who's really ignorant and he doesn't even know krishma or azais kashe or someone who is just so stubborn and whereas yatzuhar it's kazakh he just has very strong inclination not to do the right thing below yeshua nicole you got no response there's nothing you could just like you're not you're like you're talking to a wall he's got nothing not torah and not krishma sorry misa you remind him of the day of his death and that's why the cohen says as we know who is a man who built a house who's the one who just got married and but the words are lest you die in war i mean just look at the deuteronomy chapter 20 verses four through eight for the lord your god is the one who goes with you to fight with you against your enemies to save you the office shall speak to the people saying where is the man what is a man who has built a new house and has not yet inaugurated let him go and return to his house lest he die in the war and then another man inaugurated and what is what about the man who planted a vineyard and has not yet redeemed redeemed it let him go and return to his house lest he die in the war and another man redeem it and what about the man who betrothed the woman has not yet taken her let him go and return to his house lest he die in the word three times if this is not a reminder of the day of your death what is so it's like pretty much black and white here so bahaskara sami shalom you see that by way of this narrative the day of your death is being mentioned buzzing you not saying for that last category of people who are totally ignorance and don't know the eats don't know the krishna at least remind them the day of their death we only have a few more minutes but i want to finish off this this paragraph he quotes genesis chapter 4 verse 7. this is what god says to cain after his offering was not accepted abel's was he says imtaitive says if you improve and rashi says if you work on your character you will be forgiven meaning you'll be saved veeam lo taytave and if you don't work on your character you don't improve the pesach that means that sin is waiting for an ambush at the door meaning to say yes kurulo pessa kibro you should remember the opening of your grave because the verse continues if you don't or even though that it the yetzahara desires its longing is towards you nevertheless the answer is you have every ability to control your yates or okay now this is the uh the landing strip okay hang in there guys did you know this for the living no they will die in in um in cahelous ecclesiastes chapter 9 verse 5. do you know the living know they're going to die no kidding but who's it talking about the righteous the righteous people are cognizant of the fact that this life is short right for these people who think they're going to live forever and they're going to stay in their homes until there's no more virus until there's a what's the word a vaccine you ain't living man get out there and live sorry to tell you unless you're very old and you have a precondition pre uh you know pre-existing conditions but anyway so the for the living know they're going to die they're sadiki meaning to say shiyo them so they know they're going to die arcane zikr on yama misa they know they're going to die they always think there's a sense of perciavos do chuva one day before you're going to die and since we don't know we're going to die we're always going to be in a state of sobriety but this will save you from sin but may same verse in ecclesiastes chapter 9 verse 5. it ends by saying but the dead know nothing what do you mean the dead know nothing hey lord shine these are the dead these are the evil people that should because may seem while they're alive they're actually called dead and how do we know that in ezekiel chapter 21 verse 30 it says over there and you wicked man sentenced to be slain meaning you're already slain that was um that was king so russia yomo the ace avon cates the rest of the verse um says like this uh whose day has come at the end of his iniquity what does it mean whose end has come whose day has come at the end of his iniquity meaning to say valvo's because of sin shall hake yolo that means because of your sin your end will come killoya zikr and kate shalom because you didn't have that zika one of your end against your eyes always you thought you were going to live forever but not like david dove it in chapter into them chapter 39 verse 5 he asked god he prays to god he says let me know my end hodi ami hashem kitsi i want to know what i'm going to die so that's the righteous that's king david but not these evil people rather the verse continues and then this is um and actually it's chapter 49 verse 12 of psalms it says kirbam bhattaimo leyolam which means like this that in their hearts kirba means like in their innards bataymo their houses are going to be forever the clea car i told you in the beginning he took over the job of the rob of prague and there were many wealthy people many wealthy jews there and they had castles they had mansions and they used the most expensive uh what do you call these tiles what are they called marble and he gave it's like how can your rabbi your own congregation is telling his own congregation you should be using that money to help the poor you should be moving to israel what are you building houses here in future what are you building this forever he was able to give those kind of king david also did this is the evil people they think that this life is forever zep right they perish he ends this is a very dear explanation and with that i just want to say this should touch us we should really you know review these lessons make internalize it we should understand how important it is to obviously to beat our yetzara that's the whole goal but the procedure do everything you can right have awe and fear of hashem learn torah do the krishma of course when you're supposed to and beyond you can say shma all day long and to remember the day of your death okay so bazrat hashem these lessons we can we with these lessons we will not only beat and be victorious over our inner yetzera but through becoming righteous we will conquer the world right we will prosper as a nation and carry this on this heritage to our children bazrat hashem i wish everyone in shabbat shalom call to a happy life rabbi brightly with will bizrat hashem be here next week with part two of krishna so it's very good that we already touched on a few ideas here any questions [Music] a