This is The Day the L-rd Has Granted You Understanding with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

anybody [Music] Shalom aleichem welcome everybody a warm welcome to the ebony beat me Josh a very warm welcome so we deal with the clear car that's the fundamentals it's unbelievable the amount of fundam just fundamental principles that he tries to get across us within the parsh itself and we learn a lot of Hebrew on the way so I encourage you to use the original Hebrew score sheets you don't get the color you get the black and white but you will find a link below while we're talking about links below uh as you know we do a lot of and we help a lot of people and we're doing a fundraising campaign we're actually over about 60 percent in just two weeks we have two weeks to go so we uh we want to first of all thank every single one of you who has contributed uh you should all be blessed unbelievable thanks and the second thing is for those who want to participate there's a link below that you could still participate okay so we're in the clear car on Deuteronomy chapter 28 verse 15. now I'm going to say unfortunately it's just like a big sigh this is the Parsha that deals with curses okay it's also blessings don't get me wrong it's not all bad um but it could be you know when you get wrapped into the curses it can be quite depressing so you have to read the whole partial it's not a partial just of curses and I want to start off with everyone should know this idea that God's name the yud and the hey and the love and the hey that's His holy name in the list of curses the 98 curses his name appears 26 times not only 26 times you have to understand that the Camacho of the yud and the Hand of the hate is 26 and when you times 26 times 26 you get 676 and that's how many words are in the club in the in the curses and what is the lesson why do I need to know this because everything emanates from Hashem these what we call punishments or if you want to use the word curses these are you sorry these are ways of God's instructing us to get back on the right path he wants a relationship with us he cares about us and he is giving us measure for measure media connect and Meda we just have to figure that out to be smart enough to know what it is we're doing wrong and get back on the straight path but the idea that it's coming from him in a loving way you should know this is a good reason to do chuva it's not like you know all the other religions Christians and whatnot oh yeah the Jews had it and now they don't it's the opposite unfortunately when these curses when these um punishments come about it's actually proof that there's an ongoing relationship an ongoing Covenant with the Jewish people it's like proof right so with that in mind verse 15 and chapter 28 this is the beginning of what we call the curses it says and it will be if you do not obey so in the Hebrew if you don't obey the voice of the Lord because the Lord your God and I'll just read the rest in English to fulfill all his Commandments and statutes which I am commanding you this day that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you so this is like the beginning right it could be quite uh depressing a car right away in the uh in his uh you know he's he I would say there are three observations or three questions however you want to look at it if it's an observation of an anomaly it should bother us and there's where there's a question the first thing he says is all of these curses and you can see right away it says imlot it's talking to the individual now there are 98 curses in this week's Parsha back in chapter 26 of Leviticus you have a list of curses as well there are 49 that's actually going to be very significant I want to point that out 49 times 2 is 98. so there's double the amount of curses in this week's Parsha but if you go back for a second into Leviticus chapter 26 verse 14. Clear Car mentions [Music] when you look at again 2614 you'll see that it's actually plural look in the Hebrew well in the English if you do not listen you would never notice that in the English right but in the Hebrew the emlo Tish Maru with the tough in the beginning the love at the end it's plural so what's going on here the 48th curse the 49 curses in Leviticus is plural the 98 curses in this week's Parsha is singular he's shall it's it's an observation on his part and believe me he has an answer but that's the first observation then the third line down in the clear card he says even in our Parsha even though it's speaking to the individual the punishments affect everybody do you follow what I'm saying how do I know he gives you two examples um in Exodus chapter 28 verse 23 and then again let's just say in um in verse 36 okay let's look at those verses he brings down so that's in verse 23 and the skies above you will be like copper okay if you think it's only over me that the sky is like copper we're talking about affecting the rains or the produce as you can see through Rashi and if you go to um verse 36 it says the Lord will lead you and your king who you will have established over you okay you were talking about a national experience so even though in our Parsha the curses are singular the result is that what I should call the consequences are do not affect only the individual is that clear that is the second thing that the Klee yakar points out and he says besides that there are other examples the hard Bay it's like the fourth line down in the middle Harvey zulatam there are many aside from them okay and now the third observation umai taima what's the reason how you always the words Torres kohanim is referring referring to vayikra vayikra is all about the levian the kanim and the beta miktash it's called Taurus kohanim he's just asking what's the reason over there in bahuko Thai in Leviticus chapter 26 that there's only 49 whereas the elucibart has whereas these in our Parsha are double numbering 98. now the last three words he says is which means it's extremely unusual you do not find such these are great questions okay these are great questions and that is how the car begins this paragraph so the clear card begins to answer by mentioning now I'm sorry vatan elzo the actual reason for this is as follows kohanim remember those that were mentioned in Leviticus this now this is a little um hard to pin down a timeline wise because in Leviticus that was before parshusra a right it was before this Parsha we actually stood at Mount grazing and mount Avil was actually not until we we went into art Israel Joshua brings us there it's actually on the first day before we even get to Jericho I know it's in chapter eight but according to everybody chapter 8 comes before chapter three and four um when we go to Jericho however I think with the clear card is now about to say is that Leviticus that happened in the first year before the first pesach in the desert that we already learned all the laws of the of two men tahara Purity and impurity and then had the base of miktasher that say the Tabernacle by then was built okay the first of Nissan was the first day that we used the Tabernacle so that's the first year when we actually went in and took this I'm going to call it a new testament I'm sorry A New Covenant New Covenant New Covenant is a Brit khadasha when we went into Israel and stood at these mountains and half of the population half of the tribes stood on one mountain half stood on the other mountain and it was orchestrated with the levim in the middle and each one said blessed is a person who does X and curses a person who does X and then why and everyone had to answer amen that's the time that we actually took what we call arvus arvous I didn't explain yet it's called Collective responsibility the Clear Car explains impartials for a see I placed before you a blessing and a curse and then it goes through the whole orchestrated choreographed thing that's only going to happen when we go into land of Israel at these mountains it was so that we had enough time to make a decision and I mentioned then that just like a Converse someone who wants to convert guess what when you convert you're responsible for all the Jewish people's sins and we're responsible for your sins are you sure you want to get into this and there's a period of time where you have to think about it seriously well guess what the Jewish people also converted and there were several times we entered covenants with God and it's called The Covenant of arvus Koy Israel a raving every Jew is responsible for every other Jew before that Live and Let Live I could sin and it shouldn't affect you you sin it didn't affect me but the time we went into Israel and made this Covenant at the mountain that's when it took place however what I want to say is that this is a point where we actually accepted to go through with that Covenant even though we didn't stand there yet and that's how the Clear Car expresses it he says because it's his first line of the second paragraph Leticia eisenship back then in the first year we left Egypt nemruko de la Argus that was before the Covenant before we entered the Covenant of collective responsibility arvuth actually means being a guarantor we're all guarantors for each other which they accepted upon themselves who Israel in the oath that actually takes place later but they accept it upon themselves already in partially alkane now this is going to be crucial that's why the numbers 49. why 49 let me I'm going to spoon feed you a little bit if I'm not responsible for you and you're not responsible for me so the only thing that happens is going to be when am Israel sins that's the only I know that sounds confusing but that is all that's happening and therefore there's 49 but once we accept our views so then I'm responsible for my sin and I'm responsible for other people's sins and then it becomes double and I'm spoon feeding you what the clear card is about to tell us so before it was only 49 because 49 was somehow collectively when all of our Michel sins all of us in we're all responsible but when once we enter arvus even in individual sins he's responsible for himself and everyone else is carrying his sin and when one other person sins I'm going to be carrying their sin as well so it's double okay with that in mind let's see how the Clear Car expresses this believe it or not this is very you know we're not kabbalists here but we have to understand what the Gomorrah in it actually wasn't in the dorm I found it in um I found it in Rosh Hashanah 21b it could be somewhere in the dharim but I found it in the Russian 21b it says by Moshe rabenu that he received 49 levels of understanding well actually it says 50 minus one who talks like that okay so what so that means 49. now that's this is crucial in order to be on the Sanhedrin you would have to know 49 ways to express one idea and let's say what's forbidden or what's puzzle just say on the tomb aside and you would have to be able to express 49 levels or understanding on the clean and pure side whatever is thrown your way as a sage you have to be able to see both sides and not just one way 49 levels of understanding on each side with that in mind it mentions as I said in Gomorrah restaurant 21b that mode that the world was created with 50 Gates of this we're going to call it like deep understanding BINA and all of them were given over to Moshe except one now from that we learn just keep in mind this is interesting because we're talking about the number 49. mise from this you learn and ushi that something that is possible and I think this is for every human being that's what he says means humankind we are creating the image of God for anything that's possible for a human being and I'm going to add the word to understand foreign for a person and the word is to enter into the Halls into the rooms of the uh edifice of wisdom I mean it's very poetic and understanding are you they meant it's through these 49 gateways that are open before you this is unbelievable everybody could reach this in potential in potential every human being could reach this I want to stress this that's why a convert is no different right in terms of a non-jew and a Jew there's a difference but not in potential in potential because if we know there's such a thing as conversion and there's different levels of conversion we're not going to get into that now but being a righteous gnawhide attaching yourself to the Torah attaching yourself to the god of Israel attaching yourself to the people of Israel one can overcome all of the uh hindrances you can break through but anyway so he says right here sadik our Sheriff nasham these are the gates of righteousness which are open they're before God then that's and it's the righteous people whoever right all human beings whoever is righteous can enter through them can enter them you could in order to understand within those Gates of understanding you can have an understanding and knowledge of God now he mentions that's true by the righteous what about the one who's not righteous he's the that is the sinner that a person only sins because of a spirit of folly that comes upon them I want to take you over there have to find it on the source sheet um anybody find it number eight interestingly enough it's found in Gamora Sota which is spelled with the same but Islamic and a shin are interchangeable keep that in mind because race Locker says a person commits a transgression only if a spirit of folly stood with a shin enters him it will cause Folly and if a man wise goat white if a man's wife goes astray so it says is spelled actually with a shin but we right in rabbinical terms we call it a Sota the shin and the samek are interchangeable we are familiar with Sultan so the word tischte is written in the Hebrew with the letter Shin affording an alternative reading of Tish te which is related to the word uh fali or stuyat okay just keeping that in mind so you have that Sadiq who has in front of him the ability to enter into up to the 50th or let's say the 49th level of wisdom and understanding which I'm sure we would all like to so we're all potentially tadiqi right but what about the there's some kind of other worldly spirit that enters him and the libotah and his heart becomes closed from understanding we're hidden it's not able to enter those you know those rooms uh or you know volumes of wisdom this person who's a sinner he sees those 49 sharibina took him the fun of he sees these Gates that are open before them but he dares not enter right the words are he doesn't enter into any one of those as we know yes there's Capital crime and you will get the death penalty but there's lesser penalties such as lashes but here we're talking about the curses themselves so the curses are 49. that's why the curses of 49 he he dares not enter through the 49 open um Gates that he's invited in you don't think God has an open invitation to every human being to enter these of course as many of the people in this room they made that choice right they want to beat Sadiq him they choose to answer the 49 at least to to take a peek and to want to enter into these 49 Gates of wisdom they're not turning it away measure for measure so you have the 49 curses as a measure and now the code name are remember before this oath that we took that we take responsibility for each other that's the arvus then you're talking about back in Leviticus that would be plural Lush and Robin it's plural but the clear card says it's which is a very strange language I am not even familiar with many of these words but I discussed and learned it today that specifically if all of them got together and sinned and did some kind of an Abomination or you know something that's considered dirty loss then collectively they would be fit to receive the um those curses collectively and that's talking about the 49 curses in bahuko Thai like amongst ourselves who were Sadiq him that um was among them who at NAFTA malate he can still save himself so that is the thing that's facing a convert his decision do you want to save yourself you're really I mean so many people that come out of oh I just want to be saved I just want to be saved it's not about that okay because as a Jew you could save yourself guess what's going to happen once you enter and you actually become a Jew it ain't about that you are collectively going to be held responsible for everyone else's sins this is a heavy trip and that's why God gave the time between parshusrae and coming to the individual to make that decision but they accept it upon themselves to do it a Volcom here in our Parsha after we took this group responsibility that each and every person will suffer will carry will um heavy carry the load of not only his own sin or her sin but the sin of the other as well just reminds me of Christianity house so opposite of Judaism it is it's like you know you don't have to do anything someone else is going to suffer for you hello in Judaism it's the whole opposite okay that I'm gonna suffer for your sins every Jew is going to suffer for every other Jewish every other Jewish person sins and Al came this is why there are 98 curses in our Parsha kethel double because it's connected because it's double because I'm going to suffer from my own sin and yours as well and now we understand why it's actually in singular in our Parsha if you don't listen it is true that it's telling you but guess what the Marcos are claudiot the the the um the curses are all inclusive it's going to affect us all meaning to say that even a single person who sins foreign causes to roll the curse onto everyone else right means surrounds this curse around the whole Jewish people now just like it says he gives two examples in chapter 29 verse 17. so that's number nine on the sourishing it says perhaps there is among you a man that's a single person a woman fine a family or a tribe who Strays away from the Lord okay so in the in the Hebrews so we see us talking to the individual and in verse 21 if I'm not mistaken it says in a later generation your descendants who rise up after you I said it's 29 21. along with the Foreigner comes from distant land will say so in other words the person coming to Israel will see the Jews and they're going to upon seeing the plagues of that land it's in plural so it affects everybody so too I should have mentioned in 17 is talking to the individual but it's something that's going to affect everybody so 2 and 21 it's it's the the curses affect the whole the whole Amisha the whole nation and in verse 21 when it says and they will see it is plural and they will see and Marcos is also plural but anyway what do we hear from this what is inferred that what do we hear what is the implication that the majority the many carry the sin of the individual and what is the proof I want to take you for a little journey into Joshua it's number 11 on the source sheet we all know that aachan was the one that sinned in fact there was even a lottery uh if that's what you call it the short sticks right to find out who was the guilty party it's clear that we lost the war in I right we would have been successful in that war guess what somebody took something from Jericho and guess who it was it was ahan but nobody knew it until the lottery but guess what it says in verse 1 of chapter seven all of the children of Israel committed a trespass okay the Hebrew is the Jewish people sinned and he continues on it says in verse 11 Israel had sinned Israel but we all know it's clear that it was one person one person sinned are you shaking in your boots one Jew sinned and we were all responsible it says so in the Torah right in the navi okay that's why we understand now in Deuteronomy 28 15 which is our verse the imlo tishma the individual if you don't listen meaning even an individual Shalom ishma a one individual Jew who doesn't listen he's gory Marcos larabim he's causing the the plagues the hit the plague to come upon the whole Jewish people and those are the general 90 Acres out of the curses out of 98 curses many of them are clearly affecting the whole nation as we gave examples of now I think as an introduction to the next paragraph the next paragraph begins with Davao means alternatively a lot of times in the clear car when he uses the hair he needs another level but I think he means alternatively here like another shot another way to look at it and one of the questions we actually need to ask ourselves is and I think it will answer this question where did Moses come up with this idea that to add I'm using that Loosely Another 48 curses so the question really is did he hear them originally they're all 40 all um 98 but he only gave over um 49. right we know that Deuteronomy is his own words it's his own words so it's a legitimate question to ask why didn't Moses or God instruct about the 48th additional ones or let's say the total of 98 earlier now we did understand this from an arvous point of view once we entered arvos so then there's a dub and that is one answer however what did Moses know about these and not express them or did he somehow figure them out on his own let's enter this next paragraph and I hope that you'll appreciate that question only after we learn this if you notice in verse chapter 29 verse 3 you'll find that on number 12 on the source sheet it says yet until this day Hashem it only says Adam is at the end of the verse but so until this day the Lord had not given you a heart to know or eyes to see and ears to hear okay which means what which means as of this day you did have as this day mothers yesterday no but on this day God actually did give you a heart to know and eyes to see okay and ears to here that I think they have to read it that way and I think this will help us understand why Moses did not reveal the other 48 curses in but only half only 48 not sorry only 49 not 98. let's see if I'm right according to the clear card he brings that verse so God did not give you a understanding heart until today and it's written in in mishlay in mishla you'll find this number 13. this is King Solomon if you call for understanding and raise your voice of discernment but the Hebrew is much more beautiful then the last part is really what he's going to talk about ishena if you seek out and searches you're looking for we'll call it Treasures well it's really silver let's use a silver and then okay so if you seek it out like silver comma and the word that is searching out now the word means a treasure now what it really means is something that's hidden something that you're searching for that's hidden that must be valuable okay like in Shabbos you're not allowed to do hat Mana you can't take something that is cooking right it has to do with cooking and place it in in a very kind of a way sealed kind of way where it's going to continue to heat up okay it's we'll talk about it and hilkashavis but anyway that's the word monim something that's hidden but I want to show you what the clear card is going to do with us with this word look at the word kemat Moni it's take it like cuff like mem Tess monim so God is telling you if you seek it like silver and hunt it like I and we're using the word treasure instead of treasure like the 49 that's twice Moni means counted twice okay it's counted twice so it's look at the clear car and how he explains it he says we actually darshan out we can expound this word as memthe monim whatever mem test is 49 twice meaning like I said before anyone who's looking for wisdom has to always open their eyes to the other side why do we pop skin like Hillel and not like they shamai one of the main reasons is because well because he'll had more students but why did he have more students because he was Kinder it's true but he was also more humble and he was always willing to give the other side the fair shake to express themselves first you explain what you say my opponent and guess what they may not be a disagreement I want to hear your sign I always want to hear the other side so as we said Atomic hakum has to be able to see both sides to explain both sides how they're both right but in the end he may has to he has to choose but to see both sides to really understand both sides so he says 49 faces of let's say the positive or clean or pure mem test punim Tommy Tommy whereas he's to see the other side as well now this is a very strong statement Zoo that a human being a person is not able to enter the word literally means like an investigation like a research you want to research you want to investigate you want to come to the truth the only way to do it is from what we call binas alive now literally we mean the understanding heart but we all know the Heart Is Right Here Right all the guys know that right all the women know it somewhere else but if let's just say that the soul rests up here we call that the heart right just let me go with that for now and the moscule the one who is enlightened truly enlightened in memtech sharabina that they have the um a Mastery over the 49 levels of understanding behold it says earlier on Lamar remember the verses we just read in mishlay so we translated that as I'm looking for it you have that that was 13 page four if you call for understanding interesting if you call for understanding so that's the first thing that's mentioned that's what you seek that's what you really want that's where you're moving towards greeting now we do say that women have more Bina and men have more and Bina is greater okay Beena is greater double in fact okay so okay but why is Bina even the word Venus from Bonet like by the way for those who don't know my wife her name is Bina bete which actually named based on her name and her dream to build a house for Hashem it's building blocks your understanding from within something else it's it's a deep understanding and women have a natural intuition much greater than most men there are a few exceptions right there's always exceptions we all know so women that don't have such great intuition and we know some men that have okay but in general the women have what we call I think they call it women's intuition there you go that's a level of being a so Bina is double that of hakma [Music] the one who really understands it's he understands or she understands me Bane because it's something they're able to make insurances they're able to understand something very deep from something else and that's why the verse says or implies up until this point in time God is saying you didn't have but now you do now now we I think we can understand the question why didn't Moshe reveal the other 48. because we did not have the lay of ladat we did not have the uh the ability to really understand in Leviticus but now we do I think that's what he's saying we didn't have that being until now but before we didn't have it but it's specifically on this day that they can specify that Moshe can now specify the 48 curses I mean the 98 90 Acres remember I said 48 it's always 49 and it's always 98. so you go back and redo your notes but uh it was only this day until the Torah was able to explain the 49. before that it didn't like right back in Leviticus we're not talking at all about arvus we're not talking about what we spoke about in the previous chapter about Collective responsibility we're talking about reaching a certain level of being an understanding now it's interesting because the generation that lived in the desert is called the door had there the generation of understanding now which really which generation really were two generations because one died out and one entered it's not the same generation that left Egypt so the door a day could be referring to the actual door hidea that entered the land of Israel that was the last generation in the desert where they reached this level so in beer in um Leviticus that was before they reached the level benaibina in order to understand something within something else in other words to understand 49 within 49 they had not yet reached that level but now we did Kim um that's why in beer because in uh in Taurus they were only given or let's say Moses only gave over 49 because he knew what we couldn't handle we were of the level of understanding all 98. because prior to that right the only thing we understood was was much less whatever we understood originally how boy that's the only level we were on and I think that really clarifies that that point so I would in order to end I just want to mention that um look we really are hoping and we pray every day for the uh in Gather in the Exile right for the base of mikdash to be rebuilt for the you know the judges and the Saint Helens to return um we're also the very first bracha we're asking for his wisdom it all starts there so whatever else we want and whatever else we achieve we want to achieve it's only going to come through the first of the 19th one of the the middle brachos so maybe we can put a little bit more emphasis in our bracht especially for wisdom because we are in a very dark world right we are living with a lot of chaos a lot of fake news a lot of you know uh Persuasions of this that and the other and we really want to I'll talk to myself here um go through those open doors right we speak about these doorways that are over the siddiq and we're about to enter Rosh Hashanah where do we want to be this coming year are we going to commit to more Total Learning are we going to commit to more working on our meet us right which is really you know most of all that's why we learned Torah that's why right we get involved with Torah we know that it's all about ticon amitos so bizarat Hashem we can make certain resolutions because that idea of New Year's resolution is actually a very Jewish idea but not January but in September right so I'm wishing everyone a Shana Tova mommy should be written and sealed in The Book of Life we will have a sheer next week but I just want to wish everybody in case I don't see you again and a great life and a good Shabbos and a good day and I air of tov okay all the best [Music] happy birthday [Music]