Tomer Devorah Middah #11 KINDNESS TO ABRAHAM with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] everybody love me because hey good everybody welcome back to beyond the seven uh live from Jerusalem with Rabbi Aaron David posted where we've been doing the beautiful series Tomer dvora uh which is based on the 13 attributes of hashem's mercy and today we're on lesson 11 in the series I noticed a couple of you put no sound uh that's because I I keep getting on on Facebook a copyright claim on the music even though I paid for a license um they seem to only allow it on YouTube and not on Facebook and uh you know uh nonetheless so I played it the intro without the volume uh just for today to see if they're they're bot still tries to hit it with a copyright infringement without any sound so yeah it's just method to my madness but uh I am thoroughly enjoying this series I encourage everybody out there if you haven't caught them all go all the way back to one we've been doing them every two or three weeks uh Rabbi Poston stays up very late in Jerusalem I mean their 10 hour time difference from me and it's uh like 11 30 p.m there in Jerusalem and so um it's uh a joy that he takes the time out of his very very busy schedule to share the beauty of Torah with us especially on such sensitive topics for Noah Heights that are beyond the seven and I'm just so enjoying everything he shares and everything that yubinay his organization there in Jerusalem uh shares online just beautiful stuff I encourage everybody to support them uh because they do factual actual work there and then some so uh I don't want to go on and on let's tune right in and see how the rabbi's doing today Shalom Rabbi Poston your beard is getting quite large sir I don't know what happened I just can't stop it from growing every morning I wake up and it's another millimeter longer what can you do oh well you're tempting me to grow one myself yeah well this and that yeah you know the world's confused who's a male and who's a female these days so uh I'm doing my part that's all I can tell you um anyway I'm glad to be back and shavuoto to everyone who's uh out of Shabbat already and those who will be watching this later and Shalom alaikum everybody welcome welcome back and so tonight yeah we're talking about media number 11. kindness to avraham which is absolutely fascinating I just want to reiterate some the reason why we're doing this particular series you know it's called beyond the seven is really the original concept behind I think we started a few years ago I began this series by discussing different opinions the seven nokai logs are not seven laws but seven principles and that our subcategories number one and number two there's even an argument are they really 33 laws or 60 plus laws or maybe even hundreds and um you know there are opinions not my opinion but Robina Nissan for example likes anything right everything every Mitzvah that's logical or ethical is obligatory now when I say obligatory it doesn't mean you're obligated and nanjo is obligated in every detail the way a Jew would be but things that have to do with kindness things that have to do with working on your character there's no question that you know it's you don't have to fix the world you just have to there's room for improvement on ourselves for sure that's right that's right so I think I just mentioned this you know because we're getting into this concept called kindness to avraham what does it mean and how can it possibly a pie apply to a non-jew to a Benoit a righteous Gentile by the way I just want to mention we had a beautiful couple for Shabbos uh the name Noah from the Netherlands and I'll tell you it was a little I think it was beautiful but one comment that the the man said he says Ah we're just we're just slowly guarding me and I'm like what are you talking about you are the Elite of the elites right you know the rom-bomb says that a non-jew a Ben Noah who's dedicated themselves to Torah meaning their Torah and perhaps Beyond right things that apply to them they are like the Cohen gado that means the high priest holy of holies this is not uh to be the belittled um so with that in mind that's the rambam not me and I believe it I trust it and nevertheless the idea of these 13 attributes of Mercy even though they are spoken about I'm not going to say in great detail but it's spoken about right after the aftermath of the golden calf in Exodus chapter 33 when Moses wants to know you know that he has God Show Me Your Glory I want to know basically why bad things happen to good people right what is the media what are the character traits of the almighty I'm interested I want to know everything and so I know I'm saying things that people probably already know anybody watching this when it comes to the profits there's nothing new they're only there to guide us they're there to rebuke us they're there to literally guide us in what we're supposed to already know but we're not doing so in in malach in Mika chapter 7 is really these 13 attributes that we're discussing in this book the tummy devorah which is over my left shoulder which I'll just move this a little bit there you go and um they're worded a little bit differently but basically it's an explanation of the original 13 attributes of Mercy which we were handed to by from God to Moses and Moses to us till this very day so even though we discussed last week Titan Emma sliakov to give truth Yakov and there's this aspect of treating people according to the letter of the law and even having Mercy on them knowing that they're only following the letter of the law this topic tonight is called beyond the letter of the law going beyond the letter of the law with people who whether they deserve it or not obviously if they deserve it it's probably easier to deal with them right if they're full of hasid and kindness you you probably are inclined to want to act that way towards them but again one of the main principles of these 13 attributes of Mercy according to Tommy davara is that when you act in the way that God acts in other words God commanded us to imitate him it's one of the 613 Commandments but it's logical right you open the spigot you open a Heavenly flow of kindness from Hashem by acting in these merciful ways which is I'm going to say it's Indescribable undescribable how do you you know we hardly understand Hashem except through what we see in the Torah and maybe through nature but this is an instruction manual the Torah itself is an instruction manual and we have an oral Torah and it describes us what these 13 attributes are and tonight drum roll please we are discussing kindness to avraham and the the way the um the book is set up that I'm reading from it's a very short paragraph however as you know we go into into sources and we discussion and that will be most of the discussion not necessarily what he himself had written and it's so short I mean it's really two very uh succinct paragraphs I want to kind of spend very little time on it and I want to spend more time discussing it in detail so he begins by saying regarding this report now there are those who go beyond the boundaries of their obligation this is key in what we're discussing with the seven beyond the seven because there are seven hardcore principles that are 100 obligated with so many details and then there are going to be things that are we're going to say it's you're not really obligated but you're it's it's um praiseworthy I just remember somebody on on Facebook asked um is it permissible or obligatory for a non-jew to give an interest-free loan to another Benoit now there's a lot to say on that subject but somebody just piped in and said and with a lot of authority apparently said no I said what do you mean no that's the answer it's really just no maybe the right meaning in terms of an obligatory uh interest-free loan to another but it's so amazing because when I first heard this subject that a Jew is forbidden to give an interest-free loan as I'm sorry forgetting forbidden to give a loan on interest can only give an interest free loan to another Jew okay that's very nice but what about nanjos why can't we give nanjos we're not supposed to give non-jews interest-free loans and I'm thinking well that's a little bit you know as a beginner in learning I'm thinking that's a little bit awkward aren't we supposed to be the like to the Nations aren't we supposed to teach them how to treat each other wouldn't it be you know if they picked up the lesson I mean whatever it is I mean how are they going to learn if we don't give them interest-free loans right guess what it's actually so much of the Taurus counter-intuitive so if we don't give them interest-free loans which is like you know it's a hard pill to swallow this is really the only way they will learn to give interest-free loans what does that mean in other words if it's known that the Jews give interest-free loans so then when a non-jew needs a loan they'll just go to the Jew and when the another Ben naught comes to him and says you know I can you give me a interest-free loan he's going to say what are you kidding me go to the Jews right but when the Jew is restricted in their kindness or some in other words they have to be kind but there's like a little restriction take care of each other this is so well known throughout the world everyone knows the Jews take care of each other right I mean obviously we're not the only ones because other people have found have have known about this whether you're a Japanese immigrant United States or an Indian immigrant United States whatever it is you hear these beautiful stories maybe Italians whatever I don't want to cut anybody out right there's so many groups ethnic groups that have learned this actual important lesson so in a certain sense by restricting and saying no don't give the non-jew the interest-free loan this will actually force them to give loans to each other now obviously if somebody is looking for a like a liquid million dollars just so that they could uh expand their business that you can go into business with them you don't have to uh you know and make make some money on that you don't need to um give an interest-free loan but someone who is looking to buy a good fishing rod so they can put fresh fish on their table right so then for sure I mean actually maybe maybe even give it a sudaka but for sure the the fact that you will not charge them interest you're helping them you're putting food on the table the reward is just unbelievable okay I think I made my I hope I made my point Rabbi can I ask you a question because I brought this up uh and haven't got an answer uh back uh from another Rabbi on on the question of kindness my I have a personal difficulty with expectation I think that you know kindness in order to stay kind it has to be a choice a personal Act of the will to give and when people expect something um they're in fact robbing you of that choice right they expect it you've got to do it it's it take it turns kindness from being truly kind into a demand and um sometimes demanding gets to be a little too uh you know even pointing towards slavery I think that your question we will discuss and take apart and put back together um because yes I believe that it still will be a choice even if it's coming from a not a good place uh demanding um I I think that that will become clear through this lesson so we started by saying those who go beyond the boundaries of their obligation as did whom as did avrah mavina we're going to bring several examples sorry of avram himself right now Hashem he's the one who also treats them beyond the boundaries of the law in other words lift name Assurance means going Beyond not what they deserve and not forget the expectations also that would be like the letter of the law we're talking about going Beyond so it's the choice this is like a mental shift that The Giver could should maybe in certain circumstances actually have the next statement I'm going to read in Hebrew name right there are people that act like this uh beyond the letter just like Abraham Our Father who this is the way Hashem acts name he also acts this way now Hashem does not exact from them the full extent of his Justice even in the correct way in other words if there is Certain Justice that should come if we act I know it sounds crazy but we talked about this how we can manipulate I don't like that word but it's the only word I can think of maybe you'll fill me in with another it's but in a positive way we could change the reaction the normal reaction that would come from heaven if we act lithium Hashem will then respond lift name Assurance which is probably what we all want okay we don't want strict Justice we wouldn't mind a little bit of Mercy would we okay we want good good turning spigoton to have this flow he treats them even better than that as they themselves behave okay this is a a transformation and this is what the kind of survivoram is referring to that acts with Ben benevolence towards those who are like avram in their behavior so you don't have to be Jewish right avram is all of our fathers right he's the father of many nations whether you want to say religions or nations he's the monam he right that's what the Torah describes him he is the father of many nations of let's call it um ethical monotheism right I mean that is what a Ben noach is he's part of that right that group uh he I'm gonna is he or she has adopted has accepted the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob the god of Israel right the Torah of Israel there's no reason they shouldn't be connected to this thought pattern this behavioral pattern the psychological pattern behind what we're discussing tonight and notorious chock full of stories okay now when I say the Torah I'm not just only referring to the written Torah we have midrashi and we have the gamars whatever it is within our oral Torah that tells us about the amazing behavior of our forefathers the great question was asked if the first law of the Torah is the you know getting ready for Passover this should be the first months to you right in Exodus and then you're going to count 10 days then you're going to take a shape and then you're going to slaughter it and all the laws that have to do with Passover why does the Torah have to begin with Genesis because there's so much to learn first of all about God himself true right that he's a creator of the world right and that he ultimately chooses who's going to live in Everest Israel in the land of Israel who isn't I mean that's a very important lesson I'm not dismissing that lesson but one of the most important lessons is how does how did our forefathers behave they were very righteous they were prophets they were close to Hashem these are people we want to emulate these people are going to learn from and therefore the whole book of Genesis is you know good and evil people are righteous people are not and it's an instruction manual so the next paragraph says so too should one act this is how we should act he should be righteous correct and just in his dealings with all people that's true but to go beyond the boundaries of the law with those who are good in Pious so in other words you are making a choice maybe you want to treat everybody the same the truth is if there are people who are good in Pious perhaps those are the especially those you should go beyond the blood of the law with if he's slightly patient with other people with these meaning these who people who are good and Pious he should be much more so there's no question about that he should have mercy on them and go beyond the dictates of Justice with which he acts towards others these people should be very very esteemed and beloved to him and be among his companions now that is I basically it's the translation of the Hebrew uh chapter that we're dealing with I have to say it's very tightly packed and now we're going to unpack the the words here so when we act with the special kindness and consideration towards Those whom we know to be especially kind and giving and treat them with Greater Mercy patience and forgiveness then we would treat regular people okay then we awaken this special Divine Mercy hashem's merciful attribute of kindness to avraham bringing the element of Mercy into the world Hashem treated avram differently right I hear these questions people have always asked well before they found religion right are the Jews really the chosen people or did God did avram choose God it's a great question are we even treated differently after you hear what has to say there is because of this idea that avram opened up the spigots right he really did what we're going to call be going beyond the letter of the law I mean this is going to be the whole point here should a non-jew go beyond the letter of the law listen you have seven laws so if you expounding you're very Pious within those seven great but you know what I start off by telling you it's not just seven or seven principles there's many subcategories there are ethical issues there are logical Concepts you can come to on your own and yes it would be you would get more reward you would be treated differently by God if you went beyond the seven beyond the letter of the law this is my message okay so excellent when people generally conduct their dealings with other okay and just and before I go on you know whatever wisdom God imparted to the Jews this is wisdom for the world again how you deal with it you don't have to follow it you know beyond the seven uh as an obligation in every detail it's the principles you learn the principles and you apply them as you choose this is when you started off by saying is it a choice yes it's purely a choice for for us some of it's not a choice okay we don't have a choice to give well live at a certain level for sure well right industry low and we could uh enter a business relationship if the person is there to make money so then we could legally there's a way to do it because there's nothing wrong with going to business with somebody okay therefore it's basically I'm going to call it an interest loan it's not really it's just the interest is coming from a different angle it's from the business relationship as a partner but you could do the same thing you can give interest-free loans to your fellow non-jews and you can give interest loans to those who are just trying to make more money they're not in desperate need they just need some uh some fluidity and some capitals and to make more money okay anyway let's go on so when B people generally conduct their dealings with others by standards of what is right and fair but go beyond the dictates of fairness when dealing with those who are especially kind and good Hashem sees this and likewise shows a special degree of Mercy towards those who are especially merciful right this is a choice that you can make and believe me everyone has a Yates of hurray everybody has an inclination to be stingy or not to be cruel per se but just you know but obviously to be cruel as well but you know uh to be a little stingy to little to be withholding you know we all have that um a self-preservation right yeah some people are downright defensive we're going to see something amazing in in other words when you examine Jewish law as a non-jew and you see the beauty the The Unbelievable um not just wisdom but you know I don't even have words to express right it's so it's like polished it's like yeah right it's like there's nothing more meaningful in the world than looking at something in Jewish law and dissecting and understanding the principles behind it okay so we're gonna we're gonna take a few examples of this so when people are forgiving towards others beyond the dictates of justice and walk in the kind ways of avraham our father Hashem acts towards them the same way he forgives them who doesn't want forgiveness from Hashem foregoing the dictates of Justice beyond what would be considered a fair response this is the attribute of the kindness to avraham through which Hashem deals with a special kindness towards those who walk in the ways of avram just we already we all know right God said to Abram I will bless those who bless you I mean you don't have to go further than that right avraham was the epitome walking example of kindness so he certainly deserved blessings from others and when anybody gives him a blessing or even to a seed right so that's so simple you're just opening up the spigot of unbelievable kindness and mercy and blessing from God I mean really we could just close the book here I mean understand how deep and simple this is at the same time so we're going to deal with a verse in Proverbs King Solomon said in chapter 22 verse 9 we'll read the we have to read the Hebrew as well one with a good eye will be blessed for his given his of his bread to the poor now the commentators explain this is kind of like a response to a verse previously in verse seven 22 verse 9. at 22 in Proverbs verse 9. Tov I in who right the one with the good eye iron Toth Tov iron with a good eye it means generous by the way I don't know if that makes sense that word we will have to dissect because really what it sounds like it says he will be blessed true it's because he gave his bread to the poor okay now it's it's kind of a response to verse 7. I don't know what you have you want to read the English in verse 7. sure verse 22 verse 7 of Proverbs says a rich man will rule over the poor in a borrower is a slave to the lender okay so in Hebrew Usher the Russian yimsho so the rich man over you know whatever he dominates the poor the edit lovely but what ends up happening is the debtor the one who's borrowing the money becomes a servant to the Creditor now this is a very cruel way right tells us when you give this money honestly you should really we're giving it as a loan don't just give it as a loan in your own mind in your own heart don't expect it back give it as Charity if you can't afford to lose it don't mend it if you have that in your mind yeah key Point yeah the person cannot pay it back what is in your heart are you holding a grudge you're holding resentment are you con don't act as a creditor you know constantly call the guy up listen this is on a personal level obviously if you run a Gamache a bank or whatever it is that is lending money there are rules and it's it's you you obviously have to act very differently um but nevertheless on a personal level you lend money especially interest-free it's it's really charity and you have to really look at it if I can't afford to give it I mean literally give it away I shouldn't lend it to him this person is coming because he needs the money don't don't don't be a right okay I'll go with that that I think has some negative connotations uh I'm not mistaken I couldn't be mistaken but there was uh right this is a a Shakespeare was that a Shakespeare uh story yeah I think it was like going to back it to that era but it's uh like a uh like a a bookie or a uh somebody who's a uh uh loans for a loan shark okay so maybe people can put in the comments as far as I know it was a uh was called something anyway let's go on um so the the Arts grow commentator explains one with a good eye will be blessed for he has given of his bread to the poor a person with a good eye shares his possessions willingly willingly and generously these two concepts and he rejoices in the success of his fellow man without Envy Rashi explains that this kind of person he hates dishonesty such a person will be blessed by his grateful beneficiaries by onlookers impressed with his selfishness and by Hashem Hashem is looking all the time Hashem will be happy to bless him because he knows that the more this person has the more he will distribute to the needy unbelievable right become a clean become a vessel right why not I mean whose money is it anyway it's all gods so you're basically he appointed you as a distributor and if you're a honest and ethical distributor of his money he'll Grant you he'll trust you with more be a conduit not a yeah I'd rather The Vessel according to the Chevy this verse response to verse 7 which describes the dominance of the rich over the poor to the contrary the poor man is actually doing more for the rich man because the wealthy benefactor which seems more things in this world and reward in the next in other words the poor person has given me an opportunity so why would I treat him with disrespect I should be thanking him for the opportunity right that's an amazing concept but what we're going to now deal with a little bit is the last part because he gave from his own bread from his own bread to the poor this person has eaten less so he could share his food with the poor so there's a maharsha explains that the one with the good eye gives the poor man bread of the same quality he himself eats so he's giving from his own bread which is very important because now we're going to talk about is some interesting ideas when it comes to the amount of bread that a person that a Jew eats I don't know if people are familiar with Grace after meals this is a very interesting idea I've seen non-jews do what they call grace before meals so they all hold hands or they just want to bless hashems they're praying thanking God for the meal we're about to eat our Oro Torah tells us that's logical that you don't need to be taught because you're hungry you're about to eat so of course you're going to thank Hashem the problem is after you've eaten then you're satisfied it's easier to forget the Lord your God and that's why the toad was out of its way to tell us that we make Grace after meals now I don't know how many other religions do that I have no idea I'm going to assume that not many mainly they do the grace before meals which is totally fine I get it Okay so since the Torah actually says let me just get the verse here it's in it's Deuteronomy chapter 8 verse 10. if you want to read it for us in English Deuteronomy 8 verse 10 says and you will eat and be sated and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you first you eat obviously and then you are satisfied I mean if you are satisfied then you bless the Lord your God so we have I don't know if you people are aware of this in Judaism there are measurements right one would be obligated from the Torah to bless God if they were satisfied on an objective level okay so there are measurements how much does one have to eat in order to bless God from the Torah because if one violates the Torah they were they ate they were satisfied and they didn't bless the Lord their God afterwards they violate they missed an opportunity now we have rabbinic laws the rabbis made fences so that we wouldn't forget about the real true Essence and therefore there is a a minimum how do I say this a another measurement which is smaller than the Torah obligation let's call it partial severity and the rabbi said you stole Off the Bench you still have to bless the Lord your God rabbinically and the Jews took it on I mean this is something that's not just rabbinic but it's it's accepted by Ami Israel by the Jewish people and Hashem sees this Hashem sees that we went beyond the letter of the law because the Torah says full severity and the rabbis say partial severity and we've accepted this and Hashem turns out he says my my children I didn't expect this that's beyond the letter of the law they've taken on themselves as an obligation to bless rabbinically when they've eaten less than the amount of savante and I'll just describe the amounts an olive size uh worth of bread versus an egg size worth of bread now we're really talking about the dough that could be made into something that looks much bigger than these measurements but nevertheless um I can give you like the basic rundown uh between the the out of size and those olives what we have today are not necessarily the olives of Biblical times but the the amount we have between it's like there's different opinions in Judaism but anywhere between 22 to about 33 CC's and uh that's uh and the Egg volume is like three times that or even more 55 cc's to 100 cc's now why am I going into these details what could possibly be more boring than hearing you know these details well wait till you hear this it's not so it's not so uh boring after all but before we do this I just want to say what are we trying to elicit from God are we trying to bribe God if we do this right we're especially nice to people then all of a sudden we're going to get a great kind of response so we know that God is not a man he doesn't take bribes right in chapter 10 of Deuteronomy verse 17. what does it say Deuteronomy 10 verse 17 says for the Lord your God is God of gods and the lord of the Lords the Great Mighty and awesome God who will show no favor nor will he take a bribe right okay so God will not take a bribe so in Hebrew Lois upon him he doesn't show favor and he doesn't take a bribe okay now that anything it says in Torah has to be true right what happens when we see another verse that seems to contradict it so now go to Numbers chapter 6 verse 26. in other words this is in the Birch when the priest blessed the Jews on a daily basis at least here in Israel in Jerusalem as we go further away from Jerusalem different customers numbers yeah six six verse 26 Numbers chapter 6 verse 26. it says may the Lord raise his countenance towards you and Grant you peace now I know that countenance in favor I truth is in Hebrew it's the same word I'm sorry that Hashem will raise his countenance to you but it means his face but ye saw this idea of showing favor the other verse says upon him and here it says Hashem will raise his face hello how can one verse say he doesn't take a bribe well we're using that idea right he doesn't show favor because that's really what you're doing well yeah I'm going to do all these things and I'll be showered with all kinds of favor from God on the other hand it says God does so which is it so there's a good morning broccoli uh chapter 20 I'm sorry page 20 b uh after a whole long discussion about the amount of food or bread in this case sometimes we combine the two bread with other food to satisfy someone's hunger so after discussing the quantity of foods whether they do or do not satisfy a hunger um there is this new law rabbinic law um nevertheless by the rabbis even though it's less than the amount and there's a statement here rivervira taught and some say it was in the Rhema of Army and some say it was right of Ashi anyway this is how it goes the ministering Angels right the Torah was given to the Jews was given to mankind the angels are a little bit um well sometimes they could be jealous but basically they're thinking God this tour is so holy what are you giving it to them for right they're sinners whatever there was a whole discussion obviously the Torah is not for them because they don't sin they don't have the Envy they don't have business partners they don't have any of this stuff but the conversation begins with them complaining to the tashem doesn't it say in your Torah as we just said in Deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 17. um that the Great Mighty and awesome God who favors no one takes no bribe and yet you show favor to Israel the ministering Angels notice this right who said a great pattern he was blessed anybody who blesses the Jewish people would be blessed you show them favor we see in Numbers Chapter 6 26 right the Lord will show you favor so God says back to the angels this is his response and how can I not show favor to Israel I wrote for them in the Torah right as we saw in Deuteronomy chapter 8 verse 10. um that you're going to eat you're going to be satisfied and you're going to bless the Lord of your God yet you know what happens even when they're not satisfied they're willing to exactly to go beyond the letter of the law now the words here says even if they have eaten only an olive size measurement or an egg size the truth is it doesn't make any sense because the gamar we already resolved there's there is an argument whether it's an egg size or an owl size but the game already decided it was going to be the egg size for the Torah and rabbinically a um an olive size so even this this Gamora doesn't really make a whole lot of sense um what did Hashem mean when he says and our size or an exercise so I kind of want to cut to the chase a little bit just so I don't you know lose everybody we spoke about this verse in Proverbs right he was the generous side we'll be blessed because he gave his own bread to the poor if you take that egg size and break it up into 10 pieces every single one of you will have eaten in Olive size because as we said it's a little bit more than a third sorry three times the amount it's a little bit more than three times the amount so if you break your own bread in order to bring nine other people together I mean it's an amazing thing because you're giving to the poor with I don't know if you want to call without expectations the expectation is that you're all going to join together and bless Hashem together because you gave them that that is an expectation but you're giving from your own stomach your monsieura methods your giving of your own meaning you may not be satisfied you probably won't be I mean it depends what you ate you know an hour or three hours before but most likely if you sat down to eat three egg volumes worth of bread and then you end up eating just an olive size but you literally split it with nine other people I don't know if people understand that when we get together and say grace after meals it depends if there's three people all together eating we make what we call an invitation to bless and raise uh hashem's conscience raise our Consciousness in Hashem and gratitude when we have 10 people then we actually say God's name as well and then there's a whole bunch of different laws where there's a hundred thousand ten thousand imagine six hundred thousand people getting together and eating together that'll be an amazing wow and an amazing um but there is a uh verse in Psalms chapter 34 verse 4 which this concept is based on after we eat bread together and we're gonna do this thing called Grace after meals birkat Amazon so chapter 34 verse 4 says if you want to trans do the English and I'll do the Hebrew yeah 34 verse 4 English says declare the greatness of the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together so we literally do this we bring God's name into the grace after meals in an introductory way obviously his name is throughout but in the introductory what we say out loud we're inviting other people to come and join us so in Hebrew Hashem it's a beautiful verse it's a beautiful concept right you're inviting other people to enjoy to declare the greatness of God with me publicly let us exalt his name together so going back to this Proverbs 22 9 the one who has the generous eye so the Gomorrah is going to tell us also he's the one who should bless in other words he's the one who brings the the 10 people or three people whoever's eating together together he should do the the lead that we'll call the lead the benching lead the prayers he's basically blessing God and blessing those at the table um but so we're going to read it two ways the one who has a generous side will be blessed that obviously means that the spigot is coming down on him but he's the one worthy of blessing so the one who has the spigot so to speak God's mercy flowing on him like Abraham has the ability to bless and that's why it's unbelievable that's why one should try to join up cling to the Jewish people they are blessed right right I will bless those who bless you and you will in turn get a blessing it can't be more clear than that wow so even though we discussed this idea of an egg and a um an egg size and an olive size it actually comes together in this fantastic way that if you join with these other people and you give from your own because that's literally what the verse says you're giving from your own bread from his bread that's where you will really get the blessing and now we understand we have um many let me just skip that part okay I do want to just sum up this last piece a person who made no calculations about his own selfish concern but gave wholeheartedly is blessed by Hashem as well without calculation of exactly what he deserves in return this is the kindness of avram so going back then this idea you're not doing this in order to turn the spigot on it happens to be the result you have to be aware of this there's no reason why you couldn't have this in mind at the same time this is a reality in a fact um but to make no calculations just know it's the right thing this is what the kindness of avram means avram's kindness to others was without a reckoning by following in his footsteps we Merit hashem's kindness in the same fashion now the next idea from avraham we learn what we call the akedas yitzkak this is something we read every morning the um The Binding of Isaac which is an amazing story that doesn't really make sense on the surface right God had promised avram that his seed will be his future progeny and then avraham understood or thought he understood that he was and he you know in the end he didn't sacrifice his son we don't believe in human sacrifice but his willingness to follow whatever God said which sounds crazy mashugana right but that's the willingness to go all the way now what actually happened was Hashem already knew from the beginning this was not going to be that Abram was not going to uh kill his own son um in fact the ram that was entangled was already thought of before creation which is an interesting thought but towards the end of our prayers when we mention The Binding of Isaac we we ask these words Master of the Universe May It Be Your Will to sham our God and God of our forefathers that you remember for our sake the Covenant of our forefathers just as Abraham our forefathers suppressed his Mercy for his only son meaning he was willing to kill or whatever that means and wish to slaughter him in order to do your will that was avram's willingness so may your mercy suppress your anger from upon us and may your mercy overwhelm your attributes may you overstep with us the line of your law and deal with us or Hashem our god with the attributes of kindness and the attributes of Mercy this is like an exercise in the total opposite right God said to Abraham be cruel let's say let's just say that was the and avraham whose Essence is kindness was able to overcome let's say for the time being he was able to take his cruelty and make that strong over his Mercy and as a result of him doing that even though that wasn't required of him in the end we're asking that Hashem do the same thing in the opposite okay and that is like a very deep concept the Hebrew is much beautiful than the English translation so we're asked that God remember the uh the company made with our forefathers I mean we're really asking for for Mercy from this situation that Abram himself took so there's a concept always called measure for measure right where's the measure for measure here so let's go into this a little bit in our morning darling right we recite the Acadia which is The Binding of that Isaac Isaac it's called the test of avraham it's not called the test of Isaac Isaac represented strict Justice and he actually wanted to be sacrificed he was willing to be it's not his test it's avram's test who embodied uh so much kindness and cancer that went against his nature didn't go against Isaac's name in fact the measures tells us that Isaac actually spontaneously combusted on the Altar and was flashed into a pile of Ashes okay and this is when the the Sutton or somehow message gets to Sarah that her son died she has a heart attack and dies now this idea that the Satan it couldn't tell a lie right the Sutton has to be honest for the sun to somehow let her know that her son died there had to be some essence of truth to it okay so the truth is he it wasn't his test he was willing to be sacrificed this is part of the story so we're asking Justice avraham avinu subdued his Mercy in order to do your will wholeheartedly so too you may you may your mercy subdue your anger now someone once asked well where is this measure for measure exactly it doesn't make sense we're like explain it try to explain what does it mean measure for measure here now it would make sense to ask for hashem's mercy in the Merit of avraham's Mercy oh just as avram was so nice and kind so you got should be nice and kind isn't that we're saying like it elicited uh kindness so how can we ask for his Mercy in the Merit of avram's apparent display of Cruelty in obeying Hashem to bring his son as a sacrifice so the midrus tells us that when avraham and musak were on the way to perform the sacrifice the Satan came and tried to dissuade avraham in a whole conversation I'll try to go through it he said old man why are you going to kill your son you know this is uh you he you know you got him when you're such an old age you're gonna just kill him I mean this is a it's avram said so what even so God told me I'm going to do it so then the Sutton says you know maybe tomorrow God's going to command you to kill yourself too what are you going to do kill yourself uh Rob said yes that's what it means I'll do it and he says and if you kill him tomorrow you know people are going to call you a murderer I remember says so what they'll call me a murderer who cares so when the sudden Soul he had no power to convince avram otherwise so he turned to Yitzhak and he tried to scare him out of participating in the Acadia he too is unmoved the verse says now this is in Genesis 22 8. you have it you want to read it Genesis 22 8 reads and Abraham said Hashem will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering my son and they both went together so Isaac obviously asked like Hey Dad didn't you say we're like going to make the sacrifice where's the lamb and I'll probably sure don't worry you know God will provide and it says they won't they both went together in Hebrew what does it mean they both went together they both went with an understanding whatever it is whatever's going to be is going to be Hashem made the command to avram Yitzhak was a willing participant they went together with the same mind frame one Accord one heart to do it yeah Isaac actually understood that he may be he may be that slaughtered uh you know that on the altar there they went with equal resolve one two is one to slaughter the Son and the other one to be slaughtered so our prayers to Hashem are indeed measure for measure what did avraham do avram ignored the claims of the Satan he ignored you know the satin is the prosecutor he's very careful he sees everything we do wrong I mean he kind of set it up didn't he so he's telling Hashem and trying to persecute prosecute prosecute Us by reminding Hashem so to speak putting in the the you know in the courtroom the the prosecuting attorney reminding the court what what happened writing ourselves reminding the world okay so Hashem is ignoring the sudden just like avraham ignored the Satin so too Hashem will ignore the prosecuting attorney which only brings judgment and harsh decree this is an amazing way to think about it so I'll read it again avram ignored the claims of the Sutton when he tried to dissuade him from obeying hashem's will even though its claims seem to be correct that's true right that the something is not going to make up any lies he's going to tell you exactly and not even exaggerated right exactly what happened so too we pray that Hashem May ignore the Satan's accusations against Abraham's descendants even when the claims seem to be correct this is the attribute of kindness to Abram it Intel it entails kindness Beyond calculations of what is fair and what is deserved according to a person's Deeds beyond the letter of the law especially to those who practice kindness then Hashem will show in in in response hashems Co shows kindness without any reserve he'll also act beyond the letter of the law it's not a bribe it's the way the system is set up okay okay there's another example um okay before we get to that example we're going to talk about the war with the Four Kings and the five Kings but before we get to that the medrish comments on the verse we had dealt with last week give true to yaakov I say last week the last session number ten and this session 11 is the kindness diagram but it's like one sentence who give true to yaakov and kindness to Abra when Russia shunned that the Angels ask Hashem why do you show such favoritism to the Jewish people and Hashem responds I show them Merit I show them favor in the Merit of Abraham what Merit do they have the Angels asked so avram's father he was an idol salesman manufacturer right distributor yeah distributor so I was found Tara gave I'm from Idols to sell in the marketplace so rather than sell them we know that avram destroyed them and he put this ax in the big one's hands and when his father came home he says what happened he says you know the big guy he did it the father says are you kidding me they're just Idols they can't do Adidas anyway what happened avram destroys them along with all the idols in the market and throughout the world this is what the Jew is the Jew is the Idol idol destruct Destroyer where that's what an eve Ray that's what the Hebrew means they cross over from where from the land of illusions to the land of Truth Eric's Canon the land of Israel where you breathe in wisdom where okay I don't want to get too carried away here but basically that's what the Jew does avraham sanctified my name in the world this is what we do therefore Hashem shows favoritism towards his descendants ichio Rosh Hashanah furthermore avram devoted himself to Castle in every form with Hashem himself by spreading the light of faith of his faith throughout the world with mankind even the Arabs right they know that Ibraham whatever they I don't know exactly how they pronounce it but they basically hold he was in each he was full of they understand Ishmael comes from avraham and they do whatever that means they do a lot of hasid supposedly allegedly I don't want to you know get into the politics here but there is amongst many Muslims righteous Muslims they really do Express uh the kindness that avraham had expressed um okay so now let's go into the next example which was um there was a refugee from the war there were these five Kings I'm sorry there were these Four Kings and they created a war and they kidnapped Lots the nephew of the nephew of avram and this um the in Genesis Chapter 14 verse 13. got it 14 verse 13 says and The Fugitive came and he told Abraham the Hebrew and he was living in the plane of mammary the Amorite the brother of eshkol and the brother of Honor who were Abraham's Confederates okay so this fugitive that came and told Abraham the Hebrew about Lots um uh what's the word um taken captive okay so according to according to Rashi and according to the simple explanation this was OG OG later on who Bashan and sikhan uh the war in the desert basically um Oak had survived the flood right how can anybody survive the flood the measures tells us that he held on to the side of the Ark Noah's Ark but he was way back because he was one of the nephilian one of these great uh Giants that roamed the world before the flood and he obviously if this is for the story we understand that this fugitive that's who the future was the Fugitive from and the flood was none other than OG but see OG really wanted to marry Sarah so he wanted avraham to be damaged by going and trying to save loads in other words if somebody had it in for Abram it wouldn't it would be no other than OG who Wants Sarah to marry but how are you going to get rid of avram he's a Mighty Guy well you send him out to war you tell him you know which was true load had been um taken captive in his hopes that avron would then be killed and then he would be um free to pursue as a Suitor I guess uh Sarah now the story goes like this that the king of Saddam came out toward him and he they have these Four Kings were the ones that were the bad guys these five Kings come and basically hold avram in high esteem and won a crown him as like The Prince and basically uh he goes and he fights with Eliezer by the way his servant it was just him and Elias it says they were 316 uh people with him but really it was was just him and elieza the Camacho of Eliezer is 316. and so they together miraculously fight these five Kings um I'm sorry the Four Kings and they take all the booty and what do they do with the booty first of all it was the king of sidom who lost a lot of stuff in this war and by Abra I'm coming back and captioned and recapturing it how do you think the king of sadong feels well this is like my stuff but avram's the one who wiped out we could have had total annihilation from these Four Kings we made a Confederate avron basically took the whole thing spoiled the war yeah Spoils of War who they really belong to according to the second king of Saddam it really truthfully by the letter of the law belongs to Abraham but I in my heart of hearts feel a connection to my own stuff so this is a little bit of a problem and by the way in verse 18 we see that Melchizedek the king of Salem by the way that's that's shame okay that's shame the son of Noah who's the great great great grandfather of of Abraham um so basically he's the one who made um Libations and sacrifices to God and he was the priest avraham gave him a tenth so he gave mountek the the shame the the messenger of God so to speak uh he was a priest so he gave him the the ten percent so how do you think the king of Saddam is feeling at this point even in verse 19 Roman chapter 14. for sure yep see and he blessed out he blessed Abraham and he said Blessed Be Abraham the most high God it possesses Heaven and Earth again we know that he gave him the tenth verse 21 the king of Saddam says to avram give me the souls and the possessions take for yourself notice he wants his people back not as slaves for Abram or whatever but basically he wants everything not everything he wants at least the people back let Abram take the possessions now what kind of negotiation is this everything really belongs to Abraham he says I I want I want something out of it you know what avram does his response take it off now you know and I know we started this conversation what happened we went through this in our Genesis class pretty pretty closely it's beautiful stuff what come what happens when the guy comes to you and he's demanding and you said in the beginning well there's like you know it's almost criminal I mean like I thought I had free choice and I have to give it to him no if this is the choice you make avram said I don't want to take anything from you let's look in verses 22 and 23 yeah he says neither a thread uh to a shoe strap nor will I take from whatever is yours that you should not say I have made Abraham wealthy okay so avram doesn't want to take anything and think because you know what Aram knew his wealth is dependent on Hashem not on this I don't know what you want to call it oh Saddam was not a righteous guy okay he was the king I said no we all know about Saddam so think about it rather than be tainted in any way he could have just split it like according to the demand but he gave everything back he says I don't want any of it so let's let's go through this story a little bit and how we're going to explain it um just cut to the chase here so the king of Saddam saw the treasures of his own kingdom slipping through his hands from a logical perspective he realized that avram had a fair claim to them avram had risked his life in a battle to reclaim them and they really were his by right in his heart meaning in avram's heart however the king of Saddam felt cheated meaning like she said like this avram understood that the king of Saddam in his heart felt cheated they were the Treasures of the king of subdom after all so then the king of Sudan made a compromise oh uh give me the captives and you keep the treasure for yourself so avram could have and he did he must have read between the lines both the captives and the treasures really already has it already belong to avraham he didn't need anyone's permission to keep the treasures he had rightfully won in the battle so why then did the king of sedon feel the need to tell him that he could keep them clearly the King still thought they were his I mean it takes a lot of wisdom you're negotiating you understand this person who's here to even come to me and say you know you keep passing it uh hello you really believe that it all belongs to you that's what I've understood in the heart of hearts of the king of Saddam then raises his hand and swore that he would take nothing from The Spoils of battle from the shoot from the thread of shoestrap I will take nothing now yeah I would say again drum roll please when you hear this the Jewish people Bene Israel were joked to do Mitzvahs right these Mitzvahs two of them in particular the titsis and the tefillin come according to the measures as a result of avram's own response I won't even take the shoestrap right the the threat or the shoestrap so here it goes like this avram avinu had every right to keep the spoils of the battle but he felt the pain I am justified or not from the king of sedome and he saw the king felt cheated therefore he acted with him beyond the letter of the law beyond the dictates of fairness and Justice he gave everything to him he gave him back the spoils Hashem saw avram's outstanding display of consideration above and beyond the dictates of fairness in the Merit of the thread that Iran returned his descendants received the midst of the tequilis the the string of the titsus and in the Merit of the shoe strap they received the Mitzvah to filling okay it's amazing thing because this is wow physical items that we use to get close to Hashem these are our Treasures okay so this is an amazing idea I've never had anybody Explain the origin there and what about the sale of the maratha right there's this uh treasured burial place in cabron and cured arba right who's buried there four couples it's called period arba is havron that's really the where Heaven meets Earth to a certain extent I mean Jerusalem has its own unique place but this is like the opening the Char to gun Aiden okay it's a very special place because who's buried there Abraham and uh Sarah that's true you go there you see the the markings Abraham Sarah you have Yitzhak and Rifka and you have yaakov and Leia but guess what there's four couples Adam and Eve avram had a tradition that's where Adam and Eva buried this is the Gate of gun Aiden okay the Garden of Eden and it was worth a lot to him for the special place of buying it as a burial place not just for himself his wife isn't the head of uh uh uh Esau in there as well that's true that's true so very true so it's a place I want to visit when I come to Israel first oh you have to I'd love to take you there well let's make you let's make it uh yeah put it in a diary go there any excuse to go there I'll give you a real behind the scenes uh what's the word uh tour with the tourism you're on yeah all right for sure and we'll go see where Ruth is buried where yishai is buried we'll take you to Abraham's Springs that where he took the Mikvah yeah we'll take you uh okay so that's exciting after avram had experienced the 10 tests and he wants to bury his wife she had passed away he wanted to buy a very special place so he comes to beneface and he speaks to Ephron the head of the family he wanted to buy this special place at the end of the field now he wanted to and he intended to pay full price but there was a whole negotiation that goes on so Ephron first says no my master hear me hear me means what does hear me mean understand me don't just listen to the words right all right understand like we say Israel hear a wisdom the Lord is your God lord as well doesn't mean just listen it means let it penetrate your heart understand right when you say you know you're having a conversation and someone says yeah I see I see what you're saying you don't I see what you mean I understand what you're saying something I hear what you're saying same thing so he says hear me he's like really opening his heart I have given you the field he really wanted to give it away for free no he wanted money but let's see and the cave that's in it I've also given you I've given them to you in the presence of my Kinsmen go ahead bury your dead so avram heard not only the words right but the feelings that were behind them this takes a lot of wisdom and a lot of sensitivity and a lot of empathy when he said hear me all all of a sudden it means there are things beyond the words that I'm saying but you should understand and from s here not only my words but my real meaning since my words are only to impress my Kinsmen who are standing around us listening avram heard and understood from ephron's real intent he also had his own reasons for wanting to give in other words avram wanted to pay full price he didn't accept a gift he wanted it to be his avram then took out his money he was totally prepared to pray pay the price that for the small burial plot at the edge of this field uh that he knew what it was really worth Ephraim saw the money and right away blurted out hear me my mess he said again hear me my master a land worth 400 silver shekels what is it between us barrier dead he he right away wanted to take the money because avraham knew that it was really about the money hear me I need the money at that point avram could have started haggling that's right you could start and he might have gotten him down in other words we're talking about going beyond the lead of the law you want to follow the letter law you pay the fair price but if you want to go beyond the letter law you give the price he mentioned he gave the top he gave the top uh price and not only that what did avram do in return He gave him the best currencies pure silver okay so not only did he get he could have get money I don't know 400 tackles and camels right right okay silver so um we've haggled to get the burial plot spot uh uh price down to the real value he could have complained to the people he was negotiating with were standing around watching the public sale he could have demanded fairness and justice but no avraham heard Ephron he heard what he was really saying in his heart he heard the heart he understood his feelings and he gave Ephron the price he had asked for even though it was way far beyond a fair price not only that right we said he took uh one step further and he gave him silver currency now in both these cases Abram exercised the attribute of give truthiakov on one hand he was giving the fair price he understood the truth of the other person's perspective and treated them accordingly however what avram did he took one step further the king of Saddam and both Ephron they both knew they were wrong that they had no right to make such demands nevertheless avram treated them beyond the dictates of fairness and gave them what they wanted keep this in mind in return Hashem deals with him and his descendants with the same attribute kindest avraham uh The Last Story we're going to deal with is the um the famine that struck Eric's Israel actually there's one other thing topic we want to talk about on a kabbalistic level but let's talk about it so Yitzhak there was a famine and he wanted here he thought maybe I'll go to Egypt God specifically tells him in Genesis 26 2 if you want to read it 26 2 and the Lord appeared to him and said do not go down to Egypt dwell in the land that I will tell you right so what was my place here here we go do not dissent Egypt dwell in the land I will tell you I'm sorry the Hebrew is Raima don't go down there it's a share and more aleja but I'm telling you to stay here okay in the end of this revelation God actually blesses Yitzhak in the name of his father right why did he bless him in the name of his father go to Genesis 26 5. I want to talk about a few verses later he's blessing he's blessing because of something because Abraham hearkened to my voice and kept my charge and my Commandments my statutes and my instructions very good so I'm blessing you Yitzhak because something avram did akev is because of cause of avraham Ashish because he listened to my voice the Ishmael Marti this is the words we're going to use that he guarded my guardings and he translated as he kept my charge my statutes vittorothai and my Torah my instructions now the majoration terms interprets the wording of the verse that avram kept hashem's guard the Ashmore mishmarti right he guarded my guardings to me that he took responsible for hashem's tasks hashem's attribute of kindness ascended before him and he praised Abram's deep basically God was saying as long as avram is in the world I don't need to work I can basically sit back and relax because avron practices kindness in my place it's an amazing concept avram's mission was to spread kindness throughout the world he spread kindness even to the guilty remember the original question what if someone doesn't deserve it what if somebody has taken advantage we saw these these examples king of Saddam I know he's taking advantage but he certainly didn't deserve it and Efron certainly didn't deserve it and yet avron paid the full price basically to both of them so he spread kindness even to the guilty that's what Outreach is helping them return to do the will of their father in Heaven he was generous even to those who were unworthy remember we said if you're going to be generous to the Unworthy certainly you should be generous to the worthy right that's how we start in the beginning but you're going to inspire them to do truva right you're going to inspire them to you know he would take people to his home and give him futi and they say you know can we pay you says no no you pay Hashem just make a bracha to Hashem if you don't pay him respect then you he gave him a bill a really high bill right I'm not interested in the money I'd rather you think a he was trying to share uh this monarchy ethical manotheism to the world so Not only was he generous to those who were unworthy thus inspiring them to do truma all these are the traits of Hashem that's what God does exercises through his attribute of kindness avram stood in the place of this attribute spreading hashem's kindness throughout the world um now there's an idea in Genesis 21 33 . [Music] 33 he says and he planted in I shall in beersheva uh and he called there in the name of the Lord the word the god of the world okay so as he planted an eschel it's a special Tree in beersheva Now what is so avraham's set in motion this kindness in this world he planted the tree escho in their Sheba and he publicized there the name of Hashem god of the world eschel's an acronym NOW the acronym people say different things but it's Lima aleph shin lamid all hell's food Stiers drink and Lena's lodging so avram offered his food freely to all he called upon them to serve Hashem he spoke to their hearts planting seeds of amuna this this tree until they returned to the truth path he sought the benefit he sought to benefit even terrible Sinners who else are you going to do Outreach to who are you going to befriend if they're not off the path Hashem revealed his plans to destroy Saddam right Hashem revealed the plans to whom to avram and avram could plea on their behalf did Abram not try to negotiate how many people would change your mind if we couldn't find 50 45 40 right 30. right okay so that's all in Genesis chapter 18. okay now this is a little bit uh metaphysical kabbalistic and for those are familiar how to kosher to kosher make fit Jewish pots and pans when we went to war you can look it up in numbers 31 verse 23. so we go to war and we end up with pots and pans from the enemy now they probably ate pork non-kosher who knows what maybe a camel milk who knows what they cooked in these pots and pans but the way the pots and pans work if anybody ever saw Jews getting ready for Passover we either use boiling hot water takasha and it depends on how the pot was used to cook the non-kosher food and if it was with direct fire or dry heat then it requires direct fire dry heat so that's why people use blow torches on certain objects so you could go from some let's say you had cold camel milk in your glass so the only cost you the only thing you need to do to fix it is to rinse it out with cold water and maybe some soap and that's kosher but if it was like you know boiling soup and you messed it up with some milk and meat in there so then you need hot boiling water but again if it was like an oven and a dry heat so then you need something more powerful okay so that's like our souls okay our souls it's like an analogy if you want to read numbers 31 verse 23 for us yeah 31 23 uh whatever is used in fire you shall pass through fire and then it will be clean it must however also be cleansed with sprinkling water and whatever is not used in fire you shall pass through water now Rabbi when I had this conference here in November and I uh I had a guest house put together for the rabbis and I had the rabbi in the town next door his wife prepared a bundle a beautiful kosher meals uh even still uh um Rabbi scobach gave me some specifics uh to tell the guest uh The Keeper of the guest house to uh uh Aid them in making the kitchen kosher and uh for me that was kind of a first uh uh experience in seeing that done but you know because all they had to do was very reheat these pre-made meals that were extra packaged well I mean the rabbi rabbits in up in Kelowna was just awesome and the food was just delicious I'm glad it was a success um so it is complicated but the the the the vessels themselves have to be converted by going to the Mikvah like being baptized so to speak that's a familiar word um but in addition to that and not all items depends what the item is um and then again they have to be cautioned and fit for for the Heat and so as we described so the the explanation here is that this is based on the Zohar the importance of this is why I don't understand why a non-jew wouldn't want to do has it it's logical it's ethical it's following the instructions of the of the of the Jews again not in every detail are you obligated but why wouldn't you want to be blessed the importance of hasid in purifying our souls can be understand better in light of the czar which compares the purification of souls after their passing to the caution of kitchen utensils so the really righteous person who does a lot of sadaka that's sadaka right it's Cedric Garrett Cedric means a person who fully converted to Judaism means uh righteous so if you're a Bend off and you want to be a righteous among the Gentiles why not to do to do hasid and kindness so while you're still alive see the righteous person after they die if they really you know tried their best made a few mistakes on the way they'll be like a glass vessel that just needs to be rinsed out to cold water the other way you know and then unfortunately if we have a period of our lives and we're maybe we weren't even that uh kind and perfect and whatnot we have penalties to pay so you might have deeper scrubbing yeah dipped in a hot water now this purging it's a purging it's very short-lived but it could be very painful but nevertheless you have an opportunity to fix that here in this world so um and then of course for those who are very uh naughty let's say they may need the the fire the what do you call the blow torch but either way the point is that you have this world to cleanse yourself in this world so listen to the words here um so the these utensils that we just described the different types of utensils and the different uh processes whether it's cold water or hot water or a blow torch are represented by the Jews so which is the vessel that contains God's presence those who kindled the fire with their yet Sahara right the Yates areas the evil inclination it's like it it's like it boils it's uh it's a kindling of the fire so uh they chased her after their lowly passions in this world obviously you have to be purified to the fires of ganim and those who were lessly Wicked in their lifetimes boiling water would suffice they have to be scolded by the Gahanna to purify their souls before they can Ascend they're going to Ghanaian and they're going to go to the world to come to ex to have eternal Bliss but there has to be a purification process those who even more witness Wicked kindled the fires of each other to even greater degree must pass directly Through the flames in order to expunge the greater degrees evil which they observed their lifetimes and the righteous however purified through cold water alone the mercy and kindness they practice in their lifetimes cooled down the Yates around in other words the yetson represents the fire and passion to do evil well guess what the cold the coldness meaning the when you do kindness it's like cold water being splashed right onto your Yates are around it's like almost a secure wave making sure you don't go in the wrong direction it's usually your guidance it's an amazing thing because there's so many repercussions to doing the right thing and repercussions you know consequences of doing the right thing therefore the fires of getting him have no power over them it's enough for them to immerse once in the Cool Waters of Purity and then they ascend directly to God and Adam now there's still another character that was after you die what about why you're still alive you still have time to correct your mistakes these souls are compared to another category Earth can wear vessels now this is going to be this is going to sound tragic the earthenware vessel once it becomes not pure it can never be cautioned it can only be cracked and broken and then re-um you know you can remake it in other words if it's earthenware like the gray one if you grind it down and you can add water or whatever and make it a new so this is an amazing idea because man really is compared to an earthenware vessel we've come from the Adama man is Adam from The Adama and as long as a person lives he can purify his soul uh by breaking it with the contrite and humble heart so look in Psalms 51 19. 51 Psalm 51 19. the sacrifices of Hashem are a broken Spirit oh God you will not despise a broken and crushed heart I mean it's really beautiful but I mean this is King David is really the theme throughout Psalms um I just want to read the Hebrew if I can and because I'm sure and some just beautiful it's Beauty it's a beauty and 19. SIV Taylor Kim ruak nishibara broken Spirit lab nishbar this is what God will not despise love to his best this is unbelievable so again it's in this world when you are faced with an up its choice you feel maybe this person takes the advantage of you because it's he doesn't have Justice on his side but you are going beyond the letter of the law by choice you make that choice you are being humbled you are humbling yourself you are breaking yourself down to a point where everyone's gonna you're a friar you're you're being taken advantage of no it doesn't matter it's a choice don't think it's not a choice you have this choice and it will break you down in order to build you up better and that's a simple explanation I'll just read the last few sentences here from here we see how important it is for a person to control his evil inclination to protect yourself uh with positive action with like being kind to people right and to stand up to the tests of life so that you may Merit the goodness and blessing not only in this world but the next world as well you will be blessed in this world right even a benoff who came to the conclusion these laws are reasonable not because God commanded them but because they make sense yeah he she will be blessed in this world you'll you'll get blessed in this world you know it's been asked like so why don't they get the world to come it's only the one that believes it's in a God and believes that God can if you don't believe in God why would God give you something you don't want God is so kind the guy doesn't believe in God he doesn't believe in the world to come he doesn't believe in the spiritual world and what God's going to give you Eternal Bliss that's not what you want he'll give you exactly what you want you'll be blessed oddly die in this world right no limit in this world but that's it only in this world so bizarat Hashem the people listening Jews non-jews should all you know ask ourselves some important questions about life be open-minded to what the Torah has to say try to investigate is this really true was there a revelation 3 300 years ago am I as a non-jew obligated in keeping these seven major principles are there subcategories are there things I can do to go beyond the letter of the law keep any of the additional Mitzvahs provided they do it in order to receive reward not because they think they're obligated but in order to receive reward the whole idea means that you believe in god what kind of reward I mean maybe you do as a atheist that believes there's a reward in this world I think if you're already at that point and you believe that there are positive repercussions repositive consequences of your actions there must be something greater running everything and be open-minded to the idea that um there is a God that took the Jewish people out of Egypt in order to be elected to the Nations to be their servants to be their priests and then maybe you can open your mind and listen to what they have to say hmm yeah it's a beautiful lesson today Rabbi I just in my mind's still processing about the purging of the the pots and uh the connection there it's just like whoa such a new thought that it's just like oh it's seaming together all kinds of light bulbs are popping off in the brain and like pop rocks and I gotta digest it really uh uh but uh wonderful wonderful I mean so enjoying this series Tomer dvora learning uh the the the attributes of hashem's mersey but how it interplays with us and how it interplays in this world it's just phenomenal phenomenal material for sure more efficient well Rabbi I know your schedule is fairly busy uh and we've been doing every few weeks or so are you tentative uh for the next couple weeks for Part 12 are we going to leave it I don't know when I'm sorry um it's just there's certain uh other things in my life like getting up early on Shabbat morning to give a class it's a long walk and then by the time I come home Saturday night I'm really you're pooped we get it we get it yeah and we don't want to take advantage of you in any way shape or form um the value of Torah well it's been a Noah you know we can't put a price tag on it in any way shape or form uh and we don't want to over tax you know uh those that are willing to uh share beautiful words so of course we understand these classes are at your discretion and at your available time well hopefully you'll keep in touch so folks keeping a an eye out uh on social media if our no high World Center Facebook channel uh and whatnot and we will advertise the next time we're going to be back with beyond the seven it'll probably be a couple of weeks for sure uh but as Rabbi poston's uh available but uh you know Rabbi I'm getting a chat in in a chat room there about holding you to taking us to Hebron to see the uh uh the Cave of the Patriarchs for sure the Tomb of the Patriarchs I definitely work at diarize it into my trip for sure next time I come when I do come there uh uh definitely look forward to seeing you in person there and and uh if we can uh do some Adventure like that with a guided tour would be just awesome okay it would be like off the beaten path there will be a personal tour right on right on all right Rabbi well okay we'll let you go uh because it's like after one in the morning there and we know that you got to get some rest thank you for today's class it was beautiful delicious and uh we uh hope you have a great week folks uh everybody that's tuned in and we'll see you uh in a couple of weeks with our part 12 and if you haven't caught the earlier ones go back in uh our Channel or you can always go to yibane.com uh that's uh Rabbi Poston site or is is YouTube site on eBay these are posted there as well uh but you can find these uh links in the no hide World Center YouTube page and our Facebook page if you back them up and you can catch earlier lessons I do try to put them into a uh uh what do you call it they're a uh tab with uh a bunch in there all 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