Unique Responsibility of Jews and Righteous Gentiles with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] bait midrash welcome home to torah a very very warm welcome we're in parshas kayasara and i just remembered the old days we used to go to havron for shabbos and yes there was like 30 000 people this was uh amazing and um where sarah herself is we talk about her burial we do a few things here in this bait midrash we want everyone to try their best to learn hebrew okay so in the link below in the description box is a link to find the hebrew sheets you do have to do some work because you have to know which parsha you have to know which year but on the page itself there are the hebrew sheets which you could print or download or what or read put your finger on the place and that applies to all the people that are here in the room as well to try to learn hebrew and i want you to also know that i'm going to put in the link below a fantastic or i say fantastic i shouldn't say that but it's a sheer that i gave in the past about the beginning of the parsha where sarah is buried in in hebron in mars pela so i encourage you to go back to that because we're not going to be dealing with that at all today we're going to talk about now the marriage well well not really the upcoming marriage for that i actually encourage you to listen to rabbi brightowitz this year on khayasar and i'll put a link for that below as well what we're going to talk about is the mission that abraham is going to send eliezer on but we're only going to deal with it in a very um we're not going to deal with the mission so much we're going to deal with some of the verses i want you to know for those who are listening for the first time and don't follow this shirt so much we are dissecting the words remember the word torah is means instructions god gave us instructions how to live our lives yes there's some rituals right there's some very interesting practices that us jews do but we are the light to the nations we are going to tell you how to live because god told us how to live so believe it or not the instructions that abraham gives eliezer his servant remember his servant wasn't jewish yet he understands this non-jew he understands this non-jew and there are some very interesting let's say beyond the conversation that they're having there's depth to the words that god is revealing to jews and non-jews what is this world all about what is our job here in this world so let's begin with the statement in chapter 24 verse 2 that starts off by saying now we know abram was old well owned in years it's interesting the word zak khan is used he himself is old and well on in years and hashem had blessed avraham with everything now verse 2 begins with avraham says to his servants he actually saying to eliezer how does he say it the omar abram el al du zakin why why is the word zakin used we just described abraham as a zucchini and now abraham himself is speaking as the narrator hashem that avraham says to his own servant who is a zoccain beso he's the elder of the household hamilto this is describing eliezer eliezer is someone who is a mo shale bakola cherlo now what would you think that means that's what we're going to talk about let's see what the arts go it says that who controlled all that was his so we're talking about let's just assume the push up shot the simple explanation is avram is entrusting this servant of his who's as zakain zakiy means wise but let's skip that for a second because he controlled all that was his you understand that we're talking about abraham this servant was the master butler right he controlled everything that belonged to abraham that is how we're going to understand in the beginning but we're going to switch gears and we're going to understand that eliezer a righteous gentile was actually in control of everything that was his okay but let's start with the push up shot that the reason abraham is choosing him to go find a wife for his son isaac is because he was trustworthy okay so now let's go into the clear car kiro oto ne aman biko beta who avraham saw that this person eliezer was trustworthy in all of his possessions all of whose possessions avraham's possessions therefore he understood this person is so trustworthy he's not going to get bribed he won't accept the bribe to take a wife for isaac that's not fitting for isaac yep and then marry him to a woman who is not fit for avraham's son isaac kilam because this is how avraham is thinking why would he take a wife from my son who's not fit hello moshe bakola shalom he already is the master of my household he already has a certain amount of responsibility for my household i trust him he's done a good job up until now he'll continue to do a fantastic job so far so good now we're gonna switch gears and the clear car says you know what we're able to say the word low milat low the word low right low means to him shove it's actually going on eliezer meanings referring to eliezer lefisha komisha hula hoot akhemdat which was like this because anyone this is the torah of hashem and it's talking to us talking to our hearts talking to our souls that anyone who is obsessed and chases after his desires such as money someone who who loves money hare momono love you know what controls what the money controls the person it's no longer the person who's obsessed and chasing after money the money controls that person now that's interesting i brought down in proverbs 21 verse 1. he's not giving us shot but he's using the words at the end of the verse whenever he wishes he turns it i'll call i share yah in other words god actually leads you to the way you want to go so in this case the the person is chasing money the money is actually going to lead you okay that's where you will turn your desires will be chasing after that which you are chasing after of ahu aino shalit alma monoclous but regarding eliezer in truth he was not controlled by money at all money was not his master his master was abraham and hashem like it says now this is in ecclesiastes cohellis bet chapter 6 verse 2. now i want you to pay attention because we're going to use another verse in ecclesiastes in cohes that is going to read very similar to this it's almost like you have to remember this verse and then compare it to verse in chapter 5 verse 18 in cohes which you can find in uh on our sheet number three and number four so let's read number three first he says a man who god gives you see i capitalized the word gives gives is future tense a future tense means will well let's just talk about this it's going to relate to the desire that a person has he doesn't have it and he's looking forward to god giving it to him so a person a man whom god gives riches and property and honor and his soul lacks nothing of all he desires and god gives him no power to eat of it but someone else will eat of it this is vanity and a grievous sickness so look at the hebrew ish a person god will give the person right wealth and properties right and then skip down below yes god will not allow the person to benefit the person is chasing he's desiring something he doesn't have and when he finally gets it if he does hashem won't even allow him to benefit from it he won't have any satisfaction from it now let's see what the clear car says he says it should have said ah ish i share not only right in other words present tense it should have said similar to what we're going to read in 5 18 but it could have said a man whom god gave riches and property god will give him no power no it's not yet in his hand he's desiring it he's desiring something he doesn't have so let's see though that the clear card says he says key the word yi tain is it's something that's coming it's future tense he doesn't have it what does that mean it's referring to someone who is not at all happy with what he actually has right now he wants more lumitsa tummy he's constantly anticipating looking forward hashem odd that god should give him more than what he has right now meaning in addition to what he already has he wants more ki tamid ain lodai because he doesn't have enough whatever he has he doesn't feel he has enough and we're going to relate this also to the actual name of god shin dalit yud everyone knows what that word means i'll say it once it's the name of god shall die we're going to pronounce it as shakai and you always understand this with the dhalid we're going to relate that because we're going to find out what that name means and how god revealed himself to avraham with that name we're going to get to it but in the meantime this person is only looking forward to something he doesn't have because he doesn't have it he desires more zaisha sherlo yash and that's the type of person that god will not even allow the person to have any satisfaction right he doesn't allow the person to enjoy whatever it is he has after he would give it to him if he would he ain't no wrong but shallow because the person is miserable with what he has he has a sense of greed he's just not happy with what he has he desires more now we're going to go to verse chapter 5 verse 18 and we're going to see that word is present tense that god gives and think about the words they're almost exactly the same words as in chapter 6 verse 2. we're now in 5 18. also every man whom god has given the word in hebrew is not on okay that god has given him uh these riches and property and has given him power to eat thereof meaning he does have the sense of satisfaction of eating it he will be permitted to eat it and benefit from it and to take a portion and to rejoice he will have this some simcha look at the word and this is the gift of god this is a gift of god for those who earn it and deserve it and that means you have to get rid of that sense of greed and the anticipation for things you don't have get rid of that be helco be happy and satisfied with what you have feel the gratitude if you have to it's work okay i'm not going to say it's not work this is the avodah this is you know we talked about this before you have a long list of the 98 curses right the last final curses i gave you everything and all these curses are going to come to you why because you had everything and you weren't happy okay so keep this in mind let it sink in we have to smile we have to have a sense of gratitude it is hashem we're here to serve hashem if we're here to serve hashem do no how are you going to do that if you're not happy so that's in my mind one of the biggest sins you got the three cardinal sins right what are they murder adultery and idolatry but guess what this is like the culmination of the worst thing could ever happen to you if you're not happy with what you actually have so it's work i just want to go here okay okay so we just read that verse right that's present tense and the clear the car points that out he says his kirin natan the word natan as opposed to ye tan is lush and avar it's actually past tense god actually gave past tense gave the person [Music] is satisfied with the supply with the um right not from doubt but like when someone here in israel is a supplier he's a supac it means he's satisfying your your order right it means here that you are satisfied and happy with what you have um that's the kind of person who is able to be satisfied or controls everything that is his and this is what the torah describes eliezer remember it says and he controls everything that is his not abraham's but his very own everything that is within eliezer's abilities he is not only control of but he is the simple and he's happy with what he has and if that's such a person zelo yika he would never take anything that isn't fit for him he knows only because it's all gift from god and therefore it's fit for him whatever it is that he receives and he won't he won't be uh let's say he won't be a thief he won't be hungry to take things that aren't fit for him they don't belong to him um okay um and this is exactly from this aspect that avraham trusted eliezer as we said he trusted him he was the most trusted of this household kiyoda boshum he knew that eliezer was in control of cherlo everything that belonged to eliezer the ain't momono mo shobo that the money did not control eliezer but eliezer controlled the money al canelo vino therefore he was not inclined he wasn't being forced by the money to do anything on account of that and he wouldn't do anything that wasn't fitting to do and the clear car ends his paragraph by saying that perish your car this is a very proper and precious explanation now before we go into the next piece i just want to go through some of the interesting rashes so if you go to classy ecclesiastes chapters two verse chapter six verse two just to see that rashi brings this down right riches and property okay that's a simple explanation but what does it mean god gives him no power to eat of it remember we use those words they ain't show late blow so that he should rejoice in his portion and fight satisfaction in his riches free stride right he doesn't right he doesn't have that but rather he strives to oppress and to accumulate much more wealth um and god will also not give give him the power to perform charity and to eat there from in the future but rather someone else a strange person will take that money and perform charity with it and derive benefit from that also later on right what does it mean that um god gives him no power since he didn't achieve this has to do with knowledge of learning torah i mentioned that torah is well it's knowledge right it's instructions we all need it we all have to learn so here it says because you didn't receive the knowledge of torah gomorrah okay this for you uh stephen since he didn't achieve knowledge of the gemara he consequently had no benefit therein from any practical instruction there are people who just open up what they call kitsu shokanarak some simple manual guess what you got to get your head into it you have to understand the principles behind it and that's what gemara is gemara is simply going deeper into the principles behind because when you're faced with a challenge you're faced with something you have to review for yourself what are the principles because it's not a cookie cutter thing that one one law applies to everybody at all times there's different variables in your personality different variables in the time different variables of things that happen in the situation and that's going to determine what you do at any given time okay but someone else will eat of it this is one versed in gemara okay let's go on so we're continuing on with the rest of that verse where it says what this is a very strange thing and you have to admit that when you look at the verse it's um the second part of verse 2 where avraham has eliezer place now your hand under my thigh now what is going on here so i have to look at rashi let's look at rashi on that verse you'll find this in the english if i'm not mistaken does anybody see where it is ah it's still a number okay so let's we didn't read that rashi for a reason now we're going to read it now so rashi mentions by there place your hand under my thigh that this the hand of eliezer is going on the bris mila of avraham very strange so let me just give you some background as everyone knows from watching court cases they asked the plaintiff they asked one of the witnesses to come up and to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth and to place your right hand on the bible well in the old days we would actually ask the person who's making an oath a shibuya in court to hold on their right shoulder we're talking about to take in your right hand the whole safer torah and swear in the name of god okay what's the point when you're making an oath you're making it a statement that you are telling the truth nothing but the truth you're taking an oath of some sort you take something that's very have very valuable very important and you're taking it you're going to swear over that so the rashi explains since the one who swears must take with his hand an article either related to a mitzvah an example that torah scroll or to fill him and then he adds and circumcision which was what which was his first mitzvah and not only that avraham agreed had fulfilled it with a lot of pain it was obviously something very dear if you write no pain no gain as they say right i know a lot of adult converts right the men who've gone through this and it's it's let's call it a great sacrifice let's just leave it there right it's tremendous and you know what it's very meaningful it's my right the more pain not the not that you have to have it but the more pain the more gain right right so and so he took it this is rashi we understand and it sounds very strange that avraham asks eliezer to hold on to something of his own that's very dear okay without any comment let's go on to the clear car he says right away his bamila he made him swear holding the circumcision it's very important that every jewish male understands this and i'm sure every female would understand this as well the very fact that the sign of the covenant right think about it the sign between us and god not just shabbos is on the very member that every human being every male you know half the population of the world has and unfortunately we all know you can watch uh you can hear the tv you can watch your news on on the when you call reading the newspapers you know what goes on i mentioned last week about something that happened in philadelphia and there was a whole train of people who just watched somebody being raped right so forget about rape is already an extreme thing but there's also uh you know adulterous relationships or all kinds of sexual immorality that goes on so the act the fact that the covenant is sealed signed into the skin of the member over there this is something that would help a person be guarded against sexual immorality by remembering this is a holy thing this is a covenant i have with my creator of the universe and therefore remember what avraham is telling eliezer do not take a woman do not take as a wife from my son from the daughters of the kanani lo tikak isha livni mi binoza kanani ki ham hazima what is zema zema is sexual immorality yerusha islam it's handed down it's like in the i don't say in the dna but it's it's trans it's trans what it called what's the word i'm looking for the transmission from one generation to another when it comes to sexual morality it gets handed down min ham especially because of ham he's the grandfather of kanan so the canaanites come from ham and who's ham what did he do what do we know about ham so you may not know this because in the torah it's not exactly clear but we do have an oral torah that explains what happened and if you go to um where do i start let's see um genesis 9 25. i have that here somewhere yeah on page 3 um verse number 11 over there right god cursed kanan right it says and he cursed cursed be kanan he shall be a slave among slaves to his brethren and he said blessed be the lord of god the god of shame and may kanan be a slave to them may god expand the affect and may he dwell in the tense of shame and make cannot be a slave to them we see the kanan is cursed so it makes sense the avram does not want his seed which is blessed to be mixed with a seed that is cursed so who's living in the land of canaan who's living in palestine who's living in aries israel the canaanites and who are the canaanites they came from egypt in other words you see i have here um i think in the number nine who were the sons of kham kham was one of the three sons of and the sons of ham were kush mitzrayim putin kanan so yuto kush is like sudan i think suddenly maybe it's ethiopia ethiopia sudan area then you have mitzrayim put i don't know exactly where that is but the canaanites crossed over the suez canal went through the sinai peninsula but basically they were they were africans they were africans so in other words so because eretz kanan meaning this part of asia we're actually in asia for those who don't know right we're asians right our own and esther right we're asians that's what we are shame is asian so you have over there they crossed over and they stole they conquered they lived here they're not the indigenous native people okay but they came and they conquered for a while okay just keep that in mind and keep in mind according to that verse chapter 10 verse 6 you see the kanan is the fourth it's gonna it's gonna come into play here so now let's go back into uh the clear car and i have to see where i am because i got lost oh so basically it's like this ham is the father of kanan now i have here a gomorrah in sanhedrin chapter page 70a you find this on number eight what exactly happened so ham is the one who did something to his father so why did god curse kanan if ham was guilty so look at number five in chapter nine verse one of genesis it says god blessed noah and his sons so god already blessed ham shame and yavis comes the story as we'll see in number 8 sanhedrin 70 a i'm going to go down to the bottom there where it says there's a mock locus between rav and schmaltz underlined one says that ham castrated noah the other one says that what that ham sodomized noah i want to tell you the conclusion the conclusion is everyone actually agrees that he castrated him it was only one of them that said he also sodomized him now what would be the point of sodomizing him what's going on we're castrating him so if kham did such a thing why would if ham did it why would kanan be cursed so number one reason is because god already blessed ham so who is now to curse ham he's already blessed but if he withheld the ability for noah to have a fourth child so the fourth child would be cursed i know it sounds very strange but that's how one of the one of the ways the gomorrah understands what happened okay so now let's go on back into the clear car the last thing we read was that some say that uh kanan or let's say ham sorry ham sodomizes his father azima and i want the righteous noah heights to listen to this well because you have a choice as a righteous no hide to do certain misses okay i'm not even saying to do it just with your own mind figure out what to do it's not fitting to enjoy to have a marriage between someone who is circumcised and someone who is a balay zima someone who is licentious someone who is a product or a descendant and has the transmission so to speak of a sexual immorality kim it's through the circumcision that avraham became blessed and it was from the aspect of the sodomization or the castration that kham did to noah that he was eventually cursed aurora kanan as the verse says we do not join or not that we don't join it's like not possible to join something which is blessed with something that is cursed so for those righteous nochides out there you have to choose your own partner very well right you gave up idol worship you gave up sexual immorality right you're keeping by the seven laws find the partner who is like-minded that's my lesson for today for you guys um let's go on i you know what i want to stop here because there's an interesting break sheet rabbi in 59 8 you'll find that in number six and i just want to go through it briefly because it did mention that avraham said to his servant who was a zakain beso that he was the elder of his household so there's a very interesting words here that he was iconim e konin like an icon interesting right that he had was very similar to the domulo that eliezer was so similar to his own his own master which is he controlled everything that was his what does the measure say that he was in control of his own inclinations which is a high level to be on just like his master right eliezer was we'll call him a servant but this is the way as we know any righteous gentile out there understands that the jewish people are the priesthood and you will hopefully hold on to the titsus of the jew and say i heard god is with you teach me and basically recall serving him it doesn't mean you're a servant but in the highest level of serving the jew seemna yadakatakas and then it says that he asked him to place his hand underneath his thigh and over there it mentions exactly what like we saw in rashi that he placed he himself experienced a lot of pain he understood that it was very hadive and therefore he used that to swear with um the next part of the ashbyach we're going to be dealing with this idea where it says he actually right i'm going to make you swear in the god of heaven and earth keep this in mind in our chapter right we're dealing with chapter 24 where he makes eliezers swear in the name of the god of heaven and the god of earth very interesting so what does the measure say right there says rabbi pinchas before this archaeology right god became what known by avraham he went and he was i'll use the word proselytizing missionizing he was carrying the gospel he was carrying the good news he was carrying the message that there's such a thing of a god right before that it was paganism right so that's why he's called elokai shamayim the god of heaven now once that was all sorry that was all before and then once he like started informing other people then he became the god of heaven that's the god of earth let me just rephrase that again up until before avraham was proselytizing letting people know he was the god of heaven meaning beyond this world people didn't relate to him but once avraham started sharing the message in this world there is such a god then he became so to speak in name only as well as the god of the earth keep that in mind um just continue with this madrish i share lo tika right he said don't take from the kananim meaning he warned him don't take from my friends i have some good friends in the righteous knock heights right ener eshko and mamre they were pretty good decent guys but don't take their daughters ki el artsy the elm a lot of tea but rather take from my land and my from my birthplace says revita you know when you're going to plant plant the good seeds that you know work so usually you go after your own crop and take the seeds from your own crop and keep replanting them so that was the idea why avraham sent him to his birthplace and okay and and we'll continue remember it says in 24 3 i cause you to swear by the lord god of heaven and earth now think about what ghazal has said to us in nadarim it's actually 31a and you can find that on uh number 13. it says right there alternatively so great is the midst of circumcision that if it wasn't for the holy one blessed be he would never have been created the world the world was created for a covenant for some kind of relationship to forgot to have with a people and that's why it says in jeremiah which we'll see a little bit more in depth in chapter 33 verse 25 thus says the lord if my covenant be not with day and night i would not have appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth well to see the hebrew i don't know why i didn't put the hebrew there oh because okay the gemara but i do have the hebrew for jeremiah so it says over there komar shem imlobarity yoma [Music] so we're going to deal with that verse right if not my covenant with day and night the statutes of heaven and earth i did not place i wouldn't have placed it okay so let's look at the clear card he says like this dolomila how great is the mitzvah of mila the mitzvah of doing this circumcision mila if it had not been for circumcision lo niskayama shamaivar it's the whole world would cease to exist the world cannot exist without a covenant as we see in jeremiah which he just quotes now now remember what it says it says the god of heaven and earth remember when avraham had eliezer swear he says swear in the name in the god of heaven and earth by the miller the tamil dava who the reason for the matter is as follows because the miele's limit shame shall shin dality because the mila the circumcision the covenant completes perfects perfects the name of shaddai ube shame and it's that very name that is that god used that name the world it's enough now just try to imagine whether you believe in the big bang where however the world began imagine the world just expanding expanding spanning maybe at a much faster rate than expanding right now and god said stop right meaning slow down if we just kept going who knows who knows but the world could not exist in that state so that's why the world exists because god used this name now we're going to try to imagine trying to imagine remember we're supposed to imitate god god is good god is giving god is caring god is full of mercy yes he also has din and all that stuff but ultimately it's all out of a sense of goodness right even when he punishes us it's in order to correct us in order to give us the greatest good if we're supposed to imitate god and he says enough die stop so the name die represents that but it's also represented by what called restraint the concept of god is restraining himself guess what that's what a jew does they have to learn the lesson of restraint like as we discussed the whole bismillah the circumcision is on that particular member that member that everyone knows the human race i mean let's just say almost every creature created has a desire for reproduction so too the human race right in a very chaotic and immoral way it's the avenues are there yet we must restrain ourselves and we'll call be mentioned right be it be a human being be a be a a nice person right don't act like like an animal so to speak so just try to picture this this is why god actually introduces himself to avraham as and now let's go on he says like this the shame we just read that america may die it's with that name that god put restraints and said enough to the world kishu shamiva that means that the world was in a state of just expanding and interestingly enough that is very much male female thing men expand their this is just a general concept not every you know we're not trying to say it's cookie cutter world but men are usually extroverts going out hunting doing the work the women are generally bringing up the children and at home right cooking ironing and all that good stuff right generally but only someone generally right so there's this woman the woman is a is full of restraint by nature constricting so to speak and and you know what i mean i'm even talking about in a sexual sense whereas the man is the pushing himself out and the woman is holding herself in so to speak so here we have like it says in um ha hagiga so go to haga so i'm not mistaken it is number 16. it says like this so rav yehuda said that rav said with regard to that matter when the holy one blessed be created the world he it continued to expand like two balls of warp whose cord lengthens as they unraveled to the holy blessing he rebuked it it was just going out without without limit without purpose even but without limit and if things are going out with that limit that's not good and i'm just telling you now the woman is the best thing that could ever happen to a man because she right why does she circle around him seven times right does this you're limited not in a negative sense but in the most positive sense to bring him to a higher world into a higher place remember the yud represents the male the hay represents the female god created the world right with jude and hey right the word isha is with a hay the man ish is with a yud the yud is this highfalutin little letter that's flying off the ground and is not grounded the woman has two legs on the ground so to speak with the hay and is more encompassing as the letter hay represents okay this is not a class in that but in a certain sense it is so as the gemara continues god rebuked the world and made it stand still so to speak and there's a verse in job 26 11 the pillar of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke and this is what ray schlakesh meant when he said what's the meaning when god introduces himself in chapter 17 1 to abraham i am cal shekai i am the one who instructed the world die enough okay now let's go back into the clear card and see where we pick up this actually what's the word me you shave resolves this answers up what was said we already said lone niskaimusha my virus the whole world would not be able to exist without what if it was going out unlimited like it was just male masculine right you you call in the sky it would not have been able to exist even after it was created it would just i guess resolve that go back into chaos the possible that's why in jeremiah it says i did not place lo samti lo samti means i didn't create the world this way in other words it would not have lasted originally wouldn't have lasted allah but because it's going back on this idea of nature nature would it needs shamivarats you need restrictions within heaven and earth who coat means laws you would need laws of heaven and earth in other words the laws that would prevent unlimited access to anything you need purpose and limit and therefore agar kharajbar who god screamed out or ruled out and he said the name shakai kivo yada lolomo die with the name shakai he created this thing where the world would stop expanding the malay zoo lo haiyu yakholin leskayam eem haiyu mitpash team lein taklit that if it had not been for this the world would just have continued to expand and it wouldn't have been able to exist without limits the jose bowman and this is all coming from the aspect of the mila the very spot like i mentioned before is where you have a lot of power we spoke last week or two weeks ago at the fruit okay hamas shemza it's through the brismela that the name shaddai is able to be perfected but remember what he said he said in 24 7 shalom abraham is saying but right i was taken god took me from my father's house when he said that that was kutzlars god took me from khutslaaritz zekoda mamila that was before the mila before i was what's the word before i came to earth's israel that was before i became let's say a prophet i was proselytizing right before i became missionizing about god that was he was just called elokai hashemayan he was called the the god of heaven god had not become well known in the world in this lower world until we call that the god of the earth now the last few lines are very interesting we're going to redefine zionism okay yeshua marine shakarez barack is called he was called the god of the earth right he's also called the god of the earth what is what is the word haaretz means eretz israel he's the guy he's a zionist god is the god of its of the earth but which is specifically the land of israel how do we know this we're going to look in katubos 110a on 110b it over there says if you live outside the land it's as if you have no god let's just look at first kings chapter 17 verse 26 and then we'll go into the gemara a second in ketubos it says over there lo yadu at mishpat elohei haaretz they did not know the law of the god of the land now what is this referring to in second kings it's first kings second kings chapter 17. it's number 19 on the source sheet this is about the samaritans those the good samaritans so the sumerians this is what they said i don't know if you know this they came from they were not jews and they came from a distance land that the um that the assyrians what they call them displacing people population displacement they they took the jews out and put us over in somewhere in the ninja area assyria and they took the assyrians and put them into the land of israel and they were being attacked by lions and they didn't know what's going on we're going we're not jews we understand but you guys aren't being attacked we are why are the lions attacking us so they went to the rap eyes and the rabbi says because you're probably not keeping even the seven of high laws right you're not doing too much you're not doing too well so they decided okay if we convert you think the lions will stop attacking us what are the rabbis gonna say they said yeah sure and they did and the lions stopped attacking but they weren't really true converts because the only reason they converted was to get the lions from stop uh attacking them that's why we're very careful when someone comes they want to convert it's because you want to marry this guy you want to marry that girl or you want the lions to stop attacking you right so listen to the verse and they said to the king of assyria saying the nations that you exiled and settled in the cities of samaria do not know the law of the god of the land again we're just emphasizing here he's the god of the land the land of israel and he has incited lions against them and behold they are killing them and they do not know the law of the god of the land you hear the word right elohey haaretz so let's continue with the clear car he mentions all that was in eretz israel he's called the god of the land but when it comes to khutslaaritz hashem what was avraham saying in 24 7 right the lord the god of the heavens he's the one who took me out of the house of my fathers while i was in kutzler he's called the god of the heavens but in eretz israel he's called the god of the earth a vulcan here in our parsha sha ahmed the earth israel while avram is standing in the land of israel he actually says to eliezer to swear in the name of the god of the heavens and the god of the earth because at this point he's the god of both so let's just go real quickly to ketubos 110 um and we'll read i think it's not that long in relation to the basic point raised by the mission concerning living in the land of israel it's on page five the sages taught a person should always reside in the land of israel even in the city did you know this even in a city that is mostly populated by gentiles it's better to live in janine than in brooklyn well in miami i don't know but yes i get it right that he should not reside outside the land of israel even in a city mostly populated by jews the reason is that anyone who resides in eretz israel is considered as one who has a god and anyone who resides outside of the land of israel is considered as one who does not have a god okay and there are some verses right god says in leviticus 25 38 to give to you the land of canaan to be your god the gamora expresses surprise what can it really be said that anyone who resides outside the land of israel has no god that's a huge statement rather this comes to tell you that anyone who resides outside of the land of israel is considered as though he's engaging in idol worship and it says regarding david what did david say in 1st samuel chapter 26 verse for they have driven me out this day that i should not cleave to the inheritance of the lord saying go serve other gods king david on his way out of earth's trout thinking my god this is akin to idol worship but who said to david right go who said to the ghosts of other gods nobody rather this comes to tell you that anyone who resides outside of eretz israel is considered as though he is engaged in idol worship now i do have i'll say words of consolation right that if you are connected well connected to a orthodoxy to a yeshiva it's like an embassy it's like an embassy you know an embassy is like they say it's holy ground i mean i'm using that uh figuratively right you have the the flag and it's like a safe place it's like you're standing on the earth of the land the soil of that nation right if you're an american you're standing in the australian embassy it's like you're in australia so too this is what i want to say obviously it's better to be in aries to show proper but if you can't make it for whatever reason who knows why no judgment right you have elderly parents who knows what taking care for whatever reason you're there make yourself a resident of the holy land by attaching yourself to a holy community an orthodox community spend as much time in shul as much time as you possibly can in in a base madrid in a study hall connect with the rabbis of the community and learn learn torah and it'll be like as close as you can get to eretz as well it's like being in a safe spot like in an embassy and with that i wish everyone really a shaman shalom a great life and i hope that this uh touched you as much it touched me to discuss with you guys and um and now i'll take questions and i'm going to turn the camera off so much shalom and have a great life [Music] is [Music]