What was Balaam Thinking? and The Reason Not to Marry Moabite Men with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

anybody [Music] Shalom alaikum everybody Welcome to the year but I beat madrash welcome home to Torah a warm we welcome with a warm welcome momish and tonight she is dedicated to for refusalema to a dear friend of mine Ben Beatrice Riva it's my friend's father he should see a refusalema and I just want to mention that we're in the midst of our campaign raising funds for the needy we have at least 30 families that are regularly uh dependent on us some of them change of course people get out of that situation but we have on average 30 and some of them are working two jobs and still can't make ends meet with large families and whatnot so there'll be a link below to contribute also for those who want to follow along with the Hebrew Source sheets which I always encourage you to do there's a link below also you just have to find the right book and the right year the right title and we encourage you to learn Hebrew and follow along so we're in parashat kite this is in Deuteronomy chapter 23. verses verse 5. we will be dealing with six shortly so verse 5 says let me read verse 4 in English and ammonite or a moabite shall not enter the congregation of Hashem even their 10th Generation should not enter the congregation of Hashem to Eternity now what it really means is they can convert they can enter I'm putting up quotes here enter the congregation so to speak but they cannot marry a regular Jew okay we're not going to get into who they can and cannot marry and what their issues are and I want to clarify it's only referring to the men the women as we know Ruth was a moabite Tess and she did marry Boaz and I'm not going to get into the whole history of the Sanhedrin going back and forth and finally making a resolution that is permissible for the women but this is the word of God from the very beginning of time and it was just either forgotten unknown and had to be revived such so verse 5 now says the reason why the men but let's say at this point we don't know if it's men or women we will discuss it but an ammonia removal by Sean enter because of the fact that they did not greet you with bread and water on the road when you were leaving Egypt right and because he hired against you billum son of Baur of pathor Aram naharam to curse you now when we read this verse what do we think we understand the reason is because they are cruel right we had 40 years in the desert 39 whatever it was at this point in time and we're weary we had a hard time in the desert assuming obviously we didn't have that hard a time because we had a rock that followed us with water and we had man angel food coming out of heaven but for all practical practical purposes they knew we were in the desert for a long time leaving after we left Egypt and they did not greet us they did not come forward let's look at the Hebrew so in verse 5 hey it says Al davar now we're going to have to examine those words upon the matter or upon the thing regarding the matter regarding the word because they didn't come forward they didn't greet you with with bread and with water but Derek on the way when you left Egypt from Egypt vashir um did I skip something right they hired bilab Benbow from pitor Aram narayam in order to curse you okay that was the deal now we go right into the clear car and he wants to quote Rashi quotes Rashi right away and there's a reason he wants to call Rashi because that will open up our minds to what this verse is really talking about it to open a door right he's going to open our minds rashi's quoting from the oral Torah al-davaratsu that is a hard word to pronounce so that regarding the matter or the word let's use the word because davar also means a word we were right regarding the word of advice that he advised in order to curse us okay now I have the English translation of that Rashi right literally Al davar means because of the word and that's what Rashi is saying because of the word meaning the words of advice that they gave you to cause you to sin now what in the world is that that's like okay we just had a mafia a key to open up Rashi right I mean the Raj is going to open up for us but we don't even know what rashi's talking about what advice did he give them but it says he gave you to cause you to sin then on the last part of the Rashi baderek on the way when you were in a state of exhaustion now this these words are gold but we don't understand how precious they are yet we look at them we can examine them we can meditate on them we can sleep on them and I have no idea if I'm listening because maybe I'm the thick one how much I understand that now but in 45 minutes from now well actually probably in about 10 minutes because this is a very short piece and I'm going to go on to another piece it will mean it'll have a whole nother level of meaning for you so let's go back into the clear car that's the Hebrew sheet we just read Rashi in Hebrew Al davar it's a shiatsuh in order to cause you to sin is the enemy foreign whatever he just said it's not obvious it's not mitharash it's not clearly explained in the text that it has something to do with advice and by the way what advice did he do he came to curse us he was hired by balak to curse us every time he opened his mouth he ended up blessing us so in order to really cause damage even with his words to have his curse being effective he had to try to get us to sin so his advice was what to get these midianite women right get these non-jewish women out there and seduce the men into doing what not only immodest acts but to worship the balpor which for those who are not familiar how the Bible was worshiped I'd like to skip it but I won't I'll just lay it on the table here today they would defecate in front of the idol this is how they worshiped their idols and we're not going to go into the psychology tonight we'll talk about another time Okay so whatever advice and and in order to cause us to sin is not really explicitly mentioned that's very strange because I'm at the main point is missing from the book from the Bible from the scripture foreign that logic doesn't dictate there's no real sound reason given to distance ourselves from these two Nations just because they didn't come forward with bread remember these when we talk about marrying them we're talking about converts a convert is like a whole new person they're born again in the truest sense they're like a brand new baby they're not related at all to their ancestors so if they were cruel are we to assume that that cruelty would still be in these righteous Gentiles who were not just righteous Gentiles anymore they're like the most righteous they actually became Jewish they converted full full steam ahead so to speak so what the clear card is saying it doesn't make any sense why you cannot marry them just because they didn't come forward with bread and water and again we are talking about only the men but you don't know that yet or maybe you do elevated so the real reason he says absolute certainty the real reason we're not allowed to marry those men who converted from Moab and I'm not Amon is because they cause you to sin there's something serious about this now the clear card is saying this is actually quite explicit in this in the the in the scripture it is true they didn't come forward and greet us and give us even even if we offered to pay it'll be smaller did not give us why did they not come forward there was a reason they didn't come forward not because they weren't they not because they were cruel in the sense that someone doesn't offer water and bread to someone who's hungry who just you know came out of a desert or coming out of you know a place where there was no food or water no but rather they wanted us to starve wait not for starving sake they wanted us to be as hungry and as thirsty as possible the actual words like this in order that we would be hungry like starving and extremely thirsty from the exhausted and through the travails of the way because through that by us being extremely hungry and thirsty because then we would be willing to eat we would be forced to eat we would be right we would be put in a position where we wouldn't have a choice that we would want to go ahead and eat from their sacrifices to their idols and even drink from their wine which is when we know this idea the common theme in the clear car is wine if you drink too much right you're not doing it for the sake of the Mitzvah it brings you to sexual immorality that's what erva means okay and it's quoted in the second Sanhedrin in perichalic which is Page 106 a that anyone who is hired and exhausted is not going to check what is between what is permissible or what is forbidden the word issu is forbidden what is permissible by the way in 12-step programs when they tell you don't get too hungry angry or lonely or tired right because then you're susceptible You're vulnerable so so too with any human being right to bad meet us or whatever here in this case not looking to see if it's even kosher and the truth is if you want is really in a situation life and death they don't have to check right your mom is showing your last leg of breathing and someone comes over and gives you uh you know some forbidden food drink uh as a rabbi right we're talking about life and death it's certainly okay in this case it was actually underworshiping perhaps that's crossing a line but nevertheless this is what they wanted to cause us to do to cause us to be in such a position where we wouldn't where we wouldn't care all we would want to do is drink and eat as you begin to as he begins to say that the person would be so exhausted and hungry and thirsty and and and that they would eat drink eat and drink whatever was given to that person okay so that being the case the clear card begins this next line the courage that actually God knew remember we were talking before this year started only God knows the true intentions of anybody but God knew their true intention therefore we are I'm going to say forest we're obligated it's necessary for us not to marry there The Men We have to distance ourselves from those male converts that's why it says remember the word means the word but because of the advice it seems that they are the ones that actually told billum what to do that's really bad meaning to say meaning to say it was regarding that at least intent that only God knew it was hidden okay so it was for that intent that they didn't come forward that God knew about their intent was to make us sin to cause us to sin but they were really these men were really bad guys do you know what they did to their daughters they forced them to prostitute themselves so they could cause the Jewish people to sin why would anybody you know that's pretty bad it's true we can actually marry the daughters the women who convert like Ruth as we mentioned even though the women themselves were the prime I'm going to use the word cause in this immodest actor Khan nevertheless the real you know the word ikar the the prime guilt ashma is hanging on the men whose proper way would have been for them to go to go forward you know you're not going to send women into a battle or and you know we all watch those movies about Vietnam right I don't know if anybody's aware of this but when the men are on the front lines the governments would send Women Believe It or Not until this day probably right to do singing and dancing and who knows what else it's it's a anyway it's the way of men otherwise it's modest it's modest to send the women out to the war okay so the Israeli government should hear that as well regarding women in the Army let's go on right so it was the men who were at fault they initiated this downward Trend by by forcing their daughters as it says they actually forced I mean how did they do it I don't know I wasn't there but uh they uh they used they must have used the power of persuasion uh maybe even much more than that um and it's for this reason the Jewish people right Israel when we went to war we actually allowed to live the women in the in the war with median now I'm going to quote a few verses for you in numbers 31 15. but even going back let's say the whole chapter 31 verses 9 through 18. so I don't have it on the source sheet I apologize but I will read it for you just so you should know what we're talking about in Numbers chapter 31 verse 15 we'll start with 15. and it says like this said to them and Moses was upset did you let every female live she went to war we were supposed to well we'll see what we're supposed to do they didn't ask what what needed to be done and they just made the assumption that it was the men to kill and the females to let live now this was a mistake and we'll see why the clear card mentions they actually made a mistake in this Den IM they only distanced the men by killing the men the pierce your car now let's look at verses 9 through 18 and you get a full view of what was happening here so in verse 9 in chapter 31 it says the children of Israel took captive the women of Midian so they didn't kill the women and their young children and all their animals and all their livestock and all their wealth they took as spoils all the cities of their habitations and all the edifice they burned in fire they took all the booty and all the plunder of the people and of the animals verse 12 they brought to Moses tell Hisar the coheim and to the assembly of the children of Israel the captives and the plunder and the booties of the camp at The Plains of mob which was by the Jordan near Jericho 13 Moses Elizabeth assembly went out to meet them outside the camp Moses was very angry with the commanders of the Legion the officers of the thousands and the officers of the hundreds who came from the Battle of the army of the battle and then our verse says in 15 Moses said why did you let the women live see now that they were the ones who caused the children of Israel by the word of Billings committed trespass against Hashem regarding the matter of power and the plague occurred in the Assembly of Hashem so he says now go ahead and kill every male among the young children and every woman who which women who knows a man meaning literally who could have known a man who was of age to have been lying with a male they you should kill and all the young children among the women who had not known lying with a male you may keep alive for yourselves okay that's all I really wanted to show you that they made a mistake they should have asked there was an issue so the clear card ends off by saying that it's for this very reason as you know that they made this mistake so there is something intrinsic is that the word I'm looking for uh embed in this idea the women are allowed to convert and you're allowed to marry them obviously that generation the women who were old enough to have relations would have been killed they certainly made a mistake in this and the clear car says this is such an important explanation he has searched all the other commentators nobody mentions this but it certainly resolves any questions you might have in Hebrews appearance this actually resolves all the sveiko that anybody could ever ask on this partial and now we're dealing with verse six so verse 6 is it's going to be quite complicated but it's absolutely fundamental to understand how and when God turns or reverses or overturns a curse into a blessing and what that actually means so if we look at verse 6 in our Parsha you can see that on Source number three on the source sheet but the Lord your God did not want to listen to billum right billum was going to curse the Jewish people so what did the Lord your God do he transformed the curse into a blessing for you now I think what's important even though I didn't really highlight it I just wanted to the reason why God transformed the curse into a blessing was because the Lord your God loves you how can we live a moment of the day without knowing this I don't know but let's assume we all do we live with this reality and that Hashem with what or did transform now I want you to notice it is singular which we have a pro this is going to be the main this is going to be one of the main subjects does that mean that God transformed all the curses that billum originally had in mind could not profess could not pronounce in the end he pronounced blessings let's just understand the words in Hebrew Hashem that God will transform or reverse I don't know a better definition maybe uh Our Guest who comes from Tel Aviv viajaf Hashem so we're going to use the word transformed okay that's what we're going to use now the clear car immediately begins with questions he asked some really good questions that we if we knew Hebrew well or if we knew the whole scripture well we would have asked these questions he says this whole concept of how you transform if that's the word we're going to use a blessing a curse into a blessing it absolutely needs clarification because how can you ever and maybe he's make an assumption that the curse itself is a blessing I mean he's asking how can a curse itself ever be a blessing that that that could be the way that we're interpreting it I don't know yet how else to interpret it but that's one way and he asked a good question on it so even though it could be right that the curse well actually it means the the blessing is coming instead of the curse but basically the comes in place of the curse the blessing that is so similar it's exactly like the thing that he wanted to curse you with so that's a very strong possibility and that I think we're going to run with there's something like the original curse that can actually be how do you read again that the curse is coming in place of the bracha that is so similar to the thing that he wanted to curse you with I don't want to give away too much just think about the question and still the actual curse itself is not Abraham another question he asked based on a Gomorrah in the same Saint hedrin chapter page 105 B it says over there and I do have it here number six on the source sheet I'm just going to read the first lines and then I want to skip all the way down actually I don't think I should skip um this actually is already skipping some stuff so let's read it says from the blessing of that Wicked person being bilum you can ascertain let me just um so actually this Gamora continues to go on with the different statements I'm going to skip quite a few of it just the next thing he said was all your dwelling Israel right he spoke about the dwellings of Israel so what he really intended was that the shrina like the mishkan the word Sheena is related to that should not rest with Israel but in the end what was the blessing so um he sought that the Jewish divine presence would not rest on them and that's why he said that he sought that the Kingdom of Israel would not continue so he said like the winding Brooks remember that which flow continuously but this is the opposite in other words he wanted to stop he wanted these things to stop and now all the blessings ultimately reverted to be fulfilled as curses so now when we originally saw that statement the god transformed it doesn't say all the curses it's singular so the commentators explain number one it was the first one because when the first curse it was still singular once there were more blessings it turned right curses turned into blessings it's no longer singular and since God says I'm going to turn one of them and which one is it and hopefully we'll get to some of the commentary on that try to understand that number one as he's saying here all the blessings ultimately reverted to be fulfilled as curses when because the Jewish people were not acting properly when we don't act properly then billum's curses which were turned into blessings get reverted back to the curses when we are doing God's will we're doing what's right then God transforms them into blessings so they will be transformed as God said but there's only one of them that is permanent now if we read that verse again in uh verse 6 that he God transformed the curse into a blessing for you it's only one of them that he did permanently and that's because he loves you okay and which one is that it's the um it's the one of the synagogues meaning that the synagogues would not be destroyed let's read it a second all the blessings ultimately reverted to be fulfilled as the curse that he originally intended as all of those circumstances be felt the Jewish people so all the other if you go through that whole Gamora which we kind of skipped a lot of that these negative things did happen to us there's only one thing that didn't happen to us and that was the cessation of synagogues and study halls as it says no it's interesting because remember it says because the Lord your God loved you that but he's really quoting the verse because it says that he only transformed what one curse into a blessing okay it's very important that we get this one point because the commentary that I have in the Gamora is really absolutely fascinating I would like to share with you that now before we go on foreign there are a lot of notes and one of the questions that are asked and is answered by many people [Music] Zoo you guys do not have this the reason specifically this is the bracha that was not reversed and transformed into a koala in other words all of them ended up being a clalla they were you know it was temporarily transformed and then reverted back to Acula it's only this one that we would have the survival of patekinesiot and Bate midrashot so the midrashtapiode gives a reason because since it says to them because if we did not have these edifices synagogues and yeshivas we could never stand up against the evil inclination that we all have as it says in kadushan this disgusting thing ever came and approached you um Le beta midrash you drag your yet Sahara to the study Hallam then the you can overcome you want the um the the Israel will not be able to be victorious not only that there's also the same and they should be yomadin what are the questions we're going to be asked when we go to heaven Israel remember if we're going to be judged and if we didn't have synagogues or study halls how could we ever fight our yazara so how would the point of creation would really cease to exist which we'll see shortly you would not even be able to stand up and have any defense when you go to uh in front of the Pearly gate so to speak I don't even know what that means Pearly Gates but the uh the uh the gates of judgment because you can always say I had no place to run if synagogues and study halls didn't exist you would have no place to run so you have no you can't even you have no reason to defend yourself God would say I have to let you go you can be as sinful as you want So that obviously is not a good thing the Yaris divash explains and because of what that bracha says how good we are your tenso yaakov so the kavana the the intent by the um the synagogues and this and the study halls this is what billum blessed in his heart beer come Bill and believe shalim hemamish had full intent so if the whole world stands on Torah if you don't have a study hall in which to teach Torah the whole world fell apart so how could he have a full intent in fact the themselves guys if you're listening you would think that to destroy the temple the the synagogues and the Batman midrash out the world would cease to exist you have an interest in making sure they stay you're right you have an interest in making sure they exist s even the most worst you know the most lowly of idol worshipers amongst the nations are dependent on the Jews studying Torah that's why this broker remained the bracha meaning it didn't revert back to Allah lumos right so at least for the other brachos you can have a full like a non-jew who hates the Jews can have a full intent but when it comes to their own Survival the non-jews who hate us will not survive if this bracha would ever turn back into aklala so it had to remain because their own intent was not complete and he further writes so when it comes to brajos it's always starting with the best when you talk about sadiqi if it's a bracha he always starts with the greater and then he goes down and down and down but when you're talking about non-righteous people the smaller of the people they always start with the smaller bra can go up and up and up let's just see how he writes it show you straight okay actually he's explaining something different this is talking about the greatness of the Jewish people themselves and the virtues are um as well as the virtues of the other of the non-jews so because the Nations have such arrogance they don't have the ability to continue their survival because this whole idea is God actually loves he actually loves the the modesty of the Jews and it's and it's specifically by the way or only these places the synagogues and the study halls that this is where the Jews experience their humility by going getting up three times a day you know early in the morning in the middle of the day taking off from work going at night three times a day yes this creates this eternality this success because God loves the Jewish people's humility and if you go to Deuteronomy chapter 23 verse 6. that's our verse because God loved you he loves your another he loves your modesty and the Shari simcha writes uh the ears right the truth is that a man doesn't really know that how much uh Providence how great how how much flow is flowing in how much goodness is coming through the bracha reaction right the truth is that if you become very wealthy right when you already know this people sometimes they get too much of something then they forget about the Lord your God right it actually says in the Torah so many times yeah you're going to become wealthy and then you're going to forget about God so that's not a good thing so we don't always know what bracha is going to bring therefore all that billum blessed right turned back into a curse came and shishra bhatu merov Chef that because if Israel gained too much wealth or Tranquility so to speak it could be they're going to turn around and rebel against God and against the goodness that God bestowed upon them but when it comes to a shul or a baconesset there's this losh there is no curse that can ever fall on such a thing because nothing evil comes from that from the the essence of the bakineset or the baked midrash that's why it's that one single um we'll call it a bracha that can't remain and be turned into a curse okay I'm gonna continue back into the clear car because this was actually very interesting and we went off on a side point and we are oh we're in the middle of the middle paragraph where we just mentioned in Hebrew to Russia you understand what was on his heart meaning bilum's heart the kulam hazrula right they all reverted back to curses Hoots except for that one about the shuls and the synagogues as we saw in the verse the clear card points out it's not plural it's one it's only one of the curses that turned into a bracha and stayed a bracha and didn't get back it was transformed and not uh reverted back to oklala which infers moshma raka khasmehem only one of them remained or was transferred all the way 100 into Abraham so the clear card wants to know what is so unique or what is different about this or curses for that matter and another question what exactly is inferred from the language of the verse that it specifically gives you the idea that it was only bate canesiot that that will let's say revert permanently as a bracha and not revert back as a curse okay so now the clear card is going to answer these questions the clarification of all this is as follows billum was a wizard right the hayaroa he saw in the Stars he throw he saw through the astrologers or through the astrology of Israel so he saw somehow a hint in the system the Maraca in the system of stars that would reflect regarding all these things and that was what gave him this idea to curse the Jewish people right that was just the beginning he wanted there should no longer be shuls and synagogues and study halls and their kingship shouldn't continue and on and on and on what are you doing now what we're getting into is some really mystical ideas of how God functions right God is unknowing he's unknowable but we have an oral tradition we have some insight and talent into how he functions God does not mishade it's from the word like to Pirate something to interfere and change or violate so God will not do that to the Maharaja I like the word Matrix okay I don't know a better word other than the system okay he won't violate or interrupt the system on account of even because the Jews are deserving no accept right he will interfere in a place right if there's no other way basically right unless right except in a place where there's no other way to circumvent it in the normal fashion for good then he will intervene I will welcome but in a place where the system can continue to function and you can still resolve the issue in a different way s then God won't interfere and violate so in other words we do not expect or even want miracles to happen on our behalf right if miracles happen on our behalf it's taken away from our reward in the world to come any any Tariq would not appreciate a miracle happening on his behalf okay now the example the clear card is bringing down is a well-known Gamora Rashi talks about as well there happens to be a certain star whose the name of the star is evil is wrong Israel it actually raised its head to greet us when Pharaoh actually says it's going to get you in the desert it has to do with blood so I want you to go to I hope I do have this on the story uh 10 10. where is Exodus 10 10 on the Sheep number nine so he Pharaoh said to them so may the Lord be with you yeah he said he's going to say you know Jews you can go I don't care right just as I would let you and your young children out see that evil is before your faces what was he saying over there Rashi tells us I underline on page two number nine Rashi there's a star named ra meaning evil Pharaoh said to them Moses and Aaron with my astrology I see that thesaurus star ascending towards you in the desert where you would like to go and that is a sign of blood and Slaughter so in a certain way Pharaoh was trying to manipulate the Jews not to go but he was using real sorcery when the Israelites sinned with the golden calf and the holy of Blessed Be sought to kill them see God was about to destroy us there was going to be a bloodbath Moses prayed for our atonement and our forgiveness and God granted it so what did God do he said yeah there was supposed to be blood but it didn't have to be and I'm going to give them a mass circumcision before they enter Israel and that blood will have taken place then in a good way and not in a bad way like fire like pharaoh originally thought is there one following when the Israelites sinned with the golden calf the holy will Blessed Be sought to kill them Moses said in his prayer this is what he begged he said you know what God you know what the Egyptians going to say and it says so in Exodus 32 12. he says you know with Rob with evil you took them out so if you kill them now Pharaoh was right and it's all for naught this is what pharah said to them see that evil is opposite your faces implying that their blood would be shed in the desert immediately what did God do it actually says in Exodus 32 14 the Lord repented meaning he changed his mind so to speak okay God is not a man change his mind so in others he had all the options available and he made a choice and he turned the Bloodshed that was originally symbolized by this by this star that Pharaoh saw and quoted he turned that blood into the blood of circumcision as we see later in Joshua 5 9 that God himself says this day I have rolled away the reproach of the Egyptians from you okay meaning for they were saying we see blood all over you in the desert but I'm not going to let that happen I've decided to do this instead which is keep the Covenant and you'll have a just notice in number 10 Joshua chapter 5 verses 8-9 as we quoted this day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you see the Russia over there this is referring to after the mass circumcision I removed the reproach of the Egyptians who had said see that rise before your faces there's a star named ra which is a symbol blood we see it all over you in the desert and this is what Moses said in the desert why should right we're going on and on and on so the bottom line I've rolled away galoti I have removed like the word gal to remove or roll away from me reproach of Shame okay that's it now let's go back into the Clear Car so we started with four lines up from the bottom we're three lines up from the bottom that this idea is an example of a star named ra that comes up to meet the Jewish people that it would have reflected some aspect of blood but God transformed right it was part of the mara it's part of the yeah it's you transferred into damila the circumcision blood like hazal say now this is Page 156 if someone is born in a particular uh like this is how astrology works there really are at least for non-jews there really are influences that and this works for the world as well influences by the Stars the only issue and they inflict our livelihood and whatnot the only thing is the Jews Israel we do not we like God took Abraham out of the tent took him above the stars and says you are not under the influence of the Stars okay and I believe any non-jew who wants to become a righteous Noah can also remove themselves from the influence of the Stars connect yourself to the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and of course the Jewish people and you can also duck the influence of the Stars so that's what it says in the Gomorrah over there that haiman the Nola that's Mars that if someone is born under this ready red planet they should be uh what they should be a uh a slaughterer of animals kosher animals look I want you to look at the Gomorrah I believe it's on page three number 12. it I only want to read the beginning and then the very end Rabbi khanina said to his students who heard all this go and speak to this other Rabbi this Rabbi said it's not the constellation of the day of the week that determines a person's nature rather it's the constellation of the hour and it goes through all the different seven planets and the last planet you'll find on page four number G one who was born under the influence of Mars will be one who spills blood ravashi said he'll either be a doctor or surgeon that's what it means of a blood Letter they used to use leeches I think at the barber shop right well you're getting your hair cut okay or a thief or a Slaughter of animals or a morale someone who circumcises now the truth is that means you have free choice you can either become this which is destructive like a thief or you could be something very um uh very beneficial to society like a Slaughter or a circumcisor now Robert says I was born under the influence of Mars and I didn't get into any of these activities ABY puts him in his place they were habruses they argued a lot but he says don't forget you give people the look well he says you're a judge you know acting as a judge you also and I don't know if they actually had the ability to kill people through a capital punishment but even lashes is like killing somebody I was taking someone's money away into judgment is like killing somebody so that even a judge can be it could be a good a good profession for someone born under Mars anyway so we're now the last line on the the this first page La parshot Beau and like we just read all of the curses that were explained in the gemara which we didn't go through we only went through the first two lotisra lamshkrina right that's why it says Mishka notes right they've got that billum did not want the shrina to rest with the Jewish people and that their kingship could shouldn't continue loyalem's a team of chromium and they shouldn't have uh Orchards full of grapes and wine I'm sorry olives and grapes well guess what the coulim Loya shum Derek lafarsham letova there's really not it's not easy right regarding all of them there is no right there's no way to explain them for good because that they should all work according to like the Matrix and Israel would not be damaged anything you do any one of these curses that they would have come Israel would have been damaged that's why God actually gets involved he changes the nature um he gets involved and he'll change it and that's why they actually also become changed back for the negative when Israel sins we right the rod of Assyria is the rod of God that's right our enemies are the rod of God when God is angry with us so he sends a human being sometimes maybe it's tsunamis sometimes it's a stock market whatever it is not it's not always fun but it's it's for to straighten us out so we wouldn't have any uh Merit if we're sinning we wouldn't have any Merit to stand up for us against the what's called nature but regarding that one instruction that one cursed that became a brochure right shows that they shouldn't have synagogues and and um synagogues and shoes and Bateman Russia you know what God doesn't need to he doesn't need to interfere ha because there would be place here to still fulfill what needs to be done basically now what does this mean when it says right we're talking about that very instruction that billum was trying to curse us we shouldn't have the baconessen or the bait midrash and therefore God wouldn't need he doesn't have any need knowing this there's no necessity for God to make any major change in the in the structure of nature because there actually is space or place to fulfill what is decreed within nature that they shouldn't have but they canesiot so let's find out what that means it's actually a blessing remember one of the questions we asked how could the curse itself be a blessing and therefore God doesn't need to change it it actually is a blessing watch what he says now see which is Lamentations look at number 13 it's Lamentations 4 11 that the Lord had spent his Fury he poured out his Fierce anger and he's kindled a fire in Zion which has consumed her foundation What's Happening Here the word very word mishkan which means Tabernacle which is the temple itself where God rested so one of the the second bracha that billum tried to say Israel that how nice are The Dwelling Places of Israel it actually the temple itself is a meshkunta is a mishkan is collateral that's what it is it's collateral for our sins what I'm going to tell you is unbelievable that it was actually good and beneficial for us that the temples were destroyed you can sit here and say Aaron posted you are a heretic how you're not a Jew how could you say such a thing the clear card is saying it and many other people have said it in the following way because when God took out his fury on the Jewish people we actually deserve to die and be destroyed and be finished with but because this was the collateral God took out his fury on the stones and the wood of the temple and allowed us to continue to live now you heard it now you understand watch the words as it says God emptied out his Fury fire came out into Zion the Bandai toy the gondola how can one say this is such a good thing because God sent out his Fury into the wood and the stones he actually saved us this is what saved uslo mishkan right let's say you took a loan from somebody and you gave them collateral you gave them your Rolex you borrowed how much money I don't know let's just say twenty thousand dollars you gave Vinnie right your 20 your 20 000 Rolex as collateral this land shark is that what they call him will not kill you this just saved your life the very fact right and your kneecaps perhaps right is everyone following me when you give collateral this saves your life I knew action Mr now we understand what it means that God actually transformed the curse into a bracha kinosa remember the version the original version in billum's heart regarding that curse words that they shouldn't have bate you know what it actually turned into a bracha that by the destruction of the temple itself meaning we're referring to the temple not to our individual midrash so it was through not having the temple so to speak that is what saved Our Lives and now we understand when it says how good how great are your ten so Jacob you're Dwelling Places of Israel meaning to say how good it is for you that this Temple is serving as your guarantor they're going to be collected on your account they're going to be uh it's a guarantor for you the Atta nitsul you will be saved that's why this matter was never reversed it didn't need to be reversed I'm sorry I'm sorry the other way that's why it never turned into a clola it remained the bracha because it was always for our benefit the god fulfilled what was already in place and he didn't need to change anything around okay Arcane ain't shy Glover therefore we don't relate to say this idea that God should reverse it back to the original what was originally said um when Israel is not joking because even when Israel is not that this would still save us that the bate knessio would still be destroyed meaning the temple would be destroyed and that was actually good for us I know this is incredible but this is actually the reason why Moses did not enter the land I know we have lots of excuses because he hit the rock instead of speaking to the Rock But ultimately if Moses would have come into the land and built the temple that pinned that Temple that Moses would have built could never have been destroyed and God did a soul a favor by not letting Moses in the land because that Temple would not have been destroyed we would have been so God took out his fury on the mishkan on the collateral on that which guarantees our continuation and this is the answer to the idea that we asked him to quit in the beginning what does it mean the god transforms again it's complicated when and he'll do everything he can when we're doing the right thing he'll make sure that that is enforced as a bracha when we're not doing the right thing it's easy to change it over but for ultimate existence which he wants us to have he guaranteed it we have an eternal Covenant he'll do everything he can to make sure it is and within that klullah is really a bracha and that's the answer to this question in hand so I wish everyone a Shabbat a good life let's start with a good Shabbos a good week a good year and a good life and we'll see was not Hashem next week cultiv [Music] foreign [Music]