Zohar - Parashat Shemot - The secret of Yechezkel's prophecy - Part 3 - Rabbi Alon Anava

[Music] we are going to continue exactly where we left off we're in parot uh page two site B and we gave a very quick and uh General preparation for the verse that the sons of yakob they went down to me I gave a very quick explanation I don't want to repeat it now you can find the videos online why the dka specifically the sons of yakob went down to MIT we give a thorough explanation about the structure of the Tree of Life in the sphere of Bina and explaining that from there comes 12 souls and they come down this to this world this is the 12 tribes we explain why dka 12 souls and uh this is the the the when all the midot are included one inside the other the cabalistic term for that is called the 12 the 12 sides like we I I don't remember the name that he said yesterday when you have a cube it's six sides but when you have 12 sides it's a t something like that whatever it is but whatever you have 12 sides so that's the where it's coming from but in simple words I gave a reference to the book where you can find information about it but that's referring to the when all the midot are included one inside the other this is called this 12 sided form and that's the source of the 12 Souls that came down to the world which of course are the 12 uh tribes but we gave that explanation to explain why it says in the beginning of the parasa and in the beginning of the book these are the names of the sons of yob they went down to MIT why you telling me the D the names of the 12 kids I mean we know 70 people went down including yob why are you telling me all the names why are you telling me just the 12 names so we give a short explanation to explain that these Souls they came down to the world below this is a manifestation from the world above coming from the Tree of Life where he explained how it's full of infinite amount details when it comes down to the SP of will give it over to the of Mal where the of Mal will so to say transform this infinite amount of details from the world above in the spiritual world into the physical world and now we're going to continue to explain the idea behind the behind the fact that the 12 Souls 12 tribes went down to MIT to Exile and what does that going to do with us cuz after all you know we are also in Exile in case you didn't notice and uh we do know based on many different sources that whatever happened in the Exile of MIT right now we're having a replica and exactly what happened then this is exactly what's going to happen in this in this Redemption and that is very close to come last week I gave a class in h New York which was which was broadcast so it's already posted on H on Facebook but the the original sh footage is not yet on the on the YouTube but it's also was filmed by Tor any time so it's also on Tor any time but you can go and see that class is very very powerful with a lot of lot of sources so showing exactly what's going on now how it's corresponding to exactly what's going on in our days what's going to happen very soonm and what we need to do the bottom line so we want to learn more thoroughly what is the Exile in Egypt what it means and how we can take something from that so again we are in page two side B the line starts with RAB Shimon R Shimon starts explaining what it says in the book ofel and or in in English Ezekiel and this can be found in chapter 1 chapter a verse three and there's a ver there that says once there was the the word of hem and this was said byel the the prophet who is known as he was a Cohen in the land of Kim now comes a question why are you saying hay was once was even though the translation in English never makes sense but in English in Hebrew says once there was why you saying twice the word it says as follow why are you saying twice the word and also in Hebrew if you're looking at it without pronunciation the the dots that's written the same so he says why are you saying it [Music] twice not only that there's another question I can ask ask on this verse in is a trustworthy Prophet why did he reveal everything that he saw I mean who says that the prophets have to tell us what they know we know many cases that the prophets they know things something they don't say who says that they have to say actually now today heard very very interestingly I don't want to side track off the the class but I heard something so powerful that if you remember in the six 60s there was a plane an L plane that was kidnapped from London and it was taken to Africa and uh anyways they negotiated it was one of the first kidnapping and they negotiated and what they wanted is they wanted prisoners and they got 24 prisoners little did these kidnappers knew that on this plane on this flight was supposed to be a very important individual who was at the time was a general and that's arik Shon arik Shon who was later on uh prime minister was supposed to be on that flight oo if he would be on the flight what a ticket to bargain now this is not 24 prisoners anyways I knew the story before but there wasn't uh uh enough or more sources but recently I found out very interestingly that the night before that flight aric Shon was visiting the Lich rebi and the laab he told him don't go on this flight why he says just don't go on this flight okay so he doesn't go on this flight and sure enough the flight gets kidnapped later on there was somebody else I want to get into details right now because it's totally off the subject but later on somebody approached obichi who was the chief of the rabinal Council of the United States and told him if you knew something is going to happen why didn't you warn everybody not to go on this flight if you knew to tell AR Shon not to go on this flight how come you didn't warn everybody you should call out and tell they cancel the flight so the answered I didn't know that they're going to kidnap the flight I just knew that something that he should he should not go on that flight but nevertheless what am I trying to say here that sometimes the prophet knows something who says he has to say that who says it was obvious that the in his in the divine inspiration he knew something who says that he has to say that where does it say that the prophet has to say everything that he knows not always sometimes the prophet says exactly what needs to be said and the story and the rest the prophet has to keep his mouth shut look how many sikim how many great people at the time of the Holocaust knew what's going to happen and they didn't say anything they didn't warn they do nothing why because that was the the will of the K you know speaking of the the previous his daughter was murdered in the Holocaust what he did know he also Hades but you know sometimes the will of the sadik is to he knows what hasem wants to happen and he doesn't say anything same thing here we're saying here was such a trustworthy Prophet why did he say everything that he saw which comes a different question that's my question who says he says everything that he saw maybe he didn't tell us many things that he didn't see we're talking about the the famous prophecy of M about the Chariot so my question is who says that he told us do everything maybe he knows much more than that but nevertheless this is the question what the zor is asking if is such a trustworthy Prophet why did he tell us everything that he saw right the the zor says that anyone that the king referring to Hashem will enter will bring somebody into his into his chamber to reveal to him some secrets that he says there the decides who he brings into his chamber to to reveal to him whatever Secrets he wants to so he answers then what do we learn from that for sure that the prophet he was trustworthy and he did exactly what hasem told him to do everything that he saw he was trustworthy the Kosh says I'm showing you and I know you're not going to misuse it hem knows who to show what some people they will misuse the information but nevertheless no question here was trustworthy and hasem revealed to him what he needed to reveal to him and you think that would say something that he wasn't instructed what to say what not to say obviously hasm says this is what I want you to know this is what I want you to say in the permission of the he revealed exactly what he was supposed to reveal and everything was that he saw he had to reveal that's why it says twice to teach us the reason why it says twice the word to teach us that whatever was revealed was never revealed before that nevertheless even though usually the prophet doesn't have to say everything that he knows in most cases the prophets know much more just that they keep it to themselves that's it allowed him to reveal exactly what he saw and now we're going to explain why and what was the reason now R Shimon continues Shimon a person that is used to a hard life or is used to suffering even though that now he will get a new suffering then he doesn't really suffer more because he's used to suffering if a person has a hard life and he's used to a hard life then another challenge another challenge I'm used to it already not such a big deal but a person that is not used to living sorrow and hard life and he lives like a a spoiled individual in a mansion in Beverly Hills and never had to work in their life and they're used to everything being catered to them and everything is good but now they have something to deal with the person is not used to sorrow or to a hard life and now when something happens then that's a good reason to start crying they're not used to that if you take a person they grew up in a hard life and how do you say Hard Knocks orever you say the term in English the School of Hard Knocks you grew up in a the a bad neighborhood bad life tough life always had to work always had to struggle you know another challenge another challenge no my life anyways is hard take somebody who's spoiled and all their life they they they were CED now they have to go through something they don't have the right vessels how to deal with it and then what happens the sorrow the SAR is greater and then it causes them great great sorrow and they cry and now he's explaining why are you telling me this the nation of Israel when they went down to they were used to living in in hardship and in as they say t means sorrow and hardship and there were already there were they were acquainted to this lifestyle they knew it they weren't it wasn't such a big deal for them why the look at the fathers of the sons of Israel look at the life of Jakob he had a hard life was prosecuted by his brother he went to Lavan who cheated him worked there for 22 years then he what happened with Dina then the the kidnapping of ysep and look what yob had to go through so he had a hard life and if you look at all of our forefathers they didn't have such a good life when you're looking at it look at AB AO Chief R vasim and he was you know all the time lawsuits and attacks and then he had to leave he got evicted for m not such a loss but nevertheless then not having a child for so many years then having the whole story with ish kicking out of the house I mean also had his share but never less look at our forefathers they had a hard life so B is the sons of yob when they went down to MIT they said big deal our fathers also suffered we will will easily digest this sorrow therefore they didn't H they didn't really get him so overwhelmed from the galut in MIT okay hard work I'm used to hard work so doesn't matter if I work here hard if I work here hard so they didn't look at the Exile as is such a a bad thing and more than that they didn't lose their faith or they never they didn't fall into despair by being in in Exile they knew we have a promise we have a promise from abrah ainu that we're going to be redeemed we have a promise from YF we're going to be redeemed okay so when it comes it comes so so we have a promise that we're going to be redeemed we're surviving for all 1,950 years we're surviving in this exile and what how why are we surviving because we know we have a promise and at some point it will come not only that the nation of Israel they survived the Exile in because they knew they knew that the hardship is coming from hem not from the Egyptians and he's the one who's feeding them to believe to have faith and also they knew that hem is going to redeem them they had promises but this is the Exile of but in the Exile of babyon of B in the second temple but sorry I said the second temple or the first temple what did I say I said a second the first temple sorry I correct myself but in the Exile of B this was a huge sorrow why it was not such a it wasn't a regular Exile there was great sorrow not only in the world below also there was huge sorrow in the world above you know why there was sorrow in the world above because even the angels in the world above was used to getting so much action going on they had a bet mikdash every day was sacrifices there was you're talking about 410 years that the Angels got already spoiled because when we do things certain actions in this world the world above gets affected if I'm doing here what I'm supposed to do so much more so when I have a beta mikdash and we're doing here sacrifices and all this energy that goes up to the world above the Angels were spoiled already all day long getting these MIT coming from down below so now when the destruction of the temple came the temple was destroyed so also the spiritual sustenance of the Angels stopped so they all also suffering it wasn't only us were suffering here and he explains Eline the world above how do we know that the world above also suffered well we have a verse from the prophet yesh chapter 33 verse 7 where it says meaning the Angels the of the world above they're also crying for the destruction of the temple not only that it continues and he says T the the ones in the world below also cried about the Exile how do we know it says in on the Rivers of Babylon we were sitting there and crying this is not who sings it ABA who sings there in the river of Babylon no Bon who bonm or ABA who sings by by the Rivers of Babylon Marley no no it's either Bon bonm or ABA by the rivers of who is this bon bon whatever anyways you think they invented that when I was a kid I thought they invented That Then I then when I became observant I opened the book of I was like oh wow they took our words so so from the Rivers of Babylon so how do we know that the the ones below also had sorrow because we we we know in we were sitting on the Rivers of Babylon sitting there and crying for the destruction of the temple the entire universe the world below and the world above everybody was crying on the Exile of B and crying not because only because we lost beta mikdash because there were Japs at the time Jewish no I can't say Jabs that's Jewish American princess there were gips jewi Israeli princes they got spoiled in Israel sitting there have bet mikdash going and seeing whenever they want I mean of course they saw prophets they saw the I mean you get that you taste to that just imagine the one who were born into that era you know whenever they want they go to Beta mikdash in the first temple they saw they saw the with their own eyes so for them the Exile was 100 million s worse because they didn't know the reality of an exile we were born into Exiles okay we're used to this taste already but nevertheless it says everybody was crying for the destruction or the Exile of destruction of the temple and the Exile Babel and it's talking about he saying everybody K means the world above the Angels were crying and the world below the people were crying my what's the idea behind it begin because in the land of Israel at the time they were like kings at the time before the temple was destroyed just imagine you have to go back before that the era of David then the era of SCH who builds bet mikdash and they have have a whole good run for 40 years that they're living in Israel like kings no Wars no attacks no problems no issues they see mikdash whenever they want and they were it says they were living like kings as it says in the book of 4: B that the sons of Zion are yarim they're dear which means the ones who saw the the glory of yush they who were living like kings at the time and it says here as a side comment here that the sons of Israel the nation of Israel they lived in a great wealth they all had great vineries they had a lot of real estate and Shalom they were they lived in peace where in history did we have peace for so long suddenly in one shot they fell from all the way high from a great place to a very low Place therefore their sorrow was much much more now we continue we have learned said say it says in the book of Jeremiah 9:9 that on the mountains I will carry you but it will cause you great sorrow and great h crying be is crying what is these mountains that you're talking about Mr Jeremiah these mountains these great mountains of this world we're not talking about the Himalaya or the Everest who are these huge mountains that you are referring to these are the sons of Zion Zion ision is one of the names of yush but these great mountains that it's referring to it's referring to the sons ofion they were so uh adorned with great PES like a kind of like different adornments or jewelry of course it's not necessarily talking about the physical Jew jewelry but when a person is covered with jewelry you see okay that person is covered with wealth and very comfortable physically same thing here and now what happens is they went down from great wealth and and prosperity and happiness they went down to like being like uh prisoners you know how they carry them they had these things on their neck I don't know how you call them in English in in Hebrew it's called that they they do it to animals that they have on there how they called yolks yolks guilts Yol yolks you know you see it with animals when the animals are pushing heavy things like an ox or a donkey they have this thing on their neck that's how they carry the prisoners out of yush they had these things on their neck it's called now what is this hinting to us this is hinting to us that the kipot become much much stronger it's called kipot when the kipa gets much more powerful sometimes I don't even notice that but there's around me a lot of kipot kipa is a husk and a husk is a negative energy a negative form that opposes Kusa holiness and it's existing around me all the time but sometimes with my action I can empower the kipa if I do a sin right now I take now the my my power of Holiness and I give it to the kipa and I empower the kipa to go against me that's the the the the joke of when I sin I feed I actually take my energy and I feed it to something to go against me this is the exactly what's going on with Israel and and the Palestinians the Israelis are giving the Palestinians cement so they build tunnels against them the Israelis are giving the Palestinians steel and fuel to use it for missiles against them that's the the the the the craziness here this is the exactly what's going on with me in my kipa I do a sin and I give all my energy to the kipa to go against me so sometimes there's what's called that the becomes so powerful that it can turn me upside down like that now the kipa the metaphorical verse here is when the kipa reaches to the neck then it means it's too much power to the kipa I once explained in more in length if you're looking at the cabalistic structure of the body then you have here some big bubble where the brain is in and then you have this lumpy body where the heart is the midot but between the head the m and the body which is the midot there's this little stick here this uh this neck now what happens is that the moin is if you're looking at the head physically if you would take something in the size of the head and try to put it through the neck to down to the body it would not fit because the head is too big so the moin the intellect cannot go down into the midot just because the channel or the canal is way too skinny so the way for me to affect my midot my my attributes then I have to know how to so to say contract this called to contract the mo to be able to go down through this little path and affect my mid and affect my body now what happens is if the kipa is way too powerful what does the kipa do it will grab me through my neck this is the kipa of amalik amalik has the same numerical value of or or is the back of the neck that's what Amal does he grabs you from behind like an animal like a predator I don't know if you ever noticed how Predators how they attack their prayer if you're looking at lines or t ERS how they attack their pray they grab them in the in the back of the neck or in the front to kill them through choking them or they grab them in the back of the neck and they paralyze them I mean you know what a bite of a lion is it can Crush bones that's exactly the kip of it grabs You by behind and it paralyzes you I mean we don't even notice that we think that life is all a better Rouses but the kip grabs me from behind it paralyzes me this is called becomes way too strong and then I'm a prayer for the prayer to the kipa so it says here when there were LED out of Y with these things on their neck that was a a metaphorical explanation that the kipa became so powerful that their neck was so to say h contracted and and and controlled more than that and they LED them like prisoners so their hands were in the back like when you have a a prisoner they handcuff the hands in the back what is that representing this is representing on the and the which is the first two mid that we know if you remember in we learned that already couple times is in some people read every day some people read Shabbat but he explains there that the mid are the structure of the body and is the right hand and is the left hand so when you take both hands and you put them in the back you're bending so to say both and to be behind the back now what does that mean that the in the is feeding the kip it's feeding What's called the what's in the back not not fitting in the front why is the hands naturally the hands go forward why cuz and has to feed the the front of the body when you bending the hands to the back what is that you can move but mystically representing that the and the is giving throwing the energy backwards this is called a is what's behind me and it means the energy is going back to the kip the energy is not going forward to now when they went to the Exile of Babel they didn't know how long they're going to they thought that's it they're gone that's it we're going to be now in exile for eternity and they thought that the K deserted them now it's it what can you imagine you have to go back to the mind of these poor people when they have a beta mikdash and they're born into that this reality peace prosperity beta mikash seeing with their own eyes who saw such a thing and now they're getting a slack to their face and they're getting exiled out of Israel they thought that's it Hashem completely deserted us forever and ever and it says there at the time this is says in the in the talmud this is not saying here in the Z it says in the talmud and attracted sanedrin in page 105 it says that 10 men came in front of yzel jezel was the prophet at the time one of the prophets at the time and they and he told them you have to do chuva you not going to do Chua you're not making a U-turn you have to do Chua so they told him a a slave that the master sold then the master doesn't have control of the slave anymore and not only that a a man that divorce the wife he doesn't have control in the wife anymore so they told him what is what is our chuva worth Hashem already divorced us he sent us away what might what would my cha uh uh make a difference but he told them no don't worry if you do chuva Hashem will accept your chuva why you think they were exiled from to start with idol worship forbidden relations and bloodshed this is the three famous sins that they failed at the time of the first temple and that's caused them to be exiled nevertheless the the told them you have to do chuva you do chuva you'll get a U-turn you'll come back and that's exactly what happened let's just go a little bit more so we're not going to stop in the middle of the of the and we have learned at the time Shimon said at the time when they went down to the Exile of B called all his all his ENT which is referring to all the angels in the world of and all the holy is like a chariot but all the holy chariots which that means all the souls from the world of Bri so first of all he called all the angels from then he calls all the angels from and all the armies the it's called The Heavenly armies this is all the angels from and all the camps where the is dwelling on and these are all the ministers and all the generals of angels of course of all the camps in the world above and all the army of the world above which is all the soul all the angels of the world of AIA just imagine here you're talking about billions and billions of angels and he told them what are you doing up here there's an exile down there and you all just sitting here no and the same way that my loved ones my kids are in Exile down there get up all of you we're all going to Exile we're all going to B the sons of Israel out there my beloved ones I'm going with them and you're coming with me everybody's going out to bavil you think we're going to be sitting here in a camp while they're in Exile we all going get up all of you and you go down to and I'm coming with you as it says in the book of yes chapter 43 this is how hasem said for your sake I have sent you to B meaning it says for your sake I've sent you to it's talking about that sent himself down to B also we know that we say the nation of Israel goes to Exile the goes with them to Exile there a very big reason for that what does it mean that the went down toel the the of the world of comes down to Exile too and what is that for it's only for the sake of the Jews it's not for any other sake [Music] I have taken all of you down to B and what did I do I have broken all the gates of B of Babylon so you can go into Babylon what does that mean all these holy Chariots of the world above all the souls of the world of and everybody's going down to B why now we're going to find out when they all went down to B the Angels the heavens were empty there was nobody there everybody goes down to Babel all the Angels go up and left so what happens when the heavens opened as it says in the beginning of the prophecy ofel what it says in the beginning the heavens have opened and I saw the visions of God that's how the book ofel starts if you remember if not then go to chapter one that's what it says the heavens open just imagine theel standing there and the heavens open and he sees everything I saw the visions of God but he doesn't says says this is and the power of Prophecy dwells on the not the power rather the spirit of prophecy dwell down onel and he was able to see everything in the consolation of the world above this called the structure of the Chariot and he told to the nation of Israel the prophet told to the nation of Israel the is also in B he also went down to Exile he didn't just send you to Exile he came with you as it says it says I am in the in the Exile and I am the and it says here that the letter V of and I am this is the hinting that the well went down also into Exile so even now this is not G but nevertheless we're in G but nevertheless the is with us too don't think for one second we're by ourselves here not only that not only the kadh is with us all the army of the world above all the angels all the generals all the the Heaven's army they also came and down with you in Exile they didn't believe that in the darkness of the Exile and what they they couldn't see any any Godly Revelation a minute before that they're in bet mdash and they're seeing G they seeing the the with their own eyes and a second later they're out of Exile they Into Darkness they couldn't believe that a minute before that when they're seeing this unbelievable visions and in one second they're out here it says something very interesting it says is it means and I will see and is the acronym of an I am first and I am last talking about the I am first and I am last to to say to teach us that in all the the is that when there's a concealment when there's a darkness when I can't see even though there's complete darkness spiritual Darkness the is there is there now we're looking now at what we're what we're going through this is the very powerful Darkness this is is not a regular darkness is a double and a double on that Darkness this is called I don't see I don't see what's in front of me but nevertheless it says here that even when there the darkness of the Exile so thick is with us and if he would reveal much more than what he was supposed to see talking about the prophet revealed what they were supposed to hear and because they heard that I'm talking about the nation of Israel then they had some hope the prophet came and told them don't worry you're not by yourself in Exile hasem went ex went to Exile with you don't worry so they had [Music] hope once they heard these words of comfort from the prophet yzel they weren't so scared okay so we're going to be in exile for 70 years big deal okay no whatever we're not going to be so comfortable and they accepted on themselves the Yoke of the Exile as long as they knew that hasm didn't desert them that hasem didn't completely let them go so they knew that the K is with them and the supervision of hasem was not removed therefore they had the the excitement and they uh had the expectation or the anticipation to the G to the Redemption and everything that that the prophet revealed it was came with aem's approval says go ahead and tell them everything that I wanted to tell them now we just read one more paragraph and we're done and we have learned and tracked mea page 29 29 a in any place that the nation of Israel went out to to Exile went with them so everywhere that we go whether it was Babylon doesn't matter which Exile we went to the goes out with us and the same way in the Exile of Egypt why we saying all this preparation we need to understand the Exile of Egypt mtiv what does it say in the beginning of the book these are the names of the sons of Israel the sons of jaob and of course it's naming the 12 tribes now it has a question here since they said the sons of Israel the sons of Jacob mob so why they're saying that here these are the names of the sons of yob of the sons of B Israel and then it says at yob from yob why is it saying that why are you adding yob you just told me the sons of Israel of course I know it's yob why you saying they should have said the sons of Israel they went came with him and he answers these are the names of the sons of Israel the when it says the sons of Israel these are all the Heavenly camps all the angels and all these great beings in the world above they also went down to MIT with yob not only yob and the shim went everybody went down to MIT Hashem says I'm taking you to Exile coming to Exile too I'm also there it's almost like you know those teachers that they put the child on they punish the child that he doesn't go home but the teacher stays with them there too remember I was that child that always got punished you staying you're staying after class till 3:00 and I always negotiate with the CL with the teacher listen Mele me here but you here too so if you let me go then you go too I was a good negotiator I was the one the child that always gets punish all the time so I knew how to there was one teacher that I kept telling her you're punishing yourself I understand you're punishing me but why you punishing yourself you're also staying she was like I'm staying to make sure that you stay too I was like okay you know they say in Hebrew m whoever is the donkey it's straight so you want to punish me you punishing yourself so I would do reverse psychology on the on the teacher I was like eight don't think that I was like 17 I knew how to nevertheless Kosh says I'm taking you to Exile I'm going to don't complain but nevertheless so so we know that went down to Egypt to with all the angels and he said says Shimon says RAB Shimon at the same time when the nation of Israel had come heard comforting words from the prophet they had a great joy that they understood that the is with them and each and every one of them had the Good Will in their heart and love great love to do to give their their their life away on sanctify sanctifying the name of hem and therefore revealed everything that he revealed to them saying in other words what we need to take from that this is the end of the paragraph tomorrow we'll continue the rest what is he saying in other words when they went down to Exile at the time of bavil they weren't used to this type of life so for them it was a disaster we grew up in Exile the half of us are even kids or grandkids of Holocaust Survivors we already grew up with this mentality that we came into the world and we're already were prosecuted and murdered and and we're in Exile so for them just imagine they grew up 400 years you know 400 years it's a lot of generations they grew up in in peace in Isel Prosperity happiness peace no problems suddenly they're uprooted from Isel just imagine the shock for us we just grew up like that so comes the prophet and he tells them listen the skies have opened I've seen everything and what does it mean that hasem went down with you to Exile and all the angels went down to Exile later on we're going to learn this is what we're going to learn in the next couple days is that there's a very good reason why we're in Exile Hashem says I took you to Exile it's for your benefit we don't see the benefit here but the fact that we are in Exile it's only for our benefit it's only to to use this time to rectify and to bring us to a much greater place we need to rectified for our sins the Exile is for us to be refined and for us to be elevated now we're looking at it as a great torture but will come the day that we're going to look back and we're going to say that we're in Exile the Exile is to get us in the program so to say get us in shape so it's almost like taking a very sick person and you put him into a hospital or rehab or some type of a program and for him it's kind of like jail he can't leave the hospital and all day long is's being a Fed medicine or whatever it is and he doesn't know that it's for his own benefit but after that when he gets up on his legs he says oh I actually see that this time in this rehab place or the hospital was for my benefit so comes and he says says to the nation of Israel don't lose your hope Hashem is with you now we're also in Exile and we don't have a to tell us don't lose our hope but we have enough prophets that told us don't lose your hope the G is coming the Redemption is coming it's good for you right now instead of whining on the Gula get get into the program do what you need to do while it's Exile because once Mia comes that's it the stop supper stops you're not going to be able to do chuva after mhia comes the time of the Redemption we're going to look back and see how good the Exile was and we don't appreciate the Exile I know the Exile is hard I also wish for it to finish very soon but as long as we are in Exile take advantage of every moment because every moment in Exile I actually get rewarded for all my hardship and for all my challenges when mhia is going to come we're going to still do mitv but you think you're going to get the same reward we're not going to get the same reward of putting F in mashiah is here cuz what's the big deal I'm going to see mashiah with my own eyes so now it's a it's a challenge now it's hard we have to understand that we also have the promise that Hashem is going to take us out of Exile we have the promise that we are also going to be out of this Exile very soon we have to understand that we can't lose our faith we can't lose our hope we can't lose our excitement and to understand that any second mashiah can come the same way that they're in Egypt for 210 years in hard slavery even though nothing has changed they were working they were slaves we also slaves they were slaves to par we're also slaves to all these desires and lust that we have from pH physical Pleasures some people are slaves to their iPhone another person is slave to his car another person is slave to to his job we're also slaves nothing is different and everything that happened then we is happening to us the same thing but we have to understand we're going to continue we're not done yet we just want to explain what was the idea why why has to had to reveal so much information to tell them don't worry the Exile is actually good for you I know it's hard I know there's a lot of hardship I know there's a lot of challenges but just keep your head up high saying in in other words don't lose your hope don't lose Faith don't L your happiness this is the exactly what the wants to to take away your hope to take away your happiness and your sim but the Exile is good for you if you go now to a a gym and you pay top dollar for the best gym in town and you're just going to sit down on the bench like that then nothing's going to happen has to be some type of a workout you have to push and pull and Pull and push and this is called resistance if you're just going to go with your hands like that nothing's going to happen has to be a lot of weight so you have to push and quetch and sweat and same thing the Exile if we're just going to be sitting like this then what type of exercise a spiritual exercise there is has to be resisted has to be a that's scatching me if I just going to wake up in the morning and run to sh so what's the challenge here what's the resistance here so the Exile is only good for us we don't realize that yet but we're now being pushed to our max if there wouldn't be an exile we would stay in a very low place the Exile is just for us so comes the prophet and he says don't worry AEM came down to Exile with you he didn't desert you Shem didn't just throw you now to the to the dogs he's with you here and all the angels are here it's empty in sh there's nothing there they going and knocking nobody's hair where's everybody well they're down in Exile here too so the point we want to take from that even though we're not even down with what we're learning but for today we want to understand that we are also in Exile and there's a reason for that and instead of crying I mean we can't Shalom for one second not complain we have to cry to Hashem we talked about it in the morning you have to cry to Hashem to end this but as long is it's we're already in Exile then you do the best out of the bad situation on one hand we have to scream to the Kosh that we had enough but if I'm already here if I'm already destined and I'm now this is the situation I'm already in Exile then do the best you can because every second in Exile you can achieve what you will never achieve once mashia comes we know that once mashiah comes we don't accept converts anymore there's no Bal cha anymore that's it out you you ran out of options now is the time to do that second mashia comes like uh you know they stop the the clock that's it stop whatever you grabbed it's yours so that's what people don't understand that any second now is an opportunity I don't know mashia will come tonight whatever I grab today it's like a you know how I see that imagine how somebody will come to you now and tell you see that diamond store on across the street they're having a a promotion there and you can take whatever you want they give you a whole hour to run into the store take whatever you want so some people come and say you know it's fine look I have a nice watch I have nice earring I don't need this promotion I have enough of my own this is the stupid people then there's the ones who come in and say oh you know I'll take that bracelet and that watch and thank you so much and you know what the smart person does he goes home brings a lot of duffel bags and he goes into the store and start filling the duffel bags full of diamonds and jewelry same thing is the Exile some people looking at the Exile and says I'm fine I'm good with where I am don't bother me I'm very happy with my life these are the stupid ones some people say okay I'll do a Mitzvah here and a Mitzvah there and I'll come to show once a week and uh once a month I'll give my uh $18 to my favorite organization okay so you get something but some people say I'm already in Exile I'm already here let me grab whatever I can all day long and from morning toight all they care about is doing mitv learning Tor acts of kindness because that's it that's the opportunity now you're taking diamonds yeah we have Darkness it doesn't look like such a good opportunity but this is the opportunity when you start filling your duffel bags with MIT and Tor and acts of kindness second mashia comes that's it the everything stops whatever you grab that's yours and once mashia comes we're going to continue learning Tor we're going to continue doing mitv but there's not going to be the same reward anymore what's the big deal already mashiach is already here I'm going to see with my own eyes now what's the big deal of becoming a Chua and mashia is here now let's see you becoming a CH when you don't see any any spirituality in this world and instead of going out to a club on Shabbat you're sitting at home and you're observing Shabbat instead of eating in any restaurant you want you eat in a kosher restaurant now's the big deal when there's a challenge so what we need to take from that is first of all we cannot stop crying over the galut we have to demand the Redemption but we also have to take advantage that saying oh wait a minute hem is with us no fear no Despair and do whatever you need to do to grab as much as you can while you're in Exile and later on we can see we will see how it benefited us how it's h we went through a like a spiritual H cleansing so you only can be cleansed when you're under pressure if everything is good you don't work on yourself and you don't strive to become better so at the end of the day the Exile is a good thing and we'll learn tomorrow and the next day a few more things that will give us some more tools to survive this harsh exile [Music] [Applause] [Music]