Rabbi Mordechai Kraft - The World's First Murder

I want to talk tonight about the world's first murder and of course we talk about the world's first murder what am i referring to I'm referring to Cain and Abel stoic kind of name and kind babble and I'd like to analyze a little bit and there are obviously lessons that we need to take for life from it first of all we have to understand before we discuss this murder now we have a certain principle in life in Judaism a fact of reality that a person never ever does anything wrong did you know that the human being never does anything wrong before we do anything good or anything bad we will convince ourselves that what we are actually doing is good now that's a reality the human being cannot live with themselves if they would do something wrong and the reason is because God planted inside of us a soul that's so pure and so good so holy that it can't tolerate to do anything except do God's will that's the soul so how can we find people not doing God's will and doing terrible things in this world and murdering people and killing people robbing and there all sorts of things the answer is that a Shem in order to allow us to have free choice placed inside our brains a power which we called Daniel Daniel means imagination we're capable of extraordinary imagination which you've probably noticed in life have you noticed that have you noticed that when you've got to see a movie does anybody go to see movies very good don't tell me Jeff he's not you go to see a movie what happens when you see a movie did you notice that you can actually get into the feeling like you're there you know imagine a fight scene in the movie you know it's like take your own pulse you'll find that you're actually your pulse is racing the power of the imagination is such that we could actually imagine that we're part of the characters on screen unless if he wants to feel he wants to feel that way you know you know I daresay if you go to a movie and it's a love story and you don't fall in love there's nothing wrong with you excuse me for mentioning there's something wrong with you you don't fall in love when you're in a movie because the power of the imagination is such that you will be drawn in one will be drawn into the event that you will feel to you you know maybe that's a reason not to go to a movie that's a good for us to a piece of situation but the power of the imagination is such that we will work a pible of the wildest wildest books now again God created us this way it allow us to have free will if we didn't have imagination we would not have free would you know that works the soul so good so pure so holy that without the power of the imagination the human mind would never the human being would never do anything wrong the reason we're able to do things that are wrong is we will always justify what we've done and assume that is actually good you know I'll give you example of what I mean there was a very great not great an infamous notorious gangster in the 1930s in New York City his name was - Gunn Crowley now why was he called - Gunn Crawley why do you think he was called - God freely it was called to equality cuz I got two guns his end he was one of the meanest nastiest gangsters on the face of the New York mob scene in the 30s how did he die he was actually being he had committed a certain robbery and the police were looking for him so the police were looking in every car that was parked and he happened to be in a parked car in Central Park so the policeman looked in and asked him for his license identification so instead of taking his identification what did he do instead of taking his identification he took out his gun from his pocket and he shot the policeman and then what did you do we opened the door and took the policeman's gun and he shot that policeman he shot with his gun just to make sure he's dead and then there was a manhunt for him throughout New York City 150 policemen were involved in this manhunt this is finally the corner of him in Upper West Side apartment and he had policemen on the roof sharpshooters surrounding this you know apartment where he was there was a big shootout where he was shooting at them and they were shooting in at him finally they wounded him and they broken through the roof and he was lying there on the floor and he thought he was about to die so he wrote a note with his blood and you know the note read the note read under this coat lies a heart that would never do a man wrong one of the most wickedest evilest gangsters but in his own mind he felt he was a good guy it's what happened was he survived actually and he was tried and he was sentenced to the electric chair and the story goes that on the way to the electric chair the ward had heard and mumbling saying this is what a man gets for trying to defend himself how is it possible that you can do such an act of evil and not think that you're in the wrong how's it possible you're not possible because got placed in the side of us imagination and our imagination will always demand that we are doing what is good and what is right we cannot live with ourselves if we think that we're doing something wrong so we will always justify that's which we are doing and create it to be as if it's actually invisible now I'm gonna give you example of this from the Torah the Torah says as follows the Torah discusses a very interesting case of a woman who is the SOTA what is the SOTA assaulted is a woman who is suspected by her husband of having an extramarital affair so of course if a husband suspects a woman of such a thing it doesn't do a lot for the harmony in the home as we can imagine so the Torah has a special device to deal with it what's that way to deal with it the Torah says that she has to come to Jerusalem together with her husband and we take a parchment with God's name on it we erase God's name into a glass of water it's called the mace salt to the water of the Sultan we then give this water to the woman to drink and if the woman is guilty what happens is her whole stomach begins to swell explodes her arms fall off her legs start falling off and she basically somewhere in that process dies not only does she die but the person that she committed the adulterer sacked with dies as well now if she is innocent what happens actually she drinks the water not only does she live but she and her husband are promised blessing children and all sorts of blessing in the life so it's one of the devices that God gives us in order to ensure that there will be marital harmony at home God says erase my name in order to bring about marital happiness if a husband suspects his wife it's a terrible situation it's now remembered situation with doesn't know what happened he just suspects have to resolve the doubt in order to resolve the doubt there's that ceremony a ceremony called the waters of the Soto now we can't do it today of course we acquired the base of mikdash required the whole system of sacrifice and Pro Bono's doesn't happen today don't worry about don't worry anybody right you're not gonna read abandoned Jewish press no woman blows up doesn't but we did have a certain time when it did we did have it and again God says erase my name to bring about peace now it's interesting the way the Torah refers to it is she's called a SOTA a SOTA it's interesting because the word sawed in Hebrew shares the same basically sound as a word called shota she'll tell me somebody who is crazy like she's insane she's crazy so Rashi comments on the verse and says the reason she's called SOTA because it sounds like shota which means crazy and it says a person never commits a sin unless they've gone crazy person will never commit an act of adultery unless a ruck stood a a wind of of insanity overwhelms them and that causes them to go ahead and do such a sin such as ultra sector it's called an act of insanity let ask you a question in American law if somebody's insane are they responsible for their actions so if this act is an act of insanity as Rashi claims the word means it's called Salta for the word shoked of stupidity insanity so how can we convince her to death how can we try her and give you the death penalty doesn't make sense just like an American law an act of insanity is a legal defense Soto Jewish law the persons are shot at is insane that is reason to say they're not responsible for their action how can an insane person be responsible for their actions so how can this lady is subject to the death penalty how could it be the other question so the sister could summon one of the commentators on Russia's Comet is something very interesting well it says that she's a shota it doesn't mean that she's insane what it means is she's created crazy excuses today the more ahead to the Axman let me say it again she's created crazy excuses Kidane Lenora Hector the otsuma in order to find a permissible reason why she's allowed to do it here I said she's created crazy reasons in order to imagine that this is actually permissible to do here that means it means that this woman who got involved in this adulterous affair the only way she was able to commit the sin is what is if she found the reason in her mind why this is totally permitted it's allowed a person will not do any act that's wrong unless they find a reason in their mind will invent an insane reason a crazy reason why it's actually right and not only wives right it's a mitzvah you know I'll give you example I should imagine you have two types of women you have a woman who's very nice girl she went through the Shiva system right she went to Dara Gola perfectly white school and then she went on to TB Y and then she took a year went off to Nevada shall I am and then she comes back and she's a Eurasian I am such a wonderful wonderful girl everybody wants to marry her so now he wakes up I so like my marriage when he wakes up but it's a madness such a girl you have such a girl very nice girl imagine she gets into a marriage and this marriage isn't a marriage that she anticipated she thought you didn't have a nice home but so that she marries the guy and he's abusive and he's a really terrible person and one thing leads to the other and she starts really feeling stuck and trapped and at her job she meets a very nice man who speaks to her and offers her advice and listens to her and gives her the respect that she deserves and as can happen in human dynamics one thing leads to the other and she ends up having an adulterous affair with him the toe is telling us that before she is capable of having that adulterous affair she has decided in her mind her mind has created a Maura hunter her mind has instructed her through a crazy imagination that what she is doing is actually a mitzvah now you can hear how she could rationalize that right she might come and say well you know like you know I need this to build my self-esteem I need this to to reassure that I'm a human being I need this in order to you know it's you know what is such a decision so bad anyway it's all about love it's all about caring your goodness she's taken something which she knows intellectually to be a tremendously bad sin and in her mind she's turned into something which is a mitzvah that's one type of woman what type of you big because remember the foundation is the principle is a person will not do anything wrong unless thief concluded in their mind that what they're doing is actually a mitzvah that's the way the human being is because the soul is so pure and so good it cannot tolerate to live with itself we could not live with herself and he actually chose to do something bad so we create the bad action to be good and you can match another woman suppose we have another woman this woman there's a totally immoral woman she went did not go to bury goal as she went to some local high school and she got involved with the wrong crowd and I know I'm gonna crouch she is living the life of the morality she's a prude sod we call that somebody who has thrown off the yoke of terror someone's thrown away the responsibility of Torah and and she doesn't care she's a woman who does not care and she gets involved in some sort of relationship and adulterous act let's say with the married man you might think that she would say look you know I'm doing this because I want to do it so I say no even before she'll commit that act she'll have worked it out in her mind why she is doing what she's doing is actually not just correct but it's um it's about you know which is well who cares why does she need to rationalize it she's not living by God's law anyway but the answer is deep down the human being knows and the soul knows the soul is so pure and so good that the soul will not allow the human being to do something wrong without first finding a way to justify that's called imagination the imagination will create a sad had a way to justify to permit the act she and her mind will say you know there's nothing wrong with what I'm doing in fact I'm doing something good I'm giving love I'm building a loving relationship I'm actually helping him he's so miserable his marriage you know and I'm I'm helping him get his marriage better she'll find all the ways where she's the greatest therapist and she's you know saving saving marriages through action that's because the human being cannot live with himself the soul is so pure and so good so that's what I mean when I said that nobody ever does anything wrong and think about your own lives anything that we've done that we're not so proud of have we ever done it because we thought we're doing something wrong or while we're doing it we're actually justifying it in some way finding a reason why it's actually a mitzvah what we're doing so let's just try to build the story of Cain and Abel a little bit and understand this first murder and explore that concept a little bit a little bit deeper first of all we know we have a story in the Torah about the first murder Cain and Abel who was Cain and Abel King Abel were the children of Adam and Eve of Adam and Eve and Eve gave birth to a son she called him kind which means my possession and she gave birth to a son she called Hevel which actually means vanity and he went to different professions we know that kind became a farmer and heavily became a shepherd and then kind of the idea and he said you know I want to bring an offering to God so he brought an offering and then Cain and heavily Dan said that's a good idea and he brought an offering of his sheep and I said that a sham turned to cut to through helble's offering but didn't turn to kind and his offering kind became jealous and kind went out and he kills his brother the first murder in the history of the world but let me ask you a question given what we just said is it possible to just to kill somebody or in your mind do you first have to justify why you have to kill them the answer is you have to justify why'd you have to kill me so the memories actually records a conversation that kind has with Hevel before he kills me let me read you this med mission that says this follows the yogic kinda level a PV Bo Super Sunday that kind of Hevel Cain and Abel were out of the field and kind of turned into a conversation with them so it says am i you midday on him what were they talking about I'm room they said Bo and naka look at the olam gonna come let's divide the whole world up okay no taco code we had no teller thought methylene said well divided the world they're just basically the world is not a large population how many people in the world right now we've Adam we have Eve we have kind and his wife and we've have all of his wife it's not a it's not a huge population so they said look let's divide the world between us Bobby makes it very good real estate deals so kind said okay I'm going to take the land all the land is going to be mine kind of like to use a farmer so he liked land and he'll say okay I'm gonna take all the movable objects he was a shepherd so he liked things that weren't that were disconnected to the land so what happened it says that did unlock I turns to Hevel and says well according to this law court of this this decision we just made are idiotic I am of the HUD DT the land that you're standing on his mind so he says dekai he says to have all kind says devil the land that you're standing on his mind what are you doing on my land I own all the land the world you and all the movable possessions of the world so the land that you're standing on get off my land way doing stay on my land get off my land so what does helble's say back to him he'll says batt says back but didn't Armour wait a minute mad to odd lovage DD the clothes you're wearing are mind take off your clothes fight to get off the land you take off your clothes so he says he's dinner mom what looks he says to strip take him off so what his head will stay back what does kind say back well did I'm a parrot fly 5 take out my clothing because I'm not allowed to wear the clothing kal it'll be exactly or yours you get out of my land fly so of course and will can't fly it's impossible so what's kind do it kills him interesting just the Avengers what do we learn from what our state is trying to teach us it's almost ridiculous right I mean kindness jealous why is he jealous he's jealous because a Shem turned to helble's offering a knight his offering he's jealous so that would really is driving and motivated then is the jealousy but if he's gonna kill his brother because I'm jealous well that I can't do because that's something that's not correct the inner soul by inner holiness would repel against that so what does he have to do he has to create a mitzvah why I have to kill him I have to make a situation has to created in his mind why Hevel is actually a fief in some way so it looks at him he said listen you know look land is all mine get off my land the word he's supposed to go was ridiculous I said hello turns back almost in the same ridiculous manner and says you know well the clothing that you're wearing is my to get the clothing says oh yeah take off my clothing fly like did you really expect it to fly oh but you can't fly you're on my land you're a trespasser I gotta kill you in his mind he had to turn it into a mitzvah why I have to kill him I have to kill bees a trespasser Trevor come to your property Kathy kill it's on my land he's not gonna fly we see how far the human imagination will go in order to justify the correctness of our action here at work that's the power of Daniel that's imagination and God created us with the tremendous power of imagination all right order that we should have free will we didn't have that extraordinary power called imagination we would not have free will so I say because it understand this first murder understand where imagination kicks in nobody ever does anything wrong everybody will always justify their actions I heard about another gangster if you like gangster stories was his name his name was one of the Chicago gangsters so he justified his actions he would rob banks and he would kill people but you know what he said about himself he said that he's a public servant you know why because every day in the Sunday papers there would be stories entertaining stories about his his bank robberies so he felt he was doing a service by entertaining the public it's amazing I mean it's it's it's so absurd but that is the human being that is us that's I we will not do anything wrong before we first decided in our mind that it's a mitzvah actually what we're doing not wrong it's a mitzvah I'm doing a mitzvah everything that I always do is a mincer that's the power that's the power of imagination and again God let plant it inside of us in order that we should have free choice we have to be very alert towards it because nobody ever does anything wrong you will never find anybody claiming that he did anything wrong right Stalin killed 30 million people not because he was a murderer god forbid but they were in the way of a communist utopia you're in the way of utopia right you're the way of the perfect society you're the way of bringing mankind to his ultimate goal for the pullet area Turk in a world you know have all rights and all access to oh well you're in the way I gotta kill you I don't want to kill you but you're in the way of your topia Yeah right we will always justify our actions behind omits that is the human being okay good let's move to another stage of the story now let's understand for a moment what happened over here in the story God turns to heavily his offering it doesn't like kindness and his offering let me ask a question God willing everybody is gonna get married a big parents and imagine the following scenario you're a parent and it's your birthday and you have two little children Bobby and Debby and Bobby and Debbie who both decide to draw you a picture for your birthday the bobbies are really good artists debbie is a not such a good artist and they come to you on your birthday both want to give you a presentation Oh they'd bring you the pictures you look at the picture and you know that Bobby's picture is you know he's very good good artist Debbie's not so good so what do you as parents say Oh what do you say nice pictures the only so nice so good but then kids are very smart you know they say I say I say Abba which one do you like better so what do you say back you say I like both of them the same you know Debbie really captures that rightness of the son you know she can't draw anything else but she captures the brightness of the colors of the Sun when those orange crayons and Bobby the detail those people are really so good you know you find ways of phrasing both me sometimes my kids want to be you know smarter than me as usual so what they'll do they want me to commit to which I like better so they'll just show me a stack of pictures and say Amma which of these do you like you know they don't to tell me who the author of the artist is just want me to you know I catch me like it somebody which one do you like of these but you know I know their trick so I start going through unless they're saying this is really good I like the colors this way you know which one you like that what you like the best you know so but I know this is the younger daughter this the older daughter I could tell them but now I supposing you bring the Bobby and Debbie you know bring the pictures to you on your birthday and as a parent you look at the pictures and Bobby's is really good and you look at Debbie's picture and you see Debbie and I'm pretty lousy like you know she's junk Bobby Bobby nice job Debbie like I don't know I mean could you try again yeah what would you say about such parenting skills not too good fact you might want to call social services on second and you probably have to pay for a therapist for Debbie right could destroy your self-esteem that's pretty lousy parenting but use a question it's not what God does kind and Hevel bring offerings God turns to pebbles all fruit place to throw the kind of have a great job kind not so good guess not so happy but that's you God where'd you get those parenting skills like you're the ultimate parent like what just happened over here doesn't make sense so let's examine what's really going on let's change the story a little bit differently supposing you have two children Bobby and Debbie it's your birthday you know Bobby's a really good artist Debbie's not such a good artist and they both bring you gifts we both great pictures for your birthday Debbie's not such a good artist you look at it but you see that she really put effort into that picture she must have spent a half hour with a little crayons you know really trying to make cently nice and Bobby who you know is a really talented artist look at the picture and it looks like he kind of like must have lifted off there the commercial of The Simpsons you know that's how much time he probably devoted to it and they both give it to you for anything how do you feel about Bobby's gift how do you feel about it as a parent not too good about it like Bobby like that's the relationship you have with me that you can't spend a little time drawing me a picture let's take another scenario for example supposing okay you're married okay guys you're married girls are married and boys you decided that you're not gonna be businessmen lawyers or doctors or Indian chiefs anymore and you gotta learn Torah and you're spending your whole day living Tara and your wives have decided now but there to support you in this they come through enough of our lectures and they decided to be you want a support guys later right you know and it happens to be your wife's birthday you don't any money very little money you have three dollars to buy her a present so what are two types of presence you can buy her so what type of present you can buy or is your three dollars to buy our birthday present you can't afford a dozen roses but you know she really likes these roses that like purple and red and pink mixed together that's really pretty rose so you search all over the city and you find that rose cost you $3 but it's a very special rose that you searched for throughout the city and you give her that rose on her birthday girls how do you feel about that Rose pretty good it's not an expensive rose but it shows tremendous effort and love because really feeling behind the gifts not to get the better butts imagine another scenario imagine that again your $3 to buy our present did you like it do you look at your calendar oh my gosh it's a birthday tonight I don't bring her a present she is going to be upset at me you know I better get her something well what should I get her so you're walking back in the subway and you see Rite Aid on the right side over there going to write a why can't I buy her look around I guess she has dental floss like I can't that's not gonna help you know she has an electric toothbrush that's four dollars now forget that three dollars Mikey over three dollars to look around whoa there's a box of chocolate hearts you know $2.99 perfect yeah yeah three bucks keep the change and you take the Dudesons a bunch of toilet hearts and you put it in the Rite Aid back you forget to take off the righted label and even leave the price on it you come over a happy birthday still excited $2.99 chocolate some right into the chocolate heart and she looks at and she says like you know how do you feel about such a gift no good what because that's how you define our relationship our relationship means so little that you give me a gift that's like a token gift if you know you have to give me a gift always I'm gonna be upset at you so you give me a token like that I dare say most people would prefer not to have such a gift let's receive a gift like that she might return to you would say like you know don't get me anything if that's the type of gift you want to give me if that's the way you view our relationship thank you don't search to find something that's meaningful for me like I don't want relationship like that cuz what's a gift a gift is really a token of the way that giver feels towards the recipient that's what a gift is that's what a gift is all about a gift is about the heart doesn't matter how expensive it is it's about what's behind the gift now I just say what's happening with kind of devil is kind knows that he needs God is a farmer may be smart and he realizes that if I don't have God on my side it's not gonna happen the way I wanted to happen I need the rain and I need to sunlight them and I need to do in the morning and I need all of those many elements to convalesce to bring the crop of the ground and God I need you so I know I have to give you something but the type of gift that he gives God is like a $2.99 box of chocolate hearts it's a gift that says God I gotta give you something because I need you I don't you to be upset you know please keep the rain coming keep you the sunlight going keep the wind blowing but the gift isn't based on the fact that I really feel special love for you now if you're a good parent and Bobby brings you that picture that he drew during the Simpsons to the commercial the symptoms would have been something he drew it during the commercial the Simpsons right you know I mentioned the substance I want you to see how with it I am imagine Bobby brings you that gift I never do drew the picture is he doing the picture doing the commercial Simpsons so what do you as a good parent say to him as a good pair do you have to say something don't you you know bitsy Bobby you know to the matters the whole point of a gift is that I want to feel the love in the relationship if this is type of picture you want to give me you know that's really not what I want it might require you as a parent to say that's what Shemp says to kind of decatur chef says to kind listen you know you gave me a gift a gift that says you need me it's not a gift that's coming from your heart it's not a gift that says that I'm everything and I'm there for you and and I you know and there's a loving relationship it's a gift which kind is giving to God to say to God God I need you keep it keep it flowing that's a very very difficult gift that God one God doesn't want such a gift are you ghost imagine it as parents like imagine you know imagine you're a parent and you spend a lot of money to send your kid through Medical School and then your kid is a intern or he's a resident and you're supporting him you're giving $30,000 a year to support him and it's not a good time so he wants to give you a present so the designs the presidency could give you what present is a present that says like wow I really recognize what you've done for me and I have to offer some gratitude back that's what type of present another present is the son can give a gift that says like you know I want you to keep the cash flow coming so I got to give you something right that's a calculated gift that's the ugly gift that's a gift that really shows that the giver does not appreciate what the the giver of the gift doesn't appreciate what the other is doing that's what kind does now why does kind do this the reason kind doesn't is that kind on some level feels that he is the creator that he is the creator and God is in many ways his partner isn't that bizarre to say kind feels that he's the Creator and gods only his partner he's the real creator how could kind make such a mistake where to kind of get this feeling that I'm the real creator I'm making things come out of the ground and God is the partner with me where he kind make this error where do you learn to make such an error so we tell you where you left to make this error at kinds birth who is his mother was her name it says for Odin V Odin Escobar Adam new Hobbit aaseesh though he avatar of a tailor that's kind she became pregnant she gave birth to a little person called kine candies actually acquired because kind was all about acquiring things fields futur man this is what she said konnichi ish at the shed I acquired a man with God okay sounds like a fair statement to say the first childbirth in the history of the world and she feels like wow I'm a creator you know it's an amazing moment childbirth childbirth is a fantastic moment what a woman actually takes her body and uses her body to bring forth a life you know it's an amazing sense of all that I'm God you given me the opportunity to be a partner with you in the creation of a human being and this is the first time a human being has ever experienced this and you imagine the type of all II must've been feeling God I just made a little man with you and she says she says konnichi it says the tailor that's kind but tell me she said candy to each other chef I just acquired a man with God you know sounds like a nice statement doesn't but let me show you something's wrong with that statement listen carefully in Hebrew there are two types of widths for example in English if I say that I wrote a novel with Mason what does that mean the who is the COO is the author of this novel Mason and me I wrote it with Mason that's one type of way through I'll give you another type of width in English supposing I say I wrote a novel with my computer who's the creator me what I use what was my shovel to create the novel a computer the other commuters with what is a width that means we do something and were equals another type of a width is a type of width that says I wrote the novel with my computer I and the scientist Center and the computer was there to assist me true two types of woods and Hebrew with the same type of with what type of width of the width call in demons would if you spelled the word in it has an iron ayan looks like this that type of width means two people do it together now how do you remember that because the letter I in when you make the letter I and that's what it looks like okay you take this person's hand you take this person's hand you're doing it together that with means a width of us together I wrote a novel with Mason the aim of the ayah which is shaped like this throughout this guy's hand this guy ten because we're doing it together that's how you learned that many many years ago I remember okay go in remember there's another type of width in Hebrew it's called at that now the word act in Hebrew listen carefully we teach you a little bit of grammar now whenever I say the word grammar I know what happens to everybody their eyes glaze over oh no please do anything but teach me grammar you know you could talk about ever you want but don't say that word grammar please don't say that word grammar right here we call it dictum and anybody went to yeshiva high school right spotting myself oh my gosh dicto he's gonna teach dicta like I'm getting out of here where's the kugel just wave it look right I know it's I'm gonna ask you to just pay attention because I'm gonna mention the word grammar but I'm gonna teach you a beautiful beautiful foundation beautiful your sub okay we have something in Hebrew called ëthe that's what does that mean in Hebrew what does it mean yes actually doesn't mean anything it means absolutely nothing what it does do is as follows in English if I were to say a sentence in English I hit the ball what's the subject of our sentence all right I'm doing the action hi I am the subject I what's the verb of the sentence hey what am i hitting the ball who's the most important part of that sentence because I'm doing the verb I'm hitting what am i hitting the ball what's that called in English by the way we call that the direct object the direct object no that's just good bad you know something descriptive no that's no I'm a graduate friend in college over here I can handle this I can handle this tough question I'm college graduate I could talk I could do it I could do it confident in this area this feeling confident okay four years of college at Trinity College which I saw on CNN the other day was had that this had the distinction of being more the 10 most expensive colleges in the country Trinity College right with you wasn't that special when I went there but I noticed that now one of the most expensive cars in the country Trinity in connected so Trinity College graduate I can handle this very difficult grammar okay I is the subject hit is the verb the ball is the direct object whose no supporting that I don't have sentence I I'm doing it hitting the direct object the ball in Hebrew when you use the word at that's a pointer it points to what we call the direct object for example if I'm gonna say I hit the ball here I would say as follows I nee he KT I hit at akkad or look a door had to go to miss the ball i nee he Katie I hit at akkad or I hit at the ball what it does is it points to the direct object it points the part of the sentence which isn't the most important part of the sentence is the second part of it is a secondary part of the sentence I'm the most important thing I'm doing the verb I'm hitting its point you to what I'm doing it to what my tool is so to speak what happens as a result of me that's it okay at points did that's a point to me it could also mean width but when it means with in Biblical Hebrew don't don't space add another some words coming listen carefully when it means width and Biblical Hebrew listen carefully you're gonna know this for life remember we said in English so still have some with I wrote the novel with Mason I would use what with in if I want to say I wrote the novel with my computer what with what I use and because it's not an equal partnership I'm doing it the theaters my tool let me show you a question when Eve says I create weird a man with God which type of with would you expect her to use a listen to sentence konnichi eesh at hashem i acquired a man with god but she doesn't use the game as if there was an equal partnership she uses the X to apply that who's the real creator she is and guys are helper is that weird is that strange what just went wrong with Eve come no not now that I hear what you're trying to say but not in this translation conditi I acquired each a man that's a sham I've got with me shell oh sure it says conditi each at your head buffing pad though sure please forgive me but it says right that's not only translation listen if you read if you read English now the man unknown his wife she could see if the bore Cain saying I've acquired a man with a sham but the English doesn't tell us what type of with it is the English has this feel that it's the e with is if she had God did it as an equal partnership perhaps God being the central partner she doesn't mention audible by the way because added the so little in the creative process right that's a reality under God's that's a reality just brought the first challenge to the world she doesn't feel that there was much a mother but God was everything God creates the DNA God creates the womb God creates the whole system for allowing her body therefore to produce this child to God's act to the central partner and she's God's assistant but she doesn't express it that way she says Potomac on et each anti sham I acquired a man with God's help meaning I am the creator and God was my tool she missed it isn't that interesting she feels she is the creator and she has a little son in kindness and kind goes into farming why does he go to farming you know why because he likes to be creator also you know farm a farmer is a very creative profession you plant a seed in the ground ever been done in farming I grew up tomato plants or anything like that it's a wondrous act and kids love it children love like when you plant gardens and vegetables why because it's amazing you put thing in the ground and and this ground and soil combined with water and Sun and and all the nutrients and all the Sun like life appears you feel like you're you're like God that's really what comes from kinda had this creative energy he wanted to be like God also I want to create something the question is that when you create something who's the real Creator God and you're helper are you the real creator gods your helper he brought a gift to God which expressed that he felt but he's the real creator but I need you God you know I don't want to lose you I need you on my team but you do give the sunlight of the rain well that sort of good stuff I don't want to lose you so I'm gonna send you a gift but it's a calculated gift it's a gift that says I'm look I need you but not a gift that I recognize that is all from you and I love you for it and I want a relationship with you and let's build this together and let me have gratitude to you and let me express my love for what you've done for me it's a gift that says I am centerstage but I want you to keep sending the money my way you know that's like you know that's like the hug that's like the husband setting $2.99 box of writed chocolate I don't want to get upset like I need her to make supper you know I gotta send her something that's not a gift you want that's going wrong something has gotten wrong in humanity where Eve feels that she is the creator and gods her helper and hearse little son kind now as a man feels that he's the creator and God is his helper what went wrong with the giver ding what happened you hear the problem you're the problem let me explain what went wrong with humanity over here how this ends up in a murder what went wrong with humanity is as follows let's go back once story in the torah in the bible we have a story called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil the eighth's a dust Oberon we have three characters in that story we have Adam we have Eve and we have the snake the snake we know was actually the citta again Sahara in this being called the snake his job was to convince Eve or Adam or both of them to eat of this tree of the knowledge of good the knowledge of evil okay that was his job he was a snake he was the Sultan in this body called the snake and the snake wasn't the snake as we know it today it was a very high level being it was a being that could talk was being that could walk upright was being that could reason it was a being that looked very human-like in fact in fact the Torah says that the snake was our room our own means that it was naked naked me there was no fur it didn't look like the other animals it looked very human-like like you could imagine if you know sometimes you read about little creatures like this and stories and creatures from the animal kingdom that somehow are there to talk to man and help mankind doesn't the snake was he was almost human but he wasn't he and who was it it was the Sultan in this being the let me escape me buddy a very important philosophical question questions as follows if the snake was the Sultan is the Sutton a good guy or a bad guy is the Sultan a good guy or a bad guy so the before shifts say that when God created the world he commented and said now it's totally owed the commentators say told me on refers to the creation of the Sultan but God says now the world is told me owed is excellent that's referring to the creation of the Satan the way we view the Sutton in Judaism is not as the Christian world views it whereas the Sultan is some sort of black dark force that has a will of its own to oppose God God forbid SHM is well shaman okay Hashem Akkad Shem is one everything is part of God's plan the Sutton is one of God's angels his job is to work for a Shem he works for a Shem how by testing the human being by creating arguments illusions of the human mind thereby allowing us to have more free choice and thereby allowing us to earn more reward for passing tests we learned how do we earn reward when we pass tests that's free choice he intensifies our free choice by making the challenge a little bit more difficult so we get more reward if we pass it the Sutton is the only angel that is happy when when we don't listen to him all other angels are messengers of God they're happy when we listen to them because that's who they're supposed to do give us a message and we listen it said the Sutton is happy when when we don't listen to him doesn't want us to listen he wants to test us but not to listen he works for his shed Hashem wants us to succeed he too wants us to succeed okay the Sutton is actually working for kinda very interesting statement shared works there's amazing statement in the government condition that says like this says that you'll hold it for long but the Sultan works for a channel let's get that clear the Satan is God's angel so let's see a question what happened as a result of eating of the fruit what were the consequences well let's see they were very their punishments how was it Eve punished he was punished how difficult childbirth good how was Adam punished but now the land will have to you have to work at oil to produce produce from the land visit the Pepitone alekum now how is the steak punished well let's see three things right number one it says that it's legs were cut off number two it was reduced to an animal that crawls on the ground it lost its form of that human-like form and became a reptile something which were very not comfortable with and number three it says the human being will hate will hate it well have hatred of the snakes do we hate snakes Zeb I like sex he likes sex I read the world yes Book of World Records that someone took a bath with 508 snakes now why is it in the Guinness Book of World Records you know why because it's weird people naturally do not like snakes right we look at the snake and we feel very disconnected from the reptile world right we go to the zoo we see the cuddly koala bears and we see the monkeys old they're so cute and then we go into the reptile house and what we all say gross I think that this is disgusting I don't want to be here anymore you know it's interesting because it's so weird but like it's we still go there like weird things but we don't feel any desire to like cuddle up with the snake true here comes the philosophical bombshell and the night wasn't carefully at the bottom here comes everybody ready the bomb is as follows if the snake is God's angel and if the snake is working for God that means what that he's a robot he's doing exactly that which he's programmed to do he's programmed to intensify Eve our Adams free choice by trying to convince the end of the tree he's doing exactly what God wants it to do if so why is he punished good question look here the question have you ever bothered by this question yeah good good that will explain if so why is he punished you can't punish a robot you can't punish your bread maker if you set your bread maker to go off after three hours and your bread maker goes after three hours and he's all white like that so you take off the legs of your bread maker you know and you rip off the handle and you pull out the plug and you throw it out the window no it's ridiculous your bread maker did exactly that what you programmed it to do the Suttons snake did exactly that which was program to do so some people say well it went too far right that's ridiculous it's a robot robots computers as we all know modern technology the period do nothing more than that widgets programmed to them computers not have minds of their own do they right if you really do that which is programmed to do correct am i right it's a good thing so I have the snake be punished do you're the problem because I listen to the Sun the snake is the subtle play was inside him so what they're sitting there you bought him in there God has to be just justice demands healing punish those who are guilty what what do you say so what happened got touch this thing disgusting low creature of the corner okay but what the soft this is the low creature the something is one of God's angels something is our best friend something's gonna God's best friends he densifies free choice so we should be able to have reward something's not a low creature wrong right something is actually one of God's bein angels he was doing a very important task for Humanity for mankind to intensify the free choice therefore to increase the reward without free choice is no reward but the greater the struggle more pain the more gain as we know from the gym yeah thanks Levi brilliant save that thought that's a brilliant book so smart friends listen to what let me explain you this is a beautiful list Ennis it's gonna be worth coming up tonight just for this listen this is what her sister ralpherz it's a German rabbi lived in 1800 it's been on a dojo that's not a toy true so the German like me so I'm proud of her first the German Jew so he's not the sorry I probably went to probably guys wisdom to dude you know what's Dutch guy that I was with but it's he says his father the way he says he says something so amazing he says like this he says they'll obviously can't punish a robot they can't punish an H holes ridiculous program to test even he did a good job of it I mean he wished that he wouldn't tough succumb to his his seduction but that was his job so he says like this what happens to the snake afterwards is not a punishment what God does is God is helping humanity he's helping mankind here on after because what was the snake tried to do how was the snake trying to convince Eve to eat so he says it follows the snake says one line to Eve what did she say listen to what she says the snakes all the snake says is but off qiyamah elokim no clue because it's a gun even if Hashem said don't eat from all the trees of the garden that's all he says even if Hashem said don't eat from all the trees they didn't finish the sentence what's the end of the sentence even if Hashem said don't eat even if a chef said don't eat who cares you know why because imagine something imagine if an animal could speak to imagine the animal kingdom had the ability of speech and the snake was that animal the snake was the animal who could speak and talk and look human and engage in conversation if the animal could speak to you what mighty save you you know he might say to you say Eve listen you know an animal would look at this tree an animal goes after instinct the animal goes after designer and animal has a passion and when an animal follows its instincts of desires it's doing God's will because who placed those instincts in the human being is it not God so who says you have to listen to what God said go after the animal inside of you because God also placed those instincts of those passions and those drives and you didn t be the animal that's what he said that's what he was applying the off key I'm looking Loco let me call the exam even if God said don't eat wait what about the animal of who you are and if you have a desire for that tree look how good it looks look up tasty it is look intellectually pleasing it is so he says go after the animal be the animal he's speaking to Eve as an animal would talk to the human being and an animal would say be like us go after your lust and desires just because God said said it and guess what he said go after the other part of you the animal the instinct the drive now let me ask a question when an animal goes after its instincts or drives is doing anything wrong no you know when a grizzly bear goes into the river and grabs a salmon it's doing anything it brought anything wrong know if a lion goes into the forest and tears the leg off of a wild animal doing anything wrong no that's exactly what it does used to instinct to live if a human being uses its instincts and doesn't rules distinct by his mind is he doing something wrong yes but wait a minute don't we have instinct is it the instinct part of who you are that's the snake is saying let snake is saying listen who says you have to go by your loving God also gave you an animal part they're all these drives flowing inside of you why don't you be an animal that's also when the god speaks to you God gave you these drives being animal and that's how and Eve listens and says you know you're right I'm also an animal jeez desire is part of the animal world enough part of the end of the world so grab her stuff like this God's not punishing the snake what God is doing is he's helping humanity he's taking the snake and he's knocking off his legs as if to say that argument that you're an animal has no legs to stand on that argument that you and the animal are alike is baseless there are no legs to that argument you and the animal kingdom are totally separate I'm going to prove it to you I'm gonna make that snake now so low and so in the ground that just happened if you want to be an animal if you want to be ruled by your thrives and patches of lusts you know you're gonna end up right in the dirt crawling in the dirt and not only that I'm gonna make the snake so unhuman then when you look at that snake you're not gonna feel any connection to it God's not punishing the snake he's helping mankind look at that snake and say the animal kingdom is no longer me it's not me I have nothing in common with a reptile don't make a mistake to think you're an animals true your passions desires like the animal kingdom you probably have this the DNA with you almost severed animal kingdom but you're not an animal so God takes the snake and reduces him nuts off his argument that's up the base that's up the legs of who he is makes a crawl for us then we look at the animal kingdom will say that animals not us I don't feel any affinity any commonality with the reptile and then we do we look at the snake and we say I have no connection with you to understand that all of you man here on after should understand never be fooled by their argument to be an animal and let me tell you something that argument that the snake used is definitely not dead I once heard a radio show where a DJ was entering interviewing a young man and he was on the Christian right and he was explaining why he has chosen to be celibate right why is he chosen to be shown in the heel and the interviewer this was saying to him listen you know isn't that unnatural didn't God plant inside you instincts and drives why are you denying that which God planted inside of you boys interview tried to test it it's a real sanctum look you know God gave you these drives and passions why are you ignoring them then God creates you with this drive for the opposite sex so why are you trying to harness it in the answers of course because God gave a greater command that says we have to rule the animal in us and allowing these drive to express themselves the appropriate time but you hear that arguments not dead at all today right let be the animal go back to the animal kingdom to resemble the animal you know but God is saying no you and the analog totally separate and maybe that's why by the way you know before right when God gives the command to all them to eat of the tree not to eat eat all the trees are not to eat of us one tree so the next verse says that God decides that he wants to create a helpmate for Adam but before he creates Eve you know what it says so that God brings all the animals in front of others one who can name the animals and with the matter says even further that not only did Adam name all the animals it's at first that Adam made it with all the animals he married all the animals in intimacy right all the animals why did God make him do that then God know that like he and the walrus are not gonna be a proper up you know like you know he and hippopotamus just aren't gonna click and I'm sure people have been on certain shidduchim where they felt like like you know I feel like I'm with a hippopotamus over here like I know why this guy set me up you know I hear but you know God is infinite wisdom surely understood that these are not going to be this is not going to be a harmonious marriage you know so why did other firstly I mean it's bizarre they'd let me see with all the animals so it says I'm not making it up and then he said okay it's not gonna work with anybody I have to Nicky I gotta make somebody comes on the flesh resembles him well we got nazar connector we got see what the answer is I think the answer is because a chef wanted autumn to experience firsthand that he has nothing in common with the animal kingdom the animal kingdom and he are totally totally different he might share the same DNA they might have the same passions and lusts and drives physical drives biological drives all sorts of things floating around but you and the animal kingdom are something which are worlds apart you're ruled by mind thought God's word and your job is to overcome the enemy so the stakes never punished expressed as very beautifully the snake is never punished the snake is merely God reduces the snake for Humanity to learn the lesson that the argument does think used being happy is totally baseless that's my prescription is that beautiful beautiful explanation but let's go what's the further what happened as a result of eating of the street whatever what happened was is that this drive which we call the y8 Sahara went from the outside and that was brought on the inside let me define something we talk a lot about this word called the nirahara right give me a definition atomic better condition so good good and evil condition right I mean I understand why you said that because effluvia was translated but why is that translation totally wrong because that's not what the words mean what is the word Yates or meaning he broke cuz it's gonna be a little dicta class careful key thing right I'm a busy teacher if what is the word gets around the word Yeats our culture the Hebrew word yoke sir the out sir means to create listen carefully yo sarah means to create Yeats er means to create Yeats ihara means to create something to create to create what is robbing the people Rob doesn't mean bad I'll give you tell it Rodney's the word Ronnie but we translate his fat but what it really means is I'll give you example I mean when we say for example when you build a chauffeur what's the sound called when you blow what's that sound ran true feel the word Ron there is it a bad sound no it's a sound where one though is disconnected from the previous known da da da da da da hear the word ron hebrew means disconnected the y8 sahara means the creative drive we have to disconnect from that it's a creative passionate drive that's the odorous it's the desire to be a creator to create that that drive to create is an essential drive that we have I'm gonna prove it to you the market russia says it follows that wasn't careful the Gemara says we're at the yetzer hara Bharati toilet Taplin God says I created the 8th Sahara and I created the Torah as a spice I created Bharata gave to her I could Lia tarah and I created the Torah as a spice question which is the main dish which is the dessert what will notice your question if what is what do you put spite if you were you know if I say Bharat to get Sahara I created yet Sahara and I created Terra as a spice if I were to serve you a meal of spice would you be very happy if you are in a desert island and I could fill up your freezer with a freezer full of steak or a freezer full of paprika which would you choose I think you choose the steak right now I mention steak because I said where was tonight I happened to be at the fine grill prime girl Manhattan I had the best thing I believe I went this friend of mine I've seen for college and 20 years I went out there and I had this t-bone steak 40 bucks bill came to $300 to people stupid was the tip was it who paid unbelievable state I'll take that steak it was so good they give you these french fries you don't just put french fries on the side they put french fries on a plate in front of you like a la cabin one stacked atop each other like a little lock ham you have six people hovering around you of that six people hovering around you part your wine got over you know a guy clears your little you have little thing there a tackle the knife scrapes is great pizza way you know so delicious delicious take you know a great time very good but in any case if I was on a desert island and I had a choice between having a freezer full of t-bone steaks from the prime grill or a big you know a big batch of Cuban I think it go with the steaks this is what God says this one kind of says Bharati eat Sahara I created the eat Sahara and I created the Torah as a spice which is the main courses which is the Mexico the as far as the baby hey Suraj mistake but right - yep Sahara Bharati turn table and create the Torah as a spice begins the heart is the main dish the tour is the spice is that what I mean what is the spice do to meet it flavours it because it tastes in reality you know what spice duster food the spice directs the flavor it directs the flesh you can have this big massive piece of meat but when you put the cumin in it it's one type of meat but you put pepper on it it's another type of dish called pepper steak what happens is is the spice directs the flavor so the flavor can have a real taste you get have this powerful powerful meat it's the spice that brings the flavor we need to go here at work Bharati it's a horrible rocket on top of God says I created the it's hard I create this tremendous tremendous passion this creative drive inside of you I Steve harness it's a drive to create and the Terr said the gemara tell us all the time if God didn't create this guy he was again Sahara we wanted to have the desire to get married I wouldn't have desire to - appropriate would have desire to eat eating's I want to create myself to be bigger we wouldn't have to desire to get a job and be successful I would have desire to create a name for myself I won't have desire to create anything good for Humanity in society and world he gets a harness that creative energy that we can have inside of us is that bad no it's only bad when we misuse it when the Torah is a spice the tour takes in two wrecks it takes all this creative energy so I can use that creative drive you have to create children build all-big of marriage used to build love in the home use the drive you have to to God in the world and to succeed use it to build something beautiful like a hospital like a school like a place will help people use all that creative energy but channel it use the Torres the spice if you're gonna just let that creative energy rule you it's like you know all this think it's like it's like you have a v6 camera you take the v6 engine down you put in a v10 you know the cards Kamui right it's out of control but if you have the game so hard all this creative passion and drive and you have the Torres the steering wheel and you directed and control and drive it we take all this energy to create and build and do and you build something beautiful as well beautiful home family everything okay what happened this like this when Adam and cravat ate of this tree AIT's a das Totoro there was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil what happened is they brought the gates are harder this creative energy beside of them but in a whole new way it's like here they are now and have this v10 engine in a v6 car this create of the drive and overdrive but I can't control it and now humanity faces an old attacks how am I gonna control and harness all this desire I have to create you know anything if you see in the world today you know I mean what's the most greatest passion the world seems to have in this world like every billboard speaks in every advertisement speaks to it and we try to express is a very nice way right yeah right what is the drive after the world that's the primary drive in the world and everything speaks towards right many women you know what because it's this creative energy on overdrive is this creative energy which is a positive energy but does know how to harness it so just goes crazy that's a function of having eaten on the tree that's a function so yeah its O'Hara is these matches and lusts and desires inside of us it should be controlled by the mind but now after anything up the tree this creative passion is almost like out of control and now humanity's test is always to limit it and to control it and enter we need a turn now that got us to create a turret to direct it before they didn't need a tour now in its turn to concur to direct and and harness all this energy Jared works so what happened Eve we see how victimized Cheers what is vez you say Eve produces a child and she's so in average I think I created a child with God but what is she saying who's the creator this creative energy inside of her this desire to create they sure feel like she's the creator I'm the creator and God was my helper kind in his desire to create also I want to cleave from the soil like God I was creative energy I wanna have this yang serve to create I'm gonna be a creator like God what is he saying god you're not the Creator on the Creator right but I need you somebody sent you a gift because I need you said you bunch of chocolates but I'm the real creator this is the it Sahara in the person now on overdrive Eve struggles with it and fails she doesn't realize that God is the real creator and she's only a partner client struggles it with it fails he really thinks he's the Creator God is only his helper because he sees himself as the Creator this is a dangerous place to be because when a person sees himself as the Creator there's what does he see he feels that he's the center and if I'm the creator I'm the centers all about me and therefore anybody goes away in the way of my mission you know it needs to be eliminated so what happens basically God turns to help us all Frank not the clients almost so what is when you feel that you're the center of it all and you're the creator and like everything revolves around you and this guy gets more recognition what do you wanna do is such a guy Gabriel I can't get rid of God like I could write him he's taking away from me you know I see myself as everything and he's getting more attention I gotta get him out of the picture hurt me too much what happens the first murder first murder takes place that was interesting yes kind is punished and that Lee's kind punished kind the first thing that guy kind of says and after he kills his brother is he looks at the world he says my gosh he says everyone's gonna want to kill me now so wasn't me everybody's gonna want to kill me how many people were the world then yeah Adam and Eve and helble's Widow and kinds wife that was it so what does he mean that every body everything is gonna want to kill me what is the mean what's talking about you know he's talking about it's over the animal kingdom because the what he's realized by giving into these patches and lust and desires he's reduced himself to an animal I'm now resembling the animal kingdom and if I'm like the animal kingdom what's different in them and I why wouldn't he try to kill me now what makes us different is because we're in this shabad were ruled by soul then the animal will fierce us when we act like the animal world instinctively he knows I'm like an animal now and the more animal-like I am will protect you do I have I'm going to read to you a fascinating fascinating message and the beggar says as follows how does kind die at the end of his life he dies several generations later he's killed by one of his great great great grandchildren's his name is two foci and Lema lemak as the father of two what kind what happens Levesque is blind is the end of partial ratios lemak is blind tuple kind is a hunter in fact it's the tool kind was the first to learn how to work with iron for the Bronze Age the brass the Bronze Age is beginning he learned that the work with the iron ore and he produces a weapon and used to go out hunting together what happened is that tool kind would look he was a little boy he would look and see an animal he would tell his father okay draw back the the bow the crossbow but you know and they were said okay now shoot because love of his blanche and then kill and so one day have said throughout hunting let's do this seven generations say this is the number of years after the whole episode here they are hunting and it says Levesque bet with no hoshi bila dos Levesque was a great great Santa grandson of kind but Summa hi-yah he was blind York Tillotson even got hunting behind but no elk so beyond oh and his little son - what come and hold it by the hand cuz Shiro or so teen okay one little boy would see an animal hello Marlowe would say homily come in Cheyenne Aurora I see an animal but target Cassius connect Oh pull up your bow now against it for ugh but palatable against it so one time you're out hunting they said to his father I see an animal I've applied your bow take aim his father let's go shoot for her I get kind he shoots kind that kills kind that's a kind dice house at the end of the marriage registered as follows Rosso teen of miracle so they see the deceived this thing be shot dead Haruka and they go over to take a look at it and what do they find if a Karen Burnett schoo a horn sticking out of the top of kind a horn growing out of them over Lola that lemon he says to his father lemon IV AHA rate the most awesome it looks like a man the carrot the Mexico but it has a horn growing out of his head other than the melon never Lennox is back idly zucchini who he says water me this is my great-great-grandfather kind what's the bedrest trying to teach us something unbelievable the Ventress is saying the kind is killed by his great great grass of why because he couldn't determine is he had mad or an animal what is he is Natalie sees his figure he looks like a bad but he has a hole is he animal or man that is just trying to teach us is by kind giving into his passions and be ruled by those animal instincts and not over cover those animal instinct what did he become he became one step closer to the animal kingdom to the point where he was almost indistinguishable is he Hannibal very fascinating he became Austin and that's was trying to get to us the job of the human being is to control the end is to rule over the year it's to listen to the voice of God and not to that line that the Sultan tried to use in the voice of the snake we ah've ptomel him no total even if God said who cares be an animal the animal kingdom is always tempting us that way go after your instinct off your passions we're so differently anything at the problem is once we listen to the snake and we ate of that tree all these creative juices the creates our heart desired to create enter the human being and this creative drive became so real so strong that now the challenge of humanity is to try to direct and control it Eve makes the mistake how I feel she's the creator handles the creative juice on the critter kind makes the mistake but they got the Creator how does it end and ends with with anybody's in my way needs to be eliminated and the first murder takes place and in the process what happens kind becomes war on human because the job of humanity is to allow the mind sacral and the voice of God to rule over the animal who we are thank you for the same [Applause]