From Abraham to the Far East: Birth of Black Magic

In the far east there is a tradition that goes back approximately 5,000 years. That's when the Chinese very strongly believe where they built their empire and that's where they received most of their incredible intelligence and the different types of healing therapies that come from there and certain powers and intelligence that come Confucius and all these big people go back to the five emperors that were approximately 5,000 years ago, very interesting. And they said these five emperors received most of their wisdom from the Anunnaki from very large giant people that came to them. Now, what is this connected to? Approximately 5,000 years ago, about 4,500 years ago, there was a mabul that happened. There was a flood that happened as we read in parshat Noach in of the Jewish calendar and over there it brings the lineage that came out of Noach's three children Shem, Ham, and Yafet. And amongst them from Canaan came the Sinim, the Sini, which we know is somewhat of the Chinese people, the Sinai, the Sini, which came out of there ended up going out over there and those were amongst the smart people that came to the Sinai. Where did they get their intelligence from? Now, here's very interesting because we have a pasuk in our parsha over here in parshat Chayei Sarah that says Avram took Torah that after Avram Avinu took that was Or Hagar one of his wives it says he turned it all over to Yitzchak. All his possessions he gave to Isaac child and all the children of the concubines and to these children, all of these other children that he had from the concubines which could have been Hagar, he gave them gifts. He gave them gifts he gave them presents and he sent them away from Yitzchak where to the eastern lands to the far east. That's where he sent them. What are these presents that he gave them? So, the Torah says in Sanhedrin Rashi brings it over there in Sanhedrin 101 that Shem gave them the names of Tuma. He gave them the names of Tuma. Now, what does it mean the name of tuma? The name of tuma has to do with black magic, what we call kishuf. And then it has a certain power of receiving powers from upstairs. Hashem uses certain mediums in order to bring his shefa, bring his influences down into this world. And people who have certain capabilities to connecting to the medium, kind of like bribing the clerk, kind of like bribing the guy in the middle, they tried to go ahead and reach in the middle and try to get out of it what they can get out of it. That's the idea of what we call black magic, kishuf. And we do believe in this stuff. We don't hold of it. It's us or LP Torah, obviously. And it's something that changes the tab of the world. Hashem set up the nature of the world with a certain framework. And these people try to mess around with the mediums and change it around in order that it will be positive for you. I can predict the future through it cuz I can already see kail, I can see what is predicted. The word mazel is from leshon nozel, which is flowing, right? Horoscope. The idea of flowing cuz through this medium of the stars, you're able to see what's going on. And therefore, you can use certain names to change the mazel or to see what's going on. And that's the whole idea. So, why did he send this these names of tuma with these kids, with these children of his? So, it says in the netziv na em daber, because look, these guys were avodah zara. They were busy with idolatry. This is the epitome of what Avraham Avinu was running away from. So, he was trying to get them, you know, put them on the derech. And when kids completely off the derech, at least put them halfway there. So, he gave them these names of kishuf of kishuf which has mamash avodah zara. It wasn't mamash idolatry, not literally idolatry. He sent them to the Far East. And hopefully over there things would be okay. Happens to be with time, and I'm talking about already thousands of years, things developed. And of course, we know the Chinese are avodah zara. They definitely are ones with their temples and all that that are busy with idolatry. There's many types of medicinal healings, as we know, reiki and all the like of different types of healings. And they use the names that they were given from Avraham Avinu in order to be able to practice it. This started from India, spread out over there to to China, and that's where all of this type of special healing type of occurred. Now, there's a big question and debate here, you know, if a Jew can use the healing because we know it's not really connected to the names. The names they just added to make it sound like the idolatry is the one that's doing all the healing and all that type of stuff. However, since they connected it already to Avraham Avinu, so many poskim are not so happy about this. We do find though this phenomenon of Bnei Kedem many times in Malachim. We find that it's mentioned over there um that is mentioned over there the idea of of the Bnei Kedem also that that he sent away. It says over there Shai Yuchai Bnei Kedem. Who are the Chachamim of Bnei Kedem? And they were the Chachamim of Bnei Kedem that were sent over there, and over there is where Melech went. He spoke to the Chachamim of Bnei Kedem. The Zohar writes in our parsha, parshas Vayeira also, Rav Abba went to the place of Bnei Kedem. This Bnei Kedem, which is the Far East, has a place of tremendous wisdom and intelligence of the world. That a tremendous amount of intelligence, wisdom, confusions, a lot of different types of predictions, a lot of proverbs, a lot of tremendous amount of sayings that come from there. And it all comes from this area of the Ruach Masava, which the Zohar writes about. This Ruach of Tumah, which Avraham Avinu gave to them, and he transferred them to the Far East in order to make sure that they don't influence Yitzchak, Isaac, his Jewish son. He didn't want them to get influenced in a bad way, so therefore he sent them to the Far East with ease. And he gave Yitzchak, of course, Eretz Yisrael, etc. It's no coincidence, and with this I'm finishing, that these studious people, these ones who are running ahead, are known as Brahmins. Now, really officially in India, many of the high positioned people are called are called Brahmins. Now, Brahmin are people that will not marry with someone beneath him. It's beneath his cover to go ahead and marry someone underneath him. Huh. >> [clears throat] >> Because they are considered the highest of their own. They consider themselves in the high in the higher rankings of someone who's above. And they only amongst amongst us are the highest of the caste. The highest of the of the caste are the ones who are called themselves Brahm. If you notice the words Brahm is bet resh hey mem without the aleph. It's the lashon of it's the words of Abraham. They call themselves Brahams because they know that they receive their powers, their intelligence, their wisdom from the great Abraham, from the great of Avraham Avinu that we know that's where they received it. And therefore the high level monks or priests over there refer to themselves as Brahamites. Of course they took away the aleph Brahamites without the aleph. My own addition is maybe they did it because aleph of course stands for Hakadosh Baruch Hu. What is Hashem? The aleph is Hakadosh Baruch Hu. They said we're the Brahams without the aleph. We're not interested in the God part. Leave the aleph out of it. We're willing to take the Brahams. Avodah Zara, we use the names of tumah and it's much more convenient. Because this is the way the ovdei Avodah Zara enjoy working. In the end of the day, especially people who are busy with these types of things or kishuf or black magic want shortcuts. And that's the yesod the difference between us and them is all about the idea of hard work. We have to work ourselves together. A navi a prophet would go to school, he would practice and he could be never get prophecy or maybe he would. You never know who's going to get to turn his tassel and be able to succeed to speak to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. Because it all comes from individual labor to get yourself to a place that is deserving to have a relationship with Hakadosh Baruch Hu. The people that are busy with everything we're speaking about until now using names and kishuf and black magic and all the like which has a tremendous amount to be said about it are there [snorts] to try to get to the shortcuts. Try to get it to the fast the fast the fast pace to be able to do a pull the fast food out and be able to get it for a nice cheap shot and be able to be on the top for that without investing that much. And that is the yesod that uh that we have over here. That we have over here and that's what we learn from all all names which Rav Schwab says is very difficult. It's a very esoteric part of the Torah. We can't explain it so much, but we just tried to bring out a couple important ideas to realize the beauty of what every possuk that we learn, and even things that we don't even fully understand to make us realize that look, look at what was going on that sometimes it could Avraham Avinu was sending a message. For you, Yitzchak, you're going to have to do it the hard way. It's not going to be easy, but you're the one who's going to have the real relationship with the Kodesh Baruch Hu. For them, I'm giving them the shortcuts. I'm giving them the magic tricks. I'm letting them get there in a very circumvented way, but that's just the way that's what they need, and that's what they have. And therefore, they're busy going to the forest to Sin, all the way to China. So, Hashem should only have simchas and be able to understand that harboring an Amalekite era, that's the place where it's supposed to go cuz our Amalekite is where it's at, and there are no shortcuts over there.