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Parashat Nitzavim Wood and Stone Silver and Gold

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips avatar
Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips

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in this week's talks to us again through Michelle bennu and says to us Israel you are standing today all of you before Hashem your God the heads of your tribes your elders your officers all the men of Islam your small children your women your converts who's in your midst of the your camp from the humor of your wood to the drawer of your water in so many words says I'm talking to all of you not just this one not just that one but all of you now in case people think like the Heretics of the world where they say yeah this is only Hashem commanding Army said to follow the Commandments Israel it's just that generation you know it's not really relevant to us foreign make sure that we understand clearly without even using commentary that this is not just for the generation of Michelle obenu but rather all of us today not with you alone do I seal this Covenant and this imprecation but with whoever is here standing with us today before Hashem our God and with whoever is not here with us today so here we see that everything that is said in this to Allah this entire Covenant is for all of us and then starts prophesizing telling us all types of things that all generations will have to deal with and interestingly enough he tells us about the different pitfalls they will all have to deal with which all have a single solution a requirement that most people either never learned or even if they did simply are not willing to do it and that's messy with nephesh Aben who prophesies and tells us of what's going to happen to us in the future different obstacles we're gonna have to deal with what kind of obstacles he says to us for you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt and how we pass through the midst of the Nations through whom you passed and you saw their Abominations and their detestable idols of wooden Stone of silver and gold that will Within he's telling us what we saw so we know what is going to be in the future because there's no purpose of telling us about things that happened in the past if this is not something we're ever going to have to deal with again there are different things that happened in the past but are not mentioned in a literal Torah because we don't necessarily have to deal with them in fact says that am Israel had over 1.2 million profits throughout the generations yet only 55 are mentioned in the Tanakh 48 men and seven women why are only 55 out of 1.2 million mentioned because while all prophets that prophesized said things that were important said things that were the word of God said things that could have meant life or death only the 55 that had each word that they said calculated in heaven to the extent where decided that that word that prophecy will matter to every single generation from that moment on meaning that everything that is written in the Tanakh says everything it's mentioned in Tanakh is by those one of those 55 Prophets and therefore everything that is mentioned in the Tanakh total of 24 Books five books of Moses and then 19 other books everything is relevant to every single generation needless to say the generation before mashiach Where We Are every verse every paragraph every prophet is somehow connected to us today and here it's of course the highest level of Prophecy was moshebenus and he's telling us that remember the past we saw these idolaters that Hashem allowed them to capture us to have us as their slaves despite their Abominations what were their Abominations wood stone silver gold but yet it's not necessarily just a problem that they were an abomination but rather the fact that despite their abomination Hashem allowed them to have us as slaves why would Hashem allow the idol worshipers to enslave to torture to kill his firstborn child I'm a sled why because despite the fact that they were idolaters you fell for the Trap and became idolaters too and therefore you need to know dear children that it's not just the past that we have to worry about and not just the future but in the present today about the start off the year 57-82 secular calendar Gregorian calendar 2021 is almost complete right now you have the very same problems that we had 333 years ago foreign slavery of the idol worshipers what was the slavery wood stone silver and gold how is it related today what could easily be an indication of the Christian cross stone is one of these statues that people like to have in their in their houses of Buddha or some other type of forbidden form of uh statue or could it be Islam second biggest religion in the world silver also means kissif means money the idolatry of money gold is also not just money but also honor people looking for Honor people looking for attention they want to build a building to build themselves a name evolution the generation before mashiach will have a different and unique elev some of which will be religious Jews or at least they seem religious that build institutions just for the sake of their own name that's all they built the Steve Smith synagogue obviously I don't believe they're such a synagogue but all types of names they'll put I even saw one time a building campaign for Yeshiva where they actually have the the uh the message you know the motto of this campaign to raise several million dollars for this building what was the motto of the game build yourself a name just like the Tower of Babel unbelievable but here they're trying they're saying that they're going to build themselves a name by building a house of Torah maybe they should learn to offers but so a lot of people will chase false religions a lot of people chase false ideologies covered all types of things this is all different types of literally means serving something else something foreign something that's not God thank you