Parashat Tetzaveh: PRIDE, Humility & Science in the Torah

[Music] and for Everybody's Health success and for us to get closer and closer to hm amen so this week's par it's a it's a uh Exodus 27 you know what is par parasha is a uh so each part of the Torah each part of the Bible uh is uh separated into an Essence one part per week so each uh each part is called a parha so each week we're we're all obligated to learn one of these Paras okay there's a few extra ones that are more than the 52 weeks of the year that we read at different parts of the year but overall we read one par a week that's uh and each part is about something else now this week's parasha unlike some of the Paras that we had before which were telling us about the uh the story line of what was happening with uh with Israel with Amel in uh in Egypt and then they left Egypt or Abraham Jacob uh Isaac and uh pretty much the overall history of of Israel uh this parha is actually God telling us uh that there are certain obligations that we have to uh do in order for us to worship him the right way so in this week's par he's telling us how theim are supposed to dress certain clothes that they have to make the certain uh structures that they have to uh to build and there certain prayers that they have to uh pray in order for them to Worship in the way way he uh decreed to do so the uh one thing that's very very unique about this week's parha we always say that one of the proofs that the Torah is divine is that despite when it is despite whether it's this year or it's last year or it's 20 years ago or 20 years from now there's always something that you can learn from that particular week's that's relevant not only to today but is actually relevant to your life at that point which is something that you cannot find in any other book uh you know none of the other religions have such a thing and none other book out there in the world has it it's very very unique in this week's parha and one of the things that I found truly truly unique about this week's parha it's actually specific to our group specific to our group if you think about it is talking about theim it's talking about it's very very you know detailed par talking about the theim and the uh the Kim were um from the family of Moses which are actually Levites but then they were called quim so there was Moses and there was Aaron uh and there was Miriam but the uh the priesthood which is what a Coen is um was given to Aaron and his children and God said that it travels this is unlike Judaism which travels from the mother to to the children the priesthood the the the aspect of being a Coen travels from father to son meaning that if the father is not a Coen is not from that gene pool but the mom is a uh from a Coen pool the kid is still not a Coen they can both they're both Jewish but they're not a Coen meaning the Coen is a special family within the Jewish uh the Jewish people so one thing that I found very very unique is that this posha specifically talks about the Coen and as you heard a few minutes ago we uh we have a special event today which is to uh for for to's father for his soul to go up and uh you know and and it's a being a Coen is is something uh is something very unique very special and one of the best things that you can possibly do for someone that's passed is to do MIT do good deeds that God decreed in their name meaning do what God Said whether it's learning tah or doing the things that he told us in their name now when you do it in somebody's name the benefit here is that the person that's doing it gets the credit obviously gets the Mitzvah upstairs but the person that you're doing in a name also gets it so it's just like it's not like something like in in the material world if let's say for example we have $100,000 and I say okay you know what we should split it amongst the group of five so if we split it amongst the group of five each person is going to get 20,000 and and pretty much the guy that actually had the original 100,000 is losing 880,000 really so yeah maybe he's happy for about a half a second that everybody has a smile on it but about a half a second later is very upset cuz he just lost $80,000 with a spiritual thing it's like fire if you ever notice that if you take one candle that's on that has fire on it and you take another candle that doesn't have fire on it and you exchange and you put the two together then both of them have fire but neither one of them the one that had fire stays exactly the same he doesn't lose fire so spirituality can only grow it cannot shrink and that's one of the beautiful things about MIT and the decrees and the amazing things that God gave us is that if we involve other people to do what God said we benefit even more than us doing it by ourself because number one we are still doing it and number two we're getting the credit for encouraging somebody else to do it so now instead of you having one fire you have two fires or 10 fires or 20 fires so making one other person religious instead of you just doing M even if you're the biggest sadik in the world which sadik means righteous even if you're the most righteous person in the world and you do everything that God said and your entire day is consumed with and and doing everything that God said your whole day from morning to night everything you're doing is perfect but you're by yourself and then there's another person that maybe he doesn't necessarily do as much as you but he does a lot but he encourages 500 other people to do mitv he's going to have a lot more credit than you why because him it's him times 500 and those 500 are going to encourage other people it's another 500 another 500 it could be a whole nation he's making a chain so he's making a chain he's making a huge event that's changing the world so and that's part of our mission in life as Jews is to make the world better the Jew the Jews are not just a chosen people because God said listen you're special and someone else isn't that's not that's everyone that's on in this world is God's creation whe they're Jews or they're Catholics or Christians or Arabs everything is God's creation but the Jews were called the chosen people because we have number one a special deal with Hashem that we have to do certain things and in return he will not only reward us but he'll also protect us so if we know throughout history we have every major civilization has tried to destroy us whether it's the Egyptians the Romans the Greeks the Turks the Germans uh the uh Spanish uh the Arabs name them they've tried to destroy Israel and now none of them exist with the exception of one it's a matter of time thank you uh none of them exist but the Jews are still here the small tiny little Nation you know comprised of 13 14 million people if you think about it the fact that 14 million people make that much of a change in the world by itself is a miracle by itself shows that there are holy nation because if you look at the entire world you have over 7 billion people now when they're calculating 7 billion people the uh the people that are doing this math are saying that it's either 7 billion or maybe 7 billion 80 million so they could be give or take 80 million so the 13 14 million Jews out there are like not even a statistical mistake statistical error in the grand scheme of things but yet you hear about the Jews and Israel every day more than any other Nation out there so it's amazing so to be part of that Nation by itself is special so that that deal that we have with AEM is that we're going to have protection forever we're going to survive forever regardless of what nations try to go against us we have AEM on our side the other thing that we have is that we have a special obligation that we are here to make the world a better place not only amongst ourself but also amongst the other nations so Hashem sent us as part of our Exile after they destroyed the bet mikdash about 2,000 years ago Hashem said that he's going to spread us into the four corners of the world one of the reasons that he spread us amongst the four corners of the world is because aside from it being a punishment of not having our own country for a couple thousand years everything that God does is for the good so in this aspect what he said is that I'm going to spread you around every corner of the world where you will always find a Jew in every location in the world because I want you to influence the world and bring them closer to me so part of our mission in this world is actually to number one influence the world to uh be mono monotheistic meaning believe in one God and two even convert some of the people that are not Jewish and get them closer to H and make them part of our nation so as Jews we always have to remember that when we're walking around unlike somebody that's not Jewish that could do what they want and they have it's between them and hasem you know us we have an obligation not only to him but also to everyone around us because what we do everyone is watching us so we have an obligation to make sure that everything that we do is something that we realize that we are expected to be on a higher standard so one of the things we learned from this pal is that we learn about thean but the uh and and again it's relevant to our to our uh uh group but aside from that this palha has something very unique about it where since the book of Exodus started seph since it started until the end of the tah till the end of the five books of Moses Moses is mentioned in every single pal why Moses because Moses obviously gave his entire life for Israel he was the only one that spoke to God face to face he went to Mount Si he got the Torah he got the Ten Commandments I mean he gave he was the king of Israel he gave his entire life up for Israel this is the only Pas that he's not mentioned so people sometimes don't notice this because they're used to seeing him every week but in this week they're only mentioning Aon they're mentioning Aaron's uh Aaron's uh Sons but they're not mentioning they're not mentioning Moses even though some of the things that are here are actually relevant to him but they're not mentioning him by name so there's a couple of reasons for this first one we first reason we learn is from next week's Pala next week's Pasha is a very very important one it'sa k is the uh is the sin as after we got the first set of Ten Commandments Israel sinned by building the golden calf and worshiping the golden calf so in that par obviously Hashem wanted to destroy all of Israel and Moses went back up to uh after destroying after breaking the first set of uh Ten Commandments he went back up to the mountains and ask God for forgiveness initially God did not want to forgive and what he said to Moses is that I will build a nation from you you're a sadik you're righteous you didn't sin You're My Chosen than one let me kill them and I'll start a whole new nation from you any normal person would say sure even better you're just starting the nation for me then it's not going to be any problems because they know that for sure I'm the leader here you have some people questioning it we'll learn in a few in a few weeks we'll learn where there's another uh person a big wasn't a fool it was a big big you know Sage that was also very very wealthy ended up becoming an enemy of Moshe and Hashem so because he wanted to be the leader so not everybody's necessarily even though Moses took everyone out of Egypt to hashem's help obviously and he was the leader not everybody necessarily is listening to him so when hasem tells him listen I'm going to kill everybody and I'll start something with you you would think why not okay fine I'll have less problems but instead Moses did something that's not natural he did something that makes him who he is makes him the most significant human being that ever existed in in history and he said that if you don't forgive them if you don't want to forgive them and you're going to kill them make sure that you erase me from your book yourself myself don't I don't want my name to appear in your book I don't want to ever I don't want ever anyone to ever be reminded that I even existed and be be reminded that I was a leader that failed the failed the nation so that's one reason why his name is not mentioned in as parasha now why this Paras specifically not any one of the other ones is because this parasha always happens to fall under this week Z and Z is is a is yite his uh Hisar that's the day that he died born and died right so this Pasha always happens to fall under his his Asar his memorial the second reason is even more unique the second so you would think okay you know what if Moses said take my name off obviously Hashem said okay you know what I don't want to take your name out and I'm going to forgive them and I'm going to uh give them back the Torah and the Ten Commandments and everything is brand new again but still Moses said something that's very strong to Hashem obviously you can't just talk to Hashem like he's your buddy so there was a Min you know there a minimal punishment there where he had his name had to be removed from one of the palot so why choose this one why not any other one why the memorial of his birthday and his death day is because Moses was so was trying to teach all of us something very very critical to our life which is humility Ana someone that has humility can get close to AEM very very close to Hashem someone that has a lot of pride is repulsed by Hashem meaning Hashem cannot stand that person someone that thinks that they are better than everybody else and wants everyone to give them special respect and treat them in a special way which unfortunately in our generation is very very common and all generations it's been around but in our generation specifically people want people like to have Pride their entire life is consumed with pride that's the reason why people spend so much time to make money because they want to have more money than everybody else everyone knows that they're the richest uh they spend so much time chasing women because they want to make sure that they have the most beautiful women so so everybody looks at their woman and they're special they want to have you know a special position at a company or at a government because they want everyone to give them respect because they're the boss people want Pride anyone that spends their life searching for Pride at the same time the spiritual spiritual connection that hasem is supposed to have with each human being runs away from them runs away from them why why because Hashem is telling us there could only be one God so if you think you're something special if you think that you're better than everybody else then in essence you think that you're the Creator you think that you're the one making the money I'm not giving you the money money you're making the money through your hard work you're doing all these wonderful things I'm not it's not me that's giving it to you so in essence you think that you're somewhat of a god you think that you're in control of your life I'm not in control of your life so think if you think you're God and I know I'm I'm God there can't be two Gods so we can't be in the same room the same thing with is exactly it was the same same exact thing every major leader in history that's uh you know in those Nations has had that issue whether it was Hitler or was par or even some of the people that are running governments today it's people love Pride they like the special respects and you've had Wars started over over that both through countries and friendship sometimes you have entire families breaking up just because of Pride one guy says I don't want to call him because he he didn't call me last time so they stopped talking for 5 years because one guy forgot to call the other guy and this is one of the most foolish things in the world but unfortunately it's very very common in our life so Moshe as great as he was had the most the deepest connection with Hashem was the only human being to speak to Hashem while he was awake the other people that we that mentioned in in the Torah that have spoken to him were always either sleeping or meditating they were not awake Moses was speaking to him like you and I are speaking to each other now obviously God doesn't have a body doesn't have a face doesn't have any type of thing that we can look at but when they when they say speak face to face they don't mean a physical face to face meaning that he was awake and alert and and walking around or sitting but just in essence speaking to him normal like you and I are speaking just without seeing him this is one of the mistakes that some religions are making where they think that God has uh you know has a living body of some kind and people spoke to him that's a complete mistake God does not have a body it's actually one of the core uh foundations of believing in God that he does not have a body he's not human or anything remotely close to even so now Moses was the only one that ever spoke to him that way he was the smartest he knew the most amount of Torah he knew everything any he on top of that he was rich and he was the king no human being has ever had more than he did but yet he was the most humble he had the most humility why because he knew who he's standing next to he knew that God is is the great creator that gave him everything that in a second he could take everything so a couple of weeks ago we had a verse where the nation of Israel is complaining to Moses and Aaron and he's saying to them what are we we're nothing complain to Hashem tell him so he's saying we're nothing we're not even we're not even something that you should even complain to we're not even we're not existent we're just human beings he's not even considering himself a human being he's just considering himself absolutely nothing nothing complain to the great one don't complain to me same thing that uh something similar that Abraham said Abraham said what am I I'm just a uh dust King David also one of the greatest human beings in history said I'm just like a worm so you see you notice one of the great things about the sages in the Torah the ones that had the most the most to be prideful about the deepest connection with Hashem but at the same time they're the most humble and that's part of the reason of why they had such a deep connection with Hashem because Hashem says that if you have humility I want to be next to you I want to be part of your life you don't have humility we have nothing we have nothing to talk about so Moses is telling us that on a day that usually people would want other people to remember them I don't want you to even think about me I only want you to think about AEM think about this posl and learn about the important that we need to do inash I don't want you to think about me at all especially on the day that usually people want people to think about them I don't want you to think about me I want you to think about hasem remove me from that equation and the other lesson that it teaches us is that sometimes people do good things they give zaka they give uh you know all types of help to people people but they also want people to know that they did it so somebody that donated a lot of money to a hospital they want one of the buildings to be called in their name somebody that donated money to the big nesset they want the entire synagogue Community to know about it somebody that did anything they always want everyone to know about better do it quietly what Moses is teaching us here is that number one if you're going to do something special you don't need to publicize it to everyone it's actually better that you don't but the other thing is is that Moses just like any of the other big sages were sent to this world with a specific Mission and even until this day with all the Torah that we've learned we still don't know exactly how much they really did because what we know is only a small part of what they did because they didn't publicize everything and Moses is telling us listen if you're going to be a sadik you're going to be righteous you're going to do good things you don't necessarily need to get the public God knows that's enough so on the day that you're supposed to remember me and that everybody wants to generally remember it's a uh you know there's a lot of things that I did that you don't know so be reminded of that so I know that with to's Father God bless him I'm sure he did a lot of really really amazing things that even his own family doesn't know and the community doesn't know and and the beauty of it is that you see that that is the stuff that we take to Sham that is the stuff that counts and that's what hasem considers special so there's a lot of things that we do in our life and sometimes we want to tell people because we're proud of it it's better off that the boss knows and that's it and that's one of the things that I found right away right in the beginning of this par that's special about it that's relevant to us not just not just to human beings in general but to us specifically to our group the other thing that's also interesting this talks about the theim it talks about a lot of different things of how you have they have to wear certain clothes um but first it tells Moses that even though it doesn't mention his name and you shall speak to the wise hearted people whom I have whom I have invested with a spirit of wisdom and they shall make vestments of Aaron to sanctify him to minister me to me so in essence Hashem is telling uh is telling us that he's given a certain type of people a special type of wisdom and a special type of spirituality that you will not be able to find in any other Jew now when we talk about spirituality we can say okay listen you know there's several sikim in the world there are special people they have certain type of memory certain knowledge great but how can we prove it physically one of the things that we learned in recent science over the last 15 or so years is that there are a lot of things that are in the Torah that are scientific that we weren't able to prove until the last 20 or 30 years because we didn't have the tools there was a uh Scientist by name of Carl skari and another scientist Dr David Goldstein another scientist Dr Neil Bradman that heard about this and heard about this palan and said you know what these tribe ofanim they're the priests they're the uh they're the special ones in nam is there something physical spiritual okay it's a matter of belief or not believing either you believe it's right or you don't believe it's right but is there something physical that we can prove that makes them special and after several years of research they found something physical as you all know we talked about the DNA of human beings DNA of All Creatures have the same basic Foundation DNA is comprised of two lines that are squiggly lines that go against each other and then there's the chromosomes in there and the bridges that put them together now all human beings have the same basic DNA the difference between males and females is the number of chromosomes that uh they have in it and there the X chromosome and Y chromosome not to go too deep into the science part of it but the unique part is what these scientists found out is that the Kim the people that are 80% of all the coin they've tested hundreds of them 80% of all the kohanim all the people that have coin and now not all of them necessarily have the last name Cohen uh they're just from that family like for example cats there's a uh uh there's a several several other names but anyway they know themselves that they're from the Cohen tribe and they tested that over 80% of them have a gene within their DNA uh called a um what this C CHD or something like that CH it's a different Gene within their DNA that's different than all mankind all Jews all human beings everyone it's a physical proof of something that Hashem wrote over 3,000 years ago important to say inside one from russan one from Yaman one from a right exactly these people came from all over the world it's not like they all live in Israel they all live in America these people are from all over the world they don't even know each other not even related to each other they don't know that the other person exist they tested people from all over the world I said that over 80% of them have a different DNA than every other human being in the world and all of them have this exact same Mark in essence it's like God put a signature in that DNA specifically in those people that's different than everybody else so how do you explain that 20% or so that don't have it over the last few thousand years a lot of people have had into marriage they married into different families and what happened is that sometimes people like we talked about before they have pride issues they want Pride so they want the Coen name but they don't want necessarily follow the Coen decrees that they need to do they don't they don't want to follow the mitv and the things that they do so as I said before the aspect of being a Cohen travels from the father to the son not from the mother so sometimes you had people not married into a father that's a Cohen father that's another Jew but not a Cohen but they still decided to call themselves Coen because they knew that that family is special so you have several you know quite a few people that are not really Coen but call themselves coins so when the Messiah comes he's going to know exactly without doing any DNA checking obviously he's going to know exactly who's the co and who's not because those are the people people that are going to be the ones that are going to be running the BET mikdash The Holy Temple of God that's going to be built the third one so this is a uh unique thing to learn about how is a physical proof that we can see with our own eyes of how the Torah that's written 3,300 years ago put something into us that no human could have known back then we didn't have the science or anything else to to know such a thing so it's not like they had the uh the equipment or the uh technology to do it so then it talks about the different clothing the robe that the coins have to wear the uh now there's two types of coins there's the Coen Gad which is the chief the chief Coen and there's the regular Co there's only one Chief and then the rest of them are regular the clothing that the two wear the regular ones wear four garments four four pieces of clothing the Coen Gad which is the chief in this case which the first one was Aaron Moses's brother wore eight pieces of clothes and he also wore a uh this a uh how do you say this breastplate breastplate that uh was something uh K I'm trying to say English the breast plate uh that had a lot of different you know they had some unique things about it we'll talk about in a second so the uh the the quen gadol he was the priest of everyone he was the chief in essence and all the other ones were below him once he passed on it was uh immediately if he had a son it would immediately go to his son his son would be priority over any of the other ones even if perhaps some of the other ones were uh smarter wiser and so on it still would go directly to his son first before anyone else was picked what's the significance of the quen we learn this the was the only one that was able to go into this uh room called the holy of holies Kim during yum kipur which was five minutes where he had a one-on-one with God very dangerous and he pretty much had to beg for forgiveness for the entire nation for those five minutes and if he had one bad thought just one bad thought just one negative thought he would instantly die so it wasn't exactly the uh the job for some regular person this this person had to be extremely pure they could not have even one bad thought so they would train and focus the entire year just for this five minutes so no one else could enter this room so what would happen is that they would actually have a chain connected to his leg because in case he did die they can't go in there because they would die also so they would have to pull his body out wow so the disposition is not a regular position this is the highest of high positions the only one that was higher than this the quen Gad was Moses but after that there wasn't anyone else after Moses there wasn't anyone else so the Ken was somebody very very special unfortunately during you know we had two bet mikdash we had the first one we had the second one the first one was built by King Solomon it lasted 410 years and it was about a 70 year break and then um we built the second one which lasted for uh by Ezra build it and uh it lasted for 420 years now the first bet mikdash had the most special things in it it had the original Ten Commandments in there the second ones that we got which were the same thing but not the first ones were literally written by God the second ones Moses made just following what God Said So they were extremely holy but one degree less or several degrees less but still we had both of them uh we had the original seph Tora in there um and uh and we had this ointment which we'll talk about in a few minutes there was a special ointment that uh each person that became either Ken Gad or a actually specifically a king would have to be uh would have to have this ointment on them which was a spiritual ointment that was one of the Creations during the first six days of creation this ointment we'll talk about it in a minute is actually one of the things believe it or not that creates the biggest confusion in history this ointment this oil just because of what it's called Uh and a few other things that were in the first bet mikdash the second bet mdash did not have these things because after the bet mikd the last during the last days of the bet mikdash of the first one the uh they saw that the city is being attacked and eventually it's going to be destroyed so they hid these things and they weren't able to find them during the second bet midash so even though the second bet midash was extremely holy and holier than anything else we have in this entire world it wasn't as great as this first one the third one that's going to be built when the mashia comes is going to be more than anything else we've ever had but until then we had this we had this missing part so now we have the Ken in the uh in the first bet mikdash they were extremely holy there was a certain process and they tell us the number of during this 410 years the number ofanim that we've had throughout all those years was very very few because each person lasted a long time in the second bet mikdash though that was less holy but still holy we had over 300 UND of them in a matter of 420 years so much you know 500% more and the second time even though it was only around for 10 more years first one's 410 second one is 420 years you would guess that the two would have let's say if both one the first one had 40 during 400 years the second one should have 40 or 50 maybe 60 but why 300 why so many more unfortunately what happened during the second one which is that people had the disease of Pride same problem we talked about in the beginning as so people that were very very wealthy they're very very rich what they would do is that they would buy the position of being the now to teach us how sick someone can be when they have so much pride the degree of how crazy they can be is that they wanted to buy not just to be a Coen they want to be the which means that every year they would have to go to this room to the holy of holies and be there for 5 minutes and survive five minutes without having one and there's a very big chance they're going to die now I don't care how much money somebody has or how rich they are or how what you know anything else everyone knows at the end of the day they could tell everyone what they are they could pretend they're a big sadik and everything else at the end of the day you look yourself in the mirror you know who you really are are so these people obviously knew who they really were they knew they weren't big sadik they knew they weren't big righteous people but they still had so much pride that they still wanted that position even if it was only a few a few months because the minute yum kipur arrived they would go into that room and they would die instantly wow so even though they knew they were going to die to just to have the cavod for those few months was enough for them to give up their life that's how crazy people are when it comes to Pride and that's whym can't stand it because it's such a disaster that someone is willing to give up everything just for somebody to honor them and that's one of one of the foundational lessons we have not just from this Paras but from all of history because you see the ones that always fell were the ones that had a lot of pride the ones that were humble generally you see them having a connection with hasem that's deeper than anything else and achieving their purpose I'm not saying their life was easy but they definitely achieved their purpose and they're remembered much better so while the ones that are worrying about Pride want to do everything that they're doing just so everybody remembers them people only remember them for bad things the ones that are very very humble and have a lot of humility people remember them but they only remember them for good things so they're not even work worrying about what everybody thinks and the best part about it is that everybody ends up thinking about them anyway so that's something that's very unique because again we spend our whole life trying to be number one but in reality if if we just listen to the instructions that hem gave us we could be number one without all the headaches and nonsense that we deal with so that's another amazing lesson we have and the Prides the other thing is also is when we talk about the uh theen the the breastplate Hashem tells us something about this that he also told us about the bet mikdash he told us that you know he wanted this breastplate it has these uh two stones on each shoulder that have the names of the 12 tribes and then he has these 12 Stones made of different jewels one was a diamond one was emerald and so on different Co the the co yeah the chief right the chief Coen would wear this breastplate and had each different stone with each Stone having a different tribe me there was the 12 tribes tribe tribe tribes so you had the 12 tribes each Stone had a different tribe's name ruven Judah and so on levie uh Shimon so each tribe had their own name each their own Stone also this Kosen this breastplate had a uh a pocket in it which they put the something called the was a uh was a thing that had hashem's real name on it and this is what put the breastplate into uh what made it work in essence and what did it do this breastplate was the way that am was able to speak to Hashem without Moses not everybody was a prophet not everybody was able to talk to Hashem so the Ken G was able to speak to Hashem especially during time of War during times of need so what happened is is they would ask a question for example we're going to war which tribe out of the 12 tribes should be the first ones to go to battle so the Coen would ask this question immediately the stone that has judah's name on it let's say he's the tribe that was chosen would be lit up and then the letters would make the letters spell out a word w spell out a word with the letters that are on it would spell out a word so for example it would say uh Judah Yale meaning Judah should lead so this is the thing that made the uh wasn't the theen the breastplate wasn't just for beauty it was something was a direct connection with hem it's like having AEM on speed dial text messaging another amazing thing scientifically about this uh this breastplate that we learned is that Hashem told us to do something with the breastplate and the way they they they they made it is the same way they built the BET mdash Hashem said that the BET mikdash and this breastplate Are Holy and are supposed to bring peace to the world they're supposed to create peace and life not death so he that means he did not want steel to ever touch them now if you look around the world anytime that you want to put a nail into a wall what do you use you use a hammer what's a hammer made out of the steel you go to war what do you use for war you use a sword you want to build a building you build it with steel everything is made of steel you want to cut anything you steel hasm says I want you to make all of these things I want you to build a bet mikd cut every stone in a precise way you can't just put any stone there The Bash was very very precise it gave us the exact measurements of how to build it each Stone had to be a certain size each Stone had to be a certain difference between it there was a very very very deep analysis of how what was put into this bet mikdash and the same thing goes into something that seems simple like the breastplate the and he told us that I want you to cut this precise measurement of each Stone us specific he tells us which stones to use and each one has to be a certain size and certain size differs between the next one but you cannot use metal to cut them so how do you cut stone or anything without metal what we learned about today in our world today is you can cut things with laser and one of the things we also use today is r ation now if the sages of that day would come and see us today and they would see the radiation that we use to cut things and for different Technologies like uh medical equipments and things of that nature they would say ah the technology that you're using is artificial meaning you made it we had the original what was the original it was a special worm a worm like a you a worm worm like a bug called Shamil and this worm generated radiation and they were able to direct it to cut these Stones wow and make everything without metal ever touching anything um and it's actually both of these scientific things that I told you guys is in that book that I gave you guys the uh uh zamir Cohen the book that I gave you over there both of these things you'll see more details amazing too that they keep the warm in box of and like you go to to ran you know yeah if you have problem renan so you put like vest offet they put them in a in a very very simple box because if they put them into a metal box he would cut through the he would cut through the metal yeah so the only that the thing can't cut through is something that was very uh very simple very ordinary no no no not lead it's not lead it's not metal not a metal it's a is metal the LI is the lid is this oh I think it's something else but anyway I know there was also a um a certain food product in it I forgot the actually you know what now let me a question the book talks about the sh scientific proof no the sh we don't have scientific proof because they don't exist anymore exist so what does it talk about the book what does it say about how they cut the Stone thank you D it talks about it shows different vers from the about the uh about the Sham yes so okay so here it was uh uh how is the Shamir worm stored know after the temple was destroyed the Shamir ceased to exist it existed since the six days of creation when placed upon a stone or a beam they split apart like the pages of a book when placed on an iron the metal broke apart and fell away nothing could withand it how did they store it they wrapped it in soft wool now it wasn't lead yeah I knew it it was soft wool not not lead soft wool a filled in a barley brand barley barley is it's what you put in uh it's food it's no no this is this is what it is it's a barley and uh and uh wool was l l a metal there's a story I don't know if I've ever heard of it where he didn't know I was building the BET madash how to build it how to build he didn't know where to find the sh okay and he went to a bird a bird told them K so there store something like that right he asked yeah he asked he asked the sages he asked the sages how can we build the V mikdash if we can't use metal and they said thear it says uh it says that uh we have to use the worm the Shamir worm just like Moses had in Al SII and they found it they found the they found this worm uh and that's how they that's how they cut all the stones in the uh theen and also in the uh uh in the bet mikdash so it's uh definitely definitely amazing things that you see that we have in the tah that are pretty amazing and again every time every week we I try to find different things that are not only relevant to our life but also I tell you guys that anything that's of any good in this world has to come from the tah nothing is new T says nothing new has been created under the sun meaning that man has never invented anything they may have innovated but they never actually invented nothing was created by man and anything that we have that's any good has to have a source in for us whether it's a saying like for example there's a famous saying a um that uh don't don't judge a book by its cover don't judge a book by its cover so I told the guys a story this a few days ago it's a very good uh very good story there's a big Sage named ibena Ezra Ezra was a huge Sage giant K giant had so much to in him it was amazing but what he didn't have is luck he said himself is that if he started a business of hats people would be born without heads if he started a business of uh of um umbrellas it would stop raining and if you started a cemetery people would stop dying that's how much how little luck he had so even as was very very poor so one DayZ go izra goes to a uh sh he wants to go to sh he wants to say some he wants to teach a little bit but they look at him and how he looks these are all rich successful people and they look at him he's a poor guy they don't think he knows anything say no no no no no get out of here get out of here they kick him out he says oh okay you want to do this to me I'm going to teach teach you a lesson so the next week he find he goes into the market and he sees this guy dressed nice starts talking to him and the guy's he's like you know toah he goes no I don't know anything about toah he goes well what do you do he goes I sell meat so a regular meat salesman but the guy had a little bit of money goes okay listen how much do you make uh a month yeah let's say just for argument sake for for the example CU I make $2,000 a month he says to them you want to make $200,000 in one month yeah of course says okay come with me and just do whatever I tell you so the guy is wears a suit big stomach beard looks the part so he comes back to the Sho with uh with Evan Ezra and again they see like no no no no he goes no I'm not here for it's not for me I'm not here for myself I just brought this big giant sadik from out of town oh who is this guy no no he's a big righteous person he's so he's so righteous that you guys are not on a level that you can hear his voice so everything that you that he says he has to tell me and I have to tell you like really well how how wise is this man how wise is this man like listen ask whatever you want and he's going to he's going to tell me so they ask him a difficult question and uh he reaches out to the uh the meat seller uh he reaches out to the meat seller and uh uh reaches out to the and he reaches out to the meell and the meell says you know doesn't say anything in his ear and evanz obviously knows the answer he tells him the answer yeah get the uh you have the [Music] chair okay so he reaches out to him the guy doesn't know anything obviously pretends like he's Whispering something into his ear he doesn't say anything knows the whole tah so he tell him okay this is the answer then they ask him another question he pretends like he's listening to the guy giv him another answer another answer another answer another answer like wow this guy's a giant they start donating money to him th this one guy says a th000 2,000 5,000 um 1,000 2,000 start giving them money four days in a row they're asking questions and Evan is giving them one answer after another after after another after another they've never seen anything like this so after 4 days they got to 200,000 all the richest people in all the city came to see this giant K and they see this guy this big guy with this poor man next to him and the guy doesn't speak he only talks to the poor man and the poor man's giving them all the answers so after 4 days avessa tells the meat seller he goes listen we got 200,000 that I promised you I'm leaving I proved my point no what do you mean you're leaving I need I made 200,000 4 days look how much money we can make in another month he go no okay you make it I'm leaving I don't need this money it's not for me goes okay but what do I do I don't know any T goes listen they're going to ask you two three questions goes what three questions there's one question one guy's going to come to you says listen I want to I want to divorce my wife he go okay so what do I tell him you tell him come back next week CU why come back next week goes ah because he comes he goes home for a week after a week he's going to get along with his wife he's going to forget he wanted to divorce her so the guy is a fool he doesn't know anything so he's repeating himself come back next week come back next week come back next week come back next week over and over and over again he goes okay the second question they're going to ask you somebody's going to tell you they say listen I dropped my what do I do you tell them pick it up k kiss it and give sta the guys like pick it up kiss it givea pick it up kiss it pick it up repeating over and over he's a fool he doesn't know anything so he's repeating it over and over and over again third question they're going to ask you is listen I have this meat I Slaughter this animal I don't know if it's kosher he says put the lungs in the water if there's a bubble it's not Kosher if there's no bubble it's kosher put it in the water if there's a bubble it's kosher if it's not a bubble it's not Kosher it repeats it over and over and over again okay azla says okay I'm leaving goodbye so this meat seller like I told you guys several times a fool he confused all the questions so a few days later somebody comes to and goes listen I want to you know I I drop myin so he tell him to come back next week another guy comes to him and says listen I uh I have uh meat how do I know it's kosher he goes pick it up kiss it and givea instead of put it in the water another guy says listen I uh I want to divorce my wife he goes put her in the water if there's bubbles she no div there's no divorce completely confused it so obviously these people thought what is this guy this guy is crazy he doesn't know anything so they go after they start get what do you know they kick him out they go find evanz like what did you do who did you send us over here this guy doesn't know anything goes ah he doesn't know anything all of a sudden when I was there you asked them all the questions you gave you the answers because you saw he's dressed nice but it was really me gave you the answers the guy that's poor he says so he teaches us a very very famous a quote that became that quote that I just told you guys he says don't look at the jar look at what's inside it so modern people changed the verse a little bit and they said don't look at a book don't judge a book by its cover but it means the same thing showing us that anything that's any good anything that's any wise has to come from tah another thing that's very interesting that I uh learned recently you know everybody sees ghost in the movies all the time and uh something that's become very very popular especially over the last 10 years because technology is Advanced is superheroes you know Superheroes Hulk X-Men man all of Iron Man all of these things very popular movies so everybody gives credit to the guy that wrote the Marvel books wow so Innovative amazing so amazing that he has these ideas such imagination came up with these characters that have all these special strengths Superman this one that one the funny thing is is that if you read the midash that was written a few thousand years ago and you read about the sons of Jacob the 12 tribes Judah Shimon Joseph and you read the midash of the their Wars they went into they had wars with other nations and you read about their superpowers you see where exactly where he copied it from nothing original and some of the modern technology like weapons and things like that yes but the strength and the jumping and the flying and all of that stuff existed in the yeah Judah had a special war Roar that they said was even more than the biggest lions but the roar was so loud that it would make people that for example they had a war against this one nation and they had a big uh um brick wall around the uh and all of the all of the soldiers from the other thousands of soldiers were standing on the walls so Judah instead of fighting them oneon-one he just roared everybody fell off the uh wall uh and a lot of other details we talk about he jumped onto the wall in one Leap so the point I'm trying to make here is that all of those superhero stories already written a few thousand years before Marvel Comics was ever created the Hulk the Hulk or anything else yeah yeah lot of lot people Nali was one of the tribes super fast it was super fast very very fast uh he was able he he ran back from Egypt ran back from back and forth from Egypt even before that he ran back and forth to uh different uh locations so super fast super strong big jumps a lot of these cool stories that you read about in the uh in a to that uh superhero like legitimate superheroes put a lot of mileage on his feet yeah yeah yeah so a lot of interesting things so let's see uh so the next thing is okay so I told you guys something about the uh this oil didn't have as much strength as the tribes his generation not in the generation of the 12 tribes 12 tribes were something different 12 tribes yeah no 12 tribes in in one of the wars that the 12 tribes had just they had seven days of battle seven days every day there was a new war just in the first day they killed 12 of them only 12 of them killed over 40,000 people the first battle 40,000 people and not one of them got injured 40,000 people just to start no no no they live there's no way you can ever compare but I'm telling you that the 12 tribes are much higher the generations only got lower after that so it's a uh you know with the exception of mosenu which is the highest of high uh we only got lower over the years so the next thing is that we learn about in this a uh in this par is the word I told you guys about anytime someone to become a quad or to become a king you have to have this special oil which was one of the uh things that was created in the first six days of creation a special spiritual oil what do you mean spiritual oil meaning that after they used it and they emptied out the small bottle was empty they would look at a bottle a minute later and it was full again it would fill by itself it wasn't an oil that they had to make and this is the oil that Hashem decreed they have to put on each king or coin mhm right now this oil creates one of the biggest confusions in the entire world only because of how it's called meaning that when they say that you have to give this put this oil on somebody they say mashak or from the you know mashaka is to to uh anoint anoint the oil or when they say that the uh for example the quen Gad had the uh what's called had the oil a mashiah so they called him a mashiah not that he was the mashiah not that he was the Messiah but meaning that he was anointed with this oil so what happened is that people that don't speak Hebrew the holy language what happens with them is that they think that every time it says mashia in the Tora it's referring to the mashia meaning the go the one that's going to come at the end of times and at the end of the world like Maria virgin bah it's different word so this word this word which uh you know comes you know or in essence that that root of that word creates a lot of confusion for people that don't know how to speak Hebrew properly that they think that anytime it's referring to something that's from that root of the word ofia is a uh is referring to the mashiah and it's not as a matter of fact 95% of the time that that word is in the Tor it has nothing to do with the mhia it has to do with the fact that that person was anointed by God as a leader as a king as a qu something like that not uh not the mashiah the one going to come at the end of time virgin come on yeah also another thing that's uh for example another example is uh it's not as good but like what you said Ellie is the uh the word uh chist the New Testament that the Christians and Catholics use has been using a mistranslation of the word Alma for 2,000 years saying that Alma means virgin Alma really means young woman so for th000 years we've been trying to explain to them that it doesn't mean virgin a virgin in Hebrew is betah and there's actually several places in the to that proved that that's what it means but only until about the last uh 15 years or so have they even acknowledge that we've said it they've completely ignored us for 2,000 years only a few of them have decided that we are right but most of them still if you look at any debate between a Christian and a Jew they constantly mention no it says Alma why do they say Alma why do they say that Alma means virgin because they're trying to prove their religion through our Torah because our Torah is the first book in essence they're saying our book is the first book their book is the continuation it's the second book so in essence the second book has to agree with the first book so they're saying that our book has the source the proof for their books they're using a certain word Alma to prove something even though in general it's it's a completely different topic but even if the word didn't mean virgin still doesn't matter but the point is it doesn't mean virgin but people who don't speak Hebrew properly and don't know it uh make a lot of mistakes and this mashak is mashia is by far the most confused word in all of the words in the Torah because people constantly think that it means mashiah like the go the one that's going to come at the end of times and it does not I'll find it for you I'll find it for you I think actually was it here yeah I'll look for the half a minute I'll find it after and after we'll go over it after uh special to is the anded found it highlighted it somewhere oh maybe after yeah no you knowel likes to uh throw a little uh challeng challenge in the middle if there's no if there's no challenge she is not worth it okay next one um so uh we'll find it after I have I have it highlight somewhere but it's just it's going to take too much time to find it so anyway umen gossip PL right okay so now the next thing that we they talk about is the uh something we actually talk about we uh repeat in prayer every day the if you remember there's a and it in our prayer in and also in it talks about the Bim where you you make these a uh they're putting these incenses together that are specific that hasem decreed specific ones to use and they will burn them in a separate a separate uh altar and it would make a special smell from these uh incenses uh and there was also be a smoke so hasm is telling us you shall cause the entire the um you should make this elevation offering to Hashem it's satisfying Aroma a fire offering to Hashem and we repeat this in the morning and also in the the afternoon uh which also teaches us about this whole aspect of doing corote in the BET mikdash and even before the bet mikdash this whole Tabernacle that we had we had sacrifices that we would make several times a day and a lot of people don't know well some most people know but a lot of people don't know that that's where prayer came from even though AB ainu had the morning prayer and yobu andu had the afternoon prayer and yob had an evening prayer their prayer was different than our prayer wasn't the same exact prayer in essence what they their prayer would be with a Corban would be with a sacrifice so that's where the sacrifices came from but our prayers that we do every day is a replacement of theban because we can't give aan we don't have the bet mikdash so instead of the Corban we do a prayer we pray three times a day so now the question I have is that Hashem in in two of these prayers that we pray uh each day hasem is making us recite these verses uh which come from the book of numbers but anyway it's also mentioned here that if you put these incenses together it makes a special smell and then it makes a special smoke and it's pleasing to him okay why Hashem needs us to help him make something smell good he has the whole world he created everything why does he need us to make this why does he need us to make all this uh smoke there napkins over there what does it need us to make all this special smell it's a good question why why do we have to have the special smell the answer is not the smell the smell even though it smell was a special smell hasem doesn't need our help to make a special smell what hasem wanted to do is have us have the smoke and the smoke would travel high into the sky because the smoke would do two things two two things that until this day is a Jew's responsibility to do as we talked about earlier today we have responsibility of making the world a better place not only for other Jews but also a better place for non-jews and this smoke did both of them the smoke was something that would travel high into the air and as you all know something that's high in the air you could see it from far away so any Jew that was far off the camp and decided to go off the D would be reminded by seeing the smoke ah they're talking to Hashem that is in essence k because it's reminding ah before I do this a before I make this sin they reminded hem is right there they're talking to him it's not like it's it's not theoretical so remind someone it's even far away because the camp of Israel was very big and people you know several square miles a lot of people millions of people so someone that was far off or even someone had decideed to leave the camp would be reminded regularly there was constant conly smoke going up into the air and people would see it from far away the second thing that it would do is that it would show all of the Nations around the world that were in the area that were able to see this and in some cases there's some people that say it was miraculous where everyone could see it that the Jewish nation is doing what Hashem decreed is doing what hasem commanded and that's what makes them special they're not just special because hasem is Prejudice because technically created everyone they're special because they're doing what hasem told them to do and a proof of that is something that everyone can see which is the smoke so this would do a Kem this is something that would give AEM honor that he's chosen the right nation and it would remind the other nations why he chose them so something as simple as that we don't usually pay attention to because sometimes you read it in prayer you get very very used to the prayer you go to the motion you know it's very very specific put this thing in it put that thing in it all of these different uh uh uh Parts uh you know different plants in this uh in this but then if you remember it says that if you make a mistake if you make a mistake in the prayer it says it if you make a mistake just a mistake it's tiny mistake meaning you get death penalty if you make a mistake get death penalty why because then instead of doing K you're doing Ming because you're showing mistake in making the if you make a mistake in the is the incense it's the thing that they put together they burn it and make this special smell in the smoke your burn this like the Indian they have something incense incense close just to you can imagine so if you make a mistake you but if you do it good it's a hug why because Shem says that if you do it right the whole world will see it if you don't do it no one will see it so they will think that I chose the wrong Nation yeah the winds would not make the smoke move it would go up like a like a pillar so very very interesting uh about the and again we read this we read this in our prayer every day and most people don't even know what it means most people just read it and read it and they know by heart but they don't really know what this stuff means they just say it and they they don't understand why making an incense is so important why do I die if I make it wrong I make a mistake I'm just human what's the big deal it's a big deal why this is something that hm decreed hem is telling you either you do k each one has consequences each one has consequences that's the bottom line another interesting thing about the par is they mentioned the the bread the bread they make the special bread that they uh that they made uh that they would use in the in the uh in uh in this area by the Quan and this bread one of the mlim explains what this bread was it was you know one bread after another huge bread was a square shape it was very puffy he said the bread would stay warm from Friday to Friday wow stay warm the whole week was always warm was always like you just took it out of the oven even though it was outside and on top of that was yes holy bread holy bread [Music] it's not it's not something that most people practice even bread you could even do on one piece of bread you don't have to have to you don't have to have to okay so next thing is is something very interesting that we talked about earlier today when we talked about the scientific parts we talked about the U there's something very different about the Torah versus any other book that was ever written and over here in uh verse 29 4 46 it's 45 and 46 hasem says I'll read in Hebrew than English so the most important part about this specific point it's different from any other book oh actually I'll read in English I'm sorry I shall sanctify the tent of meeting and the Altar and Aon and the sons shall I sanctify to minister to me I shall rest my presence among the children of Israel and I shall be their God they shall know that I am Hashem their God who took them out of the land of Egypt to rest my presence among them I am Hashem their God so the most in verse 46 it says they shall know that I am AEM not in they believed that I am AEM and they knew I am AEM this is something that's very very different there's a significant difference between those two words every religion in the world whether it's Catholicism Christianity uh Buddhism uh Islam everything else is based on faith someone said that something happened and you have to believe it because they say so believe believe why did this happen to mean believe it's for the good how could I prove AEM just believe he's there how do I know this believe believe if you go to a doctor or you go to a scientist and you tell them listen you did this experiment or you're going to do this surgery do you know if you're going to succeed and they say no I believe I'm going to succeed what's the difference between the word the two words if I believe I'm going to succeed that means there's a certain part of me that says there's a chance I may not meaning there's a certain part of me that says that I don't really know I hope hope believe believe means hope with a lot of ambition I believe I'm confident that it's going to happen but I don't know for sure to know means that it's fact that there is no other way so Hashem says unlike what everyone tells tells you which is to believe in God in every single verse in the Torah with the exception of one time hasm says I want them to know that I am God not to believe that I am God meaning that I gave them enough tools in the Torah and around the world and in different things that we have in creation I gave them I gave them enough words I gave them enough things in creation that should give you enough tools to know that I am God to know that there is a God not to just believe that there's a God whether it's through science or through spirituality or several other ways that you can try if you search enough you can confirm 100% that there is a God one of the things that people have a difficulty with as far as believing in God is people believe that they know science and anytime you hear a few things about science people think they heard something in class they heard something in school and they think they just be heard they some scientist said something and he has a degree and he has a doctor before his name or a PhD after name that makes him right unfortunately what most people don't know is that the vast majority of science is theoretical Theory by definition means it's a guess it's just an educated guess so when somebody says the theory of relativity or the scientific theory that they have about you know the Darwin Theory or uh quantum theory or any of these other theories that they have it's an idea that somebody has that they made an educated guess that they think this is what happened they can't prove it 100% they believe this happened Theory Theory unfortunately when people are uneducated they think because somebody said Theory and because he has a doctor sign on his business card and maybe he has has hair like this and he has a beard like this and he looks a certain way and maybe even wears a suit that makes him right if they spend just a little bit of time looking on Google what theory means or even if they ask that person or something just read about the theory itself they would see that this is just a guess unfortunately people don't do that people don't spend much time doing research they just assume that what people say is right one of the things I told you guys when we first started this year and I try to tell you guys all the time is that anything that we read over here we talk about over here I encourage you guys to go check for yourself why because you shouldn't take my word for it maybe I'm lying maybe I'm making it up that's why some of the sources that I have whether it's the book from zamir Cohen or t m or anything like that I always tell you guys the sources after before during so you go check in yourself see where the source is if I'm lying then you know I'm lying you shouldn't come again if I'm not lying you see it's right then this should be uh something that should cause you to change something one of the things that people have a difficulty with is something called the or oral Torah the oral Torah is something that we got also in Mount Si and but was we were not allowed to write it unlike the written to the Bible the Old Testament or whatever other names it has uh we call it the toah is Jews toah is the written part oral Torah is the part that we were supposed to memorize we weren't allowed to write it until about 1500 or so years ago so one part of the oral Torah is the G so people have a difficulty since rabbis half of the oral Torah is stories of about rabbis and their life and the other half is the explanation of the different mitv different Commandments that hasem has and the different verses that we have in the tah so people that don't know much about toah or science they immediately cancel it out they say no no it was written by rabbis CU they heard somebody said that it was written by rabbis so it's not true they assume immediately that it's not true so therefore I'm not going to believe it and they don't believe that it came from God so anyone that spends a little bit of time researching the oral would see that there are things in the oral tah that could not come from man could not come from human beings one of them is the number of stars we talked about this a few months ago and we'll mention it again because we have a lot of new people today it's worth it's worth looking into the number of stars actually right there and that thing um yeah you Amish is a uh telling the story Rish is one of the sages of the uh that's key figures in the gar which his past life he used to be a gangster we told a story about him a couple of weeks ago there's more to learn from that story but anyway we'll focus on this point he says the congregation of Israel said before the Holy One blessed is he Master of the Universe ordinarily if a man marries a wife in addition to his first wife he recalls the action of the first meaning he's trying to say is that if someone has a second wife or or he divorced the first wife and he went to a different woman he still remembers the first wife you know she was still his wife even though he's not with her anymore well she's not as important as the new one he still remembers her you however have both forsaken me and forgotten me he's saying you destroyed the bet mikdash hasem you destroyed the bet mikdash so you punished us so why did you forget us why even someone that leaves his wife remembers his old wife you see that this story obviously is not literally literally where he's trying to teach us something so the Holy One so Hashem responds my daughter which he's referring to all of all of amag 12 constellations that I create in the firmament and about each and every constellation I created 30 Army commanders and about each and every Army Commander I created 30 liion and about each and every liion I created 30 Ron and about each and every Ron I created 30 Katon and about each and everyon I created 30 G and about each and every g i suspended in the firmament 365,000 of myriads of stars corresponding to the days of the soar year and all of them I created only for your sake and you say you have forsaken me and forgotten me so what is this this is AEM telling us you're saying that I forgot you I created the universe not just the world here that we see that we live in I created galaxies if you spend 2 minutes on the internet and you go type up anything relating to the universe I'll show you stars and the galaxies and I show you how tiny the globe is in comparison to the universe in comparison to everything tiny and in this universe there are many many stars a few thousand years ago people believed that there was only 800 Stars in the sky because that's all they could see with their eyes until Galileo after more some years later some people said no no there's more there's maybe a few thousand stars a few more years passed and they said a little bit more around the year 1600 so about 400 years ago a man by the name of galel got came up with an invention called telescope he told the World obviously you're all wrong there's not thousands of stars there are millions of stars you just can't see them with a naked eye but with my tool with this telescope you can see these Stars you fast forward another 400 years 1989 and more more and more technology advancements and people discover that there's a lot more stars in 1996 now NASA did a research connecting a supercomputer to a telescope to count the amount of stars in the entire universe there was another research by the Australian National University in year 2003 so about 6 years later both of them came up with similar numbers which is 7 * 10 the 22nd power the other one came up with 10 to the 21st power meaning it's a one with zeros big number infinite what we just read Hashem told us you think that I forgot you you think I forgot you but I created the world all of these with 12 Parts like the 12 uh signs that people have you know people ask you what your sign is Cancer Libra and so on it's 12 signs there 12 Parts in each part I gave 30 Part 30 uh sections and within each section I put another 30 sections and each section I put another 30 sections he gives you an exact calculation a mathematical calculation and at the end of it he says in all of these different sections that I have it's several uh 12 * 30 * 30 * 30 * 30 * 30 * 30 and at the end it says times 365,000 I'll give you the exact calculation at the end and that is the number of stars that are in the universe and all of them I created for you so you say that I forgot you so number one he's teaching us how could you say I forgot you I created everything that's in the world that you can see and can't see just for you and the second thing he's giving us a little bit of secret a secret that the Torah not just the written tah but the oral Tor the has to be from God because there's no way for men to have no such a thing why because they came up with a number very similar to The Scientist actually a little bit more precise exactly more precise which is a one 0 340 and then 12 zos after it yeah one4 one 64 so it's in essence 10 to uh the 19th power gives you the exact number of stars in the universe close enough to the where the scientists obviously are the 20th power 21st power is the 19th power bottom line is it's close enough that the scientists are coming closer and closer to us than getting far farther from us because just a few years ago they thought there's 800 Stars Then 8,000 then a few thousand then a few million so when we wrote this we didn't have calculators we didn't have the abil we didn't have numbers like we still to this day don't have numbers like this you don't use a number like this for finance there's no such number nobody has this much money or this much population or this much anything this is not a number you use in regular life so when we said this is the number 20 years ago the world laughed at us like ah see this is your mistake your Torah is uh baloney who has this this number is crazy we only see 800 Stars you're saying there's one to the 19th power how could you know and given exact number it's not a one with just zeros like the uh NASA came up with it's 1 6 4 3 40 and then a bunch of zeros it gives you an exact number so anyone that says is not real was written by rabbis should check out again is just the first of the entire page 32 you have yourself already the first pro of why why you're wrong yeah no there there's millions of proof this is just one of them there's millions of proofs but the point is that this is just one that cannot be given by man even the one that they say where um one of the Greeks one of the Greek uh one of the smartest people in Greece did a research and he said listen you Jews say you're very very smart I'm going to prove that you don't know something so he took a snake and he grew it he raised the snake to find out how long it takes for the snake to give birth took him seven years to find out it takes seven years M so he went to the Jews and he said ah do you know how long it takes a snake to give birth first guy didn't know he goes no no I don't know you should go to him and he went to the one of the big he gave him the answer right away seven years and the Greek started smashing his head against the wall for the next few hours being upset that it took him seven years to find out something you could have found out in 30 seconds because it's already in the toah so there's a lot of interesting things in the tah that when you don't know a uh it's it makes it's wakes you up to see to see some of these things um another interesting things about this para we're going to learn about it later on is also that was unique that's full of Miracles not necessarily uh a life lesson but the M anytime they did a lot of these uh sacrifices obviously if you guys ever spent two minutes in a butcher shop you'd see that there's tons of you know there's flies and bugs and so on it's it's part of life so you would think that when they're cutting and sacrificing all of these animals you know one of the things that they have to do is take the blood and put it on the m so you think that this qu instead of being full of Holiness You' be full of bugs because they're chasing him but that was also one of the Miracles there was never one bug in the bet mikdash or in the uh desert when they had this uh they had the sacrifices interesting thing about science as far as uh as far as people with science is a funny funny story but it's also a good story about life one time there was a uh Rabbi in a sun going on a plane and it was a scientist Professor hubad respectable guy and his son on the same flight so they're on a long flight they're going from Israel to America or vice vers it doesn't matter they're on a long flight so a few minutes into the flight the scientist son says ABA I'm hungry so ABA says okay don't worry tells Steward is please can you get my son food okay she gets get some the food few minutes later ABA I'm thirsty okay get some don't worry I'll get you to do ABA I'm cold okay okay I'll get you blanket he gets go get some blanket ABA this ABA that and the scientist sees the rabbi a few minutes into the flight it's the exact opposite ABA are you hungry no no I'm okay I'm okay few minutes later AB about you thirsty yeah okay okay I'll get you something kid goes to students gets a drink gives it to Aba few minutes later the kid gets up goes gets a blanket gives it to Aba again doesn't even ask him gives it to him to make sure that ABA is comfortable so the scientist can't take it anymore because I don't understand all my life I've spent going to school in colleges and teaching and learning and I have this degree and that degree and I'm a doctor in this and a doctor in that and I'm smart and I'm successful and I make this much money and I have this kind of car and you what education you have why you went to Shiva your whole life big deal but how is it that the entire flight my son is asking me every two minutes for something and I have to go get him but your son is like your servant how did you train him like that they teaches that in the toah goes no no I teach you something different goes what he goes see in my religion in my belief we all came from Adam all came from one person and each person after it is one level lower So Adam then you have Noah then you have Shem then you have abrah is yov eventually 12 tribes Moshe and then we have the sages that we have the today and each level is lower than the last one so my son knows that I am closer to the bigger people than he is he's lower than me so he gives me respect he goes okay so goes in your religion you believe in science right he goes yeah in your religion you came from a monkey so your son says that you came from a monkey and you're closer to the monkey than he is so you're lower than him and that's the problem that's the difference it's not necessarily that he thinks it's not necessarily that he thinks that our education is better is so he's showing that your education is the problem you're telling people that we came from monkeys so your son is saying you're right ABA you came from a monkey so you're closer to the monkey than me I'm a better person than you I'm more developed your grandfather was probably even closer to the monkey so he's probably even worse so we've continuously improved over time in science whereas in Torah we've gotten lowered and that's the difference that's the difference teaching that you don't think that something so small would be so significant in the way people uh live their life that's a roote Awakening that's what that's called scientists didn't like that story but realize that there's something that uh that uh has to change after that something had to change another good story about Father and Son teaches us about language um you know we talked about at the beginning we talked about how pride pride is one of the most critical problems of our current generation not just in am but everyone else people like cavod they live their entire life of kavod people's families get destroyed because of cavod oh I don't want to call him why because he didn't call me oh I'm not going to go to the wedding why you not going to come to the wedding because he didn't call me to invite me just sent me something in the mail oh I'm not going to do this because he did this everybody's constantly wants respect from everybody else and sometimes you see it in the wrong places like betet like we had a conversation we're not going to mention any names but we had a conversation with somebody just uh days ago that had a problem with somebody else in the besset young boy that has a mental deficiency like he's has a mental deficiency okay he has a medical deficiency he has something called Down syndrome ah this morning down okay so the kid has a mental disorder it's not they don't think he he does you see but he's a great kid very cute kid UNT for somebody has a problem with him he doesn't like him he bothers him the kid's not stable for him he walks around instead of sitting down kid has a mental deficiency he's obviously not going to be like everybody else but he's a very I personally like the kid I like him a lot I think he's great you spent five minutes with him you love the kid but anyway this one guy has a problem with him so we talked about it I'm not going to talk about the whole conversation but the point of what I'm trying to say is that I told him listen you sit very close to where his father sits so obviously you're going to see a lot of him because he wants to go to see his father so you should do to solve this problem is go to a different seat solve the problem he's not going to come to your seat no I'm sitting in the seat 18 years I'm not going to move completely wrong I'm sitting in this seat 18 years I'm not going to change he has to change so you see what we're talking about here he expects somewhat with the mental deficiency to change before he lowers his pride and changes a seat from one seat to that's one that's 10 meters away that's how bad cavod is that's how bad Pride can get to we talked about the this this is the first time somebody told him the truth everybody Al always appeases him and I don't necessarily like to please people just because they like so the point I'm trying to make here is that people's Pride is very important to them they live their entire life trying to get people to respect them and one of the things that people do is they talk in a certain way and they expect people to just comply with whatever they say meaning they could talk to you and whatever they way they want but you can't talk to them in the way they want the way they want and you can see that in a lot of companies any boss that runs a company something happens he starts yelling at the people not every boss but a lot of bosses do whether it's store owner company owner somebody screwed up they mailed something to the wrong address they made a bad sale something happened there's a mistake that's made it's a human error immediately you see somebody starts yelling yelling yelling yelling screaming at the guy embarrassing him or the girl embarrassing them which is a different problem with theem but that's a different story and yelling yelling yelling but if the guy starts yelling back if the employee starts yelling back you're fired if you don't yell back just sit there and take it okay it's over he finished yelling you go back to your job and that's it but if you yell back or you even answer in a certain way way that he doesn't like you're fired but as long as you don't answer you keep your job just continue listening to my yelling forever what what's the what's the source of that problem Pride one person made a mistake that's a human error people make mistakes if you run a business for five minutes people are going to make mistakes we ran a very big company we know people make mistakes that's a problem it happens whether you're going to survive or not as a business is going to be determined on whether how you deal with your mistakes because the mistakes will happen mistakes will happen in every business how you deal with those mistakes will determine if you survive or not so if you're one of those bosses that yells at people and complains and yells and complains and yells and embarrasses them and everything else I guarantee from experience and from knowledge that I have you are guaranteed to fail guaranteed whether it's one year two years years 5 years 10 years eventually you will always fail Family fail everything in general car someone that has that type of attitude is guaranteed to fail and whatever that they're doing because eventually the time will come where the people around you will be repulsed by you meaning they'll be disgusted by you and they will not want to take it anymore and no one will be want to be around you including the customers so whether you succeed or fail is based on whether you decide to change or not so you say okay I'm not going to yell fine but I can talk to them in a certain way what's the big deal if I say something if I curse them but I don't yell it so there's a nice story about how speech how talking just talking just the way you talk something same words different tone change everything there's a story about a father and a son father's sends his son to school and he says son whatever you want just write me a letter and I don't know how to read but I'll have the neighbor read it for me and I'll send it to you thank you ABA I appreciate it I love you ABA it's my favorite son I love my son great he sends the son away the son after a couple of months he writes a letter sends it to the the guy sends it to his father the father doesn't know how to read so he gives it to his neighbor neighbor says says oh ABA I need money please send me $200 ah my son I love my son yeah of course I'm going to send him $200 he takes money out of his pocket he tells his neighbor please send it for me send it to him another couple of months pass he says ABA I need pant he sent a letter so the neighbor that day she not in a good mood goes ah you again he goes yeah yeah can you read this it's only a short letter can you read it for me he goes AB I need pants goes my son talking to me like this what happened to him no I'm not going to answer him so a month passes the kid didn't get the pens he sends it to the father again another letter how about I need pens the father comes he goes my son can you please read it for me the guy is also again in a bad mood I need Pence go because my son has developed him attitude they're ruining him over there in his school another month passes send him send him the letter same letter this time the neighbor's in a good mood goes oh hey buddy how are you he goes yeah I have a letter again for my son I don't know what's wrong with him but he sent me this letter so no he says he just needs p goes ah there goes my boy I love my son of course I'm going to send him pants he wrote the same thing three times the only difference is was the tone because he didn't know how to read the other guy was angry the first two times and that anger came out in his voice the same thing with us it applies to our life if you want to develop positive relationships whether it's with your wife with your kids with your employees with your partners with your customers it all has to do with how you talk to them it's not necessarily the words that you say but how you say them if I was yelling at you guys the entire time it's very unlikely that you would return but if you talk in a certain way and you educate in a certain way and you connect in a certain way you can stay not only interested alert you're most likely to come back at least I'll make some more humus and you definitely come back for that but the key that we need to learn from this par is that mhu we said it in the beginning I'll repeat it again because some of you guys came a little later mhu the most important figure in history was mentioned in every single par from the beginning of the of shot until the end of the Torah this is the only par that he was not mentioned not only because of next week's par where hasem said if you're not going to forgive them take my name off but also because this week happens to be the same week that is his Asar that is the day he was born and he died and he wanted to say to us that one of the most important characteristics of a human being to connect to Hashem is to be humble to be to have humility and on the day that people usually want the world to remember them I don't want you to think about me I want you to think just about hem just about hem and his MIT and that's the that's the significance of the people in the T that's whyu was so we learn enough about this that gets us closer to hm just a little bit more we uh we get closer to hem we celebrate hem and all we live for is thank you very much