Rabbi Eliyahu Maksumov - Prosecuting Angels (Audio)

I want to share with you a story the true story I made it up yesterday I'm kidding the story is actually located in the Gemara kaduche in da flama Dolloff it brings down a story of a man by the name of dhamma Benin Tina from Ashkelon who was this man Brahma Avinash Bennett Tina from masculine you can what I explains that if you want to know the classic example of what it means to respect your father and to bring honor to your to your mother this is the man because what he thought what he did is is succeeds any any other story in history of anybody who ever expected the parents now this is a very strong statement to make because we see many stories throughout the Gemara where people respected their parents to exceeding amount friends gråvik who have a story tomorrow where mother came to our to our son she took his wallet and she threw her into into the waters and he wasn't able to retrieve it and yet he continued to respect his mother and contains respected the way he did before she even did this man we have another story another place nickimja now that tells us of a mother who came to her her son while he was given class in front of hundreds of students and she slapped him across the face you spit at him and he took her hands and he kissed it I kissed her hands in front of everybody and if you want to go to the extreme case there's a story of a mother who who took glass and she would you know slam troll against the good floor and it was shattered and she would walk on top of the glass now what her son did out of respect for his mother was he put his hands under her feet just told that she doesn't get caught as she's walking obviously this was on a healthy woman but it just shows what extent becomes what could be a no longer but gimana is going out of its way to show us all these stories and then it says if you want to know a real case of somebody who respected their mother or her father this is the case so let's hear the case what exactly did this guy do that beats all these other cases the human heart tells us that in the during the times of the Potomac - one of the items that was missing in the Potomac - was a certain gem that was the part of the ocean the breastplate of the client Coronado and they heard of a man who lives in Ashkelon the city of Ashkelon possess this who who had this gem and they found his house they found his address they knocked on his door he came out and asked them we know that you have the gem can you give it to us we're willing to give you an exuberant amount of money for your gem the fellow said I'm not giving it to you they said we're gonna give you 10,000 20,000 30,000 until they went up so high they said we're gonna give you sixty thousand golden coins and some even say you weren't they went up to eighty thousand golden coins the fellow said I'm not giving it to you no matter how much money you're willing to give me because the gem is inside a vault and the key to the vault is under my father's pillow and I cannot disturb my father's sleep so the rabbi's right away backed up and they said wow this guy this guy is this plastic case well look at is how much money is willing to forego for this amount of for for for the for the honor of his father yeah just not to disturb his sleep now when this story took place there's prosecuting angels to mind if he does says when this story took place many times in heaven by the way when the Jew the Jews are always compared to the other nations God always compares us he always expects us to rise above the occasion we're supposed to be light on to other nations whenever he sees there's something something wrong with us that something's let were less were lacking than them right away the prosecuting angels get up and they start talking against us so what did one time the governor says the prosecuting angels came to God and I said you see by the Christians they go to church not one peep everyone's quiet everyone has so much respect so much on their to the to the temple and then you look at the Jews when they go to shul when they go to synagogue everyone's talking people are grabbing coffee people grabbing tea what kind of honor for something so real this is how they're treating and it's something so fake with how much respect there there there they're showing right away the defending angels get up and they say you know what they have a point but we have something better because you're right how often do the Christians go to their church once a week we go to show three times a day all right eventually the shul becomes integral becomes our home so it's very hard to you know to stop talking to stop to grab a coffee here and there there's not a store another another place we see where the the prosecuting Angels got up they said you see by the each of my 18 by the Arabs they perform a brit milah concision at the age of 13 and we perform it at 8 days old so they say look how much stuff sacrificed they're willing to go just to to go ahead and perform this Mitzvah just to go ahead and sort of serve God such an extent but the Jew you know nobody asked the baby nobody asked for anybody any questions they just take the baby and they right away perform the breathing I want 2 1 2 3 hey they put some you know wine move it some grape juice into his mouth he falls asleep he doesn't anything about it so the defending angels say you're right but you know how many times in history the Jews are willing to sacrifice everything for this Mitzvah just a story that comes to mind the Holocaust our lady she was hiding her child she gave birth she didn't want anyone to know about it and one and one morning the Nazis came into the barracks earlier than usual and they came up to it I heard a crying baby they came up to her and says because you didn't tell us about this baby we're gonna kill in front of you she started screaming someone gives me a knife someone give me a knife and then one of the rabbis who was one of our inmates turned to her turn to the people around and said she's gone mad nobody give her a knife only one person approached roller knife that was a Nazi himself said you want a knife here we go she took the knife from underneath she performed the circumcision in front of everybody and her child she said you want the baby here you go because this is the extent we're willing to go for such a mitzvah we'll never see such self-sacrifice about the other nations but when this story took place defending a the defending angels had nothing to say the prosecuting angel said look at this this guy performs such a great mitzvah such a great act of forego so much money for a respect of his parents do we see this case the in fact the gay man I couldn't find one other case like this by the Jews by the Jews so right away the fighting angels I longed to say to that God said I'll take care of this the story goes exactly a year later to this fellow was born the para Duma the red heifer and the rabbi's this guy was like a Judaica store he had everything the rabbi's heard he had it they came to him is that ok we need this I don't know when they approached him and they told him we want the red heifer what did they tell him he told him I want the mine listen to it carefully he told them I want the money that I last from the year before for respecting my father oh right away when he said these words there are defending idols had what to use against them and to show and to bring it cast the light onto the tool the Jewish people think about it what did he say he said give me back the money that I lost meaning he regrets what he did we do mitzvoth on a constant basis for us it's not a loss we do mitzvot were proud of it we know that we even if we last money as a result of it even if in the end something went wrong we know that I did a fresh lamb I did the right thing now see another rabbi came there's 70 interpretations how we could interpret to say that we're better than as more special than the going as great as they are therefore the gimana is not coming to praise the guy it's coming to praise us if you don't if you don't get mad enough you know that if there's an example to be brought up a positive example it would always use a Jew as an example now what did he say give me the back the money that I lost from the year before a Yom Kippur we say the sins that we forget God remembers and the rabbi's learned from here that the sins that we forget yeah God remembers because rather year will do many sins John Q Cooper comes we forgot the sins but God says I remember I'm gonna hold it against you but then again God says the sins that you remember I forget because as long as you remember this since then that means you have hope that means you're gonna do teshuva you can repent you know there's something wrong and the rabbi say the same works vice versa the same works by the mitzvoth the mitzvoth that we forget God says I remember I'm never gonna forget the good deeds that you do and then God says the mitzvot that you remember I forget why are you bragging the midsole you came to this world for this purpose if you're still bragging a year later that you did to perform this mitzvah this guy obviously he did this Mitzvah for honor he wanted his name to be you know broadcasted to be on the together to be given a Nobel Prize for it probably got it made sure he got himself on New York thanks for it I respected my father and he's still bragging about it a whole year later that just shows how often he doesn't Mitzvah we do a mitzvah constantly and therefore we're better and more spiritual than this fellow and last but not least what usually God works measured for measure if God gave him the red heifer it must be what usually God he did something good so guys gonna reward him because something has to do with the good that he did here why did I shall give him as a reward the the peridot mom I once saw a beautiful explanation and understanding goes like this that God is showing the prosecuting Angels you see this guy he was willing to forego so much money for mitzvot that he understands you see the the fact that I respected her that's something logical your parents gave you life in this world you got to do it but the fact that week went ahead and we're willing to go and lose so much and so much money for a mitzvah that we do not understand that shows that we're much more better than this guy and therefore the game mana is not coming to tow to tell us that you know this guy is better than the Jews we could have found a better example from the Jews but rather show as great as they are we're much better than last but at least I want to show you just last point if you pay attention never more what else says pay attention to the guy's name you see everything is in a person's name you want to know something about somebody look into their name the guy's name was dama been Athena from Ashkelon you know what the word Dharma means the me hey BOM you ever hear the words inside the game aha I mean that man means obligation whenever is the case and I say he's obligated to pray they say de Mai de me hey Bom is he's obligated his word the name of the name means obligation been a teen and Athena comes to Burnet on that time means to give what does that mean he gives out of what obligatory for him what's an obligation and then that means we're ready you see so much about him his personality just from his name itself I mean you could already going through his whole life and you can learn all these personalities about him but just up in his name you could really know he only does what's logical to him what makes sense was an obligation and finally where is he from from Ashkelon Ashkelon comes from the words Chekhov shakaal means to take meaning he only does what's an obligation for him because he's taking what he's taking on their prestige he wants respect and therefore just from his name we could we could already tell what this guy is all about I once saw that the reason the Jews why we put these women on the shell yeah on the hand first and then I'm the head is because the hand represents action first you got to do and then you'll understand we do things that doesn't necessarily make sense to us because we understand there are essential for her sides you know why the Jews according to Saturday and the go according to Sunday because Saturday is the last day of the week sunday is the first day of the week I'm showing Sunday and therefore we wait we wait till the end result we have patient even if we don't understand something we observe we keep it and we understand that just like they're saying seeing is believing believing is seeing right now we don't we're going to believe adventure we're gonna see and therefore they don't have patience they have to have the results right now therefore their days Sunday last I want I want to bring out is we say Copa note it says ankle okay no in Catalina I'm sure you heard the song and then after we're saying ankle okay know who's there's no one like you god there's no one like who's out there there's no one like our master there's no more like a king we say Michael okay know who is our God who is our king the order is reversed you should first ask the question and then answer it here we first entering and we're saying there's no more like God there's no one like a king and then we say who's our king who's God you know why we first answer and then we ask because that's what you do is all about first accept first accept God is a sham everything and then you can start asking questions once you accept and then everything is gonna start making sense to you and then the pulses are gonna come together there and then finally when the ultimate day of Michele will come we're gonna start realizing that everything all along didn't make sense and we just have to subscribe our logic some thank you for listening [Applause] you