Rabbi Mordechai Kraft - Megilat Rut

[Music] you know i'm just saying that um you know the one i want to look at the book of rus the book of russ for me i think you know the fact that our sages was to read this on on it must mean that it contains almost the seed of what force is all about and you think about it chavos is a hard young in some ways to plug into and the reason why is because there are really no mitzvoth am i correct for that what what miso did we have on show us well learning learning that's a minute that's true that's just that's a custom um see your tubby cheesecake is he's gonna say cheesecake i heard him yeah i was thinking izzy was thinking you were thinking cheesecake i know that that's only because i made one and it was delicious send it over through the zoo you know i i've heard some rabbis say that um shibuyas doesn't have a physical representation in that you know hanukkah has a menorah and sukis has a sukkah but shibuyas is more cerebral yes it is deeply cerebral you know and there's nothing to do no i'm not very serious you have to come in off pesach where we were like in you know we're we're saturated with this folk our circus where we're you know we're so busy sitting in the circuit dwelling in them and and and you know hanukkah we have we do something pesach we have simple the only bits with your right side but it is one of the the shalom right there was a time like the other three regardless we would come to you and we bring the current true there's mr kurum which is associated with civil wars you know and it really is the yacht of in in the torah is called weeks you know it's called shadow what weeks it's not even given a name as martin teresa we define it when we dive and we says the time they're giving the torah but that's what the turtle calls it torah calls the combination of the weeks now we we understand that the turtle was get that that was also the date of harshini so that's that's part of it but that's sort of a you know okay we get that you know and and therefore it's it it behooves us to to learn tara as arlene saying with antara and to stay up all night apparently clients will want to sleep the night before and we have to sort of be socking that we have to fix that by staying up on that and learning but there isn't anything specific to do you know and and so we learn we have it we eat we talk about torah we talk about bringing the first fruits you know we see we understand this is the purpose of going out of egypt the purpose of the egypt has to be more than just you know just to be free purpose has to be spirit to elevate us to be free spiritually and only through the torah do we have that freedom you know as it says the word when ten commandments are written on the stone means engraved on the stone sun turkey however it says altic with horus the word means engraved and the stone is the same three letters as which means freedom so free freedom oh rose are good welcome so freedom is really you know when you the fact that we have torah now something's great in the stone now we have real freedom that's freedom from the sahara freedom from uh being a slave to our bodies having the ability to overcome things that really enslave us in the world false ideas false ideology physicality so you know there's all those concepts which as george rightfully said are very cerebral you know and we kind of do a little bit of mental acrobatics not not that good tortionists are they going to say right doesn't take real catharsis doesn't it don't think it's a good word it doesn't require contortionism to to get there but it takes a little bit of of of of of mental work you know to define well what are we trying to achieve here freedom we're trying to achieve purpose george yeah hi about maybe 30 years ago i was at a schwarz tycoon with uh uh reb kalbach and he said during the ticoon the gates are open and that this is a very opportune time for divine requests yeah yeah i agree with you it's um there's no question it's it's an enormously elevated spiritual moment you know yeah and it's it's it's the giving of torah you know there's something this this is national revelation that you know there's nothing ever like this in history which was god appeared to mankind and not just to one person he appeared to the entire nation which is the jewish claim they're called national revolution national revelation so you know this this is certainly something to celebrate and and you know again when we cycle there spiritually we're not just arriving at the date we're right arriving at that spiritual moment when tara was given so if that is the moment when god opens up shamayim and reveals himself as george is so aptly pointing out imagine what type of opportunity that is for connection you know and divine request and and and showing hashem what our commitment is and how much we love his torah and what we want to become and how much aid we need from him to make it happen you know there's there's you know no question it's it's all that come together but you know where i wanted to kind of focus a little bit the question is you know so amidst all this our rabbis have a sit down and they have us examine the seyfaros yeah and somehow sephiroth seems to be almost like the you know what's it doing here what's it doing on chulos at the same time i feel it is a rabbis a lot wants to relaunch for us because it defines for us the whole really meaning and purpose of what the object was supposed to be about and it's really that idea i wanted to explore a little bit today you know this this morning that that there's something in the book of schwarz for me personally so i that's what i felt i was able to to connect in to the octave through the book of russ as this this yeah for somehow that was where i was there was no shul you know we were able to hear the ten commandments being read we weren't able to to uh to stay up all night together learning like we do all the time you know it's very difficult when you're by yourself you know it's you know it's hard i wasn't really a person wasn't able to do so what did you do did you learn with your son we tried a little bit you know but then it's late it gets timer gets tired everybody can you know when you're home you want to go to sleep right you get more tired very hard and it's tits three in the morning and like oh okay you know we have the energy we feel it through each other's energy you know and we do this we push through we want to double shot this in an hour so let's you know keep going right you know so when you know you're going to die at home you don't really have that so again that i was working my so my personal vote of this force which you know i found challenging a little bit was to find a way in which you know you know how can i connect internally to what's happening when i really don't have the external help that i'm used to you know whether it be the synagogue the shul the darwining the you know the the the friendship and of staying up all night together you know so how do you so it really struck me that the book of rus is coming to talk to us in that sentence it's helping us to relate and define this yanta and not just to find the answer it's a yanta which the torah itself is very vague about the toe's vague you know george you you said the word cerebral it's a very cerebral the torah is not really telling us what to do there's no mitzvah except if we had a temple we would have show government you're right we would go up to the casper and that would be enormously elevating you know we we we have one positive commandment to the torah which is simko we have to have simcoe we know we have to have sudos meals to celebrate it but what are we supposed to do there's no seder there's no sukkot there's no what's what's supposed to be the feeling the experience and not only that you know the torah doesn't even say it's not in torah saying there's not nothing to say very fascinatingly by the way there's a beautiful uh there's a maraud marley prague which says the torah purposely leaves out the fact that this is the giving of the torah it's alluded to it's hinted to but doesn't say it directly and you know why it's for a fascinating reason does everybody know one of the reasons why it doesn't say it directly so it doesn't say it we know it is but it doesn't say it is it by another reason i can offer a reason why doesn't torres say it starts and maybe we'll we'll explore maybe maybe an additional reason today says something very interesting prague says because it's a yoke the torah is an obligation and it's very difficult to celebrate obligations now even though we understand that without obligation there is no movement in this world there's no growth in fact the word for celebrating true but what does the father say the bar mitzvah that i am no longer responsible for the sins of this boy the father says i no longer have the responsibility he sees he makes a rock on that the boy doesn't make a break on the responsibilities taken we celebrate his now his ability to to become we're really celebrating his visual and shabbat what happens in the shum is completed on the 13th year of a boy's life and for girl 12. now we're celebrating this opportunity but with that opportunity comes obligation now you know it's interesting the word the word for yoke in hebrew you know in english what is the word yok mean yoke is a you know a yoke is something you put on an ox and you take that two thousand pounds of of your energy and you're able to utilize that raw energy for something productive that's a yoke a yolk you put that on the ox and the axe pulls the plow without the yoke the ox is just pure energy without direction it's wasted energy so what is the word yokin how do you say yoke in hebrew the way okay hebrew is all i am can anybody tell me another root that another hebrew word that shares the same root as ayan hola to go up to ascend el al means to the al to the sky all for yok means to go up like the word you get so what's the purpose of a yoke is to take potential and bring it upward isn't that beautiful that's a yoke that's an old that's really what in all it's all about the torah isn't all it's a yoke no question it takes our potential it takes what we have inside ourselves and directs it and channels it so we should be able to create a human being which is at its highest level comparable to take out sullivan or divine image combine it together with his body and then produce a being which is greater than the angels that's the purpose of turtle but at the same time it's responsibility defense's responsibility god doesn't want us to to feel overwhelmed by it we know it's good and you have to make that connection to get there but hashem doesn't want to be just overwhelmed by this and therefore the purpose of the vowel says leaves doesn't write explicitly in the torah but this is manto found nothing to say you hear that very fascinating the yoke of you know it's such a negative word in english isn't it yolk you know who wants a yolk you want a yolk on your back there's another meaning too but it might be colloquial oh what does that mean uh he yoked him and then he robbed him he yoked him uh-huh means like you strangled him like yeah something yes yeah i thought about you grabbed him like you know yeah because yo that's what it does it grabs you and holds you and then controls you it controls the ox right but without controlling that massive amount of power the ox's energy wouldn't be valuable it would just be running around the fields two thousand pounds of productive energy so yeah so that's the vision that's that's that's what terry's supposed to produce but the torah leaves it out and leaves out for that reason that the maharani crux says a very fascinating thing hashem is concerned about us hashem is concerned about us he's always interested in in our in our emotional relationship to something don't be overwhelmed by it i'm not gonna write it explicitly work together to understand how good it is it's gonna elevate you but you're right it comes with responsibility and those responsibilities are good but it's difficult sometimes to make to to celebrate responsibility so therefore it's hinted to it's alluded to and you have to almost come to that recognition on your own to say yes they know and i'm willing to take this on you know i'm willing to embrace the responsibility of it all okay so so you know let's just let's so i think that i think therefore our sages gave us or asked that we read the book of rose because the book of rose is really good to find the anti-force again who wrote the book of verses and and when you read the book of rose there's no mention really of of shavuos is there i mean i granted it it's the harvest time you know which is the harvest time which precedes uh the the harvest of the current spring harvest which leads to to the first fruits which is all bad for us it's true it's true that that rose is the great grandmother of whom that's true so there's an aspect of of kingship there um you know what what i guess it's true what else about the book of russia just sort of of are sort of obvious from i don't know it's about it's it's a book about tested no question especially in fact our sages say that yeah george uh the fact that ruth uh was a righteous convert uh originally a midianite and um more more more more bite yeah and um yeah correct she gave the throne so there's accidental conversion you know and so maybe you'll argue well conversion you know really when we accept the total we're really kind of almost becoming converts in some way to a you know a lifestyle new life and but but conversion okay it's beautiful she's from moab a nation which descended from low to the most you know and she was actually more of as a function of an ancestral relationship so from that comes the great grandmother of david who's going to be the who is the the direct lineage of so we do see hashem operating in the world even in from darkness comes light you know from areas where we think there's no kadusha there's going to be kaducha again you know she's the child of law of the lotus her father luke who thought the world would have been destroyed and his daughter and they produced a child he called mo averages from my father she's a descendant of love from this nation of moab which was born from incest you know but but she did convert in this extraordinarily righteous conversion and and it's and she's a paradigm of hesit she's a paradigm of of of kindness she's um that's what it says the gemara says the miners says it says we know that any hell of us you know it's true we learned actually learned helpless conversion from us a lot that we have to know about canberra we learn from the statements that naomi says to russ that's true the governor talks about that but there's nothing about the through i said nothing about tomb of a torah nothing about you know um purity or impurity or israel or things like us or permitted or there's nothing no halachos you learn really except the virgin which is big but it's there what about her marriage later in the story and whether that he was not that she was not uh always was not the first in line to uh to marry her and that uh some really kalitsa but yeah yeah so churchill you're creating more confusion i bet i was gonna say it also you know it's you know again like listeners should have thought that you know we do learn some a lot well what do we see the understood stories about what's the story really about the story is about ultimately um a yeebo type marriage you know a hebrew type which isn't really evil it's it's again it's a marriage between between boaz and um you know it's a it's it's about it's a marriage between i just muted everybody that's okay just give it to that some background noise i think you could if you talk you just unmute correct does it work if you're on mute george just unmute for a sec i'm so it it you know again there's a hebrew relationship what happens at the end what's the climb what's the story you're watching in the story you know the story is about these these these about someone named who was one of the great judges of israel and there's a famine land of israel and because the famine he leaves eretz israel with his two sons macklin with killian and his wife naomi and they go to moab and within the course of 10 years he dies apparently because did the wrong thing shouldn't have left the land although he had righteous motivation he kind of felt that that maybe you know he couldn't fulfill his task of in the land of israel and it's hard to know what's motivation was he was a very great man within those 10 years his what happens was so the dawn of the princesses of moab whose name were rused root and orpah they married the two sons macmillan killian again now there's a whole question of the marriage there you know was it intermarriage arlene you're going to be upset by this right this is i know you're yeah so but she's perverted when she was married to um what was his name the one who died okay so there's a whole question about that conversion according to the zora khadas so khadash is part of the zohar and but more based on dharma russian which is a little more halal in essence so it says that there was a conversion but um but there was a question well you know there's always a taint on it because was it for marriage or not so there was a need for a re-commitment and that recommit did you get the idea there was a conversion well it seems it seems that that that there's an idea that there there must have been a conversion that you're very great men not going to kill young and you know and and just to say they're going to take the daughters of the princesses of moab with their granddaughters red blonde background's up there but that is a version it seems like that would be not possible that it seems like there was a conversion and i think the round bomb seems to hint to that also there was a conversion but it needed like a reaffirmation or maybe you want us to if you could even marry someone from moab there's a whole debate back can you marry can the jews marry anybody from allah they could not you compare the women that was that was not the man but knowing that they came from an incestuous relation how many generations well it wasn't it wasn't the incestuality that that god forbade the men from it was the fact that when we were in the midbar we passed their territory and they wouldn't come out to give us bread and water but but the the the incestuous relationship but that was before the torah was given was it still forbidden i believe noah forbids that okay so we already had that then in the world so it but the reason that we've that hashem forbade the men and for its marriage tomorrow because when we passed their territory they refused to give us bread and water and that type of cruelty was indicative of of a trait which was so in opposition to what god wants the jewish nation to be uh okay but it says the women did apparently wanted to go out to get bread and water but the men stopped oh interesting okay so it didn't affect the women affected men but at the time of russ the servant was that was either forgotten or unclear and that's when david was born two generations later because david we know it says was the great grandson because bruce had with boaz had over and then dubbed which is the end of the book so dove is the great grandson there was a whole question about david's ability to be king because maybe he was vermont you know so he was challenged so it says the basin of schmuel and had to have to posk and say no there was always the lawful was the women are allowed but the men are not so there's a whole question lineage and in fact even his father was concerned for that and yeshua wanted to have a child that wasn't tainted with the uh with the brush of moab and there's a whole question of how david was born that is he is remember the story we did it together one time uh nietzsche the seventh was the mother of david her name was yeah so she yeshi was a very great man and he felt that there might be a taint the fact that he's from morph and he doesn't want to uh you know he wants a child who's going to be pure of that of that of that you know of anything so he decides to divorce his wife and he's going to have a child with his maidservant and then what he's going to do he's going to free them and by freeing them to become jewish and as being jews are like completely born anew without any taint from the past completely converted completely born in the new and therefore seed will have a descendant who is totally freed from the the brush of moi but what happens was his maid servant was very righteous and she tells the seventh about it and so there's the old switcheroo the famous old switcheroo another one another special rule and but ishai doesn't even know that you know the real modesty of the moment these people didn't even know who know that it was actually his real life and so that's when he said it conceives and therefore no that was shocked by because everyone thought that that uh deesha had divorced her and all of a sudden she is with a child so they assume that that the child must be a monster must be born you know out of an illicit relationship not that she divorced that yet separated from her so she was still a married woman but everyone knew that nisha had separated from herself who was this child it must be she had an illicit relationship in there for the child and that's when david was born they mocked him and said that he was moms there and they separated from him and put him out of the field and then they and david talks about it to hillary how he you know how he just you know have that just what despair he was in but of course what happens was is that uh you know when he's appointed to be the melech it's revealed that it was really from the seventh and her righteousness of it really was and you know but but the the fact that that even nisha wanted to produce a child who was freed of the taint of no more means it wasn't clear if if one was even allowed to marry into mauve or not but the big thing of paul paskett had said it applies only to the men and not the women therefore rose marriage to boss was totally legitimate was totally fine you know and of course david is is absolutely there's no tank them off so again what happens in the story the story is really about this woman ross whose husband dies his name is matlon and now naomi wants to go back to the land of israel naomi have been a very right a very rich woman wants to return to a place where she's going to you know in poverty she goes back to basel people look at her and says that not only and she says don't call me the homie call me maro now maybe he's pleasant this but now my life is so bitter you know mara has been treating me with bitterness with with harshness and then so lewis has to resort to to gathering the luck it like it is what falls behind behind the thresher when he's when he's harvesting his field and as a jew we're not allowed to take the record we have to leave it for the poor the russ goes to the field and she has to pick up lucky but that's the that's where she was spirit that's what she was you know economically and boaz who is the judge of the generation his name was iphone boss he notices her and sees in her extraordinary acts of righteousness sees her modesty i sees her honesty talk about it in a moment and then naomi says you know he's actually a relative of ours how is he related he is not well it's a very interesting relationship he's not always um he is naomi's first cousin naomi actually no means he's ali malek's nephew and he's naomi's first cousin ali malek was actually the son according to something is the son of nakshon nakshon ben amin who was the one who dropped into the amstel from the red sea interesting that was elimelech's father and ellie melech's brother i think the brother had a daughter and that was paulie almo had a daughter which was he married his niece and boss was the son of another brother of of um of valley milk so naomi and boys were first cousins so he um she now he says to ross you know maybe he could be your redeemer it wasn't a redeemer deemer is interesting that we know in the torah that every tribe was given in a land a portion in eretz israel that's supposed to remain the family and if you have to sell it because of poverty it's a mix of one of the other relatives to redeem it to to bring it back so you know that's ruse has this idea that may i mean nobody has a good maybe bowlers will be that redeemer nobody also has an idea that maybe boss will marry you why should boss marry russ what does that do with anything so we know there's a mixture of the torah about evil as george was pointing out and and evil in his classical sense is a commandment that says that there are two brothers and one brother dies it's a mitzvah on the other brother to marry the wife and have children that only means that there are no children there's no neither boy nor girl it's a midst of to establish the name of your brother so again if a brother dies childless it's a miss for one of the other brothers to marry his wife and what's called an evil micro evil relationship marriage in order to build the family back up to rebuild the scene that was destroyed now that's the torah talks about as that between brothers you know that's between that's between brothers boss is the brother of uh of nakalong you know bros is a first cousin of naomi macleon's mother like what's that all about so the rebound says something very interesting but ivan says that in khlai's world there was all we we had a tradition that although really the torah talks about evil between two brothers for another relative to step in and say i'm gonna choose to kind of rebuild your family with you that was also considered to be a very meritorious act or something which was done therefore it's similar to evil it's not evil actually but it's it's similar to evil that same responsibility to say i'm going to take that role and say you know you don't have a husband his name is going to be lost there's no seed from him let's see if we can bring him back into the world through this marriage so to speak in fact it says quote in the czar by the way the rebound says that the product of that relationship is the dead husband he comes back in a different body that's the czar it's a guilt reincarnation that's what the brother is if the brother is married to somebody else does he also have to marry the yes he could he could yeah he could does he have to though if he's married he he has the mitchell the mitzvah she said like this the mitzvah of human falls upon him however he could break it with something called khalitza right all right but he's gonna break it if he's he's single he could break it if he doesn't like it he could break it for any reason yeah you don't right you don't have in fact today we don't do it we haven't done it in a thousand years but it's it's uh you know yeah because you know the reason there's an actual ritual yeah yeah we laces up the boot and uh spits on the floor right she she takes off his shoe khalissa means removal she's not allowed she has to remove his shoe and she fits by it and makes a declaration that says this man does not want to build the house of his brother that breaks that bond the torah already put in place which attached so to speak the the brother-in-law together that bond needs to be broken once that bond is broken by the way it's forbidden for him to marry her ever in fact it's forbidden in the territory to marry if a brother divorces a wife she she retains the status it's called the brother's wife and that's a forbidden relationship so the only time the relationship is permitted between a sister-in-law and brother-in-law in that context the brother's wife is if he dies childless and then it's amidst a mitzvah steps in says you have to step in and and build this house now if you don't want to do it it has to be broken through khalifa which then allows her to be mutually shocked that she wants to marry but it has to be broken that that and that's done today i know if a friend of mine his brother unfortunately never passed away childless um and he had to do politically with his sister it is that he's done today it's all special ceremonies george's george is saying it's interesting by the way what's that ceremony all about you know everything is very some everything happens the idea of a shoe what's the idea of a shoe the idea of a shoe is that a shoe is to the bod is the foot what the body is to the soul the shoe is to the foot what the body is to the soul what does that mean just like the body shooting just like the soul requires a body in order to allow the soul to ambulate to walk in this world the human foot is very tender the human foot requires a covering in order to make connection with planet earth just like the soul requires a body to make connection with let's use the star trek term right because i start planet earth or whatever that is so what it means to take off his shoe is always the idea of removing the body that's why a mourner takes off his or her because the mourner is saying to the deceased just like you know i have a body i i empathize with your pain that you lost that body i'm going to remove my shoe to symbolize my taking off my body that's why that's why mourinho does it that's why we uh that's why person that's why it says you know it's the kohanim would take off their shoes when they serve to the baton english they want to step out of their bodies so to speak you know just just something very interesting if you go to poland you know i take all those trips to poland so we always go to maddenic and auschwitz and one of the most moving shocking i should say exhibits is the shoes especially in maddenic because they're not an ashes to under glass you know the museum in maddenic which is just outside lublin the shoes just piled there about 30 000 pairs of shoes and there was a time when you did i remember five years ago you could just touch them now you can't do that either but a barrier people were stealing them or touching their nose but to see 30 000 pairs of shoes you know that belonged to you know 30 000 people but there's this whole idea that the germans took our shoes you know like what did they what do we want our shoes for you know they have to give us these these wooden clogs to wear like can they wear those for our shoes like you know this is part of the torture but but there's there's something very fascinating there's something very interesting that that you know one of the reasons why moshe bengal was told to step out of his shoe when he encountered god at the burning bush is god says to him if you want to understand me if you want to understand this experience you're going to have to disconnect from your body you're going to have to have a perspective which is from the soul otherwise you're not going to stand people there's a god staying emotion at the burning bush take off your shoes so some made a very beautiful observation in poland a friend of mine who was one of our our leaders he said you know maybe hashem was saying to kleisfeld if you want to understand this you can't look at it from the point of view of the body but you're not gonna get it if you understand this you gotta take off your shoulder you gotta step out of your body and start looking at it only from a spiritual perspective that there's a creator that he has a plan there's a purpose there's another world there's something that you can't understand right now because you only see it from the point of view of your body but you can't understand a deeper essence if you want to relate to this and find comfort you have to be willing to go above your body otherwise you're going to be broken i think a very fascinating insect you know the germans took our shoes like what is that god but what do you why they have to take our shoes so that they're origami says god says the motion if you want to relate to this you got to take off your shoe you have to step out of your body is that like that i thought it was very interesting inside so it's it's the idea of is the same thing what happens is this is a man who says look well i for every reason i'm not going to marry her so he she kind of removes his shoe she spits the word for spit in hebrew is is uh is rook same people word is rake which means empty and she says you want to leave so to speak the body of your brother empty you don't want an opportunity for your brother to come back into this world and to rebuild that's what's breaking in so really is the aspect of building the brother bringing the brother back and that's why the rebound says according tsar that the child born from that relationship from from the brother and the ex-wife so the soulmate so to speak and the brother they're capable of producing a a child which is the neshama the soul of the dead brother we bring it back and that's why by the way and the story arose welcome by the end of the story it says when the omni has over when when when gives birth to ovaid so what does everybody say all the neighbors say a child was born to naomi nami no which i was brought to her daughter about ross oh by the tsar it was nami's child because it was the opportunity to bring machlon back into the world yeah george yeah i mute george i mute i mean if the brother doesn't want to marry uh the uh the uh the deceased brother's uh former wife um let's say uh he can't afford us another wife right or or or he doesn't find her attractive would that be considered selfish so a good question again you know it's it seems it's very interesting mitzvah again we haven't done this a thousand years it's it's uh we do khalifa it's um is it selfish i would say like this and we're talking about this on child it's also you know these questions come up exactly that question is is it selfish again there could be many reasons why a person can't do it but it should be the feeling is i wish i could do it i really want to do this now maybe it's not going to be good for my marriage maybe it's not but you know you know or maybe i can't afford it financially or whatever reason or maybe she should find uh you know go on in life and but i i want to be able to rebuild my brother's house that should be the underlying hargastra the underlying feeling that should be there i wish i could do this i wish i could do it i want to do it so the toys are very strong about it seems to be you know when if to break this this pre-existing bond that is generated by the death of the brother there's a bond that happens it's called it's called the zika so it's an attachment to evil that zika it needs to be broken through khalitza and natalia seems to say like you know you should want it you should want it you can't do it you can't do it you understand but you can't you should walk yeah if i i i can't imagine it really being a positive a positive mitzvah if the the man decides okay look i really do not want to marry this woman but because i'm supposed to then i'll i'll do it you know he's like he's grudgingly marrying yeah so again again i would say george if if he's not going to give her the devotion that she needs as a wife you know maybe he shouldn't do it either right and if it's not in fact there's an opinion of the gemara that says that even if man is going to do it just because he has an attraction to that particular woman that's not what should be done either that that's like uh could be a type of orioles a type of you know yeah has to be done really the shame shamayan like uh you know a you know a really i'm doing it because i have the right reasons and and hopefully that will build the bond with the uh with the wife with the ex with the wife the with the widow also you know the fact that he sees this rather so devoted to his brother that's and really to take on responsibility and step in and you know that's something very admirable and hopefully that will foster the love between them and the relationship so it's a very fascinating mitzvah in the torah by the way it's a fascinating fascinating missile and the reason why it's a fascinating mitzvah is because it's taking somebody who's totally forbidden to you and turning into now mister the merrier you know for example so we have some certain people that torture but to marry you know certain incestuous relationships we know you can't marry right you can't you know you can't marry two sisters at the same time called uh it's called ajos though he wants wife's sister you can't have two sisters and what if wife dies you can marry her you have something called asia's ah once the wife of one's brother again the wife of one's brother is a forbidden relationship and if he were to divorce her and you're single she's forbidden to you forbidden to you she's forbidden to you as a sister you know but what happens if that brother were to die god forbid without children all of a sudden the forbiddenness so to speak falls off and now it's a mix of the merrier and it's the categorization of aside it's a very big soggy in in in your vamos def uh the first hall you know seven eight happened if you've almost deal with that it's a very fast but it's taking something which is totally forbidden and now becoming totally permitted it must mean there's an underlying principle in this mitzvah which which goes beyond just which which requires a depth of thought and that's what a different thought now you know if you go back to the story of ross what's the story what's the story what's the plot what's the movement what's the what's the apex what's the is it the denominator are you saying that correctly you know we know how do we know everybody did short stories the build towards it apex in apex like you know and then there was it was called the the danube where it goes downward and result and resolution a good story has that it has to have climax it has to have tension it has to have then resolution if you don't have that like because that's true the mcgill tester has it's a story right it's a story investor and it's a decree of destruction and it's going to the king convincing the king and then everything that you thought happened to the jews happens to our enemies oh you know it's tension climax resolution what's the attention climax resolution of the book of russ what's the story it goes to it's all about a a woman who is a princess a beautiful conversion you know following naomi the land poverty righteousness true i i buy that and then it seems the whole climax of the story is boss agrees to marry her in this quasi um pseudo evil type relationship because he's not a brother of nothing i saw a comment by the way masala you asked that says um yeah it's it's both but the question was that this child over this child is the continuation of laws or continuation of naflow answer is both it's not cloned so to speak being brought back into the world he is that child according to his own so his continuation so to speak of his seed the fact that there's going to be a pertuation of him in the world still at the same time the continuation of bars because laws is the child of this the physical child of law is also so it's it's both there's a good question but so what what's the what's the movements in the story the movement seems to be that well you know ruth does something which seems to be almost a little bit brazen in some ways you know she goes out to where he's sleeping by the the threshing by the um threshing floor and comes in what looks to be almost like a little bit of a given modesty but of course it's seduction she conducts herself with it with enormous modesty and suggests to him that he do he will be the redeemer and he agrees he agrees naomi instructs him destructs instructs her to tell him his trucks are yes yeah right and he said well you know he doesn't touch her and then but says you know there's someone who comes before me and it's it's tobe i think he's he's a he's in someone the uncle has like should we do it before him because he's he's he's the first cousin of naomi only has an uncle should do her name that person refuses or so i can't do it that person is referred to in the story as plummy they go to the elders well it means they go the elders to the gate which means the bacon but that person who doesn't want to do it which is not which is ellie malek's brother which is named toth he's called the end of story plony almoni which means mr anonymous like the governor says poland armani in other words as if to say you had an opportunity that was lost to you and he kind of walks off the stage of history boss steps into it and becomes the great great grandfather of dublin ultimately so it's it's interesting that boers agrees this their boys said they just lost his wife just a short time before and so he was in she he turns to her and says you know like do you want to marry why why would you want to have marry me i'm an old man and he must have been significantly older like like 40 years old or something like that and he dies according to the story right afterwards immediately after he does die and of course but then russ conceives by that union and is able to produce elevated because he shall produce his double but that's the whole story so what what's the story what's the story what's that it's also rags to riches right there's a lot of lessons in the story but like what's the story and why is this so significant you know to be read on on chevoult that's the question i know i spent like 45 minutes here just creating the question but do we have suggestions that's the storyline what what what does it have to do with sherwood why what what is what's the movement to the story what what is the what what really is the the apex of this story i mean maybe like you mentioned before it's like we're accepting the torah new like a convert like your people are my people like it's a but then again you said earlier that she's not really a convert because she accepted the she converted to mary the first husband right so that's really converting but at the same time use good points all right that's what just said that there must have been a conversion but now it's a re-commitment to that to what she believes would you really define was that conversion good or not because you know maybe right but it implies there wasn't a conversion right which is interesting it must have been but maybe but the fact that she's willing to follow shows that there was that herpa her sister does not follow indicates that she that conversion was you know questionable and interesting you know orpah is by the way the great grandmother of whom who's orpah's great-grandson who's orpah's great-grandson is it shawl uh no or not ofra not ofra offroad is the alfred has the talk [Music] sorry i i don't want to sidetrack you so with any of these marriages it means that the child born is from the brother past but also from the uh brother that's conceiving the child because i can imagine that the brother that's conceiving the child now then would be childless if the child is considered his brothers right right so it's it's an excellent question so you know it's it's um it's both in other words he is excited with that he's he's he's taking upon himself to be the husband of his sister-in-law and biologically that's clearly his his child no question and he's the father but there's also you know corn azar he has just restored the soul of the ex the dead brother in fact that child is the soul of the dead brother that's what it says that's why it says that when naomi gave birth to ovaid or when russ gave birth though to aved so all the people said that omni has had a child because it's like her son being born again so that so so it's it's it's a beautiful bazaar your question is actually very beautiful because the brother is actually saying to himself i am restoring the spiritual home of my brother and the physical home i'm willing to give life to him so that's a very selfless act it's an act of saying i i want to i want to take responsibility for my brother it's my child and my brother's child so to speak you know both and i'm doing with the intention of almost it not being my child but it's being my brother's legacy although it's his legacy also there's both obviously because biologically it's his child his boss's child but the awesomeness of this mitzvah the awesomeness of evil is the fact that it might be one of the most self one one of the most selfless acts that you can do i am committed to rebuilding my brother's home even if maybe in essence in some level it's not even going to be my child although it is my child let's not just be real but on some level it's not my child george take care thank you thank you thank you guys thank you a wonderful day be well thank you very much thank you bye george bye talk to you soon thank you for that okay bye to class you add so so much i really appreciate it thank you thank you very much so you know your question is really pretty putting into sharp relief where i'm going with this class okay thank you for your question you you're real you're really whereby you're really focusing where i wanted this class to go which is that what the story is all about the climax of the story is exactly how selfless you can be for another for another jew that's the climax of the story it looks like there's like no climax no it is it's this relationship where boss who doesn't really have a responsibility to do it because he's not a brother but that aspect where he's going to say i am i i want to restore a lost jew i want to bring back a family that was destroyed i'm gonna do it through this marriage i don't have to but i want to do it you know i'm going to take upon myself responsibility and on some levels not going to be my child again it is this challenge you know this the practical sense the urushiol the inheritance it it's it's going to you know it's coming from boss but it's but my my confidence my intention is i'm doing it for a brother another i'm doing it for a relative i'm doing it for a family that that doesn't have the opportunity to be here and russ what's wrist all about russ's desire is why does she why does she do this you know she says she's so committed to to going to bars and to to making this happen where you know it almost looks like it in an appropriate relationship it's not it's actually very very modest and it's done trans conduction holiness but but she's willing to sort of put herself out there to give life to her dead husband and it's interesting by the way what's the name of her dead husband what's his name so interesting what's the rule of matlon [Music] which means sick sickness is a sickness in hebrew why did naomi name her child sickness and none of that what's the other brother's name kill young killian comes the word killian to finish off or to destroy why are they called sickness and destruction interesting names name your children what happened to like you know reuven and chimo and you know nice names you know just did some destruction so this is an example by the way where sometimes the names and tanakh aren't the real names but the names it's enough actually names that the author of the safer utilizes in order to establish a a certain to bring out a certain concept no one would name the child machine which means destroyed destruction and mushmidi had real names but when he wrote the safer must have said i want to utilize these names in order to teach something so what does maklon mean what's that of sickness sickness means that someone is in a state so to speak where they either can get better or they can die but it's not decided yet still young means you're destroyed you're gone arpa destroyed her husband by not by saying i'm not going to commit to be a jew and i'm not going to fight naomi she put an end to the line of killian the fact that russ says i want to follow nevermind and i want this real conversion i want to sacrifice for it i will do whatever i can do to reestablish the house of my dead husband i want to take someone who's in limbo he's machlon he's sick but i want to give him life that those names seem to underpin the whole movement of the story it's about sacrifice to give to another jew in this context as a sacrifice to say i want to give life to a dead man how much more sacrifice can you make in this world the ultimate kindness i will devote my life to bring someone back to life i want to give to that extent my boss is on the same page let's bring him back this is rosa could it also be that she also loved her mother-in-law yeah she she no question rosa she loved the mother-in-law and she saw her beauty she was she enamored by her by naomi's personality not just personality but her righteousness like she wanted that there's no question and and and she wanted but again that's not the story that's part of it seems like the whole movement of the story is leading towards this evil type relationship of a relationship which wants to bring back to life someone who's not in this world now i'm suggesting this because it seems that seems to be the whole purpose to say for us otherwise it's a book about cressid about kindness it's a book about which which seems so innocent or it's it's you know it talks about simple everyday life it talks of a daughter-in-law to a mother-in-law which seems to be extraordinary which um but simple acts of question simple acts of kindness you know following the righteous mother-in-law back land of israel you know being concerned what she's going to eat you know me but then it goes even deeper than that it goes to an act of question which is how can i how can i utilize my life to give to the place where i'm going to even gonna bring back someone who's not in this world the ultimate question the whole book seems to be a book which is about the purpose of what torah is the purpose of a terror is is how similar can we be to god what's god all about his compassion you have to be compassionate just like he's a native he's good and giving we have to be good in giving this is a book about how far a person can go in life to resemble the almighty and that's the purpose of terror that's what terror is all about the purpose of turret is to lead us to a place where we develop ourselves to be as similar to what shall we can be so it's no wonder that we read the book of russ right in the heart of shabbos because this defines really what the whole holiday is all about he's saying i'm not i just don't want to accept her i want to transform myself through her and what does that transformation look like the transformation has to look like i'm resembling god i'm going to be a giver to the nth degree so this book defines it you know this book is the purpose of term and that's why it's so crucial the whole movement is a hebrew relationship that's the story you gotta know the myths of human to understand that understand how deep that that concept goes give life to a dead brother the ultimate question the ultimate kindness bring back some in this world who can't do it on their own that's what has it is and that's that's that's that's the crown jewel of god and that's the crown jewel someone who embraces god's word and that's why i think this book is the the ultimate ultimate expression of the holiday where we see the torah you know and yet if you read the book everything is just so ordinary everything is just so commonplace little acts of kindness here the last kind is there an approach of kindness in everything and the lesson being that that's what taurus was a producing human being our everyday life is infused with the wisdom and vision of of connection to god through kindness that's the vision of it all that's the torah is trying to create the match in the human being and therefore it seems to be this is the the reason we read this you know we read this on the other shores yeah questions so it's um i think there's so much more to say there but i'd love to maybe we'll have to to uh to leave it there for now but um you know we should uh we should go merit to to to understand this concept you know and to understand this is this is what god gave self-transformation and and and that's the subtlety that we're after that's the subtlety of shavuots this feeling of how could i transform myself you know it's it's a big moment you know receiving tarot harshinai but there's no mitzvah really to do on the day except to understand how do i make it part of my life how do i really integrate it into who i am you know if if um you know on the flip side i mean you said just one more point that i wanted to bring out on the flip side of the story is a woman named orta and the word arpa is from the hebrew word arif means neck in the back of the neck she turned her neck away from naomi and since so to speak turned her neck away from god he didn't follow naomi in the land of israel therefore she's called this negative name which means by the way ross by the way means to be faulted people means to be saturated with mitsubish like saturated like drenched roots means drenched root was drenched in midsole the numerical value of root by the way is 606 which is just seven short of 6 13. why because before she converted she had the seven minutes of knock but with the conversion she gets the other 606 numerical value ratio of tough is 606. you like that for the for our catalysts out there right so 606 plus the seven she already have this that's 13. but what's orp all about orpah turned your neck against naomi she wouldn't go now it's just something interesting about ortha is that after she turned after she went back to moab she started living a life of um of depravity like really dropped the level like really dropped questions like why'd she drop so much so i saw very interesting insight that you know while she was married to kylian she was sort of sustained by killian yeah she must have had a shabbos table must have been baking colors you know she was she was doing mitzvoth because she was married to kill you and the assumption they converted right you know must have some level because others but once she no longer yeah but once kilian was no longer there and and nobody's not there she no longer had a foundation to to really hold on to and therefore she was really there was an emptiness inside of herself and that emptiness needed to be filled somehow so that she kind of went to the other extreme to see if she could feel that emptiness and so she dropped to a level of depravity you know like it was like drugs to fill an emptiness you know that empties just had to fill that i had something but i lost it i now need to to bring it back again so she dropped the level of the physicality into the debasement and then because she wanted to fill that void so interesting idea so i have an observation just thinking about it now this sort of struck me you know we started the conversation this morning in the class with this idea you know the fact that our schools are have we haven't had tools we haven't had the structure that we're used to of you know of synagogue of of of community you know it's interesting that sometimes we feel that that that that's the engine that drives us but when that's taken away so where's our engine what do we really have what are we left with when that was taken away from our boat there was an emptiness that she she wasn't able to generate that from within so she dropped down and said i gotta find some way to give me some sort of that that emotional pleasure that i'd had before and she went all off in crazy places but i think there's a lesson there for us and i think this quarantine speaks to it you know is our yiddish kind is our judaism being driven by the structure that's that's that's um that's built from the outside or is it the internality that we've developed that said that even if i can remove that structure i know who i am and what i believe and i can apply and i can connect to god in any situation you know it's removed like orpah the structure was removed and there was nothing she didn't have the base to hold on to it's almost like god is teaching us right now i'm removing the structure of your life but okay how are you gonna find the spiritual connection to me without structure who are you really on the inside what have you developed about yourself and and izzy i was saying to you this morning when we started the class i think that's challenging you know and i feel i and i feel like i understand my students better now i relate better than my students you know my students always tell me rabbi like it's so difficult before they keep shabbat and i was thinking what's so difficult you know why is this difficult just develop that internal sense of what's all about it doesn't matter where you are and what you do you know who you're around this is where i need to be with the shabbatons i need to be with people i need to be friends you know and i think i have more i have more compassion for that i i've developed a new level of understanding i hope that that i get that now you know if you haven't really built a world of your own internality and connection and and and the structure you know and you need that structure therefore to motivate you to keep you forward going forward and even now you know we who lived with you know the structure is taken away it's difficult work to say well what do i really believe who am i so our students who haven't yet developed that in a world yet you know of course they need the structure and is that if the parents aren't keeping shabbat how difficult it must be for them how enormously challenging it is and i think this is the one lesson hashem is giving us right now this is the orpol the orphan lesson you remove the base you remove the floor who are you where are you okay my friends we'll stop there maybe we'll uh wish each other a good vacation and i look forward to continuing beautiful thank you rabbi thank you rabbi you're welcome take care wish you a wonderful week enjoy yeah