King Saul's Weakness by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz Parshat Tetzaveh 5778

[Music] anything everybody I announced last week I had to make a quick trip to the United States and I literally came back around two hours ago so I am a little exhausted so if I fall asleep on you or from not quite coherent please accept my apologies but you know hopefully there'll be something useful that will be spent tonight to neither case we know that the October this week is of course not to have Tory connected to departure of the week but it is the second of the four special Shabbat Oats before Pesach the first was the reading of the half shekel baptism checkout and she talked about and the second is the reading about the eradication of our Moloch and the reason why we have both 800 reading about a Moloch in the mosque air and the haftorah about show Olenna Moloch is simply because according to rabbinic tradition hominem is descended from a Moloch although the Megillah does not say it explicitly and therefore when we the Shabbat before him we commemorate the eradication also an eradication of our knowledge now to go to the basic story a few things - just a few basic points to keep in mind show all was anointed as the first king of Israel until show there were various leaders that went by the name shoved him and there's a whole book in turn out called the book of Shelton but the Jewish people come to the great Naresh Goyal and they say they want a king and you'll recall that Shmuel is very negative about that request Shamal says all you want a king isn't got enough why he isn't God's laws enough for you why do you want a king to be like all the like all the and then he talked about how the king will enslave you and take your sons and your daughters and levy taxes and at the end they still said we want a king then Schmoll even said and this is during the month of Nisan let there be a hailstorm that God should show that he doesn't like your decision but nevertheless a king was chosen and that first king that was chosen was shot wolf among us now Shoal only world's for two years and Sheol is a very very complicated person and what hand he is described as a very very great psychic on the other hand we see that he was prone to severe depression and sometimes violence against of it but I just want to ask two questions again these are basic questions that ultima foursome talk about and that is number one there seems to be a mitzvah in the Torah itself for the Jewish people to appoint a king this is in parsha Shelton some two sim Allah MELAS the Rambam for example says this is one of the 613 mitzvot that the Jewish people are supposed to have a Mela why we don't have that today this is an interesting question maybe it depends on the face of Mick touch but Mahalo Paco's there was a bit sort of have a Mela so if that's the case number one why is schmoyer upset of their request but number two why did they wait hundreds of years before they make the request they didn't just enter a virgin so they've been in Eretz Israel more than 400 years at this point all right so what one is Akasha and why is Schmoll angry and the other is Akasha why did people delay a third question is that when Yaakov was blessing his children before his death Yaakov Aveeno said lo yasser shavin me abuta the scepter of royal authority belongs to the tribe of Yehuda this was Yaakov a beam designation Dugard of course comes some shape at you who them but show another comes from oakland span yummy so why was the first king not of the tribe of you who that but of the tribe of benjamin but so these are three basic question why did they do it getting a king why is she well upset at their request and number three why is the first king from the tribe of benjamin and not from the tribe of you who them the first question is actually the most difficult why they delayed there is some thought that perhaps you don't have a king until you have a base to make this but the truth of the matter is even in she-wolf's time they did not yet have a base of make - there is another thoughts that you don't appoint the king until the nation is at peace and they did not obtain a kind of peace until that time on the other hands some have said that the argument goes the other way that is the role of the king to create the peace so I'm going to leave that question off for a side maybe we'll come to it later but in terms of why is small angry so here the treacherous Iran says that Shmuel is not angry at the fact that they requested a king that is legitimate in the Torah but the fact that they wanted a king and they said could call hug again we want to imitate the nations of the world we want to have a king that will give us you know our own laws our own legislation our own moral standards which are maybe different than those of the Torah we want to be a nation like all other nations so it was not a sin to request a king it was a century quest a king for those particular reasons because that showed a lack of Emunah a lack of faith in God the lack of obedience to the Torah and too much of a desire to imitate the culture and of other nations now because of that the Rambam says this answers the third question since their request was improper since their motivations were not good since they were not trying to fulfill the mitzvot of the Torah but to simply be like all of the nations of the world definitionally they don't get a mouth foot that will last the mouth of you who does intended to last they were given a mouth foot that by definition was intended to be transient and temporary which means the reason why the first king was from Benjamin and not too early at least not from yahudah was because it was intended to be temporary at the very outset since the random rights they were so L shall loca again since they asked for improper motives they were given a mouth cut they were given a temporary - several months now this is what the Rambam says I just want to point out that again this is a little tricky because it is marshmallow narrative of a mullet that Schaal lost his mouth was only because he failed to carry out the commandment of God had Shaw properly carried out the commandments of God the mouth hood would have endured now that's problem because how could it possibly endure what would happen to the fact that mouth was belongs to yoga and the Rambam statement that show all was a mouth Lestat initially was intended to be temporary seems to be contradicted by the narrative itself so because of this some understands mouth would shut all in a different way meaning the round bumps understanding is since the motives of those who requested the melon were not proper motives Dodd gave them a temporary transient Moghuls that's the rumbles opinion others see most would show in a more positive way and the more positive way they look at it I'm going to use a historical analogy that obviously damn a foursome don't use and that is you know during the American Civil War so Lincoln's vice president for his second term was Andrew Johnson who became president when Lincoln got assassinated and as you know Andrew Johnson was on verge of being removed from office to impeachment dad and Andalite and part of why Lincoln shows Andrew Johnson was because tenet Andrew Johnson had been senator from Tennessee and at least part of Tennessee had rebelled against the United States by joining the Confederacy so Lincoln wanted to make a point that even these states that had left if they not do chuhwa they come back they will be part of the United States and therefore he specifically wanted to elevate somebody from a former part of the Confederacy to a high political office to bring him back seen in this way I want to suggest that there is an analogy to why the first king of Israel was a Benjamin ight because shortly before small at the end of the book of Judges at the end of the book of Shelton there was an awful awful story about the tribe of Benjamin in which a man's concubine had been gang-raped and left to dine and the man was so incensed that this injustice although he was no great servant himself that he cut up her dead body into 12 pieces and he sent a piece to each tribe demanding justice against Muhammad and there was a civil war against the tribe of Benjamin in which all of the tribes were going against Muhammad and obviously been young man was greatly outnumbered and not only that but at the conclusion of the war which left very few bin Yemenites even alive the people took a solemn oath that no man will allow his daughter to marry a man from Yemen which would have meant eventually the extinction of the tribe eventually that far was annulled and in fact it was annulled on the 15th of our which is one of the reasons why the 15th of our became a a festive day the Rambam rites by the way that the maha locus the reason why Benjamin did not want to extradite the wrongdoer is because Ben Youngman took the position very interesting political position that every tribe although we were united by a common religion every tribe was a sovereign country and therefore every tribe had the right to judge all crimes that were committed in their tribe and there was no concept that other tribes could demand extradition or whatever it would be and the principle that was established was that obvious well this one nation and every shame it can get involved if justice is not being carried carried out so it turns out that Ben Youngman at this stage was decimated lowly despised rejected so what is a sham want a sham wants the very first mouthful to be the mouth of the Union to establish that Benjamin is now part and parcel of Clouseau meaning the same way Lincoln uses Andrew Johnson to reestablish the ability of the Confederacy to come back into the night States so we'll have delicata sparkler win rights been youngin to become the mellah even though this is in the aftermath of Pima - beginner there is a third perspective of why there had to be a mouthful show and that third perspective is a gomorian Bava Batra the chlorine Baba Basra says a mullick can only be defeated by the children of rafael they cannot be defeated by the children of layin the youngin of course is a child of rock I'll show you the pattern and before there can be the Davidic line a Moloch has to be eradicated but a male can only be eradicated by the children of rock oh not the children of Leia so the very purpose of the mouth was of Shawwal was to engineer the eradication of a mullick that is why it is so crucial that when he fails to do that his mouth was terminated because that was literally the very reason why there's a mouth less to begin with now this is a Gomorrah that's again that says my leg can only be defeated by Sara Rockville and not simulated yes so let me just show you how this goes through the very first time a Maliki tacked us in the desert the general that Moshe Rabbeinu puts in charge of fighting against al-maliki is his successor yoshua been done to in those days was called ho Shia but episode but the term refers DiMaggio Shore be done and you sure bananas from the tribe of Ephraim which is from yo safe she's from Russia the first king of Israel who was given the mission to eradicate a mullet which mm Ellis is not later his show or from the tribe opinion now why is it sometimes been youngin and sometimes yo safe that we don't know but the common denominator is it's always from the children of Russia more than I and Esther I remember what happened sure all spared the king of a Moloch who was a god and although our God was killed by shmuel but in the brief time that God was free cuz I'll understand that he impregnated a woman who was not apprehended and that woman was the child was the ancestor of Amon so more Natalya Nestor who I descended from Shah all are the ones who engineered the downfall and death of Hama because they are miss sucking what shall all failed to do shall all failed to kill the god Mordecai and Esther has to be the one that kills agog the sentence again Benjamin and finally Jefferson said we have the enmity Enigma of Mashiach Ben Yossef that before there is Mashiach Ben David there is a fellow that's called Messiah ben Yosef we don't know about about him he gets killed in a war he gets killed in the Wars of Gog and Magog and he might not even be announced so to speak but he represents a force that will be involved in the killing or destruction of a mullet maybe he was a private in World War 2 who fought the Nazis we really don't know exactly so what do you see from this you see from all of this the idea in the government above a bathroom that our male is defeated by the children of brothel not the children of leia and therefore this was the raison d'etre of shows mullahs so we have three different reasons why there is a mouth less of shovel reason number one since their motives for seeking a king were sinful God gave them a mouth list that inevitably would fail reason number two in the aftermath of P Lagash forgiver it was necessary the concubine in Deborah the Soviet women it was necessary to welcome the Yemen and reason number three a Moloch must be destroyed by the children of Russia now to take the Chimera in a bit more detail why is it so essentially that I'm Moloch be defeated by Royals children rather than lay his children so again here to the before some give us different reasons why this is so one reason is that our Moloch of course is the grandson of Asaph masive had his son a leaf us a leaf us had a bunch of regular wives but Timna was his concubine wasn't even his wife and from the relationship of a leaf us and his concubine Timna came the almalik that is the source of such hatred against Tom his realm so so therefore therefore Moloch is the grandson of a son and when Yakov meets Asaph all of his children bowed down to ASA with obsequious nests with submission except for Yosef who was protecting his mother and except for Benjamin it wasn't born yet so the concept is all of the tribes becomes subordinate to ace of a mullet because they bow down except for the Bnei Brak because there is a concept that when you submit yourself to reach I am spiritually they all they will have power over you it's not saying it's very to be shined according to that really it's not really a question of Rocco versus Leia it's simply a question of which one's bowed down to a self which was did not others look at it in a different way they say that a mullet represents synastry no hatred for no reason bitter destructive hatred all the brothers that sold Yosef are guilty of sin Athena except for yo safe that is the victim and Benjamin again was not involved the younger was was too young and in any event would not have been involved in this material so the concept is what makes us vulnerable to our mother is sinister nun and it's only the B'nai Raquel that are immune from deaths in astronomy so these are different concepts of why Schaal was given the Mitzvah Mathias on my way and when he messed it up you don't find that Governor Malloy was told in fact what's interesting is a little hard to understand because you would think that our God was the last on Molokai de life and Schmuel killed a guard know there was a woman who was carrying a baby that was unrelated but there seems to be nobody else we seem to assume humming is descended from that one God and yet you read in governor malleus own lifetime that there were garam alaykum there were conference from always hanging around fact in the beginning of Shmuel days it is a guerre I'm a lady who takes credit for killing Sheol in war remember there's some ambiguity the prusik seems to say show committed suicide and yes at the beginning of school days there was a nun mullah type convert who takes credit it's hard to understand but it seems there were a number of amalah kites around and they were somehow to live in our to Strabo at least nobody did anything about it because when show did not complete the mitzvot we were not able to do it the Mitzvah was Mitzvah they can only be done or only be completely done by Ben they Rock I'll not the Nate Lee ok so that's one set of questions why is there a mouth of shovel and why is mathias a male connected to the children of roughout rather than the children of leia and that is the pattern that you see all the way starting in the mid born going to shawl the shawl on the list I'm going to mortify the Esther and going all the way to mashiach ben Yosef now there's another aspect to the problem which is nothing to do with our Moloch per se but it's very very worthwhile to ponder and that is beat as it may show does most of the job but show fails to kill a god the king of a mullet and she'll also fails to destroy the sheep because his intention was the sheep as spoils of war would be brought as a carbon forgotten and Shamal discovers this and schwöre basically prayed for him small you see it by the way how much royal loved shows it's very very interesting because when he talks to show he is a he is a he is as tough as nails show and begs forgiveness remove refuses to walk with him refuses to look at him refuses to acknowledge any type of exoneration and yet right before that wasn't it says Chanel cried to God the entire night begging God for mercy one has to understand this that Shmuel beg depleted that God should give shovel the second chance but when God said no she won't gives no indication that he cares about Sheol at all and when shawl in a last-ditch act of desperation grabs onto some oils come as small walks away and the coach rips gol says as this coat has ripped so Hashem has ripped away the Kingdom of Israel from you and has given it to somebody who is a better man than you very very harsh very very harsh but you have to know that this is an example of Shmuel who is such a faithful servant of God that in spite of his own personal payment this once a chef gives the order Schmo carries it out with no emotion moving in the other direction but the question that the before team raised is why is such am so much harsher and show all when he makes a mistake then he is under the most trade of its sins with Bathsheba Dudley took a woman who seems to have been married we'll discuss what cuz I'll say about this he seems to have committed adultery with her perhaps even rape we're not really sure if it was totally consensual at least initially he eventually married earth and it is true that David suffered tremendously he lost the child and David McCallum all of those rebellions were in the aftermath of dove in mutt Sheva what's the one thing that didn't happen is dove anomalous did not lose his kingdom and in fact slum are now left himself is the next son that double ad from that very woman about seven so the question is shawwal is living under a world of one strike and you're out and Duggan commits the sins which in some ways even greater dub it said is a sin of commission on two levels it is a combination of adultery and possible murder or at least in direct manner because of its ends or you know if you have a very good chance that he would be killed so double sins are of commissions and Shoals said was a sin of omission and yet dove it is given another chance albeit with punishments and show is not given another chance now one answer I already gave you that is by right there shouldn't have been a mouthful Sabine Youngman at all but it was given to him to do the missile of a moment meaning to say that's the only reason that was a mouth less so he doesn't if he's only given the job for one reason only if that reason is not fulfilled then what do we need it for I mean that that would be one answer there but before some give other answers to this question and let me give you two Teresa that reveals a foul book is regressive elbow is the author of safe early career it's a fundamental book in Jewish philosophy and want to go over the whole book but just to acquaint you with the thesis of the book the thesis of the book takes issue with the Ratnam's idea that there are thirteen principles of faith that a Jew must believe in and they failure to believe in any one of these thirteen principles is grounds for heresy Andrew Volvo argued that the Rambam was confusing or combining what might be called roots principles with what might be considered branches there are weaker in and there are enough in andra Volvo argues the rabo argues there are only three fundamental principles of Judaism and the three prep the fundamental principles are the existence of God number two reward and Punishment that guard on some level is got a reward virtue and punish evil and principle number three is the revelation of the Torah now just to illustrate a difference between Rivaldo and the Rambam let's say a person believed that God rewards mitzvahs in one way or the other but the person doesn't believe in a personal machine or a person does not believe in physical resurrection of the Dead according to Maimonides that person is a heretic and do not be coerced according to a vow above the person might very well be mistaken because actually Obama didn't disagree with around them their Volvo also believed in a personal Messiah and resurrection of the Dead but he simply said those are branches of a fundamental principle called reward and Punishment and the particulars of reward and Punishment are not fundamental so Rivaldo basically said that if somebody denies a personal machine perhaps they are mistaken and foolish but being mistaken and foolish is not the same as heretical same thing Rivaldo argued if one took the position that God may have some type of material the Rambam says that material form the Rambam says that it is a fundamental principle that God cannot have a body Rivaldo says again he agrees with the Rambam but he simply says that in terms of fundamental principle God could be whatever he wanted to be if God wanted to have a body then why couldn't why couldn't he have a body in fact then you get into eight the philosophical conundrum okay this is the you can chase the tail all night oh about this in other words if God is omnipotent all-powerful then how could one talk about God not being something how could God not know God can't have a body well what if God wants to have a body you're telling me he can't so the philosophical answer is yeah there was one limitation on God he cannot be not good but you know that that's a tricky one now there's the all Christian God commit suicide well you know so anything that is a contradiction to a definition of God is even beyond the divine but that's not a limitation that's simply a definition but okay they say these are the discussions that follow only philosophers love I wanted to want to pursue it that much because I only only brought this in just you understands that Robo is essentially disagreeing with the rabbit regarding the principle of what is fundamental and what is secondary now it's interesting that although in you know in modern society modern Jewish society everybody's always saying and the Caretti world at least that the thirteen principles of faith are fundamental and if you don't believe any one of the thirteen principles you are not the chorus which would seem to indicate that revolve owes thesis is not accepted that much the safer Ricard is a very very popular work even today people do learn it and part of it is because he has a very easy style and it's a much easier work to learn than the roblem so it's a fascinating thing that if a work is written in a very nice and clear way people will gravitate towards that even if it states ideas that are against the mainstream what the the standard towe're world believes okay putting that aside one of the nice features of revolve o is he goes into many many interpretive digressions of biblical stories having very little to do with his overall thesis and here in particular Rivaldo offers two interesting answers to this question why is Hashem so tough on schäuble and so forgiving UNDOF it and he gives the two answers answer number one Schaal sin although it was a sin of omission pertained to the duties of his office as a king he was given a responsibility to do something he failed to carry out his responsibilities that is grounds for removal dove in hemella sin was a personal moral failing it was not an abuse of the power of the office Malachi Rev it's not so clear to me because it all depends certainly assigning Oriya to a going to the front that that seems to be he did that as king but apparently Roboto understands that the main of error was not the killing of Oriya the main of area where was being with Boch heaven that was simply a personal commission of adultery that was not a matter of his power is gang and therefore a Volvo differentiates between violations of your duties as a ruler and personal sins violations of your duty as a ruler you get no second chance you are removed personal of Eros can be covered by by chuhwa again those of you that might remember American politics if you say oh this is very very analogous to the issue of should mention and show Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky it was a very very similar type of issue in which area of somebody who was doing improper things allegedly doing improper things but it was not a an improper political decision of the office and indeed in the United States there are constitutional scholars that say a president can only be impeached for misfeasance in the conduct and of his office not for personal sin which means to say if a president goes to a bar Saturday night and beat somebody up with a baseball bat some people have argued that is not an impeachable offense he can go to jail for it he can go to jail but he cannot be removed as president it's only if he did something in a political decision that you're making capacity so this is actually what your Volvo says this is Terrance number one then he gives Terrance number two which also has relevance to Clinton in a different way he says the difference between David and Shaw was not in the magnitude of their sin maybe double sin was worse in some ways but it was how they responded when the Navi calls them on it and this is very very significant Shmuel comes to show after the I Moloch thing was supposed to be completed and shut all hell comes out the shmoo allen says well real question I have fulfilled the commandments of my channel and Schmuel says what is the bleeding of the sheep that I hear and Schaal says oh the people made me do it if you analyze he first denies it I've done everything so his first response to Schmo is denial and the second response - mal is blaming other people for his decision I was afraid of the arm of the nation and I listened to their voice now by the time dubbing sins with Boch heaven and of course we know that which was I'll say firs I'll say that first of all as a technical matter Duggan was technically covered every soldier went out to war and of his army gave his wife again so he shouldn't be missing in action so she was technically divorced yep and Oriya had a right dove it had a right to send juliet to the friends because you're young refused to obey an order but of course what was the order I mean listen to this interesting thing that the Khmer give stuff at this perogative because what happened was he discovers about chef is pregnant because she missed her period so he wants to cover it up he wants to cover it up by being able to claim this before DNA testing that worry is the father he orders who are you to take a furlough and come home for a marital visit in the hope that you know he'll be with his wife and then Devon could pass off the pregnancy as aureus child and Nuria says no no I'm a loyal soldier I want to go back to the front so the Gemara says or you defied a royal order and Devon had the right to kill him so here is what people get the people get the Gemara wrong so people say when we talk about done with another sin people say oh how can you say joking about looks in the comparisons but favorite anybody that says dumb and I'm not left sinned is a mistake isn't moving mistake aurilla was high of Mesa because of amoeba locals and but Sheva was divorced no problem well let me just put it this way it's maybe the technically there was no sin but dogged certainly thought he sinned and nuts under nothing certainly thought that he said so well because I'll say anyone that said double sin is making a mistake that means anyone that said that dove is literally committed adultery is making a mistake but spiritualist this was an awful sin this was an awful sin a sin for which dubby did sugar the rest of his life a sin in which David lost children was driven from yerushalayim so one should not minimize this sin and what happened not son the loving goes to Shmuel ago goes to done it and says there was a rich man at a poor man and the rich man had flocks of sheep and the point man had only one little lamb that was his little pet and the rich man took that lamb and slaughtered it for a party when he had so many lamb so many sheep that he could have taken what do you think of such a man your majesty and mm Elif says such a man deserves to die and the narvi points them and says you are that man what is recorded in the book of Shmuel is Javed only said two words courtesy Russia I have said and here's the thing Duffey could have given the very same excuses that cuz I'll say he had here was a man if he wanted to be lawyer like he could have given those excuses and he didn't so Sarah of y'all safe Alabama the difference between shoreland of it is not in the nature of their sin but in their taking responsibility and they realize they did something wrong a leader can make mistakes and the fact that a leader makes mistakes is not necessarily a disqualification the Torah believes in Shiva for political leadership just as it believes in sugar for individual sins but shuva requires honesty sugar requires responsibility sugar requires not blaming others or making excuses and certainly leadership requires oh that you not say you're afraid of the people you know we saw Salah drinks to say there's a famous Mishnah that says in the footsteps of mushiya Equus at the messiah the generation of the face of the generation will be like the face of a dog coneja door keeps me out telling so what's the expression will be like a dog so he saw slaughter said today is leadership the face of the generation of its leaders so what is the dog a dog is always walking in front of the master but the dog is looking back to see where the master goes so that means leaders who are supposed to be leading will in fact be looking at where people want to go and they will leave by going where people want to go right that's how politics works you know if 51% get I think more about Americans on this issue 51% like abortion you will because you will be a pro obviously he'll be a pro-choice person at 51% against abortion you will be a pro-life person people change their philosophies all the time based on what will get them more votes and certainly in Israel and a number of issues this happens this happens as well and this is the us all the saying I was afraid of the people how can a leader be afraid of the people they leader is supposed to guide and lead right so these are the to my house him that Rajesh Avago gives why a Shem was so harsh with soul one is the political misfeasance versus personal moral failure the second is denial and excuses versus taking responsibility and the third which is really a subdivision of that is being afraid of the people other words because I'm afraid I I can't leave them because I'm afraid of what they will do to me I'm afraid they won't accept my decisions and know what okay so these are some perspectives on the story of Scholl and I'm more like and again the tooth to keep in mind is why TSM Moloch is only several knots that relay up and then the second question is why Hashem is so harsh with Show unforgiving with shawl and is forgiving with dubbing there is a another round that shakakwa give special hokhmah actually says that it's interesting that show rules are they round was something that the whole nation of Israel knew the whole nation of Israel knew the king of our moment was spared so there is not just a nivara of not doing the will of god there is one is called see little Hashem by contrast see you wouldn't know this because we read in Hamas the whole story observed Michela but at the time this was a totally private thing nobody knew that the king was with Bathsheba and therefore the measure customer says sometimes the pillow Hashem Ivana Vera is much worse than the availa itself and with Shah all there was foolish m and was doubly there was not civilized okay now we have a very very important idea about Mateus emilich right we know most according to most an abortion the Mitzvah of Murcia Somali applies even today that's the physical eradication of Amalek and the reading of our chakra which is the midst which you remember these are two different mitzvahs there's a mitzvah of Iran to remember the evil of a molecule and there's a mitzvah of Mercia actual destruction now makea the before some say since we can't really identify who isn't I'm not like so we don't do that today although the Romberg says if in theory you had such an identification you'd be obligated to kill him but so here are some more like we do have today and that's the midst of a purchase offer that's the only creosote or of the year that according many opinions is a fee of the Arizer normally creosote or is only mature abundant but in this different procedures there's a very very powerful idea that the amalek that is outside of me has power over me only if there's something in me that's also animalic and therefore the Mitzvah of eradicating and destroying a Moloch is first and foremost the UM a lake of my heart Marco Umbria destroyed the I'm awake within and when you destroy the a molecule not be vulnerable to the unalaq without what is the UM a lake within that we're bound to destroy so the truth of the matter is you see from the Taira itself there are two Achilles heels that make us vulnerable to our Moloch the first place a Moloch attacked us in the desert was repeated it's an oasis but because I'll say we feed them is also an acronym or abbreviation ruffle you'd am Minotaur that's an idiom that means their hands were weak they were grasping the Torah very loosely and this is an idiom when you care about something very deeply you hold on to it tight if you don't care about it so much and hold on to it loose a Moloch represents kind of an indifference a complacency a lack of passion or excitement in a vote assertion and when you're just going through the motions that is already the root of seen in this wedding a mullick is not visualized as this evil demonic force a Moloch is this bored intellectual that basically says well you know and this idea is as good as that idea we live in a world of moral relativism we live in a world in which there are no real values and live in a world in which everything is a matter of opinion and thus in a college classroom it is not even that uncommon for someone to make the argument that the Germans from the German perspective even the Holocaust made a lot of sense because of communism and whatever whatever other crazy type of construct you can have so there's no question that if this is what our Moloch represents cynicism relativism it leads to complacency and a lack of passion because if every ideas as good as any other idea if everything is valid that nothing is valid then why care why commit why feel strongly now it may be I'll remain a religious Jew simply because it's convenient to me that's closer orthopraxy some people just say no I live in a religious community because I'm comfortable but what is there to believe so the first Achilles heel of a monkey is repeating ruffle you Day in Manitoba but if Saddam makes the same point in a different part of the perfect the Pacific says a shared car club a terrace which literally means a Moloch encountered you in the way but Rashi says that kartha comes from the word color they made you the Barossa say they made you cold cold and he gives the example that I'm not like was like when the Jewish people left with Ryan the whole world was afraid of them because of the Makos because of Korea some sense they were like a boiling hot then I'm all like was that first nation that jumped into the hot bath they got Birds but they made it a little cooler for the next one that's so rad she says grabs a dog takes the same etymology of coldness but he says it another way a male attacks you when you are cold inside you are cold in your service of God you go through the motions you do the missiles without feeling without passion without excitement without kiss muck with the difference or a sense of burden even and that is the color of a mullet and there's very posted said it's also true that core AHA is also connected to carry which means happenstance coincidence but there are all these together because I'm all like views the world has just happenstance and coincidence God is not involved you see that's why you have to be careful a mullet does not represent but say something like Islam as long as you know we believe the IRAs are Bonet you smile not a mullet because Islam you know just have at its core some religious idea that gets distorted but there's some religious idea there a mullick is that which relegates God as an irrelevance II now in many ways Nazi Germany but now I'm not I'm not making the claim that the Germans or the Nazis were actually descended from the mullick one can move there are different arguments about that but that's not necessarily so but in terms of a philosophy that may have been the closest to the pure evil of a Moloch might be Nazi Germany now and now you might say well in all but Nazi Germany was Christian not really not a Nazi Germany was not Christian died the Nazi German Nazism used God as a symbol to do certain things but essentially your Hitler himself wrote in mind Thomas and it's very scary it's very frightening I feel uncomfortable even saying this what a perceptive observer of Judaism Hitler in his psychotic way was Hitler new things about Judaism deep ideas about Judaism that many Jews don't recognize he writes that's one of the reasons he hates Judaism hates Jews is because they brought conscience and morality into the world and he said those are limitations on human power because what is morality single-person morality says even if you're able to do something to get somebody's land get somebody's property you don't do it because it's not right Hitler said that's not acceptable if you kick do it you do it you do what's best for you for your power but what did he recognize he hated it this trick but he recognized that without God there is no morality without God it's only a matter of power he hated the religions that brought monotheism ethical monotheism into the world so a Moloch is not a philosophy of God even utilize many negative way it is a philosophy that there is no God or God is irrelevant life is about power and there is no absolute set of moral values that should limit in human being and what happens in the world is Micra and therefore a satiric says that gives you a coldness of heart so when they do has a coldness of art a male comes in that is Achilles heel number one Achilles heel number two is cydnus Kingdom when there's hatred among the Jews that's why I mentioned before that a molecule only be defeated by cerebral not several and one of the reasons is because of the sin Athena of Sarah layered McKee ratio six yeah what do I think groundless groundless a curse in us screaming yeah seen on screen oh yeah that's correct yeah so it turns out like this and now let's go to porn this is their one brief ending report poor him one of the things for him celebrates is the downfall of our mullick because Harlan is a Moloch so whether we celebrate the downfall of our Moloch it's not enough that we celebrate the destruction of the external a mullet we have to take steps in our life to eradicate the internal a moment and in Porton we do exactly that with respect to the internal uh mullick of baseless hatred that is why so many of the mitzvahs of forum are connected with creating love and friendship between ships such as Michelle Obama notes you send food to people that's the great friendship charity to the port that is about connecting to others caring about others because what's going on we defeat a mullet but how can i defeat a mullet if I have seen a screen and I'm vulnerable to a mullet so the day that celebrates the defeat of a mullet is a day that must celebrate of us yes well now the other Achilles heel which is the freshen the first one that I mentioned coldness and indifference in the service of God how poram deals with that is a little less obvious one of the things you need to know but you know this is that poram is considered to be a reaccept installer according to Kazan when we accepted the Torah and rc9 Hashem held the mountain over our heads and forced us into it him that needs more explanation that I can give right now both talking about it next week so we accepted the Torah out of fear duress and compulsion and pour him out of gratitude we re accepted the Torah out of love that we had previously accepted out of fear that's the meaning of the phrase kiya move the Qibla they accepted what they had previously undertaken now if you think about it what is the difference between accepting a commitment because you were forced into it and accepting a commitment because you are lovingly taking it on that will be the measure of enthusiasm you bring to the job when you accept something because you were forced to do it you will do as little as you need to get away from the threat if you discover that you're not going to drop there if you do X instead of 2x you're only gonna do X but if you do something out of love you will do whatever you can to bring pleasure to the one that you love so the key sewer number one poram celebrates a destruction of a bollock number two in order to destroy a mullick on the outside we have to destroy a mullick on the inside number three there are two negative are mullux on our insights which makes us vulnerable one is indifference and coldness in Torah and mitzvot and the other is sin us venom therefore for him we address both of these issues the coldness and indifference is rectified by reaccept ATAR with love and joy and not just fear and duress and the soonest Phenom is addressed by mashaallah Manos with might honestly of Union so again so poram is indeed a celebration of the downfall of Amalek but that celebration must involve looking at the emilich within us because the concept is that which is outside of me can only hurt me if there's something of that that is within within me so be as just a Shem as we approach for it may once again be a day of redemption a day of goal of a day in which all the powers of our Moloch within and without she'd become destroyed and nullified paving the pathway towards the Eagle issuing [Music]