Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston: The Para Para-DOX

[Music] Shalom everybody welcome back to the I was going to say mid of course we are guests at the mid and we are dealing with parat and I want to emphasize in the beginning that we base our discussion on the clear the famous cleak car written over 450 years ago and you'll see how relevant it really is always the paraa always the Torah is relevant um but what I want to do is just explain a few things number one I do encourage you to listen to the parot on the the other shim on this para especially um the one called cabalistic secrets of the red heer I I'll put a link down below um it covers a bunch of subjects that I gave a similar sheare using the subjects I'm about to mention and I talked about them in length at length and when I got to this this part where we're going to discuss tonight I quickly gave an overview what I'm going to do is I'm going to switch everything around I'm going to give a quick overview of some of the important items discussed in that other class and then we're going to go slowly and methodically very carefully through um the the para dealing with the Paradox the great Paradox and I think I'm going to title this class the par the paruma Paradox and what does that imply because the person who is pure who sprinkles or the people that are involved with the um burning of the paruma and carrying the waters become impure now the level of impurity is not the same level of impurity that they're cleaning people through in other words people who are T mate people who have become impure through a corpse are are being sprinkled and therefore they go to the Temple Mount and experience theim or for the Kim to to be involved in the avod and whatnot so what I'm going to do right now is go through a list of items that I discuss but I'm only going to talk to I'm going to mention them very briefly but also I encourage you to go to the link below number one to see the previous shim but also to get these Hebrew sheets because I encourage you to learn Hebrew become familiar with the the verbiage with the Holy tongue and um here we we will begin okay so in the previous class and I I'm going to tell you what the title is again it's the calistic secrets of the red heer I have I don't know um I don't know about 10 10 15 points I'm going to try to go through them quickly number one the one of the lessons was cuz it says lay more twice that Moses God is telling Moses to tell the people what to say when an aorus uh when people who mock the Jewish people because the paruma is somewhat mystical somewhat looks like it's witchcraft that you just wave a magic wand you're sprinkling these people with drops of water and they become clean this is something they mock us for Rashi mentions it as well and the clear says something very interesting that if all that they heard was the paruma and the mystical aspects of impurity of course they're going to mock you but when they learn the whole Torah and we're talking about non-jews as well when they learn enough Torah to realize how true it is how moral it is these are instructions for living they will accept some of the few things that are beyond their comprehension number two because it says those T why doesn't it say this is the law of the cow Z so we're going that's was discussed already H why is it called Moses's cow that was discussed um and the answer is because he sacrificed his life for us now that may sound very Christian but whatever sounds Christian is because they got it from us so Moses actually gave his life for the Jewish people and therefore the cow you have toen into the class why it's called by his name also we discussed why the mother which is the red cow has to be a certain age able to give birth she cleans up for the agel for the agel is the calf which implies the uh the sin of the golden calf there's a cleansing and that had to do with death when we unfortunately involved ourselves with idol worship at Mount Si um with the golden calf death came back into the world shouldn't even say death came back into the world according to the clear he says it was the angel of death had the ability to be involved in our in our death as opposed to the kiss of death which would be a higher level like when hasem would just breathe how he breathed into life into us how he would take it out from us through his own lips K so to speak and that would be a higher level we discussed you need to get rid of the root cause of the sin of the golden calf and that was through the par partially because of the burning of the para which is reddish and when you when you burn it and comes Ash it's no longer red you have removed the idea of the redness which actually if you listen to the class relates to Gold okay not that how do they say it in America that money is the root of all evil you'll have to hear the shear to to hear what it means um and um it is true according to the Clear Car in this other class that the no human being understands the secrets of the red cow the the paruma even schom the wisest of all people couldn't understand it but Moses did through the 49 levels of beina that was given into the world and just as a hint to that in Proverbs 2:4 it says that like very treasure you should search after it that's talking about wisdom in Proverbs 2:4 but the word Kim mon is like me that's part of the that's part of the word and then mon means counting twice okay we're going to just go on schlomo's mother was named Beva even he could not understand the secrets of the sevens cuz me 49 is 7 * 7 and um basically how to beat the angel of death that you'll have to listen to the class and um why was the sprinkling done on the third day and on the seventh day and if you want to know the answer to all those questions you have to listen to the class as I mentioned it's called the cabalistic SE secrets of the red heer what we're going to deal with if you look on the Hebrew sheet at the bottom where it says Ka Al 21 if you're on page 629 that's tet it says Ka Al at the bottom it's like six lines up on the bottom that's part of the verse again it's chap it's numbers 19: 211 in English it says this shall be for them as a Perpetual statute and then it says the one who's sprinkling the Waters of purification or the sprinkling Waters he he his clothes requires cleaning which implies he actually has to go to theik so also the one who was involved in Touching The Waters is going to be clean until the evening I'm not going to discuss the different levels of Tuma but know that the level of impurity that is imparted on these people is not tumat mace okay they don't need to be sprinkled they just need to go to the Mikvah and there's different levels that's not for tonight's class but this is the paradox how come the person who's sprinkling or IE the one who's involved with the making of the ashes and carrying them becomes impure what he's doing he is pure to start with by waving this uh Branch that's spr sprinkling the water on those who are in imparted with uh tumat M he becomes impure even though he's pure to start with and the person being sprinkled put upon becomes pure so that's going to be the discussion what is this Paradox for the parad all about so the cleard Begins by saying that many of the commentators went out to find the word is to collect to to collect answers to this question they didn't find a a reason that was sufficient lah why the cow why this parad is it purifies those who are impure to and yet at the same time it makes impure or imparts impurity onto those that are pure so he says famously lean your ear and hear not literally what he means is you got to understand try to understand understand get this through your nogin like on PES we dip our our um what is it called the celery right we we uh we dip a piece of fruit or vegetable into water we wash our hands first why do we wash our hands first because there actually is a that when when we lived with Purity and impurity so only when water falls on a vegetable or a fruit not actually the is seven different uh liquids we're just going to talk about water tonight once water touches the fruit or the the vegetable you have to have washed your hands because it becomes mukar mukar means it's fit okay um it becomes a catalyst it enables the fruit or vegetabl to become impure okay so basically we have to the Kim Le they had eat their food imp Purity we only mimic them and hopefully uh remind them what to do it's it's a little bit off topic but this is a necessary understanding to where we're going to um enter we're entering this idea that water itself somehow imparts and doesn't really impart it makes the ability to impart Tuma by someone touching it who's impure or touching something that is impure so it's the water that is like conductive it's right conducive to it becoming impure which is going to be very strange but you have to understand we're talking very metaphysical here so we find that all food does not become fit to become impure until water falls on it and he asked how is it that water whose actually Source itself is pure like a mikah like a spring the water itself comes from a very pure Place how is the water which is pure conducive to creating a situation where Tuma can come or impart itself on and there is the foundation for what we're about to enter the answer is the explanation is as follows this all is considered what he calls natural or you know in physics but the truth is we're dealing with metaphysics we are dealing with something metaphysical okay so something does not become active or activated except from that which is is opposite it not from its same men its same species the best example that I can give and he's going to give a different example is by men and women okay for a man and I'm going to say the same thing for a woman to reach our actual potential in life we must find our mate we have to find someone right if you're a man someone who's feminine the the woman needs to find the masculine so basically it's the opposite that causes you to be activated to reach your potential so it's only that which is opposite you that can help you reach your potential if it's the same you're not going to get there and he says this is like the now for those who are not Jewish bear with me I think that if you're a Ben you understand the truth of the Torah there is some more responsibility on the Jew right souls and the souls on the metaphysical level there may be a difference in the souls so therefore he says the yat has more effect the evil inclination the Satan has more power more right it can overcome a je much stronger than than a nonu and he goes on to say from gar n 52a you can find that on number two in the source sheet that right that the person who sitting and learning and doing Mitzvah and involved his whole life in Torah even has a stronger y to say like this I'm going to try to explain it that just like the Jewish nation which has more potential so to speak and has more mitz has a greater inclination to do evil because it's so opposite it's so foreign so to speak therefore it has greater power to try to overcome because that's what it wants to do it feels that it needs to overcome and the the sage the Jewish rabbi is even greater potential to do good therefore the evil inclination is stronger against him and the gamor in Su 52a illustrates this point there was a certain incident a bua a great Rabbi from the uh aoyan period I'm talking about maybe the year 3 400 he once heard a certain man say to a certain woman he's overhearing a couple they say let's go up early in the morning and and go on the road he heard this and he said you know what I'm going to try to protect them I'm going to go I'll accompany them I'll prevent them from violating any prohibition okay whether he had the right like to do that or not I don't know let's just say he was worried about them but worried about their souls he went after them a long distance in a marsh and while they were walking on the road they did nothing wrong they didn't engage in any wrongful activity when they were taking leave of each other they were departing each other you know they saying sh God be with you um after they traveled a long distance together they actually said you know the company was very pleasant and by a witness that the company was very pleasant abas said to himself you know in that situation in If instead of that man it had been me and that's what it means when he says if it had been the one whom I hate it's a euphemism for himself he would not have been able to restrain himself from sinning so look this is a little bit cryptic but this is a a discussion or conversation he had within his own head after becoming aware of such great shortcoming on himself he was aware he was honest with himself he went he leaned against the D post thinking and feeling regret and then a certain Elder which usually means Elijah elah Nai taught him this great thing we should know this that anyone who is greater than someone else his evil inclination is greater than that other person so in Hebrew anyone who's greater maybe in spirituality right that his own evil inclination is much more is much stronger than the other guy and the reason why the whole idea that anything that is opposite you meaning it's not the same right the Jews people are supposed to be so good the supposed to so good there's not such great um expectations from the non-jews right the seven laws they're not positive laws they're all negative it's like refrain just don't cause any damage right okay you have to set up a system of justice that's the only positive and that already tells you a lot there is something to do but basically it's don't destroy the world there's not Great Expectations I'm sorry to say that seems to be what we [Music] understand right that's why they're very close to the dawn that the darkness gets stronger now I'm going to put it in my own words look at number three in the sore sheet I'm going to take this well-known statement that it's always darkest before the dawn now I have to tell you it's probably not true in a physical way but it is in a metaphysical way and it's a metaphorical expression so I looked it up on Wikipedia and it says that it's a metaphorical expression that conveys the idea that things often seem the bleakest or most difficult just before a significant breakthrough or positive change occurs if you to see the bottom another way to phrase this could be if you hit rock bottom right I don't know if there's any person out there that had an addiction of any any sort if you hit rock bottom what do you have to say to yourself I can't go any lower there's only one way but up right so the next idea that I want to bring about this idea is on the next page underlined applied more broadly this saying suggests that in times of adversity or challenges when things appear more diff most difficult or hopeless it may indicate that a positive change or Improvement is on the horizon okay and the next thing also you know King Solomon had a staff and on his staff he had written this two shall pass now normally you when someone is experiencing a downtime a depression right it's very nice to say to him you know this two Shall Pass that's true but guess what Solomon was at the height he had everything wisdom and wealth and health and everything and he wrote on his he had written on his staff this two shall pass to imply what don't get too full of yourself either so yes it's mainly gives you hope and desper situations but also remind yourself that in great situations this two Shall Pass don't get too full of yourself so the clear car is explaining this idea in a metaphysical sense the active right when does that person really recover only when they hit rock bottom when do they make the changes in their life only when they hit rock bottom so too when you experience the opposite of what you're potential is that's when that's when the um I guess all your power becomes activated right therefore he explains we were talking about food stuffs they don't become impure okay I'm that the food stuffs will not become cannot even have a chance of becoming impure unless the pure Waters have been you know uh placed upon the food or the seed Stuffs the it's only then that this Tuma this impure Force right you have to use your imagination we're talking metaphysics here that the impure force it wants to be victorious it wants to overcome that that which is pure and then it wants to overcome it and then it makes a lasting impression guess what this is what the purifications waters do May second line down this is exactly what the purification Waters do right it's mainly water as we said the water comes from a very pure place but what else is in the water I want to mention what's in the water I mean we actually have a PK that explains it um you'll find uh I think it's towards the end it actually is if you go to number 11 it's in numbers 196 the con shall take a piece of Cedarwood it's going to be play a very important part it's called Eight Ares and aov as well as a um Crimson wo and they're going to that in so this into the burning cow So within the ashes you have the ashes the ashes contain the red cow the paruma it also has these other Twigs as well as this piece of wool that's burnt okay it's burnt and then you have the water but the main ingredients we're going to deal with at the moment is the ash of the cow as well as the water so the last thing he said was that you have water which is pure but you also have the the ashes of the cow right it's so you have something pure and something impure and they're mixed together leik therefore now I don't know if you know anything about homopathic it's a little bit like that but we're not going to get into that right now if this purification Waters was thrown on the person who is impure remember it's a mixture of water and Ash so it's not the ather that's activating him because he's impure and the ather is impure because it's the same W of species meaning the same level of impurity he's impure the the the ash symbolizes impurity but the water's doing the effect on him that's what's activating him but it is a mixture is impure the water is pure it's the water that's active and that's what's overcoming and being Victorious over the impurity like the guy who's carrying he's pure he's it's not the water that's affecting him because it's the same men he's pure and the water's pure but what is making him impure it's the ather it's it's the ash that's in the mixture that's what's opposite him remember he start off being tah pure and it's the ather that's tame it's the the ashes that are the opposite of him that's impure Al po therefore it's the active ingredient is the a is the ash that's po ELO that's what's activating in him and that's what's making him pure so now the question would be everyone should have this question what do you need the Ash Ash all for if the guy is impure just take water which is opposite him and that's the next question the cleart poses which is a very logical question inar if you would ask to say if that's the case in k l what do I need the ashol for the active ingredient is the water which is pure he's impure just throw water on him just sprinkle water on him below aair just use water which is pure and purify him just with water without the without the AER the answer to the matter is as follows all of it's actually necessary you need to have the ash within the mixture and that has to be thrown on him or sprinkled on him this is very important especially in recovery right anybody who wants to be healed from a character trait he has to be honest she has to be honest with themselves they have to know the source of the impurity which is in that case a character trait in this case it's it's it's the impurity of the golden calf it's death came into the world as he says that you're not able to make pure the person until they are aware until they know until they're cognizant of the fact of where the Tuma came come where the impurity comes from and and you make every effort to remove the cause as I mentioned in the the last week's para in the not least in the shear that I gave previously was to uproot the cause you cannot repent you cannot be cured from the problem of sin until you admit right confession have regret and change your ways you have to uproot the original uh reason for the the sin to say this is basically a statement basically you're talking about thear is like a a document of a Debo is the Bill of payment you need both you have to admit that you did it and hopefully at the same time recover from it and pay it off meaning this mixture of both water and Ash so the water the power of the water is just like we explained above that's going to purify him and the waters are coming to uproot and to be victorious over the source of the Tomb itself the outs from another a deeper aspect hints the clear feels this is the place to say and bring the words of the Bal that explains Shish I would say drum R pleased with this point is very important this is all about doing repentance it's all about repentance at this point the par aduma and the Paradox is somehow related to the whole idea of chuva of repentance that's what he means when he says like the that brings in his book and this our paraphrase is easy to understand literally this is the way where it's close to hearing but I think what he means and I know that what he means this is going to be very this is much easier to understand he says so when we do pray for someone who is ill we are praying for their souls as well because there's a a um a soul body connection to every illness okay the illness that is appearing on the outside I know this might be very hard for many people to accept but we're talking metaphysics here soul body connection that we need to uh solve the problem at the root and the root is usually on the soul level not always okay but in in majority of cases that's how it works so the way to heal the soul is similar to the way of healing the body and he says the word Mas here means liquid but it's it's referring to the potion that the pharmacist made right the the medicine right A little I think a spoonful of medicine helps the medicine go down but anyway the mashka will actually be helpful to heal a person who is sick but at the same time it could be so look you know people should not right you don't go into your friend's medicine cabinet and just start taking pills that don't belong to you or not prescribed to you okay so it could actually make one sick to take a healthy person to take medicine the same medicine that is helpful to one person for example I'll just use insulin as an example it could help the diabetic but it can also kill a healthy person okay so the gamor in Tinus mentions very very similar idea and you can find this in uh number five on the sour sheet but let's stick to the Hebrew first what does it mean bar that means a Yesa student he's sitting or he's actually fasting he's sitting in his fast it's like throwing food to the dogs what does that mean what does that mean look in the gamorra number five am I right um no it's Tinus sorry where's Tinus oh it's number four and 11b R said this student of a Torah Academy who sits in observance of a fast if he's fasting it's like he let a dog eat his portion it's like throwing his food to the dog why because remember he's pure he's a Yesa student he's sitting and learning all day and doing Mitzvah and not thinking about any of their is okay so his his uh to learning is is really very powerful and keeping the world going but it's his fast is going to weaken him and it's going to prevent him from studying Torah properly it's as considered as if a dog ate his meal because the student doesn't derive any benefit from the fast in fact it weakens him and this is going to come in later as he says and we're going to get to it now actually he says hooray back in the CLE so by the Yeshiva student fasting it's like making him impure it's making impure the pure and it's Mahar to M but for those who sit on the corners of the streets and play dice or cards or whatever they do smoke who knows what I don't know whatever they're planning these are like you know I don't know what they are I don't want to go too far into it but let's just say they need to fast so by fasting that would make pure the impure but for a Yeshiva guy for person who's totally enveloped with the love and fear of God and is studying all day that would make him not literally impure but it would take away his power of Purity as it says that anybody who's already impure because of sin the fasts are actually necessary and will be helpful to him for her okay the next paragraph when say in Yuma 86b that you'll find on number five on the swore sheet but let's see the Hebrew first he asked in the um clear what is the definition how does someone know they sinned they think they did cha how can they test themselves how do I know if I really did chuva do I fit into the category of being about chuva or not so the says because this means someone who sinned and hopefully right that's the goal they did chuva they repented but they weren't tested again so the the gorah says no they were actually in the same exact situation well actually it doesn't say they it seems like they came to that M the the opportunity came to their hands and they didn't do it comes clarifies says so it we could be talking about you know someone who went to McDonald's and ate tra someone who went you know gambling and whatever here he's just using an example so apply it as you will whether you're a woman or a man whatever it is just just understand the gamor says that the person had the same opport opportunities the same type of timing with the same type of woman in the same place okay so in other words the exact opportunity seemed to present itself and he transgressed in this case he didn't he's about chuva how do you know you're about Chua because everything lined up like it did the last time and you refrained from doing whatever it was now there's something important because in Judaism we do not with a woman who is not our wives meaning you're not in a it doesn't have to be locked but in a secluded area with a woman who is not your wife now according to the Torah it's a married woman according to the rabbis King David he he's the one who instituted even a non-married woman when should not be secluded with so it is interesting that we're going to use the word m mum implies seclusion to a certain extent so the CLE car says that the very place of the sin and the gate in which you TransPass through you passed through the CLE saying it's there it's that very place that you need to overcome you need to strengthen yourself and overcome against your evil inclination I I I maybe I should say this now we're going to see the difference of the opinion between the clear and others he implies this is not this is not the way to do things but he's talking um in metaphorical terms and it's true because you can apply this to other things that have nothing to do with but he's using the word seclusion specifically and we'll see why so he has to go back to the same place to the same situation and because he already tasted the this forbidden thing there in that place and what is the Y want to do it seeks to continue liudo means like go by rot without thinking literally means he taught himself it's like habitual now in hosiah that's number six on the sore sheet Hosea 2:1 you'll get an understanding hopefully a deep understanding of why it is that the the mom is very important because the verse uses the word mom so this is a very nice Blessing about the Jewish people and the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea which shall neither be measured nor counted now this is the important part and it shall come to pass in that place so in Hebrew in that very place and I'm going to say we're the person sinned that instead of saying about the Jewish people you are not my people that's a bad thing rather let it be said you are the people you are the children of the Living God so in that very place where you sinned where you became a um distant from God not his people in the same place it will be that you are considered the children of the Living God right that's where in that place where you would not be considered the children of God that very place you will be so it's the very place in which you sinned or the very situations that came up and you were tested a second time and you refrained from doing it that is the proof the cleart gives as a proof that you're you're you passed the test you're about CH and he says it seems like it has to be specifically in the very place of the sin in the place where it was said of you that you're not the uh the people of God and it's in that very place where tra takes place in that very place you will be considered the children of the Living God now we are going to deal with this gamorra now in Bros 34 B and I want to spend a little bit more time on it so bear with us the over there says I'm sure you've all heard this idea in the very place where stands what could it possibly mean there's an argument in the gor who's greater all the prophecies that the prophets talked about as being the um what's going to be in God nen what's going to be the reward guess what there's actually a mck Locus who's greater who's going to receive a greater reward the B Chua who sinned and tasted sin and then turned his life about turned his life around or the one who never sinned maybe he's greater and he'll get a greater reward I have to tell you the truth the Gamora does not resolve it actually doesn't tell you we all think maybe rightfully so that the is greater but we'll see right according to the clear the balua needs to stand in the place where he stood originally when he sinned and according to the remember this I want to make sure everyone knows this and we're going to discuss this a little bit later that he needs to be secluded Ed with that same woman in which he sinned but when it comes to he cannot be secluded with her because it would be forbidden to bring his own soul into such a test so what comes out that the which we would normally say would be forbidden especially for in fact it's forbidden for all Jews nevertheless that's where the Chua takes place in the place where the sin originally came therefore this resolves the Paradox it's it's going to if you were where it would cause you to become impure but at the same time for the the B Chua he knows that he's passed the test and he's surely his his TR has been accepted he's it will purify the impure so we just turned toor and it says it's all in the name of all of the prophecies all of the good prophecies that basically conso the Jewish people it was all for the sake of the people who sinned and returned but the ones who are righteous from the very beginning to the very end regarding them in Isaiah 643 you can see this number eight on the sore sheet it basically focus on it says no I had ever seen so this idea of what is going to be promised and prophesized if you turn the page number three on the bottom of Rashi um says I loto the eye had never seen our rabbis however stated what does this mean none of the prophets prophesized except regarding the Messianic era okay but the world to come when it comes to the world to come all of the um reward that's coming no I saw means that no prophet's eye ever saw what the Holy One Blessed Be will do for that that person except God the only one who knows what's waiting for the highest level so what it says in the tanak about all these promises and reward that's for the balua but for the sadik gor he's going to get even greater rewards so according to this ran that the the is actually greater than the B because what's listed is a lower level I mean it sounds great what the Tanakh says about the rewards nevertheless that's only for the lower level which is the bva the one who never sinned at all is going to receive a reward that is Indescribable no eye has ever seen it to be able to describe it so that's all according to REI yanan and now in the dotted box the gorah adds there's an argumenty the rebi abah right this learning of reab yokan that sadik Andor are greater than the B argues and it says right we know this statement in the very place where stands then even the completely righteous people cannot or do not stand there and it's based on this verse in Isaiah 57:19 you'll see this on number nine on the sing now the truth is the other opinion raban also agrees with this verse that's the source for his argument how can you have the same verse holding the argument of both of these people RAB ab and RAB yokan I'll explain it so look at number n 5719 in Isaiah I create the speech of the lips Hashem speaking peace peace to the far and to the near says the Lord and I will heal him so the name Shalom the word Shalom is God's name and anything that's placed closest to God's name would be a higher level okay so you have this statement Shalom who's ra people who sinned and then came close so according to RAB abah the B Chua is closer to God and therefore has a higher level because it says Shalom and afterwards it says to those who are near who are those who are near the completely righteous however re yokan actually holds the opposite when it says shalom shalom he says it doesn't mean close to God it means far from sin who's far from sin the completely righteous shalom shalom close to God is those who are far from sin who look and those who later came close that would be the balua now Rashi implies that there is a because remember the gor does not say who's greater Rashi holds both of them are equal right and we'll leave it at that okay I want you to go down in the comment below although yeah it will just give us some insight the reason for rabi ab so just to get some insight to what rabie AB was speaking about remember the the the B cha already tasted that sin and he has to overcome his much more than the completely righteous person who never had a deal with these tests therefore according to um theora the simple and maybe the ram as well that's why the B is greater the t g writes that there are three reasons for this one the very idea that he's restraining himself he already tasted the sin and he or she is refraining themselves from going back that already is a it's it's very high because it's very difficult whereas the right if you never tasted that tra pizza or that lobster tail or that right so or the steak melted in butter you you don't you don't know what it tastes like so you don't have that t the second reason is basically that Sonic is involved with action doing Mitzvah that are positive whereas the B Chua this is a very interesting and metaphysical concept the if he makes tra from love his negatives his sins actually turn around into positives and this is going to be a very important point we're going to mention later in other words if someone repents out of fear they get a clean slate we should at least be on that level but if you repent out of love it doesn't become a clean slate it's even better all your negatives actually turn around and turn into positives that's what he says that all your intentional negative sins they turn around into merits and positive things so the the has you know he's not just active in positive but he was active in the negative which turned into positive but there's still the positive of of that particular negative that's what he gets credit for and the third example he gives that about actually require is much more guarding his he's to guard himself much more and to even even says sanctify kades actually means to separate yourself make yourself holy with things that are actually permissible in other words the sakam doesn't need to but the the the boua is required to do so and that's why he gets much more uh reward this is the back of the MAA it's called the Yori it's going on the right side we're only going to read the right side for now to feel this motion to feel motion he's explaining the intent of this is very similar to the CLE cards we will see in the note below that reab AB is explaining that the B is able to stand and to remain in the place of his sin sorry and he's not going to have this great desire about her or about the sin because he's already been accustom to it right it's like the idea of forbidden Waters right are sweeter right but he's already tasted it but nevertheless he's gotten used to it so it's almost not a big deal sik but the who never was tested to have to overcome like this would be impossible he would not be able to stand this test in this place now that's what the the Y says but there's a note on this and this note just below they bring down the clear that's the clear that we've been reading now we're going to see an opposing opinion to the clear or a clarification of the says so what is the B cha how do you define abouta that it comes to him came to him the same all the details of the same opportunities a second time same woman same place and he was he he was saved from the fall the proves that the needs to reach to the level he needs to go back to that place that he originally sinned and actually be secluded with that woman and overcome his of course we know this is what we said before that the completely righteous person would be forbidden uh to be alone secluded with this woman since it would be forbidden to bring himself to this test like like it saysa he wouldn't be able to stand in the this high level of the B now thees the that's the um that's the theud land so in the 16th century he says like this he he says God forbid God forbid lar to say there's no way no way no how that it's permissible for this B to go ahead and seclude himself with this woman the quite the opposite what the needs to do is create more fences for himself he needs to create a better guard against uh falling to even isolate himself seclude himself would be forbidden even if he knows that he's not going to fall he would still be forbidden now he says however the real intention of Ruda was as follows and this is very interesting because I don't know if it really opposes the cleart or explains the cleart he says shall trva the actual definition you want to Define that was the original how do you know you're about chuva the definition of TR is he knows himself he knows his soul so well that if in other words it didn't have to happen it would be like as if it happened and perhaps that's what he means by the CLE car not that he needs to go but that as if he would have gone he knows that he would not [Music] fall that if it would happen not that he puts himself there but if it would happen that he was in the same place same time the same type of woman he knows for sure that he wouldn't do it that's what it means God forbid that would ever put himself into such a situation okay let's continue in the CLE car we're almost finished we're on the last paragraph and it we turn the page we're only going to be five lines down it says every needs if you want to do if you want to do pentant you want to re um um restore your soul right you want to get back to where you're supposed to be what you need to do cuz you sinned you need to which means to lean to go to The Other Extreme in the very thing that you sinned in you need to go to the Other Extreme in order that you should come out in the middle and he gives an example of you let's say you have a piece of wood that's warped or bent like a Craftsman in this case a carpenter he wants to straighten a piece of wood that has become warped or bent what does he need to do you need to bend it in the opposite direction and keep it bent for a while right and what's going to happen it's eventually going to come to the middle but for the completely righteous person it's not even possible to bring him to the situation the the the the completely righteous person who has always walked the middle path must continue to walk the middle path like it says now these are two verses in in Ecclesiastes and coelis if you look on number 10 on the sori it's Ecclesiastes 7: 16 and 17 I only want to focus on the first words of both verses be not overly righteous be not overly Wicked right don't be to this and don't be to that the idea is to walk the middle path for the gor that is King Solomon's uh um advice now the last piece of the clear car back in the CLE car the similarly there are those that say this is very interesting because we talked about the Cedarwood and the H the eight eras and the AO this idea hints to what and again we're talking about the middle path walking the middle path why is it so important that you throw into the fire the Cedarwood in the because what you're throwing in what's being thrown in are two extremes the cedar is the tallest strongest tree and it represents could represent arrogance whereas the a the um as the AO is a lowly Bush it's very flexible it's not like the cedar it's not tall at all it's very lowly and so therefore he says shal the idea of throwing the cedar in is that you should know that you shouldn't raise yourself up like in arrogance like the Cedar and you shouldn't reduce yourself or minimize yourself more than the um than this bush by the way it's been suggested you have these two concepts we have in Judaism and every Jew should know every human being should know every human being should know the world was created just for you and that could bring in certain arrogance on the other hand you have to have the other idea that you're not you're nothing but um dust and Ashes offer the AER like Abraham called himself so the idea is that you should never become too arrogant you should never become too humble meaning lowly um but somewhere walk the middle path so to here the idea that these two items are thrown into the fire and mixed with the ash is to remember not to go to the extremes get back to the Paradox the Paradox is therefore the the actual heer the the red the the paruma makes or impur those who were pure and it also makes the the pure impure and makes the pure the impure pure we should learn from it this whole idea of that it's a paradox some people will become impure and some people will become pure the same prescription the same right this prescription right we talked about the uh the the medicine for a sick person if you're healthy it can make you sick if you're sick it can make you healthy so too you have to choose a rabbi who can really help you he should be a soul doctor and it all depends on the person on the receiving end now I want to emphasize one more and One More Concept to get this idea across turn the last page four in Mal the very last of the prophets he's speaking about this gamorra there's a gamorra that says there is no such thing as geham okay but what is what we call Gehan it's where the sun is removed from its sheath the wicked will suffer and the righteous will be healed but it's the same I'm going to use the word s n so no Christian walks away thinking that when we talk about the sun is healing it's not talking about their false god it's the sheemish the Sun as the verse says if you go down in um right fow the Sun comes like a glowing like a furnace and all the audacious Sinners and all their perpetrators of wickness will be stubble so there's a sheath around the sun god removes the sheath the Sun is going to start burning up all the evildoers and the sun shall the come shall burn them up so that will leave them either root or Branch really gets to the core says Hashem but then it goes on it's the same s n the son of Mercy shall rise with its healings with healing in its wings for those who fear me as it says and then you will go forth and be as fatted calves now the word in Hebrew when it doesn't say sun it says yon so the the word for day which is y implies the orbit of the Sun the circle of the Sun so in Hebrew it says but it's really referring to the Sony later on it says hay again the son of Mercy um um however later on in the last verse what says right says Umar um in the Hebrew it is and the son of Mercy shall rise its healing with its wings for you who fear me who fear me so even though we've been using the word to mean son here it actually says the word sheem okay okay now what is this point the point is the clear explains it's about the MIM the maim is the one on the receiving side if you're a sadik it's going to heal you it's the same Sun that's going to burn up the evil people how does that work think about these examples the clear loves to give you know what wax is wax is hard but you know what if you left I don't know if you ever left a piece of candle or wax in your car or in your window sill you know what happens it gets soft it might even melt it can make a big mess thinking leaving a can of Coke in your car come back and exploded no seriously you put a candle on your window sill In The Heat Of The Sun It's going to change form it's going to become soft so the same Sun Su that can cause the something hard like Wax to become soft can also take an egg an egg inside of an egg I know I understand the egg is hard on the outside but an egg is soft on the inside you can make a hard bow of egg here in Israel in July in even Yan you don't have to go to a lot put it on the roof of your car you're going to get a hardboiled egg so it's the same Su that's going to cause something that's soft come hard or something hard to become soft another example he likes to give is about a launderer a launderer goes down to the river at least in the old days here today we just push a button but you take your clothing to the river and you're sitting there for a few hours with the hot sun the sun will give your face color right whatever is not properly covered will end up a little darker which is your face and your clothed when you dry them in the Sun the the the it's called Sun bleach right it it somehow uh weakens the dye okay so the same Su that can make something darker can also make something lighter what we do we we have free will that's what we are we're creating the image of God we have free will what we do is going to have an effect that's the ultimate effect of course Hashem is constantly flowing with his godliness and his goodness but the question is do we deserve it are we on the receiving end what are we going to get so that's the idea between a b cha and aor that's quite in depth he brings us down as the Paradox that like the medicine can help those who are sick and it can actually hurt those who are are um who are healthy so B will continue to learn Torah okay I always wish people a not just a good shabas but a great life but I really want to encourage you to learn as much Torah from kosher rabbis right you know who they are andat we will continue to learn and we'll see you next week have a shabbat shalom and a great life [Music] oh