There Never Was nor Will Be Another Prophet like Moses with Rabbi Aaron Dovid Poston

[Music] Shalom everybody Welcome to the mid this is our y program which is now here for the meantime temporarily during the war which we hope will be over very soon this month especially the month before Gula preparation for Gula which is really Gula in itself and we have a Mitzvah of wiping out a Mal whether it's the memory or the actual physical race right but we don't know who they are it's been thousands of years that we have uh you know the the B right the S mixed around the populations and that Mitzvah is still enacted if we knew who they were so we don't so it's not really appliable in that sense however we all have a Malik inside of us at least I'm talking for myself and I'm sure that there are people in in denial but we have to work on our character traits and amalik represents saf down out it's the same gatria when we said is there God is God amongst us immediately a comes that's called a doubt it's not good for a Jew to ever be in doubt we have to be sure of ourselves and know right we have an an obligation to know God not just to believe in God but to know there is a God and we're going to talk about that a little bit here because we're talk about prophecy this week's par by the way is VRA and uh it's falling out before porm as usual and I just want you to see the sheets that you'll be using we will be using the CLE car for the basis of our discussion you will find Down Below in the description box the uh the Hebrew sheets which I really hope you will follow along with if you want the English Source sheets to accompany it then just send me an email and before we begin I want to thank I really want to thank everyone who has contributed greatly uh generously to our safeer Torah fund which we have fin finally finished the campaign and we we reached over 100% the next thing is we are really zoning in honing in on a place to start our minion and I don't want to talk about it too much at this moment but batem especially during Adar would be a great time to find uh the place that we're looking for so we can have an instructional minion minion for beginners number one and people who want to have more cavana and not not go at a quick Pace but at a normal slow pace Ina in prayer okay so that's our hope and prayer for this month in that we should number one be victorious over enemies whoever they may be wherever they may be that God granted right the king granted the Jews to defend themselves which is a big deal and uhem the same thing in our days so let me hear an amen guys am all right okay so let's begin it says like this mosha now I noticed there's a small Olive if you look on the source sheet you can see even better but if you look back at the sheet every saer Torah has a small Olive now we're going to discuss this it's as if it says via car in other words that is how you would read it if you didn't have the AL right it would seem as if if as if it's said via car so it really means like Shabbat it's to greet and and Rashi says it's a lan ofba it's an expression of affection to call somebody to greet somebody to go in and meet go out of your way to meet somebody similar to what uh Aon did when he went to meet his brother Moshe the PK says that God says to go and greet the mosenu who's his younger brother can you imagine you were the gut ofad door you were the biggest Rabbi the leader of the Jewish people in Egypt for the 60 years that Moses was gone and your little brother's now coming and he's s surpassing surpassing you as the leader can you imagine how an older brother must or may feel when his right and yet he wasle rash explains that's the the C is to greet somebody so Moses was greeted with with love byes as opposed to who billum so billum it was a circumstantial meeting as we will see and we'll see more about it as we move on but just all we noticed so far was the small Olive and if you know it says so Hashem called unto Moses and spoke to him so the clear right away says the AL that's the the letter alive of is is small as if it says V without the AL because the ALF is made small you would read it as if it's not there but it is there and it's important that it's there and it's important that it's small okay something else I just want you to notice because it doesn't say say who called to Moses it's we know the narrative that it was God who else who else could it have been well you see right afterwards it says God spoke to him so of course it's God but the alive itself is a like a V with two Ys when you look at the Al and that is the gatri of 26 V is six and 10 Y is 10 so you have two tens so Al always represents one cuz that's the value the gatria value one and you know you put up your finger like this you know you're talking about Hashem one so it's UK V that's God's name is the gatria 26 also also okay and I'll ask you who to tell us the verse right there's a verse that says about a still Small Voice okay that's God speaking to you through a still Small Voice you hear what's the verse madaka that's right the madaka okay so Hashem will speak to us in a small still voice that we all hear within us we are created in the image of God and there is a Godly particle shall we say the Breath of Life the neish the ru the that is within us that is from part of Hashem above okay hey so T the clear wants to give us a reason why is the Olive small why is the Olive small now we're probably familiar with this terminology the question is do we understand it the statement is why is there a small Al in order to equate meaning there is I don't want to give it away we may think it means that Moses proph phy and was exactly similar to billum billum had a similar level of Prophecy he was equal because that's what lash means he was equal to Moses in Prophecy we're going to have a problem with that aren't we so I'll tell you one of the problems right away is we say that there was nobody like Moshe nobody LED but if you read the verse correctly look what it says in Deuteronomy 410 where's that on the sore sheet number three so it says there was no other Prophet who arose in Israel like Moshe whom the Lord knew so if there was no other Prophet like Moshe so that means how can billum be equated to Moses in level of Prophecy the key here is the word in Hebrew kosha okay so there was no now the word come is past perfect but it also is present perfect so there's an idea that there isn't a rising there isn't a rose within Israel another prophet and that yet is future tense so it's really difficult to explain it only in past tense that it's also present tense and future tense so if there's no other Prophet that arose I'm going to skip the word be Israel so once we see the word b Israel means in Israel which implies that outside of Israel there could be a prophet like Moshe okay so you still may think that they're equal and that was our assumption so the cleard goes on he says ofos right as the the gamor and the meus explains but amongst the Nations there was a a rising uh a another prophet umu and who is that billum now right away the clear wants to clarify don't think like the way we thought now do not think for a second that the explanation here is that billum was equal to mosha and prophecy even though that seems to be what the statement here is to equate them the same in terms of Prophecy don't say that this is how it's explained and this is its explanation now I would ask for drum R please but everyone's busy tying tittis and there's no tabl so okay so what was equal by both of them was the very fact in order to become a prophet you had to work on yourself you had to go to school where you learned about character development number one how to be Pious how to be a sadik how to be righteous okay and then it's a gift from God but you prepare yourself like as a vessel that's all you can do and if Hashem fills it that's great what both of them had in common equal was that they both received a level of Prophecy over and above overflowing beyond their original capacity for what they worked on themselves so we know the billan probably didn't work on himself at all and yet he received prophecy Moses worked on himself let's say 99.9 or even 100% And he got 110% so the difference by other prophets was they only received the prophecy that they developed themselves as a vessel to receive whereas Moshe and billum both received above and beyond their own capabilities and their own preparation to receive okay it's called to in overabundance of either we call Knowledge and prophecy okay so that's what the clear is saying don't think right the explanation is not that they were equal in Prophecy God forbid you're going to equate mosha and billum on the same level of Prophecy perhaps that's the way we were thinking until tonight he says that Moses actually grasped received achieved okay more than what he was fitting to receive according to his own preparation right um commotion now he gives a proof he wants to give a text proof and only if you have this fine knowledge of Hebrew you able to pick it up but I will assist you so Deuteronomy the same verse we saw 34:10 it says whom the Lord knew face to face from English we would never pick it up but in Hebrew it says a hasem which means God made known to Moses as opposed to what the cart says it doesn't say which you would have thought AER Yem that he knew ashem right no it's not that Moses knew God it's that the Lord made known himself to Moshe and that's how to understand it so it's top down God graced Moses with an extra I'm going to call it super prophecy and that's really the Torah actually is super prophecy it's not prophecy because we know that if you don't listen to The Prophet there are dire really dire consequences okay and how often do we violate that when we don't listen to Moses sometimes right we kind of go a little bit on the weak side right we don't take the Mitzvah either we're not aware of them or we don't take them as seriously as we should so if a prophet says to do something and we violate it it's dire consequences if we violate the Torah which God forbid we shouldn't but I'm sure that we all do at times so then what is going to be the consequences the Torah itself tells you you steal something you have to return it you do a sin you have to you know depends what kind of sin you might have to bring a Corbin or you just have to do chuva so right so it's it's crazy it's so different it's not prophecy it's super prophecy it's God it's God's own words which were obviously different than a prophet coming and telling you what God Said and in fact God's voice em emanated from Moses's own throat it was actually God speaking okay so now we got through that point where God made himself known top down so what's the point trying to teach you this last statement about um in Deuteronomy 34:10 which God made known so from the aspect of Moses's own preparation that's not how he knew Hashem in that way Hashem Yu but rather it was AEM that made known it was God top down that gave this I'm going to call it um over and above this overflow of Prophecy and knowledge that was beyond the capabilities of uh of Moshe and that was fine but we do have in that verse it says be Israel right there was no Prophet arose in Israel so the BET could mean in as we've been translating it but it can also mean or in on account of or in the Merit of the Jewish people so Moses's Prophecy the fact that he received the greater amount was not for his own good it was for our good I just want to take you back to a certain verse um no we didn't get to it yet but it is here somewhere um just go to number seven for example uh chap it's Exodus 1999 so the Lord said to Moses behold I'm coming to you in the thickness of a cloud this is right before mattin Torah in order that the people hear when I speak to you and they will also believe in you and then it says Moses relayed the words of the people of the people to the Lord but also worked both ways he gave over the Lord's words to the people as well as we know the first two Commandments every body heard it was the um it was the last 600 and the I'm sorry the the the other eight Commandments that we said hey this is too powerful after hearing the first two Moses please intervene be an intermediary and uh give it over to us you know through you not through through God himself um okay so we're going in back into cleard last thing he said it's 1 2 3 4 5 six s eight lines down the first word says what does it mean it's I'm giving over right God's giving over every all this information we'll call Divine information to Moses for our sake okay in our Merit or for our sake or I'm going to translate it for the benefit of in the benefit for the benefit of the Jewish people now we spoke about Moses prophecy and we even said about billum that they received much more again because of the word viar which we will explain why that implies that if you didn't get it at this point at this moment he says all the other Jewish prophets none of them Jeremiah Isaiah go on the list goes on as we know none of them received more than their vessel was able to hold and just what they prepared themselves for that's the level of Prophecy that they they held but when it came to the non-jews there was one non-jew that arose we all know who this is this is billum but he says this was for the the I'm going to call it again a benefit a blessing but it's for the honor of the Jews for their Glory now let me just stop here a second explain couple ways first of all we all know billum actually wanted to curse us but in the end he blessed us so that could be what it means for the honor and the glory of isra of Israel but I think it means more than that as well and the other point is that in the future the goam the non-jews could easily say when they're being judged harshly listen God if we had a prophet like Moses we would have been good little boy boys and girls too right but they didn't they did not have well they didn't have Moses but they so God gave them somebody like Moses there's an equation there so at least they can't use that as an excuse so what does it mean for this for the cover of Israel listen we're going to get the reward because we worked hard okay non-jews also okay it's a different Shear how a non-jew can go to the world to come maybe I'll give it to you really in like a minute number one that they also believe in the god of Israel The God Who created the world and they believe that the Torah came from God now they don't have an obligation to fulfill it as a Jew but there are instructions called the seven no laws that they have to follow as non-jews and they basically so the difference a non-jew who just tries to be a good person call a cavod God will bless them in this world okay you will be blessed in this world as a non-jew who just tries to be a decent human being look what's the problem but if you believe there's a God who gives reward and gave the Torah and has a mission for this world and the Jewish people are the priests and you join that I'm going to call it in quotes the religion right the religion of God right it's it's a it's usually religion means man-made but this is a non- man-made religion this is the you know the religion of God if you belong if you believe in that that there is a Torah that there is a structure the world is not hefer it's not just a free-for-all there's actually a purpose and a plan and you not just buy into it you perhaps even assist um but you don't have to as long as you buy into this idea then you will be granted life in the world to come isn't that great think about this you're going to say well why wouldn't God grant me life well you don't believe in it God's not going to give you something you don't want okay that's how kind he is okay so what's the big deal study it open your mind perhaps it really exists and what do you have to lose except the entire world to come for eternity okay let's move on so the last thing we said was so this non-jewish Prophet arose for the glory of Israel this is B he actually received he achieved much more than he was fitting to receive according to his own preparation to make himself a vessel which he was not a a a a proper vessel as we know the he do now behold you shall know something you must know or what a prophet reaches or achieves that is fitting for him according to the vessel that he made himself into oh that prophecy clings to him like to his nature when you read the prophets you know Isaiah has a certain personality it's coming through in the prophecy and Jeremiah you know Andes all the different prophets have a slightly different right they're not cookie cutters they're not all the same they have different personalities and this is why God chose them because they prepared themselves beim who they were to be to carry the message message but they're still going to carry the message as who they are okay and therefore the essence of who they are and their acquisition right the they know who their nature is the very nature of who they are whatever they acquire as we said they're going to acquire this knowledge and prophecy it's going to cling to them and not depart it won't it's basically it won't detach from them it's integrated into their personalities now we're going into the word vi so all that the any Prophet would receive and we only know it was Moses and billum all what a person as a prophet receives more than his own preparation allows Z that is going to be what we call bikra that's what we're talking about here via car I'm going to translate it as superficial I know that's not a good translation but that's how I'm looking at it it's over and above you have the cup it's above the rim of the cup like we're talking about overflowing although in this case we're saying that it is temporary and we're even going to say that on a certain level we're not going to talk about it in terms of Moses and that's going to be the answer why there's still an olive and the olive is not disappearing entirely I know I'm jumping ahead but keep in mind one of the questions he's going to ask so after all of said and done why is there an Olive at all shouldn't if you're going to equate this whole idea we're introducing now that it was over and above be it was more of a superficial or over the top um it wasn't integrated into them it was roim it was just a gift from God it wasn't part of the person's nature then why doesn't the word thear apply not just to billum but also to Moshe because that was what we're describing the equation between Moshe and billum is thear and we're saying as if the olive isn't there so why did God put the olive there so there is a small Olive to make it as if it's not there remember to equate both of them in this aspect of um either temporary superficial detached meaning the additional uh prophecy that by both of them Moses and and B that they achieved M this um again I'm going to call it like an appendage and a bonus it was no it was over and above what they were able to achieve on their own Mash Parish Rashi now this is going to clarify resolve assist to answer what Rashi had written if you look um at least in this verse number Source number one where it's like halfway down where it says thear the meaning of a coincidental happening so that's arai or bikra but also it also alludes to carry impurity tumor like Mikila okay so knowing that Raj is telling us the word vakar or bikra could have an act uh it's like the opposite of greeting somebody like we said kiv like when you when we started this year we said that Moses was greeted by God like the way Aon was so happy to greet Moses so that's an expression of whereas bikra is just happen stance just happened to run into him you know it wasn't planned how happy can you be when you run into somebody okay depends who it is of course but we're reading this line it says l so there's a two two two aspects of this word vakar one is temporary remember it's not the ET it's not part of the essence of the person and the other is Tuma which is a language of impurity I'm sorry skipped something um so the CLE is saying that you you don't need both definitions one of those definitions would been suited it would have been enough to understand there's a difference but since Rashi holds like everything the clear is saying he holds like me Rashi came way before that the nuu of mosha was so remember we said in the beginning oh when we read these ideas we must think that Moses and billum were exactly the same in every area of Nava No in fact it had nothing to do with the level ofua prophecy but it had to do with one aspect ECT of the n and that aspect was that they both received more over and above than their capacity to hold so over here the clear saying Rashi actually agrees with me this idea that the prophecy of Moses was B mikra was over and you know beyond what he could and not beim and not according to his nature of what he was able to hold and according to this the clear says that's what's bothering Rashi V this was what was B Rashi and ready why was it not written just via car without the extra Olive right there is that small Olive we're reading it as if it's not there we know it's there but what why didn't God just write it without so this is actually rash is coming to answer his own question viar as we know the word viar is a is Mas it does give the impression of the expression of temporal right temporary theu the same word is bikra right people meet another Jew they say Mak what happened right what's happening it's like P what happened nothing but anyway Mas but Rashi added it's also a language of impurity and guess what we cannot use the word impurity in the same language in the same sentence with the name mosha although I just did but we couldn't could we impure mosha in the same sentence mosha it doesn't make sense to to express this idea together that's why it's written with a that's why it's written with an olive okay albe it's small so you do have the there in order to remove exclude because we don't want to associate Tuma with Moses therefore the was added allbe it small nevertheless It Was Written small lick wrot so you do we don't actually read it like this but in other words to understand that you would read it as V to teach right the whole idea that it was similar to billum it was temporary mikra and just happen stance meaning over and above I'm going to call it superficial superficial not part of who he is not superficial in meaning that it's insignificant okay superficial people think it means insignificant superficial right here in this context means it's not part of the who he is it's not part of his nature it's only because it was added on over and above what he prepared himself for like we just said the the opposite you couldn't say at all that Moses um that um that Moses has any Tuma about him at all therefore the olive has to be there now the hot this is a good word to know by the way anybody speaks you in Hebrew and you don't know what they're saying you just sayot it just means possible right maybe anyway it's very possible according to the card this is exactly what the author of the mid had in mind if you you know look at the the medish How It quotes and what it brings down on this verse this is the language of the med you think that is it possible that God that it was for Moses's own sake that God spoke to him right Moses needed to hear about the Ten Commandments Moses needed to hear about the 613 so many so many of them don't apply to him because you know Ley is not going to be a farmer any of the agricultural laws wouldn't apply to him he's not a woman right there's so many laws that wouldn't apply to him it's for all of am Israel and by the way I've said this before you just you should know the 72l name of God okay there's actually a 72 threel sorry threel three letters but there's 72 of them names of God okay and you'll find this in Deuteronomy 14 verse 19 20 and 21 it's the only three verses that are consecutive one after the other that has exactly 72 letters and what they do the cabalists explain that you take the first letter of verse 19 the last letter of verse 20 then the first letter of 21 and you go through then the second letter of 19 second the second to the last letter of 20 and again from the beginning second letter from 21 and there's a graph you can easily find the graph I if you want you can email me and I'll send it to you that's the 72 three-letter names of God 18 which is the secret of life you want to know the secret of life 18 the 18th name of God's 72 letter names is Cle is vessel the CLE car yes but it stands for K Le israelim meaning the Torah is inclusive of all Jews that all of us have have a part in it you want to it says the Torah says live by them don't die by them but live through them so the 18th that's K is 18 you want to live through them you have to be unified between the Kim isim there's some MIT was just for the Kim some just for lean some just for Israel but or for everybody and it's only through I just tell you just the Christian missionaries used to try to tell me you can't be a fulfilled Jew unless you you know believe such and such and you don't have the temple you don't have yam Kipper you don't have coros you got like no hope right so how they say how do you do the Mitzvah and how do you like find atonement for the Mitzvah first of all I was never told that I had to do all 613 so what are you putting on me for I do my part you do your part and you do your part and together we live as we live as a Community each one does the best they can with what they have and they don't bother me anymore but anyway going back to where we left off what it was just from Moses only Moses needed to know the 613 Commandments and that was the verse I I read before that was in Exodus 199 but more than that it says Tomar laymore so I just want to take you to um Exodus chapter 20 this is as the Ten Commandments are about to be given God spoke all these words saying we see throughout the Bible it's one of the most popular verses God spoke to Moses saying we all translate it as saying what does it mean saying it doesn't even make sense in English sorry right that God spoke to Moses to say over that's what it means and look in the CRA look in number six where I have the CRA the CRA understand The Familiar translation everyone knows it means saying is not really correct the word Layar is an infinitive meaning it's the perfect verb and its more precise translation should be that God spoke to Moses to say this is we know we have an oral Torah the ver the the Bible the the scripture the the words in Hebrew say over and over and over again God is speaking to Moses and part of what he said to him was to say over you you must give it over orally that's what it means saying to say to give it over orally of course we have an oral Torah I don't know where they're coming from these people okay so we have the word Layar so once you have Layar Moses obligated to say over it's let obviously it's for them if I'm told to speak to them I'm speaking for your sake and I'm speaking for my sake I need to hear myself talk okay guys however the M itself is lacking some kind of clarification how would it ever come upon your mind to think to say where would anybody think that it was only for moses' sake remember we said it was it's Isel it's for the sake of the Jewish people it's in their Merit it's in their benefit remember the first two Commandments of the 10 statements I the Lord your God you shall have no others so it was rather on on the account of the high level of Prophecy that Moses was speaking to us that Moses merited to this extra we're call to to have that extra abundance overflow prophecy this prophecy that he had was mcre but but it just happened to be you know what going to call it superficial meaning it wasn't part of the of who he was that was added on to him more than what he prepared himself for p him upon him the point to the point that God actually spoke to him face to face yes MO Moses spoke to Hashem face to face we say oh what do you mean how can you do that doesn't God say I don't speak to someone who's alive you can't be alive you'll sure you know if I speak to fa Moses first of all was not exactly alive he was already in another dimension he was like an angel who could live for 40 days without eating and drinking and sleeping right he was almost Angelic okay but he could speak to God face to face when God made it happen because that's what we saw the verse God made it known God made himself known to Moses on our account not on account of Moses's own righteousness I'm not saying Moses wasn't righteous but Moses's righteousness did not allow him to have that over abundant flow of Prophecy it was on our account as he says it was for our sake that God spoke to Moses for our needs for the Jewish people's needs that's how Moses um ended up with this extra bonus of Prophecy not for his own sake and we already read and we thought the means in Israel and he explains the base is so when you use a bet before a word like this okay but Israel it can mean and in this case it does mean on account of Israel okay therefore do you remember we sin for the golden calf and God is up in the mountain with Moses and he says raid which simply means go down go raid down Rashi says well he's taken it from theor Bros M go down from your high level of greatness what does that mean because the Jews sinned Moses you lost that extra level of Prophecy remember he only had it on our account and once we go down so does that level of Prophecy disappear but it does come back to him which we'll see soon of course when we were forgiven okay so the last thing we just read was when the Jews sinned it was said to from your great from your high level that extra overflowing prophecy that was only given to him on account of Israel now the after the Jews were forgiven which we were forgiven thank God then Moses returned to that level after we were forgiven in chapter 33:1 it says that Moses did that God did speak to Moses face to face again and that is in um like I said Exodus 33: 11 and the CLE car ends off this is he loves to end many of his many of his novel ideas with the word pakar or Dakar CU he is the clear now we have two more paragraphs to very short paragraphs and they're very instrumental knowledge in knowing these and we'll call them lifechanging they everything we learn should always be lifechanging masik so it's brought down in the mid I I'll tell I'll tell you what the question why do we begin to teach our youngest children the first paral they're going to learn is VRA all these laws about the carbonos about the animals that are brought as sacrifices or offerings on account of our sins shouldn't we start with Bret shouldn't we start with the cute little stories right no this is what we start with so why just as a an offering has to be blemish free I think we have that verse here somewhere I mean everyone knows it right uh just look in good question uh well you can look in number 13 numbers 289 it just mentions about the the the the offerings have to be to we know that already so they have to be blemish free so just as the carbonos have to be blemish free so too children children are blemish free they're they're they're free of sin now now if you go to that verse in Pinas 289 numbers it's talking about the the offerings two unblemished Lambs in the first year so these Lambs which are Kim but a Kev is cuff B Shin which is really a sin kevis now we talked about this before there are five different parts of your mouth and there's 22 letters and each one of the letters fits in one of these five categories it's sometimes Dental you know a to a teeth uh letter some are guttural some are a nasal H some are a pallet some are tongue so these are the five different parts of your mouth that expresses the 22 letters and if a letter fits in the same category so they're interchangeable on a cabalistic and on a practical level sometimes so the word kevis literally means sheep but we all have in our homes a well I didn't always we used to do it by hand back in the day when TV was black and white but anyway so it's it's kind of a what's the word a um it's a play on the word look what the cleard says that the Corbin that the offerings that we offer on account of our sins by the way it's only inadvertent sins any um premeditated sin there is no blood offering it's only chuva that's what AEM described I just want you to do chuma inadvertent sins are negligent so when we were negligent we have to improve our ways okay and therefore there's a motivation Factor because you're going to spend a lot of money on konos if you don't you know learn the Torah and improve your ways when you do a premeditated sin so you have to do chuva that's what God wants okay he wants you to do cha you need more motivation for the inadvertent ones because you think you got it all together and you're all right but you're not so anyway what do the what do these these corbas do they cleanse launder the word is laundering with a guys with a s it's a laundry machine it cleans the spots it cleans the dirt it gets it we'll call it bleached you know it's really really clean so it cleanses the sins of man and what happens as a result this is where those Christians got this word from I'll say it now born again here he says when you bring your Corbin you are now cleansed and you're like a newborn baby okay that's his words these are going back 400 years right to the time of the Mah he was the the of the mar we should all experience a true experience like this A Spiritual Awakening A Spiritual experiencing and of like being a newborn baby and I hope and pray every single morning when we say mod the right how grateful we are that God returned our souls that he gave us he believes in us and he gave us another chance that we really feel like a BRI kadha the Bri kadash is what's used in the very first page of the sh under the laws of waking up in the morning you're supposed to wash your hands as we all do why one of the reasons are because we are Bri kadha the Mish Brewer says what's a BRI kadha a brand new creature we were just given life for the first time and that's how we should feel not just in the morning when we wake up but hope hopefully throughout the day but anyway let's move on so the last thing we read was that there's a cleansing process through the offerings and we're like born again I'm using that word on purpose and this is the reason that you have the small because it's a hint the the 5-year-old kids who start going to school the first parti we learn we teach them is VRA cuz a small Olive remember braet starts with a betra starts with an a Very unusually small Olive but nevertheless it's there so we're teaching them from the beginning like the ol just like the AL is the first of all the letters now another alternative explanation of the of of what does Alf even mean the very fact it's there and it's small Al is is a it means wisdom teaching wisdom learning wisdom it's a lang you heard of opan that's where you don't learn right this is what my rebi taught me in Yeshiva in other words you want to stay in Yeshiva and learn Torah great you want to go to opan and not learn Torah great so you don't learn Torah in opan and you probably don't learn much Hebrew there either but anyway I pray that you do so old pan it's Al L is the root right it means like to learn it's like an Institute of learning and you can see this in job 33:33 you'll find this probably on the last page am I right yeah it's number 15 it says if not you listen to me be silent and I will teach you wisdom and the last two words is with the Al before the AL that means I will teach I will teach so the word is a so that's why there's a small Al in other words original questions why don't you just leave the alif out the AL is very important number one we said that you don't get confused because if it wasn't there it would imply Tuma that can never be said in the same statement with mosha okay now we're talking about something a little bit more and that is that it's about wisdom we if we're going to learn we want that to be sustainable right we have to do review first of all we have to ask questions and then we have to review and we have to then teach it if you don't teach it you're also not going to retain it okay so how is the learning maintained mitay how does it exist it only will exist it only be maintained in someone who makes themselves small obviously we're we're like a vessel and the thinner the walls the more the the the the the container can contain the vessel can contain obviously if you cut it too thin it's going to break and shatter it won't be able to handle the weight but the thicker the walls that's the eye the ego the less the CLE can hold you all following okay so you got to work we all have to work on our ego which is life's it's a a lifetime job don't worry you have time but you only have today so that's a sounds like contradiction but so he says like this it's only those who mock who make themselves small what was this hints to the idea that Moses himself was merited to the to being called this remember the the idea was a greeting but to um to um to be called to be a leader that's because he made himself small and he ran away from Authority now you might think when when did he run away from Authority you can say Okay grew up in the house of the the the the king the Pharaoh and he could have been next in line and he ran away I don't think that's here it's based on the verse that he brings when God wanted him to be the leader he said I don't know if you got you chose the right guy you might have made a mistake not that he's telling God he made a mistake but he I'm not the guy you think I am I mean I have a speech impediment I'm not charismatic I'm afraid of crowds whatever excuse he gave he says I'm not a man of words okay so he was some people oh you want the position yeah right away I'll take it well let me think maybe there's someone better than me and you know seriously what are you what are you trying to accomplish by taking that position is it because you get a better salary or are you really the best at the job listen we're talking about holy matters here so um sealing the fate of the Jewish people being chosen big responsibility to go to pharaoh and to take out the Jewish people was and is a big responsibility so I'm not saying that all of us Jews should have a Messianic complex but we actually should okay I had one student I shouldn't say one I had many students but one in particular said to me look I I'm afraid I think I have this Messianic complex and uh it's I said you know what if you didn't I'd be worried how can a Jew not have not want to save the world how can a Jew not want to make a tequin how can a Jew be brought up with Torah with six days of work and resting on the seventh day knowing that there's something better coming that I mean it's it's in ingrained and we all know who the enemies of the Jewish people are right now they said they love death more than we love life now we know they love death the question is do we love life that's going to be the answer and life isem love your neighbor as yourself another Jews created the image of God truth is all human beings are but the point is that we have to start at home charity begins at home when I say charity I don't mean giving out money although we are collecting and um if anybody wants to give there'll be a link down below as well and that's what porm is all about making um creating unity and maintaining the unity and so here too that when you remove your ego and I don't mean in a healthy way I don't mean you become a nobody you become a nobody who's a really a somebody okay because you know that you're an evid Hashem you know that you're serving God you know the plan and you do everything you can to stay within the framework and we should all just continue to learn have a bring this Unity that we ever need so much more of even though Hashem brought it upon us on October 7th meaning the unity he brought the unity to us because we seemingly allegedly were not capable of doing it on our own but now that he kickstarted it for us isem will'll take it to the next level and we won't need Iran or Assyria or anybody else Lebanon or anybody else to uh Biden or anybody else to try to um you know kickart it for us we we got the message and we'll continue to unify right we're gonna have a great chabas we'll see you on the other side next week have a great life Call [Music] to [Music] I oh